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INFLUENTIAL ALUMNIA list for the ages, as selected by afaculty panel in celebration of the

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86DISTANT REPLAY

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101“KEEP THE DAMNED

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all-male board of trustees brought forth the most significant reshaping of

the College in its history.BY NANCY WEISS MALKIEL

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HISTORIA

39 |READINGS AND NOTES FROM THE EARLY YEARS

42 |CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL 1769-1816

49 |THE GREAT NATIONAL CALAMITY When all the post-war hurrahs died in sorrow

50 |ROOTS Myth, memory, and the ancient nobility of pines

53 |BUSTED Long before Dean Wormer’s “double secret probation,” there was the one and only President Samuel Colcord Bartlett, class of 1836.

55 |PRESIDENTIAL RANGE Memorable words from several esteemed members of the Wheelock Succession

118 |CLASS NOTES IN THE PAINT: The 1902 basketball squad (above) and other athletes fade to color in a gallery of images that starts on page 86.

250TH COMMEMORATIVE

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8 |FIRST LOOKWhat’s past is prologue: Four rarely seen images of the College transport viewers across the decades.

27 |DEAR DARTMOUTHWhat do George Washington, J. Edgar Hoover and Ray Kroc have in common? All wrote letters to the College. A deep dive into the archives

34 |DATA POINTSTRENGTH IN NUMBERS?How many undergraduates have matricu-lated at Dartmouth in its 250 years?

58 |GRAPHIC STORYDOWNRIVER AND BEYONDAn illustrated look at the amazing life and times of John Ledyard, Dartmouth’s class of 1776 poster boy for adventure

97 |INFOGRAPHICCAN YOU SAY SESTERCENTENNIAL?A random miscellany of ephemera, factoids, and marginalia from two and a half centu-ries of the College on the Hill. A four-page foldout section

172 |UNDYINGUncommon knowledge about the original big man on campus, founder Eleazar Wheelock

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MALICIOUS SNARLINGSJan. 25, 1772

Rev. and Dear Sir,…Dartmouth College has many bitter enemies, who stick not at the most horrid falsities to injure us; but perseverance will overcome their mali-cious snarlings. Truth will prevail. Their newspaper publications are infamous, and deserve no answer. Indeed, they are so flimsy and apparently spiteful that they are despised. After this year I think all your difficulties are done….I beg leave to assure you that no man whatever can be more happy in the establishment of the College or in promoting your personal happi-ness than, dear sir, Your very affectionate friend,

J. Wentworth Portsmouth, NH

NOTE: The author was the royal governor.

A WORK IN PROGRESSApril the 7th, 1776

Most Honored and Revrind Sir, I tack a graid deil of Plaishire writing to the Doctor at this time. I am well at Presait, thanks be to god for it. I hoap these Fue lines will find the Doctor in good health. I staid at Cam-bridge till after Boston was takin, and then our Regt was ordert into town, and I dident Lick to stay thear….we Expect to imbark to Night For Newyork, and from thence to Phelledelfe, and then to Verginey, and from thence to Carreliney, and then to Fort Pit. thrue the goodness of god, our Ennemies Fleeth when no man Porshueth….I had Privet inteligints from a worthe gentleman that King Gorge has geen up Quback and Novecoshe to the frinch, and I Ernistly wish it may be For our good….Pray, Revrind Sir, Remember me in your humbil Prayers. I, most Revrind Sir, with all Respect and Submition, your Verrey humbil Servint,

Joseph VerrieulNOTE: Verrieul came from Quebec to Hanover in 1771, when he caught the attention of Eleazar Wheelock. The president later wrote that he was “determined to carry [Verrieul] through a collegiate course at his own expense” due to his “lively, ingenious” personality. Instead, Verrieul joined the colonial army and, after this letter, was heard from no more.

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NOT IN MY BACKYARDSpring, 1777

Docr Wheelock: Sir, I should take it as a grait Favour if you would put up your small pigs, for they Daly Do me Damage; and as you are knowing to it, I shall take it unkind if you don’t take care of them.

From your humble Servt., GEORGE EAGER

GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS 14th of June, 1778

Reverend Sir, Your [proposition of secession] to the General Assembly of the State of Vermont appears to me Reasonable….[I] Shall use my Influence that this Assembly Take the College under their Patron-age, and Invest yourself with Civil Authority in the manner you Desire….

Permit me, reverend sir, to assure you that in all things I will exert myself to strengthen your hands; and I pray that the Blessing of God may accompany your Labour, to the Great Happiness and building up of this State and the Eternal Well-being of many Souls in the world to come.

I am, Reverend Sir, with Due Deference,Your most Obedient & Most Huml Servant,

ETHAN ALLENBennington, Vermont

NOTE: Allen schemed to create the state of Vermont to thwart New York’s acquisitive territorial interests. For a time, Wheelock threw in with Allen, thanking him for his “friendly and Charitable Patronage.”

AMERICAN FABIUS22d day of August, 1789

Gentlemen, In assigning so important an agency to the endeavors of an individual, as mentioned in your [invitation to visit Dartmouth], you render a tribute to my services which a sense of propriety forbids me to assume. For the flattering terms in which you are pleased to express your sentiments of those services, and for the kind wishes which you [proffer] in my

behalf, I thank you with grateful sincerity.To the animated spirit of freedom that pervaded

our country, and to the firm temper of our citizens, which braved all dangers in defence of their privileges (under the protecting care of Divine Providence), are we indebted for the blessings of political indepen-dence. To the enlightened policy which has directed our publick councils we owe the reform and establish-ment of our Federal Constitution. Under its auspi-cious influence, aided by the industry of those citizens who compose the great family of our Union, we may hope for the substantial enjoyment of individual hap-piness and national honor. From your superintending care, Gentlemen, as the guardians of a seminary and an important source of science, we are to derive great assistance in accomplishing these desiderata.

That your labors may be crowned with success and render you happy in its consequences, is my sin-cere prayer.

GEORGE WASHINGTONNOTE: The nation’s first president had been elected in March. He had planned to visit the “interior country” of the Granite State in November 1789 but could not make the trip after visiting Portsmouth, New Hamp-shire. The College’s second president, John Wheelock, Eleazar’s eldest son, had prepared a speech for the oc-casion. It concluded with these words: “Guarded and directed by the auspices of our divine parent, you have justly merited these sublime and endearing epithets: the savior of your country and the founder of a new empire.”

A SIMPLE “NO” WOULD SUFFICERevd Nathan Lord D.D. President of Dartmouth College8 Nov., 1838

Dear Sir, The obliging terms in which your Letter of the 15th ult. urges my acceptance of the invita-tion tendered me by the two Literary Societies of the undergraduates of Dartmouth College to address them on their next Anniversary, demand my grateful acknowledgements.

They increase also my regret at finding myself compelled to meet so flattering a request with any other answer than immediate and cheerful compliance.

Among the learned Seminaries of education in the land, Dartmouth College stands in the line of the highest rank. To be deprived of the opportunity of adding a word of encouragement and exhortation to the pursuit of liberal studies, and generous morals, to which her youthful pupils are daily stimulated by the precept and example of their immediate instructors, is a disappointment to me which I hope will plead my excuse to them.

I am, with great respect, Dear Sir, your very obedt Serv

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“MORAL WELFARE”May 2, 1887

To the President and Faculty of Dartmouth College:Gentlemen, I am now keeping a strictly Temperance Hotel, and, provided the prohibition which prevents College students from boarding at my Hotel shall be removed, I hereby promise that no intoxicating drinks of any kind shall be sold or furnished to any one, directly or indirectly, on or about the premises, and that the Hotel shall be kept free from whatever is objectionable and incom-patible with the moral welfare of the community.

G.F. KIBLINGNOTE: Kibling received the following un-signed reply: “In view of the above pledge the President and Faculty withdraw the prohibition.”

FORECAST: SHOWERSNov. 25, 1891

My dear [President Bartlett]: A few gen-tlemen, Alumni of the college, had some talk or conversation here yesterday as to [how] the gymnasium is now practically of little use, especially in winter for want of heat, and that there are no accommo-dations for bathing in the building; That it is not properly protected against the use or abuse by the town boys, and on the whole the building is not now accomplishing the purpose for which it was erected, to the extent at least that it ought to.

Statements were made to the effect that Dart-mouth is falling so far behind other colleges in this matter of athletics, that young men go to other col-leges for that reason. It is of course true that it is not the chief object, or the first purpose of the college to turn out physical athletes, at the same time it is said to be true that as a matter of fact opportunities for athletics now play quite a part in the decision of the question with young men, where they shall go to college. It was not so in your or my day, but if it is the fact, it is the part of wisdom to acknowledge it and act accordingly…[to] (try at least to) raise $30,000….It is the desire of the Alumni Association to go to work at once if their proposition is favorably considered.

Very Truly Yours, J.B. RICHARDSON

Boston

PRODIGAL SONNov. 22, 1897

To the President and Faculty of Dartmouth College: Gentlemen: Fully realizing the seriousness of the of-

fence which has brought me into the unfortunate position which I now occupy; and deeply regretting the fact that I have been influenced against any bet-ter judgment to compromise my honor as a student of Dartmouth College, by committing a dishonest act while under examination, I do petition you, The President and Faculty of Dartmouth College to allow me to resume, at once, my former place in college and to place myself under the recent act of the student body—the adoption of the Honor System. Should your honorable and just body see fit to grant this, my prayer for reinstatement, I promise to the system an earnest, faithful and conscientious support and to the College a never failing loyalty in the observance of all its laws, rules and regulations.

Very respectfully,WALTER T. SUMNER

PROSPEROUS SONFebr. 12th, 1902

My dear [William Jewett] Tucker: Your letter of De-cember 20th followed me to Egypt where we spent the most of December on the Nile, returning to Italy in January and coming gradually via Naples, Rome and Florence to Monte-Carlo….

I have received the photographs you sent me and am glad to see the handsome and substantial building, “College Hall.”

The physical improvements in [Hanover] are go-ing on evidently hand in hand with the increase in influence and usefulness of the College. It is a pleasure to see the old institution marching forward in line with all that is modern and liberal, after its period of lethargy that lasted for fifty years or more. I hope your Board of Trustees will be strengthened as opportunity offers, by the election of men of position and ability, and of action, who will do their share to help on the good work of which you bear the brunt….

I am glad to see that it will be the aim of the [Tuck] School to bring the student in touch with practical business men. There is much that can be taught young men regarding the essential conditions of success, zeal, promptness, indefatigability, exactitude, seeking always to be more useful, the consciousness that in business to forget a thing is a crime, etc., etc., which, up to this time, successful men have had to learn by experience, unless they knew them by instinct.

I believe these qualities can be cultivated in many, when they might otherwise lie dormant….

Yours Ever,EDWARD TUCK

Monte-Carlo, Hotel de ParisNOTE: Philanthropist Tuck, class of 1862 and Tucker’s former roommate, donated $300,000 in 1899 to endow the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, since renamed the Tuck School of Business.

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PIN ACTIONMarch 10, 1904

Dear Sir: Have you personally, or in your mind has the College, any objection to a Bowling Alley in Hanover? Bowling is now a recognized sport in New England, in Hanover it would, as an athletic sport, fill in the gap in the dull Winter between the outdoor sports.

An alley would give employment to three or four college men. Any questions will be cheerfully answered. Respectfully yours, FRANK E. CUDWORTH ’01

Portsmouth Bowling AlleysPortsmouth, N.H.

GREAT LEAP FORWARD27 March, 1909

Mr. E.M. Hopkins,Dear Sir: We are shipping you today another No. 12 Hammond on which we believe you will find the spe-cial spacing, together with the No. 26 type shuttle, a perfect match for your multigraph work. The ribbon sent on the machine may be a trifle too light to satisfy you. If so, drop us a card by return mail, and we will at once send you on spools a more heavily inked ribbon that may blur a little, but perhaps will not be very noticeable in simply filling in so few words as you usually fill in, we believe.

Should be glad to hear how you like the machine…. Very truly yours, THE HAMMOND TYPEWRITER CO.

DATA QUESTJanuary 22, 1914

Dear Sir: As the chairman of the Board of Advisers to foreign students, I am gathering some informa-tion about the distribution of the foreign students in American universities and their choice of work….How many countries are represented by your foreign student body? Which countries?....

—Are there any foreign students enrolled in the Graduate School?....

—Do you have a special committee in charge of these students?

—Do you have a Cosmopolitan Club? Chinese Club? Latin-American Club? Etc.

—Have the foreign students any difficulty in find-ing agreeable and suitable rooms?

—Do you have special classes in English for foreign students?

Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation, I am very sincerely yours,

J.A.C. HILDNERUniversity of Michigan,

Ann Arbor, Michigan

NOTE: The following reply was sent.Dear Sir, In reply to your questionnaire of Jan. 22nd I submit the following information. Seven countries—Canada, Dominican Republic, Armenia, Japan, Egypt, Greece, Hawaii. Each country sends 1 student except Canada which sends 2.

—No foreign Graduate Students—No special committee—No clubs—The foreign students have no difficulty in find-

ing rooms—No special classes in English are held for the

foreignersPlease send us the result of your investigation.

Secretary to the President

G-MANNovember 17, 1941

Dear Dr. Hopkins: I wish to acknowledge receipt of your communication of November 10, 1941, and to thank you for your courtesy in communicating with me.

In order that additional information may be ob-tained concerning the activities to which you have referred, arrangements have been made with Mr. V.W. Peterson, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, 10 Post Office Square Building, Room 1016, Boston, Massachusetts, for you to be interviewed by an Agent from our Boston Office. In this manner we will be able to obtain a full and complete picture of the activities to which you refer.

Sincerely yours, J. ED. HOOVER

Washington, D.C.NOTE: The FBI director was responding to the fol-lowing letter from President Ernest Martin Hopkins.

Dear Mr. Hoover: Some number of us who are not, I think, given to hysteria and who are likely in general to look on charges of fifth columnist activities with agnostic eye are curious about some of the activities

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going on here in the upper Connecticut Valley and to the north of us in some of the White Mountain resorts.

There isn’t, I think, the slightest question about where the sympathies of some of the people are who are coming into the region or who have established organizations within it, but whether these sympathies go further than mental attitudes, we do not know.

At any rate, I have some data that I should be glad to turn over to responsible parties if you would advise me to whom to go. Might I ask for your counsel in this matter?

Yours very truly, ERNEST HOPKINS

EXPEL!April 25, 1969

Gentlemen: In these most trying times, when true courage is needed, let us not forget that “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”

Dartmouth College[’s] undergraduate body, se-lected with great care, contains, unfortunately, some subversive elements, probably inspired and supported by those who would destroy not only the College, but our Nation and our intellectual freedom. Basically, I believe that it is the Communists, including the in-ternational organization as well as those who follow the party line, who would destroy America….

Let me urge you to expel from the College all who would destroy it, regardless of the position of the individual, whether that of undergraduate, graduate student, or in any other manner connected with the College….

Be courageous! At the risk of losing a majority of the student population, expel those who, through violent means, would destroy the College and the intellectual freedom which the College has always believed in and provided the forum for.

Sincerely, GEORGE V. PARKHURST

Class of 1930, former member, Alumni Council

PATERNALLY GRATEFULMay 8, 1969

Dear Sir: I regret to state that my son [name redacted], a sophomore, was involved in the recent demonstra-tion or sit-in. This situation is painfully embarrassing and reflects a paternal failure to engender a stimula-tion towards positive dissent with an appreciation for law and order.

Your reaction was most dynamic and positive and met completely the demands of the confrontation. I am certainly proud that my son has the benefit of your type of leadership.

Naturally I would prefer to avoid any publicity. This note is of a personal nature to express my admira-tion and compliments for a job well done.

[name redacted]

BARE TRUTHMay 3, 1974

Dear Mr. President: Although I have never thought of Baker Library as being a House of Humor, exactly, I find I have another anecdote to pass along to you, ema-nating from these precincts, which has struck me as hilariously funny and may, indeed, amuse you, as well.

With regard to the recent incident in which, as you know, three “streakers” made a nocturnal dash through the Reserve Corridor of Baker, one of my administrative colleagues went down, the next morn-ing, to check with the staff member—a woman aged sixty-plus—who had been in charge of the Reserve Desk the night before. The supervisor, after making a few general inquiries about the matter, said: “I un-derstand from the news accounts that the ‘streakers’ were wearing ski masks.”

“Oh,” replied the Reserve Desk lady, with evident surprise; “I didn’t notice the ski masks!”

Yours ever, EDWARD CONNERY LATHEM

Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the College

EGGHEAD MCMUFFINJuly 26, 1977

John [Kemeny]….You have restored my faith in higher learning. I don’t like eggheads—you are one of us and a regular guy. God bless.

RAY KROCMcDonald’s

Letters to Dartmouth presidents are sealed at Rauner Library for 25 years following the end of an adminis-tration. President James O. Freedman’s records will be unsealed in 2023.

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How We Got This Number

There was no one-stop shopping or simple calcula-tion to arrive at what we referred to as the “magic number” during our months-long quest to find out how many undergraduate alumni the College has produced in all its years. We started with the usual suspects: alumni records, the registrar’s

office, the office of institu-tional research’s Fact Book, the College archivist. Lots of suggestions, but nobody had a solid number. It was going to be a slog to get data from Dartmouth’s first 150 years, even though the classes back then were tiny. Then we turned to the old college histories gathering dust on DAM’s office bookshelves. In one precious 1940 volume, Dartmouth College and

Associated Schools General Catalogue, we found all kinds of numbers—and names of every alumnus from the first class of 1771 through the class of 1939. The book lists a total of 26,781 undergradu-ate alumni (including 8,290 who did not graduate) for those years. (It also includes every alum’s birthday, address, job title, and, when relevant, date of death.) Next, we went back to alumni

records and got a nifty spreadsheet that tallied all classes since 1940: 73,942. We had our magic number* —which had just rolled into six figures.

* Undergraduates who ma-triculated and whose classes have graduated. Does not include honorary degree recipients or adopted alums.

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pleased with a solitude so favorable to their studies.”

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I t was a great event for the wil-derness. Riding up from Ports-mouth on horseback came Governor Wentworth with a company of sixty gentlemen,

making camp two nights on the way. Four students took their degrees as bachelors of arts: Levi Frisbie, Sylvanus Ripley, Samuel Gray, and John Wheelock, all of whom had emigrated from their Yale classes to graduate at Dartmouth. The exercises, which took place on August 28, were as follows:1. A Salutatory Oration in English, by Ripley, upon the Virtues, succeeded by an Anthem.2. A Clyosophic Oration in Latin, by Frisbie.3. A Syllogistic Disputation, wherein Gray held the question, An vera cognitio Dei Luce Naturae acquiri potest [Can a True Knowledge of God Be Obtained by the Light of Reason]? Opposed by Fris-bie, Wheelock, and Ripley; and4. A Valedictory Oration in Latin, by Wheelock, “followed by an anthem composed and set to music by the young gentlemen, candidates for a degree.”

This appeal to the Muses must have been a moving performance. Whee-lock says that Ripley’s oration “pro-duced tears from a great number of the learned,” and this, too, before the punch was ladled from the silver bowl. Frisbie recited an original poem. Semi-official history says that the various orations, dis-putations, and the poem were delivered al fresco, a crude stage of logs and hewn boards, to which access was given by a broad, inclined hemlock plank, furnish-ing the rostrum for the four who were forever to hold their conspicuous place in

Dartmouth annals….There is no gloomy cloud of scepticism over the statement that Governor Wentworth paid for the ox that was barbecued on the green, nor that a barrel of rum was broached, to the great satisfaction of the settlers for miles around.

But to the president, this first Com-mencement was not an unalloyed joy. Madame Wheelock was too ill to receive any guests, and the presidential cook, with the almost inevitable instinct of that profession, seized upon the occa-sion to get drunk. But Eleazar Whee-lock was ever of undaunted soul, and he invited the dashing governor and his merry suite to dinner, some of which he perhaps prepared with his own hands. Under the circumstances it could hardly have been a luxurious feast, yet some of the Portsmouth visitors were of mean and little souls enough to sneer at the bareness of their entertainment after they had returned home.

Wheelock’s answer…in its simplic-ity, its dignity, and its touch of pathos, must have made those snobbish critics ashamed of themselves. “We were in-deed,” he said, “in very trying circum-stances; but we got along as well as we could, depending on the candor and clemency of our friends. As to the table-linen, which I hear is complained of, that must come, I suspect, wholly upon me, through my poverty….As to the College, it owns but one [tablecloth], that was lately given by a generous lady in Con-necticut, and of her own manufacture. But we are getting along, and things are growing better.”

From The Story of Dartmouth (1914)

Assisted Wheelock for several years after graduating. Ordained as a

minister in May 1772.Served as pastor of First Church in

Ipswich, Massachusetts, for remainder of his life.

Wait a MinuteX

The class of 1771 had to wait for its diplomas.

But each graduate received 300 acres in

the Granite State.

Because the first board couldn’t get its act together, the original Dartmouth graduates

received only a “recommendatory testimonial” or “Certificate of Degree” instead of an A.B. The board didn’t deliver diplomas until two years later. Mean-while, the town of Dummer, New Hampshire, gave each graduate 300 acres. In 1795 three of the lot owners, behind on property taxes, sold their rights.

9thRANK OF THE COLLEGE AMONG THE NATION’S OLDEST

(OUR CHARTER IS DATED DECEMBER 13, 1769)

270-300HEIGHT, IN FEET, OF GIANT PINES THAT WERE FELLED

TO CREATE THE CAMPUS

35ACRES CLEARED OF TREES BY 1771

200ACRES CLEARED BY 1774

92 HANOVER POPULATION IN 1767

342HANOVER POPULATION IN 1773

$15,000COST TO BUILD DARTMOUTH HALL IN 1791

16STUDENTS ADMITTED THE FIRST YEAR: 5 SENIORS,

2 JUNIORS, 5 SOPHOMORES, 4 FRESHMEN

75%GRADUATION RATE OF THOSE 16 STUDENTS

188BOOKS IN ELEAZAR WHEELOCK’S LIBRARY WHEN HE

DIED, A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER FOR THE TIME

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The earliest Commencement, held in 1771, featured bigtime barbecue, speeches in Latin, and lousy linen.

BY W.D. QUINT, CLASS OF 1887

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THE CLASS OF 1771

Studied law and became assistant commissary general during the

Revolutionary War before serving in Connecticut courts for more than four

decades. Honored as a guest at 1827 Commencement.

Led a religious mission among Native tribes in Canada.

Married Wheelock’s daughter, Abigail, and served as a trustee and professor of

divinity. Died at 37 after being thrown from a sleigh driven by a student.

Lt. colonel in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and later

a professor at the College. At 25 he succeeded his dad as Dartmouth’s

president. Survived a shipwreck but not the trustees, who ousted him in 1815.

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HAIR RAISERA report from Com-mencement held on September 19, 1787, in Dartmouth Hall: “A number of spectators climbed up the sides of the official platform, and it suddenly collapsed, and dignitaries and spectators were scat-tered promiscuously on the floor. Some of the reverend gentlemen, we are told, ‘had to look for themselves in one place, and for their wigs in an-other.’ ”

FOOD FRIGHTAfter hearing from early students about the Col-lege’s vile victuals, N.H. Gov. Wentworth wrote Wheelock that students were “unhealthy and debilitated, their con-stitutions impaired, and their friends and parents highly disgusted.”

HOME EQUITYStudents dismantled Wheelock’s decaying log hut in the early 1780s despite the protests of some professors.

SLOW STARTOnly six trustees attended the first board meeting on October 11, 1770. One

trustee short of a quorum, the 12-member board had to reassemble 11 days later.

SQUIRMY SITUATIONA bizarre plague of worms in July 1770 led to food shortages during Whee-lock’s first winter (1770-71). The worms, up to four inches long, reportedly covered houses “within and without…but left no wheat or corn behind them.” The inexplicable invaders were brown with black and yellow stripes. The only remedy that worked: digging trench-es where accumulated worms could be crushed.

SUNKEN TREASUREWhen a ship sank off Cape Cod in 1784, a fund of £5,000 (nearly $1 million today) headed to College coffers went down with it. As a result, the College held a lottery to fund Dartmouth Hall.

LORD OF THE FLIES“Samuel Taggart, 1774, was absentminded and eccentrick, caught flies in prayers at the college cha-pel, and being reproved for inattention, vindicated himself by repeating all that had been said in the devotion.”

LONG LINE OF PROFESSORSOne family served the College for 135 years: Ebenezer Adams, class of 1791, taught mathematics at the College from 1810 until 1833, when he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Ira Young, whose son Charles taught astronomy. Charles’ daughter married John C. Proctor, a profes-sor of Greek from 1870 to 1879, and their son, Charles Proctor, class of 1900, became an assistant professor of mathemat-ics and later physics. He retired in 1945.

SERIOUS TITLESLately received at Hanover Bookstore, October 1799: St. Pierre’s Studies of Nature, Winterbotham’s History of China, Robison’s Proof of a Conspiracy of the Illuminati…, and Elliot’s Medical Pocket Book.

JOHN WHEELOCK’S RULES, PART I“That no scholar send for or procure any spiritous liquors without a permit from the President or a Tutor for which he shall apply in person unless es-pecially detained at which time he may send for one by a Freshman by whom he shall assign the reason for not coming himself….”

WHEELOCK’S RULES, PART II“That no student be ab-sent from his study af-ter nine o’clock at night without liberty or such occasion as President or Tutors shall think suf-

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ficient on penalty of one shilling lawful money.” (Fines often served as punishments.)

WHEELOCK’S RULES, PART III“It is earnestly recom-mended and injoyned upon the students that they observe neatness and cleanliness in their rooms and in their dress and avoid every practice in, upon or about the College that may be disagreeable and offensive.”

SCHEMES WITH STRIPESA stuffed zebra housed in the College Museum was a regular target of campus pranks in the 1790s. “Un-like a properly regulated museum piece, it was in the habit of appearing in incongruous places, such as the roof of the chapel or the belfry of [Dartmouth Hall], thus requiring labo-rious transportation back to its normal abode.”

PROBABLY DIDN’T TASTE LIKE CHICKENAs a student, Daniel Webster once visited his father’s friends near Hanover. “The only thing they had to eat was a bundle of green grass and a little hog’s lard; and they actually subsisted on this grass fried in the hog’s fat,” it was reported. But Webster didn’t mind: “It was not so bad. They fried up a great platter of it and I made my supper and breakfast off it.”

HORSE THIEF?Notice in the local pa-per in December 1799: “Strayed or Stolen. From a pasture in Hanover…a dark gray Mare, four years old, about 13 or 14 hands high—trots all. Whoever has taken up said mare, and will give informa-tion where she may be obtained, shall be hand-somely rewarded.”

—THADDEUS OSGOOD STUDENT,

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

DUBIOUS NEWSThe Dartmouth boldly claims to be “America’s oldest college newspa-per,” but at least seven other college newspapers make similar claims. The D traces its lineage to the 1799 Dartmouth Gazette—a paper that had no ties to the College.

MOURNING BANDSAfter George Washington died in 1799, Dartmouth’s president and executive officers donned black crepe on their arms for two months to mourn his passing.

HIGHER STANDARDPresident Francis Brown served this notice to men seeking admission in 1816: “They must be versed in common Arithmetick as far as the Square Root.”

EARLY PRESSFor a short time, Dart-mouth Hall was home to one of the first known printing presses in the colonies. The press was housed there in 1779 by publishers Alden Spooner and Judah-Padock Spooner of the weekly Dresden Mercury and The Universal Intelligencer.

GOD HELP USEleazar Wheelock pro-claimed that the site for his College was “not determined by any private interest or party on earth, but the Redeemer’s.”

Conch ShellDartmouth founder Eleazar Wheelock used

it as a horn. When students heard its call they came running, as glorified in a 19th-

century College song by E.E. Parker, class of 1869, and Addison Andrews, class of 1878: “It

called the students from their play, to work, to prayers, with potent spell; Ill fared he

who dared disobey the summons of the Old Conch Shell.” Freshmen were tasked with blowing the conch horn. Some were better

than others.

College SealThe first order of business for College trustees at their August 1773 meeting was to vote on a

Dartmouth seal. Its designer is unknown, although speculation abounds

that founder Eleazar Wheelock drew it up. “The result is a piece of late-colonial kitsch,”

according to an article about the seal’s history that appeared in the Dartmouth College Library Bulletin in 1997. In 1957

an error on the seal was corrected: It mistakenly stated the College’s founding

year as 1770.

Copper HornIn the latter half of the 19th century

students didn’t suffer in silence when professors doled out less-than-glowing

grades. As many as 200 masked students would vent their ire by assembling outside

a prof’s home at night to blow copper horns and toss rocks at windows. President

William Jewett Tucker demanded an end to the practice in 1896, when he expelled 10 students for “horning” and forced students to sign an agreement to end what he called

“clumsy, ungentlemanly” behavior.

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Mr. Smith agrees to settle as Pro-fessor of English, Latin, Greek,

Hebrew, Chaldee, etc., in Dartmouth College, to teach which, and as many of these and other such languages as he shall understand, as the Trustees shall judge necessary and practicable for one man, and also to read lectures on them, as often as the president, tutors, etc., with

himself shall judge profitable for the Seminary. He also agrees to serve as tutor to a class of students in the College.

Dr. Wheelock agrees to give him (the said Mr. Smith) one hundred pounds annually as a salary to be paid one half in money and the other half in money or in such necessary articles for a family as wheat, Indian corn, rye, beef, pork, mutton, butter, cheese, hay, pasturing, etc., as long as he shall continue profes-sor as aforesaid, and that he shall have these articles delivered to him at the same price for which they were usually sold before the commencement of the present war in America. Doctor Wheelock also agrees that Mr. Smith’s salary shall not be diminished when his business as professor shall be so great that it will render it impracticable for him to serve as a tutor to a class in College.

WHEELOCK, IMPEACHED

XThe original trustee

war solidified a legendary lawyer’s career.

You’re Hired!X

Excerpts from the 1777 salary agreement

for Mr. John Smith, Dartmouth’s

first professor

Smith’s contract stipulated that he receive an acre of land.

Daniel Webster

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President Eleazar Wheelock appointed his son, John Wheelock, to succeed him upon his death in 1779. John

was 25 and seemed insufficiently quali-fied. Hesitant to approve his posting, the trustees eventually relented, due in part to Wheelock’s willingness to serve with-out salary. Eager to cultivate respect and support, the younger Wheelock proved too fervent in his efforts to govern the school, alienating students and the trustees.

