September 2013 82 News and Views Join our Facebook group, Dartmouth College Class of 1982 Fall 2013 Mini-Reunions of ‘83 and ‘84. Meet at the tent in front of Blunt Alumni Center! RSVP to Jenny Chandler Hauge The first of several fall Mini- at [email protected]. Reunions was held Sept. 9 in Hanover as proud Class of ‘82 Boston, Oct. 16, Visit with parents of 22 arriving first-year President Hanlon. students (a/k/a ‘shmen) gathered Our class will gather to greet at the College. As this issue President Phil Hanlon when he went to press, the irrepressible meets with alumni in Boston Class of ’82 was gathering for at the State Room, 60 State two more mini-reunions. Street, 33rd Floor. The official program is from 6-8 p.m. Mini-Reunions 1 On Sept. 18, a luncheon was RSVP and (learn more) by planned at Roija restaurant in contacting Matt Hoffman at Trustee Emily Bakemeier ‘82 Canoeing to Campus 1 Denver, hosted by Martha Solis [email protected]. Turner and Philippa Guthrie. This year marked the BIG one for Trustee Emily Bakemeier 1 And on Sept. 20-21, classmates and other alums from across John Ledyard In Reverse Emily Bakemeier when, on her birthday, it was announced that In Focus: Sue Libenson 2 the heartland were set to meet in Indianapolis for the Dartmouth- John Ledyard hollowed out she had been named Dartmouth’s a canoe and fled Dartmouth latest trustee. Exciting news Artist-Blogger ‘82 3 Butler football game . and lunch before the game . and tailgating College in May 1773, paddling for her, the College, and our after lunch . and Friday night down the Connecticut River class. Emily is Deputy Provost Classmate Updates 3 at a brew pub. Because if you’re to explore the wide world. In for the Arts and Humanities at going to drive several hours to September 2013, Cedar Mead Yale University, with primary Virtual Reunion 4-5 see old friends, you might as well Farwell ’17 did the opposite, responsibility for the humanities make the most of it! canoeing up the Connecticut departments and programs in the LSA: Sidney 6 from his home town of Hartland, Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Upcoming Mini-Reunions Vermont, to start his first year at well as for the professional schools of art, architecture, drama, music, Bereavement Notices 7 Hanover, Oct. 12, the College. Cedar is the son and divinity. Homecoming Game. of Jay Mead ’82, an artist and Pre-Game Tailgate Party, 11:30 teacher (www.jaymead.net), a.m. – 1 p.m., with the Classes and Edie Farwell ’83. The While toiling away at that trip got interesting for Cedar Connecticut school, Emily has and Edie when a water release been an active Dartmouth alumna. from Wilder Dam increased the In 1992-93 she was the first current tenfold. At one point, a woman and youngest president of farmer on the riverbank asked the Dartmouth Alumni Council. why they were paddling against She also served as chair of the the current. Edie explained that Committee on Trustees from she was taking her son to the 1995 to 2002. More recently, she College, to which the farmer served on the Presidential Search replied, “That’s good, go to Committee that selected President Dartmouth College; they’ll teach Hanlon. She has been awarded you to paddle downstream next the Class of 1982 Service Award time.” and received the Dartmouth Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award in 1995. Emily and her husband, Alain Moureaux ’81, live in Guilford, Conn. Emily joins classmates Gail Koziara Boudreaux, Vice Chair Hanover Mini-Reunion for ‘82s and Legacies: Zachary & Herb James G. Coulter, and Sherri Hardwick, Dave & Regan Plekenpol, Barry & Brendan Caldwell, Carroll Oberg on the Board of Dana Burroughs Klinges (shown without her son David), Imani Jay Mead, Cedar Mead Trustees. John J. Donahoe Graham & Nicole Stent, & Den Mother Tee Lotson. Farwell, & Edie Farwell. served from 2003-2012. Page 2 In Focus: Sue Libenson Goes Into the Wild . to Preserve and Protect Some Dartmouth alumni don’t Sue, small-town life has meant 1989. As the Executive Director She was regularly quoted in just roam the girdled Earth; serving on town boards and of the Alaska Center for the The New York Times, The they devote their careers to volunteering at the local public Environment from 1988-92, Sue Wall Street Journal, and other protecting it. Sue D. Libenson radio station and recycling led the principal conservation major newspapers, on CNN has been an environmental center. She spends much of group in the region affected and ESPN, and in a variety of activist and consultant in Alaska her spare time backcountry by the Valdez spill. Under her magazines ranging from Rolling since 1983. If you haven’t seen skiing, sea kayaking, hiking, leadership, the