Dartmouth Class of !"#$ Reunion Book Comittee Walter Tsui, Chair Liz Babb Fanlo Marion Halliday Kendall B. Wilson Printed in Canada Designed by Joyce Weston Letter from the Class President On behalf of the ’!" class o# cers, the executive committee, the DCF team, our reunion book team, and our $%th Reunion team, I am honored to wel- come you back to Hanover whether you are physically back on campus or you are brought back through the memories and stories in the pages ahead. &'!", in the world of technology alone, was a break through year. Plans to construct the “channel tunnel” are announced, the Space Shuttle Chal- lenger explodes following launch, the Soviet Union launches the Mir space station, IBM unveils the ( rst laptop computer (the “PC Convertible”), Brit- ish surgeons perform the world’s ( rst triple transplant (heart, lung, and liver), Internet Mail Access Protocol is de( ned allowing for email trans- fer, the )!" Series microprocessor is introduced by Intel, and the Human Genome Project is launched, or so I am told on the World Wide Web (whatever that is). As I write this, a mere $% years later, President Obama is chastising the Egyptian government for violating human rights by shutting down Internet access due to an uprising organized in large part through social media. * e world has most de( nitely changed. At Dartmouth, the “new dorms” that were being designed while we were in school are now the old dorms, with a number of recently built resi- dential clusters having taken over as the hot places to live. New teaching buildings, social areas, athletic facilities, and major upgrades to * ayer and Tuck are impressive and obvious from even a quick walk around campus. Majors, o+ -campus programs in places, and research projects focused on issues we could never have imagined shape the Dartmouth experience of so many undergrads. Tuition has certainly increased. * e shops and restaurants that now crowd still small Hanover Center present a feel, if not a functionality, that is a long way from cashing checks in a bank that was literally in a trailer or from thinking that variety was choosing the potato skin special at % Olde Nugget Alley. Dartmouth has most de( nitely changed. As you read through the pages that follow, you will certainly notice that we have changed as well. You may even ( nd some signi( cant surprises. Wow, he’s a lot cuter than he was in college. Boy, she never said a word, and now she is in politics. I most remember seeing him in the basement on Saturday nights, and now he is a CEO? I recall she was always surrounded by a large group of friends, and now she lives in an isolated village in Africa working for a relief organization! I hope that most of these changes—these surprises—are good ones… ones that cause us to not just remember why we loved Dartmouth, but also perhaps cause us to see some of the things that felt challenging about Dartmouth back in ’!$–’!" in a new and di+ er- ent light. Dartmouth Class of ’86 3 * is said, I think you will also ( nd some comfort in how much is the same for us. * e pages that follow depict a group of people of varying back- grounds, interests, careers, types of families, adventures taken, and chal- lenges encountered. * ey depict smart and talented people doing creative things that impact their community, their country, and o, en the larger world around us. * ey depict people who enjoy, engage, and shape life. I dare say, they depict the kind of graduates—even if we might have played a little harder and worked a little less hard than the students of Dartmouth today—that President Kim seeks to produce today, “leaders who can tackle the world’s most di# cult problems”. I hope you thoroughly enjoy wandering through the pages ahead. I hope each brings back wonderful memories, reconnects us with old friends, and inspires us to reach out and make some new ones. I hope it also rallies us as a class. Given the joys and very real challenges we face in $-&& and the years ahead, I hope we as a community can take the best of those values and motivations that have remained the same for us and the most exciting capabilities and aspirations that have changed for us and parlay them into a future set of memories, stories and world changing accomplishments aptly recorded and duly celebrated in the yearbook we ( nd ourselves reading in the Summer of ’)". Je+ Weiss ’!" Class President 4 Dartmouth Class of ’86 An Enduring Institution In $--., on the occasion of its '-th anniversary, the leading strategy and technology consulting ( rm Booz Allen Hamilton identi( ed what it consid- ered the world’s “enduring institutions,” a group of &- institutions that have “changed and grown in unswerving pursuit of success and relevance — yet remained true through time to its founding principles.” Dartmouth, along with Oxford University in England, were named