By 1809, opposition to Wheelock’s presidency took hold of the board and slowly converted a majority of the profes-sors to its point of view. After impeaching Wheelock in 1815, the trustees elected Reverend Francis Brown as his successor.

Wheelock, having no desire to yield, convinced New Hampshire’s Democrats to join him in his struggle against the trustees, whom he accused of various of-fenses against the College. In 1816, these Democrats, by means of the state legis-lature, changed the name of Dartmouth

College to “Dartmouth University” (call-ing the College a “University” has been a grave offense ever since), increased the number of trustees from 12 to 21, and created a board of overseers with veto power over trustee decisions. Dart-mouth was effectively transformed from a private college to a state university. The resulting controversy would outlive Wheelock himself, who died in 1817.

Daniel Webster, class of 1801 and of growing repute, had been courted by both sides of the dispute to serve as legal coun-

sel. Older members of the college com-munity recalled Webster’s Dartmouth arrival in 1797. Webster was dressed in homespun clothing, dyed by his mother, whose colors had bled upon contact with rain. Such was the humble beginning of a future senator and secretary of state.

Webster lodged his support behind the College’s original trustees. He sug-gested they file suit against William H. Woodward, former treasurer of Dart-mouth, demanding return of the charter, seal, records, and account books seized

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1811—The qualifications for admission into the Freshman class are, a good moral character, a good acquaintance with Virgil, Cicero’s Select

Orations, the Greek Testament, knowledge to translate English into Latin, and an acquaintance

with the fundamental rules of Arithmetic. The mem-bers of the classes, in rotation, declaim before the officers

in the chapel every Wednesday, at two o’clock, p.m.The Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes, successively pronounce such

orations and other compositions, written by themselves, as the president and professors shall direct, on the last Wednesday of November, the second Wednesday of March, and the third Wednesday of May. Tragedies, plays, and all irreligious expressions and sentiments are sacredly prohibited.

The Languages, the Arts, and Sciences are studied in the following order: The Freshman Class study the Latin and Greek classics, Arithmetic,

English Grammar and Rhetoric. The Sophomore Class study the Latin and Greek classics, Logic, Ge-

ography, Arithmetic, Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, Conic Sections, Surveying, Belles-lettres and Criticism.

The Junior Class study the Latin and Greek classics, Geometry, Natural and Moral Philosophy, and Astronomy.

The Senior Class read Metaphysics, Theology, and…Political Law.All classes are publicly examined at stated periods; those who are found

deficient lose their standing in the class. It is a fixed rule that the idle and vicious shall not receive the honors of college.

The punishments inflicted on offenders are admonition, suspension and expulsion. The president attends morning and evening prayers with the students in the chapel, and often delivers lectures to them on ecclesiastical history, on the doctrines of the Christian religion, or other important sub-jects. He hears the recitations of the Senior class; his fund of general science renders this an interesting part of collegiate life.

—From an official statement published by the trustees

The Idle and Vicious Need Not Apply

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pain,In vain he sued the cruel Soph

To please let him carry a cane.

—DITTY FROM 1882

The cane rush has had a most varied career here; at times forbidden by the faculty

and lying dormant for a few years, then in-evitably reappearing. At what time the cane rush made its first appearance is hard to as-certain. Though the first one reported in The Dartmouth took place in 1869, even then it is spoken of as a very old custom.

Now the cane rush has taken its place among the things that were. Perhaps it is best so. Perhaps the New Dartmouth must neces-sarily discard the customs of the Old. Yet the cane rush to us is not an unpleasant memory and we are glad that it did not come under the ban until we had had our turn.

—Dennis Francis Lyons, class of 1902

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by him. The original trustees were de-feated in the Superior Court of New Hampshire, but had their grievances elevated to the federal judiciary. They then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Webster, for a fee of $1,000, agreed to represent them against the state. He would argue that New Hampshire’s ac-tions were unconstitutional.

Webster testified on March 10, 1818, in the case of Dartmouth v. Woodward, before Chief Justice John Marshall. Webster’s four-hour oration stands as one of the most memorable in U.S his-tory. “This, sir, is my case. It is the case not merely of that humble institution; it is the case of every college in our land.…It is more. It is, in some sense, the case of every man who has property of which he may be stripped—for the question is simply this: shall our state legislature be allowed to take that which is not their own, to turn it from its original use, and apply it to such ends or purposes as they, in their discretion, shall see fit?…Sir, you may destroy this little institution. It is weak. It is in your hands! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of the country. You may put it out. But if you do so, you must carry through your work. You must extinguish, one after an-other, all those great lights of science which, for more than a century, have thrown their radiance over our land. It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet, there are those who love it.”

Webster’s lip quivered and his voice choked as he delivered the final words. Justice Marshall’s eyes were reportedly moist with tears. A decision was post-poned for a year as the justices pondered the case.

In February of 1819 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the trustees and the College. Only one dissenting vote was cast. In his magisterial opinion, Marshall remarked, “Perhaps no judicial proceedings in the country ever involved more important consequences.” Indeed, the case had extended national power at the expense of the state’s, confirmed the charter right of all private colleges of the land, protected business and nonprofit organizations, and further encouraged their very establishment.

From “The Storied History of Dartmouth,” The Dartmouth Review, by Aziz Sayigh, Boris Babson, A.S. Erickson, Charles Dameron, Adam Schwartman, and Nicholas Desatnick.

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April 17, 1865Hanover, N.H.—The last week was a memorable one here. Such as Dartmouth College never saw be-fore, and will never see again. The opening and close of the week were in signal and marvelous contrast.

On Monday morning came the news of Lee’s surrender. It was received with unbounded enthusiasm. All the College ex-ercises were suspended after the morning recitations. The air was laden with hurrahs, with the ju-bilant notes of the College bell, with the noise of guns, and with music of all varieties. A procession was formed, and, with the sound of as many different instruments as were heard on the plain of Duro, though of tones less exquisite, it moved through the village and over the Connecticut to Norwich, Vermont—the beautiful waters of the river seeming to murmur, as it passed, a responsive thanksgiving. Banners streaming on the breeze from Dartmouth Hall, from the two flag-staves on the Green, and from diverse private dwellings, symbol-ized the general gladness.

At two o’clock there was a meeting of the College, with many of the citizens in the cha-pel. The room was gaily adorned with flags and crowded with joy-ous auditors, the ladies occupying the gallery. The exercises began with singing, reading scripture, and prayer. President Smith then made an introductory address and called out in succession Profes-sors Hubbard, Noyes, Sanborn, Aiken, Quimby, Packard Wood-man, Fairbanks, and Patterson, with Dr. A.B. Crosby, S.W. Cobb,

Esq., Rev. Mr. Pease of Norwich, and Hon. Daniel Blaisdell. The audience was held in close atten-tion for nearly two hours and a half. The choir sang “Babylon is Fallen” about midway in the exer-cises; and, having began with “My Country ’Tis of Thee,” closed with “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the benediction. It was, we all felt, a great occasion.

So passed Monday. Saturday morning, after the first recitation, the echo of the Great Washington Tragedy—a tragedy with no his-torical parallel—fell upon our ears. Again, but how different a manner, was all business arrested. The 11 o’clock recitation was soon dis-posed of. Neither professors nor students had a voice for anything but sorrow. The bell was tolled from 11 1/2 to 12 1/2 o’clock, stores were closed, flags and dwellings were draped.

At 2 p.m. we gathered in the chapel again, but with what a con-trast to the Monday’s assemblage. No flaunting flags were there; no faces luminous with gladness, but all was sad, somber, solemn. Appropriate hymns were sung, the word of God was read, and prayer was offered. President Smith then made a short address and Professor Patterson, as personally acquainted with the deceased chief-magistrate, another. After an hour and a quarter the service closed and the assembly passed, as from a funeral, to their homes. The church and the College chapel were appropriately draped yesterday, and the evening service was wholly occupied with the great national calamity.

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in vogue as early as 1854 and as late as 1870, after which it was replaced by the ceremony of breaking the pipes against the tree at a given signal, followed by a rush for mementoes. This custom was contin-ued until 1893.

July 29, 1887, the Old Pine was struck by light-ning, and on June 14, 1892, its main branch was broken by a whirlwind. As if it were an old friend, the word passed around among alumni “the Old Pine is dying.” Its friends tried to save it in 1894, but, in spite of the greatest care, it failed to replace its brown needles with green ones in the following spring. After witnessing its last Class Day, it was cut down July 23 and 24, 1895. A shot was found in the seventy-ninth ring from the outside. The total height was seventy-one feet. The stump, four feet high, is left standing and has been treated with a preservative.

Its legends, its asso-ciations, its age, its com-

manding view, its dreamy rustling overhead made the Old Pine the poetic and imaginative spot in college life for more than half a century. Much generous sentiment has clustered about it and been said and sung by un-dergraduate and alumnus.

More than sixty gen-erations of college class-es who have venerated it will find their veneration voiced in these sponta-neous words of genuine reverence by Dr. John Ordronaux of the class of 1850: “I have known it since 1846 and never approached its hoary presence without a feel-ing of reverence, for I rec-ognized in it a member of the ancient nobility of Pines, the sentinel tribe of our Northern Forests. Had I been one of the ‘genus veritabile vatum,’ I should long since have made it speak in verse like Tennyson’s Talking Oak, and surely it would tell of many pleasant un-written chapters in the Epic of College Life.”

1896—The “Old Pine,” judged from its carefully and independently counted 112 rings, may be safely assigned, according to the best arbori-culturists, to within a year or two of 1785, for its origin.

Jacob Gale, class of 1833, is the earliest alum-nus to report as current in his college days, a vague legend of three Indians singing about a tree their farewell song, beginning, “When shall we three meet again….”

The earliest reminiscence of the Old Pine is from Jas. F. Joy, class of 1833, who writes: “The ‘Old Pine’ was standing of course in my day, and there were stories current then about some class which graduated just before I entered college gathering about that tree and singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ before parting.” Such stories might natu-rally have grown into the Indian legend.

In the 1840s the Old Pine had become more generally known, and from this time on it tells its story not by legend but by personal reminiscences of alumni. An alumnus of 1840 says: “Some of us would occasionally, when out for recreation, sing the hymn which tradition told us the three Indians composed and sang.” A graduate of 1845 writes: “We, like all other classes, had many meetings around the Old Pine for gossiping, storytelling, and music and some other exercises.” One of these “other exercises” was the tarring and feathering of a man charged with crime. “The class of 1844 at the time of its graduation held memorial services around it and smoked the pipe of peace,” writes the Rev. Thos. Wilson, class of 1844. Yet four other members of 1844 state the class had no exercises. One re-members none, another gives probably the true conclusion: “Perhaps some who were smokers did as Mr. Wilson remembers.”

From 1854 until 1895, with the exception of 1855 and a few years when Class Day was omitted on account of quarrels over class elections, the Old Pine witnessed Class Day celebrations con-sisting of singing, an address, smoking the pipe of peace, sometimes from a single pipe passed around, sometimes from long clay pipes….The scrimmage for the wreath of flowers is reported

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BY HERBERT DARLING FOSTER, CLASS OF 1885, AND HENRY G. JESUP

“Its dreamy

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Old Pine the poetic and

imaginative spot in college

life for more than half a

century.

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by Foster, a history

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“Let us take a backward glimpse, for a moment, with the spirit of the Old Pine.

Towering above its companions on this eminence, for nearly a century it greeted first

the rising sun and was the last to catch its declining rays. Over this pleasant valley it

watched by day and sighed its gentle song with the night breezes. Its stately form, so it is said,

sheltered the solemn parting of three Indian chiefs. To it the early residents must have

turned as to a beacon light. And I like to think of the strength and cheer which this valiant monarch of the forest has contributed to the

hundreds of Dartmouth men who came to look upon it with reverence.”

—ARTHUR WARD GILBERT ’21 CLASS DAY ADDRESS ON JUNE 18, 1921

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1892—In those days there was a Faculty rule that sports should not be indulged in on the Campus during morning study hours; and while this was observed by the stu-dents so far as any large gatherings were concerned, it was the usual procedure for the boys, if they had no morning recitations or studying to do, to play tennis on the few “pri-vate courts” that they had laid out around the borders of the Campus, or to play catch, or knock up flys, or kick a football dependent on the seasonal sport.

“Deke Hall,” so called because the upper two floors of a large frame house, with the Davison general store on the ground floor, were occupied by the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and such con-genial spirits as Ed Hall, Sam Baldwin, Henry Ide, Pat Reed, Matt Jones, Phil Marden, Charley

Merrill and others equally studi-ous—near examination time—but not so concentrated on their books as to miss any possible diversion within the wide scope of vision afforded them from their windows.

It so happened that my chum and classmate Pillsbury and I had a free hour one bright spring morning of our Freshman year and thought we would enjoy a game of tennis on “our court” which we had labored long and arduously the previous day to mark out; and as we were playing, suddenly the windows of Deke Hall shot up and in chorus or singly, but always vo-ciferously and complainingly the voices rang out, “Lane! Pillsbury! Stop playing tennis, you are dis-turbing our studies.”

Naturally we were amused at anything disturbing such studies as they might have and wondered

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President Samuel Colcord Bartlett.

BY WALTER A. LANE, CLASS OF 1895

what the joke was until we saw on the street the figure of the venerable Dr. Bartlett [class of 1836], then President of the College, about opposite the bank which was the next building to Deke Hall. They continued to shout and Prexie looked at us, looked up at the windows, noted the time and listened carefully to the names, bobbed a little more vigorously his head of which his silk hat seemed an integral portion, and a day or two later we each re-ceived the following letter written in long hand by the President:

PRESIDENT’S OFFICEDARTMOUTH COLLEGE

April 30, 1892Lawn Tennis on the Campus in study hours will incur faculty discipline.

From a letter published in the December 1922

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XMemorable words from

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“[I] now feel more than ever the want of a pension which I think the world owes me with which I might buy a cask of wine and other suit-able spirits.”

—ELEAZAR WHEELOCK (1769-79)

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—JOHN WHEELOCK (1779-1815)

“Gentlemen, I came here…to take charge of young gentlemen, but if, by any unforeseen circumstance, it becomes necessary for me to assume the management of a menagerie of young monkeys and baboons, I shall be equal to that undertaking.”

—SAMUEL COLCORD BARTLETT (1877-92)

“Athletics have a rightful place in the modern college.”

—WILLIAM JEWETT TUCKER (1893-1909)

“The College must be ever watchful that it stands for freedom of thought and, incidentally, that which is essential to freedom of thought—freedom of speech.”

—ERNEST MARTIN HOPKINS (1916-45)

“The world’s troubles are your troubles.”

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“Liberal education is the very soul of Dartmouth College.”

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11DANIEL WEBSTERCLASS OF 1801STATESMAN AND ORATOR

Even U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall had tears in his eyes that March day in 1818 as Daniel Webster reached the climax of his impassioned four-hour argument. Webster fixed his intense gaze on Marshall and uttered the words every Dart-mouth graduate knows: “It is, as I have said, sir, a small school, but there are those who love it.” Trustees of Dartmouth v. Woodward was one of more than 200 cases Webster argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, many of them landmark rul-ings that shaped our interpretation of the Constitu-tion. But the orator and statesman known as “the godlike Daniel” left a far greater imprint.

A swarthy complexion and jet-black hair earned this Salisbury, New Hampshire, native the nickname “Black Dan.” His titanic ego was evident early—he skipped his Dartmouth gradua-tion because he wasn’t selected as the valedictory speaker. Soon after, he took up the law. Told that the field was too crowded, he allegedly replied: “There’s always room at the top.” That’s certainly where he wound up. “For over a century and may-be more,” current U.S. Chief Justice John Rob-erts tells DAM, “Daniel Webster represented for Americans what a lawyer was, both good and bad.”

Webster was a prolific Supreme Court ad-vocate, often arguing more than 10 cases a year. The court frequently drew on Webster’s words in decisions that staked out broad powers for the federal government. Today a small bronze statue of him adorns the lawyers’ lounge at the high court. “The gaze on the statue is so stern it always had the effect of scaring me,” says Roberts, who frequently argued cases there before being appointed chief justice. “I suspect Webster had that effect on others in real life.”

Webster reached his greatest heights in the U.S. Senate, where he fought to preserve the union in the face of a growing North-South divide. To-day New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen sits at Webster’s Senate desk. “It’s humbling to have the desk of someone with such a profound legacy,”

she says. “Webster’s great speeches in defense of our union delivered many timeless truths that are just as relevant today as when they echoed through the old Senate chamber.” Webster’s fierce eyes, deep voice, commanding presence, and care-fully researched arguments produced a stunning impact. His powerful speeches in Congress and around the country cultivated a national spirit that had barely existed before.

In January 1830, he gave perhaps the most eloquent address in Senate history: his celebrat-ed reply to South Carolina Sen. Robert Hayne, who had proclaimed that states should be able to ignore or “nullify” federal laws they disliked. Webster’s fiery dissent: Nullification would rip the country apart. “Liberty and union, one and inseparable, now and forever!” he thundered, earning him the accolade “Defender of the Con-stitution.” In far-off Illinois, newly minted lawyer Abraham Lincoln was among those he inspired.

Webster could be arrogant, profligate, and venal. He made many enemies—John Quincy Adams said he had a “rotten heart.” He hungered to be president, but when he ran in 1836 he came in the last of four candidates.

Webster was secretary of state for three presidents. He negotiated an important treaty with Great Britain and established a self-defense doctrine still used in international law. At age 68, back in the Senate, he made his last great speech on behalf of the Compromise of 1850, seeking to forestall a crisis between North and South. “I wish to speak today not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American,” he began. Secession was averted, but the respite was fleet-ing—war came a decade later. Webster’s stand cost him dearly. His supporters repudiated him as a traitor. The senator resigned but remained resolute. “I shall stand by the union…with ab-solute disregard of personal consequences.” As fitting an epitaph as any for one of the towering statesmen of the 19th century. —Rick Beyer ’78

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22THEODOR GEISEL ’25AUTHOR AND ARTIST

He is the Shakespeare of children’s literature. No person has made more kids happier than Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). At least 650 million copies of his 45 books have been pub-lished in 20 languages. For decades to come, chil-dren will nestle on parents’ laps and giggle at the zany doings of Sam I Am, Thing One and Thing Two, Cindy Lou Who, Mr. Gump (who owned a seven-hump Wump), and Aunt Annie’s alligator. He conjured words such as wocket, truffula, fiffer-feffer-feff, diffendoofer, thneeds, grickily gructus, and oodles more, including nerd.

Geisel visited Paris in the early 1920s, and Dali, Klee, and Miro influenced his art. His “di-vinely idiotic” tales, as one critic described them, took young readers to super-surreal Whoville, Solla Sollew, McElligot’s Pool, and Katroo, the place where the birthday birds live.

Twenty-seven publishers rejected his first book, And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street, in 1936. Some said it was too silly. Others objected to its rollicking anapestic tetrameter rhyme scheme, a meter its mischievous author knew would en-trance young readers.

At the time, Geisel, 33, a successful commer-cial illustrator, was ready to give up as a writer. He was lugging his portfolio home when he saw his friend Marshall McClintock ’26 on Madison Avenue in New York City. By chance McClintock had just been hired as a children’s book editor, and by day’s end Geisel had a book deal.

Fame came slowly before his literary star went supernova with the 1957 publication of The Cat in the Hat. He wrote it after being challenged by an editor to create a fun book for first-graders, one brimming with maximum merriment that would encourage a love of reading—and use as few simple words as possible.

A perfectionist, Geisel chose a bold red and a brilliant blue for its illustrations, hues he knew would appeal to children. His mad-hatted cat has sold more than 7 million copies, making it the ninth bestselling children’s book of all time, according to Publisher’s Weekly, which lists it as one of 15 Seuss titles in its top 100 list.

The sly Seuss (his middle name, which he first used in The Jack-O-Lantern and thought should be pronounced soice) told timeless tales. Their themes of love, courage, and decency are

universal. Horton learns to respect individuals, no matter how small. Sneetches warn of anti-Semitism, or perhaps merely the woes of snob-bery. The greedy Grinch repents his worship of consumerism. The Lorax protects nature.

Love of liberty pulses through everything Geisel wrote. (He knew war firsthand. Assigned to a documentary-filmmaking unit, he was trapped for three days behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge.)

When Dartmouth gave him an honorary de-gree in 1955, the citation hailed his creative dar-ing: “You single-handedly have stood as St. George between a generation of exhausted parents and the demon dragon of unexhausted children on a rainy day.”

Geisel courted controversy in 1984 with The Butter Battle Book, which suggested that no na-tion in a nuclear arms race could claim moral superiority.

He also wrote 13 books under the semi-ana-gramic name of Theo LeSieg, as well as two for adults, including You’re Only Old Once! (A Book for Obsolete Children), which appeared in 1990, one year before his death at the age of 87.

His influence on young people remains strong at Dartmouth. Freshmen dine on green eggs and ham at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. The 2012 re-naming of the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine recognized his substantial gifts to the College.

Geisel’s children are everywhere. He had none of his own. “You have them,” he once said. “I’ll entertain them.” —George M. Spencer

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44 Robert Frost’s place in American culture is easy to measure

and impossible to overstate. From his first book (A Boy’s Will, 1915) to his recitation of “The Gift Outright” at President Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration, Frost dominated the literary landscape. He won four Pulitzers for poetry. He was nominated more than 30 times for the Nobel Prize in literature, and he received a Congressional Gold Medal.

Frost took 19th-century tools of meter and rhyme and made them new. He radically reinvented the narrative poem, combining technical brilliance with ordinary speech—the colloquialisms of New England hill farmers. Unlike pastoral poets who preceded him, Frost brought a dirt-under-the-fingernails understanding of husbandry and botany to his poetry. He was a farmer. He lived through hard times and personal tragedy. His poetry transcended sentiment because it was real, and its realities were hard-earned. Like the poet himself, his poetry endured.

Frost’s poems examined the facts of the world. “A brook, a new calf, neighbors at work, the death of a child, a solitary walk; without preaching, the poet treats each subject with a loving care until the heart of the matter rises up, seemingly from our own eyes,” wrote fellow New England poet Steven Ratiner in 1981. “Using broad de-scriptive strokes and a perfectly balanced tension between what is told and what is held back for the reader to imagine, Frost’s images lift up off the page. Though they are simple in nature, the wonder of his lyrics is that they conjure strong and vibrant histories that we somehow have shared all along.”

Uncle Sam printed a special edition of Frost’s poems for troops fighting in World War II. Frost went to the Soviet Union as a cultural ambassador and met Premier Nikita Khrushchev. A performance artist before the term was invented, this white-haired, rumpled man with a New England accent came into everyone’s homes on radio and TV and became the face and voice of American letters. “He was not only a poet but a public institution,” wrote author Danny Heit-man in 2014. “His presence is as familiar to his fellow Americans as the Grand Canyon or the Washington Monument.” Indeed, at the dedication of Amherst’s Robert Frost Library, Kennedy called Frost one of “the granite figures of our time” whose art was one of “the deeper sources of American strength.”

Frost always insisted his goal was “just to lodge a few poems where they’ll be hard to get rid of.” His austere meditations live in our collective psyche. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Mending Wall,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Birches,” “After Apple-Picking,” “Fire and Ice,” “Design,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” explore themes of duty, isolation, free will, youthful spirit, mercy, the brevity of life, and the inevitability of death.

For all the accolades and influence Frost had, his greatest im-pact is on the thousands of ordinary individuals who read poetry because of the introduction he gave them and who have richer lives as a result.

“Dartmouth is my chief college,” Frost liked to say, “the first one I ran away from. I ran from Harvard later, but Dartmouth first.” For generations of American readers, Frost remains the chief poet, the first one they read and did not run away from. —Jim Collins ’84

ROBERT SMITHCLASS OF 1902ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COFOUNDER

Heavy drinking punctuated Robert Smith’s college days. “After high school came four years in one of the best colleges in the country, where drinking seemed to be a major extra-curricular activity,” he wrote later in life.

Smith became a surgeon and kept drinking—heavily. “I used pills and booze every day,” Smith said. “I woke up in the morning with the jitters, took a sedative to steady my hands for surgery.... Sometimes, in the operating room, I’d be high as a kite. Lucky I haven’t killed somebody.”

In 1935, in Akron, Ohio, he met fellow alco-holic Bill Wilson, a New York City stockbroker. Wilson, who had recently stopped drinking, spent 30 days helping Smith do the same. That year they created Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which changed how the world views alcoholism, once re-garded as a moral weakness and now considered a disease. Smith and Wilson’s 12-step program is still used today. Wilson tends to get most of the credit for founding AA, but Smith is equally deserving. Known to AA members as “Dr. Bob,” he was, according to those who knew him, a humble man who never sought the limelight.

AA is grounded in a belief in a “higher power” and that having a spiritual awakening can lead to a life of sobriety. In addition, the program stresses the importance of finding a fellow alcoholic (or sponsor) and attending meetings to find support from other alcoholics.

“Working together, the two founders created a program that was based on religious and psy-chological truths, as well as their own practical experience, and turned it into a simple 12-step program that has helped tens of millions around the world,” Dr. Irving A. Cohen, a distinguished fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, tells DAM.

Dubbed the “Prince of Twelfth Steppers,” Smith personally helped more than 5,000 alco-holics pro bono. When he died in 1950, he had been sober for 15 years. —Lambeth Hochwald

SALMON P. CHASE, CLASS OF 1826P OLITICIAN AND JUDGE

Salmon P. Chase ticked off the offices on his rapid rise up the political ladder: governor of Ohio, senator, secretary of the U.S. Treasury, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He helped found the Republican Party and was a leader in the fight to abolish slavery. Missing from his impressive resume is the job he most desired and was convinced he richly deserved: president of the United States.

Chase was 6 feet tall and looked every inch the statesman. He neither drank nor smoked. If he had a sense of humor, it es-caped anyone’s notice. “He seldom told a story without spoiling it,” quipped The Atlantic Monthly. Deeply religious, he combined moral rectitude with nakedly opportunistic ambition. His self-regard was a byword among his peers. “He thinks there is a fourth person in the (holy) trinity,” cracked Ohio Sen. Benjamin Wade.

Chase’s life was marked by tragedy. He married three women, each of whom died young. He relied heavily on his daughter, Kate, who presided at social functions and acted as his chief advisor.

After he lost the Republican nomination in 1860, Chase grudg-ingly joined Lincoln’s cabinet as secretary of the treasury. To fi-nance the Union’s war efforts, he set up a national banking system

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55and issued the government’s first-ever paper currency, known as greenbacks. (He also added the phrase, “In God We Trust,” to coins.) Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ’68 admires Chase’s creativity in bankrolling the war, but not the decision to put his own portrait on the $1 bill. “I don’t want to criticize a fellow Dartmouth graduate, but I think Washington was a better choice,” he tells DAM.

Chase frequently sought to promote his political ambitions, often at Lincoln’s expense. “He didn’t serve the president as well as he might have,” says Paulson. Eventually Lincoln wearied of Chase’s antics and accepted his resignation. Nevertheless, Lincoln nominated Chase to be chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court a few months later. “That demonstrates Lincoln’s greatness,” says Paulson, pointing to the president’s ability to look past personal differences and recognize Chase’s abilities.

Even serving as chief justice failed to slake Chase’s ambition. He changed parties to seek the Democratic presidential nomina-tion in 1868. Four years later he changed parties again for another failed attempt at the top job. He died of a stroke in 1873.

Ultimately, Chase may simply have been a victim of bad tim-ing. “Chase was a great man,” said Chief Justice William Howard Taft 50 years after Chase’s death. “He has had the disadvantage in history of comparison to Lincoln.” —Rick Beyer ’78

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THADDEUS STEVENSCLASS OF 1814CONGRESSMAN AND ABOLITIONIST

“No man assailed him without danger or conquered him without scars,” declared one contemporary of Thaddeus Stevens. The con-gressman was a warrior. He agitated ceaselessly against slavery and for the rights of blacks. He was instrumental in the passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865. He took on a president who opposed him and nearly removed him from office. Full of vitriol, both hater and hated, Stevens gave no quarter.

His Dartmouth roommate recalled that Stevens was “inor-dinately ambitious, bitterly envious of all who outranked him as scholars, and utterly unprincipled.” Stevens was selected as the 1814 Commencement speaker but was enraged when he was not elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Stevens practiced law in Pennsylvania, where he became a committed abolitionist and was elected to the U.S. House of Rep-resentatives. During the Civil War he was a leader of the Radical Republicans, who favored immediate abolition and harsh measures against the South. “Free every slave—slay every traitor—burn every rebel mansion,” he thundered. Southerners returned his hatred. One newspaper editor labeled him “this wicked man…this demon.” Even

Northern editors referred to him as an “evil genius.” Stevens was an imposing 6 feet tall and had a perpetual grimace.

He tried to hide his bald head with a preposterous brown wig that fooled no one. He loved to gamble and had a slashing wit. Interrupted on the House floor, Stevens shot back: “I yield to the gentleman for a few feeble remarks.” For 20 years he lived with his mixed-race housekeeper, Lydia Smith. It was widely believed they were living as man and wife, though Stevens denied it.

Stevens didn’t just want the slaves freed, he wanted them to have the vote, education, and land of their own. When President Andrew Johnson failed to act swiftly to give blacks their rights, Stevens convinced the House of Representatives in 1868 to im-peach Johnson. Then 73 and gravely ill, Stevens was carried to the Senate in a chair to deliver the news. Three months later, the president evaded conviction in the Senate by one vote, and Stevens died shortly thereafter.

“My lifelong regret is that I have lived so long and so uselessly,” the dying congressman told a reporter. A more fitting tribute lies in the words he spoke after passage of the 13th Amendment: “I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus, ‘Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, and who only courted the low ambi-tion to have it said that he had striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.’ ” —Rick Beyer ’78

NELSON ROCKEFELLER ’30P OLITICIAN AND PHILANTHROPIST

In November 1927 the White and Connecticut rivers overflowed their banks, burying White River Junction, Vermont, in mud. Among the hundreds of Dartmouth students who rushed to help was Nelson Rockefeller. Requesting to be sent to work at a remote stretch of riverfront, away from prying reporters and photogra-phers, he explained, “If we get our picture in the paper, Father cuts our allowances.”

