The Newsletter of the Great Class of 1963 The Information Superhighway Class Officers: President: Vice President(s)/ Secretary: Alumni Council: Newsletter Editor: Co- Head Agent Larry Bailey Mini-Reunion Harry R. Ziokower Bob Bysshe Dave Schaefer Steve Guthrie 308 Hemlock Ln. Chairmen: 190 Amity Road. 1401 Winters Creek Rd. 73 Upland Rd. 8 Tiger Lily Lane Lopez Island, Sam Cabot Brooklyn, NY 11201 Palm City, FL 34990 Concord, MA 01742 Scarborough, ME 04074 WA 98261 103 Hart St. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 360-468-3217 Beverly Farms, MA Treasurer: 207-883-4835 (H) [email protected] 01915 William L. Russell III Webmaster: Head Agent: 207-771-0818 (W) 5 Hofer Court Terry Russell Bob Bysshe Dan Muchinksy Metuchen, NJ 08840 PO Box 1254 1401 Winters Creek Rd. Co- Head Agent 373 Stage Rd. Quechee, VT 05059 Palm City, FL 34990 Charles T. Parton Plainfield, NH [email protected] 154 Alderbrook Road 03781 Little Silver, NJ 07739-1815 ISSUE: January March May July SEPTEMBER November 2017 1963 HOME PAGE: www.dartmouth.org/classes/63 EDITOR: [email protected] HANOVER HOMECOMING MINI SET FOR OCT. 6 – 8, THE YALE GAME. ow lucky can you be when you join your classmates for our Hanover Mini? It’s a great opportunity to practice your handshake that you’ll need for our 55th H Reunion, June 11-14. Fri. night’s festivities start with a Class dinner at the Canoe Club on Main St., followed by the traditional Homecoming parade and bonfire. Sat.’s activities begin with the Exec. Comm. meeting at 8:30 AM in the Treasure Room, Baker Library (All welcome. Refreshments served.), Yale game at 1:30 and then cocktails and a victory dinner at Dan and Mary’s lovely home. Sign- up on page 7. See you there! “DONE TENDING TO HIS *rock shows and a host of other GARDEN” “After 50 years, popular events, from the arena event scheduler Steve Beanpot hockey tournament to Nazro retires” By Kiana Cole Disney On Ice. 6/23/17 The Boston Globe. Now, the man who has “For 50 years, Steve Nazro juggled the arena’s schedule has pieced together an intricate since Bill Russell graced the puzzle at the TD Garden — parquet is setting down his scheduling a slate of home datebook. games for the Bruins and On Thursday, hundreds of Nazro’s family and colleagues Celtics while finding room for gathered at TD Garden to Dartmouth Class of 1963 Page 2 celebrate Nazro’s retirement Not long after his mother’s fan. from his longtime position as inquiries, Nazro sprang into “Now I like them,” he said. the arena’s vice president of action. On Dec. 26, 1966, he But of all the events Nazro event scheduling. was hired as a group sales helped bring to the arena, one “He has been such a director at the Garden. means the most to him: The champion of getting national “From then on, I’ve just Beanpot. An annual hockey events and bringing them to volunteered for everything,” tournament that features Boston Boston,” said Amy Latimer, Nazro said. “And I was volun- College, Boston University, president of the TD Garden. told to do everything.” Harvard University, and “He has made an impact on so Nazro has booked countless Northeastern University, the many people.” big-name performers, but one of Beanpot has been played at the Latimer noted that Nazro’s his personal favorites eluded Garden since 1953. tenure spanned more than 8,000 him. Nazro first attended the events, 1,000 concerts, and “Eminem,” he told the event as a student at Dartmouth, eight Boston Celtics champion- audience, much to their and was captivated that so many ships. surprise. “He’s a poet — he’s a people came to watch college “I didn’t make the basket,” poet of the late 20th century, hockey. When he ended up Nazro quipped as the crowd and a lot of what he says working at the Garden, the cheered. resonates with me.” Beanpot was one of his first “But you did make them But Nazro has plenty of major responsibilities. available,” Latimer said. stories from the bands he did “I took it upon myself to Nazro said a saying from book, like the time in 1972 make sure that everything was former Boston Garden president when The Rolling Stones got done as best I could,” he said. Larry Moulter has always stuck arrested in Rhode Island, hours He became great friends with him: The Garden is a before they were supposed to with the hockey coaches, semipublic trust, operated by a perform at the Garden. relationships that provided private company but intended Desperate to get the band to some of his fondest memories for the public’s