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What does your typical day look like? First, we try to keep the public safe and maintain the health of the trees—we have some really old elm trees. There’s a lot of disease prevention, fertiliza- tion, things like that. I also keep an inventory of all the trees, which I created during the past few years 55,331 and keep up to date. Covid-19 tests administered on How do you keep your inventory? campus July 1 through November WINS AND LOSSES I go out with a GPS app on my phone and take inventory of features and attributes. It took a few years to “Definitely Heartbreaking” develop, and we’ve finally got it all Uncertainty lingers for spring sports as Ivy nixes winter games. 8,721 fleshed out. I’m sure I must have missed Students, faculty, and a couple here and there, but we’ve got a Approximately 170 Dartmouth games and protocols—along with accompanying concerns “I think we staff tested > record of almost all the trees. July 1 through November athletic competitions were scrubbed from about housing, feeding, and transporting athletes can conclude, the schedule when the Ivy League canceled all during a pandemic—as factors behind the decision. How many trees are on campus? winter sports for 2021. The November decision, Dartmouth’s athletics compliance officers without Something like 1,100. made by the Ivy council of presidents, also dashed have been swamped with requests for help from exaggeration, Which one is your favorite? hopes for a spring football season and established students attempting to understand their eligibility The big elm on the lawn of Russell Sage. It’s from the 50 the end of February as the earliest possibility for options while adhering to a phalanx of NCAA and that no 1870s. It’s pretty magnificent. Confirmed cases the resumption of Ivy athletic competition. “The Ivy regulations. “Every situation is unique, espe- of Covid-19 current trends regarding transmission of the Co- cially in the Ivy League, where academics are the precedent Which trees are the hardest to take care of? July 1 through November vid-19 virus and subsequent protocols that must priority,” says senior associate athletics director The elms. We look at them every day from the end of be put in place are impeding our strong desire to Tiffani-Dawn Sykes. “We cannot have one meeting is safe.” May through July for any signs of disease. return to intercollegiate athletics competition that fits all, like other schools. This makes it most —LINDA GREENHOUSE What are the signs? in a safe manner,” the council stated in a press challenging to find pathways to eligibility.” PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NEW YORK A limb turning yellow, starting to fade. It’s been release. Ivy athletes will not lose a season of eli- Three coaches hired this year will be unable TIMES REPORTER WHO HAS COVERED 9 THE U.S. SUPREME COURT FOR 30 infected with a fungus by way of a beetle that Maximum number of gibility—if they remain undergraduates. to lead their teams into competition. Morgan YEARS, SPEAKING AT A ROCKEFELLER chews into the branch. If we don’t cut that limb students permitted to gather CENTER CONSTITUTION DAY VIRTUAL Basketball player Brendan Barry ’20 won’t Illikainen ’15 (women’s hockey), Reid Cashman EVENT IN LATE SEPTEMBER down quickly, within a few days the fungus will together outside wait. The sharp-shooting guard remained at (men’s hockey), and Porscha Dobson (indoor travel down to the roots and kill the tree. Dartmouth last year with hopes of playing this track and field) will have to play the waiting game, What do you do in the winter? winter. Following the Ivy decision, he decided to although they’ll still be able to lead practices and INVESTMENTS We like to prune the elm trees to remove graduate early and play at Temple University as a workouts as determined by the Ivy League and as many dead limbs as possible. We clean grad transfer. The Ivy League does not allow grad the College Covid-19 task force. 293 them out every few years. We also work on students to play sports. “Definitely heartbreak- Sheehy, who took heat for eliminating five Number of parents who have % snow removal. signed a petition seeking looser ing,” says the New Jersey native. varsity sports last March—the day after the Ivy 7.6 Return on the endowment Athletic director Harry Sheehy points to League canceled all fall sports—says there are What did you think of the fall foliage this on-campus restrictions for for fiscal 2020, upping its students during winter term the difficult logistics of Covid-19 testing and no plans to cut additional teams. —Sean Plottner value to $6 billion year? I thought it was great at the start. Maples were brilliant for about a week. Then it rained hard and things went bad. Still, a OUTING CLUB lot of trees lasted longer than I expected they would. 0 Bill Hudenko, Winter classes that will have a professor of What questions do tourists ask? at least one section with full psychological Questions like the ones you’re asking in-person instruction at and brain now. They’ll ask which is my least the outset of the term sciences, held roving office favorite tree, and I always have a good hours in the fall time with that one. I’ll just pick one by taking walks out, wherever I happen to be, and with students— say, “I hate that one.” Last year, I and the started an Instagram account, so 2 Mandatory Covid tests required occasional cat— I’m trying to get more pictures out around Occom per week of all students on campus there while we can’t do tours. Pond. for winter term, up from
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Owed COUNTING ALL THE BALLOTS DRONE SHOTS! IS 2020 OVER YET? Hanover voter turnout in Dartmouth earned second A 2.0-magnitude earth- In this powerful and moving col- NOW DISCOVER TUCK. November dropped, in part place on Hubspot.com’s list quake struck the Upper Val- lection of poetry, Bennett evokes because of the reduced stu- of best college Instagram ley about 5 miles northeast the complex experience of being dent population on campus. accounts. Colorado State of Hanover on the evening a young Black man, with its pain, Slightly more than 7,000 took top honors. of November 14. No injuries love, tokenism—and humor. He in- “Leadership and Strategic Impact was a good fit because cludes odes on the high-top fade, voters cast ballots. were reported. long johns, a father’s gold chain, I wanted to learn from others outside my industry. I and the plastic on a grandmother’s ANOTHER ELECTION couch. Four poems are titled “Reparation,” wondered if some of the newer, cutting-edge research I FAILING GRADE Veteran Dartmouth baseball RUNNING MAN a central theme. Dartmouth earned low head coach Bob Whalen Justin Wood takes over as had been hearing about would apply to what we do.” marks in the College Free was elected vice president coach of men’s cross coun- Penguin Poets (September 2020), Speech Rankings released of the American Baseball try following the retirement 96 pp., $20 — Rick Cardenas Tu’98, CFO of Darden Restaurants in November, placing 52nd Coaches Association. of Barry Harwick. Wood WILLIAM CHENG out of 55 schools rated and previously coached at the last among the Ivies. University of La Verne in Music Chair and Associate Professor FIXER-UPPER California and Stevens Loving Music Till It Hurts Trustees have approved a Institute of Technology in The question musicologist Cheng ANIMAL HOUSE? $42-million renovation of New Jersey. Students found relief from Dartmouth Hall, which was poses is: “How do we love music, even embrace it as vital to human the stress of College life last renovated in the 1930s. thriving, without intentionally or thanks to bunnies, puppies, Work begins this winter to EMERITUS unintentionally weaponizing this kitten, pigs, and even a gut and rebuild the interior. Two alums, John P. Collier ’72, love?” Cheng probes the conse- goat they could hold and Th’75, Th’77, and Alexander quences of judging, and misjudg- pet in a tent outside Collis Hartov, Th’88, Th’91, are ing, people by the music they love. in late October. ONE TO WATCH among the 11 faculty mem- He uses examples as diverse as Susan Astrophysicist and postdoc bers who retired last sum- Boyle’s audition for Britain’s Got Talent, associate Tonima Tasnim mer. Both taught at Thayer the public shaming of Britney Spears for TEA TIME Ananna, an expert on black School of Engineering. singing off-key, and the murder at a Florida 4U Bubble Tea, a new shop holes, was named to the gas station of a high school student who opening on Main Street in 2020 list of 10 scientists wouldn’t turn down his rap music. January, will offer the tea- to watch by Science News. HONOR ROLL Oxford University Press (November with-tapioca-balls along Ananna also mentors a Twenty-two members of 2019), 408 pp., $29.95 with Asian snacks. group of 20 female high the class of 2021 were in- school and college students ducted—virtually—into Phi EZZEDINE C. FISHERE in her native Bangladesh. Beta Kappa. Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies READY FOR LAUNCH Astrophysics professor The Egyptian Assassin Jedidah Isler has joined “I DO” TIMES TWO FALL CONCERT A corruption-fighting lawyer President-elect Joe Biden’s The nuptials of Joseph Several members of the who becomes a government tar- transition team for the Arnold, assistant athletic Dartmouth Chamber get—and later a terrorist and an National Aeronautics and director for compliance, Orchestra posted a virtual assassin—zigzags in overlapping Space Administration. appeared on the reality TV performance of the alma narratives through North Africa, show Bridezillas in October. mater on YouTube. Paris, and Afghanistan. This grip- His bride, Evelyn Ufomadu ping novel about lost love, shat- tered idealism, gruesome jihadi LIFT TICKET Arnold, wanted a Nigerian- training, and a vengeful quest for justice The Dartmouth Skiway styled wedding and an ends with a treacherous journey through opened on December 19 American-styled wedding. the Gilf Kebir desert after a daring rescue. with limited access to the The show featured their lodge. two weddings, which were Hoopoe/American University in Cairo held on consecutive days in Press (September 2019), 320 pp., $17.95 December 2019. JASON LYALL Government Associate Professor Divided Armies: Inequality & Battlefield Performance in Modern War Lyall makes a compelling argument that a nation’s unequal treatment
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for grad students friends to the Pacific Northwest in December —Emily Sun ’22 (2) ISTOCK TheCBLife.com sunapee new london concord 1.603.643.6406 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 16 lincoln franconia littleton COnway Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. notebook W 18 26 Pappas hadnotonlybecomean Olym- creative aspirations. Bythetimeshewas 50 years. Still, shenever gave up onher professional distancerunners ofthepast program hasproduced some ofthebest whose legendary track andcross-country do afifth year at the University ofOregon, M.F.A. programs, butshechose instead to to be apoet. English andcreative writing.Shewanted track at Dartmouth,where shemajored in theater kid,” Pappas says of her life off the a professional athlete. “Iwas animprov, Yet shedidn’t startcollege intending to be in theHouston Marathon lastJanuary. Tokyo, having set apersonal bestof2:34 was training for theOlympicmarathon in Covid-19 turned2020upsidedown, she Rio deJaneiro withatimeof31:36. Before 10,000 meters at theOlympicGames in 2016 she set the Greek national record for zenship, isathree-time AllAmerican. In about notgivingup. a lotaboutpain.Italso taught heralot herself. Alexi would have to putthepiecestogether mom in the hyper-competitive Bay Area. diction orthepressures ofbeingaworking much about mental illness orpainkiller ad was 1995, atimewhenpeopledidn’t talk her mother, Roberta,took herown life. It scared andconfused. Not longafterward, little Alexi stood inthedoorway watching, pressionless face inthebathroom mirror as blood, theexposed bone,hermother’s ex with ahandsaw. Alexi remembers the by stays ontrack. maker Alexi Pappas ’12 Olympian andmovie- heartbreak andhilarity, With hermemoirof Heart Bravey DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE
DAVID ALM Pappas was accepted to several top-tier Her mother’s suicide at 43 taught Alexi Pappas, whohasdualU.S.-Greek citi- PERSONAL HISTORY tempting to remove herarm old shecaught hermotherat- hen Alexi Pappas was 4 years
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Bravey ------the City University of New York. professor of journalism atHunter College of DAVID ALM labels onmyself,” shesays. “Yet orever.” outgrow my expectations onlyifIdon’t put cess iswhat matters “IthinkIwill most. careful notto betoo rigid,though. Thepro increasingly onwritingandacting.She’s pas says. Butherlong-term goals center will always play arole inmy life,” Pap projects. Kroll. currently They’re developing other mantic comedy starring Pappas and Nick ture, January thecouple released asecond fea- in 2018, to pursue herfilmambitions. Last Angeles withTeicher, whomshemarried train at anelite level. Shemoved to Los sponsored by Champion,shecontinues to her “North Starmoves,” Now assheputsit. year, but increasingly with an eye toward realized self.” the tools so they can becometheirgreatest there. Empowerment is giving somebody son you’re never get inspiring—asifthey’ll kind ofdistancebetween you andtheper- Because I think inspirational implies some powering rather than justinspirational. eration,” shesays. “Iamtryingto beem for dads, for women andmeninmy gen “I feel that thisbookisalso for parents, she hopesto reach far beyond herfan base. pas’ focus issquarely onherreaders, and tant,” shesays. and challenginghard, butit’s impor thus far, warts andall.“Itwas sort ofbad to herlife storyprovides the“backbone” but herplayfulness ishard-earned. Bravey page ofthebook.” Shemay appearplayful, thought process that began withthefirst cial media presence as“the very end of the ter Pappas andthought. describes herso- whimsy beliesaprofound depthofcharac to goldfish andthecolorblue. To others, her about anything from wildflowers andhugs for fanny packs, andwrites shortpoems wears herpilesofhairinabun,hasthing of role model. women who see in Pappas a different kind “ Despite how personal thebookis, Pap Pappas stillplansherown life year by Some see herasaquirky goofball who I thinkI’llalways bearunner. That Olympic Dreams, abittersweet ro is aBrooklyn-based writer and JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 19 ------
notebook F balls to cleanup, andstopping play makes 20 off that first goaland score more, says Bob it harder for the BigGreen to piggyback rector ofvarsity athletics communications. tennis balls,” says Pat Salvas, associate di- would have a front-and-center display of coming up because the local CVS store clothes to sneakinto thestands. as many tennis balls aspossible into their highly anticipated by students, whostuff 28 years andcounting thegame hasbeen ice thefirst timeDartmouth scores. For nover, students toss tennis balls onto the To thisday, whentheTigers come to Ha- players because itgenerated alotofenergy.” only in the arena, which was great for our packed andthere would bestanding-room “The entire student section would be jam- wanted to beapartof it,” Demment says. the Princeton game. “Ithinkevery student the student section ofThompson Arena for fire—year after year more students filled in 1997, thetennis ballprank hadcaught skating surface. Big Green fans threw tennis ballsonto the goal at homeinThompson Arena, afew WhenDartmouth scoredDemment. itsfirst later inthe1992-93 season, according to a payback when Princeton came to Hanover transgression anddecidedto orchestrate ing asaradio announcerwitnessed the on theiceto celebrate theirfirst goal.” whatever they were, butthings were tossed if they were tennis ballsorlacrosse ballsor ice,” recalls “Ican’t Demment. remember in thestandsdecidedto get alittle rowdy. weren’t badenough,afew Princeton fans on goalkeeper Vern Guetens ’93. Asifthat Princeton, andtheTigers hadjustscored by hockey. Here’s how afanatic tradition began. Only at Dartmouthcan you find tennis mixed with Ice Breaker DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE
BETSY VERECKEY More students, however, meansmore “You could always tell the game was By theendofDemment’s six-year tenure A new tradition was born. A Dartmouthstudent whowas work “A coupleofballswere thrown onthe SPORTS well: The Big Green were playing at er Demment remembers thegame ormer men’s icehockey coachRog - - ing a “weird amount of urgency” toing a “weird get a amount of urgency” Goal,” asit’s called. He remembers feel who was afreshman whenhescored “the timent isechoedby Grant Opperman’17, play thegame,” Demment says. That sen- early andget itover withso that we could frustrating. “Theideawas to score thegoal selves, butfor thecoachespause can be from the grounds crew to the players them clear away theballs—everyone chipsin, you have adelay.” back andseize that momentum. Instead, us up1-0inthegame—you want to come happens iswhenyou score, maybe itputs a team isto score consecutive goals, so what mentum of your team. One of your goals as you don’t want to take away from themo- love theenergy—the fans are great—but 1997 to 2020. “It’s bittersweet because we Gaudet ’81,men’s hockey headcoachfrom and “something I’llnever forget.” describes theexperience as“pretty cool” the mostrecent player to score theGoal, “street cred” withtheteam. Will Graber ’20, man says helpsnewbies earnsome serious was scored by afreshman, whichOpper the puck.For five straight years theGoal And it’s not just upperclassmen who shoot mouth goal comesduringthefirst period. that 90 percent ofthe timethefirst Dart- the season.’ ” that first periodthanany otherperiodof of thinking,‘Shoot alittle bitmore during “But I thinkeveryone deep down is kind unlike any othergame,” Opperman says. room at thetimeisgoing to admitthat it’s goal early. “Obviously, nooneinthelocker It can take aslongfive minutes to And shoot they do—Gaudet estimates And shootthey do—Gaudet be apartofit.” student wanted to “I thinkevery illustration byRYAN GARCIA
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BETSY VERECKEY DAM. lance writer and a frequent contributor to he says. “Iwas pretty muchsold.” Thompson onYouTube. after seeing videosoftennis ballsflying at ’19 says hechose to play for theBigGreen draw for thehockey program. Alex Jasiek as aunique—ifunintentional—recruiting thetennis ballmayhemit ornot, serves out ofit,” hesays. charity. “Some real positives couldcome tennis ballsto fans at the game to benefit He suggests that the College could sell tion can helpgive backto thecommunity. Gaudet thinks thetennisstart, balltradi- certain whenthenext hockey season may last April. much tradition,” says whoretired Gaudet, includes theIvy League, is that there’s so nice thingaboutDivisionIhockey, which andtraditionallybig opponent, thereally in 1899. agood opponent “They’re anda hockey was establishedin1906, Princeton that date more thanacentury. Dartmouth to play infront ofahuge crowd.” told him.“We love itbecause ourkidsget Hanover. “Oh,Coach, thisisgreat,” they while diningpostgame at arestaurant in He recalls onegroup ofTigers fans hemet back from Princeton coachesorparents. Gaudet’s tenure. alty, whichhappenedonceortwice during garners atwo-minute delay-of-game pen- balls are tossed. But anything after that mouth isn’t penalized thefirst time tennis teams have reached acompromise: Dart Athletic Conference officialsandthe two to call adelay-of-game penalty against us.” were timeswhenthereferees threatened ten several,” says Demment. “And then there game. “So it wasn’t just one delay, it was of they would doso after every goal duringthe ice—such asoranges andsoda cans—and fans would throw otherobjects onto the players. Before thetradition settled in, will throw items onto the ice and injure want itabolished,fearing that spectators feathers withintheadministration. Some tradition, it’s beenknown to ruffle some been friendlyrivals, withstoried teams Although thepandemicmakes itun Dartmouth andPrinceton have long Gaudet never encountered any push Through theyears Eastern College Although students and players love the “I justkept watching itover andover,” The tradition islikely to endure. Like JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 is aVermont-based free 21 - - - - - notebook I 22 by Justice Department inatimeofturmoil. New FBIgeneral counsel Jason Jones ’98joinstheU.S. “We’ve GotaJob toDo” distractions tend to seem less important focus on those things, a lot of the day-to-day people andupholdtheConstitution. Ifwe mission, whichisto protect theAmerican unrest. Thegoal isto stay focused onthe hard timesbefore—war, financialcrises, 110 years. Thebureau hasgone through The FBIhasbeenaround for more than This isachallengingtimefor theFBI. and thesenior leadership. but Ioften provide personal adviceto him I have ateam that works very hard onthat, the Senate JudiciaryCommittee? ances such as the one he’s making today before Do you helpthedirector prepare for appear respond to inquiriesfrom Congress. ligence communities. We’re there to help tion, FISAissues, dealingwiththeintel render legal adviceonintelligence collec- Fifth Amendment issues. We’re there to of Fourth First Amendment, Amendment, criminal cases where there are questions nization with a big legal team. There are port—35,000 FBI employees is a big orga- son. We’re not special agents. We’re sup interests oftheFBI,notany oneper lawyers and 100 staff that represents the My job isto leadtheorganization of200 What doesthe general counsel to the FBI do? joining theFBIinAugust. private practice—alongside Wray—before view Task Force in2009, andworked ina prosecutor, served ontheGuantanamo Re Jones spent nearly10 years asafederal ters inthebasement ofThetaDeltaChi, enthusiast whorode outDartmouthwin- counsel. AnEnglish major and Shakespeare about hisnew job asthebureau’s general 2016 election—Jason Jones spoke to DAM Russia investigation during the heat of the conduct of FBI agents who oversaw the police bias, andanongoing probe into the election security, roiling racial tensions, DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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opportunity inthechaosto loot orsteal or there to engage inspeech butthey see an are not opportunists—meaning they’re known, andwe’re there to protect that right. protects organization andmakingviews ment or threats. But the First Amendment saying. That’s putting asideissues ofincite- matter to any investigation what peopleare matter what people are saying. It shouldn’t of regulating people’s speech.It doesn’t ment agencies are notinthebusiness clear that theFBIandotherlaw enforce- you mention theracial unrest: Itisvery of constitutional concern. So, for example, those issues are wrapped upwith issues All those issues cross my desk,because all misconduct cross your desk? unrest, Antifa, right wingmilitias,andpolice Do allof the hot-button issues of racial and civil us to dothat job? That’s thecritical part. ganization intheworld? Anddothey trust we are the preeminent law enforcement or what we do. Anddothey stillbelieve that on what dotheAmerican peoplethinkof or theotherthinkofwhat we do, andmore focus should beless on what doesoneparty cal arena, that’s a perilous place to be. Our or ourpartners andwade into thepoliti people stray from themission oftheFBI least we shouldn’t be,andIfindthat when We’re not a political organization, or at pened to former director JamesComey. liticized theFBIhasbecome? Look what hap- Is your jobmore difficultbecauseof how po- and who’s wrong inagiven electioncycle. ple are onTV bickering aboutwho’s right things are notgoing away justbecause peo violence, civilrights violations. Allthose also cyberthreats, publiccorruption,sexual ing threat isthat ofterror attacks. There are ner ofthreats. Obviously theNo. 1continu people needto be protected from allman- hard.” We’ve got ajob to do. TheAmerican 24-hour news cycle. to usthanthey may to folks watching the We like to say, “Keep calm andtackle At thesame timethere are peoplewho
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why they comeacross my desk. ing courthouses orshootingpeople.That’s efforts at committing acrime,suchas burn any ofthemturnoutto beorganized, funded types ofissues are important to usinsofar as organization, right wing, left wing—those dicated. Things suchasAntifa—pick your and those victimshave aright to bevin be prosecuted. Those crimeshave victims, break. Those are crimes, and they deserve to when you digalittle bitdeeperyou discover that seems to be just amessage board, but you have anorganization onthedarkweb completely appropriate behavior. When Andtheydetect. cloakitinwhat looks like out crimesinways that are very difficult to versaries have sophisticated ways to carry The criminalorganizations andourad activities that may—or may not—be criminal? which exist mostly onlineandare engagingin How doyou approach groups suchasQAnon, over for prosecution whenever we can. actively investigated by theFBIandturned That hasnotgone unnoticedandisindeed rate espionage and influencing elections. in whatever way they can, includingcorpo- to gain anadvantage over theUnited States erful foreign intelligence services looking direction of that influence.There are pow ers to influenceelections, regardless ofthe election security and efforts by foreign pow tell you isthat theFBIisvery focused on I can’t talkaboutaspecific case. What I can ing isthat? but theinterference continues. How frustrat nationals whointerfered inthe2016 election, The Justice Department prosecuted Russian the ends.” the meansjustify organization where “We have to bean photograph bySTEPHEN GOSLING ------
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20-139 GP_DAMad_NovDec_FINAL.indd 1 9/21/20 11:28 AM notebook T 26 get theseason backontrack. er, awinagainst Penn thenext week would both losses were non-leaguegames, howev ers were stunnedinto speechlessness. As mouth didn’t even score Theplay apoint. Cross. For thefirst timein110 games Dart Saturday. led down. Redemption would comethenext Expectations stayed high.Everyone buck players remained upbeat. No one panicked. curse. Although shocked the by theupset, the locker room blackboard like amedieval Hampshire, 10-9. The0-1 record went upon its openeragainst theUniversity ofNew 108-yard kickoff return costDartmouth the season to start. Dartmouth would win.Icouldn’t wait for slow, alltheplayers carried thebeliefthat that thisyear’s team was too smallandtoo ever arrived. Despite some alumnigrousing ’76—and Iknew many oftheplayers before I brothers ontheteam—Jim ’74 andJohn into thiswinningculture. Ihadtwo older team in1973, Ihadbeenwell indoctrinated its school pride. class triedto outdo oneanotherinshowing the standsonbothsidesoffieldaseach ties covered the campus. Spectators filled fires, tailgates, andpregame cocktail par- into Hanover every otherSaturday. Bon ball weekends reflected it. Cars streamed the team suffered only two losses. three years before I arrived at Dartmouth, undefeated 1965 and1970 teams. Inthe the East—twice withcoachBob Blackman’s team won theLambert Trophy—the bestin Dartmouth won eight Ivy League titles. The just fact.boast, In the previous decade by Hopkins ’74 gave ithisall. On thefieldandoff, Herb Comeback Captain DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE
JOE GLEASON ’77 Despite an early 16-point lead, Dart Then theunthinkable happened.A Newly minted onthefreshman football Winning was anexpectation, andfoot When itcame to football that was no Only itdidn’t.Thevarsity lostto Holy TRIBUTE “Dartmouth Will Win.” ing my freshman year read simply, he first bumpersticker I saw dur-
------his challenge. and they rose to seniors to lead, He challenged personality to match his formidable guard’s ery room heentered, Hopkins hadaforce of game. and swore they would never lose another he threw his helmet against the blackboard says oftheloss. tive, was upsidedown,” my brother, Jim, reigning Ivy Leaguechampions were 0-3. mouth lostitsleagueopener, 22-16. The One ofthose rare peoplewholitupev Captain Herb Hopkins was so furious “The world, at least from ourperspec- -
COURTESY JACK HOPKINS with afootball intellect, anditmadeplaying All-American defensive end. “Couple that mate Tom “Turk” Csatari ’74, athird team ible toughness and strength,” says team mountains. enthusiasm could motivate you to move infectious asitwas mischievous, andhis joy inthose around him. Hissmilewas as lived large, laughedloudly, andtook great able debating thesharpestofintellects, he frame. AnEnglishmajorwhowas comfort “Herb had a combination of incred ship seasonof1973. into thechampion- turn an0-3 start The guard helped THAN LIFE LARGER
- - - game—against Yale, Columbia, Cornell, restored, Dartmouth won every other defense led to a 24-18 win. Momentum crucial goal-line stands by Dartmouth’s another. In a packed Harvard stadium, three ticed insideLeverone Field House. breath again). Butthat afternoon we prac- kins upto hisoffice (so the restofuscould will either.” outside.” Crouthamel’s “There’s chest. amonsoon He poked the hell are you thinking?” around anddidn’t miss “What abeat. walked inright behindhim. outside.” already There’s hurt. no way we’re going trainer. from itsbrim. Humphrey Bogart movie, water spilling day, andhewore ahuge hat right outofa when Hopkins walked in. It was a rainy training room getting tapeduponeMonday Everyone dugdeeper. were sharper, theexecution ofplays crisper. and they rose to hischallenge. Practices the team. He challenged seniors to lead, point on,Hopkins’ resolute furytook over come back here to lose. down each player, his message clear: I didn’t the busasheclimbed aboard. He stared strode across the Green. Silence took over Providence, Rhode Island, when Hopkins the team was already loadedonto thebusto shaken. Theswagger was gone. OnFriday looked asthoughtheirconfidencehadbeen the team. Everyone was worried—about Hopkins and thedeathalone thought ofaparent. about, ing time. Most had never confronted, let all week. For the players it was a sober went home to bury his dad. He was gone father hadsuffered aheart attack, andhe Hopkins leftcampus unexpectedly. His wasn’t pretty.” I saw what hedidto otherplayers, andit against himscary andpotentially harmful. Beating Brown was onething,Harvard Thankfully, Crouthamel took Hop The wholeroom froze. Hopkins turned Head coachJake Crouthamel ’60 “That sonovabitch! Half the team is “Irv, are we going inside?” heasked the There was noresisting him.Iwas inthe The team beat Brown, 28-16. From that During practice that week players The night after the Penn loss, however, “Well I’m Andnoneoftheseniors not. “We’re going outside,Herb.” “No, Herb, Coach says we’re outside.”
- - JOE GLEASON wife, Mary Margaret. more beautifulinyour life?’ ” twang said, ‘Have you ever seen anything fall leaves. He smiledandinaSouthPhilly field that was resplendent withtheturning met andpointed to the hillsideabove the squinted through thefacemask ofhishel- face was covered withsweat He anddirt. focus hadbeenbroken. Itwas Herb. His der pads. Ispunaround, irritated that my one shoved meinthebackofmy shoul middle ofonethose longlines, some to impress the coaches. AsIstood near the was long,andwe hadonlylimited chances team. Itwas ahotday, thelinefor eachdrill were almost 150 of ustrying to make the tice,” my brother, Jim, eulogized. “There Chase Field duringfreshmen football prac disease came to anend. sought greener pastures. late into life, longpastwhenhismindhad city until hisbodygave outanddidpushups lessly, often ridinghisbicycle through the kinson’s Council. He pushed himself ruth Machine” on behalf of the PhiladelphiaPar ful fundraising effort called “TheGreen disease. For many years heledasuccess- wage a20-year battle against Parkinson’s His fierce competitiveness helpedhim of theroom. They hadthree great children. talk to thebeautifulwoman inthecorner in abeerchuggingcontest so that hecould after makingarare decisionnotto indulge investment banker. He methiswife, Toni, and then he had a successful career as an attend theWharton SchoolofBusiness, boxer. He returned afew years later to ation andspent some timeasanamateur football history.” of the greatest comebacks in Dartmouth and helpedusto defeat Brown andstartone our loss to Penn. Captain Herb came back forget the turning point intheseason after Csatari. “Histeammates andIwillnever winning the title our senior season,” says That Championship Season. quee across thestreet featured theplay bus infront oftheirhotel, atheater mar York City. Asplayers descended from the title inhand, the team celebrated in New and Princeton—most by asizablemargin. This pastJune hisstruggles against the But Hopkins faced other challenges. Hopkins went to Alaska after gradu “Herb was instrumental inDartmouth After the Princeton victory, with the “I first met Herb ona fall afternoon on JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 lives in Virginia with his
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THE INNOVATIVE ECONOMIST ● ● ● MACARTHUR FELLOW AND STANFORD PROFESSOR HEIDI WILLIAMS ’03 EXPLORES THE FORCES THAT IMPEDE ADVANCES IN HEALTHCARE.
BY MIKE SWIFT
28 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 29 IT’S ABOUT NOT BEING SO ABSTRACT AND ACADEMIC ABOUT THINGS: LET’S FIGURE OUT THE IMPORTANT QUESTION, DEVISE WAYS OF GETTING THE DATA, AND FIND OUT WHAT THE ANSWER IS.”
ROWING UP IN WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA, HEIDI WILLIAMS never met anyone with a doctoral degree. She developed a passion ‘‘ for math in high school but didn’t take calculus because it wasn’t offered. Two decades later, the probing questions the Stanford University economist is asking shine new light on why medical in- G novation happens—and, perhaps more importantly, why it doesn’t. Why is it that innovative scientific ideas don’t always end up reaching patients? Why are so many drugs tested to extend the lives of late-stage cancer patients for a few months, but hardly any to prevent cancer from occurring in the first place? Does putting intellectual property protections on genes lead to more medical advances or fewer? What is so rare about Williams is that she has been able to answer those questions through her research on medical technol- ogy. In the face of a global pandemic, the questions she asks, and the answers she is unearthing around the forces behind medical innovation, are more urgent than ever. Williams, 39, won a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” award in 2015. Before that she was a Rhodes scholar, and she earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 2010. Peers call her a rock star in the emerging field of “the economics of innovation,” which Williams applies primarily to medical technology. She was tabbed by The Economist in 2018 as one of the eight best young economists of the decade. She was even featured in Glamour. Now Williams’ work could help shape the nation’s patent sys- tem, not only as it relates to medicine but also to software and other areas of technology innovation.