His obscurity would be short-lived. While in his 20s, Rockefeller aided his redoubtable mother, Abby, in establishing New York City’s groundbreaking Museum of Modern Art. At the same time, he back-stopped his father in building nearby Rockefeller Center. In his 30s Rockefeller waged economic and social warfare against South American Nazis at the behest of Franklin D. Roosevelt, his lifelong political hero and the first of three presi-dents he would serve as an appointee.

Art, commerce, politics—as the most dynamic of John D. Rockefeller’s grand-children, Rockefeller might be forgiven for believing that he could have—and do—it all. Including the presidency. Like Theodore Roosevelt, in whose lap he once sat as a child, Rocky believed Americans must justify their wealth by promoting capitalism with a conscience.

Toward that end, after WW II he created Latin American companies whose profits went to build schools and combat disease in the region. At the or-ganizing conference of the United Na-tions in 1945, Rockefeller engineered a clause in its charter that permitted free nations to form defensive coalitions—the forerunners of NATO.

For 15 years, beginning in 1959, he was New York’s innovat-ing, if costly, governor. Insisting that state’s rights must yield to a state’s responsibilities, Rockefeller spent more in the mid-1960s to combat pollution, support higher education, and promote the arts than Uncle Sam did in the other 49 states combined. The original Rockefeller Republican, he opposed the death penalty and sup-ported abortion rights.

Possibility was in his DNA. “There is no problem that can-not be solved,” Rockefeller maintained. This staunch refusal to acknowledge limits produced Albany’s Empire State Plaza and Manhattan’s Battery Park City, and it fashioned the State University of New York into the world’s largest institution of higher learning.

A disappointing term as Gerald Ford’s vice president, and three unsuccessful presidential campaigns of his own, fed a sense of fail-ure. He had much in common with one of Dartmouth’s other would-be presidents—Daniel Webster. Both were men whose principles got in the way of their ambitions, but that didn’t stifle their influence. “What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality,” said Webster. —Richard Norton Smith

OWENCHAMBERLAIN ’41PHYSICIST

Owen Chamberlain made a scientific break-through of cosmic proportions. He proved the existence of the antiproton, or antimatter. His achievement, which earned him (and his Univer-sity of California, Berkeley mentor Emilio Segré) the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics, became a cor-nerstone of the Standard Model, the physics theory that explains what the universe is and what holds it together.

“The discovery of antiprotons,” says Nobel physicist William Phillips, “illustrates one of the most remarkable, appealing aspects of scientific research” because it built upon earlier discoveries and confirms that all particles have perfect twins differing only in their electric charge.

The continuous nature of scientific discovery fueled three intertwined loves of Chamberlain’s life: learning, physics, and teaching. In high school he was fascinated by solving physics puzzles, unraveling their mysteries for fun and zipping through complex science and math homework in minutes.

At Dartmouth he was drawn to physics be-cause “it was always the easiest thing to do,” he recalled. He won the prestigious Thayer Prize in Mathematics and the Kramer Fellowship, which funded his initial graduate studies at Berkeley, where he taught from 1948 to 1989. During World War II he was one of the physicists who developed the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project.

Professor Chamberlain was beloved for be-ing an approachable mentor. “His informality came as a major cultural shock to me. I had been brought up to think of professors as remote dei-ties whose first names were known only by their mothers,” says former Chamberlain student, col-league, and biographer Herbert Steiner. “He was who we would go to when we did not understand something. As one of our graduate students once put it: ‘He is one smart dude.’ ”

Chamberlain died in 2006 at the age of 85. He spent the latter half of his life advocating for world peace, free speech, and human rights. He di-rected the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation dedi-cated to creating a nuclear weapon-free world.

Although his discovery was momentous, Chamberlain emphasized he was merely one person in the history of curious physicists. “Each generation of scientists,” he said in his Nobel ac-ceptance speech, “stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.” —Maryellen Duckett

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1010 SAMUEL KATZ ’48, DMS’50PEDIATRICIAN AND VIROLOGIST

He may not wear a cape, but Dr. Samuel Katz is a superhero to the millions of kids he has saved. His superpower: researching, developing, and championing vaccines. Katz helped pioneer and promote widespread use of the measles vaccine, which wiped out the disease in the United States and transformed global children’s health. While his measles work is legendary, it is only an early chapter in a 60-plus-year-and-counting medical career devoted to bringing the biggest infectious disease breakthroughs to the planet’s smallest patients—children.

“The impact Sam Katz has had on medicine and humanity is staggering,” says Dr. William Steinbach, chief of the pediatric

infectious diseases division at Duke University, where Katz is the chairman emeritus of pediatrics. “Aside from the countless

people he directly influenced as a trusted mentor, invalu-able colleague, physician, and friend, his measles vaccine has saved an estimated 118 million lives worldwide, about one-third of the current U.S. population.”

Katz didn’t set out to be a disease fighter. Music was his passion growing up. When World War II depleted the

pool of local percussionists, Katz landed dance hall drumming gigs. A penchant for marching to his own beat led him to leave Dartmouth to enlist in the Navy in 1944. Upon being posted to a hospital training school, he discovered his true calling—medicine.

After the war Katz earned his undergraduate degree in 1948, graduated from the then two-year Dartmouth Medical School program, completed his pediatric residency, and worked at Boston Children’s Hospital with Nobel laureate John Enders for 12 years developing the measles vaccine.

Before it was licensed for human use in 1963 (after it was proven safe and effective in monkeys), Katz demonstrated his confidence in his work by inoculating himself and his four chil-dren. That same year Katz traveled to Nigeria to help implement its vaccination program, a mission that transformed him from a self-described “parochial, naive young man” into a passionate global health advocate.

“When we went to Nigeria I learned mothers would say, ‘You don’t count your children until measles has passed,’ because they knew how many children died,” said Katz. He later applied his measles vaccine experience to fighting pediatric AIDS. Katz and his pediatric infectious disease specialist wife, Dr. Catherine Wilfert, were the first in the United States to treat children with AZT, the first FDA-approved AIDS medication.

Katz also has been involved in studies of vaccinia, polio, ru-bella, influenza, pertussis, dengue, and HIV, among others. But it is his work outside of the lab—teaming up with the World Health Organization to push for worldwide measles vaccinations—that has earned him the title “Vaccine Ambassador”—an apt identity for a real-life superhero. —Maryellen Duckett

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GEORGE PERKINS MARSHCLASS OF 1820ENVIRONMENTALIST

George Perkins Marsh’s 1864 book, Man and Nature, a pioneering work of ecology and advo-cacy, earned him the title “The Prophet of Con-servation.” Marsh drew on a lifetime of observing deforestation in Vermont. He documented alpine erosion in the Italian alps, the devastating effects of overgrazing and logging in the once-great for-ests of the Roman Empire, the negative effects on water quality and changed weather patterns, and the cascading side effects of industry.

“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent,” he wrote. “Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.” Written two years before the term “ecology” was coined, his book came at a time when people accepted the notion of an abundant nature whose bounty was boundless. Marsh argued that humans were fouling their own nest at a rate that would be catastrophic unless reversed. He sparked the Arbor Day movement, inspired the creation of New York’s Adirondack Park, laid the foundation for the U.S. national forest system, and—alongside writings by contempo-raries John Muir and Henry David Thoreau—gave birth to the nation’s environmental consciousness. A century later, U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall wrote that Man and Nature was “the begin-ning of land wisdom in this country.”

A Renaissance man, Marsh had other mind-boggling accomplishments. In the mid-19th cen-tury he was the nation’s foremost Scandinavian scholar and expert on railroads, Renaissance art, and camels. A gifted linguist proficient in 20 languages (seven of which he picked up at Dartmouth), Marsh wrote the monumental book, The Origin and History of the English Language (and a text on Icelandic grammar).

Born in Woodstock, Vermont, in 1801, Marsh was a lawyer, sheep farmer, newspaper editor, and owner of a woolen mill and marble quarry. While representing Vermont in Congress in the 1840s, his eloquent speech in the U.S. House of Representatives laid out a persuasive framework for the creation of the Smithsonian Institution, unlocking funds frozen more than a decade by squabbling politicians.

He later became ambassador to Turkey and then Italy, becoming the second-longest-serving U.S. diplomat after Benjamin Franklin. While living abroad he presented the plan, based on his detailed measurements of Egyptian obelisks, that reshaped the construction of the Washington Monument. —Jim Collins ’84

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C. EVERETT KOOP ’37U.S . SURGEON GENERAL

C. Everett Koop changed the way American medicine was practiced—and that was before he became the nation’s top doctor. He began his career as a pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1946, at a time when pediatric surgery wasn’t a medical specialty. Through the next 35 years he developed safer anesthesia for infants and toddlers and performed surgeries once dismissed as impossible, successfully operating on newborns with spina bifida and cleft palate and pioneering a new method of repair-ing hernias. He established the nation’s first neonatal surgical intensive care unit. He separated dozens of conjoined twins. He proved that conditions once thought hopeless were correctable. He saved the lives of thousands.

Koop is most widely remembered as America’s most influential surgeon general. Part of his prominence came from his presence. He stood more than 6 feet tall, had a stentorian voice and a bushy, biblical-looking chinstrap beard that reflected his stern religious beliefs, and wore a white dress U.S. public health service uniform with gold-braid and epaulettes.

Putting science and public health above ideology, Koop from 1982 to 1989 challenged the Reagan administration’s positions on controversial issues. He refused to issue a report that said abortions were harmful to women because data didn’t support those findings. He authored withering reports that revealed smoking was an even greater health hazard than previously believed. He condemned the tobacco industry’s deceptive advertising and publicized the deadly consequences of second-hand smoke. He laid the groundwork for laws that banned smoking in many public places. During his watch, the percentage of Americans who smoked fell by nearly 25 percent.

His greatest achievement may have been educating Americans about AIDS, a then little-understood and much-dreaded disease that some feared would turn into the century’s greatest public health catastrophe. Koop spoke out about intravenous drug use, gay sex, and condom use. “I’m the nation’s doctor, not the nation’s chaplain,” he said, adding that he made policy decisions “dictated by scientific integrity and Christian compassion.”

To dispel myths and fight fear, his office sent the plainspoken brochure, Understanding AIDS, to all 107 million U.S. households, the largest mass-mailing in American history. He singlehandedly shifted the debate from morality to medical care and compassion. He remained a vocal advocate for medical research and educa-tion—and a model of public service—until his death in 2013 at the age of 96. —Jim Collins ’84

EDWARD LORENZ ’38MATHEMATICIAN

In 1972 Edward Lorenz asked, “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” The phrase has become one of the most vivid images in science, an elegant warning that the order we take for granted is an illusion. Lorenz’s research founded the new discipline of chaos theory, which overthrew the accepted view that the universe functions according to a clock-work plan.

“Perhaps the butterfly, with its seeming frailty and lack of power, is a natural choice for a symbol of the small that can produce the great,” Lorenz wrote years later.

As with many great discoveries, chaos theory was discovered by chance. In 1959 at MIT, Lorenz found that if initial conditions in his weather forecasting models were altered even slightly, the output would stray wildly. At first he thought his computer was to blame. But there was no error, only a sensitivity that made complex systems unpredictable, or, as Lorenz put it, chaotic.

As a child in Connecticut, Lorenz had been enthralled by New England’s famously changeable weather. He came to Dartmouth in 1934 intending to study math. While he was in Hanover, pinball became popular. As Lorenz recalled in his biog-raphy, “Town authorities decided the machines violated the gambling laws” because the game presumably relied on luck, not skill. Lorenz was perplexed: Pinball did involve skill. But why could no one exhibit it with any consistency?

“The reason was chaos,” he wrote.His theory is best known for its influence

on climatology, but it has also informed a host of other scientific disciplines. Cancer experts now know that tumor growth can be drastically altered by a single mutation. Urban planners use chaos theory to study traffic patterns, which can by utterly unpredictable.

He made a discovery about the world at large, not some detail within it. He saw that the mecha-nistic understanding of the natural world in place since the Enlightenment was woefully simplistic. When Lorenz received the Kyoto Prize (Japan’s equivalent of the Nobel) in 1991, he was hailed for making “one of the most dramatic changes in mankind’s view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton.”

Lorenz died in 2008 at the age of 90. Since 2011, MIT has hosted the Lorenz Center, which studies climate. “Lorenz was from the old school,” says one of its chairs, Kerry Emanuel. “He was a man driven by his curiosity, not by fame or wealth.” —Alex Nazaryan ’02

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LOUISE ERDRICH ’76AUTHOR

Growing up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, Louise Erdrich collected her first royalties in the form of pocket change. Her father shelled out five cents for each of her childhood manuscripts—stories of lonely girls with hidden talents. Forty years later, after she had won most of America’s top literary honors, he gave her a roll of antique nickels. He owed her.

A biracial citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Erdrich draws on Anishinaabe oral tradition and Germanic lore in her 30 pub-lished books—poetry, memoirs, short fiction, and the 16 epically interwoven novels for which she is most celebrated.

“She is, like Faulkner, one of the great Ameri-can regionalists, bearing the dark knowledge of her place,” Philip Roth once said, referencing the fictional North Dakota reservation where much of her work is set. “She is by now among the very best American writers.”

Erdrich arrived auspiciously at Dartmouth in red cowboy boots as a member of its first coed class and first modern indigenous cohort, and she graduated in a pair of refurbished moccasins. She worked odd jobs—waiting tables, editing a newspaper, teaching poetry to inmates—while establishing herself as a poet, then as a short story writer, and, finally, in 1984 as a bestselling au-thor with her debut novel Love Medicine, whose “beauty…keeps us from being devastated by its power,” raved Toni Morrison.

Erdrich’s stories blend the hyper-realistic with the mystical and the apocalyptic with the mundane to remind readers how bizarre reality can be. In her universe, a violin lost for decades washes ashore in an abandoned canoe. A woman enters into a marriage pact with a lake spirit. Her recurring characters—Indian boarding school survivors, German immigrants, and veterans-turned-priests—draw on shared memories and ancestral geography, and each new chapter in her saga feels bracingly original and brutally sincere.

Today Erdrich runs an independent book-store in Minneapolis. She still composes her first drafts by hand. She is not slowing down. Her latest novel, Future Home of the Living God, published to acclaim, took a dystopian turn, inspiring some to compare her to Kurt Vonnegut. She brushes off comparisons. After all, there will never be another Faulkner or Vonnegut. There won’t be another Erdrich either. —Savannah Maher ’17

GEORGE SNELL ’26GENETICIST

George Snell was a lifesaver, thanks to the organ and tissue transplants made possible by his pioneering genetics research. He earned a 1980 Nobel Prize for decades of work in immunology. He identified genetic factors (the major histocompatibility complex, or MHC) in mice required for successful transplantation. MHC regulates immune responses, and since mice are biologically similar to people, Snell’s discovery paved the way for human transplant surgery.

“George is one of the giants of biomedical research,” says Dave Serreze, a professor at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, where Snell conducted groundbreaking genetics research and, late in his career, served as one of Serreze’s mentors. In ad-dition to enabling transplantation, Snell’s immunology discovery improved the effectiveness of vaccines and may have important future implications for the prevention of autoimmune diseases, such as Type I diabetes and arthritis. Snell also generated the first strains of mice that became staples of modern genetics study. Much of today’s immunological research is possible because of Snell’s innovative work, according to Serreze.

A Massachusetts native, Snell had old-fashioned Yankee in-genuity and a keen scientific intellect. He credited his father’s relatives (three of whom held patents) for instilling his penchant for invention, and his mother, an avid gardener whom he called a “natural planner,” for his attention to detail and organizational skills. Summer vacations spent working on his family’s South Woodstock, Vermont, farm nurtured Snell’s lifelong interest in gardening, farming, and forestry.

It was Snell’s experience as a biology major, however, that most shaped his future. “A genetics course taught by professor John Gerould proved particularly fascinating,” he wrote in his autobiography. “It was that course that led me to the choice of a career.” On Gerould’s recommendation, Snell earned his Ph.D. in genetics at Harvard under Dr. William Castle, one of the world’s most influential geneticists.

Snell died in 1996 at the age of 92. While his impressive achieve-ments include a Nobel Prize and a legacy as the father of an entire scientific discipline, immunogenetics, one of Snell’s most coveted honors eluded him. “George was such an avid gardener that when he won his Nobel he actually was a bit disappointed,” Serreze recalls. When the call came, “He was hoping he had finally won a state fair prize for his vegetables. I remember his secretary telling him, ‘No, George, you won the Nobel Prize.’ ” —Maryellen Duckett

GEORGE BISSELLCLASS OF 1845INDUSTRIALIST

While visiting his mother in his hometown of Hanover in 1853, George Bissell paid a social call on Dr. Dixi Crosby, the College’s professor of surgery and obstetrics. Bissell noticed a jar labeled “rock oil” on his shelf. Crosby said another alum had brought it from western Pennsylvania and claimed it had intriguing properties as a lubricant and illuminant.

Bissell took note. As it happened, his life was in a muddle. Yellow fever epidemics had chased him out of New Orleans, where he’d been an edu-cator and newspaperman. He planned to study law, but now the little jar held his attention.

Almost from that moment, Bissell saw two things plain. The oil, properly refined, could replace scarce, expensive whale oil as the pre-dominant fuel for artificial light. And there was no reason why it couldn’t be extracted from deep underground, as water was. He also sensed that oil’s moment was about to arrive—and that he needed to act immediately.

Within 18 months he created America’s first oil company, Pennsylvania Rock Oil. He pur-chased 105 acres for $5,000 along Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. The next few years were difficult. Investors grew impatient and caused repeated crises. Bissell’s unusual methods were mocked. The drilling kept coming up dry. The enterprise seemed to founder. Then on August 27, 1859, at a depth of 69 feet, his rig struck oil. While others celebrated, Bissell quickly bought as much nearby land as he could.

Before long he became the world’s first oil baron. He wisely built a barrel-making factory, and soon had additional interests in railroads, banks, hotels, and insurance. He was widely praised for his acumen, intelligence, and honesty.

“Among the great oil pioneers, Bissell was a giant,” wrote oil historian Neil McElwee in 2007. “It was Bissell’s early vision, initiative, unwav-ering commitment, personal sacrifice, proven integrity, and 15 years of entrepreneurial risk that put the American oil industry on its feet.”

Bissell remained a great friend of Dartmouth. When he gave the College funds in 1867 to build a new gym, he insisted it include six bowling al-leys “in remembrance of disciplinary troubles in which he’d fallen because of his indulgence in this sinful sport.” —Charles Monagan ’72

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ANNETTEGORDON-REED ’81HISTORIAN

It was one of the biggest controversies in American history: Did Thomas Jefferson father the seven children of his slave, Sally Hemings? For two centuries the debate raged. Was it true? Impossible? Almost every Jefferson biographer dismissed the story.

Annette Gordon-Reed proved it. She had long pondered Jefferson and Hemings. As a senior at Dartmouth she wanted to write her history thesis on the subject, but her professor nixed the idea. In 1997, while a professor at New York Law School, she wrote Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy outlining the evidence.

A year later DNA tests vindicated her. They showed that Jefferson almost certainly fathered Hemings’ children. In 2008 Gordon-Reed delved further into their family in The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. This biography of Sally and her relatives was a magisterial feat. It blew up long-standing beliefs about slavery. It changed the way Monticello approached its past, and it forever altered how Americans see the iconic Jefferson.

Hemingses of Monticello became one of the most honored books in publishing history. It won 16 awards. It was only the third book to receive the National Book Award for history and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Gordon-Reed became the first black writer to win the Pulitzer for history. Within two years of its publication, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Hu-manities Medal. The MacArthur Foundation gave her its so-called genius award fellowship, and William & Mary (Jefferson’s alma mater) awarded her an honorary degree.

“Annette Gordon-Reed is the preeminent scholar on Sally Hemings and the Hemings family of Monticello,” says Leslie Greene Bowman, the president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. “No one has done more to bring their stories out of the shadows and into public dialogue. Annette’s work illuminates the stories of one enslaved fam-ily at Monticello. It holds a mirror on America today, asking us to remember and learn.”

Gordon-Reed has long been one to upend the status quo. As a first-grader in East Texas she left the all-black school where her mother taught to become the only black student in a white elementary school. At Dartmouth she served on a committee searching for ways to hire more black faculty. Now a professor at Harvard Law School, she served on the College’s board of trustees from 2010 to 2018. —James Zug ’91

BASIL O’CONNORCLASS OF 1912HUMANITARIAN

Basil O’Connor asked everyone in America to spare a dime. That’s how he conquered polio. A lawyer and longtime confidante of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, O’Connor’s true gift lay in mar-keting and organizational management.

“His accomplishment was organizational, it was humanitarian, it was medical, and it will always stand as a hallmark of the advance of medical science,” wrote March of Dimes archivist David Rose in his book, Friends and Partners: The Legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Basil O’Connor in the History of Polio.

O’Connor’s lifelong crusade began in 1927 when he became head of the Warm Springs Foundation, energizing the rural Georgia spa where FDR went for therapy. After serving on FDR’s brain trust of advisors in 1932, O’Connor, at FDR’s request, led the National Foun-dation for Infantile Paralysis, better known as the March of Dimes.

A snappy dresser with slicked-back hair who always tucked a carnation in his lapel, he looked like tough-guy movie star Humphrey Bogart. “I was never a public do-gooder and had no aspirations of that kind,” said O’Connor. “But once a crisis demanded action, I started enjoying it.” He conjured up revolutionary fundraising schemes that are now commonplace. He created awareness through mass-market advertising featuring heartrending photos of disabled children. He convinced stars such as Bing Crosby and Ginger Rogers to make fundraising pitches on radio.

The brilliance of the March of Dimes lay in amassing massive sums through tiny gifts. When the campaign launched in 1938, Americans sent an avalanche of 2,680,000 dimes to the White House. Ultimately more than $500 million went to fight polio.

In 1950, five years before Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine was first used, O’Connor’s fight against the paralyzing disease became per-sonal—polio killed his daughter. Friends said the tragedy made the autocratic O’Connor more compassionate.

Beyond his marketing skills, he originated the model for today’s charitable health organizations, creating more than 3,100 centrally controlled local fundraising chapters. Dozens of other nonprofits saw his amazing successes. They reorganized themselves around his model and eagerly adopted his money-raising tactics.

O’Connor also made strategic decisions that focused scientific research on the polio virus. “He was one of the best investors ever,” says former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. By target-ing millions of dollars in that direction, O’Connor sped the cure.

As head of the American Red Cross in the late 1940s, O’Connor expanded his humanitarian efforts, raising funds to combat birth defects and arthritis. He remained president of the March of Dimes until his death in 1972 at the age of 80. —C.J. Hughes ’92

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1818SYLVANUS THAYERCLASS OF 1807SUPERINTENDENT OF WEST P OINT

He lived like a monk. He was punctual, and he had no vices. No wonder President James Monroe appointed Thayer superin-tendent of West Point in 1817. It was a fail-ing institution with lax academic and moral standards. Thayer, who attended the acad-emy after Dartmouth, came to Monroe’s attention because he planned and directed the defense of Norfolk, Virginia, during the War of 1812. The British captured many coastal forts, but not Thayer’s, and Uncle Sam rewarded the stalwart young engineer by sending him to Paris for advanced train-ing. During his 16-year tenure at the acad-emy, he became the embodiment of its motto: “Duty. Honor. Country.” A stern, yet beloved, leader with ramrod posture and piercing blue eyes, Thayer transformed West Point into the nation’s first engineer-ing school while insisting on strict disci-pline. At age 82 he gave Dartmouth funds to establish its own such school in 1867 and helped select its leader, Robert Fletcher, ensuring that the Thayer School of Engi-neering would also meet his Olympian standards.

1919MICHAEL ARAD ’91ARCHITECT

Growing up in Jerusalem, Arad lived with the threat of terror every day. He loved to visit Israel’s national hilltop cemetery for its beauty, silence, and forested grounds. A U.S.-Israeli citizen, he served for three years in Israel’s army after his first year at Dartmouth. “I never thought about not do-ing my military service,” he said. On 9/11 Arad, now an architect, was living in the East Village and saw the second plane ex-plode into the South Tower. Witnessing the horror made him begin to draw sketches and create mockups of a memorial—even before a competition was announced. A lone visionary, Arad worked without a team or partner. Judges chose his Reflecting Ab-sence design for the World Trade Center Memorial over 5,200 other entries. His goal? To create a place where people could

Beta Kappa at Dartmouth and the only magna cum laude graduate in his class, Just was denied the honor of giving a Com-mencement speech. Because he was the only black student in his class, the College decided it would have been embarrassing to let him play such a prominent role. After nearly dying of typhoid as a child, he had to teach himself how to read and write again. When he was 16 his mother sent him from Charleston, South Carolina, to a New Hampshire boarding school—without knowing if he would be admitted. One of the first black students to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Just did most of his research and teaching in Europe be-cause of racism at home. In 1940 he was briefly imprisoned by the Nazis. Freed through the intervention of the U.S. govern-ment, he returned home ailing and died soon thereafter of cancer, his already rich career cut too short.

2424ROB WATSON ’84ENVIRONMENTALIST

An Eagle Scout, black belt, mountain-eer, and crew racer, Watson has always been a leader. “We are either going to be losers or heroes,” he said. “There’s no room any-more for anything in between.” The father of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), he started the movement in 1993 to create environmentally conscious structures. He devised the Green Building Rating System guidelines that require eco-friendly components, construction, and building management. LEED has proven that green buildings can be more cost-effi-cient to build and operate than old-style structures. Since 1998 more than 80,000 projects have been built to its standards, saving vast amounts of energy and resourc-es. “Rob Watson was seminal in LEED’s creation,” says Rick Fedrizzi, former CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council. “It has transformed the real estate market.”

2525JAMES NACHTWEY ’70PHOTOJOURNALIST

For more than 35 years acclaimed photographer Nachtwey has crisscrossed the globe to show magazine readers the worst the world has to offer—wars, famine, disaster, pollution, and homelessness. Of his work and that of his peers, he says, “We question the powerful. We hold decision-makers ac-countable. The chain we help forge links the people we encounter in the field to millions of other individual minds and sensibilities. And once mass consciousness evolves into a shared sense of conscience, change be-comes not only possible; it becomes inevi-table.” Nachtwey has repeatedly risked his life to capture decisive moments. He was injured by a grenade in Baghdad, shot in Thailand, and had to hide in a Sri Lankan monastery for three weeks until it was safe to flee. Time magazine in 2018 devoted an entire issue to his “Opioid Diaries” docu-menting that drug epidemic. The world trav-eler has won numerous honors, including Magazine Photographer of the Year (seven times), World Press Photo Award (twice), and the Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times).

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2020ALBERT BICKMORE CLASS OF 1860NATURALIST AND MUSEUM FOUNDER

Born into a poor family on the Maine coast, Bickmore had a treasured childhood moment—being allowed to hold a book on natural history. He loved collecting speci-mens on the shore and in the woods. After college he trekked in Siberia and East Asia and penned Jules Verne-style true-life trav-elogues with headings such as “To the Land of the Cannibals,” “Pits for the Rhinoceros,” and “A Boiling Pool.” He watched a mentor start a Boston zoology museum and—believ-ing museums should be temples of science, art, and history, not the slap-dash affairs that many U.S. museums were at the time—he conceived and founded the American Museum of Natural History in 1869. He raised funds from financier J.P. Morgan and Teddy Roosevelt’s philanthropist father. A bold orator, Bickmore held the radical belief that museums should support public educa-tion. Science classes were a rarity in schools then, and Bickmore gave lectures to almost 20,000 teachers using high-tech tools such as stereopticons and lantern slides, a pre-electric PowerPoint. Museum curators across the country marveled. Following his lead, they forever changed the scope and purpose of museums and education.

2121FRED ROGERS ’50TV PERSONALITY

Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister who said he never wanted to be a preacher. In truth, this unassuming, gentle man had one of the nation’s most influential pulpits: For 33 years he hosted Mister Rog-ers’ Neighborhood, the PBS show he created that taught children lessons in kindness, compassion, and love. “The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present

as much love as you possibly could to a per-son who needs it,” he once said. In all 895 episodes his message was the same: “You are special, and so is your neighbor.” The epitome of modesty and virtue, Rogers nei-ther drank nor smoked. He was a vegetarian. “I don’t want to eat anything that has a mother,” he once said. He rose every day at 5 to swim, and he napped every day, too. For 30 years his weight of 143 pounds remained the same. He believed that number stood for “I love you,” because there is one letter in “I,” four in “love,” and three in “you.” His sweater, a symbol of his warm embrace, is in the Smithsonian.

2222GRANT TINKER ’47TV PRODUCER AND EXECUTIVE

“First be best, then be first” was Tinker’s motto. During a career that spanned a half-century in radio and TV, this genial media pioneer produced programs unlike any ever broadcast. His 1960s drama I Spy made its black and white heroes equals. The Mary Tyler Moore Show of the 1970s depicted a single career woman who didn’t need a hus-band to be happy. (Its star, his wife of the same name, said Tinker “uniquely under-stood that the secret to great TV content was freedom for its creators and performing artists.”) Hill Street Blues in the 1980s used cinéma vérité to depict life in a hurly-burly urban police station. As CEO and chairman of NBC, he led his lagging network to first place with hits whose quirky characters seemed like next-door neighbors. Always self-effacing, Tinker lavished credit for his success on others, saying, “I had the good luck to be around people who did the kinds of work that audiences appreciate.”

2323E.E. JUSTCLASS OF 1907BIOLOGIST

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Our efforts to rank the College’s most in-fluential alumni—an idea inspired by the human fondness for lists, rankings, and the arguments that ensue—required deep dig-ging. For 10 years (no, that’s not a typo) we drew up lists. We deliberated. We wrestled with an ever-growing slate of candidates. Nothing came easy.

In the end, we decided not to decide. Instead we asked professors to do the

rigorous intellectual work and heavy lifting. We called on faculty members from eight disciplines to serve as our panel of experts. DAM board member James “Jed” Dobson of the English department embraced the role of chairman, undaunted by the task of bring-ing faculty members to consensus. Joining him were Leslie Butler (history), Marlene Heck (art history), Russell Muirhead (gov-ernment), Adina Roskies (philosophy and psychological and brain sciences), Bruce Sacerdote ’90 (economics), James Whit-field (physics and astronomy), and associate dean of arts and humanities Barbara Will (English).

