2001: A Dartmouth ’76 Odyssey The 25th Reunion Book of The Class of 1976 Baker Tower Via Northwest Buttress (Hanover, N. H.) Class 5.9, A2. Time: 3 hours. First ascent: Ted Scheu and John Olsen, June 13, 1976. The original 1 party took an additional ⁄2 hour placing a 76 marker on the face, since removed. Note it is not necessary to secure the permission of the land- holder before making this climb. A report of con- ditions on the route would be appreciated; contact Dean’s Office, Parkhurst Hall, (603) 646-2243. This is an athletic and picturesque climb that (for nostalgic reasons) should be included in the 50 Classic Climbs of North America. Views from the summit stretch southward toward the bucolic Connecticut River valley and north to Mt. Cube, Moosilauke, and the beckoning Presidential Range. The overall flavor is of moderate exposure on solid rock, with the main limitation being the absence of protection on much of the route. Approach via the Appalachian Trail to the well-worn path south of the Tower, and circle the tower to its NW corner near Kiewit. The first pitch is quite 1 vertical on offset mortised brick, offering ⁄2-inch hand and toeholds to below the second-story over- hang. Protection is available at this point using the painter’s bolt in the eaves. A difficult 5.9 mantle move surmounts the overhang (there is a good hand- hold in the unseen gutter above). From this point, ascend the ridgeline (Class 3, friction) to the next vertical section, climbed in identical fashion to the first. This provides access to the terrace below the Tower itself in easy stages. The west corner of the Tower can be climbed as a difficult and exposed free-climb, but the preferred route has become the internal dihedral which provides straightforward access to the summit block and is especially enjoy- able when the Tower is illuminated at night. Egress via a glorious two-pitch rappel down the sheer face and exit via the north gully (slippery when wet). John Olsen Editor: Sara Hoagland Hunter ’76 ©2001 Reunion Book production by David L. Prentice ’69 Malin’s Point, 41 Tapp Road PO Box 8 Sheenboro, Quebec J0X 2Z0 Canada E-mail «[email protected]» Produced on Macintosh computers Printed in Canada on recycled paper Contents Welcome From the Reunion Committee 2 Foreword by Sara Hoagland Hunter, Editor 3 Acknowledgements and Apologies 5 A 25-Year Odyssey by David Shribman 6 Dartmouth College Convocation 1972 8 Freshman Class Meeting, September 1972 11 Our Favorite Profs 12 Promises Kept by Jennifer Kemeny 16 The Still North Remembers Them 17 Oh, The Places You’ll Go 18 Class Profiles 19 New Views by Sara Hoagland Hunter 20 Features 345 A Mother-Daughter Reflection by Judy Burrows Csatari ’76 and Emily Csatari Poulin ’99 346 Freshman Letters Home from Julia Miller Shepherd 348 Trivia Contest! And the Winner Is ... 350 Unmasking the Stork by Michael Shnayerson 351 Music Of Our College Years 354 Geographical Directory of the Class of 1976 356 Career Directory 373 Lest the Old Traditions Fail: ’76 Sons and Daughters at Dartmouth 381 The Alma Mater, Old and New 382 25TH REUNION 1 RECALL RELIVE RENEW REFLECT Welcome From the Reunion Committee Dear Classmates: After almost two years of planning, meetings, and mailings, our 25th Reunion is here. You are holding a tangible reminder of those past 25 years, the words and images of your fellow classmates. Special thanks to Sara Hoagland Hunter for her countless hours in bringing this book to fruition. From the beginning, the reunion committee looked back at the uniqueness of the class of ’76. In designing our reunion logo and themes, we were drawn back to the Winter Carnival Statue from 1976—the Statue of Liberty—symbol- izing the Spirit of ’76, now surrounded by a sail which symbolizes our Odyssey begun in Hanover in the fall of 1972. From those first days until today, each of us has continued on our personal Odyssey. Whether you are with us this weekend or reading this from home, give yourself some time to read these memories and “recall, relive, renew, and reflect” on those four years on the Hanover Plain and all that ensued from them. Welcome to 2001: A Dartmouth ’76 Odyssey in person and on paper. Best wishes to the entire class of ’76. Judy Burrows Csatari Julia Miller Shepherd Recall Relive Renew Reflect 25th Reunion: June 14-17, 2001 Co-chairs: 25th Reunion Giving Committee Judy Burrows Csatari Sandra Helve, Head Delegate Julia Miller Shepherd James Knight, Co-Chair Nick Aponte, Treasurer Tony Magro, Co-Chair David Spalding, Co-Chair Scott Simons, Event Designer John Bauer, Jim Beattie, Martha Johnson Beattie, Attendance and Registration: Cathy Joyce