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Before she arrived at Dartmouth from Williston, North Dakota—a Great Plains city of about 14,000 people near the Montana bor- der—Williams hardly thought of an academic career. Told during orientation that the College enrolled students from all 50 states, Williams glanced around, figured she had to be the only kid there from North Dakota, and concluded that’s how she got in. “I didn’t really understand what getting a Ph.D. was, and I definitely didn’t think of myself as somebody who was obviously qualified to go get one,” Williams says in a voice that still carries the inflection of her Great Plains childhood. Williams started her freshman year with the most basic calculus course offered. Her senior thesis explored a problem related to el- liptic curves, and she graduated with honors in math. One key to her mathematical leap, Williams says, was that she never felt prejudged A CURIOUS MIND even though she came from a small public high school in a rural Her early interest in state. “It was like, ‘Well, why don’t you go meet the math graduate cryptography led Williams to math, economics, and what 30 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE she calls the “question- driven path.” students and why don’t you go spend time with them?’ ” she says. posed by Williams and Stanford law professor Lisa Larrimore In her doctoral thesis Williams revealed that by licensing Ouellette, including a series of steps to make the ownership of newly sequenced human genes as intellectual property, the patents more transparent. HEIDI IS HELPING DEFINE INNOVATION ECONOMICS private biotech company Celera actually decreased medical in- “As we deal with the global coronavirus pandemic, the AS A FIELD, INCLUDING BY MENTORING novation, compared with the publicly financed Human Genome importance of investing in innovation is all the more appar- Project, which immediately shared its gene sequencing discov- ent,” Tillis wrote Andrei Iancu, director of the patent office, THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCHOLARS.” eries in the public domain. Williams’ data was republished in in an August 10 letter. Tillis was “very encouraged” about the 2013 by the Journal of Political Economy. promise of the patent proposals by Ouellette and Williams that For another paper, published in 2015, Williams researched would enhance the patent system and optimize incentives for why so many more cancer drugs are approved to treat late stages innovators and inventors. of disease compared with the relatively few drugs approved to and you seem like you’re excited about what you’re learning, have come about without the pandemic. “Covid was actually treat more survivable early stages of cancer or to prevent cancer ● ● ● and that’s kind of the most important thing.’ That’s definitely kind of the kick we needed,” Williams says. “It was like, okay, altogether. Williams wanted to know if drug companies have something that I feel very strongly about for my students now.” it seems medical innovation is now sufficiently important. We greater economic incentives to invest in late-stage treatment President George Washington signed the bill creating the U.S. The questing never stopped. It was cryptography, Williams don’t need to feel bad about focusing on that.” research, even if these drugs tend to extend patients’ lives by patent system in the spring of 1790, just a few months after he says, that got her interested in math as an outlet to find answers One of the most disarming things about Williams is how only a few months. Her answer: They do. took the oath of office. The first American patent was awarded to the questions‘ that kept‘ popping into her head. She didn’t have transparent she is about her self-doubts, despite her extraor- Williams noted that in the five years preceding that pa- to Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia for an improvement in access to a university or laboratory, but math, she discovered, dinary accomplishments. Even in her quiet voice, words spill per, all eight lung cancer drugs approved by the U.S. Food and “the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and didn’t require the type of scientific gear other disciplines did. out in a gush of ideas that show the force of her intellect and her Drug Administration (FDA) treated only late-stage patients. Process.” Brian Winkel, a mathematician, first got to know Williams passion to make the world better. Williams won the MacArthur In contrast, Williams noted, no drug had ever been approved A patent, like other forms of intellectual property such as when, as a high school student, she submitted a paper to his genius award while she was at the Massachusetts Institute of to prevent lung cancer and at that time only six drugs had ever copyright, is essentially a monopoly awarded by the govern- cryptography journal that qualified as significant academic Technology. She and her husband, Daniel Fetter—an economic been approved to prevent any type of cancer. ment. But the larger goal is to incentivize inventors and cre- research. “You’ve got to know that there’s this engine inside historian at Stanford—had their first of two sons three months Williams catalogued data on clinical trials as a measure ators for the value of their technological innovation or creative that drives her,” he says. earlier. Wiliams felt that she was failing miserably at balancing of where firms were investing in their efforts to develop new work. The innovations being patented today in gene therapy Williams’ paper showed how modern cryptography tech- the demands of parenthood and a young academic career. “I drugs, and found that the lung cancer example holds much and artificial intelligence are somewhat more complex than niques could be used to break the code of Germany’s World War remember feeling like, for sure I’m gonna get fired,” she says. more broadly: Across all cancers, nearly twice as many cancer the making of pot ash and pearl ash. There is an element of II Enigma machine. Williams won both prizes that Winkel’s “Every day was harder than the one before.” clinical trials offer enrollment to metastatic cancer patients Wild West lawlessness mixed with robber baron excesses in journal offered that year. Winkel, then a professor at the U.S. Then, one harried afternoon when she had just returned relative to patients with localized cancer. Part of the issue, the current patent landscape, where so-called “patent trolls” Military Academy at West Point, says a high school student to her office after nursing her infant son at daycare, the phone Williams surmised, was that because FDA-required clinical clog the federal courts with lawsuits that demand huge license submitting a paper of that pedagogical caliber was unheard of rang. The MacArthur Foundation was on the line. Oh really? trials tend to be longer for early-stage or preventive cancer fees for technologies that underlie transformative innovations 20 years ago. It prompted Winkel to connect Williams, then un- Williams did not know she had been nominated and initially treatments, the patent-provided exclusivity period for those from smartphones to new drugs. decided about where to attend college, with a highly respected thought it was an elaborate prank. MacArthur fellows receive a drugs is significantly shorter. That gives drug companies an Better transparency in patent ownership is important be- peer: Dartmouth math professor Dorothy Wallace. no-strings-attached stipend of $625,000 for their “exceptional incentive to favor research on late-stage cancer treatments, cause patent assertion entities—the less polarizing name for “With Heidi, you knew there was this engine, but there creativity.” she concluded, over early-stage or preventive therapies that patent trolls—often create multiple shell companies to obscure was also this graciousness—this grace—she had,” says Winkel, Five years later, Williams still gets emotional talking could save countless more lives. who is behind a lawsuit. They are one element of what is called who remains close to her. “And I thought,” he adds, if Williams about the many people who helped her win the MacArthur, That cancer drug study is one that Williams says she is the “patent thicket,” the idea that the tangle of intellectual prop- could gain some of Wallace’s energy, force of personality, and from her optometrist father and social worker mother who most proud of, in part because doubt gnawed at her about the erty complications becomes so impenetrable that it prevents aggressiveness, “that would be good for her.” always supported her relentless quest for answers to later durability of its conclusions before the paper was published. The companies from bringing innovations to market. The Wallace connection helped lead Williams to Hanover, mentors including Winkel, Wallace, and MIT professor and project required her to stitch together many piecemeal sources This is why the research Williams is doing is crucial. Rela- and the pair worked closely together. “Heidi is a born curious 2018 MacArthur fellow Amy Finkelstein. “You think, this isn’t of evidence. Even though she had thought hard for a long time tively little is known about whether stronger patent laws affect researcher, near as I can tell, apart from any specific research my work,” Williams says. “It’s kind of the sum total of these about the best ways to collect data to answer that question, she investments in technology research. Through her work on question,” Wallace says, noting that she still keeps the 2015 25 people who made the decision to give me an opportunity agonized about whether the puzzle fit together well enough to medical technology, Williams is at the forefront of discover- email she got from Winkel after Williams won the MacArthur: at that time or who gave me an ear, listened to me, or gave me support a convincing scientific argument. ing new data sets that better illuminate the interplay between “Lose a math major, win a Rhodes scholar and MacArthur fel- support and advice.” It turned out she needn’t have worried. intellectual property protections and innovation. “Part of what low—reasonable swap!” Williams has long felt self-conscious that she has produced “In retrospect, that was the paper that was featured in makes Heidi’s work so special is the way she works with lawyers fewer research papers than some academics. Maybe the most the [MacArthur] fellowship announcement,” she says. “That and innovators to make sure she understands the practical ● ● ● important thing the MacArthur genius award provided, she was the paper that I got the most compliments on when I pre- details of the areas she studies,” says Ouellette. “In addition says, was the confidence to continue walking what she calls sented it. Students were coming up and saying to me, ‘Seeing to doing cutting-edge research herself, Heidi is helping define Williams, who teaches both graduate and undergraduate eco- the “question-driven path.” that paper and reading that paper inspired me to want to go innovation economics as a field, including by mentoring the nomics at Stanford, says teaching is a central element of her “When you are doing research it’s pretty easy to write pa- study economics.’ I just find it so interesting that we hold these next generation of scholars in this area.” academic life. She and Ouellette are designing a new course pers if the goal is to write papers. It’s harder to write papers if standards for ourselves, like, have I learned enough that this From her days in North Dakota Williams remembers being that will straddle law and economics, probing why important your goal is to answer questions, because you might not come is something I can communicate to others? I felt very close to compelled to investigate questions. Once, during high school, scientific innovations in the biomedical field don’t always reach up with the right data to answer that question,” she says. The the margin there.” she wanted to know whether the government’s then-new GPS the patients who need them. “You can find lots of examples fellowship allows her “to keep doing things that might not work The value of Williams’ research on the interplay of in- system would provide more accurate location data than a private where it’s just like everything—everything!—was working,” Wil- out around the questions that you think are the most important novation and intellectual property was recently affirmed by alternative. She got her father to ferry her around in a golf cart on liams says, “except the patent was expiring in a year, so nobody and to continue down that path. That’s what I’m happiest do- arguably the nation’s most prominent elected official on intel- a local course so she could triangulate measurements. “My dad wants to give you any financing, so the project goes nowhere.” ing, and it’s what I feel is the most productive, but it is kind of lectual property issues. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who chairs probably knew this was not a meaningful thing that I was going The goal is to bring innovators to Stanford who have expe- high-risk.” the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s intellectual property to shed a lot of light on. But, you know, we just had a lot of fun,” rienced that plight and who might have ideas on how to develop subcommittee, in August urged the director of the U.S. Patent Williams says, smiling at the memory. “My parents were always better public policy. It’s not an area that conforms to the tradi- MIKE SWIFT, a former John S. Knight fellow at Stanford, is and Trademark Office to adopt two significant reforms pro- very supportive of, ‘You seem like you’re learning something tional corridors of any one academic discipline, and it may not chief global digital risk correspondent for MLex Market Insight.
32 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 33 ILLUSTRATION BY BEN BUYSSE
AGENT TONY GODSICK ’93 AND TENNIS SUPERSTAR ROGER FEDERER JOIN UP TO CREATE A GRAND SLAM PARTNERSHIP. DREAM TEAM BY TIM NEWCOMB
34 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE mindset led them to leave IMG seven years ago and form Team8. With offices in Cleveland and New York City, the firm has 20 employees, including four agents, and represents athletes including NHL goalie Henrik Lundqvist and tennis players Juan Martin del Potro, US Open finalist Alexander Zverez, and rising American star Coco Gauff. Godsick admits that leaving IMG after 19 years was difficult illette was on the hunt for a new face to represent and created some friction, but he knew it was the right move. “The its brand. It was 2006, and the company was con- best way to be successful is to make sure you have great partners,” sidering tennis stars Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal he says. “It’s true in doubles and true in business.” Team8 consults to complement spokesman Tiger Woods. Federer’s with brands and invests in companies, such as Universal Tennis, agent, Tony Godsick, made what Nadal’s agent called the company behind Universal Tennis Rating, a global player a “brilliant” maneuver in “the race for the contract” as Federer rating system. Team8 also creates events such as the Laver Cup Greached the U.S. Open men’s final. and the Roger Federer Foundation’s Match for Africa, a series of “They brought Tiger Woods into Roger’s box,” says Carlos Costa, exhibition matches that last February set the all-time record for Nadal’s agent. “I believe that there are two types of agents in our attendance at a tennis match—Federer vs. Nadal—with a crowd industry: those who think small and those who think big. Tony is one in Cape Town, South Africa, of nearly 52,000. The fourth edition of those who thinks big and will never accept a ‘no’ for an answer.” of the Laver Cup was postponed in 2020 because of the pandemic, Though Godsick admits it was more happenstance than a carefully Slam title in two years and reached No. 1 in the TENNIS, and now is scheduled for September in Boston. orchestrated move, having the face of Gillette backing Federer helped world. Seles helped persuade Federer to take ANYONE? Agent Costa calls the Laver Cup a “clear example of Godsick’s seal the new agreement for the young Swiss superstar. a meeting with IMG leadership, and CEO Ted Monica Seles helped leadership and excellent convincing skills,” and his ability to make “THE BEST WAY TO BE introduce Godsick Godsick, 49, has been a tennis agent for 27 years, first for IMG Forstmann made his pitch. But Federer wasn’t to Federer (left) and competing organizations work together on a first-of-its-kind event. and since 2013 as the CEO and a founding partner of Team8 Sports sold—he wanted to know which agent would to former tennis pro And that was just to get it off the ground in 2017. “Then it is impor- SUCCESSFUL IS TO MAKE SURE Mary Joe Fernández and Entertainment, an agency he runs with Federer. Since 2005 represent him. He asked Seles for advice, and (above, left), whom tant to look at the implementation of the project, and I sincerely Godsick has helped Federer grow his off-court success to include YOU HAVE GREAT PARTNERS. she told him she trusted Godsick. Federer knew he married in 2000. think it is an amazing event with a great team,” he adds. 13 sponsorship agreements around the globe and the top spot on Fernández, too, and figured her husband must Their daughter, Wedging the Laver Cup into an open slot on the calendar while Isabella ’24, won a Forbes’ 2020 list of highest-paid athletes. Federer, who has won 20 IT’S TRUE IN DOUBLES be a nice guy. “For me, the agent as a person is national doubles providing a distinctive approach to the game—a team exhibition Grand Slam titles, made an estimated $106.3 million in 2020, with extremely important,” Federer says. title in 2019, and event mixing singles and doubles in a weekend-only setting, all their son, Nicholas, about $100 million from endorsements. In 2018, after Godsick and AND TRUE IN BUSINESS.” “I got a phone call a few days after that from is a nationally geared for the fan experience, right down to the black courts—upset Nike couldn’t agree on an endorsement extension for Federer, the Forstmann, saying, ‘Godsick, get down to my of- ranked junior player. purists. But Godsick and Federer, who named the event after ten- agent negotiated an unheard-of 10-year, $300-million deal with fice, I just made your career,’ ” Godsick recalls. nis legend Rod Laver, believe they’ve created something to last. Uniqlo for the star, who at 39 is in the later stages of his on-court “I certainly owe Monica a lot,” he adds. The Laver Cup was a chance to fill a gap in the marketplace, career. Roughly 80 percent of Federer’s partners have a long-term “Monica got me my first job. Monica helped something “incredible for fans,” says Stacey Allaster, chief execu- contract with the player, some as long as 20 years (counting the for Seles. But in late April he returned to his introduce me to Mary Joe, and she encouraged tive of pro tennis for the U.S. Tennis Association. She calls it the years still ahead). “It doesn’t seem like the most important thing apartment to find 12 phone messages: Seles had Mary Joe and me to date. And, chapter three best tennis outside of the US Open, which she runs. Godsick, whom for the companies are the results,” Godsick says, “but more about been stabbed on court by a deranged man while with Monica, it was Monica who helped me she has known for many years, makes it work. “He is incredibly having a role model who is globally relevant.” playing in a tournament in Germany. Would sign Federer. She’s a special person.” smart from a business perspective. Take how smart he is com- Together Federer and Godsick created a new premiere ten- she be okay? Would he still have a job? IMG “I had such a positive experience working bined with his passion—I think it has been a winning equation,” nis event, the Laver Cup, a three-day men’s tournament between reassured him that Seles would recover. After with Tony on many fronts,” Seles tells DAM. “I she says. “It was fun to see him date Mary Joe and get married. Team Europe and Team World. “He is constantly thinking out of Commencement, Godsick drove to Cleveland to saw how professional, prepared, and innovative He has a great family.” the box on so many different issues,” Federer says of Godsick. “He start at IMG two days later. He’s been in Cleve- Tony was. He always cared about me as a player Federer says family matters as much to him as to Godsick. can be intense with his creative ideas one minute and laughing at a land—with a slight break years ago in New York but also as a person.” “He understands how much my family and my tennis mean to simple joke the next. But through all of those moments I know that City and Miami—ever since. Federer shares that opinion. “Tony and me,” Federer says. “Without that, [our partnership] just wouldn’t he looks out for the best of his clients’ success both on and off the Godsick says the move to IMG with Seles I have been working together for more than survive after all these years. And the example of his character is court. He works at all hours of the day to make sure my partners in recovery mode gave him time to acclimate to 15 years. We have developed a good sense of the love he has for his family. He has worked so hard to make sure and I are represented well.” the sport and connect with a variety of agents trust to make sure we are aligned with the same each of them is successful and know they are loved and protected. Godsick, who grew up in Manhattan and attended high school and players. “I was just learning from other goals. It’s not about him and it’s not just about We have watched our families grow together, and his kids have at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, originally envisioned people, really smart, creative people,” he says. me. We have grown together.” That includes developed into incredible people. To me, that is the biggest sign a career on Wall Street. It was another tennis star, Monica Seles, “I was able to learn and experience different exploring opportunities in Federer’s home of the overall person that he is.” who helped launch Godsick’s career in sports when he was serv- aspects of the business working alongside these country. “He understood how important the Godsick says “the Midwest thing”—living in the countryside ing his second internship with IMG in 1992, the summer after people.” Godsick, a recreational tennis player home market was for me, and it ended up being near Cleveland, with no traffic and people waving and smiling— his junior year at Dartmouth. One night while he was manning who was on the football team at Dartmouth, a great place for him to do business and also “is a plus for me and my family.” Godsick’s daughter, Isabella, is the phones at IMG’s New York City office, a bigwig from IMG’s learned quickly. By the time he was 26, he rep- learn about who I am and where I love to live.” a Dartmouth freshman and his son, Nicholas, is one of the top- tennis division in Cleveland called and asked Godsick to assist resented three of the world’s Top 10 players. Godsick calls Federer a natural communi- ranked junior tennis players in the country. But not everything Seles, the No. 1 tennis player in the world, at an exhibition in New Meanwhile, in 1994, Seles introduced cator. The two speak two to three times a day, goes smoothly in the Godsick-Fernández household. When it Jersey. “I thought it was a joke, a friend calling to prank me,” says Godsick to two-time Olympic gold medalist and both being married to professional tennis comes time for a competitive family tennis match, Tony is no one’s Godsick. He ended up working with Seles for the weekend—“an and doubles Grand Slam champion Mary Joe players helped build the relationship early on. preferred teammate. “There is always a fight over who gets me,” incredible opportunity,” he says—and then asked her if she would Fernández, whom he started dating in 1996 and “Roger is an extraordinary human being as it he says. “And it is never a good fight.” put in a good word for him. With graduation less than a year away, married in 2000. relates to relationships,” Godsick says. “Not the government major was thinking about his future employment. In 2005 Federer, who was managed then by many people are as engaging and charismatic TIM NEWCOMB is a freelance journalist and author who has con- It worked. The following spring IMG offered Godsick a full- his wife, Mirka, was looking to join an agency. as he is. He makes it fun.” tributed to Time, Sports Illustrated, Wired, Forbes, Tennis, and
time job upon graduation as the day-to-day traveling manager He had just won Wimbledon for his fifth Grand GODSICK TONY COURTESY RIGHT: TOP IMAGES; GETTY LEFT: TOP The pair’s mutual trust and entrepreneurial other publications. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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2019, poet, editor, and activist Heid Erdrich Burns, now the president of Leech Lake Tribal College in Cass Do not mistake me for an Ojibwe teller of created an art installation at the Soo Visual Lake, Minnesota. He describes Erdrich as “very measured and tradition teller of the living lit of long- INArts Center in Minneapolis called My Process. very considered” with a powerful humor. Burns also remembers dead tellers but do count me as a teller In it, a headless woman holds a mirror so passing viewers provide Erdrich as “fun, a free spirit, rambunctious,” as well as an organizer of still-live stories It is true that humans the face. Lights bounce off the mirror, sending shimmers and of late-night doughnut runs. become bears mostly harmless Once shadows down the gallery wall. She received several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Erdrich, 57, says the installation represents how she begins interdisciplinary studies from Union Institute and University in they honeyed love upon us broke the hive her poetry projects by looking outward. She collects art images 2012, and taught creative writing and Native American literature and plundered Once they hugged like and copies bits of language as she reads scientific articles and at the University of St. Thomas. She left in 2007, despite achieving bears and were bears literal bears with histories. “One of my early influences was the collage in the titles tenure. “It was eroding my sense of mission,” she says, explain- shitty tails reeking lumbering gutting for Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” she says. “I thought it was the ing that she needed to dedicate her energy to serving Indigenous garbage cans then slumber came which coolest thing I’d ever seen and wanted everything to be like that.” communities. “My way of being is to listen for stories, tell stories, figuratively means the weaker one fell Her fifth and most recent poetry collection,Little Big Bully, find what we can learn in those stories, and recognize that the for love dumb move and done before published in October, examines abuse and domination, from in- community knows what they want and need.” weaker ones and many fell off earth out of terpersonal violence to the systemic oppression of colonialism. Erdrich’s work as an editor reflects the vibrant complex- orbit lost as Bowie’s midnight blue wails She wrote it during the 2019 polar vortex, when it was so cold ity of contemporary Indigenous literature and culture. Her first she didn’t leave her house in Minneapolis for 10 days. “I was anthology, Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Bears care most for their hungers which wondering about the mechanism of how a bully works,” she says. “MY WAY OF Community, edited with Laura Tohe in 2002, highlights both the “What happens in a woman’s life, a person of color’s life, or an commonalities that make Indigenous women from across North means we get in the way collateral Indigenous person’s life when you decide either to fight a bully America “sisters” as well as the diversity of their voices. In ad- damage of beastly rampage which now or join their side?” BEING IS TO dition, she edited Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and makes me think these alive stories do In earlier works, beginning with Fishing for Myth in 1997, Recipes from the Upper Midwest in 2013 and in 2018 published not speak of bears but something human Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, has LISTEN New Poets of Native Nations, the first comprehensive anthology and more beastly political and public taken on subjects that range from the mistreatment of Indigenous of contemporary Indigenous writers in 30 years. As director of We started with love foolish love which women’s remains by Western museums in National Monuments FOR STORIES, TELL STORIES, FIND Wiigwass Press, she also advocated for the revitalization of the should have worried us Love is how any (2008), the relationship between genetics and cultural memory WHAT WE CAN LEARN IN THOSE Ojibwe language, and founded, along with Louise, the Birchbark beast would read our weakness When in Cell Traffic (2012), and how to reinvent art criticism to better House, a support organization for Indigenous writers. the beast reads us we can feel a psychic respond to Native artists in Curator of Ephemera at the New Mu- STORIES, AND RECOGNIZE THAT A mother of two—John, 21, and Eliza, 17—Erdrich says that scan bright on our skin and that smell seum for Archaic Media (2017). when she isn’t on a visiting writer stint, her schedule allows for you know that one the smell when your The influence of Monty Python shows up in Erdrich’s use of THE COMMUNITY KNOWS WHAT days of uninterrupted writing, sustained by cups of good coffee collaged language and her biting wit. Since 2013 she has been mak- that her husband of 30 years, John Burke, an IT analyst, makes lips numb ing videopoems—short films that animate her written work and THEY WANT AND NEED.” from locally roasted beans. “I don’t move as much as I should,” the smell explore contemporary Indigenous issues—often in collaboration she admits, though she memorizes her poems so she can work on you taste with the artist Jonathan Thunder. them during walks. “I also don’t do any housework,” she says. “If “Heid is one of the finest poets writing today,” says her sister, you are looking for the writer, you will find her here, surrounded novelist Louise Erdrich ’76, who also lives in the Twin Cities who is white, was known in town as the man who ran everywhere, by laundry.” and sees Heid nearly every day. “Every book that she writes is a preferring his own feet to a car. He also loved poetry, and his chil- Erdrich is researching her next project, which will explore Red Language departure and a surprise. Her voice is both commanding and sly. dren would memorize poems to perform for him. “We were an female genealogy and her connection to the Metis from Manitoba, It is extremely difficult to be both smart and funny in poetry, but unusual family,” Erdrich explains, adding that marriages between Canada. Each poem she writes goes through “a bajillion” revisions, If I heard the words you once used she does it all of the time.” Louise calls her sister “a sage editor” white and Indigenous people were rare at the time. “That made she says, but she didn’t ask anyone for feedback on Little Big Bully and sends all her drafts to her. “I trust Heid to always tell me if I us pretty close.” before sending the work to publishers. Some of the first people to in our wild place rough with scrub roses am deluded or boring.” When it was her turn, she also chose Dartmouth, which be- see it were the readers digging through a mountain of anonymous in sand—If your words came back When Louise, 10 years older than Heid, joined the first Dart- came something of a family tradition, with others following. She submissions for the prestigious National Poetry Series. Little Big mouth class to include women in 1972, her sister wrote regularly. studied creative writing and Native American studies, and she Bully was one of five poetry collections to win in 2019. “This book gray and kind as mild winter “Her letters often contained eccentric doodles or reported on our engaged in activism and protests, on and off campus. “When I got broke me open,” wrote Amy Gerstler, a poet who nominated the various dogs and their narrow escapes from cars, trucks, and the to Dartmouth I was a budding…,” Erdrich stops herself. “No, I was book for the award. “With great ardor, [Erdrich] captures bright, believe me I’d still understand town dog catcher,” Louise says. already a pretty well-budded feminist at that point.” fractious, whirling bits of us, truths and contradictions, and chan- offer my own red language The sisters and their five siblings were raised by two educators At the time there were calls for Dartmouth to divest from nels them into poems that become a force of nature, like winged in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Their parents are conservationists South Africa, as well as anti-military and antinuclear weapon migration or river rapids.” my tongue to your tongue with an anticonsumer streak, relying heavily on their own garden demonstrations. “Something snapped,” remembers Raymond for food. “We had brown bread and crackers. No pop. No chewing Burns ’86, a friend of Erdrich’s from childhood and a College ELIZABETH HOOVER is a poet and essayist based in Milwaukee. so we recall what we once said gum,” Heid recalls. She was jealous of friends who “got white classmate. “All sorts of groups discovered we were stronger if Her interviews have appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, that made us live bread, baloney, potato chips, and Kool-Aid.” She now keeps her we worked together.” The Kenyon Review, and Bitch magazine. own garden bursting with vegetables. Erdrich describes herself as having been “very much in the made us choose to live She describes their parents as talented storytellers and avid background” of activism, but Burns says she was in a leadership Poems from Little Big Bully by Heid E. Erdrich, published by Pen- readers. Their mother, who is Ojibwe, helped the children make role. “She wasn’t at the podium or on the megaphone, but you guin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of handbound books to fill with stories and illustrations. Their dad, could hear her voice in everything the groups were doing,” says Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2020 by Heid E. Erdrich. W 40 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 41 front cover front
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SPOTLIGHT There were many late nights, JONATHAN BEANE ’92 with lots of trial and error— and learning. Tackling Justice Unprecedented times NFL hires an impact player. call for unprecedented “I WANT TO MAKE THINGS BETTER,” SAYS THE LEAGUE’S learning. new senior VP and chief diversity and inclusion officer. “I want to make an impact.” Dartmouth Moments like Beane’s goal is to position the NFL as the leader in diver- these are made possible sity, equity, and inclusion throughout the sports industry. “In perception and practice,” he says, “we want the best talent through your annual gifts to and diversity on and off the field and with an extremely strong the Dartmouth College Fund. connection among fans, players, and owners in purpose, mis- In the end, sion, and goal.” each team Thank you. A wide receiver on Dartmouth’s 1990 Ivy championship had created a team, Beane worked as a diversity proponent for Time Warner working clock. and 21st Century Fox, among other firms, before starting his new job in September. A history major, he has two master’s Success! degrees and a doctorate—and one other handy credential: “I absolutely love the game of football,” he says. —Sean Plottner
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HILARY JOHNSON ’15, TH’15 ÓSCAR CORNEJO CÁSARES ’17 On the Dot Words Matter Engineer builds a better Filmmaker is a force for change. Braille label maker.