Dobson asked each to submit by email his or her own top 25 after considering a list of about 100 candidates winnowed down by DAM editors from a much larger list. Panel-ists were also allowed to introduce addi-tional candidates. When the lists arrived, Dobson tallied the points with the help of Sacerdote and produced a shortlist worthy of debate—and dinner.

On a November night in 2017 the panel convened with the editors at the Paganucci Lounge. The discussion quickly focused

on the difficult issues. How is it possible to weigh the established legacy of a long-dead alum with the ongoing achievements of a living alum? What does the word influential mean? Should having a negative impact be cause for elimination?

Consensus quickly developed that a ranked alum’s influence should be positive. Panel members were relieved when they real-ized few alums would be dinged on that basis. “We may not have a Hitler, but we do have some people who I think bring discredit to the institution. I will be upset if the list in-cludes someone who does that,” said Roskies.

“I was struck by a guideline suggested by the editors that we should ask ourselves if the world would be different if the alum hadn’t existed,” said Heck. “That’s why weighing contemporaries is so hard.”

At this point the conversation veered into the possibility of having multiple lists: living alumni, the dead, a separate ranking for women. This was quickly squashed by the editors. One list to serve them all. If the list skews white, male, and 19th-century, so be it. No revisionist history, please.

What about living alums who are celeb-rities—people who are famous for being fa-mous? Butler observed that some would say Kim Kardashian is an influential cultural figure because of her millions of Twitter followers. “Not a quantitative metric in my view,” she quickly added.

Muirhead chimed in, observing it’s not enough to be famous. One must have impact, too. “In political philosophy we distinguish between people who rise to

positions of great notoriety by respond-ing to the existing shape of public opinion with exquisitely calibrated instincts,” he said. “Then there are those who create a new shape and in the most extreme cases would be seen as heroic—such as Lincoln, who inserted the opinion that slavery was bad into a debate about expanding slavery into the territories.”

Will added that the humanities value people who contribute “a deepening of our aesthetic and understanding of the world. I’m thinking of Robert Frost [class of 1896], a vernacular poet, but not until one or two generations later did we realize he was a great American poet.”

The panel grew self-conscious about its task, aware that this public enterprise was more than an academic exercise. Several professors worried about “the optics” of the list. How would it look, one wondered, if an alum who hadn’t graduated topped the list? (The College considers anyone who matriculates to be an alum.) What if a certain world-famous children’s author were ranked higher than a globe-straddling statesman?

Ultimately, the panel got around to the hard work of culling and ranking. No one held back. “I feel my soul shrinking,” said Will in response to a colleague’s support of one candidate. “So-and-so ranked above so-and-so just seems crazy,” a frustrated profes-sor grumbled. “This is hard,” sighed another.

Dinner was served and so were passion-ate endorsements. Butler made a case for including Annette Gordon-Reed ’81 (No. 16).

“She completely, fundamentally changed how we think about Jefferson,” Butler con-tended. Architectural scholar Heck insisted that 9/11 Memorial architect Michael Arad ’91 (No. 19) made the definitive contribu-tion to America’s processing of that day. Will articulated the lasting contributions of Louise Erdrich ’76 (No. 13) to literature and Native American studies. “She is one of the most incredible writers living today,” Will said.

Whitfield later addressed a matchup between the arts and science: “The work of Ed Lorenz ’38 [No. 11] is particularly timely as we consider the future of the earth’s cli-mate. This makes him one of the top five on my list, although I wouldn’t place him higher than Frost because of his lack of recognition in the broader public sphere.”

After dessert and coffee, each professor wrote a new list based on all they’d heard, leaving it up to DAM to run the numbers and the final rankings. The panelists waved goodbye and headed off—no homework for this group. The editors calculated the re-sults, presented here for the first time.

Did the panel do a good job? Its list is well balanced: six come from politics, eight from the arts, and 11 from science and medi-cine. Despite disagreements, 21 of the final 25 got votes from all eight panelists, and the top 13 garnered more than 100 points, with Daniel Webster, class of 1801, atop the leaderboard with 196. DAM leaves the ultimate decision up to you, our reader, to decide. We believe it’s all arguable—and we welcome an ongoing debate. —The Editors

How We Chose the Top 256

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First Dartmouth building:Wheelock’s log cabin. (1770)

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamiltonreceives honorary degree. (1790)

Medical School opens. (1797)Three students fire a cannon and blast a holein Dartmouth Hall. They are expelled. (1811)

Literary Adelphi club founded. (1799) It morphsinto Alpha Delta frat, inspiration for

1978’s Animal House.

Students start anti-slavery society. (1835)

Fence protects Green from grazing cattle. (1836)

Students shun filthy dorms for private lodgings. (1846)First Class Day held at the Old Pine. (1850)

Alumni Association is founded andShattuck Observatory opens. (1854)Pro-slavery President Nathan Lord

resigns. (1863)

Thayer School opens. (1871)Poet Walt Whitman speaks at Commencement.A poor public speaker, he is barely heard. (1872)

Trustees appoint committee to studycoeducation—it never reports back. (1872)

Housing shortage forces building of 13 new dorms. (1894)

The Green’s fence is torn down (1893) and rebuilt. (1899)

Clement’s Swamp becomes Occom Pond. (1900)Dartmouth Hall burns (1904) and reopens. (1906)

Grand opening of Baker Library. (1928)

Edwin Sanborn, class of 1878, funds eponymous library. (1929)

Orozco begins murals. (1932)A second Dartmouth Hall fire

forces renovation. (1935)

Mail is no longer delivered to dorm rooms. (1951)Dorm staff no longer make student beds. (1952)

Ike speaks at Commencement. Secret Service agents don caps and gowns. (1953)

Modernist Hopkins Center opens. (1962)

Carnival Queen contest is abolished. (1972)First Pow Wow. (1973)

ROTC phases out (1969-73) and returns. (1985)

Hood Museum opens to acclaim. (1985)

President Jim Wright announcesStudent Life Initiative to improve

out-of-classroom experience. (1999)The house system is created. (2015)

CAMPUS

STUDENT LIFE

Students are forbidden to leave their rooms on Sundays except to eat and go to church.

Daily chapel at 5 a.m.Each graduating class must pull upat least one stump from the Green.

College rule requires “fagging”—freshmen must run errands for seniors.

Students ignore ban on keepingchickens in dorms.

Students found with cards or dicein dorm rooms are fined $5. (1822)

First black student Edward Mitchell ’28 is admitted. (1824)

Last stump is pulled from the Green. (1836)

Students “horn” profs by laying siege to their homes with annoying

late-night ruckuses.Green is adopted as the College’s

color. (1866)

“Wah-hoo-wah!” is yelled for the first time. (1879)First secret society, Sphinx, is founded.

The Aegis appears. (1886)Lightning strikes the Old Pine. (1887)First bonfire lit on the Green. (1888)

Richard Hovey, class of 1885, writes“Men of Dartmouth.” (1894)

The Old Pine is cut down. (1895)First Dartmouth Night parade. (1904)

Alumni magazine begins publishing. (1905)Winter Carnival begins. (1911)

The Dartmouth goes daily. (1920)Girls and “moderate” drinking permitted

in dorm rooms. (1934)

Girls and drinking banned from dorm rooms. (1945)Sigma Nus truck in a two-ton block of frozen orangejuice to be carved into a Carnival sculpture. (1950)

Dean forbids hazing ritual ofnonconsensual haircuts. (1951)

First women’s secret society—Cobra—forms. (1978)Dartmouth Review is launched. (1980)

DGALA is founded. (1984)N.H. raises drinking age to 20 (1979) then 21. (1985)

Safer Sex kit debuts on campus. (1987)

Keggy! (2003)First Dartmouth Idol. (2008)

Students run multiple laps around bonfirefor final time. (2017)

STUDENT LIFE

PROFESSORS & ACADEMICS

First classes begin with 20 students and four tutors.

Eleazar Wheelock buys “philosophical instruments”

—an air pump, telescope, thermometer, and a barometer. (1783)

To be admitted, students must be familiar with

the New Testament in Greek and Cicero’s orations

and the Aeneid in Latin.

Freshman fall curriculum: Livy, Roman antiquities,Greek grammar. (1822)

Private tutors teach French. (1820s)

C’est bon! Funds found to hirea French professor. (1859)

Only two electives—French and calculus. (1870)First graduate degree is awarded—a Ph.D. (1885)

Teaching of classical and modern art begins. (1890)

First woman graduates—with a master’s in biology. (1896)

Tuck School founded. (1900)Course credit given for summer

military training. (1916)

Nation’s first mandatory evolution classfor freshmen is offered. (1920)

Selective admissions begin. (1921)Biology prof William Patten discovers new fish

species. Names it Dartmuthia gemmifera Patten. (1931)

Mandatory freshman classes on sex,alcohol, and hygiene end. (1957)

Coed exchanges with other schools begin. (1963)

Biologist Hannah Croasdale becomes first tenured female professor. (1964)

College admits 75 women as exchange students. (1969)

Native American program is established. (1970)Trustees unanimously approve coeducation. (1971)

Women’s studies launches. (1978)

A descendant of Samson Occom graduates. (2000)Dartmouth names a record 12 valedictorians

and salutatorians. (2015) Cheating scandal claims 64 students. (2015)

PROFESSORS & ACADEMICS

SPORTS

Eleazar Wheelock calls “playing

with balls and bowls… puerile.” (1770)

Students exercise with military drills and marching.Wickets, a type of croquet, is played.

First college team: cricket.

Quoits (a game like horseshoes) debuts.

Canoeing. Boxing. Swimming. Fencing.

Skaters play “shinney,” an early form of hockey,

on the river. (1860s)“Base-ball” is the first

intercollegiate sport. (1866)First gym boasts six

bowling alleys. (1866)

Dartmouth plays its first intercollegiatefootball game against Amherst and wins, 1-0. (1881)

Dartmouth loses its last-ever intercollegiatetug-of-war. (1892)

Hockey team plays onoutdoor rink. (1905)

Dartmouth Outing Club founded. (1909)

First game at Memorial Field. (1923)National football champs: 8-0-0. (1925)

First U.S. downhill ski race at Moosilauke. (1928)Indoor hockey rink opens. (1930)

Hockey coach Eddie Jeremiah leadsCollege’s winningest teams—until 2017—

with 302-239-11 record. (1937-67)Skiway opens. (1957)

Back-to-back Ivy football champs.(1969-1973; 1981-82; 1990-92)

Women’s sports: tennis, lacrosse, basketball,skiing, squash, and field hockey. (1972)

Ski jump is dismantled. (1993)

Gridders are Ivy League champs. (1996, 2015)

Swimming, diving teams are temporarily abolished. (2002)

SPORTS

GETTING HERE

New Hampshire’s first highway, the Wolfeborough road, links Dartmouth

and the governor’s estate 90 miles away. (1771)Norwich ferry costs 1 cent. (1776)

Norwich-Hanover bridgeopens (1796) and collapses. (1804)

Stagecoach to Boston takes at least three days.

First steamboat service to Hanover offeredaboard The John Ledyard. (1831)

Train stations open in Lebanon (1847) and in Norwich. (1848)

Sixteen-passenger stagecoaches hitchedto six horses ply the Boston-to-Hanover route.

The trip takes a day and a half.No “coach sickness” refunds given.

First horseless carriage arrives. (1901)

Last ferry crosses the river. (1908)

Special holiday trains run to Boston, New York,and Chicago from Norwich. (1930s)

The Appalachian Trail opens (1937) and runsdown Main Street.

Train from N.Y.C. takes 6.5 hours. (1938)

Commercial flights take off to New York,Montreal, and elsewhere from

Lebanon Airport. (1948)Norwich I-91 exit opens. (1966)

Direct flights to Detroit, Chicago, and six other citiesfrom Lebanon Airport. (1969)

Dartmouth Coach runs vans to Logan Airport (1990s)

and buses to N.Y.C. (2009)Uber! (2017)

Train to N.Y.C. still takes 6.5 hours. (2019)

GETTING HERE

HANOVER

Town is established. (1761) Settlers arrive. (1765)Students with smallpox are quarantined. (1777)

The Dresden Mercury, the Upper Valley’s firstnewspaper, is published. (1779)

Legislature meets here, making Hanoverthe state’s temporary capital. (1795)

First public water system is built. (1805)Dartmouth Hotel opens. (1813)

Visitor Ralph Waldo Emersoncalls Hanover “a very pretty village.” (1829)

Town requires pig and cattle ownersto keep their beasts off the streets. (1852)

Telegraph office opens. (1853)

One-third of all students fall illduring typhoid epidemic. (1875)Dartmouth Hotel burns. (1887)

Wheelock Hotel opens on same site. (1889)

First street—South Main—is paved. (1901)Wheelock Hotel closes and reopens as the

Hanover Inn under the College’s control. (1901)Nugget Theater opens. Tickets are 10¢. (1916)

Record low of -40 on February 16, 1943.

Lou’s opens. (1947)Dutch elm disease and

cable TV arrive. (mid-1950s)Local TV station WRLH goes on air. (1966)

Presidential candidates beginflocking to New Hampshire.

Record high temp of 103 on Aug. 2, 1975.Record 31-inch snowfall on

Christmas Day. (1978)

Pop. 11,260 (2010)Starbucks opens. (2012)

Bye-bye, EBAs (2017), Dartmouth Bookstore. (2018)

HANOVER

WORLD EVENTS

A nation is born. (1776)War strains the College’s purse and brings fear of Indian raids.

Students leave to fight for freedom. (1776-81)

A cannon is fired on the Green to

celebrate Napoleon’s defeat. (1814)

An economic depression from 1839 to 1843 causes enrollment to collapse

from 341 (1840) to 179 (1845). The College’sfinances are severely strained.

Six hundred fifty-two students, alums, andfuture students fight for the Union,

44 for the Rebs. (1861-65)

Bell Telephone is founded, and the “long-wished-for” marvel rings

for the first time in Hanover. (1877) (Bell’s president, Gardiner Hubbard, class of 1841,

will oversee its transition into AT&T.)

Students opposed to U.S. entry intoWorld War I gather to protest. (1917)

Global influenza epidemic strikes.Alumni Gym becomes a sick ward.325 students fall ill. Five die. (1918)

Women take staff and teaching jobs. (1941-45)Military service and education combine inthe V-12 Naval Training Program. Trainees

outnumber students 3:1. (1943-46)

The G.I. Bill benefits more than 300students returning to the College from

service in WW II and Korea.

Vietnam rages. Students occupy Parkhurst. (1969)Apartheid protest on the Green. (1985)

Shanties destroyed. (1986)

Eleven alums die on 9/11. (2001)Occupy Wall Street becomes OccupyDartmouth in front of Collis. (2011-12)

WORLD EVENTS

FASHIONKnee britches rule.

Commencement dress code:“Black coat, waist coat and small clothes, large silver shoe buckles, black silk gloves,

and a black cocked hat.” Hair powdered white and “cued down with a black ribbon.” (1795)

Era of pantaloons (trousers) begins.Beaver hats.

White gloves for formal occasions.

Top hats.Frock coats partner with vests.

Spats complete the look.

Goodbye, top hats.Hello, bowlers. (1882)

The wet look for hair.High collars and sock garters. (1915)

Hip flasks. Letter sweaters. Raccoon coats.Trousers are “delegged” in -30 temps for“the supreme pleasure of complete leg

freedom.” (1930)

Narrow bow ties. (1951)Freshmen burn beanies. (1963)

Bye-bye, beanies. Freshmen go capless. (1973)Streakers do their thing. (1974)

Rugby shirts, down vests, and long hair. (1977)

J. Crew opens in Hanover. (2013)Canada Goose parkas andtattoos make their mark.

FASHION

TECHNOLOGY

Students defy ban on indoor wood chopping.

Horn is blown to callstudents to classes. (1779)

Candles. Axes. Bucksaws.

Fireplaces.

All computing is done with quill pens,chalk, and pencils.

Wood stoves begin replacing fireplaces. (1824)Early photographers capture

first images of the College. (1837)

The stapler is invented. Bureaucracy ensues. (1866) Gas lighting is installed. (1872)

Steam heat comes to Reed Hall. (1876)

Dorms get running water for bathing.Some older alums object to the

“softening” of college life. (1894) Electric lights! (1895)

Central heating plant is built. (1898)

Radio club is founded. (1922)Profs use photostat machines to create handouts.

Computer in N.Y.C. is remotely accessedfrom McNutt Hall—a world first. (1940)

WDCR-AM begins broadcasting. (1958)College gets its first computer—an 800-pound,

desk-sized LGP-30. (1959)

Campus cable TV premieres. (1977)

Computer cost included in financial aid. (1984)

Blitzmail! (1987)Students required to own a

computer. (1991)

Dartmouth launches first web page. (1994)Campus goes wireless. (2001)

iPhone! (2007)College application is available only online. (2007)

Last pay phone removed from campus. (2014)

TECHNOLOGY

ENROLLMENT/TUITION

20 (1771)£15.20 or payment in horses, cattle, wheat, or woolen

goods (room and board included).

174 (1810)$21.60 (1800)

341 (1840)$26 (1820)

368 (1860)$31.50 (1850)

291 (1880)$90 (1880)

642 (1900)$125 (1910)

1,815 (1920)$450 (1940)

2,599 (1950)$1,400 (1960)

3,483 (1980)$2,550 (1970); $4,445/term (1988)

4,410 (2017)$53,496 (2018)

ENROLLMENT/TUITION

1894-19181844-18681794-18181769-1793 1819-1843 1869-1893

CAMPUS

First Dartmouth building:Wheelock’s log cabin. (1770)

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamiltonreceives honorary degree. (1790)

Medical School opens. (1797)Three students fire a cannon and blast a holein Dartmouth Hall. They are expelled. (1811)

Literary Adelphi club founded. (1799) It morphsinto Alpha Delta frat, inspiration for

1978’s Animal House.

Students start anti-slavery society. (1835)

Fence protects Green from grazing cattle. (1836)

Students shun filthy dorms for private lodgings. (1846)First Class Day held at the Old Pine. (1850)

Alumni Association is founded andShattuck Observatory opens. (1854)Pro-slavery President Nathan Lord

resigns. (1863)

Thayer School opens. (1871)Poet Walt Whitman speaks at Commencement.A poor public speaker, he is barely heard. (1872)

Trustees appoint committee to studycoeducation—it never reports back. (1872)

Housing shortage forces building of 13 new dorms. (1894)

The Green’s fence is torn down (1893) and rebuilt. (1899)

Clement’s Swamp becomes Occom Pond. (1900)Dartmouth Hall burns (1904) and reopens. (1906)

Grand opening of Baker Library. (1928)

Edwin Sanborn, class of 1878, funds eponymous library. (1929)

Orozco begins murals. (1932)A second Dartmouth Hall fire

forces renovation. (1935)

Mail is no longer delivered to dorm rooms. (1951)Dorm staff no longer make student beds. (1952)

Ike speaks at Commencement. Secret Service agents don caps and gowns. (1953)

Modernist Hopkins Center opens. (1962)

Carnival Queen contest is abolished. (1972)First Pow Wow. (1973)

ROTC phases out (1969-73) and returns. (1985)

Hood Museum opens to acclaim. (1985)

President Jim Wright announcesStudent Life Initiative to improve

out-of-classroom experience. (1999)The house system is created. (2015)

CAMPUS

STUDENT LIFE

Students are forbidden to leave their rooms on Sundays except to eat and go to church.

Daily chapel at 5 a.m.Each graduating class must pull upat least one stump from the Green.

College rule requires “fagging”—freshmen must run errands for seniors.

Students ignore ban on keepingchickens in dorms.

Students found with cards or dicein dorm rooms are fined $5. (1822)

First black student Edward Mitchell ’28 is admitted. (1824)

Last stump is pulled from the Green. (1836)

Students “horn” profs by laying siege to their homes with annoying

late-night ruckuses.Green is adopted as the College’s

color. (1866)

“Wah-hoo-wah!” is yelled for the first time. (1879)First secret society, Sphinx, is founded.

The Aegis appears. (1886)Lightning strikes the Old Pine. (1887)First bonfire lit on the Green. (1888)

Richard Hovey, class of 1885, writes“Men of Dartmouth.” (1894)

The Old Pine is cut down. (1895)First Dartmouth Night parade. (1904)

Alumni magazine begins publishing. (1905)Winter Carnival begins. (1911)

The Dartmouth goes daily. (1920)Girls and “moderate” drinking permitted

in dorm rooms. (1934)

Girls and drinking banned from dorm rooms. (1945)Sigma Nus truck in a two-ton block of frozen orangejuice to be carved into a Carnival sculpture. (1950)

Dean forbids hazing ritual ofnonconsensual haircuts. (1951)

First women’s secret society—Cobra—forms. (1978)Dartmouth Review is launched. (1980)

DGALA is founded. (1984)N.H. raises drinking age to 20 (1979) then 21. (1985)

Safer Sex kit debuts on campus. (1987)

Keggy! (2003)First Dartmouth Idol. (2008)

Students run multiple laps around bonfirefor final time. (2017)

STUDENT LIFE

PROFESSORS & ACADEMICS

First classes begin with 20 students and four tutors.

Eleazar Wheelock buys “philosophical instruments”

—an air pump, telescope, thermometer, and a barometer. (1783)

To be admitted, students must be familiar with

the New Testament in Greek and Cicero’s orations

and the Aeneid in Latin.

Freshman fall curriculum: Livy, Roman antiquities,Greek grammar. (1822)

Private tutors teach French. (1820s)

C’est bon! Funds found to hirea French professor. (1859)

Only two electives—French and calculus. (1870)First graduate degree is awarded—a Ph.D. (1885)

Teaching of classical and modern art begins. (1890)

First woman graduates—with a master’s in biology. (1896)

Tuck School founded. (1900)Course credit given for summer

military training. (1916)

Nation’s first mandatory evolution classfor freshmen is offered. (1920)

Selective admissions begin. (1921)Biology prof William Patten discovers new fish

species. Names it Dartmuthia gemmifera Patten. (1931)

Mandatory freshman classes on sex,alcohol, and hygiene end. (1957)

Coed exchanges with other schools begin. (1963)

Biologist Hannah Croasdale becomes first tenured female professor. (1964)

College admits 75 women as exchange students. (1969)

Native American program is established. (1970)Trustees unanimously approve coeducation. (1971)

Women’s studies launches. (1978)

A descendant of Samson Occom graduates. (2000)Dartmouth names a record 12 valedictorians

and salutatorians. (2015) Cheating scandal claims 64 students. (2015)

PROFESSORS & ACADEMICS

SPORTS

Eleazar Wheelock calls “playing

with balls and bowls… puerile.” (1770)

Students exercise with military drills and marching.Wickets, a type of croquet, is played.

First college team: cricket.

Quoits (a game like horseshoes) debuts.

Canoeing. Boxing. Swimming. Fencing.

Skaters play “shinney,” an early form of hockey,

on the river. (1860s)“Base-ball” is the first

intercollegiate sport. (1866)First gym boasts six

bowling alleys. (1866)

Dartmouth plays its first intercollegiatefootball game against Amherst and wins, 1-0. (1881)

Dartmouth loses its last-ever intercollegiatetug-of-war. (1892)

Hockey team plays onoutdoor rink. (1905)

Dartmouth Outing Club founded. (1909)

First game at Memorial Field. (1923)National football champs: 8-0-0. (1925)

First U.S. downhill ski race at Moosilauke. (1928)Indoor hockey rink opens. (1930)

Hockey coach Eddie Jeremiah leadsCollege’s winningest teams—until 2017—

with 302-239-11 record. (1937-67)Skiway opens. (1957)

Back-to-back Ivy football champs.(1969-1973; 1981-82; 1990-92)

Women’s sports: tennis, lacrosse, basketball,skiing, squash, and field hockey. (1972)

Ski jump is dismantled. (1993)

Gridders are Ivy League champs. (1996, 2015)

Swimming, diving teams are temporarily abolished. (2002)

SPORTS

GETTING HERE

New Hampshire’s first highway, the Wolfeborough road, links Dartmouth

and the governor’s estate 90 miles away. (1771)Norwich ferry costs 1 cent. (1776)

Norwich-Hanover bridgeopens (1796) and collapses. (1804)

Stagecoach to Boston takes at least three days.

First steamboat service to Hanover offeredaboard The John Ledyard. (1831)

Train stations open in Lebanon (1847) and in Norwich. (1848)

Sixteen-passenger stagecoaches hitchedto six horses ply the Boston-to-Hanover route.

The trip takes a day and a half.No “coach sickness” refunds given.

First horseless carriage arrives. (1901)

Last ferry crosses the river. (1908)

Special holiday trains run to Boston, New York,and Chicago from Norwich. (1930s)

The Appalachian Trail opens (1937) and runsdown Main Street.

Train from N.Y.C. takes 6.5 hours. (1938)

Commercial flights take off to New York,Montreal, and elsewhere from

Lebanon Airport. (1948)Norwich I-91 exit opens. (1966)

Direct flights to Detroit, Chicago, and six other citiesfrom Lebanon Airport. (1969)

Dartmouth Coach runs vans to Logan Airport (1990s)

and buses to N.Y.C. (2009)Uber! (2017)

Train to N.Y.C. still takes 6.5 hours. (2019)

GETTING HERE

HANOVER

Town is established. (1761) Settlers arrive. (1765)Students with smallpox are quarantined. (1777)

The Dresden Mercury, the Upper Valley’s firstnewspaper, is published. (1779)

Legislature meets here, making Hanoverthe state’s temporary capital. (1795)

First public water system is built. (1805)Dartmouth Hotel opens. (1813)

Visitor Ralph Waldo Emersoncalls Hanover “a very pretty village.” (1829)

Town requires pig and cattle ownersto keep their beasts off the streets. (1852)

Telegraph office opens. (1853)

One-third of all students fall illduring typhoid epidemic. (1875)Dartmouth Hotel burns. (1887)

Wheelock Hotel opens on same site. (1889)

First street—South Main—is paved. (1901)Wheelock Hotel closes and reopens as the

Hanover Inn under the College’s control. (1901)Nugget Theater opens. Tickets are 10¢. (1916)

Record low of -40 on February 16, 1943.

Lou’s opens. (1947)Dutch elm disease and

cable TV arrive. (mid-1950s)Local TV station WRLH goes on air. (1966)

Presidential candidates beginflocking to New Hampshire.

Record high temp of 103 on Aug. 2, 1975.Record 31-inch snowfall on

Christmas Day. (1978)

Pop. 11,260 (2010)Starbucks opens. (2012)

Bye-bye, EBAs (2017), Dartmouth Bookstore. (2018)

HANOVER

WORLD EVENTS

A nation is born. (1776)War strains the College’s purse and brings fear of Indian raids.

Students leave to fight for freedom. (1776-81)

A cannon is fired on the Green to

celebrate Napoleon’s defeat. (1814)

An economic depression from 1839 to 1843 causes enrollment to collapse

from 341 (1840) to 179 (1845). The College’sfinances are severely strained.

Six hundred fifty-two students, alums, andfuture students fight for the Union,

44 for the Rebs. (1861-65)

Bell Telephone is founded, and the “long-wished-for” marvel rings

for the first time in Hanover. (1877) (Bell’s president, Gardiner Hubbard, class of 1841,

will oversee its transition into AT&T.)

Students opposed to U.S. entry intoWorld War I gather to protest. (1917)

Global influenza epidemic strikes.Alumni Gym becomes a sick ward.325 students fall ill. Five die. (1918)

Women take staff and teaching jobs. (1941-45)Military service and education combine inthe V-12 Naval Training Program. Trainees

outnumber students 3:1. (1943-46)

The G.I. Bill benefits more than 300students returning to the College from

service in WW II and Korea.

Vietnam rages. Students occupy Parkhurst. (1969)Apartheid protest on the Green. (1985)

Shanties destroyed. (1986)

Eleven alums die on 9/11. (2001)Occupy Wall Street becomes OccupyDartmouth in front of Collis. (2011-12)

WORLD EVENTS

FASHIONKnee britches rule.

Commencement dress code:“Black coat, waist coat and small clothes, large silver shoe buckles, black silk gloves,

and a black cocked hat.” Hair powdered white and “cued down with a black ribbon.” (1795)

Era of pantaloons (trousers) begins.Beaver hats.

White gloves for formal occasions.

Top hats.Frock coats partner with vests.

Spats complete the look.

Goodbye, top hats.Hello, bowlers. (1882)

The wet look for hair.High collars and sock garters. (1915)

Hip flasks. Letter sweaters. Raccoon coats.Trousers are “delegged” in -30 temps for“the supreme pleasure of complete leg

freedom.” (1930)

Narrow bow ties. (1951)Freshmen burn beanies. (1963)

Bye-bye, beanies. Freshmen go capless. (1973)Streakers do their thing. (1974)

Rugby shirts, down vests, and long hair. (1977)

J. Crew opens in Hanover. (2013)Canada Goose parkas andtattoos make their mark.

FASHION

TECHNOLOGY

Students defy ban on indoor wood chopping.

Horn is blown to callstudents to classes. (1779)

Candles. Axes. Bucksaws.

Fireplaces.

All computing is done with quill pens,chalk, and pencils.

Wood stoves begin replacing fireplaces. (1824)Early photographers capture

first images of the College. (1837)

The stapler is invented. Bureaucracy ensues. (1866) Gas lighting is installed. (1872)

Steam heat comes to Reed Hall. (1876)

Dorms get running water for bathing.Some older alums object to the

“softening” of college life. (1894) Electric lights! (1895)

Central heating plant is built. (1898)

Radio club is founded. (1922)Profs use photostat machines to create handouts.

Computer in N.Y.C. is remotely accessedfrom McNutt Hall—a world first. (1940)

WDCR-AM begins broadcasting. (1958)College gets its first computer—an 800-pound,

desk-sized LGP-30. (1959)

Campus cable TV premieres. (1977)

Computer cost included in financial aid. (1984)

Blitzmail! (1987)Students required to own a

computer. (1991)

Dartmouth launches first web page. (1994)Campus goes wireless. (2001)

iPhone! (2007)College application is available only online. (2007)

Last pay phone removed from campus. (2014)

TECHNOLOGY

ENROLLMENT/TUITION

20 (1771)£15.20 or payment in horses, cattle, wheat, or woolen

goods (room and board included).