Center founded Stone to Field & Stream. Next, Sue at any of our June reunions, and paddling rivers in Alaska and managed several cleanup Sue focused on protecting it’s because summers in Alaska and the Yukon. and volunteer response efforts. Canada’s forests as media are so short and spectacular Looking back, Sue says: “While director of the International that she can’t tear herself away. On a statewide scale, “Alaska is we did get some improved Boreal Conservation Campaign. We caught up with Sue during also a fun place to get involved practices in place following the the last throes of the Alaskan in politics. The population is spill, it’s discouraging how little Earlier in her career, Sue wrote summer, which included “frantic socializing” at beach barbecues, berry picking, fishing trips, and a “goofy overnight running relay race.” Sue lives on the coast about 80 miles northwest of Juneau in Haines, which she describes as “a small, relatively isolated town of 2,500 people. It kind of reminds me of school in that if you want to get involved in any activity, or create one, you can just step right in.” A native of suburban Pittsburgh, Sue was drawn to Dartmouth in part because of the outdoors, especially the Skiway. She majored in biology, with a concentration in environmental studies. As an undergraduate, Sue was awarded grants to do botanical field work in the Amazon with a researcher from the Missouri Botanical Garden, which sparked her interest in conservation. At Dartmouth, Sue also enjoyed camping and Sue Libenson back-country skiing in Alaska. served on the Ski Patrol. She moved to Alaska in 1983 for still relatively small, but you’re real progress or effort has been and presented an award- an internship with the National dealing with globally important made in improving the ability to winning report to the Congress Audubon Society. Like many resources. It’s easy to know contain or clean up an oil spill.” on the oil industry’s record transplants to Alaska, she says, politicians and political players of compliance with state and “I liked it and stayed.” personally.” Sue spent three Apart from her executive and federal regulations and its years as a Special Assistant to managerial roles, Sue has spent impact on the Arctic. As a result, For someone as energetic as the Commissioner of the state much of her career as an analyst “The North Slope oil industry Sue, small-town life is anything Department of Environmental and advocate for environmental changed several polluting but quiet. She says, “It’s Conservation, and has organizations. For about a practices following the report incredibly busy living in a small also worked for a variety of decade, from 2001-2011, she and subsequent legal action” by town. You end up helping on conservation groups, Native was the media director for two several environmental groups. so many community events Alaskans, fishermen, and leading environmental groups. that you would expect someone sportsmen’s groups. First, she worked for the It’s sometimes a challenge to else to do in an urban setting. Alaska Coalition, a nationwide be an environmental advocate You also get caught up in the One of Sue’s career highlights consortium of more than 800 in a deeply red state where the Alaskan opportunities of fishing so far came at a low point in conservation, sporting, and oil and gas industry is a major and other outdoor activities Alaska’s environmental history: religious groups working to economic and political force. that take a lot of time.” For the Exxon Valdez oil spill in protect Alaska’s public lands. Sue is philosophical about the Page 3 challenges facing her beloved adopted state, as well as the Audrey Freudberg has found her vagaries of media coverage. Act II as an artist and blogger. Her She recounts working for years drawings are featured at www. on forest protection issues peacesofmeaudrey.blogspot.com. before the “Bridge to Nowhere” Audrey reports: “I started drawing in story – about a proposed bridge 1993 as part of recovery from past to a mostly uninhabited island – trauma I’d been through. I liked “took on a life of its own.” The drawing so much, I just kept going national media treated that story and now I have a blog of my work. I mainly as one about a potential began the blog for me, but I hope by waste of government funds – sharing these experiences I will give and about then-Governor Sarah others a moment of connection that Palin’s position on the proposal. touches them where they most need But for Alaskans, it is also an it.” Audrey has been out of touch environmental story. As Sue with Dartmouth friends for a while explains, “Many Alaskans still but would welcome any interest and are pushing to build that bridge.