SOMETHING AS INNOCUOUS AS A SUBJECT WHEN JOHNSON’S NEW ADVISOR heading in a library catalog can have significant—and pain- asked her if she wanted to work on cre- ful—power. When Cornejo Cásares was at Dartmouth, he ating an affordable, flexible, handheld collaborated with Romance languages librarian Jill Baron, label maker for the blind, she jumped Melissa Padilla ’16, and video producer Sawyer Broadley ’08 at the chance. Johnson, then a design to filmChange the Subject. The 2019 documentary charts fellow at Thayer, was about to join the their battle to get the Library of Congress to change its sub- lab of Alex Slocum, a mechanical en- ject heading “illegal alien” to “undocumented immigrant.” gineering professor at MIT. He shared The library took steps to adopt the term “noncitizen” in an idea that had been pitched to him: 2016, but the U.S. Congress nixed the plan. The subject “a Braille label maker with Scotch tape heading has not changed. as an embossing mechanism.” The idea “Language, words, terms—they capture the social and had come to Slocum through the MIT political reality of human society,” says Cornejo Cásares, a Tata Center, an Indian-based founda- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient tion that funds research projects at MIT whose family moved from Mexico to the United States that focus on work in India. when he was 5. “When you use particular language, you Braille-It will be significantly more XANTHA BRUSO ’97 are essentially codifying and legitimizing that particular flexible and affordable than other Braille way of framing that particular thing—in this case, undocu- label makers on the market. It will work mented immigrants.” with any of the 130 Braille languages At the Wheel In 2014 the sociology and Native American studies (most similar products can produce only AAA exec sees the future in self-driving cars. major cofounded the Coalition for Immigration Reform and one language) and can be made for about Equity and Dreamers, Dartmouth’s first immigrant rights $5. Johnson estimates her final product BRUSO, WHO MANAGES AAA’S AUTONOMOUS student organization. Broadley, who codirected and shot will sell for about $15, compared with vehicle (AV) strategy, develops policies to make driving Change the Subject, says Cornejo Cásares “sees himself as the current $40 cost for English-only safer—especially in cars without drivers. She has handled very privileged, in a lot of ways, and he’s willing to use that devices. And Scotch tape, she says, has projects that range from establishing the first pilot of an privilege and power to be a force for change.” both good distribution around the globe automated shuttle in Las Vegas to advocating for consistent Cornejo Cásares, now in his fourth year pursuing a doc- and “very particular elastic properties AV consumer education. Bruso first became interested torate in sociology at Northwestern University, continues, that let it deform and hold the dot” for in AVs in her previous job managing climate policy and along with Broadley, Baron, and Padilla, to virtually present Braille writing. She hopes Braille-It will analysis at Pacific Gas & Electric, where she learned that their documentary to high schools and colleges around help with home and work activities and transportation is the leading source of greenhouse gas the country. The film, he says, encourages viewers to take be a teaching tool for children. emissions in California. Her research showed that AVs action and seek allies in unlikely places. “If librarians and A native of Portland, Oregon, John- promised a means to slow climate change, so she made immigrants can come together and do something, then I son attended high school at United the switch in 2018 to the then-nascent field of AV policy. think we really have great possibilities with other forms World College in Mostar, Bosnia and “AV is so potentially disruptive and pervasive to how of solidarity, connection, collaboration for social change.” Herzegovina, so she didn’t study abroad parts of driving can become automated. It will change how —Madison Wilson ’21 while at Dartmouth—though she did we interact with vehicles, roads, and space,” says Bruso, visit India four times while developing who drives a 2015 Ford Focus EV and a 2000 VW Eurovan Cornejo Cásares encourages people Braille-It. She graduated from Dart- but would rather be riding one of her bikes. A resident of seeking social mouth and Thayer with an A.B. and a Kentfield, California, she and her husband have two boys, change to enlist B.E., finishing both degrees in just four ages 9 and 11. allies in unusual years. “It was intense,” she says. places. > > > > AV technology could revolutionize delivery services Now working on her Ph.D. in me- by providing efficient contactless delivery—which can be chanical engineering at MIT, Johnson useful beyond the pandemic. AV advances could also help is fine-tuning her device. In June she solve America’s shortage of truck drivers. Bruso says her filed a patent, and she received startup primary hope is to decrease the number of car accidents, funding from MIT to bring her inven- injuries, and deaths. tion to life. That means “another round “New technology is a double-edged sword,” she says. of prototype testing,” she says, “and then “It comes with uncertainty.” Bruso, who majored in Asian I’ll design for manufacturing.” studies and geography, cautions that AVs could, for ex- —Sarah Clark ’11 ample, increase emissions if people commute longer dis- Johnson is now tances to work. That’s where Bruso comes in, as she hopes looking for partners to foresee problems and mitigate them down the road. to help bring her device to market. > > > > GURKARAN SINGH ’15 GURKARAN
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A Century Ago “When the wind blows from the Arctic, and the town is deep in snow, when the short cold days grow dark quick, folks come north to see the show known to Dartmouth enthusiasts as Winter Carnival.” —DAM, February 1920
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bombs forced Japan’s surrender—what a huge where Giulio taught in the Graduate School of inquiries with patience. Angela and her crew California and then President Nixon made him relief. No more fears, nightmares, and worrying Business. The pandemic kept them from their were in charge of our 65th reunion, and she has a federal judge. He was a skinny guy in college. Give a Rouse▲ The Classes about D-Day Japan, rumored to be October 1, home on Martha’s Vineyard this summer, but since moved on to be an associate director on the I visited him in his office in San Diego maybe 1945. That was the target date for our 8th Army, Giulio still fills his days writing about economics. Dartmouth for Life team within alumni relations. 30 years ago. He had put on weight but was still under Lt. Gen. Robert Eichelberger, to land on James Fannon’s son, Doug, wrote that Jim For me, she’s only an email away. the same guy—charismatic and fun to be with.” >>> Eric L. Martin ’75—presi- As I begin this column we are eight the beaches 50 miles north of Tokyo. (The land- passed away on August 20, 2020, in Hilton Head, I talked with Phil Segal the other day and he Joyce and I are still hunkered down at our dent and CEO of Music for days from the most monumental ing ship tanks that were supposed to take us on South Carolina. Jim founded a pioneering mul- says the family’s fine. Like the rest of us, every Naples, Florida, condo and plan to come back All—has been inducted into election of our times. When you read that perilous two-week voyage to the shores of timedia agency in New York City. At Dartmouth day is like the day before. We talked about his north in April, I hope properly vaccinated. While its Hall of Fame for his more 42 Japan instead performed a herculean humani- he was a member of the Dartmouth Outing Club this in December we all will know its outcome. time living in Ripley before being drafted into I enjoy the golf, summer in southern Florida is than 25 years of service to the Forgive me for making the column personal. tarian effort: They transported the thousands and skied. Throughout his life he loved to paint, the Army, and it turns out we were both in New- difficult. Every day is the same, even as of this Indianapolis, Indiana-based On my section of Manhattan there is an early of Japanese soldiers and civilians back to their sail, and play tennis. We send our sincere con- ton (Massachusetts) High School together. Of writing in mid-October, with temperatures in nonprofit. He has also been polling station. On day one I ran into a neighbor homeland. According to reports, the food was dolences to his family. course, that’s along with 2,500 other students. the upper 80s or low 90s, high humidity, and inducted into the Interna- who had waited three and a half hours. Just yes- “excellent.”) I am saddened to share that the College has It seems as though the undergrad years at thunderstorms forecast every afternoon. tional Festivals and Events terday a neighbor waited two hours until she was Then it happened. One morning after break- learned of the passing of Stevens Belknap in 2016 Dartmouth produced many friends in the ’46 and —Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt. 331, New Association Hall of Fame and earned the selected by a poll watcher to go to the head of the fast I didn’t feel well. I went to a nearby combat and John Hoffman in 2018. This year brought loss- ’48 classes due to World War II, and I received Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@ 2020 Outstanding Percussive Arts Society line due to an apparent physical disability. I too engineers’ sick call and the medic on duty said, es of classmates Kenneth “Ken” Eldredge, James an email from a ’46 the other day wishing me a verizon.net Supporter Award. am a cane person, having just undergone surgery. “Hey, Sarge, you’ve got a 103.8 temperature. “Jim” Torian, and Robert Hanson. All of these class- fast recovery. He’s Dave Chalmers, and in the >>> Bob Worthington ’59 has earned a Gold Friends have convinced me to request the same. You’ve got to go to the division hospital in Davao.” mates served their country in World War II and summer of 1945 we ended up in Camp Pendleton, Periodically, I get asked how many Medal for Excellence in Literature from Early this month I received a letter introduc- I was admitted into the 24th Division Hospital. shared the unique and abbreviated Dartmouth California, preparing for the invasion of Japan. ’49ers are still around. As of last the Military Writers Society of America for ing the class to our two 1942 scholars—Abubakar Three days later a major said, “George, we’ve experience that shaped the great class of 1945. We decided that our adventures while off duty October, we had 107 on the College his 2018 memoir, Under Fire with ARVN In- O. Kasule ’21 from Ryadh, Saudi Arabia, and Em- been treating you for malaria, which you’ve had We honor and remember them all. 49 there should stay there! roster, 18 of whom had no interest in the class. fantry. Worthington, a retired Army officer ily J. Zurcher ’21 from Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. before. But you don’t have malaria, you have in- Please send me your news and stay well. We are saddened to report the deaths of Considering our bastardized make-up, that’s not with 15 years in the infantry and a decade as If any of you would like to reach these students fectious hepatitis. You’re too sick for us to handle. My best to all! Stanley Geller of Roslyn Heights, New York, on surprising; here’s some background. an Army clinical psychologist, describes his directly, I can provide contact info. Tomorrow morning we’re sending you by hospi- —Martha J. Beattie, 6 North Balch St., Hanover, NH August 30, 2020, and Richard H. Allen of Battle Our original 1945 wartime freshman class first tour in the Vietnam War as a combat We have or will have by the time you read tal plane to a big Army general hospital on Leyte” 03755; (603) 667-7611; [email protected] Creek, Michigan, on April 22, 2018. included three groups, totaling 389: 49 in March; advisor to Vietnamese infantry units. this two classmates who will turn 100—Bob about 500 miles away. There were six stretchers —Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; 221 in July; and 119 in November. Our average >>> Commercial fishermanLinda Behnken Gale, who celebrated in December 2019, and Jon being loaded, and as mine was being moved onto This report is being written in Oc- (603) 964-6503; [email protected] age was 17 years and nine months; 24 freshmen ’84 has received the Heinz Family Founda- Mendes, who turned 100 November 3. The latter the converted C-47, I heard an airman’s voice ring tober and I can report that since my were only 16. tion’s Heinz Award for the Environment for had signed up for the New York Marathon—now out: “Hey, who’s the V.I.P. prisoner of war? That’s fall last June, I am now able to do my Ann Briggs lives in Rochester, New At Dartmouth’s 180th graduation in 1949, her work in sustainable fishing and environ- 47 George Cohn canceled due to the pandemic. I am wondering a first for this plane.” A buddy of mine hollered exercises at home unassisted. was York, and was able to attend a num- we had about 650 classmates. Only about 150 had mental conservation. As executive director how many classmates are 100 today? Please get out: “That’s no POW, that’s George Shimizu. He’s a kind enough to call me, having had a similar ex- ber of our mini-reunions. She sent gone through their college years uninterrupted of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Associ- in touch with me so I can feature you in the next sergeant in the U.S. Army. He’s one of us. He’s one perience, but he seems to have progressed faster 48 us a nice note advising how much she enjoyed by military service or dropping out. (Actually, ation she helped secure a ban on trawling—a column. of the good guys!” Several hours later we landed than I have. He and Sally still live in Edgartown, them and always felt the widows were welcomed 64 of us received bachelor’s degrees in 1948.) fishing practice that involves dragging large Just spoke with Bob Gale, who is working at Tacloban Airport on Leyte. Ambulances took Massachusetts (Martha’s Vineyard) and he still by the class. They indeed were, and it was good Members of earlier classes whose attendance nets behind a boat, often damaging marine on yet another book about the author Walter us to a huge Army hospital and I was immediately has patients in his practice and can walk a mile to hear from her. was affected by Uncle Sam, plus V-12s and others ecosystems in the process—in federal wa- Noble Burns, who wrote about Billy the Kid, admitted into the intensive care unit. I wondered, a day without a cane. That I envy. Of their four Hugh Ettinger wrote, “Nothing much going on assigned by the College, constituted a significant ters off of Alaska. Wyatt Earp, and the O.K. Corral, among others. Am I going to make it? I didn’t want to die on this children, they have two families living a stone’s in New Orleans. I’ve been sheltering in place with portion of our class. >>> Filmmaker Tracey Deer ’00 Bob just completed Frederick Remington. I think lonely island in the Philippines, so far from home. throw away. a bull’s-eye upon the back. I suppose everybody So if any of you want to contact your friends earned the Emerging Talent this is book No. 67 at age 100. He says it is what I was in the ICU for three and a half months. After George did his medical training at Yale and in late middle age (a nice euphemism) is doing in the class, let me know by phone, fax, or snail Award at the 2020 Toronto In- keeps him going. two months I was feeling better, but the doctors that’s where his 13-year-old granddaughter the same thing.” Hugh was V-12 at Dartmouth mail. (As a renowned history professor wrote me ternational Film Festival for A brief conversation with Stu Finch tells me would not release me, saying, “Not yet, George, wants to go. George has a little time to practice and I’ll quote an abbreviated version of his fun recently, “I commend you for not using email. It her movie, Beans. In her first a story of Irenee Du Pont, who brought a Cadillac not yet.” More later. his persuasive skills in promoting the Big Green. remembrances: “Seeing the obituary of William means you do not waste half your day answering feature film, Deer documents to college freshman year. It seems he drove it —George Shimizu, 2140 Sepulveda Ave., Milpitas, Maybe the following will help. B. Enright ’47 took me back. The Navy assigned unwanted messages.”) her experience as a young girl around campus for fun. I hear he still has that CA 95035-6142; (408) 930-2488; marymariko@ The Nov-Dec 2019 issue of DAM included us to dorm rooms by the first letter of our last Paul Woodberry holds the class (and maybe on the Mohawk reservation in comcast.net a profile of fashion designer Pauline Brown ’88. Cadillac today—and keeps it in mint condition. names. In my room at Massachusetts Hall and College) record for breeding green with two sons, Quebec during the turbulent She said Dartmouth is absolutely a luxury brand. Stu is still working on getting a putting green at in the next rooms were Eberly, Enright, Ettinger, two daughters, and six grandchildren graduating Indigenous uprising in the Canadian prov- As you read this, we will be about But, “once you’re in the school, you still have his assisted living complex, repairs, and a way Eddy, Elmer, and jolly Carl Evans from Nashua, from Dartmouth; four grandsons are current un- ince in the summer of 1990. to play poker safely. to enter a new year. The past year to have the skills and discipline to make it all New Hampshire. He was one of our linemen dergraduates. That doesn’t include two brothers >>> Acoustician Kenneth Kaliski ’85, Th’02, Jon Mendes reports he will hold a Zoom will stand as another historic and the way through,” she said. “Dartmouth is never 45 when Dartmouth played Notre Dame. He had and five in-laws and cousins. Paul keeps track has received the William W. Lang Award 100th birthday party November 3 with 25 mem- unprecedented time experienced by the class of going to compete successfully against Yale at barely been first string in Nashua and here he from his home in Sea Island, Georgia. for the Distinguished Noise Control En- bers of his family stressing unification of fam- 1945. I offer heartfelt hopes that the year ahead what Yale does best or against Princeton at what was staring up at a large fresh-faced gorilla on Dale Jacobson is one of the few ’49ers (I’m gineer from the Institute of Noise Control ily back 1,000 years. Later he will do one with will bring healing. We again will hug each other, Princeton does best. But there is no school that every play. I remember Don Alvarez, a guard from aware of) who is still driving. Dale had his sights Engineering. Kaliski, senior director at the friends. His health is 100 percent and he goes be with family, and give all people the benefit can compete with what Dartmouth does best. Chicago, who lived down the hall. They called set on our last reunion, but his wife’s failing Resource Systems Group in White River to the park every day. of the doubt as we work together to solve what For example, no other campus in the world can him ‘watch-charm guard.’ Here we were, fresh health (and subsequent death this year) pre- Junction, Vermont, was honored for his My request goes out again: Please forward seemed insurmountable at times in 2020. ‘own’ the magnificence of the White Mountains.” out of high school, 17 to 19 years old, never having vented that. He maintains his condo in northern contributions to the fields of wind turbine your news about family and what you are doing Ted Bracken ’65 shared research done for Welcome, Martha Beattie ’76, former vice been much away from home. My home was on Westchester County, New York, close to where acoustics and noise control engineering. or I will have to talk about myself. an alumni trip to Normandy, France. He learned president of alumni relations, to the Class Notes the south shore of Long Island. Eddy came from he grew up, and sounds chipper. >>> Chanel Frazier ’03, head of business strat- —Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New about Fletcher Burton, who was killed on Omaha pages as secretary for the class of 1945. As the New Jersey, Bill Enright from Queens, New York. George Adam Souflerisdied on September 4, egy for the portfolio management group at York, NY 10021; [email protected] Beach on June 6, 1945. Fletch came to Dartmouth daughter of Spence ’45 and Connie Johnson she He had a good buddy from Queens, Al Kaplan, 2020, in Syracuse, New York, near Jamesville, N.Y.C.-based investment firm BlackRock, has from Providence, Rhode Island, and enlisted was asked to take on the role. After the death of who later commanded a ship of some sort. We all where he lived. After selling shoes for five years been named to EMpower’s list of Top 100 It was the year 1945. World War II of- in the U.S. Coast Guard during his sophomore our own Don Page and with no applicants for the wound up in the Pacific; Bill Enright on a cruiser, George attended University of Vermont Medical Ethnic Minority Executives for 2020. She ficially ended on the deck of the USS year. He was one of 23 in the class of 1945 who role, I was asked by our class guru, the very per- I think, where he served with a guy named Weld School and became an obstetrician-gynecologist. was named to the international list for her Missouri, where the peace treaty joined the armed forces prior to graduation, suasive Angela Stafford ’91, to do the same. Don who was a big man on campus at Dartmouth after He spent his career helping women at hospitals 43 never to return. Ted invites you to email him at was going to be a tough act to follow, especially efforts to create a more diverse workplace, was signed on Sunday, September 2, in Tokyo the war. Bill Enright was a charismatic guy. The and medical centers in the greater Syracuse area. which has included service at national re- Bay. I was one of thousands of U.S. troops on the [email protected] for a copy of this sadly as all the Green Cards go to Lis Sistaire for our atmosphere in a room would light up when he George is survived by his wife, Rita, and sons cruiting events for M.B.A. students of color island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. compelling story. newsletter. I didn’t have a clue where to start, walked in. It’s hard to pin down but there are Mark, Philip, and Peter. and as an interviewer in the company’s All the G.I.s were so happy. We were heading for Giulio Pontecorvo’s son, Andrew, shared but Angela’s advice to “just buckle up” certainly people like that. After college Bill went to Cali- —John Adler, 1623 Pelican Cove Road, BA123, home and we were on the winning side! “Little that Giulio and his wife, Margaret, are living in did help. She introduced me to the many publica- fornia and enrolled in law school. He worked in Sarasota, FL 34231; (203) 622-9069; (941) 966- Founders Scholarship Program. Boy” and “Fat Man” did the trick! Those two New York City, across the street from Columbia, tions by Dartmouth and responded to my many one of the district attorney offices in southern 2943 (fax)
52 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 53 CLASS NOTES 1950-1958
’Tis a sad time to be penning Class in the wide variety of its activities. Joe Sisson was I think of the ’24s who have been deprived of the munications he would like to opt in and out of. —Ken Lundstrom, 1101 Exchange Place, #1106, Dur- discuss climate change and efforts to protect the Notes. As I write I think that this a horticultural therapist in the mental health unique and wonderful entry into Dartmouth that The hope is that classmates can refine their ham, NC 27713; (919) 206-4639; kenlundstrom@ quality of Napa Valley wines during this tragedy. weekend was to be our vaunted 70th field.Jim Asker was in great demand as a wood- we all enjoyed upon our matriculation. At the connections to the College and class so that they yahoo.com “Eliminate the negative.” Using Arizona 50 Bill Rugg reunion, which of course has been postponed working artist. was a widely admired same time, I applaud the efforts the College has are receiving only those emails they want—and State University’s political and global studies to next year. I think that all of us are now in our regional planner. John Shultz owned harness- made to welcome our freshmen in as warm and that classmates will then be more comfortable Ladies and gentlemen of the class faculty, Herb Roskind has created an organization 90s and because we had so many veterans many racing horses. Mo Monahan was a school super- memorable manner as conditions allow. I hope keeping the College current on emails, phone of 1956, the late Joel Ash and I had to encourage recent graduates, unemployed due of us are well into same! What does this do to intendent and served in Hawaii’s House of Rep- at some time during their college career, this numbers, etc. Classmates will find details on ac- a reverence for the Indian and the to Covid-19, to start a new business or service. 56 Mike Lasser attendance? Item No. 1 for this edition is an resentatives, besides being a legendary canoe dreadful plague will have run its course and they cessing and editing their alumni profiles at www. old traditions. Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow And conducts weekly Zoom ses- apology for penning a political song in the pre- sailor. Bill Merkle helped businesses in Eastern can partake in the subtle and not so subtle DNA alumni.dartmouth.edu/connect/find-alumni. people in Montana said in the late 1800s, “With sions with friends, including classmates Bruce vious issue—not appropriate in the least—mea Europe and North Africa. Dave Ballantine was of our alma mater. One of us who remembers Have you decided to join the 2021 mini- education, you are the white man’s equal; with- Bernstein, Larry Lubow, Gary Gilson, and Bill Ger- culpa! Item No. 2 a nice call from Al Harquail, a watercolor painter. We remember them all those wondrous days is Anton Phillips. A native reunion and yearly meeting Friday, September out education, you are his victim.” shell, to discuss songs from the great American who is disappointed by the 70th scuttle. He and with gratitude and admiration. of the Netherlands, he has carved out a brilliant 24, through Sunday, September 26? You can So the Baker Tower weathervane issue songbook. Viv treated yours truly to a nice visit in their —Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL career in business. He writes that he has joined contact Shel Wolff at [email protected] fans ill winds. Joel eloquently stated the case “Latch on to the affirmative.” In a return summer home in Osterville, Massachusetts, a 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail. a group called Basic Income Earth Network. It is or text him at (508) 728-5757. There are only in his September/October column. I had asked to normalcy, Rod Hinkle is back with his weekly while back. They are back in their winter digs com an organization that provides a way of answer- so many places available at the Hanover Inn. It three questions: Who were the 900 people musings on our listserv, John Roberts has re- in “Applesauce,” Maryland. Item No. 3 is a sad ing poverty and giving more people a chance to should be a great event after all of the restric- who signed the complaint; what percentage of turned to the air every Sunday morning with note from Hawaii noting the passing of “Cal” Sia, A year ago, in this space, we sent you live a productive life. There are chapters start- tions we have had in the past year. Dartmouth alumni is 900 (a sliver, perhaps); This Week in Palestine, and Happy and Clark a hugely successful and noted pediatric surgeon all best wishes in good health for the ing up all over the world. He writes that it will We are saddened by the passing of Dana Low, and how do we know it’s a rum barrel on the Griffiths have restarted their celebrated third in that state and one heck of a classmate on new year. Who knew? After some reduce by 60 percent the poverty in the Neth- Raymond Corwin, and Richard Pearl. weathervane? Could be an apple barrel—Eleazar Friday luncheons in Lebanon, New Hampshire. 52 Frank Logan Wayne Weil campus. A housekeeping note of sorts having to discussion with our class president, , erlands, where 1 million out of the country’s — , 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; was from Connecticut! Please let me know your “Don’t mess with Mister In-Between.” We do with my hearing, especially on the phone: If we have decided to try again. Frank, our other population of 17 million live below the poverty (201) 933-4102; [email protected] thoughts—and what else is going on! are hearing from classmates not heard from in there are those who plan to contact me by phone, class officers, Steve Parkhurst, Jim Churchill, Liz line. Ron Lazar writes, “We’ve done it again! Our I want to acknowledge and thank the pre- years. Staff Krause checked in by phone from give it a go, but my hearing is not all that swift. I Russell, and your class secretary all send our best loyal agent team of Dick O’Connor, Phil Beekman, I know that all of us had hoped to have vious great communicators of the class—Joel his front porch in Tucson, Arizona, where he actually do better by the email route. If you do regards and sincerely hope that 2021 really is a Dick Loewenthal, Fred Stephens, John Avril, John the Covid behind us now, but that is Ash, Stew Wood, Ab Oakes, Flint Ranney, Bob was viewing the saguaro-covered mountains phone, it’s better by far to use a landline. (I don’t very good year. We start the year with a contact Cernius, Tom Duke, Carl England, Bill Friedman, not the case as this is written the end Grossman, Tom Harper, Freddie “Pig” Oman, Art and enjoying his “blues harmonica.” Chip Corely Dave Halloran, Don McMichael, George Sarner, Bob 55 Zich, Stew Sanders do well with cell phone calls.) I hunger for news list of some 205 classmates and an equal num- of October. Homecoming was an interesting, vir- , et al.—and appreciate being wrote from his home in Lookout Mountain, Ten- from any and all of you. Be ye not shy. ber of partners for whom we have addresses. Simpson, Bernie Sudikoff, and Tim Thomas, along tual event and did stir the memories but hardly given the stewardship of the “back nine” as we nessee, where he still goes to the office each day —Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Con- Because of the risks and constraints of getting with 161 generous donor classmates, of whom 60 the same. Plus, no 65th reunion this fall to recall approach our 65th reunion next fall! Hope to at his family business, which makes machinery cord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr@ together this year, we have had no class activi- have given every year since graduation or missed the good, old times together! The grandkids are have a smooth transition from Joel to myself and control systems for sawmills. aol.com ties and, as of this date, none are planned for the only one year, raised $183,000. The great class virtually at their chosen universities. However, in this goat roping. So how did we do just when everything first part of 2021. However, several classmates of 1953 had the third-highest participation of they lack that real campus environment from The class executive committee has recently looked so dark? Still depressed? Think “Jonah Six more of our classmates have died have been in touch, seeking addresses and other 74 classes, 72 percent compared to the College- what we hear in terms of building personal met to plan the 65th reunion and further infor- in the whale. Noah in the ark.” since our last report: Dave Ballantine, links, because of “projects” they are working wide participation of 37 percent. We were also and academic relationships. Travel during the mation will be forthcoming. A startling new —John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Jim Eldredge, Dick Halloran, Parke Sick- on or trying to reach out to find old friends. We one of three classes to establish a year-out par- holidays is a question, but by the time you are concept, a class leadership authors program, Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@ 51ler Bob Sirkin Joe Welch , , and . Their full obituar- are happy to oblige and welcome your activ- ticipation record. Fantastic! Thanks to all of the reading this, that will have all been decided—one was unveiled and you will hear more about it. aol.com ies can be found in our class newsletter, Fifty- ity. Our contact is at the end of this column. above. Sadly, I report the deaths of the following hopes for the good. Bob McKay writes from Berlin, Germany, One Fables. We also had a very good conversation recently dear classmates and offer condolences to their I received a nice, long email from roomie that he fondly remembers the hole in one made I am writing just days before the As I learn of the remarkable impact made with Robert “Buzz” Barton, calling from Bedford, families: Larry Barnett, George Middleton, William Harry Weil. He and Nancy celebrated their 65th at No. 4 (the short uphill par 3) on the now- election, so let’s talk instead about by each of these exceptional men, I am again Massachusetts. Buzz reports he is in reasonably Stubbs, and Joe Stevens (honorary). wedding anniversary sheltered in place at their closed golf course. He says he hasn’t hit a good the amazing October 3 virtual class Mark H. Smoller 58 John reminded of the extraordinary good taste of good health and we talked over some Marine — , 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam retirement community in Silver Spring, Mary- shot since and hopes the course will not be “con- of 1958 Homecoming via Zoom staged by the Dartmouth admissions staff in selecting Corps memories from the 1950s. One he told Valley, NY 10579; (845) 603-5066; dartmark@ land. Being in place like that is “supremely bor- dominiumised” to house grad school students. Trimble, Frank Gould, and, most of all, our adopted our class 75 years ago. They chose a group of was about a chance meeting with a busload of gmail.com ing,” according to Harry, but that’s the way it is Finally, I must mention our class physician, classmate Sandy Swain-Bromwell, who made two difference-makers! baseball players, including the San Francisco Gi- for a lot of us these days. David Cudlip checked Dr. Eric Jensen of Mukilteo, Washington. After Zooms happen. The annual class meeting in Among the 20 ’51s whose deaths were re- ants. On board the bus was classmate Pete Burn- We just received the Rockefeller in with a good phone chat. He and Lee retired saving my life twice (three times, he says) he is the morning was mercifully brief, with VP Sam ported in this column in the past year, I find two side, then a Giant. Both were baseball players at Center annual report from our in- from California to Tryon, North Carolina, in the now happily growing dahlias on a bluff overlook- Smith subbing for John, who was rehabbing from recipients of our “Spirit of ’51” award (Halloran Dartmouth and they had a good reunion. Buzz tern, Cindy Shen ’21. “During the fall beautiful southern Blue Ridge 25 years ago. The ing Puget Sound, Washington. eye surgery. Treasurer Mike Simberkoff reported Bill Friedlander 54 Dave Bradley Dan O’Hara and Welch). We lost two Ph.D.’s ( is a retired attorney and Superior Court judge of 2019 I interned at the Council of Economic small valley town offers cultural and equestrian All best wishes for a neat start to 2021! we’re solvent and and and Mo Monahan), three M.D.’s (Eldredge, Sirkin, in Massachusetts. Pete is now retired in Eagle Advisors [CEA], an agency within the executive activities and the unhurried coziness of the lo- The Indian will never die. talked about class projects. The evening cocktail and Gil Merrill), and a distinguished judge (Bob River, Wisconsin. Once again, we are sorry to office of the president that offers the president cal shops. —J.W. Crowley, 15612 SE 42nd Place, Bellevue, party kicked off with coach Buddy Teevins ’79 Fullerton). Three men served our class as class report the loss of several classmates; Garry Mey- objective economic advice for use in domes- Norm Fine’s book of the development and WA 98006; (425) 746-1824; jackcrowley@ talking about Dartmouth football. Then came officers (Halloran, Welch, and Jim Culberson) and ers of Stratford, Connecticut; Arthur Judson of tic and international policymaking. My larger implementation of microwave radar as a key fac- hotmail.com 60-second pandemic reflections from West the College as heads of regional alumni clubs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Albert Warren of Da- projects included studying the Affordable Care tor in winning WW II, Blind Bombing, continues Coast eastward. First we saw Hal Douglas in Or- (Fullerton and Sirkin). vidson, North Carolina; Robert Kelly of Concord, Act on un-insurance rates among people with to draw acclaim. He was the featured speaker Let’s get to the news: raging wildfires, egon, then Vicky and Tryg Myhren in Colorado, These guys didn’t just collect degrees and New Hampshire; Thomas Loemker of Tarrytown, pre-existing conditions and coding in Python at the National D-Day Memorial “Lunchbox Covid-19, old age, dementia. Good Liz and Skip Coggin in Illinois, Joanna and Glower titles; they made great impact in their profes- New York; Lawrence Noling of Leland, Michigan; to aid future CEA macroeconomics research. Lectures” on October 8 as presented on You- grief! No wonder my in-box is leak- Jones in Georgia, Hal Bernsen in Virginia, Henry Woody Klein Nicholas Bradley 57 Hof sions and communities. and Dick of Lake Hoptacong, New Jersey; I primarily conducted research on topics re- Tube and recorded. A Google search will make ing depression. I’m going to take a page from in New Jersey, and all of the usual New Eng- Halloran were distinguished and widely hon- and Marcel Durot of Oak Park, Illinois. We’d like lated to healthcare and trade economic policy. it available to you. Johnny Mercer’s songbook while I write this. land suspects. Bob Downey in New York said he ored journalists and authors. Bob Sirkin treated to end on a positive note. We know some in our I also had the opportunity to contribute to the Of note was the Dr. Allen W. Root ’55 Con- It’s an “accentuate the positive and eliminate lost 30 pounds. Someone else reported shooting children with cerebral palsy. Bill Friedlander’s small world benefit from contact. Keep in touch economic performance of the president with an temporary Art Distinguished Lectureship at the negative” kind of time. “Latch on to the af- his age at golf. Sam Silverstein chipped in with passion for science led him to discover new and we will respond. annual report that delineates the U.S. economic the Hood October 2. Remember to support the firmative” with me. Let’s give it a go. words of medical wisdom. We zoomed out to compounds and substances in a 40-year career —William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Ha- performance and the administration’s upcom- Dartmouth College Fund and head agent John “You’ve got to accentuate the positive.” We strains of “Dartmouth Undying” ringing softly with 3M Corp. Class of ’51 alumni served as nover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@ ing priorities. No day on the job ever looked Braestrup and his team. Give him a call or email join Bert O’Neill in Redwood City, California, in our ears on that October evening, thanks to senior business executives (Tom Trolle, Chuck aol.com the same. One minute I’d find myself drafting a to join his team. New Year’s resolution: Send praying for the safety of his grandson, who is Sandy Swain-Bromwell. Fitzsimmons, and Jim Culberson). Their commu- memo on the opioid crisis and the next hunting some news to your class secretary to share in bravely serving on the fire lines with Cal Fire. Other classmate contacts include the fol- nity contributions were legend (Chester Cotter, It is strange having all of our fall down the volume of dairy exports from a country this column. Prayers, too, for Paulina and Jay Greene, who lowing. All’s well with Gersh Abraham in Evan- Trolle, Welch, Culberson, Fullerton, and Sick- meetings via Zoom. It is yet anoth- I hardly knew anything about.” Sadly, we report the passing of Paul Brown, were forced by the deadly Glass Fire to evacuate ston, Illinois, where he hikes five miles daily but ler). And 15 of the 20 served in the U.S. armed er fallout, though certainly not the We are asking all classmates to update their John Dell Isola, John Dinan, Harry Guenther, David their beautiful home in downtown St. Helena, steers clear of Northwestern’s campus, where 53 Heegaard, Bob MacFadyen, Earl “Bucky” Peirce Coleman Colla services; several were highly decorated. most heinous from our epic battle with the Co- alumni profiles, an online resource that enables , California. It’s inspirational to note that Jay few students wear masks. contin- The richness of this group was also evident vid-19 virus. In what is relevant for this column, each person to determine what types of com- and Arthur Wellman. continues to Zoom with winemaker friends to ues to send his views from western Los Angeles.