174 (1810)$21.60 (1800)

341 (1840)$26 (1820)

368 (1860)$31.50 (1850)

291 (1880)$90 (1880)

642 (1900)$125 (1910)

1,815 (1920)$450 (1940)

2,599 (1950)$1,400 (1960)

3,483 (1980)$2,550 (1970); $4,445/term (1988)

4,410 (2017)$53,496 (2018)

ENROLLMENT/TUITION

1994-20191944-19681894-1918 1919-1943 1969-19931869-1893

J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 9 101

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THE EARTH-SHATTERING ARRIVAL OF COEDUCATION IN 1972 DIDN’T COME WITHOUT PLENTY OF FRETTING BY AN ALL-MALE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. HERE’S THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RESHAPING OF THE COLLEGE IN ITS HISTORY.

BY NANCY WEISS MALKIEL

Excerpted from “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation by Nancy Weiss Malkiel. © 2016 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission.

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resident John Kemeny went home after a meeting of the board of trust-

ees on Saturday, November 20, 1971, “very tired and worried,” he later recalled. Jean Kemeny, his wife, said he was, uncharacteristi-cally, “quite depressed.”

The board had met all day to consider reports and discuss the many issues involved in year-round operation and coedu-cation. The vote would be taken on Sunday.

Kemeny had been president for only 21 months, and he had a modest reservoir of shared experience with his trustee col-leagues. He had inherited a study about coeducation launched by his predecessor, and even though he had come to the presi-dency as a member of the study committee, it was not the sort of scenario for accomplishing major institutional change that a governance expert would have scripted.

As the board approached the moment of decision, Kemeny wasn’t certain he could win a vote for coeducation.

For all of Kemeny’s personal conviction about the desir-ability of coeducation, he had not been able to build the sure command over his board that characterized Robert Goheen’s leadership at Princeton or to equal the strong influence that Kingman Brewster wielded at Yale.

“I don’t have the votes,” Kemeny said to his wife.She told him to list how he thought each trustee would

vote. He made three columns—“Yes,” “Maybe,” and “No.” “The first was the shortest and the last the longest,” he recalled. “It looked like I needed all the people listed as ‘Maybe’ just to get a bare majority.”

Back in October the board unanimously approved five principles under which coeducation would be administered: All prospective undergraduates would apply to and be evalu-ated by the same admission office. Financial aid and student employment would be administered equally for all undergradu-ates. A single faculty would be responsible for undergraduate education. All undergraduates would be subject to the same regulations with respect to housing and dining, medical care, counseling, and other services. Finally, all undergraduates who fulfilled degree requirements would be awarded Dartmouth degrees. Approval of the principles did not mean that the trust-ees would approve coeducation when they met in November. Rather, it meant that if coeducation were to be instituted, the principles would be honored.

Knowing already that the faculty strongly favored coedu-cation, the trustees also asked for a faculty vote on the year-round operation of the College. That vote triggered an article in The New York Times on October 27. The paper accurately described the proposal for year-round operation, together with coeducation, that would be presented to the board at its late-November meeting. Dartmouth would have four terms of about ten weeks each. Students would normally complete their degree requirements in eleven rather than twelve terms: a traditional freshman year of three terms on campus, followed by eight out of twelve possible terms for sophomore, junior, and

senior years, one of which would be a summer term, normally before or after the junior year. Students would be able to create personalized academic calendars, taking account of the seasons (Was spending the winter in Hanover appealing or not? Were there special educational programs—ecology, for example—that could best be accomplished at certain times of year?) and hav-ing the chance to make room for significant job experiences or foreign study. “The plan has generated enormous excitement at the college,” Kemeny told the Times. “What all started out as a means of expanding economically for coeducation has now emerged as a new pattern for higher education.”

What was not accurate was the article’s headline: “Dart-mouth Acts to Admit Coeds.” “Disastrous,” board chair Charles J. Zimmerman, class of 1923, told his colleagues. The Times story “created an outburst of indignation on the part of many alumni,” who “have felt that the ground has been cut out from under the board to the extent where a fair, objective, and inde-pendent decision by the board has become an impossibility.”

That was not true, Zimmerman assured angry correspon-dents: “The board will not be pressured into making a decision

either pro or con. Each member of the board, I am confident, will vote his own conscience and vote for what he considers to be in the best interests of keeping Dartmouth as, hopefully, the preeminent undergraduate college in the United States.”

How that would unfold, however, was far from clear as the board prepared to make a decision.

immerman’s assurances were well founded. The board was not about to be pressured into any decisions. But there was more work to be done be-fore the late-November 1971 meet-ing, when the board would be ready to show its hand.

In early November the board asked for a vote of the student body. The results favored coedu-cation by a margin of 72 to 27 percent and year-round operation

with coeducation by 57 to 42 percent. The board also reviewed reports by the consulting firm Cresap, McCormick, and Paget, one about coeducation at Yale and Princeton, the other assess-ing Dartmouth’s estimates of the costs of admitting women. Alumni opposed to coeducation had argued that Dartmouth should wait to see how things were going at Yale and Princeton. Although their motive—to slow down the prospect of coedu-cation at Dartmouth—may have been suspect, there was real usefulness in the analysis of finances, academics, and social life at the two schools. The reports concluded that the effect of coeducation had been “overwhelmingly positive.”

The board was briefed by a Washington, D.C., attorney about the political and legal environment with respect to equal rights legislation. The College had been following closely the effort by U.S. Rep. Edith Green (D-Oregon) to prohibit dis-crimination on the basis of sex in educational programs or activities at institutions receiving federal aid. The concern was how Green’s initiative would affect Dartmouth should it choose to embark on coeducation, because equal access was never part of the conversation in Hanover. With the presumed

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quota on the number of women to be admitted, some female ap-plicants would surely be denied admission in favor of men with lesser credentials, clear evidence of discrimination. Whether establishing an associated school or coordinate college would be legally permissible was not yet known. In the end, the Senate did not include a sex discrimination amendment in the Higher Education Act, and the House struck the Green amendment when it approved the bill in early November. The decision gave Dartmouth the flexibility it desired to proceed.

he night before the vote, Jean Kemeny studied the names on her husband’s list and focused immediately on one man John had listed as a “No”—Lloyd Brace ’25, chairman of the First Na-tional Bank of Boston. He had led the search committee that

selected Kemeny as president and served as chair of the trustees from 1967 to 1970. Jean recalled the story Brace had told them about the discrimination his daughter encountered in medical school and surgical training. That experience, she thought, would lead Brace to vote yes.

As John recorded later, Brace “took the floor” in the Sunday meeting and explained, calmly and eloquently, “why he felt it was essential for Dartmouth to admit women. The world was changing…the traditional reasons for all-male colleges were disappearing. Our students needed to learn to work with both men and women. And we did not want to eliminate half the leadership talent in admitting students.” Given Brace’s stand-ing and influence, he swayed a number of votes.

The board voted unanimously to adopt the Dartmouth Plan for year-round operation and, by a “substantial majority,” to admit the first female candidates for the Dartmouth degree, effective in September 1972. Projected enrollment would be 3,000 males, 1,000 females. The total number of undergradu-ates on campus would be limited to about 3,400.

To the last, board members who were uneasy about co-education did what they could to slow it down. Zimmerman

suggested, for example, that they might announce a decision for coeducation but postpone implementation for two years, a prospect that appealed to a number of reluctant trustees. The governor of New Hampshire, Walter Peterson ’47, serving on the board by virtue of his office, spoke up forcefully to oppose that proposal. His political experience, he said, told him that unpopu-lar moves ought to be made quickly and decisively. Postponing implementation would give the opposition time to rally to get the decision reversed. Peterson was “so persuasive,” Kemeny recalled, that “he single-handedly changed the board’s mind on that one issue.” The margin in favor of coeducation was 12 to 4.

One opponent suggested that if coeducation had to happen, it would be better to have a unanimous vote. But only two of the dissenters were willing to switch their votes, so the public announcement followed the board’s normal practice of not disclosing the actual vote count. This action stood in contrast to Princeton’s handling of its trustee vote, wherein a decision was made to be candid about differences of opinion—indeed, as Princeton president William G. Bowen reflected, “to celebrate them as evidence that real thought, and not pressure, had led to the affirmative vote.”

In a statement following the meeting, the trustees explained their decision: The historic purpose of Dartmouth College has been to train leaders for society. It is clear that women now will be playing an increasing role of leadership in our society and that Dartmouth can, and should, contribute to their education, making it possible for them to become, as Dartmouth men have through two centuries, outstanding doctors, lawyers, business leaders, scientists, and leaders in government. In endorsing both coeducation and the Dartmouth Plan for year-round operation we are acting to assure that Dartmouth will continue to serve as a leader in innovation in undergraduate education.

Although Dartmouth lagged behind Princeton and Yale in making the decision for coeducation, it trumped them in making an affirmative case for why the College should be in the business of educating women and in the way it accommodated the planned increase in numbers through year-round operation. Zimmerman said that the latter constituted “a breakthrough in making higher education more effective and more economical.” Kemeny called it “a new venture in American higher education,” a “creative design for expanding student enrollment without over-crowding and without major capital expenses for the

expansion of the physical plant. It is our firm conviction that this new plan will make Dartmouth even more attractive to young men and women who prize freedom of choice.”

Responses from alumni, predictably, were divided. Plenty of enthusiasts waxed eloquent about their delight. A member of the class of 1918 declared, “Dartmouth in the future is sure to be a greater College with coeds than it could possibly be without them.” A member of the class of 1947 wrote, “I am delighted with the enlightened decision of dear old Dartmouth to go coeducational at last. Now I can contemplate in good conscience sending my son—repeat son—to Dartmouth, should he be admissible and wish to go.”

There were also plenty of outspoken opponents. “The board of trustees choked on the gutless decision of Dartmouth coeds,” wrote a member of the class of 1940. A member of the class of 1922 put it this way: “By vote of the trustees this revered col-lege has, in effect, been destroyed.…The Dartmouth we knew will be gone forever.”

s the ensuing years passed, some loyal alumni who had been strongly opposed

to coeducation changed their minds as they came to know individual fe-

male students and as their daugh-ters and granddaughters began to

matriculate. A woman in the class of 1977, who sang with the a cappella group Dartmouth Distractions, recounted her experience at a dinner in Boston at the outset of coeducation. Each of the Distractions was seated with a group of alumni. Her table consisted of men she estimated to be close to cel-ebrating their 50th reunion. As she sat down, one of the men said, “Oops! We were going to be the anti-coeducation table!” After the Distractions sang, she recalled, “the distinguished looking fellow sitting next to me put his arm around me and said, ‘If they are all like you, I’m going to have to change my mind about coeducation!’ Pretty soon most of the gentlemen were discussing how to get their granddaughters interested in applying to the College.”

The conversion experience was widely shared. Kemeny

recalled “a very difficult evening at a 50th reunion banquet” soon after he became president. The speaker had given “an elo-quent speech against change, particularly against coeducation.” As Kemeny told the story, “Ten years later, that distinguished alumnus sent an ‘emissary.’ If he admitted via the emissary that he had been wrong on coeducation, would I receive him and please not mention the issue?” Kemeny agreed, and the two men had what he later characterized as “a very pleasant visit.” The common ground that enabled the good conversation: the alumnus’ granddaughter, “who was having a wonderful time at Dartmouth.”

Jean Kemeny recalled a lunch John had with an alumnus in the South. “My two sons and I went to Dartmouth,” the man told Kemeny. “For years, the three of us have worked hard for her. But when the trustees voted to make the College coed, we decided to have nothing more to do with Dartmouth.” After a long pause, the alumnus continued, “On the other hand, my daughter—a sophomore at Dartmouth—has shown us the error of our ways!”

In the spring of 1979, a woman in the senior class wrote to Kemeny, almost on the spur of the moment, in the wake of a discussion in her feminist philosophy course. “We were talking about givens in the use of language—Adam and Eve, men and women, boys and girls—how men always came first,” she said later. “President Kemeny,” she wrote at the time, “during my four years at Dartmouth you have always addressed student audiences as ‘Men and Women of Dartmouth.’ When you are addressing my graduating class, would you please say ‘Women and Men of Dartmouth’?”

When Kemeny did that at Commencement, the audience erupted in wild applause. A woman in the class of 1980 recalled: “ ‘Women and men of Dartmouth’—it reverberated through the audience.…The symbolism was not lost on any of us. It was a dramatically different statement from ‘Men and women of Dartmouth.’ Tears came to our eyes, shivers went down our spines, and cheers (mostly female) resounded through the audience. We knew we had made it, that we belonged, and that people who mattered wanted it that way.”

Dartmouth had moved a step closer to real coeducation.

NANCY WEISS MALKIEL is a professor of history, emeritus, at Princeton University.

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the previous 50. In 1969 tuition, room, and board came to $5,704. Today, with fees, it is $70,791. At this pace, in 2069 it will hit $1 million. Scholar-ships, which until now have served as a buffer for soaring costs, may not be able to keep up. Even with a $500,000 scholarship, who wants to take out a half-million-dollar loan?

No one we talked to had given much thought to whether Dartmouth will continue to exist as an elite college where gifted professors conduct important research and teach some of the bright-est students anywhere. The presumption seems to be that, like England, there will always be a Dartmouth. As Lee Coffin, dean of admissions, says, “The centrality of the ‘Dartmouth experience’ does not feel like something that will ever be open to reinterpretation.”

A good reminder of how much could change in the next 50 years is to consider how much has changed in the last 50.

The short answer: an awful lot.Whether driven by technology, scientific

breakthroughs, civil rights, feminism, or govern-mental mandate—you never would have guessed most of it, a very humbling thought.

When Roger Sloboda is asked to name some-thing he never envisioned as a new professor teaching biology in 1978, the first thing he does—even before mentioning gene modification or se-quencing—is wiggle his smart phone in the air. “Exhibit A,” he says. “Who would have thought I could hold all the knowledge in the world in my hand?”

His Exhibit B was the astronomical cost of research today. When Sloboda arrived 40 years ago, he got a $5,000 stipend to set up his lab. Today new biology professors can get upwards of $1 mil-lion. A state-of-the art microscope is $400,000, a centrifuge $40,000. Chemicals, reagents, enzymes, antibodies, and tissue culture solution for a mod-est-sized laboratory can approach $100,000 per year. Even a month’s worth of mice can be $1,000.

The face of the student body could hardly be more different than it was 50 years ago.

In 1969 a Dartmouth education was still for men only, though it was understood those days were numbered. At his 50th reunion that June, Dr. Robert M. Stecher, class of 1919, delivered a speech predicting how Dartmouth would change by 2019. “It will contain a substantial proportion of women,” he said. “That is threatening.”

Indeed, they landed in 1972. As Gina Barreca ’79 recounts in her memoir, Babes In Boyland, during those early days women were treated like

curiosities unearthed during an archaeological dig. The male-female ratio was 5 to 1. The aptly named Professor Mann began every question to a female student with, “As a woman, what is your reading of the text?” So, Barreca says, she “started prefacing every answer with the phrase, ‘As a woman, I think Shakespeare means…’ or ‘As a woman, it strikes me that Tennyson’s point is….’ Among early Dartmouth women, it became a form of greeting. ‘As a woman, I think I’ll have the meat-loaf for dinner.’ ”

In 2018, there were 2,251 men and 2,166 women.

The class of 1970 included 12 black men. By the class of 1973 there were 90, partly as a result of a recruitment program for “boys with underprivi-leged backgrounds.” Many of those black students benefited from the Alumni Fund, which that year financed 103 scholarships and 12 slide rules.

Though Dartmouth’s original mission was to educate Native Americans, as of 1969 only 19 had graduated. In the last 50 years the College has taken that mission to heart with 1,180 Native American graduates.

Of course, there is a difference between Dart-mouth mandating change and campus culture changing. Bruce Duthu ’80, a professor of Native American studies, says when he was a student, “people had no compunction about coming up and saying, ‘How do you feel about taking the place of a better-qualified white guy?’ ” By the mid-90s, most of that was gone, he says. Even so, change is rarely ubiquitous or linear. While trustees abolished the use of the Indian mascot in 1974, online shop-pers can still go to the Dartmouth Review website and purchase clothing with the logo, including a woman’s thong emblazoned with the Indian head.

In 1972 the federal government enacted Title IX, which requires that women have as many opportuni-ties to play sports as men. Coach Teevens remem-bers its early years: “For the JV basketball program, women were recruited from the dining hall.”

Today, in accordance with the law, there are 18 women’s teams and 16 men’s teams.

What students major in is profoundly differ-ent. The study of the humanities, which for years has been in decline, was in full ascent 50 years ago. There were 31 faculty members in the English department and 28 in Romance languages and literature, compared with 25 in biology, 24 in math, and 18 in economics.

Last year 217 undergrads majored in the hu-manities, 541 in the sciences, 911 in the social sciences. There were 270 economics majors in 2017, compared with 46 English and creative writing majors.

A“says Joshua Kim, whose job as director of digi-tal learning initiatives is planning Dartmouth’s online future.

Forewarned and yet undeterred, DAM set out to interview students, professors, and administra-tors about what the future might hold for the Col-lege. We asked, “What will Dartmouth be like 50 years from now, in 2069, on its 300th anniversary?” Questions ranged from the hyperlocal—will there still be an elm at the corner of North Main and Wheelock? (probably not)—to the existential—will there still be a Dartmouth? (highly likely).

Some of the predictions were grounded in science, some were educated guesses.

Pretty much everyone seems to agree that col-laborative education is the future of undergradu-ate studies, although it’s hard to know what form that could take. The Dartmouth Applied Learning and Innovation (DALI) lab, which is a national model for educating undergraduates in tech de-sign, has the feel of a Silicon Valley startup. Its teams of students have developed, among other things, virtual reality software for NASA astro-nauts. Though many say it has been their most exciting learning experience at Dartmouth—only 15 percent who apply are accepted—they get no academic credit. Rather, they are paid up to $15 an hour and, if they do poorly, instead of getting a D, they can be fired.

How the College will remake itself in the face of considerable institutional rigidity is murky. Barbara Will, associate dean of arts and humani-ties, doesn’t see a major restructuring. She thinks professors and deans are too protective of their own turf. “In the next couple of decades, I can’t see any departments we have willingly giving up their identities to merge or just say, ‘We’re just all Dartmouth professors,’ ” she says.

Seniors should have a particular stake in DAM’s question, since they’ll likely still be around. What do they hope to see when they re-turn for their 50th reunion?

Shannon Rubin ’19 mentioned the bonfire, Lucy Tantum ’19, Winter Carnival.

“Lou’s!” says Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valen-cienne ’19.

What they won’t see, in all likelihood, is the towering 125-year-old elm at the corner of North

Main and Wheelock. College arborist Brian Beaty expects it to be dead and gone by then. Age (elms usually don’t live past 175) or development (it was barely spared from a recent underground utility upgrade) could do it in. The spectacular fall foli-age? Muted, as warming temperatures and bugs kill trees with the most colorful leaves—sugar maples, birches, and ashes. On the other hand, the magnificent elms along the Green that were ravaged by Dutch elm disease in the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by a disease-resistant variety that should be 100 feet tall in the 2060s.

That fall, when alums return for Homecom-ing, football coach Buddy Teevens ’79 predicts there will be a game. He thinks kickoffs may be gone to reduce high-speed collisions that cause concussions and players may be required to stand upright in a two-point stance so they’re slower off the line (that’s not a misprint). But the game will still be recognizable as football.

At the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Mary Flanagan, professor in digital humanities, asked fellow panelists, “What if we throw out the idea of university—I’m at a university, so apologies to Dartmouth—as a one-time thing.” Retraining would become the focus of higher education, not an afterthought, as people lose their jobs to robots and start over in the workplace, again and again.

David Kotz ’86, professor of computer sci-ence and former acting provost, thinks parking will be better.

With the prevalence of international and mixed-race marriages increasing in this country, particularly among the well-educated, racial and ethnic diversity may no longer be as dominant an issue on campuses in two generations. But if economic disparities continue to widen, and the financial gap between scholarship and non-scholarship students continues to grow, income diversity could be the real flashpoint.

Organic chemistry, “Chem 51 and 52,” were the killer courses for premeds a half century ago. They remain so today, and by 2069, even as we colonize Mars, premeds could still be cramming for a quiz on the stereochemistry of alkanes and cycloalkanes.

Of course, none of this may come to pass if the cost of a Dartmouth education continues to grow in the next 50 years at the pace it did during

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College is often a place where an individual’s politics take root. Fifty years ago, the Baby Boomers protested the Vietnam War. Dozens of Dartmouth students, calling for the end of ROTC on campus, went to jail for occupying Parkhurst Hall. That June, John D.W. Beck ’69, a speaker at his Commencement, said the graduation robe “makes me feel like death and stagnancy” and urged classmates to remove theirs.

At graduation last June, many in the class of 1968, now in their 70s, wore white armbands, a protest aimed at President Donald Trump. “I was astonished not only by how many classmates wore the armbands, but also how quickly they put them on,” says Gerry Bell ’68, the 50th reunion chair. “You can take the boys out of the sixties, but you can’t take the sixties out of the boys. We still think we can change the world.”

And when the class of 2019 returns for its 50th? Taken as a whole, the students have not been the protestors that the ’69s were, though, according to The Dartmouth, at least 50 carpooled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Women’s March in January 2017. There have also been “Take Back the Night” and “Black Lives Matter” protests on campus as well as support for the #MeToo movement—in November a group of women filed a $70-million lawsuit accusing three professors of sexual assault.

One of the most popular recent humanities courses, according to Will, was “The Sixties.” A har-binger of activism to come? Or a dose of nostalgia?

W hen it comes to the next 50 years, Pro-fessor Kotz is an inveterate optimist. He thinks parking will improve thanks

to autonomous vehicles that will drive themselves to lots at the far reaches of campus. “The same way you hail a cab today, you will hail your own car. As you walk out the door, you’ll just say, ‘Come get me,’ and your car will drive up three minutes later to take you home.”

More than 10 percent of the core campus’ 269 acres is used for parking. If Kotz is correct, that could free 27 acres for other uses, including dorms to ease residential overcrowding.

But as Professor Sloboda points out, techno-logical advances don’t necessarily translate into behavioral gains. The first day of introductory biol-ogy, almost every student brings a laptop for taking notes. Then he shows them a study that indicates students who have a laptop open during class retain 10 percent less information than those who do not.

“Next class, out of 50, I had one kid with a lap-top,” he says.

How about an example of technology that en-hances learning? “Fifty years from now, probably

kids will put an electrode on their head, and I’ll push a button and zzzt, all the information will go in, and they’ll walk away happy,” says Sloboda. (He seemed to be joking).

In the next 50 years will Dartmouth have a fe-male president? Among the Ivies, only Columbia and Dartmouth have not. Or perhaps a president who is African-American, Hispanic, or Native American?

In 2069 most courses may be taught using what is known pedagogically as the “flipped classroom” model. It is a more effective way of learning than the “classic classroom” model: Show up for a lecture in your pajama bottoms, borrow a friend’s notes, fall behind on the reading as you balance the demands of other courses, a busy social life, and much-needed sleep, then cram wildly at the end of the semester by pulling all-nighters. Finally, near death, emerge on the other end with a grade that won’t let your parents down.

The flipped model is being used for introduc-tory courses such as “Bio 13,” which may have 50 or more students in a class. They watch videos of the prerecorded lectures before coming to class. They take online assessments that vary based on skill levels. When they arrive for class, the profes-sor knows where the group, as a whole, stands, and where each student is. Class time is spent working in small groups guided by paid undergraduate teach-ing assistants. “The professor can walk around and work with individuals or groups of students,” says Kim, the digital director.

Guessing what the student body might look like in 50 years offers wildly divergent possibilities. One unknown factor is the outcome of the current trial in which Harvard is defending itself against allegations it discriminates against Asian-American applicants. The suit alleges that for years the university has rejected Asian Americans who are better qualified than some non-Asian students it has accepted, as measured by tests scores and grades.

Harvard counters that it relies on a holistic ap-proach to admissions, with race as one consideration among many, in an effort to assemble a class that is also diverse economically, by gender and national-ity, as well as a mix of student-scholars, scientists, artists, athletes, and legacies.

The Ivies, including Dartmouth, which has a freshman class that is 21 percent Asian-American, have filed a brief supporting Harvard. In contrast, for the last 20 years the University of California, Berkeley’s admissions office has relied heavily on test scores and grades, resulting in a student body that is about 45 percent Asian-American.

If Harvard loses, could Dartmouth look more like Berkeley? “It could,” says Coffin.

At the other end of the spectrum would be an

admissions process so impacted by intermarriage that in 50 years, current measures of diversity could be obsolete. In 2002, fewer than 1 percent of Dartmouth students identified themselves as mixed race. Of this year’s freshman class, 7 percent do, compared with 4 percent Native American, 9 percent black, and 12 percent Latino. The trend is national. According to the Pew Research Center, the share of recently married blacks with a spouse of a different race or ethnicity is 18 percent. It’s 27 percent for Hispanics and 29 percent for Asians. Among newlyweds who have bachelor’s degrees, 20 percent of men and 18 percent of women were intermarried.

Coffin says racial diversity will remain “criti-cally relevant,” but adds that “there will be a con-tinuing reimagining of how we see ourselves.” He tells a story from his time in admissions at Tufts, about a pair of Dominican-American twins. One checked the boxes on the admissions applica-tion indicating she was Dominican and black, the other marked Dominican and Hispanic. One was referred to the black cultural center, the other to the Hispanic center. “They called and said, ‘How is it possible these twin sisters are on two differ-ent lists?’ I said they answered the questions in their own way.”

Duthu, a member of the Houma tribe, sees the same issues among Native Americans. “This idea of Noah’s Ark—we need two of these, two of those—may seem like a weird, archaic system.” Fifty years from now, could there be legal battles over who’s Native enough to qualify for a Dartmouth educa-tion? “It’s a very volatile kind of situation. I have no idea how that will work out,” says Duthu. Much can be at stake. Some tribes that operate casinos have fought protracted legal battles with millions of dollars in the balance over whether an individual has enough of a tribal lineage to share profits.

During an interview at the Hanover Inn, sit-ting among alums and parents checking in, Shan-non Rubin ’19 points out something you almost never hear: “They always say half of Dartmouth students get scholarships, but that means half don’t and come from families that can afford to

pay $70,000 a year.” The higher costs go, the wealthier a family has

to be to afford the full freight, and the greater the divide between scholarship and non-scholarship students.

In 1970 annual costs at Dartmouth were about $5,700. Families with two working parents—a school secretary and newspaper copy editor, for example—could send a child to college without a scholarship. Today that middle-class kid would need a major scholarship.

“At some point in the next decade or so, Dart-mouth and our peers will likely cost roughly $100,000 a year,” says Coffin. “That will be a stag-gering data point.”

Is there anything that might reverse the spiral-ing upward costs in the next 50 years?

Higher ed is caught up in an arms race over salaries and facilities. In 2011 the biology depart-ment moved into the Life Sciences Center, an award-winning, state-of-the-art, energy-efficient building that cost $90 million. Could Sloboda still be doing his work in the old building? “It prob-ably could have been modified, yes,” he says. “But if we’re recruiting a new faculty person, and we showed them a lab in a cement-block building and another university had state-of-the-art laborato-ries? It’s part of playing the game.”

Several professors complain that too many administrators are paid too much. “The president gets a million dollars, Rick Mills, his executive vice president, and the provost make something like $700,000 each,” says Sloboda. “These are huge salaries, and if they keep going up it’s going to be a huge, huge part of the budget.”

According to the College’s 2015 tax return, the latest publicly available, then-provost Carolyn Dever earned $783,890, Mills earned $660,089, and President Philip Hanlon ’77, $1.25 million. Sound like a lot? The presidents of Brown, Colum-bia, and UPenn make, respectively, $1.28 million, $2.5 million, and $3.5 million.

One Dartmouth administrator suggests that dramatically cutting costs would mean hiring fewer tenured professors and more adjuncts. The

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the humanities rose to 14 percent from 10 percent in 2013, according to admissions dean Coffin.

The numbers Will cites are minuscule in the con-text of a 50-year timeframe, but she has history on her side. For more than two centuries, Ivy League students studied the liberal arts and went into the world to learn their craft. For example, Dartmouth has never offered a major in journalism. Students learn at the College paper and through internships.

Chances are that any new academic majors will be built around newly hired professors. A prime example is digital humanities, a young discipline still taking root at Dartmouth. It involves, among other things, the study of computer code and the development of video games that teach worthy human values—such as protecting the environment, inspiring girls to study science, and encouraging vaccinations. It sounds like fluff, but it requires considerable academic rigor. How do you determine that kids are learning what a game purports to teach? The games created need to be fun, but the research indicates that if kids know they’re good for them, the games won’t be as effective. For example, Awkward Moment, which was originally de-veloped at Dartmouth, is sold in the games department at Barnes & Noble—not the educational department.

Professor Mary Flanagan pretty much invented digital humanities as an academic discipline. At the University of Buffalo in 1999, with a $200,000 National Science Foundation grant, she created The Adven-tures of Josie True, a video game aimed at encouraging girls to go into STEM fields. Next stop was Hunter College, where she started Tiltfactor, a research lab that designs games to promote learning as well as changes in attitude and behavior. After Dartmouth won a $10-million grant from the Sherman Douglas Foundation in 2005 to endow two professorships in “emerging fields in the faculty of arts and sciences,” Flanagan was hired and brought the Tiltfactor lab with her in 2008.

For students, there’s excitement in being present when something new takes shape. At first, Flanagan’s Tiltfactor team designed games that it assumed had a positive impact, but didn’t have proof. With guid-ance from researchers at the Dartmouth Institute, the team devised behavioral studies to compare attitudes of schoolchildren who hadn’t played the game with those who had. In this manner, the team discovered that its game Pox—in which characters who are not vaccinated die—was not as effective as the Zombie Pox version, where the unvaccinated turn into zombies. “Zombies made players more empathetic,” says Max Seidman ’12, a lab project manager.

At present there is no major—Flanagan teaches in the film studies department. But in recent years funding has been allocated to hire three new faculty members in the digital humanities.

Astudent at the DALI lab makes the most compelling argument for why Dartmouth in 2069 will still be Dartmouth, why a Dart-

mouth education will still count for a lot, why remote education cannot replace it, and why students will still journey to Hanover to learn from great professors and each other and to socialize and waste time together.