Brennan, Jack Brennan, Robert Fern Bennettt Phillips, Chairperson Buckholz, Paul Cane, Chris Daniell, Brewer Doran, Betsy Jewett Coombs Michael Feasel, John Gleason, Nancy Kepes Jeton, Ann Paulsen Raezer Peter Jeton, Alan Jones, Naomi Baline Kleinman, Julia Miner, Publicity and Logo Gary Love, Parker MacDonell, Scott McCallister, Martha Johnson Beattie, Events Tom McConnell, Allen Morgan, Bob Mortimer, Cheryl Newman, John Olsen, Jeff Plunkett, Bill Dick Prentice, Sports Saubert, George Sauter, Gary Shaffer, David Neil Van Dyke, Beverages Shribman, Joe Sillay, Steffi Valar, Fred Wall, Stewart Watson Lynne Brooks, Souvenirs Betsy Rumely Visser, Memorial Service Mark Friedman, Website Steve Bell, Newsletter Class Officers: Michael Feasel, President Melanie Fisher Matte, Treasurer Dick Monkman, Secretary Sandy Helve, Giving Brewer Doran, Mini-reunions 2001: A DARTMOUTH ’76 ODYSSEY 2 CLASS OF 1976 Foreword If you’re reading these words, you’ve already checked classmates, but it took this project, 25 years later, your picture to make sure you look O.K. (You do. to introduce me to some of them. Through her There are very few ugly people in our class and writing, I met Mary Nolan, whose commitment to you’re not one of them.) You’ve already reread your community has made her a force in Oregon’s state essay and cringed in a couple of places. (No need. legislature. (Warning: don’t read her page if you’re It’s terrific! I ought to know. I edited it.) You’ve also feeling even slightly inadequate; it’s almost as bad as checked out the pages of a few close friends and reading the rave reviews of Louise Erdrich’s newest wondered who the heck the hundreds of other peo- book and remembering that she is the mother of ple are. I wondered the same thing but I’m grateful six with her own book store.) I’ve had the chance to get to know some great peo- A quality I have always admired in our class—which ple I missed at Dartmouth through their essays. may not seem obvious while visions of food fights, For instance, why didn’t I ever have a conversation Hums, and canoe sledding burn in your brain—is with Cesar Munoz, the son of a Mexican immigrant, its understatedness. We arrived on campus, the who came from southern California and fell so in chosen 980 out of 6,000 aspirants: the primo aca- love with New Hampshire’s mountains, he made a demic and athletic specimens from 716 secondary goal of making it from one end of the Presidentials schools. We were valedictorians (O.K., I wasn’t, but to the other before we graduated? Actually, that you were), team captains, straight A students, and explains why I never saw him. Why didn’t I laugh high scorers from 48 states, D.C., the Virgin Islands, with Dick Monkman, whose essay on winning the and 14 foreign countries. The good news I discov- Nobel prize cracks me up. Worse, you’d think I ered during Freshman Week was that the valedic- would at least have known all of the scant 177 female torians camouflaged their “power booking” with Baker Library and the hills of Vermont David L. Prentice ’69 25TH REUNION 3 RECALL RELIVE RENEW REFLECT detours to Frat Row and the athletes flaunted Jell-O We are a class of hyphenate overachievers—Jamey slurping techniques more than their muscles. Hampton, lumberman-choreographer, David Urion, Nothing has changed. We may have added Sumatra, bee keeper-neurologist, Kathy DeGioa-Eastwood, China, and Australia to our list of residences and a mom-astronomer—but we’re uncomfortable talk- Pulitzer prize, a Rhodes scholarship, a World Series ing about ourselves. (Think how many times David ring, and a National Book Award to our roster of Prentice and I had to bug you for your essays!) Our achievements, but we’re still as un-self-promoting as football star, Reggie Williams, does not even mention ever. Don’t you get the feeling Jack Brennan is almost his playing in the Super Bowl in his essay but instead embarrassed about being one of the most successful writes movingly about what his friendship with our CEOs in America? He’d much rather talk about one of deceased classmate, Lenny Nichols, meant to him. his kids’ teams he coaches. Our class valedictorian, Jeff Indeed, friendship is the common theme at the core of Rieker, writes about trying to convince his future wife our essays and our Dartmouth experience. These are he wasn’t “a boring medical school weenie.” Tom Rueg- deep friendships, vastly disproportional in intensity ger may have won 14 Emmy awards for his scripts to the short amount of time we spent together but he’ll be the first to tell you his comedy writing around a country green. These are friends who have is completely ridiculous.