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A personal delight arose from Ron Zwart’s sug- tion, directly to Ledyard Bank for deposit. You One highlight of the event was the filmed Dan Tompkins at [email protected]. We also that interest him. Bob traveled extensively in may wonder what brought this Nubian African gestion last issue to retitle the Sound & Fury as can also pay electronically through your bank’s broadcast of the recent original musical piece, stay in touch on Facebook (“Dartmouth Class of the past in the United States and Europe. to Hanover. I first came to the United States The Quickel and the Dead. That drew an email bill payer option. Electronic payments should be “Symphony for Winds ‘Dartmouth,’ ” a 250th 1962”). From there you can follow links to the Charlie Parton and Bill Wellstead voiced sup- in 1960 to represent my country, the Sudan, chuckle from John Cusick, the ’57 class secre- directed to Dartmouth Class of 1960 c/o Ledyard anniversary composition composed by Oliver Facebook pages of 92 active members. To join port of Ken Kvistad’s written plea to the Alumni in the New York Herald Tribune World Youth tary and a fellow Phi Delt. National Bank, Dartmouth Dues, 66 W Benning Caplan ’04. It includes the second of its three contact digital content manager Peter Knight at Council to restore lightweight crew and, rather Forum. We were hosted by American families Sadly, we note the passing of seven class- St., Suite 5, W. Lebanon, NH 03784. movements as a tribute to the increasing sig- [email protected]. than remove an historic weathervane from Bak- and the high schools in their neighborhoods. mates: John Diggs, M.D., in Georgetown, South John Goyette is in the “thinking positive” nificance of the Robert Frost statue contributed I regret to report the deaths of Dennis E. er Tower, to provide opportunities for Native On my return I was admitted to the law school Carolina, who ran cross country; Oliver Witte of vein since granddaughter Katie is back in Ha- by the class of 1961 to the College during the Niewoehner, M.D., on August 31, 2020, in Edina, Americans and inner-city applicants. “Dart- at the University of Khartoum, but I wanted Wheaton, Illinois, who worked on the Milwau- nover for her junior year. “The College has taken mid-1990s. Another highlight was the formal Minnesota, and Edward A. Peterson of Hilton mouth was always more than an academic insti- to pursue my education abroad. I applied to kee Journal and taught architecture; John Blunt extensive precautions and we hope she will not adoption into the class of 1961 of Vince Wilson, Head, South Carolina, on September 2, 2020. tution with narrow objectives but rather about Brandeis and Dartmouth; Brandeis offered a at Village of Golf, Florida, who managed family have to return home. For those who have not a Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) administrator Obituaries are posted to the class website. giving a chance to candidates of a full range of full scholarship while Dartmouth offered tuition trusts, including those of his uncle, Carleton read Huxley’s book Brave New World, it might working primarily with our class’ DCF efforts —David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX cultural and economic heritages,” Ken wrote, only. I was tempted to accept Brandeis’ offer ’26, for whom the alumni center in Hanover is be a good time to do so.” for several years. The final highlight was the 77554; (775) 870-2354; [email protected] echoing earlier letters to the College from Dan when the class of 1956 stepped in with its first named; William DeGraw in Newburgh, New York, Sue and Dick Levy focus on research as a presentation of two 1961 special recognition Matyola and Bill Subin. full scholarship for a foreign student, including in Rip Van Winkle country; and Paul Wysard in way to make a difference, with a $10-million awards by Vic Rich to David and Joan Prewitt and Scott Babcock, Steve Brenner, Bob —Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY hosting the awardee by the families of the class his hometown of Honolulu, where he taught at gift to jumpstart the Transformative Cancer Maynard Wheeler for outstanding long-term Chavey, George Hellick, Steve Lewin- 11201; (917) 541-8162; [email protected] during vacations. Thus, I was honored to belong Punahou School; Norm Sylvester of Connecticut, Care Campaign in the Bay Area. This is a joint service contributions to the class, the College, stein, and Gordon Weir were among to two classes, ’65 and ’56. Reflecting back to the an ex-Marine, advertising executive, and class effort of Mills-Peninsula and Palo Alto Medical and society in general, in that order. The two 6323 class executive committee (EC) members Dartmouth Night this fall rekindled time I spent at Dartmouth, I consider that period VP; and Jaegwon Kim in Providence, Rhode Is- Foundation. awards were primarily for providing most of from around the country at our annual meeting, virtual flames in the hearts of alums as the happiest of my life in terms of human land, who taught philosophy at Brown and other After evenly splitting their time for the our on-campus and off-campus successful Saturday, October 3. Instead of the Treasure socially distanced across the globe. friendship and support I found and developed 64Hunt Whittaker Ivied schools. last six years between the Jersey Shore and the mini-reunions during the entire 21st century Room in Baker Library, we Zoomed from our called us together with a virtual at Dartmouth, the knowledge I gained there, and —Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. Loxahatchee Club in Jupiter, Florida, Carley to date. All three award recipients were com- own desks, kitchen tables, couches, chairs, or Zoom meeting to celebrate the occasion. Twenty- possibly the change I brought in Malcolm X to F-310, Media, PA 19063; [email protected] and Reuel Stanley stayed in Florida until mid- pletely surprised. wherever comfortable. President Sam Cabot eight classmates tuned in and swapped stories believe, after his pilgrimage to Mecca, in the July due to Covid-19 and didn’t find the heat as To conclude, the class of 1961 continues to stressed the College’s need for help during this in breakout sessions. We all agreed we should brotherhood of all races irrespective of color and Here we are entering 2021 with an unpleasant as anticipated. Consequently, they carry its weight in College affairs! difficult year, praising our class’ success with try it again. Hunt says he celebrated by “hum- origin. It was that changeover that drove me to entirely different landscape than decided to sell their New Jersey home, spend —Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, virtual mini-reunions and philanthropic activi- ming the alma mater and marching around his facilitate his invitation to Dartmouth, eulogize 59 just one year ago. Zoom was not more time in Florida, and perhaps rent a place NY 11030; (516) 446-3977; richwind13@gmail. ties, including restricted gift initiates, “Friends” kitchen island.” him at his funeral against all odds, and miss my even in our vocabulary and now it is a near on the shore. com programs, Dartmouth College Fund, the Bartlett As a band of brothers, we were all hurt by timely graduation to accompany his widow to daily event. Virtual has virtually taken us over. After living 40 years in Wellesley, Massa- Tower Society, and dues payments. Don Mutterperl’s report of his severe struggle with the hajj to have her experience the same rituals The fall saw online renditions of Homecoming, chusetts, Sybil and Don Smith have joined at least Coping with Covid-19, continued. At the meeting Frank Finsthwait reported Covid. He and his wife, Nancy, tested positive of human brotherhood as did her husband.” You the Volunteer Engagement Week, the Alumni two other members of our class in moving to a Dick Zartler checks in from Garland, on the four students in our sponsored athletes during the last week in March. Neither “had a can read Ahmed’s full letter to the class at www. Council meeting, and our own mini-reunion. retirement community called Fox Hill Village Texas: “Fortunately I have been able program, where we continue to lead all donors clue as to how they became infected and at the biggreen65.com. 62 Philo Willetts In spite of our overwhelming desire to be with in nearby Westwood. Downsizing to fit all their to stay a little busy with online classes, both college-wide. Class scholars committee chair time of testing our symptoms were very mild.” Add to the list of published ’65 each other, the ability of the internet to span remaining possessions into a less-than-900- giving and taking, mostly with various environ- Marty Bowne identified Sri Sathvik Rayala ’24 Don writes that in his case, that changed rapidly. authors. His children’s book, Nursery Rhymes geographical separations and to clearly convey square-foot unit was a daunting experience, mental (but not tree-hugging) groups to which of Plainsboro, New Jersey, as the newest among He “developed a fever that increased daily until it for Modern Times: Vol I: Great Americans, came lots of information will mean that these convey- but surviving the cut were the three issues of I belong: Texas Master Naturalist, Native Plant four undergraduates in that dynamic program. reached a high point of 104.” He suffered “chills, out in 2019. Phi is still doing orthopedic medi- ances will be part of our future. our precious Class Musings. Society, Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, and Bruce Baggaley, chair of our Dartmouth Partners a mild cough, shortness of breath, and uncontrol- cine in Westerly, Rhode Island, where he landed The College also stepped up communica- Alex ter Weele reconnected with Peter Tow- West Texas Geology. The U.S. Tennis Associa- in Community Service committee, was approved lable shaking.” Nancy experienced less-serious after two years in the Navy and “44 countries tions with us individually with weekly updates er ’58, having lost touch some 50 years ago. Peter tion has also opened up tennis leagues under by the EC for a pilot project to recruit classmates symptoms, but they both were frightened by the and 48 states.” and other focused emails. The increased work- ran across one of Alex’s books and his address. strict guidelines, so I get some exercise out- in New England as mentors. EC members moved physical and emotional strain. “As for the virus’ Finally, with sadness I report the loss of load on faculty, staff, and students was and is —Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, doors with socially distancing friends a couple to offer honorary membership to Phyllis Cogge- effect on my outlook, it simply made me under- classmates Claude “Rocky” Liman and Tom Morton. clearly evident as each task undertaken has an CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail. of times a week. I do, however, miss the after- shall, wife of member Bruce Coggeshall, who died stand how truly fragile we are. The virus scared —Bob Murphy, 7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH additional layer of complexity to keep all con- com match world problem-solving discussions. I fear September 14 and whose obituary by Tige Har- the hell out of me because I never knew what the 03755; (603) 643-5589; [email protected] cerned safe and healthy in the face of the Covid this will be the norm for quite a while.” ris will appear in the magazine online edition. next day would bring either for me or Nancy and pandemic, which rampaged through the fall sea- On October 2-3, 2020, the class of From Louisville, Kentucky, Fairleigh Lussky Sixtieth reunion plans are on hold for at least a the anxiety I felt was greater than at any other “Alligator meat is surprisingly good son. The adoption of safe practices by everyone, 1961 once again made Dartmouth recommends Quartet, “a perfectly delightful year, it was noted by committee chair Bill Subin. time in my life.” We are happy it’s over, Don! to eat.” No, don’t take my word for it. and particularly the students, on the Hanover 61 history, as it became the first class movie found on Netflix. It is set in a retirement So how are classmates coping with the Derick Denby writes that he “was diagnosed 66 Just ask Mike Bromley, who left his Plain has resulted in commendable results in to hold a successful two-day virtual mini-re- home for musicians in an English countryside. pandemic? Retired radiologist Chris Harvey and two years ago with Alzheimer’s, a disease for real estate and estate planning law practice in the fight against Covid. union. After our regular annual fall on-campus Beautiful photography, wonderful actors, no wife Barbara are doing well in Cape May Court which there is no cure and that afflicts more hometown Boise, Idaho, this past September With classmates really hunkered down and mini-reunion had to be cancelled because of the angst, just pure enjoyment.” House, New Jersey, about 10 miles from Stone than 5 million Americans. It is the sixth leading and, with appropriate Covid-related trepida- staying at home, the usual news of travel and ex- coronavirus, several class officers—led by on- U.S. Navy Capt. Wendell Kjos after 51 (!) Harbor Beach. Chris is able to play golf twice cause of death in the United States.” To slow the tion, flew to Houston. There Mike rendezvoused citing adventures is sorely lacking. Bob Filderman campus mini-reunion chair Maynard Wheeler and years of distinguished service as a Navy lawyer a week, which he finds “far more difficult than disease’s progression, Derick plays “pickleball, with Richard Merrill ’73, and the pair went for and Charlie MacVean do manage to break out for assisted primarily by class president Don O’Neill, retired to Oakton, Virginia, with Nina, his wife football, baseball, and rugby.” Chris also follows golf, and brain games while sticking to a Mediter- an alligator hunt in the Mad Island Wildlife a luncheon or two, always in an outdoor setting, class digital content manager Harris McKee, and of 52 years. Wendell finished his undergradu- Dartmouth basketball, “but we can’t compete till ranean diet.” He and his wife, Brenda, recently Management Area on the Gulf Coast, about 100 which is very feasible in San Diego. class 60th reunion chair Pete Bleyler—in less ate and law degrees at the University of Min- we get a couple of good big men over 6-feet-7,” he organized a fundraiser to put dollars to work miles south of Houston. Now, more than ever, feel free to drop me than a month redesigned and converted it into nesota. He served in a mind-boggling series of says. John Bell, who retired in 2018 as manager on research. He writes, “I imagine that there Using the Texas hunting method—you a line with updates about you, your classmates, a virtual mini-reunion. It ranged from a diverse assignments, including assistant legal advisor of a group ophthalmology practice in Wakefield, are many ’64s who have Alzheimer’s. Perhaps know, hang some rotten meat from a tall metal and your activities. seven-session agenda beginning mid-Friday and legislative assistant to the chairman of the Massachusetts, “is hanging out” at home with some are involved in research. I am hoping we pole driven into the mud bottom then leave for —Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, and ending Saturday evening to a technically Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the immediate offices wife Carol in Worcester, with family nearby and can communicate to support each other as well the night and hope a nocturnal alligator will CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@ perfect Zoom setup that encouraged classmate of Gen. Jones and Gen. Vessey, responsible for “being as careful as you can.” John also served as to support our oh-so-valuable caregivers.” smell the meat and swallow the bait—Mike and msn.com participation. It even included small breakout all international law as well as use of force. At as president of the American Society of Oph- Derick can be reached at dbkdenby@comcast. Russell caught two 100-pound alligators. “Ours sessions following each of the six faculty- or col- one point Wendell was leading multiple cases thalmic Administrators. Twin brother James J. net. Let’s give him a rouse! have both been processed and the hides tanned,” We owe profound thanks to our lege administrator-led sessions and discussions totaling 80 percent of the Navy’s potential litiga- Bell is living in Oneonta, New York. Jim, as he is —G. Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, Mike reports. “We both hope for alligator belts past leader, Dudley Smith, and to Bill from three students in diverse areas of study tion liability. The class Facebook page contains better known, keeps fit by working out and walk- MA 02332; [email protected] under the tree as well as purses for our wives.” Gundy and Dick Chase for taking over who were recipients of annual grants awarded a full description of his remarkable career and ing daily. Bob Shanno, who retired in 2005 after Doing good for others…always important, 60 Bruce Berger as co-presidents. Let’s support them by paying by our class. In all, 81 classmates, spouses, wid- numerous awards. 40 years teaching high school history in Hazle- Of the many roads our class has trav- even more so during the pandemic. class dues. Use the tear-off coupon on the dues ows, and others attended at least one of the two Class Zoom sessions and lively political ton, Pennsylvania, spends most of his time in or eled, one of the more unusual certain- provided funds so that the Dartmouth Wind letter to mail your $60 dues check, plus desired days’ sessions, a very good turnout from our discussions on the G.I. listserv keep us in con- near home reading bestselling novelists such as 65 ly belongs to Ahmed Osman (featured Ensemble, scattered to the hills, has been able Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth contribu- small class base. tact and engaged. To join the discussion, contact James Patterson and watching TV programs in an article in the last issue). He writes, “You to rehearse, perform, and tape music virtually.
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And right after the shutdown virtual tours interpersonal relations will suffer.” Pat Horgan our class at their 2020 virtual Volunteer Officer were glorious. At Homecoming we lost to Holy many of us to rethink the way we work, our fam- asked Sam Cuddeback to update us on important of the Museum of the American Revolution thinks “increased awareness about hygiene and eXperience Conference. COAEB recognized Cross, but we celebrated anyway. Homecoming ily relationships, and our goals and aspirations. class projects, including the Native American and the National Constitution Center, both in vaccines will reduce the influenza death toll go- us for our “Geezer Gifting Strategy” campaign has always been special for our class, with a I hope 2021 will bring a brighter and healthier program, Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth Philadelphia, went live on the internet, financed ing forward,” but worries that “there may be no encouraging IRA giving, and alumni relations gaggle of classmates returning annually. Many future and the possibility of celebrating our be- (SEAD), and the Rockefeller internship pro- by George Blumenthal. The exhibits at these in- economic recovery for millions.” gave us a VOX shout-out in recognition of our of us who had been away for years planned to lated 50th reunion. gram. Sam introduced Sarah Palacios, Native stitutions depict the American Revolution, the Dick Clapp hopes “the beneficial perception Frederick Douglass bust donation. We were the return this year, only to be disappointed. The Thank you to Wallace Ford for condens- American program director, who described the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Civil War, that ‘we’re all in this together,’ both in the United only class to receive multiple awards! Please see Dalai Lama says, “Remember that sometimes ing his 897-word June 1970 Commencement academic and professional support her organi- and Reconstruction. Must viewing for all. “The States and globally, will be lasting.” John Hager also the latest edition of editor Skip Waterhouse’s not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke speech into about half its original length for the zation provides for the College’s Native Ameri- ultimate goal of these efforts,” George explains, worries that “due to the politicization of our re- Transmission and president David Peck’s recent of luck.” We didn’t get our traditional Homecom- September-October column. can students. Representing SEAD was Ashley “is to revolutionize the teaching of American sponse to the pandemic, we have now become presidential message email for further proof of ing in 2020, but thanks to Norm Jacobs and Dona Jeff Nordgren wrote, “Thank you so much for Doolittle, associate director. Ashley noted the history.” the ‘Divided States of America,’ and this weak- the singular accomplishments of our group! Heller we had an impressive virtual Homecoming the Wallace Ford speech and Herschell Johnson importance of academic and counseling assis- Like many of us, Dr. Jeff Brown, long-time ness will continue to be exploited by our foreign Gary Hobin sent an update regarding his via Zoom. Their hard work created our stroke poem in the September-October issue. I have tance to Upper Valley high school students who family practice doctor in Menlo Park, California, adversaries and will result in the even more ac- ambition to become a college professor. He got of luck! no problem with reading about mini-reunions aspire to be the first family members to attend and wife Claudia have been engaged in the “Co- celerated decline of our standing on the world there in what he described as a roundabout way; The Zoom Homecoming included wine and anecdotes from fellow ’70s. In fact, each college. Diana Alvarado ’22 eloquently spoke vid clean-out,” daily exercise, and games—she stage.” John Lobitz hopes “doctors will continue he’s an assistant professor at the Army Com- tasting, storytelling, cooking class, and gen- month I look at our Class Notes and those a few about her experience as a student advisor in online mahjong, he golf. But unlike many, Jeff, learning about and getting comfortable with tele- mand and General Staff College, where they’re eral festivity. This year our class has experi- years before and after for some news of alums I the SEAD program. Finally, Sam cited the sig- an accomplished contemporary oil artist and medicine, especially in rural medicine,” and Jim teleworking from home, distancing, masking, enced more dialogue and reconnection than knew and, sadly, very rarely see. However, some- nificant accomplishments of this year’s Rocky trustee of the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clark hopes we retain “virtual telemedicine medi- and sanitizing for the new academic year. He ever before. Arthur Fergenson has pioneered play times extremely significant national events are interns, Florida Huff ’21 and Annie Farrell ’21. Clara, has been painting up a storm during these cal appointments and working from home.” Pete enjoyed reading Philip Schaefer’s Dartmouth readings—we recently did Hamlet on Zoom—as much more important. I appreciate what you Peter noted our class’s generous support turbulent times. Check out his Covid collection Nistad worries he “may die from a case of severely Veterans: Vietnam Perspectives and wondered well as casual conversations covering topics chose to do as it seems, from my perspective, of Dartmouth athletics. One hundred seventy- at jeffcontemporaryoils.com. chapped hands.” Owen Leach believes “the worst whether our class might put together a simi- including baseball, spirituality, healthcare, and that the movement for racial justice and equal- five classmates contributed $175,000 to various After Dartmouth Dr. Steve Bryan returned lingering impact lar perspective. I informed him of Ed Miller’s death row lawyering. The weekly Zoom 12-step ity is running into roadblocks. On a personal teams. to Salt Lake City, Utah, his hometown, married will be the mask. It’s a form of sensory project, which has now been integrated into the meetings continue with great reviews. We have level, Herschell Johnson was my freshman year David Aylward, 50th reunion book editor-in- Jane, his high school sweetheart, did his medical deprivation that cuts off a large component of College curriculum. Perhaps surprisingly, Gary had mid-month social hours online that are suitemate in Brown Hall in the room next door, chief, was pleased to report on increased class- training at the University of Utah, and then set psychological connection to others.” Rob Kugler has not yet been interviewed. well attended, consistently lasting longer than and we remained close friends throughout our mate essay submissions from 80 to 170. David up a clinical neurology practice in Montgomery, fears the lingering effect of “viewing others, par- Richard Livingston provided a clarification the scheduled 60 minutes. We not only greet years at Dartmouth. Through him I also became praised Mark Bellonby for his contributions to the Alabama. Things have changed a bit recently. ticularly strangers, as threats—as carriers of this regarding the credentials that appeared in the old friends, but we also forge new friendships friends with Wallace Ford. The downside of all reunion book’s design and Jim Rager for organiz- Jane passed four years ago, Steve retired to his virus (and other viruses to come?)—leaves the last notes. His collaboration with Catholic Uni- with folks we didn’t know as undergraduates. this is that Wallace’s words, spoken more than ing a squad of captains who contacted classmates lakeside home on Lake Marin three years ago, populace vulnerable to messages of division.” versity actually ended seven years ago, and his So many classmates are participating that it’s 50 years ago, are so relevant today.” by phone and email for essay submissions. David and his health is a bit shaky. He now lives with Chuck Slade hopes “people will wake up and be main academic affiliation is with the Univer- impractical to list all of the names in this brief Sam Pooley said the column was a great also thanked Alice Reno Malone, our class detec- one of his sons, and although driving is out, bass more skeptical about the news being put out by sity of Maryland. He’s been adjunct professor report. Allen Denison will offer more specifics, choice for the September class report. He was tive, who has been indefatigable in tracking down fishing, “druising” (drinking while cruising), the corporate media.” there since retiring from the U.S. Department details, and updates in upcoming newsletters. stunned to read those words 50 years later. He missing female exchange students and lost men. and time with family are still part of Steve’s While disappointed by America’s pandemic of Transportation in 2007, and he’s also still a If you’re circling back after some time away, remembered Wallace giving his address but much He complimented Dan Clouse, our class bard and routine. response compared to that of his current home research associate at the National Institute of be sure that you have your copy of “The Book,” of the detailed content was evidently missed by toastmaster, for his many literary contributions Our deepest sympathies to the family and in Australia, Andy Weiss finds “hope in the re- Standards and Technology. our 50th reunion encyclopedia of all things ’69. him then. Ditto for Herschell’s poem. Prescient. to our 50th reunion book. friends of three classmates who passed away in silience and creativity coming out in the way Covid-19 was not the only threat to affect Your executive committee has drafted a resolu- Peter Logan wrote a thank you for printing Articles have also been submitted from for- recent months: Bob Gilbert, an entrepreneurial artists, musicians, businesses, and all the rest of our class this past year. We learned recently tion of appreciation for the team, with special the text of the speech by Wallace in our Class mer President Jim Wright, Jack DeGange, Dolly food marketing executive and business teach- us who have adapted to virtual communication. from Bill Adler and John Blair that Ed Schneider recognition to David Prentice. We will never know Notes. “The tenor and feeling made a still vivid Carlin, and Flo Fowkes, members of the 1970 cheer- er; Pat Norton, a recognized expert and prolific Yes, people here are fatigued from shutdowns and lost his Napa Valley home to one of the raging the hundreds of hours that David, Henry Allen, impression, but I did not recall the words. It’s leading squad. Jim Chasey, the great quarterback author on urban economics issues; and James social restrictions, but by and large we fall in line wildfires in California, the Class Fire. Ed, his and Dudley Kay (and others!) invested in the useful to read them now.” He asked Wallace to on our ’70 undefeated Ivy League champion and Jackson, a distinguished adopted member of and keep going for the common good.” Howard family, and his beloved dog are all safe and tak- enterprise. Since the reunion we’ve been gifted check his memory that the speech opened with a Lambert Trophy-winning football team, remi- our class who was an acclaimed professor and Sharfstein believes “that Covid has changed the ing refuge at another of their residences. Your a major update, including people and particulars booming exhortation, something like, “Brothers nisced about coach Bob Blackman, a.k.a. “Bullet.” practitioner of psychology and a member of the content of people for the better. We have the time class committee has written to them to express that didn’t make the first printing.The Book 2.0 (pause), Sisters (pause), Mothers, Fathers….” Coach Blackman’s practices were detailed and Dartmouth board of trustees. More on each at and the reason to consider our lives, our values. our regrets and support. is available for download on our website. Grab The opening was certainly a departure from the highly organized. He was infamous for schedul- www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits. Previously we spent our time focused on work, Let’s close with some enjoyable memories your copy. If you don’t love it, we’ll give you all usual introductory format—and for good reason. ing five-minute water breaks that lasted in reality May 2021 be filled with health, happiness, family, etc., but now are challenged to look deeply and a research assignment. The amazingly of your memories back. The Class Officers Association and alum- for a shorter period. Jim recounted that during and rewarding activities for you and your family, into ourselves.” learned and versatile David Soren, whom you Our class project, the major renovation and ni relations were happy to recognize our class one brief water break, Bobby Schnabel blew an I hope including our 55th reunion this June in You can find the full text of all these re- should check out in Dick Olson’s 40th reunion remodeling of the DOC House, makes impres- during the welcome session of the 2020 virtual air horn to signal the official end of a five-minute Hanover. Stay safe. sponses on our class website, 1967.dartmouth. book and whose new volume on the history of sive progress despite the pandemic. Paul Tuhus Volunteer Officer eXperience Conference on water break that interrupted Coach Blackman’s —Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, org. American popular entertainment is just out, has shared detailed photos of the upgrades and Friday, October 16. The recognition pertained discussion. Fortunately, Coach Blackman found NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; [email protected] On a sad note, we all mourn the loss of our teaches a pop culture course at the University enhancements. So many have given generously to a letter our class president, Jeff Demerath, the loud interruption amusing. classmate Drew Ley, who passed away on Oc- of Arizona. His special guest next semester will in terms of time, money, and energy, it’s impos- sent to the class of 2020 forging a meaningful Barry Brink, our all-Ivy defensive lineman, I asked classmates which changes tober 20. His obituary will appear in DAM and be Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes, who sang sible to list everyone. We are still raising funds, relationship based on our shared experiences. praised the defensive team coaching staff led by wrought by the pandemic might be on our website. at a mixer at the Hop in 1965. Ronnie wanted so please join the effort if you haven’t already. As of this writing, we do not have any firm Jake Crouthamel. How good was the ’70 team de- 67 permanent and beneficial and which —Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA David to ask if any of us might have photos of Many of us weren’t DOC regulars, but once you information regarding the rescheduling of our fense? During the first three games against Holy might be detrimental. 01339; [email protected] that event that we could share with her. She’d see the new house you’ll want to return when- reunion. While we wait, please go the reunion Cross, Brown, and Harvard, each opponent was Bruce Pacht thinks “instantaneous audio- love to have some memory of Dartmouth. Write ever you’re on campus. book website at Dartmouth70.org to add photos, limited to 14 points. In the remaining games vs. visual transmission and group participation I’ve always had incalculable pride to [email protected]. (Extra credit: Who was As always, we publish even more news at an essay, or updated information. Yale, Columbia, Cornell, and Penn, Dartmouth’s have changed our perception of when and why in being a Dartmouth alumnus, but the surf band on the same show?) www.dartmouth69.org. —Gary Miller, 7 E Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; defense shut them out. Incredible. Susan Gavle, in-person group meetings should occur, saving 68 now after one year as your secretary —Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; —John “Tex” Talmadge, 3519 Brookline Lane, [email protected] Darrell Gavle’s widow, recounted how proud her time and trouble, but we risk becoming a world I’ve learned that there’s even more in being a (504) 388-2645; [email protected] Farmers Branch, TX 75234; (214) 673-9250; husband was to play on an Ivy League football of peas occupying very separate pods.” John member of this particularly active, dedicated [email protected] Although Covid prevented us from team. Bob Cordy also provided amusing football Isaacs hopes “working virtually from home at class of 1968. Each time I attend a class commit- October 1968, our senior year: NASA gathering in Hanover for Homecom- team anecdotes. least part of the time” will continue, though he tee meeting or read committee correspondence, launched Apollo 7, L.B.J. declared The October fall colors are waning 71 ing, we enthusiastically celebrated Honor our 50th reunion by contributing to would still like to show up in person now and there’s additional evidence of our strength and that bombing would continue in rapidly here in Connecticut as the this event virtually in a well-attended Zoom class dues and the Dartmouth College Fund. See John Bash 69 then. believes more “remote working, purpose. Vietnam, controversy arose at the Mexico Olym- 70 leaves build up outside. The 2020 call on October 2. More than 50 classmates and the expanded column at 1971.dartmouth.org with learning, shopping, and business meetings will Most recently we learned that the Class Of- pics, Jackie Kennedy remarried, John Lennon election took place six days after the deadline spouses participated in an informative and en- much more class news. be more efficient, scalable, cheaper, and take a ficers Association Executive Board (COAEB) was arrested for cannabis, and Led Zeppelin per- for this column. The uncertainty of the past year tertaining discussion on College-related top- —Bob Lider, 9225 Veneto Place, Naples, FL 34113; lesser toll on the environment, but that close, and alumni relations each presented awards to formed its first concert. The blazing fall colors due to the pandemic and political unrest has led ics. Peter Pratt moderated the Zoom call and [email protected]