“Collaborative learning” was the short answer from John Kotz ’19 (son of David). At the DALI lab teams work on extraordinary projects, such as the $1.2-million NASA grant the lab shared with the Geisel School of Medicine to develop virtual real-ity software that reduces astronaut anxiety during lengthy space missions. Astronauts can put on a virtual reality headset and for a half hour be “trans-ported” back to earth, perhaps to sit on a park bench and observe life going by or view a mountain stream or watch puppies at play.

For another project, students built a functioning desktop computer mounted on a board 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide and framed with plexiglass, with each com-ponent separated so it could be clearly identified and the circuitry illuminated by flashing colored lights.

It is beautiful to behold, and far more powerful than an ordinary laptop—it can run virtual reality experiences and be used in interactive touch-screen demonstrations of projects. No one had assigned the project. It was just an idea some of the students found interesting.

“Completely out of the blue we wanted it to hap-pen, so it happened,” says Kotz. It would not have happened online, he says. “When you’re added to a group online—say you’re in a Facebook messenger group—it’s easy for you to step back and let other people speak. When someone has an idea, you’re not necessarily responding to say, ‘Okay, how can I improve this idea?’ It’s the serendipity and the physicality of us all being here. Like I would pass Adam Rinehouse ’19 or Ben Cooper ’18—they helped design this. I would be walking around campus, and I was like, ‘Hey, have you thought any more about this project?’ Some of the coolest ideas I’ve had have just been random exchanges that happen in person. I don’t believe major innovation can happen without it.”

Toward the end of the project, when it was time to mount the computer, about a dozen students showed up and helped them finish the job in just two hours. Asked who had the original idea to build it, Kotz says he couldn’t remember. “And I don’t want to remember because, honestly, the coolest thing about it was that we all germinated in our own minds together.”

MICHAEL WINERIP is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. In his 30-plus years at The New York Times, he was a staff writer, national political correspondent, investi-gative reporter, and education columnist.

average tenured professor at Dartmouth, who has a guaranteed job for life and gets a paid year off every seven years for sabbatical, makes $248,000, according to the American Association of Univer-sity Professors. That lags behind UPenn professors ($281,000 average), Columbia ($306,000), and Princeton ($307,000). The more colleges spend to attract the best, the more they have to spend to attract the best. “That’s the wicked spiral of higher education,” says Coffin.

Still another contributor to the wicked spiral is the penchant for adding without subtracting: Although new educational fields are continually being added to keep up with societal changes, rarely is an academic department shut down.

“There’s a lot of inertia,” says Kotz. Will agrees. She says that while there’s an

ongoing turnover from retirement, “tenure can create a certain kind of sclerosis. Russian studies is a small department, they just made a few really good hires. They are going to want to hang on to their departmental status for as long as possible, in part because if they lose their department, they won’t have the visibility on campus that would al-low them to contribute to hiring decisions.”

As for cutting costs, invariably the first words out of the experts’ mouths are “remote learning,” meaning online lectures and exams.

Dartmouth, like most elite colleges, has re-sisted the idea when it comes to undergraduates, but in recent years it has developed two largely online, 18-month master’s programs, in healthcare delivery sciences and public health. The model differs from most online programs. The master’s in healthcare delivery requires enrollees to spend six weeks on campus spread across four visits. There are online seminar discussions, virtual one-on-one office hours, and collaborative group projects. Courses are taught by the same Dartmouth profes-sors who teach on campus.

“We worked to ensure it’s premium quality, like everything at Dartmouth,” says Kim, the digital director. That includes premium prices—total cost for the master’s program in healthcare delivery for the class of 2020 is $108,375, about the same as for

the traditional master’s candidate. So in terms of cost, remote learning at Dartmouth in its present form is part of the problem, not the solution.

There is one blip. Last September the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania announced that next fall it will offer an online bachelor’s for a four-year tuition cost of about $75,000—approximately one-fourth the cost of a Dartmouth degree. To date, undergraduate education at Dartmouth has been exclusively campus-based. Could that change? “It’s possible,” Kotz says. “I have to be very careful with my provost hat on.”

T he most discussed academic trend dur-ing the last decades has been the dra-matic drop in students studying arts and

humanities. Dartmouth is no exception. In 2008, just as the Great Recession hit, there were 448 humanities majors. By 2016, with students—and parents—still traumatized about the job market, that fell to a then modern low of 256.

Whither the humanities? Or perhaps, wither the humanities?

Will is optimistic, even though the number of humanities majors dropped from 291 in 2017 to 217 in 2018. She says that scandals involving Facebook and Twitter may dampen enthusiasm for science, tech, engineering, and math (STEM) courses. “The STEM bubble may be bursting a little bit,” she says. “The bad publicity around Sili-con Valley hubris has been good for the humani-ties.” Indeed, science majors fell from 595 in 2017 to 541 in 2018.

She believes there’s been a shift in the type of student being admitted since Hanlon became president in 2013 and brought in Coffin in 2016 as admissions director. “Phil immediately started to address Dartmouth’s Animal House reputation with a series of important measures,” says Will, who chaired Hanlon’s 2014 Moving Dartmouth Forward committee that, among other sugges-tions, recommended the campus hard liquor ban that went into effect the following year. Indeed, the percentage of 2018 freshmen interested in

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38Happy new year 2019! I have no news to offer about this amazing class. How-ever, I have received mail from mem-

bers from other classes, for which I say thank you for your very kind words relating to past columns.

From Tucker Richard ’86: “I enjoyed your entry in the Sept./Oct. edition of the DAM about the freshman arriving so many years ago. And it seems to me an excellent question as to how his experience might compare to those of 2018 or, for that matter, any other era. I would think there is no one answer as so many people come from such a variety of perspectives. In my close, thank you for this type of insight; it is most interesting.”

From Nathan DeLuke ’02: “Thank you for submitting the letter from a freshman circa 1934-35 to Dartmouth’s alumni magazine. I enjoyed it immensely and, although my freshman year was 1998, it brought back some great memories. Maybe it has changed in the 20 years since then, but I suspect that while things on sale have changed, their usefulness has not—even the ever-present laundry service. Hope this is a wonderful fall for you, as we do not get much of one down here in Atlanta.” I really don’t know what to say except please know how much you’ve touched my heart for acknowledging your enjoyment of learning about past and older classes and previous experi-ences. It brings joy and a little laughter in a very bleak and sad world.

“Dear freezing New York—I’m writing this from the hospital, Dick’s House, where I will be taking a rest for a day or two. Now, Mother, don’t say you expected it all along. It wasn’t the skis’ fault. I had a little trouble making them agree on the same direction while skiing on Velvet Rocks and, as a result, I found myself upside down in a hemlock grove. My ankle’s only a little strained and will be all right in a week or so. Anyhow, the skis were not broken.” That being said, let’s all be careful out there and stay warm and healthy!—Jean M. Francis, 2205 Boston Road O-139, Wil-braham, MA 01095

41 I thought this column was closed be-cause I had no class contact for a few months. Now I have received a fine let-

ter from Elizabeth Bouquet, one of George McCol-lum’s daughters. She says her dad is now enjoying his 99th summer on the New Jersey shore. He has warm memories of off-campus eating clubs, where comfort foods were served to appreciative Dartmouth students. Sunday dinners at the home of Uncle Jim (a professor of English) were times to connect with family. Skating, running, fishing, studying, and recreational times spent with his friends made a memorable four years for a young man about to go in the Navy and serve his country in World War II. “Dartmouth was a good choice,

Dad has said many times, and it has served him well many times,” writes Elizabeth. “If possible, I would like to send our best to Ed Small and Bruce Espey ’40 and their families.”

Sally Combes Leahey wrote to me of the death of her father, Abbott C. Combes, on October 29, 2018. While he was at Dartmouth he was a member of Psi U, Dragon, and Green Key and was the execu-tive manager of athletics. Following military ser-vice in World War II, he and his wife, Mary, settled in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. A couple of days before he died he asked for his Dartmouth cane to make sure it was in a safe place. (It is.) A lifelong Red Sox fan, he found out just before he died that they won the World Series!

I received notice from the College of the death of Bob Feller in October.

If anyone else in the class has a thought, do send it to me.

Dum vivimus vivamus!—Jane Hanks, 2630 Kings Crown, Fort Myers, FL 33908; jhanks1@gmail.com

42 Since it is almost the 75th anniversary of the end of WW II, it seemed fitting to explore Dartmouth at War once

again. One of my editors has been helping me and presented two contrasting biographical essays.

Guy Swenson wrote a vividly detailed, 6,000-word account of his varied experiences. After basic, then specialized training in Miami, 1942 to 1943, Guy was commissioned a second lieuten-ant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, as cryptographic specialist. He served in California, India, and fi-nally China, and learned of peace following atomic bombings in Japan in August 1945. He was treated in Shanghai for hepatitis, returned to the United States by sea, and recovered slowly in Concord, New Hampshire. He attended Harvard Law School, married, raised three sons, and enjoyed a splendid civilian career. Guy died in 2013.

A relative prepared a 34-word account of the career of John Lee Williams. “Jack” became a member of the U.S. Marine Corps in January 1942, was leader of a rifle platoon in Guadalcanal, and then New Britain, and died in 1994. Editors in a postscript report that Jack was married June 1945. He was recalled to duty on September 1950, served in combat in South Korea, and survived an air crash in January 1951.

This very same editor made history this month with the following headline from the Pitts-burgh Post-Gazette: “At 98, Scholar has Written 64 Books”—and he is still writing. That is our very own Bob Gale. Give Bob a rouse!

In other news from Dartmouth, “Dartmouth Hires Female Football Coach.” Buddy Teevens ’79, the Robert L. Blackman Football Coach, an-nounced the hiring of Callie Brownson to be the

offensive quality-control coach for the Big Green. Brownson becomes the first known full-time fe-male football coach at the Division I level.” I invite Andy and all writers to help me fill this column. I have one for next column. Stay tuned. In the meantime, Merry Christmas and a peaceful 2019!—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York, NY 10021; caproni@aol.com

43 Just two classmates made it to Ha-nover to set a dubious record for all-time low attendance for a 75th class

reunion. I was not one of them! Well, two is better than one, and far better than zero. They were Ed Bock of Syracuse, New York, and Bob Lappin of Swamscott, Massachusetts.

Ed was editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth dur-ing our final days on campus. Both were members of Palaeopitus.

And many thanks to the class of 1948 for wel-coming Ed and Bob and their families to their two dinner receptions. It was much appreciated.

Imagine—75 years ago our Commencement date was listed as January 1, 1943. Our “last sup-per” date was actually December 12, 1942. It was in Thayer Hall’s main dining room. President Hop-kins and Arthur Hayes Sulzberger, president and publisher of The New York Times, were the keynote speakers. No pomp, no valedictorian, no Bema, no honorary degrees, no cap and gown, no family. The dinner ended with hugs and teary eyes. We scat-tered in different directions the next morning. We were facing World War II in its darkest moments.

Ninety-one percent of the class was headed for the armed forces. The other 9 percent went to medical school, dental college, or divinity school or were unable to serve. I was in the U.S. Army three days later. I enlisted on December 15, 1942, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. The Army had recruited me in April 1942 to attend its military intelligence service language school (for Japanese language instruction). Three days later I was at Camp Savage, Minnesota, where non-stop education in Japanese language, military terms, and customs were drummed into about 200 niseis.

Would we see each other ever again? We lost 23 classmates in WW II. Our class was destined early on to travel, courtesy of Uncle Sam, over the girdled earth. WW II ended on September 3, 1945.—George Shimizu, 2642 Saklan Indian Drive, Apt. 2, Walnut Creek, CA 94595-3052; (925) 937-2504; marymariko@comcast.net

46 I have just returned from a stimu-lating and nostalgic 2018 Class Of-ficers Weekend September 21-22 in

Hanover, where I represented our class as your secretary and president. Our class was the oldest represented by a class officer. A central theme of

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the weekend was the announcement of plans to celebrate Dartmouth’s 250th year, officially tak-ing place in 2019, and Dartmouth’s vision for the future. I expressed my concern at every meeting I could attend that weekend, including during a personal conversation with President Hanlon, about the lack of representation under the Alumni Council Constitution, which allows only a total of three representatives to represent all classes col-lectively who have celebrated their 55th reunions. All other classes from 1965 to the present are al-lowed one delegate to represent their classes in the Alumni Council. In order to follow through and try to make early class representation hap-pen, our distinguished classmate Frank Guarini has nominated me to the Dartmouth Alumni Council to fill one of two vacant alumni-nominated seats on the Dartmouth board of trustees in June.

Class sympathies to families of deceased classmates and widow. Jean C. Davis called and informed me of the death of her husband, Paul True Davis, who died December 24, 2017. He served on a PT boat, was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Sphinx, and earned his M.B.A. from Tuck. He was an expert on energy economic research and taught at Dartmouth and Stanford. Rosemary Marlette, widow of John E. “Jack” Marlette and mother of ’75, ’84, and ’87 alums, died July 13, 2018. She was the first woman to serve on Nichols School board of trustees and chair of the board of AAA Western in central New York. She was very active in reunion and class affairs and named the Marlette Room at McNutt Hall for her deceased husband. Retired Marine Corps Col. Charles Hammond Bodley died July 11, 2018. He served with the Marine Corps for 30 years, since being part of its V-12 program on campus. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Sphinx. Walter Medley Wingate died July 8, 2018. He was a pilot with the U.S. Navy for three years, and at Dartmouth was a member of Casque & Gauntlet and Psi Epsilon. Joseph Bradley Quig Jr. died July 18, 2018. Joe was a neighbor of mine who lived on Midchester Avenue in White Plains, New York, where we both walked to and attended the Post Road Junior High School. At Dartmouth he was varsity catcher for the baseball team. He was in the Marine Corps V-12 program, and later retired from DuPont. John Horton Smith died Sep-tember 9. He was in the Navy V-12 program, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and served as an ensign and gunnery officer in the Pacific.—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com

47 I received a note from our 2018 fund drive chair, Alan Epstein, reporting that we raised $40,247 from 46 classmates.

Roughly 40 percent came from class widows. We can certainly thank Joan McCullough, Andy’s widow, for her efforts in making that happen. Stan Geller made a very generous gift of $100,000 to create the Stanley Geller Scholarship Fund. The class thanks you very much. Alan called me and the College mailed me information about our classmate Ralph Warburton. He is being named a recipient of the first Malcolm Chase Memorial Hockey Award for services of a Rhode Islander to the game of hockey. I called Ralph to congratulate

him and get an update of Dartmouth hockey of 70 years ago, as he remembered it. To him, it was as if it occurred yesterday! The first line was made up of Bruce Mather, Bruce Cunliffe and Ralph. They were unstoppable. Who can ever forget the rink on Wheelock? Open the wooden shutters and, presto, you made ice. Yes, it was that cold all winter. For Ralph, probably the high point was being part of the U.S. team in the 1948 Olympics that played in St. Moritz, Austria. The team was coached by Dart-mouth’s own Eddie Jeremiah and included the Riley brothers, Jack ’44 and Billy ’46. Dartmouth was well represented. Ralph went on to play pro-fessionally for three years before calling it a day. He is quite amazing, rattling off scores of games that far back. When Don Page wrote the class column and obituaries, he requested classmates write information about their careers, families, or anything else so he could include it in his column when the time came. I found my “obituary,” but it’s in serious need of an update. If you want to send me something, I’ll keep it on file. Don’t forget to send the Green Cards to Liz; it’s not easy to put out a newsletter without them.

I regret to report the deaths of Eugene P. Whit-tier, M.D., of Greenfield, Massachusetts, on July 27, 2018; Warren O. Husler of Bronx, New York, on August 9, 2018; and Joseph B. Paul on November 11, 2017.—Joseph D. Hayes, P.O. Box 697, Rye Beach, NH 03871; jhayes697@yahoo.com

48 Our 70th reunion held at the Hanover Inn, with the gracious hospitality of the College for the classes of ’43, ’48,

and ’53, was a grand success. We had a group of some 50 people, including 10 alumni, 13 widows, wives, and guests, attending. At our Friday eve-ning reception and dinner we were entertained by the Dartmouth Aires, a very cheerful and accom-plished group. President Hanlon spoke and expur-gated speech notes are as follows: “A sense of place, a tight-knit community, commitment to the liberal arts, an adventuresome spirit—these are the heart and soul of Dartmouth. Broad knowledge of the world, the experience of having done a deep dive into one subject, and a suite of timeless, generally applicable intellectual skills, such as the ability to communicate, critical thinking, a well-developed creative mind, the ability to work effectively with others, leadership skills—these are the goals of a liberal arts education. Dartmouth believes that these habits of mind are the best preparation to lead with creativity and confidence in today’s in-creasingly volatile and complex world.”

At our annual meeting class president Bud Munson advised that we now have only three active class members on the executive committee and, although we are performing all necessary func-tions for an active class and looking forward to our mini-reunion next year, we need to consider what actions should be taken when the class becomes inactive. As we have adequate funds in the trea-sury, it was agreed to cancel future dues require-ments. If no action is taken, residual funds in the treasury would simply go to the College without further recognition to the class of 1948. Our 1948 scholarship athlete is funded and requires no ac-tion for perpetuity. It’s a popular program, and

each awardee gets a plaque and written confirma-tion. We agreed to search for a way to pass the re-sidual funds along that will keep remembrance for the class of 1948. The only other ongoing program we have is for the Hanover Inn rocking chairs, which typically costs $2,000-$3,000 annually, which does not go through the College. Warren Daniell advised that we were given the Harvey P. Hood 1918 Award for setting a participation record of 53.2-percent gifting to the College fund for a class celebrating its 70th reunion. His goal is to increase this rate for Dartmouth’s 250th this year.—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net

49 It looks as though 134 classmates are still with us as of late October 2018; however, 20 are listed as “not inter-

ested.” Let’s hope several dozen of us make it to our 70th reunion on September 27-29. Dale Jacobson expects to be there, despite having a triple bypass and subsequent infection two years ago. After a long career with Exxon, Dale lives in a condo in Somers, New York, and sounds as though he’s in good spirits and better health now.

George Day is battling macular degeneration while living at home with his wife, Clara, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. George is planning to make it to Ha-nover with his usual grit and a big smile. Bill Ballard also has severe eye problems, with glaucoma, so reading and travel are problematic. Bill is doing reasonably well, along with his partner, Edie, in Daytona Beach, Florida. His wit and humor remain as sharp as ever, burnished by his many years in advertising and designing crossword puzzles.

Eugene Raymond Kelly died on September 19, 2017, in Boynton Beach, Florida, where he lived. Gene spent most of his career practicing internal medicine and cardiology in Westfield, New Jer-sey. After Dartmouth he studied at five universi-ties—Penn, George Washington, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Duke—which must be a class record for a nonacademic. Gene is survived by a daughter and three sons, including Dr. Christopher Kelly ’88.

Frank Elliot Bateman died on July 17, 2018, near Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, where he lived. After receiving his M.B.A. from Tuck, Frank ran his family department store in Lexington, Mas-sachusetts. When mall competition prevailed, he operated an interior design firm. He moved to New Hampshire in 1970, and renovated several churches. Frank is survived by his wife, Dorothy, four daughters, and a son.

Robert William Belfit Jr. died on August 29, 2018, near Midland, Michigan, where he lived. Bob received his Ph.D. from Penn State and worked at Dow Chemical for 29 years. He was an avid golf player. Bob leaves his wife, Sandy, son Curt, and daughters Barcie and Kelly.—John Adler, 1623 Pelican Cove Road, BA123, Sarasota, FL 34231; (203) 622-9069; (941) 966-2943 (fax)

50 I will be attempting to be your worthy scribe now that good pals Nev Cham-berlain and Alex Hoffman have left us,

but I have to warn you that I don’t do much online. But write to me if you would like details on obitu-aries and I will do my best to mail them to you.

New news first. The class had a mini on the Harvard Homecoming Weekend and it started with a bus ride Friday afternoon and dinner at Ravine Lodge at Moosilauke with Brownlea and Bob Kirby, Stephanie and Joe Medlicott, Karen and Dave Taylor, Meredith and Doug Smith, Jacques Har-low and new bride “Rusty” Rodrigues, Marge (Mrs. “Fizz”) Nichols, Jilly and Jack Harned (and a child or two) and your scribe and Victoria Hicks (daughter of roomie and best pal Ort Hicks ’49).

Saturday followed with the usual morning class meeting, the game, and a dinner in Norwich, Vermont, with Sunday homeward bound.

We had hoped that Katherine and George Woodwell and Terri and Bill Carpenter would be joining us, but George took a pass and “Carp” was facing a serious operation that week so Terri sent regrets.

Our recently deceased classmates include Robert Curtis Mckee, Edward Julien Zebrowski, M.D., Edward Andrew Wilde Jr., Leonard Nelson Radlo, Robert Eldon Graham, John Leon Dutton, Leonard Morton Stein, Thomas Myer Green III, and Clifton H. Whiteman III.

Contact me at the address below.—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8 Concord Greene, Unit 5, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr@aol.com

51 Al Moses is the author of a fascinat-ing new book, Bucharest Diary, which chronicles his years (1994-97) as U.S.

ambassador to Romania. That period has been described as central to Romania’s “journey from darkness to light” following the brutal years of the Ceausescu regime.

Al is widely credited with helping to nurture Romania’s nascent democratic institutions and set the stage for the country’s integration with the west. His understanding of and affection for Romania and Romanians make for engaging read-ing. Al currently serves as the chair of UN Watch in Geneva.

My last column inadvertently failed to in-clude Mo Monahan in a list of highly decorated ’51s who served in Korea following our graduation. I’m sorry to have omitted Mo’s valiant service.

I checked in with members of the ’51 family living in the southeastern United States following last fall’s catastrophic hurricanes. Some had har-rowing tales to tell, but, fortunately, all emerged unscathed despite widespread damage. Jim Cava-nagh (Tallahassee, Florida) reports many downed trees and power lines. North Carolinians experi-encing strong winds and flooding included Ruth Ann Southworth (John’s widow) in Wilmington, Ed Isbey (Asheville), Jim Culberson (Asheboro), and Betty Sutton (widow of Jack) in Winston-Salem. The same was true of Bill Stout (Savannah, Geor-gia), Chester Cotter (Beauford, South Carolina), and Doris Lindner (Joe’s widow), who was evacu-ated from Hilton Head. It is fun to reconnect with these old friends. I had not seen Ruth Ann since the early 1960s. And Ed and I cooked up a get-together in Chicago, where he regularly attends meetings of the ophthalmologists association. I would be pleased to provide contact information for classmates interested in reaching out to long-lost Dartmouth friends.

A nice letter from Rick Austin brought news of the death of his wife, Jo, last May. Rick and Jo lived in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Rick, a lifelong squash and tennis star, took up golf after knee-replacement surgery; he and Jo were frequent partners on the golf course.

Other recent deaths: Nase Hurowitz, Bob Moore, Stan Shipper, and Bill Terry. We mourn their loss. —Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com

52 On behalf of the 1952 class officers, let us be among the first to wish you and your family all the best in good

health for 2019. This is a memorable year for your alma mater, founded 250 years ago in December 1769, but the College will be celebrating all year. Our class has been a proud and an active part of Dartmouth for more than a quarter of this his-tory (actually 28 percent) and for those of you whose fathers and/or grandfathers are Dartmouth alumni, your life history is as much as 35-percent of the College’s background. We hope you will follow all the events of the year and especially the reenactment of the famous Dartmouth Col-lege case on the weekend of March 1 and 2. In the meantime, we are happily staying in touch. Recent messages come from Dr. Ray Alexanian (Houston), Howie Van Valzah (Roscoe, Illinois), Hank Waters (Naples, Florida), Jon Walton (St. Clair Shores, Michigan), Winchell Craig (Bethell, Washington), Jim Churchill (Mission, Kansas), Alan Smith (In-dialantic, Florida), Doug Corderman (Hamilton, Virginia), Dr. Bennett Stein (Bernardsville, New Jersey), Alden Fiertz (Brattleboro, Vermont), and Marcel Durot (Oak Park, Illinois). The messages, reported in detail in our class newsletter, range with family news (all generations), travel, health, reunions, military service, some professional ac-tivity, and, most of all, connection to and interest in Dartmouth and our class. Note the geographic distribution here. (“Thou ’round the girdled earth they roam, her spell on them remains.”) It is very rewarding that we stay in touch. By the time you read this, the football season will be long gone, but the excitement this fall was impressive and the record even better. Beating Harvard in terrible weather in Hanover over Homecoming Weekend was a memorable experience, for sure. (See also Dartmouth at Princeton in the hurricane on No-vember 25, 1950. Were you there?) By the way, we had no class event this Homecoming Weekend. You didn’t miss anything. We regret to report the loss of another classmate, Roy C. Megargel, who passed away on September 22, 2018, in Essex, Maryland. Stay in touch.—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Ha-nover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@aol.com

53 The years have thinned our ranks, lined our faces, and turned our hair, but they have not lessened the joy of

seeing our classmates and reconnecting with them. It was obvious that time had not dimmed our spirits. Indeed, it only enhanced those quali-ties, which made this reunion, in a sense, grander than all others. It was certainly the happiest that

>>> Longtime New Jersey Rotarian H. Peter Schaub ’44 was honored for his 71 years of service to the nonprofit, most recently as a member of the Rotary Club of the Caldwells.>>> Val Armento ’73 of San Mateo, California, has earned the National Level Honor Pin from the Girl Scouts of Northern California for her volunteer efforts. She has served as a camping certification trainer for more than 30 years and co-chairs the committee overseeing national and international travel programs.>>> Dr. Susan Domchek ’90, an oncology professor and exec-utive director of Penn Medi-cine’s Basser Center for BRCA, has earned the John Allen Blue Award for her work in breast cancer research, treatment, and education. Her research has focused on therapies tar-geting mutations in the genes BRCA 1 and 2, which put patients at an increased risk for breast cancer.>>> Former hockey teammates Bob Gaudet ’81 and Rich Ryerson ’80, who led Dartmouth to consecutive NCAA Frozen Four cham-pionships in 1979 and 1980, have been in-ducted into the New Hampshire Legends of Hockey Hall of Fame. Concord native Ryerson played wing in 111 games and reg-istered 29 goals for the College from 1976 to 1980. Gaudet, now in his 22nd season as Dartmouth men’s hockey coach, was a goaltender as an undergrad, setting a school record with 2,129 saves in 76 career games.>>> Healthcare industry veteran Gail Koziara Boudreaux ’82 is No. 5 on Fortune magazine’s list of “Most Powerful Women.” Before she became president and CEO of Indianapo-lis, Indiana-based Anthem, which provides health insurance to more than 40 million customers, Boudreaux served in leadership roles with Aetna and UnitedHealth Group.>>> Brad Ausmus ’91 has been named manager of the Los An-geles Angels, which he served as special assistant to the GM last year. Ausmus played 18 major league seasons with four franchises as a catcher and then spent four seasons as manager of the Detroit Tigers from 2014 to 2017.>>> Adoption advocate Dan Gisser ’87 has received a 2018 Angel in Adoption Award from the Congressional Coalition on Adop-tion Institute. Gisser, who is the father of a daughter from Vietnam, is on the board of Adoption Network Cleveland, an adoption and foster care organization in Ohio.>>> Ambika Singh ’07, CEO of Seattle-based fashion rental subscription service Armoire, has been named to Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.”

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I can remember. From the time we boarded the bus to Mount Moosilauke until the last ’53 left town, our spirits were high as we basked in the light of Dartmouth and shared our stories. The evening and dinner at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, with laughing, singing, and dancing, set the tone for the weekend. We shared a fun bus ride and delicious meal and were introduced to the new lodge. And what a lodge that is! How welcom-ing were its gorgeously placed timbers! What an entrée to such a singular weekend! Our Saturday class meeting was fun, as were the tours, the panel, and the singalong that night. Associate professor of anthropology Jeremy DeSilva treated us to a brilliant lecture, “Underground Astronauts: The Search for Early Human Fossils in South Africa.” He held our rapt attention as he related his and others’ efforts to find and identify human and humanoid fossils. Many thanks to chairman Put Blodgett and his hardworking committee of Dave Halloran, Bob Henderson, Allen Collins, Dick Fleming and his attendance committee, Forest Anderson, Dick Blum, Peter Bridges, Leo Clancy, Bob Malin, Don McMichael, George Sarner, Fred Stephens, Bernie Su-dikoff, and, of course, Angela Stafford ’91. We had a great time. Kudos to Ron Lazar and his wondrous group of agents: 72.4 percent of our classmates contributed to the Dartmouth Fund this year, a record for reunion classes. And with 130 fewer members this year than at the last reunion, we gave $100,000 more. Remarkable! Sadly, I must report the loss of our dear classmates David Lewis, Kelly McBride Jr., Pete Patterson, Prasong Sukhum, Lee Tuttle, and Ed Weltman and offer the condo-lences of the class to their families.—Mark H. Smoller, 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579; (845)603-5066; dartmark@gmail.com

54 Mark Dominguez ’19 writes: “I want to extend the largest of thanks to the class of 1954 for honoring me with the

title of the 2018 Class of 1954 Dickey Center In-tern. Without your generous gift of funding these international internships, I would not have been able to embark on what I consider to be one of the most formative and fulfilling journeys of my life. Even in Shanghai I found myself surrounded by friends, fellow Dartmouth students, and an atmosphere that still excites my inspirations to see more of the world. As I write this thank you, I once again find myself on the other side of the world in Beijing. It is because of the class of 1954’s support and the resources of the Dickey Center that I am able to visualize a future of confidence and excitement abroad. To be named the Class of 1954 Dickey Center Intern encourages me to share my stories more often.”

Osei-Karaki Kingsly ’19, our second Dickey intern, is a neuroscience major from Ghana. On campus he is involved with the African Students Association, he is a writer for IvyInspire, and he plays intramural soccer. He is passionate about the brain and mental health sciences and restructur-ing the healthcare administrations of developing countries to keep up with the best methods in other parts of the world. As a Dickey intern in fall 2017, he pursued a project aimed at developing a digital patient record-keeping system for mental

health institutions in Ghana. He broke the project into three phases. The first phase entailed gather-ing logistics, “surveying” the land, and recruit-ing. His team partnered with the brain clinic in addition to other mental health institutions and traveled across the country to educate itself about the state of recordkeeping in hospitals in general, and mental health institutions in particular.  Since coming back to the United States, the team has been working to identify which electronic medi-cal records may be most suitable for a platform specifically aimed at Ghana’s healthcare system.