enjoyment. Boston for the show, Eddie from his career. “Everybody who comes here … Powers, then-president of the So, it was fitting that, as comes to be entertained, to have Boston Garden and Mayor Nazro recalled some of his a respite in their day,” Nazro Kevin White called the favorite times with the said. “They come here with governor of Rhode Island. tournament, Latimer unveiled kids, and they come here with Steve Nazro helped organize the new name of the their dates.” Mick Jagger and The Rolling tournament’s MVP award. And, as long-time colleague Stones’ visit to the Boston “The Steve Nazro Award,” Al Valenti put it, “Steve has Garden for a concert in 1972. Latimer said, her voice been the custodian of public “The conversation must have wavering with emotion. trust.” been fabulous,” Nazro said, Nazro’s jaw dropped. His As he looked back over his because shortly after they hung hands covered his mouth in career, Nazro, 75, recalled his up, the Stones were escorted to shock, and his eyes began to mother asking him about his the Massachusetts border. They water. plans for the future. After went on to play their show, “I’m truly honored,” he said graduating from Dartmouth even though they didn’t start as he was handed one of the College and serving two years until midnight. new awards. “That’s a very, in the US Army, it was time to Before he saw them that night, very nice thing to do.” find a profession. Nazro wasn’t much of a Stones September 2017 Dartmouth Class of 1963 Page 3 When he looks back through of the interns in the Dartmouth important part of our highly pictures of his years with the Partners in Community Service challenged society - and that Garden, Nazro can determine San Francisco Social Impact motivates me to help anyway I the era by a couple of telltale Internship Program. can.” signs — his hair and his tie. But PS. “On June 24, Bob Dresser friends and colleagues said the convened a mini reunion of me, true mark of his life is his Jim Bell (and his brother character. Dexter), Arnold Low and by “When you possess honesty phone from somewhere in the and integrity in business, the Middle East, Gary Crippin. rest is easy,” said Valenti, who We were at the Fat Lady first met Nazro when he sold restaurant in Oakland. pizza at the venue in 1967 and When Gary manages to slip later worked with him as a by the travel ban and returns to boxing promoter. “He extends the Bay Area around the end of more than just a contract, he July, we plan to meet again.” extends a handshake and a friendship.” MOVING ON. As the celebration drew to a “It’s been a long time, since close, Nazro shared some words I checked in,” says BRUCE of advice, which he boiled DERRY on his green card. “As down to a simple philosophy. I write, I’m packing to return to ‘I try to be honest with Sarasota, FL after living in my anybody who asks me a log cabin in the woods in Little question. I think I have to treat Switzerland, NC. people the way I would like to Have 2 brothers and a son be treated — part of that is that lives in Florida and lots of honest, part of that is Bob reports, “It was taken friends from the twenty years gentle.’ the night of our seminar that I lived there previously To a point, anyway. (6/22/17). I am mentoring Justin from 1985 – 2005. “I get mad like everybody Lao (right next to me in the Retired in 2005, sort of. else,” he said. “But I almost light sweater). I provided Managed a real estate never let anyone else know.” an evening seminar for the development, sold modular Also in The Boston Globe whole group on the history, role homes. Short stint as 6/26 Metro section, Naz made and function of NGO independent contractor for the ☛ “Quote of the Day”: organizations as well as Verizon and three great years “Everybody who comes pithy insights and sage working PT for a day care here…comes to be entertained. observations from my center for autistic adults. They come with kids, and they own checkered past. Celebrated 20 years of being come here with their dates.” Most of all they are a bright clean and sober on 6/18. (Congrats, Naz, from the Class) and highly motivated group Hoping to make our 55th.” who are spending a summer 4609 Morningside, Unit 29, taking a good hard look at the Sarasota, FL 34235 808-984- DPCS NGO NGO sector with the hope that 7771 [email protected] BOB PHILLIPS’s email of some of them will chose a 6/27 included a photo (below) career in this critically September 2017 Dartmouth Class of 1963 Page 4 HOW LUCKY CAN YOU GET? wife.