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So, you are retired after working ing. The district attorney [D.A.] from Houston garding the economic impact of the pandemic Could 2020 be any weirder? In the a nearby tree. I tracked her down to discover mer U.S. foreign service officer and delegate to for more than 40 years. And then awed me with her insight and passion (and with for the Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) and the last Class Notes I stated that I had she is as youthful, modest, and energetic as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Covid-19 hits. What’s a son of Dart- the approach she’s taking). The former police College’s bottom line. returned home after evacuating from ever. She invited me to visit the log cabin her negotiations. More recently she has served on 72 Jack Manning 75 mouth to do? Well, has an answer: chief was so insightful about reform, as was the “This was a challenging year for the DCF, the path of Hurricane Laura. Now I am writing seventh-graders are building in the woods. Not the U.K. board of the International Rescue Com- Buy a motorhome and explore. “I’m retired and D.A.’s former chief of staff. Lots of ’73s zoomed as the pandemic and social justice issues facing these notes as Tropical Storm Zeta batters the only will I visit; I’d like to enroll in the school! I mittee, which assists displaced people around can’t travel internationally, so I bought a 25-foot in, including me, Bob Haynes, Allan Kraus, George the country made us sensitive about asking for coast of Mexico and turns toward Louisiana. then unearthed news online of our distinguished the world. In another episode, Jose Fernandez motorhome/Mercedes Sprinter, and I’m travel- Wolohojian, and Dick Berlin. T-Byrd deserves a lot money from people in difficult times. Despite This storm season is a record-breaker. All this classmate Eric Madison and his remarkable ca- spoke on the impact of the election on trade rela- ing the West for a month or two with my wife. of credit. It was as good a panel and as good a dis- this, our class came through with more than and the most critical election of our lifetimes, reer with the U.S. State Department. Eric and I tions with Central and South America. Jose is a The rig has a big wall slide out, which really adds cussion as you could have.” Bob added, “Straight $290,000, which is more than we raised in our but I thought that was true of all of them. Never overlapped in the exuberant, creative classroom former assistant secretary of state for economic, a lot of useable space. We are in Utah seeing the from the heart and very informative.” last non-reunion fiscal year. Kudos to all! The mind. atmosphere of Professor John Rassias, where energy, and business affairs during the Obama parks now. Then Arizona, California, and up the Executive vice president of collections and DCF raised $42 million in 2020, exceeding 2019. What is perhaps most unique about this putting on plays and sharing classic Rassias administration and an emeritus member of the West Coast. We are a few weeks into the ad- chief curator at the National September 11 Me- “Why does a college with a $6-billion en- year is the almost total migration of our com- moments made friends of us all. After majoring Dartmouth board of trustees. venture now. The comedy of errors we initially morial and Museum Jan Seidler Ramirez reported dowment push for additional giving? First, 83 munication system to video chats over Zoom, in French and receiving a Fulbright scholar- Lea Sewell writes that she has “unretired!” experienced in the operation of the Isata 3 is be- this past September: “The 19th anniversary percent of our endowment is restricted gifts; FaceTime, or whatever platform you find least ship, Eric began a multi-decade, multi-continent She had taken an early retirement offer at 64. hind us. This is lots of fun and a true adventure memorial gathering downtown was emotional funds given to support specific programs. Sec- annoying. In fact, the planning for our 50th re- career with the State Department, serving in She had done some travel and volunteering be- for these two RV rookies.” I was hoping to see yet weird, with all the masks and temperature ond, Dartmouth received several hundred ad- union has begun—on Zoom. Yes, the 50th. It is Asia, Europe, and Africa. He served as deputy fore the winter and “the plague” arrived. She put Jack in person in the Nashville area, but his son checks and social-distancing reminders. Let ditional requests for financial aid and almost only five years away. Our fearless leader,Lon chief of mission in Kinshasa, chargé d’affaires those retirement delights on hold to work on a just graduated from Sewanee in May, so Jack’s us pray that this long pause is sputtering out 400 more appeals of financial aid decisions Cross, assembled a substantial group of able from 2012 to 2016. I hope I get to write his story Covid vaccine trial with her previous employer, trips to Nashville are over. I wonder if there’s with no one to lament its unwelcome arrival than in a normal year. Forty-nine percent of bodies on one video call to start the process. before Peter Stark or our other class nonfiction Pfizer. Lea says this “is how I can serve—I’ve room for a third in the Mercedes. You should or deadly stay.” students receive financial aid, and 55 percent of I am sure that several of you are going to be adventure writers clinch the deal! After all this done trials for 20-plus years. There is much to see the photos he sent from the trip! Most of us will never participate in a Texas that comes from the DCF. Dartmouth’s financial roped into this, but the initial group included aggressive digging, I got lazy and began asking inspire right now.” I also got a nice note from Rand Burnett. He public lands alligator hunt as did Richard Merrill. aid program allows the College to have a need- Mikael Salovaara, Matt Dwyer, Dale Edmunds, Dan questions of anyone who happened to email. Peter Mills and John Storella, freshman and is also retired, after 44 years of practicing law in After 13 years of applying through a lottery sys- blind admission process, an important tool for Kenslea, Robbin Derry, Glenn Reed, Pam Smyth, Shoun Kerbaugh was probably sorry he wrote sophomore roommates in Gile Hall, enjoyed a Keene, New Hampshire. Rand lives in the small tem, Richard and Mike Bromley ’66 secured one a more economically diverse institution.” Blake Winchell, Sandy Tierney, Chris McConnell, for info on my new book (shameless plug). I delightful lunch while social distancing in John town of Westmoreland, just north of Keene, with of 12 spots to go “fishing” for gators at Mad Is- A meeting was held with the College ad- Al Austin, Ron Cima, Tom Denison, Sheldon Finch, asked the man from Kentucky what he remem- and Lisa’s backyard in the Rockridge neighbor- his wife, Jayne, who is the director of the town’s land Wildlife Management Area along the Texas ministration regarding findings of accelerated and Jeff Sassorossi. In addition, we had a stealth bered about winters at Dartmouth. His answer: hood of Oakland, California. Shaded by fig, mag- public library. Their son, Adam ’18, is now at Coast, about 100 miles southeast of Houston. mortality among Black male alumni. From Rocky appearance by Dave Cook, who cleverly signed “Gorgeous, but too long!” But he did love the nolia, and apple trees, they had a wide-ranging Stanford getting his doctorate in atmospheric “The setup includes some very stinky chicken Whitaker and Bill Geiger: “It has been an unex- on as Debbie. first snowball fight, writing, “The heavy snow conversation about Lisa’s medical policy non- sciences. Rand was looking forward to skiing as bait on a large hook. We chose the spots pected delight to realize a growing sense of com- There are some great events already in the finally came and all the dorms emptied simul- profit; John’s biotech patent legal practice; the in the winter and playing golf and sailing his where we set up our bait rigs in an alligator- munity—more genuine and authentic—since our planning phase and we want everyone now to taneously and the snowballs started flying! I retirement of Peter’s wife, Mary; and, of course, sunfish in the summer, but the pandemic and infested ‘lake’ known as ‘Big Muddy.’ We used 45th reunion. In March 2019 a group of ’74s we mark your calendars to be there in June 2025. remember pelting Middle Fayerweather as all Covid and politics. “It was a really nice way to some temporary health issues got in the way my shotgun to dispatch the gators, but you have barely knew began exploring the stark disparity During our call the wonders of this tech- of us in South Fayerweather were simply ‘pro- share thoughts and de-stress during these com- of that. But don’t feel too bad for Rand. He sent to shoot them behind the skull, severing the in mortality rates between our Black and non- nology enabled Matt Dwyer to walk aimlessly tecting our turf.’ ” My next victim was executive plicated times.” me a photo of his place in idyllic Westmoreland spinal cord, and that is not an easy task when Black classmates. Our Black brothers are dying around town while talking and he literally committee member Andy Shaw. I badgered him John Bird lives in a retirement home in and it made me long for the beauty and serenity in a canoe because you have to get the gator in at rates that surprised some, shocked others. bumped into a young fellow wearing a Dart- for news until he admitted winning the men’s Birmingham, Alabama, which had three Covid of New Hampshire in the fall! just the right spot to make the shot. Neither of “First our class, then the ’73s and ’75s, mouth sweatshirt. This young fellow made a senior golf championship for the second straight cases before Halloween. John is deaf and has The pandemic is weird enough in its own us wanted to shoot the canoe or each other or showed similar disproportionality. We—Rocky, guest appearance and marveled at how young year at his Winnetka, Illinois, golf course—the glaucoma, but enjoys excellent medical care. right, but Chris Brewster wrote in to report some capsize the canoe. Bill, Matt Putnam, Michael Thomas, Rick Ranger, we all looked. That might be a stretch. very course where he and Jeff Hillebrand once This summer’s Black Lives Matter movement strange happenings at his place. He has been go- “Mike’s gator was jaw hooked, which made Walt Singletary, and Jerry Bowe—gathered to- Al Austin is doing double duty as our Alum- sunk holes-in-one on the same day. Finally, the has made John “appreciate the advantage of ing through his bookshelves, cleaning out some for a very challenging fight; it was able to thrash gether in Hanover last year to share this in- ni Council liaison and he recently attended a class extends heartfelt hugs of condolence to growing up in a nuclear family. The statistical things and reading news stories, and in the pro- around quite a bit, which made it hard for me to formation. Slowly but surely the College has virtual meeting. I had pestered him with some Mary Kay Walkush Beach, whose heroic husband disparity is staggering: In 2019 28.2 percent of cess, he says, “I may have unintentionally caused pull in the 50 feet of 380-pound rope attached engaged in this exploration. Former President questions for the group, which he dutifully asked and beloved Dartmouth faculty member, Terry all white births were illegitimate, while 69.4 per- the death of several fading celebrities.” Cases to the leader and hook and get it positioned for Jim Wright, Vice President of Alumni Relations and reported back on. He is doing a great job of Osborne, died in September. We also mourn cent of Black births were illegitimate, according in point: “I read the 1967 biography Nicholas Mike to make the shot. It’s hard to beat the ex- Cheryl Bascomb ’82, and others of the College staying in touch with current affairs in Hanover, the loss of the ever warm and welcoming Marty to the Center for Equal Opportunity. Our leaders and Alexandra. I looked up the author and was citement and adrenaline rush of bringing the community, including the Black Alumni of Dart- so drop him a line if you are curious. Doyle, whose humor, storytelling, and loyalty must address this disparity, which has serious surprised to see he was still alive. A week later gator, the apex predator in this area, to the canoe mouth Association, concerned Black alumni, Better yet, drop me a line with an update! to Dartmouth and his countless friends remain ramifications for poverty, crime, education, and he was dead. I saw a film on TV and recognized by hand, all while trying to make sure we don’t and several other affiliated groups, have listened, Vox clamantis in Tejas. legendary. ultimately equality of opportunity.” a young Shirley Knight, a leading character capsize. I’ve got 20 pounds of tasty tail meat, engaged, shared their thinking, and encouraged —Stephen D. Gray, 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX —Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Jonathan Park, Ph.D., passed away this sum- actress. Reading her bio, I was amazed at the a skull to set on a table or bookshelf, and the us to persevere. 77550; (650) 302-8739; [email protected] Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@ mer from injuries sustained in a car accident. length of her career. Three days later she was belly skin will eventually make it to a tannery, “We’re reaching out to a number of other gmail.com Jon worked in cytogenetics and laboratory dead. I caught a reference to Don Shula in a news where it will come out as a nice grayish olive- classes and pressing the College to commit re- I’m always on the hunt for news sto- management at Mary Hitchcock Hospital for story and looked him up. Still going strong! A colored leather. Haven’t decided what to make sources to dig further and deeper into the data. ries of those we haven’t heard from Bill Greenbaum enjoys life in New 35 years. In retirement, he was an active Free- week later he was dead. We have a framed photo with the leather.” Perhaps more importantly, we’ve invited the 76 in this amazing class. This month, I York City, even though he and mason and enjoyed his home in Norwich, Ver- by John Loengard, a prominent 20th-century Alumni relations encourages all alumni to class of 2024 to join us in this effort. Join us lucked into two! On an otherwise bleak news his wife, Dassa, see mostly their mont. He is dearly missed by his wife, Linda, photographer. I checked him out. Six days later post jobs or internships for the class of 2020. in this process of exploration and discovery.” day, I spotted a front-page photo in The Boston 77apartment and nearby parks. They like biking son Justin, daughter Hilary, and their families. he was dead.” Yikes! Chris promised me that he Here are the links: Dartboard, https://sites.dart- Finally, I’m glad to note that the trustees Globe of students at desks in a lovely New Eng- in Central Park. In August they traveled to Lake —Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ would not be looking up my bio on the internet mouth.edu/cpd/post-job-or-internship; Linked- are holding hearings to reevaluate the decision land field. The lead sentence of the article by Minnewaska and “the unforgettable Innisfree 08540; [email protected]; Eric Edmondson, any time soon. Just sayin’. In group, www.linkedin.com/groups/8933560. to eliminate the golf, swimming and diving, Zoe Greenberg was a breath of fresh, crisp fall Garden.” Bill is an independent financial advi- DC Advisory, 425 California St., Suite 19, San Be well, stay strong. Please update your contact information at and lightweight crew teams. Jim Bayless swam air: “In a cleared patch of forest in the shadow sor in New York and New Jersey who geared Francisco, CA 94104; eweedmondson@gmail. —David Hetzel, 997 State Blvd., Franklin, TN www.dartgo.org/update. 7 miles in the Connecticut River from Lyme, of the Holyoke Range, where birds chirp and up for Medicare’s annual enrollment period, com; Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, 37064; [email protected] —Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA New Hampshire, to Hanover, along with three chipmunks scamper and sunlight dapples the which started on October 15. He looks forward Washington, DC 20037; akintzinger@hunton. 94403; [email protected] members of the women’s swim team to draw dirt floor, Ms. Baudendistel’s seventh-grade to being a class agent again and joining our next com The year 2021 has got to be a bet- attention to this issue and raise money to fund class is learning about the night sky.” Yes! Our class Zoom. ter one! Classmates, I am writing in late Oc- the effort for reversal. Jim’s story appears in our Jan Baudendistel! The article went on to describe The College sponsored a virtual series on A year ago the phrase “virtual tail- 73 Tyrone Byrd was instrumental tober as the election closes in and the latest class newsletter. the joys of outdoor learning at the Hartsbrook the global impact of the U.S. presidential elec- gate Zoom” would have been mean- in organizing the Dartmouth Club of Houston’s second major surge of the Covid-19 Please see the class obituaries at www.dart- School in western Massachusetts, where Jan tion. One episode addressed how the election ingless. How things have changed! Rick 74 78 June event, “A Conversation About Race.” pandemic increases the nation’s anxiety to a mouthalumnimagazine.com. has taught for 33 years. The story concluded might influence international relations in Eu- About 20 classmates took part in such an event Routhier reported, “We listened in last night on level rarely seen. —Philip Stebbins, 17 Hardy Road, Londonderry, with her delight at the classroom distraction rope and the Middle East. It featured Dee Dee in October, and it was great to connect with the conference T-Byrd organized. It was amaz- John Haulenbeek, head agent, sent this re- NH 03053; [email protected] of two pileated woodpeckers pecking away on Granzow Simpson as a panelist. Dee Dee is a for- them.
60 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 61 CLASS NOTES 1979-1981 FREEDOM One person I hadn’t seen in a long time was studio instruction (the core of design programs) As I take my first stab at Class Notes, Everyone lives in a small town for Sally Eastman, so I reached out to her. Sally and is deemed to be “face-to-face essential” because it occurs to me that so much has now. Quarantine makes certain of to enjoy each day her family have been dividing their time be- it relies on one-on-one faculty-student mentor- 80 changed since the Covid distancing 81 that. Whether in a metropolis or not, tween N.Y.C. and La Jolla, California, since 2013. ing and is very tactile (model making, physical began. The pandemic has taken a ghastly toll on contacts are infrequent and limited. Yet music She continues her work as vice president of the drawings, etc.). Ideally, students learn from each our lives and livelihoods and has been especially is the fount of the soul. Rhythm and rhyme, beat to the fullest! National Board of Review of Motion Pictures other in studios open 24/7. Through August ev- challenging to those on the front lines, includ- and symphony both tie us together and allow our and sent the following note. erything shut down at UMass, so he was forced to ing those working in education and healthcare. minds to roam. Though we missed Woodstock, “I enjoyed seeing all who were on the tail- learn new technologies for teaching, discovering Kristin Lord, a healthcare provider from the we came of age in a seminal and fertile period gate Zoom during Homecoming Weekend, as that Zoom and learning management systems United States who works in Canada, faces daunt- of music. When queried, the class of ’81 sent in I hadn’t seen many of you since the fifth-year are effective for one-on-one discussions; pro- ing, disruptive restrictions when crossing the musical remembrances from our shared, small- reunion. Every day I am grateful for the four fessor and student can see each other on screen border, including 14-day quarantines on either town college life. Live the lifestyle you choose with the years I had at Dartmouth—all of them in per- and digital drawings are right in front of both end. Nancy Green Oey wrote thoughtfully, “I have peace of mind that comes with living son. While my eldest is in the class of ’22, he parties. “In September we reconvened partially Jim Gifford teaches AP literature at a sub- two strong memories. First was being a part of now lives under semi-quarantined conditions face-to-face, with students in the studios and urban Maryland public school via Zoom. While Dartmouth’s Gospel Choir and singing music in a Lifecare community. Freedom is an in his fraternity and laments the fact that those faculty connecting on Zoom. That is effective, students show up at the appointed time and learn that I had never sung before. It made me happy. traditions his mother lauded won’t take place at because students can use shops for models and the language skills they need, he rues the fact It was also a newfound connection to my heri- important concept at Kendal at Hanover, all this year. It is an incredible privilege to con- desks for large drawings. However, it’s hard to that students never really get to know each other tage. Second was hearing ‘Appalachian Spring’ t nect with Dartmouth again in an intimate way maintain the student-to-student studio culture “when we all are in our individual little Brady performed at the Hopkins Center. Dartmouth’s through him. I regret all the occasions I failed critical for design education.” Bunch or Hollywood Squares rectangles.” rural setting and surrounding nature made the with an array of services to set you free—free from worry to reunite with you, and I hope to make it up Donna Smyers, a self-employed physical I really miss seeing movies on the big piece come alive for me.” with occasions to meet you in the future. After therapist in Vermont, took advantage of pan- screen. Film critic Ty Burr wrote in The Boston For Lynn Peterson Read, “Oscar Peterson’s about the chores...about the weather...about the future. all, it’s bucket list time; it’s always been bucket demic unemployment assistance for eight Globe that, despite being an avid Christopher concert at the Hop was a treasure of my years in Learn more, visit our website or call to schedule a tour. list time. I just didn’t know it. I send you all love weeks before returning to work with precau- Nolan fan, he wouldn’t be seeing the big-screen Hanover. His piano jazz was wonderful. Second, and enclose a poem I hold dear: ‘And it isn’t the tions. She is filling her time during shutdown premier of Tenet. Fools go where critics fear to I always enjoyed Barbary Coast performances, KAH.Kendal.org | 603-643-8900 things you do, Dear,/It’s the things you’ve left with running and biking and, seeing many peers tread. I went to see Unhinged just after the lo- with its big, warm sound. Although I listen to undone/That give you a bit of a heartache/With already retired, limiting her hours and ponder- cal theater opened, but soon decided I’d made other styles of music more often now, these two ® the setting of the sun.’ ” ing retirement. an error in judgment and left that ghost town memories of jazz are a big part of my Dartmouth Sally sends hugs—and we send them back! Polly Ingraham has sent to agents a book halfway through the film. soundtrack.” KENDAL at Hanover EQUAL HOUSING Susan Kepes sends greetings from Portland, manuscript, her memoir of being an “un- Yet the class of 1980 is nothing if not re- Claudia Sweeney Weed and Pat Berry both re- egoT t eh r , t r sna f imro gn t eh epxe r i ecne o f ga i gn ® . OPPORTUNITY Maine, where she recently retired from her ca- churched” clergy spouse. Meanwhile, we can sourceful—remember that we built a second call the inspiring concert by Dolly Parton. Tracy A Not-for-Pro t Continuing Care Retirement Community Serving Older Adults in the Quaker Tradition reer as a physician assistant. “One of my patients enjoy Polly’s perspective at www.pastorswife- bonfire in 1976 after the first one got torched! Bennett “loved Kenny Loggins and ‘Celebrate Me asked if it seemed strange to finish during a pan- blog.com. We’ve found ways to adapt to this cataclysmic Home’ freshman fall” along with Hans Helmerich demic. I think of it as a bookend, since I started David Brown’s career has focused on grow- change. Though I miss going to the gym, I’ve and Veronica Wessels. 151054 KAH DAM Mag Ad.indd 1 9/9/15 4:11 PM to practice during the AIDS epidemic. Travel ing communities through leading economic been riding my bike a lot, but surely not nearly Linda Gundal responded, “Unforgettable: was meant to be a big part of retirement. We have development organizations and chambers of as much as Merle Adelman. I’ve also been enjoying Pat Metheny Group (at that time new on the planned a trip to Portugal in fall 2021, fingers commerce in several states. “Since 2003 I have outdoor classes such as “Zumba by the Sea” at a scene) opening for Jean-Luc Ponty—in Spauld- crossed. Until then I might just have to travel been CEO of the Greater Omaha Chamber of nearby beach and Merle says she enjoys outdoor ing no less!—and PDQ Bach, where I convinced the USA visiting friends and national parks.” Commerce, an organization with dual respon- barre classes. (“Try standing on your toes on non-classical-music friends to join me and Chris Hughes is also joining the ranks of the sibilities of serving 3,000 business members uneven ground!”). sweetened the offer with a pre-DQ punch and retired after 16 years as vice president and gen- while supporting economic growth regionally. Gretchen Kruysman is pleased to be forced to we all dressed smooth.” Quintessential green Thinking about buying property in Hanover or the Upper Valley? eral counsel at Emerson College. “She has been Along with chairing the boards of our national slow down, with less commuting and going out. machiney! Please give me a call! a knowledgeable, wise, and gifted confidante,” professional association and local nonprofits, “I’m commuting only three days a week instead Mark Hansson reminisced, “New York Dolls William H. “Star” Johnson, Broker (Class of '70) said Emerson President Lee Pelton, “who has this gives me a unique perspective of community of five. We’ve enjoyed setting up a home gym, with David Johansen in Spaulding Auditorium; Representing Buyers and Sellers had the very useful knack of telling me not what leadership nationwide in response to the pan- watching the bird feeder, playing occasional Grateful Dead in Thompson Arena without she thought I wanted to hear but rather what demic, civil unrest, and economic downturn. Our Bananagram games, reading more, and lots of Jerry Garcia; the Rev. Al Green in Spaulding Big Green Real Estate Phone: 603-643-3942 she thought I needed to hear in order to become chamber is a catalyst for change using collabora- biking, running, and walking. Now that we’ve Auditorium.” Beth Tonneson and Molly Sundberg 5 Olde Nugget Alley, Ste. 5 Cell: 603-381-8603 a more effective president.” Yeah, that sounds tion to delve into community challenges. We led passed the 40th reunion mark we need to make Van Meter were some of the most enthusiastic Hanover, NH 03755 www.biggreenre.com like Chris! the effort in 2017 to create ‘Omaha 2040,’ a pre- each day last!” fans to sleep out overnight at the Hop for tickets. I’m sad to report the loss of two more class- ferred future statement developed by hundreds Elizabeth Nestler reports that, due to Zoom Sue Reed and Julie Koeninger were charmed by Big Green Real Estate is not affiliated with nor officially sanctioned by Dartmouth College mates. Debra Prairie Chief Kodaseet passed away of business and community leaders. As a result, and YouTube livestream, she has been able to Harry Chapin and Santana. in Clinton, Oklahoma, on September 9. Jimmie we created an aggressive ‘People Initiative’ that “attend” churches near and far, including her John Sconzo recalls McCoy Tyner. And there Lee Solomon died on October 8 at his home in is our vehicle to combat pandemic-associated son’s. She’s been able to see and hear him sing was Boston, Jerry Jeff Walker, Marshall Tucker Houston. Both were 64. On behalf of the class, unemployment and organized a CEO group in his choir, which uses the Acapella app. Band, Pousette-Dart Band. Sue Reed remem- I want to express condolences to both their that addresses issues of diversity, equity, and Todd Herrmann no longer battles traffic in bered Dizzy Gillespie. And Greg Clow reminded families. Look for remembrances of them on inclusion. Billions in capital investments have and out of Boston, giving him three extra hours a us that there were bands among us, such as Any the class website: http://1978.dartmouth.org/ been committed in our urban core supported day for family, films, and the outdoors. He’s got a Nuisance, including classmates Andy Churchill, GIFTS AS MEMORABLE AS YOUR in-memoriam. by our ‘Place and Prosperity Initiatives.’ While large TV in front of the fireplace and reports that Jeff Gundlach, Paul Duder, and Dave Holden. “Great Send news! the chamber leads on many issues, we collabo- Hulu and Netflix have become their new hearth. music, great friends, and great times!” As I recall DARTMOUTH EXPERIENCE ITSELF. —Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chi- rate with dozens of committed public, private, I also enjoy the increase in al fresco din- Vaughn Halyard banged a mean drum set back Personalize a handcrafted design to cago, IL 60605; [email protected] and philanthropic leaders on other projects. We ing, getting to know my neighbors better, and in the day. add meaning all your own. have developed trust amongst the leadership of the sight of parents reading to their kids on the Then there is the Ted Hibben one-song The year 2020 is past! All of us made these organizations, which makes it possible front porch. reduct: “singing ‘Roxanne’ at the pong table!” necessary adjustments. Steve Sch- to accomplish remarkable things. Dartmouth —Rob Dinsmoor, 14 Rust St., South Hamilton, MA Fun. The overarching lesson is clear: Rock on 15 South Main St, Hanover NH reiber, named 2019 Distinguished drilled into our heads and hearts that we should 01982; (978) 269-4069; [email protected]; classmates, pandemic or not, in your small town. simonpearce.com 79 Meg Coughlin LePage 800.774.5277 Professor by the Association of Collegiate make the world a better place. This collabora- , 8 Brookside Drive, Cum- Turn up the inspiration level to 11. Schools of Architecture and chair of Architec- tive, catalytic leadership model can work in any berland, ME 04021; (207) 791-1382; mlepage@ —Emil Miskovsky, P.O. Box 2162, North Conway, ture at UMass Amherst since 2005, has a beau- organization or community.” pierceatwood.com; Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9848, NH 03860; [email protected]; Ann Ja- tiful new design building on campus, mostly —Janie Simms Hamner, 7327 Centenary Ave., Dallas, Savannah, GA 31412; (912) 944-1639; wherring@ cobus Kordahl, 2434 Leavenworth St., San Fran- studios and shops for students. Architecture TX 75225; (214) 477-9868; [email protected] huntermaclean.com cisco, CA 94133; [email protected]
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By the time you read this column, —David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los An- certain features of an established building to in truth, Eric might be kind of busy as it was borne. This time Marcy extolls praise for liberal video series, How Did You Become A …, where the year 2020 will be almost over geles, CA 90046; [email protected]; Jenny integrate with new master plan designs. Rick’s recently announced that “Judges of the Superior arts engineers: “Whether you are a poet or a deep our classmates will be interviewed about their 82 and most of us will have turned 60. Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW Washington, DC favorite traditional buildings at Dartmouth are Court of Los Angeles County have elected As- scientist…all of those perspectives and brains chosen careers or paths. This network is for our Despite the coronavirus throwing a monkey 20016; [email protected] Baker Library and Dartmouth Hall. His favorite sistant Presiding Judge Eric C. Taylor to be the are what we need to not only fix a problem, but to class and immediate family only. If you have wrench into many milestone birthday celebra- contemporary building is the Hood Museum. presiding judge for the 2021-22 term.” reimagine more and more solutions.” Go, Marcy questions, suggestions, want more info on how tions, members of the class of 1982 were still The recent trail blazing legacy left —Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chi- Congratulations to Eric and all the couples! (great plug for Dartmouth and Thayer!). to join or use ’86 CAN, email susansambrook@ able to find ways to mark a birthday with social by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cago, IL 60657; [email protected]; Shanta —Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Man- Until our next column update, send us your gmail.com. Kathy Gord Callahan announced the distancing. reminded us of Jay Alexander, who Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los An- lius NY 13104; [email protected]; Eric Grub- news—we will print it here. publication of her new book, 101 Rescue Puppies. Doug Brown 83 man writes: “We’re having a home- served as one of Justice Ginsburg’s law clerks geles, CA 90046; [email protected] , 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; All the best to all of you! Kathy is a certified professional dog trainer liv- bound celebration of grilling out with the family, from 1986 to 1987. For him, Justice Ginsburg (203) 710-7933; [email protected] —Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road, Green- ing in Alexandria, Virginia. She loves to coach which I imagine is pretty common these days.” was a teacher and a model of unchecked excel- Alas, the holidays are over. Cookie wich, CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; dahlleslie@ people and their puppies into a great pack life. Donna Halverstadt shared that she had “a quiet lence who routinely worked late into the night tins are empty. Decorations are back I can think of no better way to open yahoo.com; John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Her family has fostered more than 175 rescue dinner (outside, of course) with my daughter to always try to get it “right.” Her law clerks’ 84 in their boxes. Even my latest Life- our column in the new year than Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@ puppies amid their own furry pack; website is and then a Zoom call with my closest group of children were her “grand-clerks” and her smile time Christmas movie, Dear Christmas, (yes, with a direct plug from reunion aol.com www.puppypicks.com. In beauty. 85 Jeff Weitzman Mae Drake Hueston friends talking about what we are going to do lit up when they visited. Jay says Justice Gins- this is a shameless plug) has aired for its 14th communications chair : “It has — , P.O. Box 264, Balboa Is- in September 2021 to celebrate the milestone burg paved the way for our daughters to have time. But never fear, because our class has plenty been more than five long years since the start Chandler Lindsley, I am so sorry to land, CA 92662; (949) 500-2191; dart86news@ of September 2020.” a seat at the table and for our sons to benefit of heartfelt stories that I will now share with of 2020—or maybe it just seems that way. But have missed your email. I try to stay gmail.com Patrick Viguerie spent his milestone birth- from seeing the world through different lenses. you along with possible movie titles for each of 2021 brings hope and (drumroll, please) our on top of all updates, but inadver- day at the wedding of a close friend’s daughter May we all have her wisdom to listen intently, these feel-good tales. 35th reunion! What better way to recognize that 86tently missed yours. I hope your Appalachian Anne-Marie (LaMarche) Valencia re- with 130 people at the Ritz Reynolds in Lake to learn from those with whom we disagree, I Found My Heart in San Francisco: Kathy spending time with old friends is an essential Trail hike happened before the Covid-19 lock- ports that the pandemic “has made Oconee, Georgia, writing, “Hard to believe that and to be better for the effort. HBO’s newest Marshall Diekroger’s son, Kenny, was married in part of our lives than to plan to join us (along down. Chandler invited classmates to join his it possible to ditch my 30-year-old actually happened! I kept my mask on.” Kristin limited series from writer and producer David July to his bride, Sarah, while sailing with his with the classes of 1986 and 1987) June 17-20 trek, and shared: “I’ve sold my veterinary prac- 87brick-and-mortar tutoring business in L.A.” and Johnson Dean shared, “I had an incredibly fun day E. Kelley, The Undoing, is based on Jean Hanff family on the San Francisco Bay. Kathy writes: for our 35th reunion? True, there is uncertainty tice. I have a son who just completed his first happily return to her childhood state of New planned by my husband and kids that included Korelitz’s page-turner, You Should Have Known, “It was a beautiful day. Just family and photog- about what our world will look like this June, but semester of veterinary school, and my daughter Hampshire to tutor remotely “while leaf-peep- a Dartmouth pong tournament. I got to partner and has been heralded as a thrill ride by many raphers on the boat. It was followed by a dinner your reunion committee is going full speed. Full is a computer science major and a goalkeeper for ing.” For those of you worried she can no longer with my middle son, a ’16 and pong champion, critics. The cast and crew are filled with award- back at our house in Woodside. They shared a speed is, in fact, the theme of our 35th: ‘Class of the women’s soccer team at Acadia University handle New England winters, Anne-Marie said and thus went undefeated! The Dartmouth influ- winners, including Hugh Grant, Nicole Kidman, 30-minute Zoom for more than 500 people on ’85 in Overdrive.’ We’re in our prime, friends, in Nova Scotia.” Co-head agents Lanie McNulty, she “might just become bicoastal!” ence continues on the West Coast!” Kent Arnold Donald Sutherland, director Suzanne Bier, and which they did a toast, first dances, cut the cake, and we’re firing on all cylinders (spinning on Peter Gibson, and Seth Hendon report that our As we all look for such bright spots during mused, “By the next time the odometer rolls cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle. Accord- and thanked everyone for ‘attending.’ It was an all coils, for you electric car drivers)—at work, 35th reunion fundraising will emphasize par- this challenging time, mark your calendars for over this loudly (age 70), life will probably have ing to Jean, “It’s quite different from the novel, awesome Covid wedding.” at play, and in our communities. We are plan- ticipation. In a time when so much seems up- our 35th reunion this June 17-20. We hope to changed fairly comprehensively; the final phase especially toward the end, so don’t ask me what Florida Father of the Bride: Ford Allen writes, ning a spectacular three days to feed your head ended and divided, our reunion is a chance to put be together in Hanover to celebrate, according of this career will be long over, so then what?” happens. I’ve seen all but the final episode and “Daughter Shelby got engaged to Cameron in and your heart like never before: panels and things right-side up and to re-unite around our to reunion chair Tim Parker. Helping others, if Cindy Willett Sherwood reports from Vir- I have no idea who did what to whom.” Then, in July on the beach in Anna Marie Island, Florida. storytelling sessions with classmates, alongside shared Dartmouth community. The higher our we are able, is another way to feel connected. ginia: “My special day included the discovery time for your 2021 summer reading, be on the It was an epic setting and very special weekend. a full slate of interesting lectures led by Dart- participation, the more engaged our class, the In that spirit of giving, I would like to spotlight of live fleas on our dogs, despite them being on lookout for Jean’s latest novel, The Plot, before The wedding date is still to be set (might be as mouth professors; entertainment ranging from more diverse its group of supporters, the more classmates who are members in the Bartlett every possible flea preventative (ugh!); Covid Memorial Day. Speaking of publishing, another late as October 22 with so many venues booked big all-class parties on the Green to late-night good we will do, and the more fun our reunion Tower Society (BTS). Named in honor of Samuel tests for my husband and me (to rule it out—I anticipated book release, this winter, will be due to Covid). This is our first (of three) to get tunes and quiet conversations at our class tent. will be. To help in this effort, Seth Hendon’s Colcord Bartlett, class of 1836 and Dartmouth’s think we just have minor colds but need to make Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy. It’s a ca- engaged. It feels overwhelming in a good way. Stay on top of all the reunion news through our family is offering a special match-funding. As an eighth president, the BTS recognizes alumni and sure before we expose others); and some better reer retrospective. Melissa Kaish, founder of the I’m feeling very blessed that Shelby has found website, www.dartmouth85.com. Now get it in incentive to classmates who have not recently others who include Dartmouth in their estate parts, including enjoying the first stretch of per- Kaish Family Art Project and daughter of Luise someone that will love her unconditionally (he gear and start reaching out to your classmates given to the Dartmouth College Fund (DCF), plans. H. Morgan, our class gift planning chair, fect, fall weather.” Hugh Jackson shared, “I was Kaish, is also happy to announce the launch of better—hah, hah, hah).” and commit to meeting them at reunion.” Seth’s family is offering to support the Upper would love to have 30 ’87s in the BTS by our born on Labor Day 1960 and it was a sweltering their redesigned website. Peter Kilmarx was re- Next-gen Love in the Dorms: Carla Small Classmates making news these days include Valley Haven (https://uppervalleyhaven.org) a reunion. hot day with no air conditioning for my very un- cently awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and Bob Cronin’s son, Brendan, will marry Jim Dr. Joyce Sackey, who has been nominated by wonderful nonprofit that serves families in need Deb (Rowe) Marchiony joined more than comfortable mom. Curiously, my sister was born for his career at the U.S. Public Health Service Bloomer ’83 and Melinda Marsh’s daughter, Kel- the Alumni Association for the vacant alumni- and where our classmate, Laura Gillespie, is direc- two decades ago and has enjoyed being invited on Memorial Day and my brother on Thanksgiv- responding to HIV/AIDS and other infectious ley, in Vermont in August. When Kelley ’14 and nominated seat on the College’s board of trust- tor of development. For any amount given to the to “lots of fun Dartmouth events” through the ing.” Robert Jessen and the State of California diseases and building health research capac- Brendan ’15 met for the first time, the month ees in 2021. Give a rouse! Among many other DCF by a five-year-lapsed giver, Seth’s family years. “It’s easy to do and there is no downside,” have the same birth date (not year!) and Robert ity worldwide from 1996 to 2019. The award is before Kelley graduated, Melinda’s daughter accomplishments, Joyce is currently associ- will donate $100 to the Haven; they will donate Deb said. “Plus it would help the ’87s win Class added, “Since I grew up in California, I never had the highest award granted and recognizes an texted her parents: “Did you know a Carla Small ate provost and chief diversity officer for the $250 for every 10-year-lapsed giver; and $500 of the Year!” Joe Voves and his wife, Lucie ’86, to go to school on my birthday!” While John Old exceedingly high level of achievement by an or Bob Cronin at Dartmouth?” Simultaneously, Tufts University Health Sciences Schools. Laura for every never-giver (up to a total of $20,000). have been members since the early 1990s as celebrated his milestone birthday last year, his officer who possesses a genuine sense of public Brendan was reaching out to his folks! When Abrahamsen is director of the Bixby Memorial This match-funding deepens our class’s connec- well, and Joe believes that he, Lucie, Deb, and response to my birthday email brought a smile service. Peter retired from the Public Health the kids met they had no idea that their parents Library in Francestown, New Hampshire. In tion to a fabulous charity, doing amazing work Deb’s husband, John ’86, are some of the first to my face: “Thanks, David, slowly growing into Service in 2019 to become the deputy direc- were all friends as undergraduates! addition to building the collection, Laura en- for Dartmouth’s neighbors. Talk about reuniting Dartmouth couples to join as young alumni. my name!!” tor of the Fogarty International Center at the Lockdown Love: Merrie Levy writes, “Son sures the library provides essential technolo- and putting things right-side up! If you’re moved Joe’s business, Church Hill Classics (www. In October your class officers attended their National Institutes of Health. Congratulations, Jake proposed to his college sweetheart on a gies—internet, printers, and scanners—for pub- to give now, visit dartgo.org/fund. Our congratu- diplomaframe.com), was born in Hanover sell- first (and we hope last!) virtual (via Zoom) Class Peter! Following up on the architecture and con- beautiful October day in Hoboken [New Jersey] lic use. Gayle Gilman was a featured panelist on lations to Pamela Taylor’s growing family, she ing insignia diploma frames and limited-edition Officers Weekend, now known as VOX Volunteer struction theme of our last Class Notes, Richard on the waterfront and she said yes!” Merrie told a Dartmouth Alumnae Entrepreneurs forum shares: “My daughter, Tasneem Malik (née Kha- lithographs from the Dartmouth Co-op. “We Engagement Week. Our new class project focus- Walsh is president and CEO (fourth generation) me, “If they still want to get married after living last September, sharing her experience fund- lid) ’12, had her first child, my first grandchild, obviously owe a debt of gratitude to Dartmouth ing on racial justice is moving along. The first of Walsh Brothers Construction. Founded in together during lockdown, their marriage can ing, operating, and growing her own company on September 27, 2020. Maybe we’ll become a for our experience and education but also for phase will provide financial support for student 1901, the firm originally focused on construct- survive anything! As the mother of the groom- (Snarled Entertainment), where she is focused three-generation Dartmouth family!” We are being our collegiate test market, as our business research and internships. The next phase will ing monumental classic academic buildings to-be, I feel blessed that he found his soulmate. on building content brands across multiple plat- proud to report that Chris Demos-Brown’s film ad- has now scaled to be a successful national brand have a broader reach across campus, including on college campuses throughout New England Then, of course, I wonder how it is possible that forms. And check out the virtual “topping off” aptation of the play, American Son, premiered on employing more than 125 people,” Joe said. “Giv- enhancing the College’s ability to attract and and New York. Today Walsh Brothers’ work I am old enough to be a mother-in-law!” ceremony for the Irving Institute for Energy and Netflix in November 2019 as a television drama ing back to the College remains important to us.” retain outstanding faculty of color. reflects evolving styles of architecture, with The Catch of Their Lives: Sarah Burrell Troxel Society that livestreamed last October! At 19:06 and was nominated for a 2020 Primetime Emmy As of October there were 15 of us in the BTS: I close with the sad news that our classmate numerous projects involving contemporary and was engaged in October to Mac Gardner ’83. minutes you will Zoom with Marcy Sitnik Reed, Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Thank Roseanne (Wood) Arseneau, class treasurer Evan Peter DeForest Johnson died on July 26, 2020. traditional design, adaptive re-use, renovation, Sources tell me that they’ve been fishing to- executive vice president for National Grid. You you to Peter Arnold, Liz Babb, Sarah Cotsen, Lanie Azriliant, Mark Chavey, Ashok Gangolli, class co- Obituaries of deceased classmates are available historic restoration and preservation, updated gether in Alaska since 2015. more recently “saw” Marcy in a heartwarming McNulty, and Sue Sambrook for creating ’86 Ca- mini-reunion chair Kathleen (Joyce) Kusiak, Deb, on the class website under the “In Memoriam” code compliance, and everything in between. And just in case any of these wonderful Dartmouth roommate reunion photo from Sep- reer Advice Network (CAN). The ’86 CAN is on H., co-head class agent Peter Murane, class presi- pages. The firm has even moved older structures and brides and grooms need someone to marry them, tember at Eleni Daskalakis Henkel’s Connecticut our class website, 1986.dartmouth.org. There dent Tracey Salmon-Smith, Joe, Jon Winslow, three Happy new year! performed “facade-ectomies”—maintaining consider our own Judge Eric C. Taylor. Although, house with Kathy Reilly Gross and Becky Blake Os- I enjoyed Chip Fleischer’s interview in the new anonymous classmates, and yours truly, class
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secretary Laura Gasser. I can attest to how simple that hatched after Amy “borrowed” a neighbor’s one of Mike’s kids’ principals for three years! George Eliot—also the funniest! And the book munity in the spring.” dition, there are groups based on profession and it is to join via a retirement account. There is no hen. She sent me an adorable picture that I wish We also heard from Laurie Fanger Reed and her that moved me the most was All the Light We In September the College hosted “Dart- military service, and of course regional clubs all minimum, so you can decide what percentage you could see, and she marveled watching the neighbor Carolyn Gardella. Laurie is a teacher and Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.” Wendy Richmond: mouth in Latin America: A Conversation with over the globe. you would like to leave to Dartmouth. All I had hen’s “extreme motherhood” as she brought the Carolyn is a professor of obstetrics and gynecol- “Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Prof. Erika Pani ’91; The U.S. and Mexico: Two If you are active in a Dartmouth affinity to do is contact my 401K plan administrator, chicks through infancy. Finally, Kirby Fowler has ogy at University of Washington. also Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.” Pamela Chandran: hundred years of reimagining your neighbor.” group (see the list at alumni.dartmouth.edu/ submit an online form adding “the Trustees of embraced a new group of animals as well, as he Nicole Conte lives in Vermont, where she “Recently, during a hot, dry L.A. summer, I read Our classmate lives in Mexico, teaches at El connect/find-group/dartmouth-alumni-affil- Dartmouth College” as a primary co-beneficiary, became president and CEO of the Maryland Zoo started working in a local elementary school The Overstory by Richard Powers (which is, to un- Colegio de México, and has chaired its center iated-groups), please let us know by emailing and send Dartmouth’s gift planning office writ- in Baltimore in April. Congratulations, Kirby! A when a preschool teacher didn’t want to go back. fairly simplify it, about the interconnectedness for historical studies. Her talk explored some [email protected]. We’d love for ten confirmation from my plan. Alternatively, long-time leader in Baltimore, Kirby previously She’s enjoying working with 3-year-old children of trees and humans and how humans need trees of the ways in which Americans and Mexicans you to bring your viewpoint to our monthly you can name Dartmouth in your will. oversaw the city’s Downtown Partnership and with masks on. Lenora Brown has been back in and how trees very much do not need humans). have, since independence, engaged with each meetings. Kimberly Malone Bobb, our Black “Joining the BTS can be quick and easy, the Downtown Management Authority. Cleveland for 10 years, working as senior fellow I would wake up very early and read the book other. The goal of the conversation was to move Alumni of Dartmouth liaison, has created a set while the benefits to the College endure,” H. said. Be well, my fellow ’88s, and I look forward at the Cleveland Leadership Center, where she outside on our front porch in the quiet and the “beyond the pithy but flat description of them of recommendations to assist with the class’ “This is a painless way to leave a lasting legacy.” to hearing from you with news, updates, and educates people on civic issues in the county growing light. While we have three lovely palms as ‘distant neighbors.’ ” efforts to be more inclusive, and we welcome For details or to get a personal pep talk your stories to share. and city and works to create partnerships to in the front, we do not have the broad-trunked, You may have received an email from our additional perspectives. from H. himself, please contact him at h@ —Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West improve the city. Michael Hafner is living in Hous- wide-canopied trees that undergird the book. The co-presidents, Heather Lane Spehr and Sarah Would you like to support your fellow dartmouth87.org. Hartford, CT 06119; dartmouth88classnotes@ ton, enjoying hanging out with friends and grill- book left me with a feeling of an absence. I once Barton Gardella, and vice president Sara Burbine classmates in their times of need (or request —Laura Gasser, 746 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA gmail.com ing food. We also heard from Bridget Hust and again felt the regret of not spending enough time Potter in the fall. In case you didn’t see it, here’s assistance from ’92s who have already offered 94121; [email protected] Winnie DelliQuadri that D.D. Danforth Burlin has a outdoors when I was at Dartmouth, and it only a short update: “As our class heads into our 30th to help)? Magdale Labbe Henke has volunteered Congratulations to Geeta Anand, who Facebook Live cooking series—will have to hear now occurs to me that the book may have played reunion year, we are reaching out to touch base. to lead this effort. A U.S. immigration attorney, Greetings, ’88s, and I trust this year- was appointed dean of UC Berke- more about this next issue! a subconscious role in our decision to move to We remain hopeful that we will be able to gather Magdale has lived in Munich, Germany, for the end column finds you well and full 89 ley Graduate School of Journalism! Speaking of staying tuned, look for the next the Pacific Northwest next month.” Michael Keller: in person to celebrate June 17-21, 2021, but we past 14 years with her German husband and now of optimism (or at least not full of Previously she had been interim dean. Con- issue to cover the crazy story of ’89s who were “Telegraph Road by Michael Chabon. Nobody are sure it will not be a surprise that event plan- 4-year-old son. 88 Scott McElhaney dread) for 2021. The global pandemic has re- gratulations also to for being left to run two licensed radio stations (WDCR writes like he does. His storytelling is not always ning at the moment is tentative, at best. We will She explains, “As previously mentioned stricted our movement, and so what better topic selected for inclusion in the Thomson Reuters and WFRD—99 Rock) and some of their tales perfect, but his use of language is sublime.” keep you posted, though we don’t expect any in our newsletter, we are establishing a ’92 to address in this column than travel adventures, 2020 Super Lawyers list as well as the 2021 Best from back then! If you have news, please feel —Rob Crawford, 22 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA updates until the first quarter of 2021.” Class Compassion Committee. The goal is to with a few animal adventures thrown in as well. Lawyers in America list. free to send it to me! 02493; [email protected] In this month’s issue of the Dartmouth strengthen our community by supporting the Ah, travel—remember what that was? Nova During Homecoming we held our weekly —Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Alumni Magazine, President Emeritus Jim health and well-being of our classmates through Akashi-Reed, who lives in Seattle, remembers it Zoom call but made it into our ’89 mini-reunion, Beach, CA 90278; [email protected] The College held a Volunteer Officer Wright explains how Mister Rogers ’50 made proactively offering a network of emotional and well. She wrote to me about her 50th birthday and had numerous classmates from around the eXperience (VOX) conference as part an indelible impression when he returned to professional support during times of stress, per- trip, which was just a bit delayed, to Japan and world, including Michael Ballard in Israel (who I recently asked ’90s, “What’s the of its expanded volunteer engage- campus after more than 50 years. I’m sure many sonal loss, and challenging life events. This can Thailand in 2018 with senior-year roommates reminded us that Tecmo Bowl on the Nintendo best (or most impactful or memora- 91 of us have fond memories of Jim Wright and be through sending cards, gifts, meals, referrals, ment week in October. As part of that I attended Susan Urben and Ji Hyun Park. Susy is an ear, NES is celebrating its 40th anniversary) and ble) book you’ve read during the last the meeting for the Class Secretaries Associa- his wife, Susan, who was our class dean. In the and other general support. The committee has Margo Miller 90 nose, and throat surgeon in Eugene, Oregon, in London, where she’s been now for three years?” Here is Part I of your responses. tion. I saw some familiar faces, including Ned vein of the article, I would love to hear from two purposes. and Ji Hyun lives in Bangkok. On their trip they 21 years. We heard from class president John Van Lauren Waller Smith: “Florida by Lauren Groff.” Ward ’89 and Kelly Shriver Kolln ’92, on the call. classmates on this topic: How did Jim or Su- “First, if you or someone you know in our visited temples in Kyoto, fed elephants in Chi- Hooser, who has been volunteering doing moun- Paul Haffner: “Last year I re-read Catch 22 by A few people used their nifty Dartmouth Zoom san Wright (or even Mister Rogers) make an class could use our help—someone who is sick ang Mai, and took a cooking class in Bangkok. tain search and rescue during all of the fires in Joseph Heller, and it just blew me away. It’s backgrounds and were virtually transported to impression on you? or with a sick family member, a recent death in Sounds amazing! Fast forward to August of this northern California. Linda Salzhauer Swenberg a masterpiece (and funny as hell). Honorable the Tower Room and other beautiful locations. Stay healthy! the family, out of work, or any other situation year and we find Allen Selis has moved to Israel, has been providing dyslexia intervention since mention goes to Grandma Gatewood’s Walk by To get yours, visit www.library.dartmouth.edu/ —Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fair- that might benefit from our support or class realizing a dream that began in 1986 when he 2009 after one of her children was diagnosed; Ben Montgomery—a true story of a grandmother library-zoom-backgrounds. field, CT 06824; [email protected] network—please contact me. interned there. Allen launched a startup com- she decided to take on the tutoring program who leaves home to walk the Appalachian Trail I received an update from our class rep- “Second, we would like to set up an ad- pany seven years ago that teaches engineering herself and saw so much improvement that on her own with no one knowing—and in ten- resentative on the Alumni Council. Erica Coles We’re all dealing with myriad dif- vice network to provide assistance or advice and computer coding to young children, and teachers started referring students to her. Andy nis shoes.” Jacobsen attended the council meeting at the ficult experiences this year (plus on specific topic areas where classmates need he has now started a branch of his company in Wells has a new job in Washington, D.C., with the Mike Lindgren: “The Doctor of Aleppo by my end of October and had this to report. turning 50 without being able to help. We are looking for volunteers to serve as Dan Mayland 92 Israel, which appears to be taking off. He came National Science Foundation, giving money to former roommate was pretty durn “Like so much of 2020, the fall Alumni celebrate as we might have). It’s more impor- a resource on a topic area. Examples include to this passion for teaching tech skills to kids companies in advanced manufacturing. Kristen good!” Deborah Cornavaca: “New Power by Jeremy Council was a virtual affair. We were able to tant than ever to increase the opportunities for chronic illness, cancer, grief, general medical or after earning a Ph.D. in curriculum theory and Dillon shared that after 20 years living with her Heimans and Henry Timms, which I read as I hear about the search that is underway to hire a ’92s to offer each other much-needed support. legal questions, spirituality concerns, and sub- development at the University of Maryland and husband, Paul Blackburn ’88, in Hood River, began working for the governor of New Jersey. chief diversity officer and were introduced to the I’d looked forward to meeting with the rest stance abuse. Advice network volunteers share serving as headmaster of private schools, among Oregon, they moved to Washington, D.C., where A great book is a great book. A really memorable council nominating committee’s candidate for of our ’92 executive committee in Hanover, an their personal or professional experiences and other work. Ed Sim is occupied with a different she’s a health policy fellow. Per Kristen, “It’s book is a great book read at the right time.” Kyrie trustee, Joyce A. Sackey ’85, DMS’89, M.D. Joyce annual tradition, but in typical 2020 fashion knowledge and exist as support ‘from friends for kind of travel—he spends every weekend driv- been a wild year; we may go back to Oregon at the Robinson: “Nonfiction,The Warmth of Other Suns is associate provost and chief diversity officer settled for the Zoom version. In late October friends.’ It will not replace professional help or ing his younger son to baseball tournaments, end of the year and we’ll take it from there! Back by Isabel Wilkerson; fiction,A Gentleman in Mos- for Tufts University Health Sciences Schools, the class of 1992 officers gathered online—along be a place to solicit business. The intention is where he is practicing to be Mookie Betts. Ed in Oregon Andy Wells lived 60 miles away and cow by Amor Towles.” Heather Block: “Infinite Jest where she works closely with university leader- with representatives from other classes and not to set up a free services relationship. If you relocated to McLean, Virginia, in 2013 from now we’re only 10 miles apart!” Wendy Mogan by David Foster Wallace. Three times because ship to fulfill the strategic mission and goals for clubs—to share best practices for nurturing our are interested in volunteering, please send me Singapore, where he lived for 16 years and met Phillips lives with her husband in Chapel Hill, you have to.” Jonathan Sullivan: “Most recently diversity, equity, and inclusion. I am now serving Dartmouth community. an email. Thank you.” his wife. He graduated from University of Michi- North Carolina, and has a freshman at Dart- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, on the new alumni engagement committee. We It was heartening to hear the various ways To request support from the ’92 Class Compas- gan Law School and now practices in a boutique mouth (apologies, as I’m sure there are other Educated by Tara Westover, Hillbilly Elegy by are tasked with facilitating the transition from classes and clubs are working toward ensuring sion Committee or to volunteer to assist with the law firm in Washington, D.C. Ed advises clients ’89s with ’24s). J.D. Vance, and Between the World and Me by Ta- graduating Dartmouth to becoming an active that all classmates have a voice, as well as con- advice network, email Magdale at 92compassion on international trade policy and represents We also had multiple New York ’89s on Nehisi Coates are showing me how different the member of the alumni community. I’m leading necting people to each other. [email protected]. Each interaction with exporters in litigation, and he has found during the Zoom, including Peter Lurie, Diana Haladey, world looks when viewed through the eyes of the subcommittee’s work to gain insights into The 1992 leadership is looking to include the committee remains confidential, unless a the pandemic that his frequent overseas travel Russell Wolf, Bobby Jaffe (who has dogs named Black people and the rural poor and helping me how to establish positive relationships with more points of view. We usually add to our ex- classmate wishes to share information with has been replaced with Zoom calls from early Nugget and Baker after Dartmouth places), understand why we are in this moment as a soci- the most-recently graduated students. Since ecutive committee during reunions but would others. morning to late evening. and Alex Simpson. From Massachusetts we had ety. The Three-Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu it has been almost 30 (seriously, almost 30?!) like to jump-start this process before our 30th. —Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. I also heard from Amy Smith in England, Antonia Rutigliano Nedder and Joe Nedder, Ken has been mind-expanding in completely different years since we graduated, I will turn to my pro- One way to make progress toward this goal is SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; where she is celebrating her 20th year as a clas- Horton, Tracey Coleman, Laura Bordewieck Rippy, ways and a welcome escape when the day-to-day fessional experience in qualitative consumer to proactively invite more members of affinity [email protected] sics professor at the University of Reading and and Michael Conroy. is too much.” and human insights to create surveys, virtual groups into our discussions. also serves as the curator of Ure Museum of Kerry Kisiel Jones is an educator in Hart- Andrew Latimer: “The Body Keeps the Score focus groups, and individual interviews to bet- According to the College, “The personal- Happy 2021, ’93s. Don’t want to jinx Greek Archaeology. In response to my question ford, Connecticut, in this brave new world. She by Bessel van der Kolk. Although, annoyingly, ter understand the needs of new alumni. We are identity groups that Dartmouth recognizes as us, but it’s got to improve on 2020, about pandemic pets, she told me she welcomed started a summer doctoral program at UPenn. I will also tell you the best-written book I have hoping to have some great recommendations to alumni affiliated organizations are based on 93 right? In the window between writ- new fuzzy friends this summer, with four chicks Interesting factoid: Kerry was the principal for read during the last few years is Middlemarch by welcome the class of ’21 into the alumni com- race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.” In ad- ing this and you reading it there will be the most
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CLASS NOTES 1994-1997 let heidi help you Rediscover What You Loved important presidential election of our lifetimes Hi, fellow classmates. As we look Mike McClure has his sight set on a half-iron man felt good to be home. About The Upper Valley to date to be decided. Regardless which side you ahead to a new year, I posed the fol- competition. Be well and keep your news coming! land on, the stakes are big. And we will also be 94 lowing question on the “Dartmouth Our class feedback wouldn’t be complete —Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hing- HEIDI REISS, REALTOR two months closer to a vaccine. College Class of 1994” Facebook page: What do without a nod to the place common in all of our ham, MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth. Since so many of the 2020 columns grap- you plan to do in 2021 when Covid is no longer heart, and this time our classmates are look- edu C: 603.443.0895 O: 603.643.6406 pled with our unprecedented times, I wanted to a limiting factor? ing forward to visiting Dartmouth as parents. kick off 2021 with nothing but news about your More than 25 classmates chimed in with Gates Bryant would like to go to a fall parents’ As this column is being composed, [email protected] classmates and thoughts of Hanover. variations of “We want to be around people!” weekend in Hanover to visit his son and Kelly we are coming down to the last few I recently heard from Geoff Tuff, who lives As Aleise McCann Matheson writes, she wants to Lytle is up for a trip to visit her son, Richard. days of what has been an arduous, Sara Bone Dyett 96 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife, Mar- “have friends over. Lots. All the time.” We are wants to see her son, Jack, “play cantankerous, and seemingly never-ending elec- tha, and their four sons, Rider, Quinn, Mason, looking forward to visiting family and traveling Big Green football.” tion cycle for the United States. Couple that with TheCBLife.com and Hunter (bonus points if you can spot the freely. We miss live music and movie theaters, The written and unwritten wishes and the ongoing challenges presented by a global theme). and we especially miss enjoying these moments intentions for 2021 are numerous and ambi- pandemic, 2020 cannot come to an end soon Now running Deloitte’s future-of-energy with each other. If you missed the Facebook tious, but I am ever hopeful that by 2022 we’ll enough for so many of us. And yet, as they say, practice, he had this to share; “As far as I can postings, here’s a recap of your classmates’ plans have collectively checked these adventures off happiness can be found even in the darkest of Do you need Are you tell, the only silver lining that has come with for 2021. an inspired, metaphoric to-do list. Send me an times. a lawyer, this pandemic ridiculousness is that companies Tony Lee keeps it simple and heartfelt with update on your progress for the next column. First, congratulations to our own Christo- a lawyer? finally have a far more visceral sense for what plans to visit family and Dartmouth friends. —Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane, pher Kelly and his husband, Neritan Xhaferi, Find a but not a I mean when I talk about managing in the face Katherine Zalios Maguire will take her children Brentwood, TN 03755; [email protected] on the arrival of their daughter, Frances Kelly of uncertainty. The situation sucks in so many to Florida and Greece to reconnect with family. Xhaferi, born October 17. As of last report, she Dartmouth alum member of the ways, but the upside is that there’s a lot more Debra Hofferman Brandt plans to reinstate weekly I’m pleased to announce a new had just met her “deeply skeptical” older brother Dartmouth motivation in the world to try to do things dif- family dinners with her parents. branch on the ’95 tree! Congratu- Eddie and is “gobbling up milk faster than we in the ferently.” Agreed on that, so much change hap- Shannon M. Sullivan mentions travel abroad— 95 lations to Alex (Sasha) King and his can make it!” With just a few days as a new fam- Dartmouth Lawyers pening so quickly in reaction to this pandemic. her family plans to “actually use our passports” wife, Micah, on the birth of their beautiful baby ily of four under the belt, they are extremely DARTMOUTH Amy Beatie also checked in from Colorado, to connect with extended family and friends girl, Eleanor, in June. Ellie will be playing polo grateful for their gestational carrier and all their Lawyers Association? where she has been living since graduation. in person. Lots of us want new stamps in our with you before you know it, Sasha. Enjoy every “family, friends, and colleagues who have offered LAWYERS Join today Married to Declan with a son, Cormac, Amy passports, too. Julia Caputo Stift wants to see her minute! so much love, support, and encouragement along Association now serves on the cabinet of Colorado’s attorney son living in Canada, Kathleen de Riesthal wants Congratulations also to Lauren Lieberman the way.” Chris, by the way, is currently director directory at at general, Phil Weiser. An attorney herself, her to connect with her husband’s family in Spain, and her husband, Stephen Sanchez, on their of news innovation, topics, and features at New ASSOCIATION bit.ly/dlajoin role oversees all the state’s natural resources and Nina Cook Silitch wants to “get back to the recent purchase of the Copperhood Retreat and Jersey Advance Media, the parent company for Dartmouthbit.ly/dlafi 1/6 Vert SPAnd Ad 2020.qxp_Layout 1 9 and environmental attorneys, about 60 lawyers Alps—my old stomping grounds.” Colleen Line- Spa (www.copperhood.com.) If you’re looking the Newark Star-Ledger and NJ.com. working on a wide range of environmental issues han Haskell and Kelly Bell Lytle should book seats for a beautiful getaway in the Catskills, this is In other wonderful news, Kihara “Key” Kiarie Are you a lawyer, but such as air and water quality, hazardous waste, together, because they’ll go anywhere in Europe. the place to go! Because of Covid, they’re only and his wife, Caitlin, welcomed their newest energy policy, oil and gas mining, state parks, Jordan Frank looks forward to the good old doing partial or full resort buyouts right now, bundle of joy, Mr. Kingston Onyx Kiarie, who not a member of the wildlife, state trust lands, and water allocation, days of going to a movie theater. Remember so perhaps a New Year’s Eve to remember or made his “debut” on the morning of October 2. among many others. She and her family have that? It seems like ages since we’ve shared pop- an epic ’95 mini-reunion? The happy couple, who reside in New York along Dartmouth Lawyers been living the remote life from their cabin in corn, let alone air, with other cinephiles. Others And speaking of mini-reunions, thanks go with Kingston’s older brothers, are overjoyed Association? South Routt County (near Steamboat), enjoying miss live performing arts, from Broadway shows out to our mini-reunion chairs, Tara Gulla and with his arrival. Key is the chief financial officer the change of pace from Denver, where they to their children’s school choral concerts. Aleise Jared Sprole, for planning such a great lineup of media at Geller & Co., a consultancy firm that Join today at dla.org normally reside. McCann Matheson can’t wait for her daughter’s of Dartmouth campus-inspired mini-reunions specializes in providing custom strategic finan- Lastly, we’re putting together a playlist for show choir performances and competitions; this fall. I enjoyed visiting with classmates “at cial advisory and wealth management solutions. our class on Spotify and would love to know she is even willing to chaperone the group on a the Hop” and hope many of you were able to Welcome to both Frances and Kingston, A Lifetime of which songs you want to add. Music takes you chartered bus trip. participate in one or more of these fun Zoom the newest members of our extended ’96 family! back like few things can, and there are so many Katy Hayes wants to go out to dinner with gatherings. We have a long winter ahead, so if May your arrivals bring new light to a world that songs that are tied to Hanover for us all. For family and friends beyond the shadow of a pan- you’re interested in organizing a ’tails and tales needs all the light it can get right about now. Creating Custom Rugs me, Freshman Week was Young MC and Deee- demic. I concur because I don’t want to wash mini-reunion of classmates generally or of a Lastly, I hope everyone is looking forward lite mixed with Jimmy Buffet (my roommate any more dishes. Kelly Lytle mentions lingering specific group—perhaps your senior society, to our big 25th-year reunion (it truly hurts to for Beautiful Spaces. T. Michael Brock was pretty into Buffet, politely over good drinks and conversation at a cocktail a cappella group, or foreign study program?— see that number so boldly in print!) in what will tolerating my divergent tastes), but then from bar, an activity that gets an “amen” from many Jared and Tara can help make that happen. You most assuredly be a wonderful new year for all Jane’s Addiction to Tori Amos, there was so corners of our class. While my husband, Ken can reach them and other class officers at our of us! Nakiah (Cherry) Chinchilla has graciously Delight All Your Senses much music in those four years. Davis, never goes on Facebook, if he even has class website, 1995.dartmouth.org. volunteered as our class chair for this reunion The boom of “alternative” rock, hip-hop an account, I know he would choose to go to Wishing all of you a happy (happier?) new cycle and is formulating amazing plans for us, Restore your mind and body while relatively early on, and pop mixed with whatever the Nashville Whiskey Festival, which is lively, year! May it include our much-anticipated re- which we hope we are all able to celebrate in you connect with nature through was playing at parties or in a frat basement—the crowded, and delicious. union in Hanover and many blessings. I hope person in Hanover next summer! Be on the unique seasonal treatments that list goes on. We want to hear your favorites and We have some classmates who still love the wherever you are reading this column, you are lookout for information about the great reunion will edit and compile them into a soundtrack sweaty dancefloors and miss the mosh pits. In doing well and staying healthy and safe. The year year plans in store in the weeks and months capture the essence of Vermont. for the next time you feel like reminiscing. Stay 2021 Ian Cameron will be heading to an “awful 2020 has been rough to be sure but I hope it held ahead—it will give us all something to which tuned. bar in Williamsburg or Bushwick” for late-night some silver linings for you and yours (and if it we can collectively look forward after a year Spa Treatments Full Design Assistance That’s all for this edition, we look forward dancing, along with other movers-and-shakers did, I would love to hear from you for a future that has been quite difficult for so many of us! Facials | Massages Online and by Appointment to hearing from you both with songs and news. Alison LeBoeuf, Maggie Lockwood, and Shannon column)! A highlight for my family was a visit In the meanwhile, everyone stay safe, stay sane, Manicures | Pedicures [email protected] Remember, if you’re reading this and want to Sullivan. to Hanover in October for what we decided to and stay happy! Reflexology | Waxing 603.667.7721 see more Notes, the only way we keep it going The fitness aficionados are looking for- call “Not-Homecoming.” The Green was quiet —Garrett Gil de Rubio, 1062 Middlebrooke Drive, is with your input so drop us a line now while ward to big races and opportunities to be out and foggy on Friday night and it was surreal to Canton, GA 30115; [email protected] Eyelash & Eyebrow Treatments it’s on your mind. in nature. Ruth Maria Marmaril wants to “surf see students walking the campus in masks, but www.innerasiarugs.com —Dwight Fenton, 200 E 72nd St., Apt. 20K, New York warm, turquoise waters with people who don’t the Baker bells still ring on the hour and Lou’s Congratulations to Drew Spencer on 888.364.6110 City, NY 10021; [email protected]; speak the same first language.” Kristin Grosser maple crullers are just as delicious as ever. Plus becoming the head coach of Great Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 9733 Beman Woods Tufo, Charis Connell Taylor, and Nina Cook Sil- the new alumna-owned bookstore, Still North 97 Britain’s national baseball team. www.woodstockinn.com Way, Potomac, MD 20854; natalie.weidener. itch are looking forward to running—anything Books, is warm and welcoming (and ships, if Drew previously served as Great Britain’s un- Woodstock, Vermont [email protected] from 5ks to qualifying for the Boston marathon. you’d like to support a Hanover business). It der-23 head coach for two years. He led that