We regret the passing of Pete Bullis and Walter Tumeniuk.—Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; (201) 933-4102; wayne@dartmouth graphics.com

55 Friday night’s 41-18 win over Yale on October 5 was momentous and I hope a portent of the rest of 2018. Let’s re-

call in 1953, the fall of our junior year, glued to radio, we listened to a victory in the same Yale Bowl, 32-0. (Dartmouth was 0-5 going into the game.) At zero dark 30 Sunday morning the Dart-mouth Coach buses brought the victors to the inn corner, and we students poured out of the dorms and fraternities to greet them with cheers and college songs. Team captain Dave McLaughlin ’54 stood on the front bumper and led cheers for the long-awaited victory. Fast forward to the 1980s; Dave was now president of the College and came to our alumni dinner in Portland, Maine. He fielded the usual questions about the state of the institu-tion. When asked, “Tell us about John Dickey,” he responded, “President Dickey had a serious stroke and was in Dick’s House for a short time. He wanted a stay there, and we wanted him to, but Hanover regulations precluded that. However, a few visits from me allowed this exception. One day in that wonderful fall weather, I pushed his wheelchair to football practice. John’s outfit in-cluded his beloved green-and-white scarf. When practice ended the entire team came to the side-line, put their helmets under their left arms, and sang ‘Men of Dartmouth.’ President Dickey cried, I cried, and the whole team cried.”

John Braestrup reports on the recent wedding of his eldest son, Paul, and that son Carl is coming up. John notes that the new $3 billion capital cam-paign suggests two things: that we are competing with Harvard and Yale and that the Big Green is leaning toward university status.

Tom Roulston’s widow, Lois, writes that she worked for professor John Finch during Tom’s postgrad year, and truly felt she was a Dartmouth ’55 and Smith ’54. Their eldest son, Scott, and daughter Heather are both Big Green.

Sadly, we report the passing of Dean Allard, Paul Andrieni, Chic Gilgore, Ron Campion, Dick Tar-gett, and Larry Veator.—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com

56 I recently received a call from Lincoln Yu that got me contemplating the very youngest members of the class. For

those who do not know it, Lincoln was the young-est person in our class at the time of matricu-

lation. He was born February 1937, and was 15 years old in September 1952. Lincoln was born in China and lived in San Antonio, Texas, since 1973. I have long believed that I was the fifth-youngest in the class at matriculation with a December 1935 birthday, but was not 100-percent certain. This has now been supported by a recent listing from the alumni relations office of those students it believes may be the 10 youngest members of the class (the office reminds me that records can be inaccurate). The list includes No. 2 John K. Van de Kamp (recently deceased), born February 1936; No. 3 Roger Tolins (deceased), born January 1936; No. 4 Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, born January 1936; No. 6 Alan Levenson (deceased), born December 1935; No. 7 Herbert J. Dahl (deceased), born November 1935; No. 8 William E. Loyer, born October 1935; No. 9 Bernard A. Faber (deceased), born October 1935; and No. 10 Frank P. Strong Jr. (deceased), born October 1935. I do not think that the 10 old-est members of the class would like to see that in print, so we’ll skip that.

I received official notification that Donald Francis Hamson and Peter Clinton Lauterbach have passed away. I also got an email from the alumni office that John Koehring has passed and the wife of Frederick S. Lowry informed Bob Faulkner that Fred has passed. As the Barbary Coast jazz band plays a mournful tune and the procession marches up Main Street, we, the living, all bow our heads in silent tribute.

I received a batch of limericks that Pharis Horton penned in honor of the 65th birthday of his brother, Sherm ’51, who served 10 years on the N.H. Supreme Court. I close with one of his poems.

There was a big greener named Hort,Who would take, time to time, a good snort;But lordy alive,He is now 65,And has found other things better sport.

—Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-3360; jash_125@comcast.net

57 Bruce Sloane has been busy working to elect a Democrat in Virginia’s Fifth District, but still found time to join

our celebrated authors, Mike Lasser and Chris Wren, by issuing a new book. Bruce has published two, in fact: an e-book about his experiences receiving a cochlear implant and Tales of Shirt Tail Hollow, both available through Amazon.

By the time you read this, Dartmouth will be celebrating its 250th anniversary. It puts our relatively recent 1957 into perspective, for sure. Remembering John Sloan Dickey’s promise—“There is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings cannot fix”—leads me once again to our class website, www.class-57@listserv dartmouth.edu, managed by Adam Block. I have encouraged you to sign on in the last two columns. I do so again today. The website is a kind of mini “Great Issues” course in itself, with passionate expressions of all that is dear and important to us. These guys are not always on the same side of an issue, but I urge you to tune in and join your classmates daring to be better and hoping to fix the world.

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is being mirrored by the class of 1982, extending our commitment another 25 years. Well that mir-roring has now been replicated by the class of 2007. That’s three classes, each 25 years apart. Tom Macy and Mike Smith met with the leadership of the 1982 and 2007 classes to assure that these three funds will keep the world’s great issues a priority for Dartmouth at least 50 years into the future, long after we’re gone. John Sloan Dickey would be proud.

It’s fun to know just how personal and meaningful the 1957-1982 connection really is. Fourteen of our classmates had children in Dartmouth’s class of 1982: Don Burkhardt, Tom Donahoe, Grover Farrish, Jim Howe, Byron Krantz, Bill Newman, Bob Ohl, Mal Robinson, Al Rollins, Wendell Smith, Dick Sunderland, Mike Tompkins, Tom Watt, and Chuck Winslow.

Sincere wishes for a great and happy new year to all.—John W. Cusick, 251 Sabal Palm Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@aol.com

58 Blame it on an uncooperative calen-dar. The October 28 deadline for this column falls on the weekend of our

Homecoming mini-reunion in Hanover, so new news and views from classmates gleaned thereat will have to wait for the next Class Notes column two months hence. Alas.

If past is prologue, those of us who couldn’t be there missed a lively Saturday class dinner at the Lyme Inn, arranged by Frank Gould and pre-sided over by John Trimble. Not to mention the pre-Harvard game brunch hosted by Dave Bradley following the class meeting, where Sam Smith and Mike Simberkoff debuted in their respective new jobs of vice president and treasurer. Homecoming postscript from John: The weather was “awful” and the Green “won a squeaker” over Harvard.

We have three departures to report since our super 60th reunion in June. One is the tragic death of Bob Gilges and his wife, Carroll, in a flash flood last spring on their way home from a family function in Virginia. Bob retired in 1995 after a distinguished career in management consultancy at KPMG.

John Kavanagh sends word of Dan Palant’s passing on August 18, 2018, of complications following a fall at his home in Lexington, Mas-sachusetts. The musically adept Dan was John’s roommate in Hanover and lifelong buddy. His tribute to his pal will appear in the next Sound & Fury newsletter.

The most recent death notice from Hanover informs us of Stephen Jay Wilson’s September 6, 2018, passing from causes unknown in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Steve spent his ca-reer in the paper industry, where he served in a series of top-level corporate positions.—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net

59 A class mini-reunion, orchestrated by Cathy and Al Munro, was held in Hanover on the second weekend of

October. Particulars will be recounted on the class website. One of the events of each fall mini-reunion is an annual class meeting that includes,

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among other agenda items, a discussion of the proposed budget for the forthcoming year. Our class’ revenues consist mostly of receipts from dues, and disbursements consist of communi-cations and other administrative expenses and contributions to the five student-related projects supported by the class as well as a payment to the College under the memorial books program. The size of both revenues and disbursements is in the $20,000-$25,000 range, and the results are generally around break-even.

Two other matters discussed at the recent meeting were the 60th reunion to be held on June 10-13, and the College’s 250th birthday, which officially occurs on December 13 (the charter was granted on that day in 1769). On that day in 2019 it is expected that a number of iconic venues around the globe, including Niagara Falls, the World Trade Center, and the Eiffel Tower, will be illuminated in green light.

You will be hearing frequently about our 60th reunion from co-chairs Chris Cundey and Jim Wooster and about the College’s birthday from the organizers of the various celebrations that will occur throughout 2019.

Even though most of us are now long retired from our working careers, accolades for career achievements continue. Last June Sam Werner was awarded the Clifford Shull Prize for his contributions to neutron science. Sam, a world leader in the field of neutron interferometry, is a professor emeritus of the University of Missouri and currently a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaith-ersburg, Maryland.

Recent columns have chronicled marriages among classmates and sisters of classmates, which one of us, perhaps ruing that he came close but didn’t quite make the club, calls “class incest.” The most recent column on the subject listed five such marriages, but omitted the marriage of Dick Bareuther’s sister, Jean, to Bill Zebedee.—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-7194; r06hoehn@gmail.com

60 Dudley Smith writes: “Thanks to each classmate who celebrated his 80th birthday in Key West, Florida, paid

class dues, gave to the Dartmouth College Fund, attended class luncheons, and came to Home-coming. The class of 1960 is the only honorable mention for the 2018 Class of the Year Award out of approximately 45 eligible alumni classes more than 26 years out of Dartmouth. You should be justifiably proud of the tremendous and sus-tained support you give to Dartmouth.”

Reed Browning writes, “I’m pleased to an-nounce that I’ve just self-published a new murder mystery that further tracks the sleuthing adven-tures of two intrepid senior citizens. Death at the Reunion is $16.95 a copy; contact browninr@kenyon.edu.”

John Goyette hosted an 80th birthday party for 30 Pinkerton Academy classmates. Pinkerton is a public-private hybrid with more than 3,500 students. Robert Frost taught there. John has remained class president since elected in 1953.

Joe Batchelder and wife Barrie celebrated his 80th birthday in Key West in August. Retir-

ing to Naples, Florida, in 1990, Joe soon became president of the Dartmouth Club of Southwest Florida and is looking forward to his 23rd year and the 250th anniversary of his favorite institu-tion. Staying grounded, he drives VIPs in black cars from airports to hotel conventions. In his spare time he manages the endowment of a faith-based charitable corporation.

Shel Gisser summarizes his Cuba adventure: “Our trip was an eye-opening experience, hard to call a vacation, but enjoyable and extremely inter-esting. We really felt like we were in a throwback to some time and place in the past. It is a place that is being held back by its government and economics, as well as the U.S. embargo, which has lasted since the Eisenhower administration. If the economic climate changes, along with the passage of government by the Castro brothers, the dying out of the old wealthy Cubans who fled to Miami in the 1950s, and a more open-minded U.S. government, Cuba could escape its time warp and come into the 21st century.”

So, besides Batchelder and myself (Uber and Lyft), how many of you drive for a living?—Sid Goldman, 97 Bay Drive, Key West, FL 33040-6114; (305) 745-3645; sidgoldman@gmail.com

61 Congratulations to the great class of 1961 for being awarded Class of the Year (for all alumni classes out more

than 25 years) in September for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018. Thirteen class officers (the largest representation from any class) were in attendance at Class Officers Weekend in Sep-tember when the award was announced at the College-wide annual alumni class officers dinner. We knew that our class had a lot to offer and that we were in the hunt, but there were other excel-lent classes also in the running.

It would be easy to list the names of the four or five key class officers or even to list all of the class’ 19 officers (including three spouses) and possibly a few non-officer classmates who made specific contributions during the year, but that would not be doing the class of 1961 justice. Why? Because this award would not and could not have been won by our class without the efforts and con-tributions from a great many classmates and in some instances from most of our classmates. Our class won the award because we had the statistics, the creativity, and the cohesiveness, which is the most important ingredient of them all. Robert Frost would have been proud of the class of ’61.

This was the second Class of the Year Award for our class in 57 years, but it was our second win during the past four years. Yes, we have won vari-ous special recognition awards throughout the decades, but only two Class of the Year awards. Many classes have never won this award, only a few classes have won the award more than once, and even fewer more than twice. Our old and un-usually small class has been referred to as a well-oiled management and participation machine among Dartmouth alumni classes.

An unidentified wise person once said that there were three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch them happen, and those who wonder what happened. I am proud to say that our class has evolved through the decades

into a class that “makes things happen.” Congratu-lations to all 1961s for a job well done!—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516)446-3977; richwind13@gmail.com

62 Honoring Dartmouth’s 250th anni-versary in 2019, several classmates shared their thoughts about the Col-

lege. John Clark put it succinctly: “What I love most about Dartmouth is the incredible loyalty it nurtures to the College and one’s classmates.” Among others, Dick Bragaw and Roger Usborne seconded the sentiment, Rog adding “I find it amazing that after 60 years there are so many of us who are close friends.” Among Peter Knight’s fondest memories is the traditional annual Trip to the Sea by canoe initiated by John Ledyard in 1773. The modern tradition began in 1921. Jim Young added: “Peter failed to mention that he is the co-holder (with Jon Fairbanks) of the record set in a nonstop, no-holds-barred race in 1960 of the 220 miles in 33 hours 50 minutes.”

Our peripatetic ex-prez, Alan Rapoport, and Arja traveled through northern Italy and Bor-deaux last summer, visiting Mike Howard and Ngila in their “spectacular home in a small French vil-lage.” “Great wine” was mentioned. They also visited Arja’s native Finland to celebrate her birthday.

Speaking of wine: While visiting Jim Blair and Wendy in upstate New York, New Jersey neighbor Dan Tompkins and wife Drew Humphries were treated to a 1984 vintage cabernet sauvignon, a 25th-reunion gift from the winery of the late Jay Fritz. Jim reports: “It was indeed remarkable, an extraordinary, well-aged bottle.” Toasts were rendered “to the class of ’62 and the wonderful women who have joined us.” Toujours galant. Hear! Hear!

Mini-reunion co-chairs Mike Schaefer and Ir-win Kramer report attendance at this year’s Home-coming mini-reunion totaled 37 classmates of 65 total attendees. Our thanks to Mike’s significant other, Heide Bruegmann, for her tireless contribu-tion to the event.

Sadly, Colin Harley reports the passing of Steve Serlin, M.D., who succumbed to cancer on Sep-tember 13, 2018. Steve practiced obstetrics and gynecology in the vicinity of Lake George, New York. We also mourn the passing of Mike Bliss of Concord, Massachusetts, on August 31, 2018. For many years Mike practiced law in Massachusetts. Roommate Bob Sprafkin remembers Mike as “an extremely kind and thoughtful person, with a great fund of knowledge.”—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com

63 The Best Seat in the House is Dave Leighton’s first book about the naval aviation and airline worlds 1963-

2001. In the author’s words, “What started as a whimsical little coffee table book for folks close to me, turned out to be a significant project and a bigger part of my life than I expected.” Writing on the book’s website, www.bestseat-leighton.com, Dave explains, “It is 250-plus pages of mus-ings and mutterings, anecdotes and bantering, interesting facts, beautiful photos, and stories

about the world as I saw it as a Navy fighter pi-lot and later as a 747 captain with Northwest Airlines.” Dave has written op-ed pieces for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune from his home in the Lake Minnetonka area in Minnesota, where he resides with Mary, his wife of almost 50 years. Dave served as a naval aviator in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of North Vietnam. He joined Northwest in 1969. The Leightons raised three children. Dave can be reached at dleig1919@aol.com.

Charlie and Claire Logan organized a Psi U gathering in Roanoke, Virginia, that included Sam and Deamie Cabot, Chris and Anne Wiedenmayer, Gerry and Mary Sullivan, John and Althea Hicks, Da-vid and Michele Halstead, Pete Suttmeier, Wick ’62 and Liz Warrick and Skip ’61 and Patsy Kendall. The get-together included “wonderful tours and guides of the National D-Day Memorial, Thomas Jefferson’s second home in Poplar Forest, and the Natural Bridge, ” reports Sam Cabot.

While memories of our 55th last June remain vivid, what particularly stands out are individual conversations with classmates whom I may have known in passing or might not have known at all in our undergraduate years. Two of these encounters occurred in front of Baker Library at dinner with Rich Edelson and wife Judy of Bethesda, Mary-land, and Doug Bell and wife Michelle of Denver; both men are physicians, the former a neurologist and the latter an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat). Rich, who retired in 2003 after a success-ful recovery from a serious bike accident, took up piano, volunteers at a clinic, enjoys his grandchil-dren, and travels. Doug, who also recovered well from medical issues, teaches at the University of Colorado Medical School, bikes long distances, and indulges his grandchildren.

At the 55th I bumped into football vet Frank Finsthwait, who teaches English and coached in Atlanta for more than 40 years, and Vaughn Skinner, also a football standout and now an avid golfer who lives near Syracuse, New York, and is retired from finance. I recently spoke with Ellen Kardon of Weston, Massachusetts, wife of Steve Kardon, who died in 2014. A football fan, Ellen alerted me to Dartmouth’s victory over Yale and 4-0 record in early October. Ellen recounted her precious memories of meeting Steve on a bike trip in France and how later in their marriage they recreated their trip in the Loire Valley.

I regret to report the death of Larry Keyes.—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

64 If you like science fiction, you will want to watch Steve Kelso’s low-bud-get movie, Mind Rider, which can

be viewed on YouTube at Howdy Grace Media. Steve started with our class and almost finished until he left during his senior year. As expected, he got drafted, so he joined the Navy, where he stayed for a while before being discharged. He finished his degree at University of Washington in creative writing. He continued his education at San Francisco State with a master’s in writ-ing. During his long career he wrote for produc-tion companies making educational films and worked for the Washington State Health Depart-

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ment. Along the way he married Terry, his wife of 52 years. Terry is retired from a career as a psychotherapist. They have a daughter and two grandchildren. Their other daughter died in an auto accident in 1988. In retirement he writes and paints. Steve also attended Evergreen State College and studied filmmaking. Steve and Terry live in Olympia, Washington.

Michael Marriott writes that the 50th reunion was a milestone moment for him and for his be-loved wife, Claudia. Though he came alone to the reunion, he and Claudia had spent the pre-vious 25 years together working in numerous less-developed countries around the world that were in conflict (i.e., war zones). Michael was a team leader of community-level peace building and truth and reconciliation projects, and Claudia was a sought-after consultant in health profes-sions education.

Once retired, Michael and Claudia decided to travel to places they had not lived in together. The top of their list was New York, followed by a wonderful visit with friends to Dartmouth, a couple of fall weeks in Vermont and New Hamp-shire, then other places around the world. Then, a year ago, Claudia accidentally fell off a wall while happily picking figs. She fell four meters onto concrete and died in Michael’s arms. Michael spent much of this last year in shock and deep grief, but he has now written a book about life with Claudia because he wants the world to know how exceptional this lady who consented to marry him was. Michael writes, “I am like a sailor, who sets off to cross the ocean with a trusted and beloved companion. But halfway across the ocean, my companion dies and my engine fails. I am adrift, alone. I do not have the parts to fix the engine and I cannot navigate alone. I just wait for death to claim me. Now I begin the search for a literary agent and remain ready to return to peace and reconciliation work.”

I encourage writers, film producers, musi-cians, and artists in any medium, or anyone else, to write me so I can share your experiences with the class.

Please note our 55th reunion is scheduled in Hanover June 10-13 and coincides with the College’s 250th anniversary. Details are coming by email. Please put it on your calendar and plan to join us for a great occasion.—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

65 About the time you get this, Hanover will be in the grips of the great north-ern winter, as will my not-too-primi-

tive Minnesota alcazar. Wherever you are, I hope you will settle in, grasp the cup from which co-meth relaxation and quiet pleasure, and enjoy this alumni magazine issue dedicated to Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary. You have at your fingertips a look at what the campus may be like in 50 years, a report on how the College went coed, and a gate-fold timeline of Dartmouth highlights. And, of course, this report on class doings.

The Hanover mini-reunion included Hank Amon, Mahala and Rich Beams, Susan and Dave Beattie, Sharon and Bob Blake, Marianne and

Don Bradley, Linda and Steve Fowler, Marcia and Pete Frederick, Betsy and Mike Gonnerman, Deb-bie and Jim Griffiths, Nancy and Roger Hanson, French and Bob McConnaughey, Emma and John McGeachie, John Rogers, Carol and Korky Terada, Linda Waterhouse, and Jane and George Wittreich. The mini kicked off on Thursday evening, October 11, with a reception and dinner at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. Several of us stayed in the 1965 cabin that night. Friday morning Dave and Susan Beattie, Gonnerman, and I gathered to attempt the mountain. Beattie and Gonnerman took off like mountain goats. Sue Beattie would have followed, but stayed behind to shepherd yours truly through a much easier climb when we discovered that my reach vastly exceeded my grasp. We returned (limped, in my case) to Etna, New Hampshire, and Pierce’s, then to Jim and Debbie Griffiths’ home for a delicious meal, an impressive bonfire, camaraderie, and songs.

Saturday morning featured a trip through the steam tunnel (remember how the snow melted in a straight line across the Green?). Several of us stopped on the way to the tailgate lunch at the Class of 1965 Galleries, Rauner Library (formerly Webster Hall), to view a student-curated project, Coeds and Cohogs: The Struggle Over Female In-tegration at Dartmouth College. Fascinating to see the College’s 1990s policy on rape and abuse, which would pass for a 2018 policy. Evening fea-tured ’tails and dinner at Pierce’s, followed by the Decibelles. Gonnerman chaired the Sunday class meeting, after which we were off to our various haunts.

Merriam Webster’s Time Traveler website notes that these words first appeared in print in 1965: convenience store (wait a minute—what about Ethel’s Cut Rate Drugs?), rapid eye move-ment sleep (which we need plenty of ), hippie, Black Panther, teeny bopper, and stagflation. And dudes (1877), unless you shoot me your hot skinny (1957), you are at risk of seeing more of these nuggets (I have not yet hit “Xerox as a transitive verb”). So send me your reflection on Dartmouth’s 250th year…or an update on what you’re up to…or a thought on the Dartmouth education of the future. Otherwise, it’s going to be more lexical sundriana.

Finally, we have learned with sadness of the passing of classmates Bob Busch, Jeff North, and Rob Shretz. Obits will appear on our website, big-green65.com.—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Val-ley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net

66 Happy new year, one and all! As you read this a few days be-

fore 2019 (that’s no misprint), you will know how well the Dartmouth football team finished the 2018 season. Did they sweep mighty Princeton, gritty Cornell, and upset-minded Brown to complete an undefeated season? That would be only the sixth perfect record in the 137 years of Dartmouth football (two of those seasons, of course, happened while we were undergradu-ates—just saying). Or did the Big Green fall just short?

As we write this before Halloween, the Big Green is a robust 7-0 and just off a key victory

over Harvard in the rain, snow, and sleet in Ha-nover on Homecoming Weekend. Among the many contributors to the win we must, indeed, count the class of 1966 mini-reunion contingent. Rain, snow, and sleet notwithstanding, 90 people, a class record, attended the Friday pre-bonfire supper and 45 classmates and significant others, another record, the Saturday night dinner at the Norwich Inn. In between, our classmates cheered the 11 to victory.

The weekend was a team effort. Special ku-dos to mini-reunion chairman Al Keiller, class president Jim Lustenader, and Margo and Paul Doscher for hosting the class meeting and pre-game brunch at their Norwich, Vermont, home.

One of the classmates at the Homecoming reunion was novelist Stephen Hayes, who’s just published his third book in six years, The Dance Man, “a Southern novel laced with Southern hu-mor” available on Amazon and elsewhere. He was raised in Delaware, but both of Steve’s parents hailed from Alabama, so he has tapped into his Southern roots in his latest work.

What accounts for this mid-life creative spurt? “My favorite course at Dartmouth was creative writing with professor Noel Perrin,” Steve explains, “but my writing over the subse-quent 45 years was largely confined to reports, press releases, and speeches while working in and out of the federal government in D.C. Now I’m retired and, with more time, the ‘inner novelist’ has emerged.”

As of this summer, Steve and wife Barbara are happily ensconced in their new, down-sized home in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia—a vintage 1830 townhouse with a 100-year-old magnolia tree in the courtyard.

Speaking of mini-reunions, three of our most loyal alums and their wives got together in early September in Westport, Connecticut. The couples—Myra and Hector Motroni, Carol and Dean Spatz, and Kathy and Wayne LoCurto—have much in common. They all knew each other at Dart-mouth and have been married 50-plus years, they each have graduate degrees from Dartmouth, and they all have children who graduated from Dart-mouth. They also share the experience of cruising on Wayne’s boat across Long Island Sound to their mini-reunion lunch in Port Jefferson.

In what could be a first, but most likely will not be the last, Jane and Bill Higgin’s granddaugh-ter, Claire Aube (her mother is Molly Higgins Aube ’92), will be a member of the Dartmouth class of 2023. Claire, a nationally ranked squash player, was admitted early as a recruited athlete. Her twin sister, Haley, is going to Stanford.

We note with profound sadness the passing of two esteemed, multifaceted classmates: John Harbaugh, a teacher, musician, rower, and poet; and Kevin Hughes, a banker, skier, woodworker, and volunteer. More information is available online.

Signed up yet for our 75th birthday party in Newport, Connecticut? Details are on the class webpage and newsletter.

Start the new year by sharing the latest with classmates and friends.—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

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67 In celebration of the College’s 250th, we asked classmates “what aspect/ethos of Dartmouth should remain un-

changed during the next 250 years?” Responses varied considerably. Charlie Hoeveler spoke for many: “I hope what never changes are two vital aspects of Dartmouth: maintaining its under-graduate orientation and sustaining the highest level of student satisfaction. There is one com-mon thread among virtually all of the various grads I’ve met—they each love Dartmouth and their experience there for four years! May that not change in the next 250!” Bill White hopes to retain “the emphasis on undergraduate educa-tion and a love of the out-of-doors: the Second College Grant, the Moosilauke complex, our heart and soul, with its 4,800-foot peak, soaring vistas, freshman hikes, Ravine Lodge, and—dare I say—the ’67 Bunkhouse.” Harry Jaffe more succinctly offered this from John Sloan Dickey, “Your busi-ness here is learning. We will do everything that we can to help you,” and this from John Belushi, “There’s a lot more to your education than what goes on in the classroom.” Others, while they loved their Dartmouth experience, expressed worries based on social, technical, and climate trends that what they value about the College might not even be around in 250 years. Ed Arnold: “A signifi-cant impetus behind my coming to Dartmouth in 1963 was its environment, but in the face of rapid climate change and the pressure on living space caused by population growth, it seems un-likely that Dartmouth will be able to maintain it.” Don Garni, just back from his annual hardship stay in France, wishes he was off the grid and says he’s “going to pass on philosophizing about Dartmouth’s next 250 years.” Tad Campion says, “As for the next 250 years, simply surviving is an ambitious and optimistic goal. Given what global warming (not to mention nuclear war) could do, the state of the planet may no longer be able to support healthy societies and luxuries such as liberal education. So just try to survive, Dartmouth, and work to convince others to create a survivable world.” One who is doing just that is Dick Clapp, who was recently awarded the Har-vard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Award of Merit, which recognized him for his important research contributions, excellence in teaching, and his commitment to service. His citation includes this: “Dr. Clapp puts true mean-ing and dignity into public health, serving as an outstanding example of the engaged academic scholar-citizen—a personification of the school’s highest goals.” Tom Maramaa recently published his book, Reykjavik, spanning the decades since the 1980s and the summit between Reagan and Gorbachev in 1986. Another great ’67 author, Fred Price (writing as “David Hirschberg”), published My Mother’s Son in May.

Plan to attend the 36th annual Boston din-ner, at the Wellesley College Club on February 2 (contact Curt Anderson, curt.anderson@medical-billings.com); CarniVail in Vail, Colorado, on Feb-ruary 22-24 (contact John Lobitz, johnlobitz@gmail.com); and the Washington, D.C., dinner on March 23 (contact John Isaacs, jdl@clw.org).—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01338; larrylangford@mac.com

68 As products of the social ferment of 1968, it’s no surprise we have a strong social commitment with many chal-

lenging ideas. Here are some responses in our 50th reunion essays to the prompt, “How to Make the World a Better Place 50 Years From Now.” Ponder the full essays at www.dartmouth68.org/assets/68-reunion-essays.pdf.

Peter Temple: “Require American high school graduates to engage in two years of mandatory national service.”

Bob Tarr: “Fairly equal distribution of wealth and opportunities throughout the world.”

Bob Tharinger: “Swing thinking to appre-ciation of the common good. De-accentuate the short-term gain, favoring the long-term benefit to as many as possible.”

Russ Andrews: “Equality of opportunity: All citizens shall have access to basic but complete healthcare without significant charge.”

Rick Thorner: “For the next 50 years to be truly better than the past, everyone needs to have their hard drives erased so that biases around religion, race, or ethnicity are things of the past.”

Bob Bednarz: “A strong liberal-arts-based education for all.”

Wells Chandler: “Compassion, communica-tion, and understanding among the people of plan-et Earth to better the common concerns of all.”

Bob Block: “For-profit healthcare is destroy-ing the nation.”

Tom Stonecipher: “Intelligent, increased so-cialization of healthcare and breaking and radi-cally reducing the for-profit aspects of medicine and pharmacy.”

Ted Bovill: “The two greatest problems confronting us are the explosion of worldwide populations and the current challenges to liberal democracy.”

Dave Dibelius: “Find a new planet for us to live on. Eventually our current planet will become too depleted, polluted, and over-populated and we will have to leave.”

Dow Stewart: “America’s most severe problem is its federal government. It is bloated, unrespon-sive to its citizenry, corrupt, and pernicious to the society it should be enriching.”

Pete Wonson: “Take better care of the planet. Place the health of Earth above the corporate profit motive.”

Kim Ritchey: “The last 50 years have been characterized by an increasing distance between the haves and the have-nots. We need to bring the disparate groups together.”

Sarr Blumson: “We need to enlarge our sense of community. Most of the world’s problems come from a sense of us vs. them.”

Woody Thompson: “Do away with the Elec-toral College.”

Noel Augustyn: “A reversal of many decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the First and Fourteenth Amendments might pos-sibly reverse the decline in our civilization, but it is probably too late.”

Paul Smith: “Create a binding world govern-ment elected by the peoples of the world.”

Marshall Wolff: “It is inexcusable that we have the means to take a big bite out of hunger and poverty in this country, much less the world, and

don’t make it a priority.”Sad news: Paul Boymel died June 30, 2014; Dr.