in the academic institu- tions category. Traditions, memories, institutions, rituals… yes, all of those endure, and all describe our days attending, and years since graduating from, dear old Dartmouth. We continue to stand as brother stands by sister, lest the old traditions fail, but as graduates of a liberal arts college, we know that room must be given for new themes, new buildings, new habits. Here in no particular order, and certainly not meant to be exhaustive, is a survey of some of the latest and greatest at the Green! Buildings and Grounds: • * e Hanover Inn will be adding &$,--- square feet to it’s footprint in a /&$ million project to get underway in $-&&. • Campion’s has closed. Serry’s Clothiers and Tailors closed in $--. a, er '0 years. Churchs Childrens Clothes, in business for more than %- years, shut its doors in $--%, followed in $--0 by the Hanover Camera Shop, a ( xture for 0- years. * e block once dominated by Campion’s is now home to * e Gap, among other stores. Across the street, Barnes & Noble took over the management of the Dartmouth Bookstore. • * e "'-room hotel at Six South Street in Hanover opened in $-&&. • Sig-Ep’s new renovated house will be open for inhabitants spring $-&& accompanied by some architectural controversy among the students. • * ayer Dining Hall has been renamed the Class of &'%) Commons. • * e historic Main Hall of Baker-Berry Library now houses sofas and comfy chairs, and soon, a new co+ ee bar. Remember when it housed card catalogs? • Debuting in $---, Scully-Fahey Field is now home of Dartmouth Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse, measuring !",.-- square feet, it features specta- tor seating, fencing, a press box and a scoreboard. • Following a /' million contribution from an anonymous donor, the sec- ond 1 oor of Alumni Gym is now called the Zimmerman Fitness Center. • * e Class of &'!. led a group of ( ve architect classmates in designing the new Class of ’!. Crew Cabin at Moosilauke. * e new cabin is right next to the Ravine Lodge itself. • * e College had to convert doubles in the Fahey-McLane residential clus- ter to triples in order to accommodate the increased size of the Class of $-&.. Dartmouth Class of ’86 5 • Zeta Psi has a beautiful new house on Webster, completed in $-&-. • * e Floren Varsity House debuted January $--!. Attached to the renovated East Stands of Memorial Field, the structure features a &-,----square foot strength training center; &)--seat “smart classroom”; meeting rooms and study lounges for all varsity teams; football locker facilities; and the list goes on. • * e Burnham Soccer Field went up in $--' years as did Biondi Park—the new baseball stadium at Red Rolfe Field. • Kiewit was torn down in $--- and all computing functions moved to the new Berry library. • * e “Shower Tower” buildings are gone: Bradley Hall was torn down in $--"-$--0 with its sister building, Gerry Hall, to make room for the Hal- deman Center, Kemeny Hall and Carson Hall buildings. • In &''!, Webster Hall was converted into the Rauner Special Collec- tions Library, which includes Dartmouth archives and a majestic climate controlled glass tower that houses a collection of vintage books, letters and manuscripts. All are available for Dartmouth Alumni to view and explore. Weird but true: • Student volunteers on the Winter Carnival snow sculpture get two physi- cal education class credits for their work. • Google supplemented its car-based street view coverage of Hanover and Lebanon by sending in a tricycle-mounted camera. • To the dismay of many students of the College, use of BlitzMail will end in $-&&, in favor of a Microso, suite of email/online collaboration pro- grams. It is likely that the new e-mail program will still be referred to as Blitz. • In $-&-, the Hop displayed an exhibit of “pong” art featuring several beautifully painted pong tables and paddles from various fraternities, sororities and co-ed societies. Selected Commencement speakers: • &'!": Stephen Warren Bosworth ’"&, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines; • &''%: William Je+ erson Clinton, President of the United States; • &''0: Paavo Lipponen ’"., Prime Minister of Finland; • $--$: Fred McFeely Rogers ’%-, creator and host, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. • In $--$, a student reported a shelf of books on the seventh 1 oor of Baker library disappeared practically before his eyes, soon starting a ra, of ghost stories at the college. • * e ski jump was removed from the Winter Carnival schedule when the sport was dropped by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. 6 Dartmouth Class of ’86 • Citing competition costs and lack of interest, the ski jump was torn down in &''). • * e Hanover Green is wireless. • Green Key Weekend is “Hums”-less. * e singing tradition eventually ended in the late &'!-’s.