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squad to its best finish ever at the European a socioeconomically diverse applicant pool in a fondness for the United States, particularly After more than 20 years as a strategy con- Championship in 2019, placing fifth while earn- the coming decades. the opportunities and choices available in the sultant in the credit card and retail banking ing the country’s first victory over the Nether- Stay safe, everyone, and please send your 1990s during the Clinton administration. Well, space, Joel Stanton is shifting gears. “I realized lands at any level. He also managed the Lon- news. much has changed since then. I write this one that speaking at industry conferences was my don Mets to back-to-back titles in the National —Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, week before our election, for publication at the favorite part of the job, but that I wanted to Baseball League, the United Kingdom’s highest TX 77096; [email protected] end of 2020. When you read this, I hope that speak to people about something a little more domestic baseball competition. America is in a healthy, stable, and peaceful meaningful than credit card payments. A Covid- I asked Drew about his goals for the team. With sadness I begin with what place. Happy holidays! related job layoff has now forced me out of my “My short-term goals for the team are to cre- many already know: Suzanne (Mi- —Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN comfort zone, so I’m diving in to a full career ate stronger connections between players and 98 chels) Obenshain passed away in Sep- 37209; [email protected] pivot now, being a professional motivational alumni at all levels and all over the world. I want tember. Reading about Suzanne and listening speaker to teens and young adults about inten- our players to know just how much it means to to classmates’ reflections, I am inspired by the Hello, ’99s! tionally living your life,” as seen at www.joel- those who came before them and to carry that richness and depth of her experiences across 43 While we spent most of 2020 stanton.com. Joel and Hilary (Cheyne) Stanton pride with them into each competition. In the years. It is a painful loss and an extraordinary 99 distanced from family and friends, have been married for more than 20 years and STUDENTS AIMING FOR TOP COLLEGES: long term I would like to see us continue to rise life. An obituary is available on the magazine’s we did find ways to connect with each other currently live in Medford, Massachusetts, with in the world rankings. It would be amazing to see website. Donations on Suzanne’s behalf can like never before. Thank you so much to all of their three kids, ages 16, 14, and 10. Simon (16) us in the top 20 or top 10 in a decade.” be made at danafarber.jimmyfund.org/goto/ you who connected with me to share your news. is a junior and starting to think about college Receive strategic advice, tools, and guidance from the nation’s premier Covid is also posing its own challenges. “Co- suzannemichelsobenshain. Please keep sending me updates from your lives options. Dad and Mom are encouraging a close college consultants, helping students for over 20 years. vid is affecting us like everyone else. We have Kyle Teamey wrote that he and family moved so I can share them with the class! look at Dartmouth! less time with each other and less time on the to Boston this summer. He is happy to connect Marc Sikkes Lowe writes, “I’m still in London, —Jackie Rioux Gladstone, 21 Westwood Circle, Do- • Unparalleled success rate • Advising and facilitating every step of the way field, so we have to find ways to communicate with any ’98s in the area, but of course it would 17 years and counting now! I’ve been working ver, NH 03820; [email protected] • Lessen stress and increase college choices with each other to help our athletes develop an have to be socially distanced. Kyle commented as a lawyer for the British government for the approach to getting and staying in shape and to that he is not a fan of pandemics but appreci- last 14 of those years. It’s been a very interest- Hello, ’00s. Join us for personal admissions counseling. Call or email for information. motivate each other from afar.” ates that we are now spending more time with ing time to be a government lawyer! Much of Give a rouse for Gerry Cadava, Named to an All-Ivy League team in each people outdoors. (Note that Kyle wrote this my work during the past few years has been 00 who published his second book this of his four seasons in Hanover, Drew ended his in August!) I recently listened to a podcast Brexit-related. I was part of the United King- year. The Hispanic Republican chronicles the time at the College as the career record holder produced by the news website Axios featur- dom team that negotiated the Brexit withdrawal history of the growth of Hispanic American in 11 offensive categories. Today he still ranks ing my first-year roommate Matt Peterson, who agreement, so there were a lot of trips back and Republican voters in the past half century and 781.530.7088 among the top 10 in batting average, hits, runs, is leading a $2-billion investment program at forth to Brussels. I also negotiated a number of their surprising impact on U.S. politics. Gerry TopTierAdmissions.com | [email protected] stolen bases, and RBIs. When asked how Dart- Amazon to reduce carbon emissions. Matt spoke new civil nuclear cooperation treaties to replace is a history professor at Northwestern. mouth prepared him for his current role, Drew eloquently about Amazon’s efforts to go carbon those that the United Kingdom withdrew from Congrats are also in order to Suma Nair, who noted: “Coach Whalen told me, ‘You can get neutral by 2040, a truly worthy initiative. Marc when it left the European Union. I’m now at the was named to the board of the American Civil there from here,’ when he was recruiting me Lewinstein unexpectedly reconnected with Kris- attorney general’s office, where I advise on a Liberties Union of Massachusetts. She is a di- from southern California to play baseball in tin Dwyer after getting “bashed in the forehead range of matters including defense and security, rector of the private client and trusts group at New Hampshire. Indoor sessions at Leverone, with a flying surfboard.” Marc ended up in the Northern Ireland, and royal and ecclesiastical the law firm Goulston & Storrs in Boston. where outfielders don’t see a fly ball for weeks, emergency room at Newport (Rhode Island) work. I live with my wife, Helen (Trinity Col- Zoë McLaren has been a voice in the national taking batting practice in the spring with snow Hospital. Although not working there that day, lege of Music ’09), and our cat, Valentine, by conversation about how to cope with the Co- flurries coming down, and being underestimated Kristin called ahead to the attending physicians the Thames in Greenwich. We love meeting up vid-19 pandemic. She joined Bill Nye (“the Sci- as an athlete because your league wasn’t per- regarding Marc. He was fine and remarked, “It with Dartmouth friends when they’re in town, ence Guy”) on his podcast last fall to talk about ceived by some to be as competitive are all ex- was quite comforting to have a Dartmouth doc- so if you find yourself in London post-pandemic, how rapid testing can help stop the virus. Could periences that taught me things that directly tor involved!” do drop me a line! these tests make our 20th reunion in Hanover apply to baseball in Britain. I tell our younger Roger Johnson emailed with a caveat that Catherine McCarthy Hutasuhut writes, “We possible next year? We can certainly hope! players that being from the United Kingdom or you might not remember him, as he took ad- moved up to Ellicott City, Maryland, this fall Zoë is a public policy professor at the Univer- playing in bad weather are not reasons to sell vantage of the Dartmouth plan to study in Fin- for Muhammad Hutashut’s work running Un- sity of Maryland Baltimore County and lives themselves short.” land, South Africa, Canada, and Greece. After leashed Technologies. We live near Becky Pre- in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Twitter at Congratulations also to Carmen (Schmitt) Dartmouth he continued his “peripatetic” ways, stel, James Simmermeyer ’00, and Sequoyah @ZoeMcLaren. Lopez for being named to Dartmouth’s first changing careers and cities multiple times. Now ’98 and Genevieve Jacobs Simmermeyer ’97. I Jelena Madir coauthored a new book, Health- presidential commission on financial aid. The Roger has settled in the “hidden gem” Pensaco- am continuing to work remotely for Legal Aid Tech: Law and Regulation, which discusses legal 27-member commission is analyzing data, la, Florida, where he owns a wine bar. The bar of North Carolina.” and regulatory issues associated with the use of meeting with numerous College officials, and celebrates the diversity of wine that Roger has Ann (DeBord) Smith was recently named the technology in healthcare, including data protec- preparing to introduce a multi-year plan to discovered through travel and getting to know director of bariatric surgery at Veterans Affairs tion and the regulation of artificial intelligence, strengthen the Dartmouth community’s com- winemakers near and far. Boston. She writes, “In addition to founding medical devices, intellectual property, and ad- mitment to a robust scholarship program that Giordan Del Rosario is another classmate the bariatric robotic surgery program about a vertising. Jelena is general counsel of Gavi, the supports every student who needs financial aid. who acknowledges staying under the radar at year ago, I’m embarking on community build- Vaccine Alliance, in Geneva, Switzerland. She In September President Hanlon outlined the Dartmouth. Giordan was last in the United ing efforts and an education campaign to raise lives in London. committee’s mandate: to bring greater clarity States in 2001 and graduated Dartmouth in awareness of the success of the operation and —Kate (Ryan) Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. to the true impact of socioeconomic diversity 2002. Afterward he lived in Australia, New to support our patients after surgery. Improv- Louis, MO 63112; dartmouth2000secretary@ on students’ learning experience and upward Zealand, Vietnam, India, and, around 2008, ing the health and wellness of our veterans is a gmail.com mobility, with an emphasis on the urgency and returned to the Philippines. Giordan’s post- passion of mine, and I’m so honored to take the vulnerabilities of this moment in our nation’s Dartmouth experiences are marked by studying helm of this program.” Happy new year, ’01 family. We finally For information on membership history; to capture and share stories of per- biological sciences as well as journeys of self- Karen Mangold Cook writes, “I live in Chicago made it to 2021, meaning that our and all our other offerings, sonal transformation made possible through discovery. Now he teaches high school science, and work as a pediatric emergency medicine 20th reunion is this coming June. visit www.dartmouthclub.com 01 [email protected] scholarship funding that expands access to the virtually, for the Pax Et Lumen International physician. I just got promoted to associate pro- Start making your plans to return to Hanover…or full Dartmouth experience; to create a vibrant Academy from his home in Quezon City, the fessor this fall! My husband, Zachary Cook, is a to change the whole trip in the event that it gets 212.986.3232 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, philanthropic plan of action to achieve the re- Philippines. I am grateful to Giordan for open- political scientist, and we have two kids, Sam (4) delayed due to the pandemic. Most of us should New York, NY 10017 maining $276-million endowed scholarship goal ing up about his general sense of alienation: the and Ben (2), who keep us pretty busy. In my free have experience with that at this point. I will @DartmouthClubNY contained in the Call to Lead campaign; and feeling that he has no true home—not fitting in time I sometimes get to hang out with Jeff Fine. keep my fingers and toes crossed that many of to identify emerging trends that will inform at Dartmouth and then feeling culture shock We did a Zoom baking get-together this sum- us will gather in Hanover in a few short months. Dartmouth’s vision and strategies for attracting upon returning to Asia. But Giordan also shared mer that yielded some delicious carrot cakes.” In the meantime, a few updates to tide you over.
70 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 71 CLASS NOTES 2002-2007 COME BACK, Those working in entertaining and the would be interested in helping with our online return to a little more normalcy, joy, and peace. ferent for all of us. Thank you as always to our arts have found new and increasing audiences. presence—Instagram, our website, an online And to help usher us into a new year, I am happy front line healthcare workers and all of those MAKE A DIFFERENCE Ben Mandelker seems to be thriving with us all newsletter that could serve to feature more in- to report the following. who are providing support. And thank you to TM holed up in our homes as his cohosted podcast depth information on our classmates than I can Kimmy Paluch along with her partner, Sergio classmates who are connecting us with one an- has been reaching new heights of more than 3 cover here, etc. If you are interested (the official Paluch ’02, have founded Beta Boom, a venture other during these times. I appreciate all of you TH million hits per month. He and his cohost were title is newsletter editor), please get in touch. academy unlocking the $4-trillion-plus oppor- who continue to write in and share important also guests on Watch What Happens Live with Some levity first. Our ownJohn Burr ap- tunity of overlooked female and multicultural news in your lives. JOIN THE 40 Andy Cohen in September. Andy Pease wrote peared on Weakest Link, staying stealthy and entrepreneurs. In addition to investing mon- This fall Mike Stroup moved to the Seattle in to exclaim, “I have an album coming out!” under the radar to survive through the final etary capital, Beta Boom also invests in human area to start work with Accenture. He would Andy conducted the Hartwick College Faculty round, taking home the team’s whole bank! Fun capital through its intensive six-month program love to link up with Dartmouth folks to do some ANNUAL PROUTY Wind Octet on the album, Stravinsky: Alone No to watch you on the show, John, and congratula- focused on product, marketing, and fundraising. skiing in the area (both lifts and backcountry). More, in September 2019 and the digital release tions on your winnings. Recently, Kimmy and Sergio launched a new Dean Drizin recently joined the investing should be out now on the digital platform of Rebecca (Meyers) Galemba reports in from program for Black female business owners in team at Green D Ventures. The Dartmouth- your choice. The album includes a piece from Colorado, announcing that she received tenure Utah. alum-focused venture capital fund of Alumni fellow alum Oliver Caplan ’04. Given that the and a promotion in June to associate profes- Sara Glazer and husband Sean Heikkila ’02 Ventures Group invests funds from Dartmouth editing process was almost completely derailed sor of international studies at the Josef Korbel welcomed Cole to the family in November 2019. alums into Dartmouth-led startups. If you’re by the pandemic, Andy’s 2021 resolution is to School at the University of Denver. She ap- Big brother Griffin is skeptical but adjusting to interested in learning more about Green D or take some time off. preciates the stability, especially during these his new role! want to chat about a startup, Dean would love Pavan Nihalani wrote in from Dubai to cel- times. Rebecca lives in the Denver area with her Clare Gupta and husband Drew Myers, Tu’14, to connect with you. ebrate the birth of his daughter, Lila Doshi, who husband, Dan Galemba, and their two daughters. welcomed their third child, Aidan Parker My- Brad Heritage and his wife, Eliza Bennett was born in July. Her older brother, Bodhi, is Congrats on your promotion! ers, into the family last February. Aidan is al- Heritage ’10, welcomed their first child, a daugh- reportedly “skeptical” of the new addition as I also heard from our former secretary, Kel- ready very self-aware, as he had the good sense ter and future class of 2043, Lucy Bennett Heri- of this writing. lee (Harper) Hanigan, with some news of her own. to arrive before the Covid-19 lockdown in San tage, on September 17. Mom and Lucy are both Mary Allen ’83 Finally, it is with a heavy heart that I report Kellee has lots to report on! After five years of Francisco. Clare and family are looking forward doing great. In anticipation of their newest ad- and Tom Tomai ‘79 the passing of Naomi (Kim) McWilliams in Septem- juggling full-time teaching, school, parenting, to the next in-person reunion so that Aidan can dition, the family relocated from the Back Bay of 10 year Prouty participants ber. She is survived by her husband, Scott, and and everything else, she earned her Ph.D. in meet some of the other Dartmouth babies born Boston out to Wellesley, Massachusetts. If any son, Benjamin, 10. We are keeping this part of epidemiology from Indiana University-Bloom- during the pandemic. classmates find themselves living close by or the ’01 family in our thoughts. ington (ironically at the height of a worldwide On a sad note, I am very sorry to say that coming through the area, they’d love to connect. —Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville pandemic) and moved her family (husband Ryan our class lost Ricardo R. Lalonde this past year. Audra (Freemont) Bluehouse and her husband “ I love how the Prouty creates community. Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-6938; and sons Jaxon, 8, and Miles, 6) to Knoxville, He died September 18, 2020, surrounded by his celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary in [email protected] Tennessee, where she is the program director loving family. His family will always remem- October, and their son, Xander, turned 1 at the As we fight cancer together, we help fuel and associate professor of physical therapy at ber him as an ever-warm, calm, patient, and end of August. The family is thrilled to be adding Hello, ’02s! Lincoln Memorial University. She’s happy to kind individual. He is survived by his parents, another little boy to their family in March. Audra ground-breaking research to save lives.” Kate Siber sent me an update, “I be closer to Heather (Hanson) Manning in Ashe- Dr. Daniel Lalonde Jr. and Mercedes Lalonde, and her husband are both currently teaching 02 have two bits of news: I am now of- ville, North Carolina, and hopes to get their younger brothers Josh Lalonde and Dr. Chris- remotely in Las Cruces, New Mexico, but hope Mary Allen ficially a cancer survivor, having made it through sons together when it is safe again. Otherwise, tian Lalonde, his cat, Felix, as well as several to return home to the Navajo Reservation in treatment for stage II breast cancer. I just want she has been keeping in touch with Charlotte other family members. Ganado, Arizona, in the future. Audra also re- Board of Directors, Friends of to mention it in case anyone is going through Coultrap-Bagg, Maura Pritchard, and Justin John- Continue to stay healthy and well this win- cently completed her M.B.A. and was a Woodrow Norris Cotton Cancer Center something similar and is in need of support or son over Zoom, entertaining each other with ter, ’04s, and I will talk to you in the spring! Wilson Fellow. Prouty Executive Committee Member beta. And, on a more fun note, I had a delightful Dartmouth virtual backgrounds and staying —Johanna Thomas, 14 Logan Circle, NW, Wash- As always, you can view Class Notes on- project that I finished up during treatment: a connected virtually. Best of luck settling into ington, DC 20005; [email protected] line at 2006.dartmouth.org/classnotes. On our large-format, nonfiction children’s book called your new area and job! class website you can also pay class dues, learn 50 Adventures in the 50 States that came out Aleron Kong announced the release of his Happy holidays all. I unfortunately more about class efforts, and read about other BIKE, WALK, ROW, GOLF TO FIGHT CANCER! in early October. It’s basically a gorgeously il- ninth fantasy book in late November. The title need to start off this column with ’06s who have been featured in the news. I look A premier Upper Valley event benefiting cancer research and patient supportive lustrated, educational, nature-factoid-packed is God’s Eye: Awakening: A Labyrinth World some sad news. With a heavy heart, I forward to hearing from you for future columns! services at Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center 05 Guillermo “Will” Olivos Cindy Tsai adventure bucket list for kiddos. I hope kids Novel. This is the first book in his new series, write to share that passed — , 343 West Wolf Point Plaza, #1310, (and parents!) love it!” after eight in his previous series, Chaos Seeds. away during the summer. A memorial service Chicago, IL 60654; [email protected] Save The Date: July 10, 2021 | TheProuty.org Kate is right—the book is gorgeous! I or- Congratulations on the new book! was held in October, when family and friends dered it for my kids so at least they can see the News is a little light this go-around, so one gathered both virtually and in person to cel- Shiny happy people holding hands… country that I hope one day we’ll get to travel bit from me. I accepted a seat on the Dartmouth ebrate his life. We will continue to communicate or at least that’s how I envision you around again. Please send me your updates—and College Fund committee and began my four-year ways our classmates may choose to honor Will 07 all by the time this column comes best wishes for a better and brighter 2021! term this September. I look forward to serving in the weeks and months ahead. out. —Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, Dartmouth as we work to ensure the future of There were a few class baby updates to This will be the first published column of New York, NY 10025; [email protected] financial aid for Dartmouth students. close out 2020 as well. Kate Schoener Bellfy and the new year and by then we’re going to have a As always, submit news to the email below husband, Matt, had their second child, Char- vaccine, packed restaurants, full suitcases, jus- Winter tidings, ’03s! and stay safe and healthy. lotte Jane, in July. My wife, Casey ’06, and I tice, order, some semblance of normality and By the time you read this col- —Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW, welcomed our third son, Callum Matthew, in sanity, and lots of hugs from family and friends, 03 umn, we will have been in the Covid Washington, DC 20016; dartmouth2003notes@ September. And Kristin Schaefer and husband right? Right?! pandemic for nearly a year and it will be 2021. I gmail.com Mike welcomed their second, daughter James Well, in the meantime, we at least have hope we will be able to see brighter times ahead. Saylor Maher, in October. some classmates’ updates: Our class executives—Tatiana (Fernandes) Hi, ’04s! Happy new year! While I Happy holidays to all. I look forward to more Alison Riep married the love of her life, MAKE Amlin, Lindsay (Hirschfeld) Guzowski, Katherine am guessing the holidays this year news from all of you in the new year. Charlie Kinzie, during Labor Day Weekend in (Howard) Ward, and me, Megan (Riley) Kenney— were a little different than in recent —Matt Nicholson, 5308 Yorktown Road, Bethesda, Lexington, Massachusetts. It wasn’t quite the 04 CONTACT YOUR met over Zoom this fall to discuss how we can memory, I still hope you were able to spend some MD 20816; [email protected] wedding they’d originally planned, but they felt stay connected with our class without the abil- quality time with family and friends, even if incredibly lucky to be able to celebrate with im- CLASS ity to host mini-reunions. We will be sending that occurred over Zoom, FaceTime, or some Hi, ’06s. mediate family, including their adored fur-child, out a survey with some options and hope you other video platform. As we begin to embark I write this column in October, Luna. They will (they hope) have the big par- SECRETARY will participate as we continue to navigate this on 2021, I will skip over discussing resolutions 06 which typically includes a fall trip ty—which will include some close Dartmouth TODAY. situation. We are also looking for someone who and simply wish for all of us a year that brings a up to Hanover. This year has certainly been dif- friends—next year! NEWS 72 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 73 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION CLASS NOTES 2008-2013 WHERE TO STAY
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Baker is chief nephrology fellow at see how he was doing! He wrote in, “Hi, ’11s! a collection of games by a group of acclaimed THE JACKSON HOUSE INN Complimentary breakfast. A pet-friendly hotel. Mayo Clinic in Florida and recently celebrated Sending in a quick update here: After finishing designers that explores sex, romance, and hu- Located on the edge of one of Vermont’s most 32 Centerra Pkwy, Lebanon NH; MOUNTAIN VIEW B&B the first birthday of his son, Noah James Baker. my Ph.D. (six years—brutal), my wife, Grace, man desire. Good luck, Sharang! beautiful villages, the Inn offers refined lodging (603) 643-4511; In Norwich, Vermont; 4 miles to Hanover. Conor Grogan writes: “I just had my sec- and I recently moved from Boston to Philly for Phil Griselda married Juliet Hollingsworth with luxurious touches, and is the perfect setting www.marriott.com/lebri Cozy, 150 acres, pond, trails, private bathrooms, ond child, Henry. Mom and baby are happy my first academic job as an assistant professor ’14 on September 19, 2020, after meeting back for a romantic getaway, get-together with friends, or Wi-Fi/AC/TV, 4 bedrooms, $125-$300/night/BR. and healthy. We hope he follows in his father’s at the Wharton School at University of Penn- at Dartmouth on the rowing team in 2011. Both intimate wedding or reunion. Set in lush perennial COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT (603) 667-7791, footsteps and spends his freshman year in the sylvania. It’s been a lot of fun researching and are living in Boston, where Phil is a resident in gardens, the Inn offers the service and amenities of HANOVER/LEBANON [email protected]. Choates.” (Not sure I would wish the same, but teaching entrepreneurship. As an example, my orthopedics at Harvard and Juliet is working a boutique hotel, including Frette linens, Anichini Located just minutes from Dartmouth College with to each their own!) colleagues and I recently put out a study show- in manufacturing. bedcoverings, turndown service, free WiFi, and free shuttle service upon request. Free Wi-Fi, fitness THE SUNSET MOTOR INN Joy Campbell writes: “Shahen Huda and I got ing that immigrants in the United States create After 12 years on the East Coast, Sterling gourmet breakfasts. Our floor-to-ceiling fieldstone center, business center, indoor pool, bar, and bistro Serene. Most rooms have river view. Cable, Wi-Fi, married in September at a small, socially dis- more jobs than they take. Using confidential, Beard has finally returned to his home state of fireplace is a delight in winter. serving breakfast and dinner. a/c, free local calls, continental breakfast. AAA. tant ceremony at Purgatory Resort in Durango, population-level data from the federal govern- Texas, where he’ll be pursuing an M.B.A. Give (802) 457-2065, (800) 448-1890, 10 Morgan Drive, Lebanon NH; Two miles south on Main Street (Route 10); Colorado! Other Dartmouth alums present were ment, we find that immigrants are much more him a ring if you’re ever in the Abilene area! jacksonhouse.com. (603) 643-5600; www.marriott.com/lebcy (603) 298-8721. Heather Kluk ’11, Jie Xu, and Jenn Boyle.” likely to start new companies than natives, and Kelly McGlinchey is also making moves. Billy Corbett writes: “Kayla (Snyderman) the resulting job creation from these immigrant- After six years in New York City, she recently Corbett, new big sister Nell (2) and I just wel- founded startups far exceeds the number of jobs relocated to Mystic, Connecticut. Kelly started Andreas Baum and his wife, Ingrid, wel- an old home and exploring what’s next in this Hi, ’09s! I hope this note finds you comed a baby boy, Silas, on October 17. In Sep- that immigrants take in the labor market—ulti- graduate school at the Yale School of the Envi- comed their third daughter, Annika, on July new chapter. doing well as we head into 2021. A tember Kayla finished her residency in family mately creating a positive ripple-effect on the ronment in the fall, while continuing work with 23. Her older sisters, Astrid (4) and Linnea (2), In the home renovation realm, Zach and short and sweet column this month. medicine.” economy. Of course, let me know if you’re ever her food systems consultancy, Table & Tilth. Lindsay Deane-Mayer 09Alex Abate Eliza (Bennett) Heritage Liz Ballantyne are over the moon and love to help take care are wrapping up construc- and his wife will be moving to and Brad Heritage in the Philly area when we’re back to our new married Trevor Horan ’13 in of her. They also moved out of N.Y.C. and into tion on their new home in Cohasset, Massachu- O’ahu, Hawaii, in January; they welcome Big ’06 have had a busy Covid quarantine, moving normal!” an intimate ceremony on August 22, 2020, on the suburbs (Westchester County), where their setts. They’re looking forward to moving in and Green visitors! Rebecca Armistead and Joseph to the suburbs of Boston (Wellesley) during Speaking of entrepreneurship generally, our the rooftop at Little Goat Diner in Chicago, sur- children and dog have lots of room to run around. hosting Dartmouth friends for visits when it’s Armistead welcomed their second child, Albert the summer and welcoming their first child, classmate Sam McIntire, along with his cofounder rounded by close family. They hope to be able Danny Hundert shares that Cameron Houser safe to do so! Victor Armistead, into the family on September Lucy, in September. Lucy joins five fellow future Matt Davis, has opened a food business, Mosaic to celebrate with all of their friends and family and James Austin V moved to Canada. Appar- Khadijah Enoh has started medical school in 3. Jessica Lane and her husband, Max, welcomed members of the Dartmouth women’s lacrosse Foods, that makes plant-centric frozen meals at a reception in July! ently, they are adapting to life in the Great White the midst of a global pandemic. She writes in to daughter Emma Charlotte on September 21. team of the late 2030s/early 2040s seasons, as and delivers to the northeastern United States. Dr. Blythe George has accepted a tenure- North well with a new puppy and James shoot- say: “Pray for me.” Yes, indeed. Jessica wrote, “she’s glad she didn’t miss the Eliza’s teammates Alex (Huestis) Litwin, Molly Hope you are all staying safe and warm dur- track position as an assistant professor of so- ing her first elk! Jason Blydell moved back to San Diego to ’09 11- now 12-year reunion because she hears (Parker) Pirrung, Kate (Fauth) Remeika, and Sarah ing these cold months! As always, please reach ciology at University of California-Merced, ef- And some exciting news to come: Luis-Ale- kick off 2020 and recently welcomed twin girls, there’s a pretty good class of babies to meet!” (Coffin) Young are all proud new parents of little out to me with classmate updates (or if you’d fective this July. In the meantime, Prof. George jandro Dinnella-Borrego shares that he “will be Hazel and Meadow, into his family, joining their Kimia Shahi sends her best wishes to the inspir- girls. Go Big Green! like to write a guest column!). is back in Humboldt as she works on her book getting married to Maria Virginia Deliz (Florida almost 2-year-old big brother, Camden. Jason ing class of ’09 and hopes everyone and their Caitlin (Johnson) Studdard and her family are —Hillary S. Cheng, 26611 La Roda, Mission Viejo, manuscript. International University ’07) in Miami on De- joined the San Diego-based defense tech startup loved ones are keeping safe and well in these currently living the Dartmouth alumni dream CA 92691; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@ Michael Joseph got married in October of cember 27, 2020—the Feast of the Holy Family. Shield AI in November. challenging times. Kimia is currently working and residing in Hanover, just a short walk from dartmouth.edu 2019. He and his wife have begun a road trip We are incredibly happy and excited to start Krystal Elkins got married on July 25 in Ashe- on completing her Ph.D. dissertation in art his- campus! “We relocated here temporarily for around the states: “We’re going through the this new chapter in our lives. Please keep us ville, North Carolina! Her Dartmouth roommate tory at Princeton University, where she stud- Covid and never looked back. Gabriel (2.5) is Hello, all! Very hard to write this from Western states.” January to February, the couple in your thoughts and prayers.” Pics or it didn’t Amy (Cobb) Laurita was able to attend. Congrats, ies art and visual culture of the United States loving his new outdoorsy life and Baby Studd October 2020 and predict what is on will be skiing and camping in the Rockies and happen, Luis! Krystal! with a focus on landscape, science, and the en- No. 2 will be born at DHMC in February!” the radar for our classmates or the welcome meeting up with Dartmouth alums! Watson Sallay Liya Shuster-Bier 12 Ian Engler Last but not least some words of encourage- is still living and working in vironment in the 19th century. This year she’s writes: “I’m celebrating 18 world, but sending best wishes from the class and Gerben Scherpbier ’14 got ment from Rebecca Cunmins: “We didn’t survive south Seattle, albeit now from home. He writes splitting her time between Alabama, where her months of remission after an 18-month battle of 2012 for a happy and healthy 2021. Sharing a engaged in August on the banks of the Connecti- warm Keystone and expired Boone’s Farm to in to say that his 3-year-old son, Edison, is won- partner currently teaches at Auburn University, with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. number of wonderful updates below. cut at the organic farm after a 12-hour, 15-mile succumb to a virus named after a crap beer.” derful and now has learned to say goodbye when- and Washington, D.C., where she is the Wyeth I’ve discovered the power of forest bathing, After getting engaged in early March, Thom- scavenger hunt around Hanover with clues from To 2021! ever Watson goes into the basement (even for predoctoral fellow at the National Gallery of Art food as medicine, and my dearest friends from as Balch promptly entered quarantine lockdown lots of College friends. Ian is in his chief year —Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chi- just a minute), because it’s functionally the same Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Dartmouth as the cure.” You are such an inspi- in Somerville, Massachusetts. But with remote of orthopedic surgery residency at Tufts and cago, IL 60613; (574) 303-6944; dartmouth2007s@ as walking out the door to go to work. Watson She’d welcome the chance to catch up with fel- ration, Liya! work on the horizon, he and his fiancé were able Gerben is getting a master’s in public policy at gmail.com has been riding bikes a lot and is off social me- low ’09s in either location! Jerry Guo writes: “I finished up a Ph.D. in to spend the summer in Maine housesitting. the Harvard Kennedy School. Congrats, both! dia (permanently) and the news (temporarily). —Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., organizational behavior and theory from Carn- Now back in Somerville, he is providing outdoor —Liz Sullivan, 1414 Belmont St. NW, Apt. 205, Dearest classmates, I hope this col- “I’ve also managed to get through seasons Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; egie Mellon University in the spring and have and remote dog therapy with his dog Kuma and Washington, DC 20009; easullivan12@gmail. umn finds you well. one and two of the board game Pandemic Legacy [email protected] moved with my fianceé to Aarhus, Denmark, working on moving to Maine more permanently. com Per my earlier email, please see entirely through Zooming with friends, which to take a faculty position at Aarhus University. Congrats, Thomas! 08 I think is enough to qualify me as an expert in I’m happy to have received many up- I’m an assistant professor in management at Charles Smith and Alexandra Nee got mar- Hello, ’13s, and happy new year! some updates from our fellow ’08s below. The year 2020 was a big one for Elizabeth dealing with Covid-19,” he says. “Seriously, guys, dates this time around. the business school here. If you’re in Jutland, ried in November in a small family ceremony Everyone on the class executive Sherman and Josh Wexler (for more than the obvi- build more research stations so you can move Kari Cholnoky writes: “I’m teach- look me up!” with their mothers as co-officiants! They look committee wishes you a safe and hap- 10 Sarah Klassen 13 ous reasons). They welcomed their son, Remy, around the world easier. How hard is this to ing remotely for SUNY Purchase and will have , Ph.D., uses remote sensing forward to celebrating with more family and py holiday and the warmest wishes for more, in February and, together with big sis Izzy, the figure out?!” a solo show opening at Nicelle Beauchene in (lidar) to discover and study ancient cities friends in the months to come and continuing safe, in-person interactions. With that, let’s get whole family moved from Brooklyn to Kansas Someone get that man on the phone stat. Tribeca in fall 2021.” across the world. Her new TV show, Ancient their career growth, with Alexandra in neurol- to some of our updates this edition! City, Missouri, in June. They’re working virtu- —Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN T.J. Galiardi writes: “Outcast Foods recently China from Above, is now streaming on the Na- ogy residency at New York Presbyterian and Jack Boger wrote in to say that he was on ally in the same jobs for now while renovating 55413; (609) 405-9153; [email protected] closed its Series A funding round of $10 mil- tional Geographic Channel and Disney (Chasing Charles as cofounder and CEO of Full Circle a cross-country road trip from San Francisco
74 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 75 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION HAVE A DAM REUNION! CLASS NOTES 2015-2019 WHERE TO DINE to Atlanta. When he wrote in, he was in Stark- com Pond. In a strange time it is comforting to Shout out to the outstanding Orestis more compassion and understanding for those weather, North Dakota, visiting the Berg fam- revisit the places we love, even if they are not Lykouropoulos, who has been living it around us, especially for those who differ from THE WOODSTOCK INN & RESORT ily farm, where Isaiah ’11 and David ’15 grew quite the same as they were. I feel similar joy up in Seattle. Although originally from ourselves. I hope there is a greater appreciation Farm-fresh cuisine, carefully harvested ingre- Emmaline Berg 17 up. recently started as the new in sharing the stories of many of our fellow ’15s Greece, Orestis has been living on America’s for life, since we’ve been shown how easily it can dients and regional recipes inspire the seasonal athletic director at St. Thomas Aquinas High in this issue. West Coast since Commencement. He works at be disrupted and taken away.” Thank you for menus at the Woodstock Inn & Resort’s distinct School in Dover, New Hampshire, and is excited From Adam Schneider, “I will be completing Amazon as a software engineer on AWS Tran- your poignant reflection, Tiffany—I know many restaurants. The talented culinary team prepares to be back in our alma mater state! She also got my service on active duty in the Navy in October. scribe, which uses AI to recognize speech in ’18s share the same dream as you. Here’s to 2021! creative entrées and innovative cocktails, resulting married in December in a Covid-safe micro- I will eventually be pursuing a joint J.D./M.P.P. many languages and transcribe it into text. At Though 2020 had its fair share of ups and in exceptional Northeastern cuisine that showcases wedding in New London, New Hampshire, to at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Dartmouth Orestis took a language process- downs, we have plenty of exciting class news to the essence of Vermont. Call (844) 545-4178 Ned Emerson Jr. and Georgetown Law Center beginning in the ing course, which combined machine learning share! In early October Sammi LaFontaine and or visit www.woodstockinn.com. After working as a corporate paralegal, en- fall of 2021. Until then I am taking a gap year and linguistics, so this team has been the per- Christian Humann ’17 got engaged in Stam- vironmental advocate, startup founder, career to travel across the West hiking, climbing, ski- fect match for his computer science skillset. ford, Connecticut. Sammi and Christian met SIMON PEARCE RESTAURANT advisor, and baker—making English muffins ing, and visiting the many Dartmouth friends I Although he is a master on the computer, Or- in October of the fall term in 2015, and are so & NEW BAR from scratch at a local bakery—Priscilla Nguyen haven’t seen since joining the Navy!” estis is not a one hit wonder; he is also a mag- excited to embark on the next chapter of their Award-winning, farm-to-table restaurant is taking her many talents to a new adventure: Kelsey Stimson passed the Colorado Bar nificent musician. He is a talented violinist and lives together. Congratulations to you both! overlooking the Ottauquechee River. Sip a hand- screenwriting! When she wrote in October, she exam and celebrated by learning to whitewater even wrote his thesis on contemporary classi- And in more exciting news, Alexa Escalona crafted cocktail, watch our master glassblowers was wrapping up a coming-of-age feature script kayak in Charlemont, Massachusetts. cal composition as part of his major in music. and Thomas Lee Hodsden III were married on and find the perfect gift. Open daily. and starting her next project, a TV drama series. Writes Keta Burke-Williams, “While at Har- Since being in quarantine he’s been doing a lot October 4. Their special day was six years to (802) 295-1470; SimonPearce.com. She would love to connect with other alums vard Business School (where I’m a second-year of reflecting on his priorities and interests, so the day since they first started dating. Alexa and working in entertainment! We can’t wait to see now) I founded a niche fragrance brand with my he’s been spending time hiking, climbing, and Thomas celebrated their wedding with an inti- november | december 2013 alumni magaZ ine your work! sister called Aspen Apothecary! Aspen Apoth- sailing and now is getting more involved with mate ceremony at Simon Pearce that showcased Anna Leah Berstein Simpson completed a year ecary is a Black, Indigenous, and people of color- music and musical composition again. A career all the things they loved about their relationship on the Dorot fellowship in Israel and decided founded niche fragrance apothecary. We create in music could be on the horizon. Best of luck and the time they spent at Dartmouth. Give a MAKE to stay in Israel to pursue an M.A. in creative clean, vegan, CBD-infused perfumes.” with everything, Mr. Jack of All Trades! rouse for Alexa and Thomas—the class of 2018 nonfiction. She will be studying at Bar-Ilan Uni- Justin Sha is running for mayor in Fremont, On the other side of the globe, congrats wishes you both all the best! versity. Joshua Lee has recently moved to San California. He has been endorsed by the teachers to Emmanuel Hui, whose company, Moogene, Thank you to everyone who shared their Diego to clerk for a federal judge for a year. He union and is on a roll. To learn more, visit http:// went public on the Korea Exchange! Emmanuel reflections and life updates. Happy New Year— looks forward to catching up and reconnecting justin4fremont.org. founded Moogene in 2016 as part of his senior let’s make 2021 a great one! with friends and alumni in the area (socially During Labor Day Weekend Frances Buren fellowship with Sam Kim ’15 and Sam’s uncle. —Emily Choate, 172 Commonwealth Avenue, NEWSCONTACT YOUR distanced, of course!). and Dominick Pierre ’14 got engaged, after he Moogene does gene editing and gene therapy, Apartment 3, Boston, MA 02116; (603) 305-5346; CLASS SECRETARY TODAY. Reilly Bertasi graduated from Tuck Busi- surprised her while she was home visiting fam- so it can do things such as genetically reverse [email protected] The GraduaTe ness School in June and has been working for ily! Frances and Dominick live in Washington, hair loss, overcome chemotherapy resistance Buck Henry ’52 the entertainment icon looks back on his college days the Connecticut Governor’s Office in Covid D.C. (she moved from San Francisco in 2017), in colon cancer, and more. Emmanuel said that Hello, ’19s! and early career, before he turned “plastics” response, mostly around K-12 reopening. She and are excited to start planning for a spring launching the company was not as glamorous I hope you’re staying warm and into a household word. will head back to Bain & Co. in December. She 2022 wedding. Go Big Green! as it sounds; it required lots of hard work and are having a good winter! I received a Five Dollars Luke Katler 19 and Chris MacNaughton were married in Octo- is proudly one of the produc- rejection. He did more than 300 pitches before a lot of exciting life updates from ’19s for this edi- 1 front cover 2.indd 2 10/1/13 3:48 PM ber! Special shout out to Camilla Rothenberg for ers of Broadway’s Slave Play, which just made Korean investment bank in Silicon Valley even- tion of Class Notes, so let’s get right into the news! arranging their marriage! In some additional history when it was nominated for 12 Tony tually showed interest. Moogene officially went Congratulations to Isalys Quiñones, a former wedding news, Tyrone DeSpenza wrote in that awards—the most in Tony history! Tune in to public on June 24, 2020. member of Dartmouth’s women’s varsity basket-
september | october 2013 he and Rachel Nelson got married in October the Tony Awards (on a to-be-determined date) After relinquishing some of his responsi- ball team, who signed a professional contract to in New Haven, Connecticut. The two met five to support! bilities in the company, Emmanuel took about play basketball for A1 Dafni Agiou Dimitriou in years ago as first-year medical students at Yale. Bo Patterson is getting married in April and five months off from work and moved to Hong Greece. We’ll be cheering you on, Ice! Huge congratulations to you all! will have an all-Dartmouth wedding party of Kong (where he grew up) to relax. He has since Stephanie Everett’s one-woman show, It’s Finally, our last biannual newsletter fea- Alex Park ’14, Kirby Schoenthaler, Matt Parisi, Matt joined a private equity firm, Sagamore, where Fine, I’m Fine, was one of the first three Ameri- Thistle Hill Road - Pomfret, Vermont tured some of our entrepreneurial talent, and MacDowell, Thomas Olson, and Jay Graham. he serves as a biotech expert overseeing about can theater productions to open post-Covid. Thistle Hill combines a New England vernacular exterior we have one more to share with you this issue. —Samantha Webster, 665 Washington St., Apt. 711, 600 biotech companies. In his free time he likes Stephanie’s show was presented at North- contrasted with stylish, modern and organically inspired Taylor Garner recently launched a consumer Boston, MA 02111; (484) 356-3678; samwweb15@ to sail, amateur dance (he was in Sugarplum at ern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont. interior spaces. The setting and location offer privacy financial-tech venture called Card Curator. It gmail.com Dartmouth), and play video games. Oh yeah… Congrats to Stephanie for such an amazing as well as convenience. Snugly nestled into the North the Storyteller had its soft launch on both the iOS App Store and he is also the voice to a jingle on a local Hong accomplishment! Pomfret hills, just a few miles from both Hanover, NH daniyal m ueenuddin ’86 and Woodstock, VT, and sharing a border with the draws inspiration from his two worlds: p akistan and the Google Play store in early November, and they Happy new year, ’16s! Kong radio station! Taylor Walsh began working as a marketing federally protected Appalachian Trail Corridor, Thistle american m idwest. have their eyes set on a hard launch sometime Wishing you all a great year to Congrats, Emmanuel! Keep up the great specialist at the Snyder Group, a marketing firm Hill enjoys a commanding view across the Pomfret hills around early summer of 2021. To check out more come and, I hope, one with a little less work! based in Norwalk, Connecticut. and over the property’s clean, spring fed pond. The terraced gardens surrounding the house are exquisite; 16 Dorian J. Allen Colleen O’Connor information on the app and venture, check out social distancing! A few exciting updates from — , 33 Tuckernuck Ave., Oak Bluffs, recently moved to Seoul, borders, beds, stone walls and paths mark and define www.cardcurator.com; we wish Taylor and the our classmates: MA 02557; [email protected] South Korea, and began the Schwarzman Schol- the property, creating a private sanctuary for humans team all the best! Renata Hegyi and Lars-Olaf Hoeger ’14 were ars program. She writes, “While the program and wildlife alike. The screen room, steps from the front Five Dollars As always, thank you to everyone who wrote engaged this past summer. They are currently Happy New Year, ’18s! was intended to be in Beijing, an online start has door and suspended over the hillside offers the most 1 s/o cover.indd 2 7/31/13 4:06 PM tranquil location from which to enjoy the landscape. in, and we look forward to hearing from you living in New York City and excited to get mar- Well, 2020 has come to a close. allowed my peers and I to take collective action Find our back issues online at again in a few months! ried in May in the White Mountains with a After living through a year with its to safely co-locate in a Covid-contained country. Pomfret, VT | $ 1,785,000 Aly Perez 18 www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com — , 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, Zoom ceremony and a handful of close family fair share of uncertainty, fear, and strife, many Despite the two-week quarantine in a govern- www.thistlehillroad.com VA 22903; [email protected] and friends physically present. of us are entering 2021 with a great deal of hope ment facility, being in Seoul has been absolutely Rick Higgerson Maggie Finn and Matt Barnes got engaged on for what’s next. In late October Tiffany Dyson wonderful. I’ve even had the chance to meet up [email protected] I had the joy of visiting Hanover a few top of Mount Garfield in the White Mountains reflected on the year we just experienced and all with former Dartmouth mentees and will be OccomGroupRealEstate.com weeks ago to show around a friend in October. that is to come. She wrote, “With a week until seeing my tripee next week. The Dartmouth Williamson-Group.com 24 Elm St. | Woodstock, VT 05091 who is applying to Tuck. While Covid Kelly Leonard and James Verhagen got en- Election Day and the end of the year in sight, my community remains strong in South Korea!” C: 802.291.0436 | O: 802.457.2000 15 Ian Marx prevented us from showing her some of our fa- gaged in October in Big Sur, California. dream for 2021 is simply that America and its has been working on producing vorite indoor locations—Sanborn, Sherman, a Thanks for reading and feel free to reach people can start to heal. There has been collec- dance music in his free time and recently col- basement full of friends and a competitive game out with any news that the new year brings! tive grieving of epic proportions this year, as the laborated with Michelle He on an original record Feyaad Allie of pong—we reveled in sharing the plethora of — , 212 Pine Hill Court, Apt. 103, weaknesses and limitations of our country have titled Come On Over. Check it out now on all Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. outdoor ones—Ledyard, the Gile fire tower, Oc- Stanford, CA 94305; [email protected] been exposed by the pandemic. I hope there is streaming platforms!
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Regan Gore recently started a master’s in teach undergraduates and work in a lab again! orient to campus life. The following is a list of deaths reported to us [email protected]. Roger Clarkson ’75 education with an emphasis on social founda- Says Roesha: “I have been reflecting much on my The event was organized and led by Lind- since the previous issue. Full obituaries, usually tions through the University of Virginia Curry experiences with my own mentors and educators sey Hodel ’19. The students had many questions written by the class secretaries, may appear on HIGH-END MATCHMAKER School of Education and Human Development. at Dartmouth. My time with them is the most about classes, teachers, student groups, and ac- the DAM website at dartmouthalumnimaga- Since the beginning of quarantine, she’s been cherished part of my Dartmouth experience, and tivities, and the new students appreciated having zine.com, where friends and classmates may INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTY! GENTLEMEN! We are NYC-based, high- really enjoying virtually meeting up with ’19s for I am excited to take the lessons they’ve taught me a chance to talk with a recent alum. The club post their own remembrances of the deceased. end matchmakers looking for several of our Dartmouth trivia organized by Tara Burchmore. into this next stage of my career.” would normally have held a send-off party for Please contact alumni records at (603) 646- women clients. These women are smart, Regan says that trivia has been a fun time and Finally, a hearty congratulations to Caroline students, parents, alumni, and their families in 2253 or [email protected] to report an successful, svelte, sweet, Ivy educated and the questions have been getting more and more Allen on her engagement! Caroline met her fiancé, person before students departed for campus, but alumnus death. are relationship oriented and looking for creative (and hard!). Big shoutout to Tara for Woods, in high school, and they dated from a decided that, instead of moving that online, this Leo M. Grace Jr. ’41 • March 27, 2020 love. There is no fee involved, as our clients helping ’19s to stay connected and brighten- distance throughout Dartmouth, even graduating much more personal call with a young alum from Walter L. Lipman ’41 • Oct. 1, 2020 pay us. Please reach out and contact us at: This updated property offers many possibilities: live in the [email protected] or call ing spirits! together (virtually) on the same day. Hawaii would be best. James S. Hardigg ’44 • Sept. 17, 2020 attached apartment and “Air BnB” the main house OR George Atkins shared, “Having transitioned Now imagine curling up next to the Common Caroline M. Wayner ’88, president of the Dart- David W. Clarke ’46 • Sept. 13, 2020 operate as a charming B&B for destination weddings or 1–833-300-LOVE. home during quarantine in March, it was great Ground fireplace and think about your winter at mouth Club of Maryland, reported that the club held Saul W. Nirenberg ’46 • Oct. 12, 2020 skiers at nearby Mount Sunapee OR live in the main house and rent out the In-Law apartment (currently to get back to my Boston apartment in mid- a meaningful Zoom event on October 15 called Robert D. VanReypen ’47 Dartmouth, filled with food, friends, fun—and a • Sept. 25, 2020 $2,500 a month in rental income!) This home has it all! September. We Boston folk, including Ian Marx, healthy dusting of snow. “The Black Experience at Dartmouth: Alumni George A. Soufleris ’49 • Sept. 4, 2020 348 Route 103A, Newbury, NH $699,000. Nico Turk, and Fisher Katlin, have enjoyed trips to Alexandria Chen Panel” with more than 60 attendees from all Calvin Chia Jung Sia ’50 , from Texas, still recalls • Aug. 19, 2020 (603) 526-4116 the Charles River Esplanade, playing catch in watching the first heavy snowfall on campus over the country. Club board members Cornelia David A. Ballentine ’51 • Sept. 9, 2020 P.O. Box 67 the Boston Commons, small get-togethers to freshman year: “I was just amazed at how beau- Bright Gordon ’77, book awards chair, and Harry Parke H. Sickler ’51 • Sept. 6, 2020 224 Main Street watch various professional sports champion- Holt, Tu’91, vice president, organized the event. Robert B. Sirkin ’51 New London tiful it was, especially since I hadn’t seen snow • Sept. 14, 2020 NH 03257 ships, and exploring the city in search of cannoli! in 10 years.” Panelists included Stuart Simms ’72, chief coun- Josiah H. Welch ’51 • Oct. 8, 2020 My fellow ’19 heavyweight rowers and I re- As Sirey Zhang notes, “Winter in Hanover sel of Maryland Legal Aid, an experienced trial Nicholas H. Bradley ’52 • Sept. 13, 2020 cently held a Zoom call, which was great given the blankets the snow-laden landscape in a static lawyer and respected prosecutor with more than Marcel C. Durot ’52 • Oct. 7, 2020 dam dispersive paths we’ve all taken. In attendance serenity and there’s no better way to enjoy it than a decade of experience leading cabinet-level State Robert C. Kelly ’52 • Sept. 4, 2020 FOR RENT from the ’19s class were Ian Marx, Andrew Wright, on skis! I don’t like to pay for skiing, however—I of Maryland agencies; Eileen Cave ’76, an arts in- Thomas R. Loemker ’52 • Sept. 7, 2020 Kevin He, Henry Sanford, and Albert Mitchell. As navigate this by Nordic skiing on the free trails at tegration lead teacher and visual arts specialist Lawrence J. Noling ’52 • Sept. 7, 2020 BEAUTIFUL TOWNHOME in the center of Delray well in attendance was Marc Sevastopoulo. We Parcel 5 in Norwich, Vermont, or Greens Wood- working in Prince George’s County, Maryland; Lawrence F. Barnett ’53 • Oct. 4, 2020 Beach, Florida available for weekly or monthly ONLINE are looking forward to the chance to reconvene lands in Lyme, New Hampshire, or by skinning Tyrone Byrd ’73, a global oil and gas senior execu- John R. Dell Isola ’55 • Sept. 16, 2020 rental. Walk two blocks to Atlantic Avenue to in Hanover to watch the current team race in up the Skiway before opening time on my alpine tive leader who lives in Texas; Allison Grant Wil- John T. Dinan Jr. ’55 • Sept. 26, 2020 enjoy shops and dining. The beach is a short future Gardner Cups (Dartmouth alumni rowing skis.” liams ’77, a global strategic relationship manager Joel D. Ash ’56 • Sept. 10, 2020 15-minute walk. Perfect getaway for a couple www.DartmouthAlumniMagazine.com events), the Head of the Charles Regatta in Bos- It was Amber Liu’s birthday one January day, in Chicago; Johnny Jones ’94, director of quality James P. Breeden ’56 • Sept. 20, 2020 or small family. Full furnished. Please contact ton, or visiting Albert in England for the Henley and while she didn’t plan anything big, her friends assurance at PrepMatters who lives in Baltimore; Richard D. Bugbee ’57 • Sept. 2, 2020 Roberta Di Giorgio (D '93) at digiorgioroberta@ Royal Regatta!” insisted on celebrating. They grabbed her from Alexandra Gordon ’13, an associate at Paul, Weiss, Kenneth A. Burton ’57 • Sept. 23, 2020 outlook.com. I’m so impressed by the things that ’19s have the library and drove to Occom to ice skate—but Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York Carlton G. Hoagland ’57 • Oct. 9, 2020 LUXURY TUSCAN VILLA. Set high in the Chianti been up to and hope that the class can continue to the pond was closed! Luckily, the staff let them City; and Darren McGavin Nelson ’23, an experi- Gary A. Kepler ’57 • Oct. 1, 2020 countryside, this exquisite, recently restored villa stay connected! As always, feel free to share your borrow a tube and a toboggan and they went sled- enced undergraduate research fellow currently Tom Chomentowski ’58 • Sept. 11, 2020 has 8 bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms. Perfect updates through reaching out to me personally, ding. It was cold, but they had the golf course all pursuing an engineering degree at Dartmouth. John S. Diggs ’58 • Sept. 10, 2020 for large families or groups of friends, the through the class Instagram or by sending a note to themselves. Afterward, they got hot chocolate They discussed their experiences as Dartmouth Oliver R. Witte ’58 • April 20, 2020 beautiful vistas, large pool and outdoor MAKE to [email protected]. and puzzled at Still North. The day ended with a students with microaggressions and racism and William L. Beshore ’59 • Sept. 29, 2020 fireplace all make for the vacation of a lifetime. —Morgan Lee, 417 Grand St., Apt. D1705, New York, surprise celebration in her room! gave advice on how Dartmouth students, admin- Howard R. Greene ’59 • Sept. 12, 2020 Private chef available. [email protected]. NY 10002; [email protected] Alex Conway’s favorite winter memory from istrators, and alumni can undertake the work Richard F. Schmidt ’59 • Sept. 6, 2020 D’82. Dartmouth is when she got “trapped inside the needed to address these issues. This was the first Robert E. Dohrenwend ’60 • Sept. 27, 2020 PARIS, ILE SAINT-LOUIS: Elegant, spacious Hi, ’20s. It’s (almost) January and Hop during a winter storm where you couldn’t in a series of anti-racism programming that the J. Spencer Morgan ’60 • Sept. 9, 2020 top floor skylighted apartment, gorgeous February! The start of the year can see to the other side of the street because it was club is offering this year. Paul F. Sitz ’60 • Sept. 20, 2020 view overlooking Seine, 2 bedrooms sleep 4, sometimes go by slowly, but I hope blizzarding so hard.” She was studying for an John Bash ’67, president of the Dartmouth George K. Tolford III ’60 • Sept. 7, 2020 2 baths, elevator, well-appointed, full kitchen, NEWS 20 Club of Sarasota Paul you can all enjoy the leisurely pace of winter. environmental science course at the time and , reports that on October 16 Jerry E. Foote ’61 • Sept. 5, 2020 Wi-Fi. (678) 232-8444 or [email protected]. This time prompted me to think about our win- remembers feeling “awe-inspired at the power of Binder ’63, cofounder of the Big Apple Circus, F. Donald Kelly ’61 • June 24, 2020 PROVENCE. Delightful five-bedroom stone ters at Dartmouth, from endless King Arthur the natural environment of Dartmouth.” While it presented his “Zoom Revival of the Class of ’63 Dennis E. Niewoehner ’62 • Aug. 31, 2020 CONTACT YOUR Café hot cocoa to warm cuts through “Blobby” to lasted for only a half-hour, she says it “was a half 55th Reunion Cabaret.” Ed Mazer ’63 again showed Edward A. Peterson ’62 • Sept. 2, 2020 farmhouse, facing Roman theater. Pool, vineyard. impromptu snowball fights, so I asked a couple -hour of reverence and love…and hot chocolate!” his mastery in setting up Zoom sessions to make Bruce A. Coggeshall ’63 • Sept. 14, 2020 (860) 672-6608, www.frenchfarmhouse.com. CLASS SECRETARY TODAY. of our classmates about their favorite winter As always, if you have any updates, please the event possible. Claude G. Liman ’65 • Sept. 5, 2020 memories. send them to dartmouth20classnotes@gmail. Dan O’Brien ’09, VP of the Dartmouth Club of Thomas M. Morton ’65 • Sept. 5, 2020 HAND-MADE MAPS But first, some updates from our classmates. com. Philadelphia, shared that the club recently hosted Robert P. Gilbert Jr. ’66 • Sept. 17, 2020 Hannah Margolis and Emily Morin wrote a chil- —Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, a member appreciation event titled “A Virtual R.D. Norton ’66 • June 20, 2020 CAPTURE YOUR TRAVELS, honeymoon, dren’s book on viruses, What Is a Virus? The book CA 94010; [email protected] Tour of the Museum of the American Revolu- Lawrence J. Fabian ’67 • Feb. 21, 2020 adventures, or personal geography. Bob Tibolt ADVERTISE IN DAM is free and available at whatisavirusbook.wee- tion.” The event was organized by Tim Koeth ’12 Peter J. Locke ’67 • Feb. 12, 2020 ’76. artmapmaker.com. CLASSIFIEDS bly.com. Hannah wrote the book during the past and included a virtual lecture, “Philadelphia: A Bruce E. Hathaway ’71 • Sept. 8, 2020 spring break and Emily illustrated it during our Revolutionary City,” and a virtual tour of some of Martin E. Doyle ’76 • Sept. 20, 2020 WINERY FOR SALE last spring term! Hannah said she was motivated Clubs & the museum’s more interesting artifacts. Nearly Debra R. Prairie Chief ’78 • Sept. 9, 2020 to write the book because she wanted to create 30 alumni from around the Philadelphia metro Suzanne K. Powers ’85 • Sept. 16, 2020 CENTRAL VIRGINIA. Unique opportunity. CONTACT CHRIS FLAHERTY AT “a resource for families to help them understand Groups area attended via Zoom. Edward A. Halstead ’90 • Sept. 2, 2020 Turnkey boutique. Outstanding reputation, what viruses are and how to keep themselves Please stay safe and send me updates about Suzanne Michels Obenshain ’98 • Sept. 25, 2020 experienced staff, beautiful vineyards/facilities, [email protected] safe.” Aside from the book, Hannah is working as During these challenging times, Dartmouth clubs the great virtual events that your club, associa- Naomi Kim McWilliams ’01 • Sept. 19, 2020 well-maintained equipment. Transition assistance a biochemist at the National Institutes of Health and groups are carrying on and finding creative tion, or affiliated group has organized. Ricardo R. Lalonde ’04 • Sept. 18, 2020 available. Positive cash fow. Solid ROI. Growth in Bethesda, Maryland, and has written science ways to connect alumni. —Stina Brock ’01, P.O. Box 9274, Jackson, WY Guillermo C. Olivos ’05 • unknown opportunities. [email protected]. OR CALL AT (603) 646-1208 columns for her hometown paper. Howard Hodel ’75 reported that the Dartmouth 83002; [email protected] Noah B. Reisman ’16 • Sept. 24, 2020
78 DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 79 CONTINUING ED what i’ve learned since graduation
Odette Harris ’91 A neurosurgeon on being a disruptor DARTMOUTH Interview by LISA FURLONG
“Being an immigrant has entirely defined me.It makes every difference in how you travel through the world. I am forever influenced and marginal- ized by both Jamaican and American cultures because of it.” “My focus on traumatic brain injury (TBI) is deeply rooted in my immigrant history and wanting to give back. Deciding on my specialty was something I struggled with because I wasn’t sure a surgery specialty could help enough people. Focusing on trauma was a way to benefit larger popula- tions. The public health aspect was appealing because of the tremendous need identified by the WHO in the developing world.” “At an academic center your responsibilities are all tiers of the continuum. I see patients in clinic, in the ER, ICU, and OR for surgery—then there’s WOMEN research. We’re expected to be on the bleeding edge.” “I was the only Black kid in my section of 20 students in my secondary school, so that shaped my experience from very early. When I got to Dartmouth no one reached out to me, as they would now, to ask how I was doing, but WHAT WILL BE OUR I felt prepared.” “I didn’t go to Dartmouth expecting to go into neurosurgery, and the com- plexity of it wasn’t something that struck me early on. I had a class junior or senior year that just blew me away. Then I got to work in a lab at the Medical School with Drs. Robert Maue and Leslie Henderson as part of my D-Plan.” “When others are saying it’s not brain surgery…or rocket science? I’m telling myself, ‘It’s not that complicated.’ One of my favorite sayings is, ‘You have to eat an elephant one spoonful at a time.’ ” “In its 2018 power rankings Ebony categorized me as a ‘disruptor,’ which made me laugh because neurosurgeons are such cookie-cutter ‘Goody LEGACY? Two Shoes.’ I believe it stems just from my coming to the United States, but I’m not afraid of disrupting the status quo.” “My children have grown up in a Jamaican household with a Black mother and white father. Ours is a culture that embraces that duality, but it’s important for me that my daughters understand not everyone will embrace it also, that they need to be aware they are Black.” “When my oldest daughter was 4 and we were living in Atlanta, she came home and asked, ‘Mommy, why am I not blonde?’ Despite living in an African American and Jamaican household, blonde was normative at her school. HER STORY It was a wake-up call to me as a new parent that the external influences of the world can be quite powerful.” Notable: The only Black woman in her medical school class, one of two women in her residency program, and “In medical school people came to meet me because I was ‘the only Black the second Black female professor of neurosurgery in woman in the class.’ It was like I was a zoo animal. I’ve tried to share this the United States; immigrated with her parents as a child feeling of extreme visibility with colleagues and just moved on because Career: In addition to her academic and clinical role at it wasn’t relevant to their experience—and we weren’t in a moment of Stanford, director, Defense Veterans, and associate chief HELP SHAPE DARTMOUTH’S FUTURE of staff, rehabilitation and polytrauma, VA Palo Alto history where people could appreciate the significance.” Health Care System; previously chief of service, Grady “I’m known for being very fastidious in my dress. A big part of the reason is Memorial Hospital, Atlanta; fellowships in Jamaica and Learn about the alumnae-led initiative to create an endowed scholarship that I’ve felt I need to represent in a positive way.” New Orleans; trustee, Dartmouth College to honor 50 years of co-education at Dartmouth: dartgo.org/alumnae Education: A.B., biology; M.D., Stanford, 1996; M.P.H., “I see the continuum of my role as an academic strengthened by serving as UC Berkeley, 2001 a trustee. The best advice I’ve received so far is, ‘It’s a 250-year legacy, Personal: Lives with her husband, Edward Sharp, and Together, we’ll take Dartmouth a very long way. don’t be so naïve as to think you can come in and shift anything.’ There their daughters, Alister and Reece, in Los Altos Hills, needs to be respect for the fact I don’t know a lot.” California
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