Peter Godfrey died July 24, 2018; and Don Clausing died September 12, 2018. Full obituaries are on the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine website.—Dick Olson, 1021 Nottingham Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230; rwolson68@gmail.com

69 We will take another look at the sta-tus of our upcoming 50th, remind-ing you to go to our website, www.

dartmouth69.org, see who has committed to join the festivities, and sign up if you haven’t already. We still show about 300 classmates who have responded, but some of them are saying “maybe” and we would really like to change those to a solid “yes” so there will be more friends with whom we can reconnect. Some of them will be friends from long ago. Remember there is more going on than just our reunion: Our Class Connections program with the ’19s will allow us to be there for their graduation, and the College is celebrating Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary with events and exhibits we can all enjoy.

Dimitri Gerakaris, our class blacksmith and finder of worthwhile student-driven projects to support, this year proposed the Dartmouth ski patrol, a student organization that has been allied with the College longer than ourselves. Both Dimitri and Andy McLane were members of this organization and can attest to the value it provides. It patrols all hours of operation, trains year-round to maintain medical skills, and does its own fundraising for medical equipment, updated medical handbooks, and supplies. Upon Dimi-tri’s recommendation, the executive committee unanimously agreed and committed to a $10,000 contribution. As the ski patrol was having its in-tense two-day refresher session, Dimitri attended the lunch break and, after being given the floor by the Skiway manager, announced our donation to the group. After a stunned silence they erupted into a burst of gratitude. He then asked for ’19s to raise their hands, reminded them we would be marching before them at Commencement, and noted it is comforting to know the ski patrol would be behind us to tend to any who dropped.

Look for a recap of Homecoming activities in the next edition; however, as a preview we have learned the town of Hanover is allowing a bonfire this year. Rick Willets reports we will have more than two dozen attendees and a new post-bonfire gathering spot provided, thanks to the efforts of Paul Tuhus.

The November mini-reunion in Charleston, South Carolina, attracted several classmates from the area and there will be a report on attendees and activities in the next column.

Work on the reunion book continues, and it was gratifying to receive remembrances of de-parted classmates to be included with their names in that book. Answering that call to speak up with memories of friends, roommates, or just class-mates were several ’69s, including Dan Cooperman, Alan Lake (who sent memories of four men), Ted Baehr, Dave Wakelin, Stevan Naylor, Tim Greist, Dona Heller, Bill Berentsen, and several others. We are grateful for all the contributions made on behalf of our fallen classmates and for those of you who

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have stepped up to add to their stories.Please continue to send your stories about

happenings in your lives to Allen Denison for inclu-sion in our newsletter and to me.—Steve Larson, 837 Wildcat Trail, 10328 Big Canoe, Big Canoe, GA 30143; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com

70 A cold, wet Nor’easter blows outside—leftover from Hurricane Willa—and cramps local Halloween parades and

celebrations as I write this column for Dart-mouth’s 250th year.

Denny Brown says that retirement was not as anticipated. Ann Marie and he have survived a gypsy year of suitcase living between New Hamp-shire, Connecticut, Maine, and California, not the carefree, glorious travel that they had hoped. They are finalizing a move from Hanover to Niantic, Connecticut, to a condo lifestyle near their daugh-ter’s growing family. He retired from Dartmouth in May of 2017 from a career in educational (mostly higher education) fundraising. They are looking forward to new adventures, progress on the bucket list, and rediscovering old friends and classmates wherever they can find them. They hope to see many friends at the 50th reunion. Reach him at dtbrown48@gmail.com.

Mitch Wonson was sad to read of the passing of Chris Henderson and Robert King from such a small contingent at the (Sigma) Nu lodge. All is well up in the far reaches of the Northeast Kingdom. He is still “quasi” gainfully employed as a land-use consultant. Business has been so poor over the last decade that, for all intents and purposes, he is retired, still poor as a church mouse, but happy as a lark. Mitch spends a great deal of time outdoors on his land along the brook or road walking or putting a mile in on the local lake. He lends a great deal of help to the Town of Holland/Derby Line, Vermont, as planning commission chair, modera-tor, and Green Up Day coordinator. Cheers, Mitch (mitchlw@pshift.com).

Pete Bradstreet agrees the loss of Chris Hen-derson and Bob King is truly sad. They were good men and good (Sigma Nu) brothers. Pete is in his 26th year as a trial judge in New York, elected as a county judge and then appointed as an acting su-preme court justice. He ages out this year and is at peace with forced retirement. He has had enough of murder trials and tragic situations. Pete plans on moving to Kentucky and teaching in a Christian university in a town where two of my six children and five of my 12 grandkids live. Pure coincidence. Reach him at pcbradstreet@gmail.com.

Erick Derrickson reports from Rome, Italy, that he retired from the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Service officer in 2011. He married a lovely Italian woman in 2012 and is enjoying the life in Italy. He says it’s great traveling around the coun-try to cities large and small, historic and modern, with great food, some with beautiful beaches, oth-ers with hillside views. The challenging politics, economy, and infrastructure of Rome create a grim mood, especially for fixed-income Italians, who aren’t sure how to manage it all.

We have two more adoptees in our class. Please welcome Merrily Gerrish (merrilyg@aol.com) and Theresa Bennett-Wilkes (tbennett-wilkes@

alwaystheresa.com). Save the date for our 50th reunion, June 11-16, 2020.—Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; garettmiller@mac.com

71 Classmates, I’m introducing survey questions as a new feature in Class Notes. I invite you to respond to these

survey questions when they appear periodically. I anticipate that your insightful and witty com-ments will add to the reading pleasure of Class Notes. As I’m subject to a strict 500-word limit on Class Notes published in the DAM, I may not be able to include all of the responses you submit. Not to worry. I publish an expanded Class Note on our class website, 1971.dartmouth.org, that accom-panies each of the Class Notes in the DAM. The expanded Class Note doesn’t have a word limit. Here’s the first survey question: This year and next almost all of us turn 70. What thoughts have been roused by this milestone? Have you been inspired to develop a new habit (or kick an old one)? Pursue a new goal (or abandon an obsolete one)? Or is this the first time you’ve even thought about it? Send your responses or any other personal or class news to me at liderbob@yahoo.com.

A newswire article recently reported that Mitchell Wallerstein is stepping down as president of Baruch College in N.Y.C. Interim chancellor Vita C. Rabinowitz stated in the news article that Mitchell “has been one of CUNY’s most innovative and effective leaders of the past decade. He firmly established Baruch as a renowned driver of social and economic mobility. He raised graduation rates and strengthened the faculty.”

Bob Joy has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2019. Bob is a member of the management committee of Morgan, Brown & Joy. His practice is in employ-ment and labor law.

Numerous class events will take place in 2019. In February a mini-reunion dinner will be held in Denver. Jim and Yola Rager will host the annual Naples, Florida, mini-reunion from March 28 to 31. Special activities are being planned to celebrate our 70th birthday party. There are nu-merous attractions to this popular event. March is high season in Naples. The weather is sunny with temperatures in the mid 80s. It’s perfect weather for golf, fishing, and boating. The Everglades are only 25 minutes away if you’re interested in taking an airboat tour. In May you can join Dartmouth students on a canoe trip down the Connecticut River. Pete Webster hosts a dinner event at the end of the trip. Richard Wooster will once again host the annual N.Y.C. mini-reunion dinner at the Yale Club in June. The final summer event will be the Nantucket, Massachusetts, mini-reunion from August 25 to 28, hosted by Michael Maynard and Ilene Greenberg, Frank and Georgine Anton, and Alice Reno and Jim Malone. Our class is also planning numerous other gatherings to coincide with Dartmouth’s scheduled celebrations of its 250-year anniversary. My expanded Class Note that’s published on our class website, 1971.dart-mouth.org. covers additional past events. such as Class Officers Weekend and Homecoming.—Bob Lider, 9225 Veneto Place, Naples, FL 34113; liderbob@yahoo.com

72 This column will reach you some-time in the holiday season. That got me thinking about what we all may

have been doing in 1968 during our first holiday break. I asked a random selection of our class-mates to tell me about their first holiday. Their stories reveal something about the world we lived in 50 years ago.

Chris Brewster remembers: “I took the bus from White River Junction to that miserable Greyhound station in Boston, which bordered on the ‘Combat Zone.’ The name alone was suf-ficiently scary to keep me inside the station, where the greatest danger was the sandwiches in the vending machine. I took a shuttle to Logan and, after waiting several hours, I took a flight to Chi-cago. Twelve hours later, with no sleep, I got on the plane to Indianapolis, Indiana, and flew home. The whole trip took me close to 24 hours. When my parents later booked me a direct flight back to Boston I didn’t object.”

John Collier relates the following: “My parents had moved to London just after high school gradu-ation, so my freshman break was a trip through JFK to Heathrow airport and into the city. It was a gray, rainy December and my focus became the purchase of a reel-to-reel tape recorder so my parents could record all of the well-cared-for LPs that they could borrow from the library. After visiting the local pubs, I came home an enthu-siast for Worthington E, a brew that was a bit more intriguing than the Budweiser that was so ubiquitous in Richardson Hall.”

Chip Carstensen says, “I definitely remember where I spent Thanksgiving. My dad explained that unless I could pay my own way home, I would need to choose between Christmas and Thanks-giving for his one contribution. Since he already paid for all my tuition, books, room and board I saw his point. I spent a very lonely Thanksgiving weekend in Hanover. I never forgot it and was never so broke again.”

Jim Borchert offered this: “My December break was a trip home to Minnesota to see fam-ily and friends and play a little hockey, but it turned out to include an event that changed my life. I ran into a good friend who was a Ranger in Vietnam. I was in Army ROTC, and I asked him what Vietnam was really like. He told me that it was ‘an awful bunch of crap.’ He said, ‘I went over there to help keep the world safe from com-munism, but we’re not doing that. They lied to us. We’re burning farms and villages and killing everybody; it’s total BS.’ That was the last time I saw him because he came home in a box four to five months later. My conversation with him led me to question what I thought I knew. Leaving ROTC then, and withdrawing from the College later, was the start of going down ‘the road not taken’ by many.”

Powerful stuff! Let me hear from you. In the meantime, stay well.—David Hetzel, 5 Chestnut St., Windham, NH 03087; dghetzel@gmail.com

73 An important year looms! This year marks the College’s

250th anniversary as well as our 45th (46th) reunion June 13-16. Plan to attend!

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Please be sure class officers have current con-tact info: www.dartgo.org/update. (There is no uniform nomenclature for a 250th, all contend-ers—quartermillennial, semiquincentennial, and sestercentennial—are awkward.) With events nationwide and abroad all year, look for one near you. What is one thing you imagine all Dartmouth graduates share with the four members of the first graduating class of 1771?

Tuck ’75 grad David Chemerow was appointed effective October 1 to the board of directors of RiceBran Technologies. He also is a member of the board of directors of Dunham’s Athleisure Corp., and served for 15 years as a board mem-ber at Playboy Enterprises Inc. David has held numerous key executive roles in both public and private companies during his distinguished ca-reer, garnering significant expertise managing early-stage growth companies; conducting merg-ers, acquisitions, turnarounds, and divestitures; and developing long-term corporate growth strategies.

At an October ceremony recognizing Girl Scouts of Northern California volunteers, Val Armento received the National Level Honor in. In part, the citation read: “As a troop camping certification trainer for more than 30 years, this honoree teaches outdoor skills so adults and girls feel comfortable in the outdoors. She contributes to the development of outdoor curriculum as a member of the consortium of Girl Scout learn-ing facilitators, which consists of five councils. As long-time co-chair for the destinations com-mittee, her passion for helping girls expand their horizons through travel is essential. Destina-tions is a wonderful opportunity for older girls to participate in national and international travel programs.”

Football dominated this fall, (including shut-outs against Georgetown and Sacred Heart). At the time of writing, undefeated first place in the Ivy League and ranked 20th overall!

Belatedly, the College learned of the 2017 death of Joan Snell, eldest classmate and wife of professor Laurie Snell. She earned her second bachelor’s degree in 1973. In 2008 Joan shared part of her third-person autobiography with your scribe, which includes: “Here it is, Sunday morn-ing. Here she is, under an elm in front of the li-brary, about to graduate. A brass band, on the steps of the English department wing, plays a fanfare, and the two front rows of graduating seniors stand up, ready to process toward the platform. Off they go, and the next two rows stand. Eventually the two rows that include her stand. And then go. As she walks past the faculty, she sees her husband grinning at her. Up the steps to the platform, she mustn’t stumble. She’s next. There’s a shuffle. The president himself comes forward to give her her degree. He shakes her hand and then kisses her cheek! On the way back to her chair, she notices fellow graduates are staring at her, wide-eyed.”

Theater professor and playwright Paul Jack-son succumbed to a heart attack in August.

Obituaries for both Paul and Joan can be found at https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits. —Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

74 At the end of June Ken Cuddeback retired as the business manager of the Bement School in Deerfield,

Massachusetts, a school for children in kin-dergarten through ninth grade. Ken earned an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts after Dartmouth and enjoyed a career in market-ing, manufacturing, and purchasing roles with Channing Bete Company Inc., a publisher and printer, and with American Pen and Paper, before joining Bement 17 years ago. Ken’s wife, Denise, retired from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in November 2017. He and Denise are looking forward to traveling to new desti-nations in the United States and abroad. Ken’s plans also include carpentry, woodworking, and more skiing. Ken will continue to be involved in local governance in Deerfield, having served for more than 30 years on the school committee, the planning board, and other subcommittees. Ken and Denise have a daughter, Rachel, a teacher in Needham, Massachusetts, who lives with her family in South Boston. Her two boys are the true joys of Ken’s and Denise’s lives. Ken and Denise also have a son, Seth, who lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a freelance cinematographer while also writing and producing independent film projects.

Ken keeps in touch with Herman Laturnau, retired from Fred C. Church Insurance and liv-ing in New Hampshire, and with Bill Fitzpatrick, retired from his career as an architect and living in Florida.

Tim Lunney retired and spent the past five years caring for his elderly parents in Cape Eliza-beth, Maine. Tim’s parents have now moved into an assisted living facility, and Tim is returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Tim noted that his family’s research into assisted living facilities uncovered how wonderful some are. He advises families to tour facilities and learn about options well before elderly or ailing parents must decide about moving. While in Maine Tim rediscovered a passion for U.S. history. Tim has followed his father’s footsteps and joined the Sons of the American Revolution. The local chapter his-torian encouraged Tim to conduct research on his Revolutionary War ancestor, Elias Taylor. Tim set out to learn all that he could about Elias Taylor and was shocked by what he found. Mr. Taylor and his eldest son both died of smallpox at Fort Ticonderoga in May 1777 and were buried in a mass grave with thousands of fellow sol-diers who died in the same epidemic. Mr. Taylor’s widow was left to raise six children by herself on the edge of the Maine wilderness. To honor their service, sacrifice, and memory after more than 200 years, Tim led a campaign to have the Manchester, Maine, historical society erect a historical marker in September to memorialize Elias Taylor, his son, and their homestead.

Please remember to mark your calendars for our 45th reunion from Thursday, June 13, through Sunday, June 16, and watch for news about Dartmouth’s upcoming sestercentennial year.

Be safe and send news.—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com

75 You all will likely be reading this around the year-end holidays. If so, I wish you all a very happy new year and

hope to see you at our 45th in Hanover June 13-16. I suspect that our class treasurer, Jeff Sassorossi, would think very kindly of you if you were to pay your class dues well in advance of this blessed event. The dues support the work of our class and go a long way to making the reunion a memorable event.

I am sure you will begin to receive numer-ous mailings about our reunion and the various events. I am not sure I have the energy to plan a full-blown supported bicycle ride, but I am hope-ful of getting my hands on a bike and heading out for a jaunt while I am there. I have to redeem myself for the failed mini-reunion bike ride ear-lier this year. It was anticipated to be such an amazing event that Kevin McGillicuddy chimed in with, “I’ll notify the Austin City Council. They’ve been depending on the hotel tax revenue.” Let me know if you want to ride in Hanover that weekend, maybe we can get a gang together. It is a short ride over to the Etna Store and I think they sell beer.

A recent note from Coleman Tuggle follows: “I stopped off this summer, for the third or fourth time, to visit our classmate and my fellow TriKap Nick Hunt and his wife in Atlantic, Iowa, where he has a third-generation farm, growing 2,000 acres of corn to fatten 2,500 head of cattle (he’s halfway to Denver, where my daughter lives, so it breaks up our trips to visit her). Pretty amazing seeing where your food comes from—and where some ’75s ended up (his dad went to Dartmouth as well). I think he’s also planning to be at the reunion.” Well there are two reunion-goers!

How about those 6-0 footballers! Can they go all the way—or did I just jinx them.

Vox clamantis in Tejas.—Stephen D. Gray, 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX 77550; (650) 302-8739; fratergray@gmail.com

76 The tidal wave of ’76 grandchildren has begun. This month I’m reaching out for good grandparent names. I’m

not in need yet myself but want to be ready with ’76-level creativity when the time comes. I’ve in-vited a few classmates we haven’t heard from in a while to submit Granny-Gramps alternatives they used as kids or are called now. Please email your suggestions for the next issue. Of course, being tradition-defying ’76ers, we have glorious outliers such as Joe Dempsey, whose two adorable children (ages 4 and 7) you may have met at reunion last year. Joe and his wife, Beverly, served as foster parents in the New Jersey child welfare system prior to adopting their two and are a wonderful, enthusiastic resource for those seeking state care adoption information. Caroline Ballard, who with her husband has sold their veterinary practice and retired to Vermont, comes by her quirky humor naturally. Her grandmother was called “Ogie” (short for ogre) and her great-grandmother was “Th’other Nanny.” The ever-effervescent Peter Friedensohn and sparkly wife Pat Hopkins are aptly known as “Poppop” and “Glamma” to grand-sons Robby (5) and Cody (3). Steve Bell reports his newest grandchild, Henry, born in Cambodia, will most likely follow the lead of his older cousin,

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called Launch Mode that makes fun of the wacki-ness of searching for a job. It was spawned from his work counseling young people prepping for the job market. Find it online through retailers or at www.youlaunchu.com. “Whether you’ve applied for a job, had a job, or lost a job, you’ll get a kick out of it.” Peter Mills is working on a new business called Track3t that enables companies to track precisely their inventory, equipment, and tooling as they move through a factory or warehouse. He loves to bicycle around the Bay Area with his wife, Mary. Mary McDougall is a vice president at Astia, a social enterprise that provides access to venture capital and networks for women-led ventures. She attended the forum to meet female entrepreneurs and to recruit male and female alums who wish to help as Astia advisors and Astia Angel investors. Learn more at www.astia.org.

Bernie Lambek, who has practiced law in Montpelier, Vermont, for the past 26 years, has written a legal mystery titled Uncivil Liberties. The story focuses on the circumstances surround-ing the death of a young and promising gay high school student in a small Vermont town. As the community deals with her death, issues arise about hate speech and free speech, cyberbully-ing and privacy, and religious and sexual freedom. “A splendid legal mystery with savvy political ethics and vivid characters,” writes Howard Nor-man; an “intriguing book, especially for addicts of courtroom drama,” says Simon Mawer. See more at www.bernielambek.com.

Please mark your calendars right now for our 65th birthday bash. It will be held on August 27-30, 2020, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The more classmates who come, the more fun we will all have. See you there! —Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540; robins.nest@icloud.com; Eric Edmondson, Signal Hill Capital LLC, 425 California St., Suite 19, San Francisco, CA 94104; eweedmondson@gmail.com; Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, Wash-ington, DC 20037; akintzinger@hunton.com

78 News from near and far as we celebrate the 250th birthday of the College on the Hill.

Four-dozen members of the class of ’78 trav-eled to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge in October for the dedication of the Class of 1978 Bunkhouse. The ceremony was the culmination of a signifi-cant fundraising effort (more than $1.1 million) and volunteer construction blitzes over the summer and fall. Class president Barbie Snyder Martinez served as emcee (and my embedded re-porter!). Charley Wise, who along with Dave Graham co-chaired the bunkhouse steering committee, related the epic tale of how the bunkhouse came to be. He then revealed the donor recognition board (great work by Nancy Mayer Freedman and others on the design), with the names of more than 400 ’78s who contributed their time, talent, and treasure to the project, and presented the bunk-house as a gift to the College. Class vice president Jim Bassett presented former dean Ralph Manuel ’58 with a plaque that will hang in the bunkhouse. (Manuel, looking at a 40-year-old picture of him-self, quipped: “I haven’t changed a bit!”) Barbie presented appreciation boards to Dave, Charley,

Cara, of Los Angeles, who calls Steve “Papa.” An-other “Papa” is the husband of Lori Radke Bessette, who is “Mimi” to their two sons’ kids born within five days of each other last spring. Lori, a former obstetrician-gynecologist, lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband, an orthopedic surgeon. I bet those lucky grandkids will grow up sailing in the Bessette family sailboat on Lake Ontario. Coke McClure is Father McClure to his congregation but Grandpa Coke (or sometimes Pepsi!) to his 17 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Coke’s thoughtful correspondence detailed his career chapters, including Presbyterian pastor, stockbroker, and Episcopal priest. For the last 10 years he has served congregations in Idaho, California, Kentucky, and Nebraska. Our new mi-ni-reunion chair Jim Beattie (begged, wheedled, whined, and cajoled into service by a cadre of convincers) will be inviting you soon to a mini--reunion not to be missed! Get ready for a fabulous fiesta to welcome the onslaught of 65th birthdays as well as Dartmouth’s 250th. We’re enlisting a whole new crop of bear-huggers (plus some repeat champs) to greet you for a weekend of fun, food, hikes, bikes, shops, spas, and, per your request from the last reunion, more time to just catch up with each other. Meanwhile, treat yourself to our class website updated by tech guru Joe Jasinski. In addition to our Freshman Book and reunion photos, there are links to current Dartmouth news and sports and, my favorite, a webcam on Baker Library (www.1976.dartmouth.org). Huge thanks to Jim Burns, who has graciously agreed to carry on the mighty editorial tradition of Judy Csatari as newsletter editor. We are so lucky to have so many talented and willing classmates!—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com

77 Jeff Stone and his wife, Susan, re-cently enjoyed a Dartmouth alumni travel trip to Uganda. Bushwhacking

through the aptly named Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to reach a troop of mountain goril-las was the highlight of the expedition. Nearly as cool were encounters with many primates, daily game-watching opportunities (rhinos, lions, el-ephants, giraffes, birds), climbing to the top of the thunderous Murchison Falls, and a rare meet-up with some very short-statured Batwa people, na-tive to the Uganda-Congo border. A real draw was the company of faculty trip leader Nate Dominy, whose commentary added perspective and detail.

Ellen Sen is still an engineer with GE Avia-tion, working on helicopter engines, volunteering with Girls Inc., a nonprofit promoting “strong, smart, and bold” young women through after-school mentoring and leadership programs. She and her husband, Ron, enjoy traveling to visit their four kids and two grandkids. Ellen keeps up with her roommate Janet O’Neill Selling. Janet and her husband, Tom, are “promoting the works of Luisa Piccarreta, an Italian woman under consideration for canonization by the Catholic Church.”

John Storella, who practices patent law with early-stage biotech companies in Berkeley, Cali-fornia, met up with classmates at a Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Forum in San Francisco. Doug Ireland has created a career-focused card game

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Shanahan, Meg Blakey, Carol Pelmas and Barbara and Curt Flight. Several hours of friendship and conversation left everyone warm and revitalized.

Earlier this fall the Flights hosted the wed-ding of their daughter, Casey, in Sunapee, New Hampshire. The weekend’s festivities included not only a golf tournament, but also a welcome re-ception complete with “tent activities.” “Alpo” and Jerry were among those joining the celebration.

Last summer Carol, Meg, and Lisa joined Monica Knox, Lori Florio, Anne Van Roden, and class-mate-in-spirit Susan Funk ’81 at a mini-reunion hosted by Tom and Margie Gart in Vail, Colorado. Round-number birthdays, that from the photos appear to be grossly overstated, provided the impetus for hiking, fishing, yoga, and fun in the Rockies. Monica traveled from Munich, again winning the award for traveling the furthest, over those who ventured from New York, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon.

The D recently featured Jeneen ’96 and Andy Graham in an article on married couples who met at Dartmouth. Our new newsletter editor, Bill Goodspeed, will be following up with a series on classmate couples. Please send backstories to Bill at williambgoodspeed@gmail.com. “Speed” has pledged to do his best to fill the very large shoes of Eric Pfieffer, who did an outstanding job for a decade. Please help him out with news and photos.

Save the dates: Next fall’s Homecoming is October 11-12. This will be the last one before our 40th reunion, to take place June 18-21, 2020. Cathy McGrath and Alex Frank have graciously agreed to co-chair. Anyone wishing to assist with the planning should get in contact with Cathy or Alex. We are having a contest for our reunion logo and slogan. Submit entries by December 31, and the winner will receive 40-percent off reunion registration fees.—Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 835-7722; robdaisley@me.com; Wade Herring, 1 Verdell Drive, Savannah, GA 31406; (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com; Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com

81 When we started our collective Dart-mouth experience, we were young, bright, optimistic, and true. Honest

curiosity motivated us. The College, at its ini-tiation, resonated the same spirit. With patina, transcendent truths remain. We are one.

In an effort to reflect on ties that bind us in our personal 60th year and the College’s 250th year, your class executive committee initiated an email-based approach named the Big Ques-tions Series; first one: What moment would you re-experience? The response of Linda Gundal was, “Spontaneously a feeling came to mind. I had just finished playing an interdormitory water polo game. It was nighttime. I was walking alone across the Green back to my dorm, hair still a bit wet, weather cold, crisp, and clear. And a moment of freshness and belonging overwhelmed me and felt just perfect.” Allison Pingel Cooley had a few: “My first meeting with my freshman roomie, Nancy Kopsco Rader, at Hinman Hall. I was flooded with relief since I immediately realized she was the stuff of dreams, not of nightmares.” And “necking

If there is any Dartmouth value that has stuck with me, it’s that. My understanding of the voice in the wilderness is that it is not about a lone voice crying out in despair, but is instead about the one in the desert hearing a voice and receiving a call to action. We can stay in the desert or we can get in the game, engage with our community, and serve each other. Thanks, Eleazar (and Isaiah)!”

Peggy Epstein Tanner: “Hey, Eleazar, what did you put in the Kool-Aid that caused the still north to be in our hearts and the hill winds in our veins? Who knew a four-year residential college experi-ence could provide a lifetime of friendships, a love of the outdoors, a love of learning, and enduring connections. Thank you, Dartmouth, and thank you to my awesome class of ’79 family!”

Mark Winkler: “Eleazar, even though you graduated from Yale, you redeemed yourself late in life by founding Dartmouth. You were 60 at the first commencement in 1771. Exactly 200 years after you died, our class graduated to continue championing your cross-cultural legacy of en-lightenment. You’re best known for what you did after 60; our promise is, ‘So will we!’ Stay tuned.”

What would you tell Eleazar? Please email your responses to us so we can sprinkle them throughout our remaining 2019 Class Notes columns.

It is with great sadness that we must close by noting the passing of Joe Asch, our devoted classmate and one of Dartmouth’s most passion-ate, albeit controversial, alums. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Joe’s family. His life is memorial-ized at the “In Memory” page on our class website (www.1979.dartmouth.org).

Don’t forget to highlight June 17-21, 2020, in your calendars, when we’ll come together for our 40th reunion to celebrate friends here and gone. Happy New Year!—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com; John Cur-rier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) 649-2577; john.h.currier@dartmouth.edu

80 Homecoming Weekend kicked off with the alumni parade and bonfire on a gorgeous Friday night. Saturday

morning neither rain nor sleet nor chilly mist of fall dampened spirits at the tailgate Cathy McGrath co-hosted with the ’79s and ’81s. Those prepared for the weather headed over to Memorial Field to watch Big Green football defeat Harvard 24-17 for our first home victory over the Johnnies in 25 years. Harvard tears continued to fall as both of our soccer teams and men’s hockey scored vic-tories, hockey in an overtime thriller. Only a loss in field hockey and an upset defeat in women’s rugby precluded a clean sweep.

More than 30 classmates left the chilly fields for the rustic and cozy Pierce’s Inn to gather for our annual class dinner. Attendees included our class co-presidents Susan Fagerstrom and Mark Alperin, Bart Littlefield, Mary Jo and John Wilen, Susie ’87 and Todd Pellett, Debbie Leggat, Ken and Ellen Taratus, Peggy Stewart, Katie Small, Cami and Brent Bilger, Carrie and Glen Elliott, Sue Kirby and “Boomer,” Susan and Rob Williams, Anne Malenka, Jenny and Paul Elmlinger, John Clark, Gay Macomb-er ’82 and Jerry Bird, Colin ’82 and Anne McNay, Lisa

and Tim McNamara for their “vision, perseverance, and leadership in bringing the bunkhouse to frui-tion.” This is an effort by the entire class that we can all take pride in!

An unusual alignment of the stars occurred at a mineral exploration conference held in Sonora, Mexico, when three ’78s—Dave Jones, Phil Pyle, and Steve Maynard—were scheduled speakers in the same afternoon session. A fourth ’78, John Larson, heckled from the audience. Says Steve: “Tequila ensued.”

Tom Thaler reports that he and his wife, Beth, recently returned from Thailand, where they took a team of U.S. high school students to the Inter-national Earth Science Olympiad. “We have been the mentors for this program for 12 years. We run a national assessment and invite the most qualified students to come to a one-week inten-sive in all things earth science-related held at the University of Vermont. Team USA took first place among 37 other countries attending. All of our students took home gold medals and also did well in international team events. But the reason we do this is not to win medals for our country. It is to address issues such as climate change, sea-level rise, ocean acidification, topsoil loss, etc. We need to have young earth scientists who can not only excel at the science, but also be able to collaborate with a team of international peers.” When they are not running this project, Tom and Beth do volunteer work in Haiti as part of the Vermont Haiti Project.

Class officer awards: Harriet Travilla Reynolds accepted the Donald C. Smith ’53 Award in Rec-ognition of Outstanding Mini-Reunion Program for Classes 26 years Out and Older. And yours truly was named Class Secretary of the Year for the same cohort of classes, an unexpected honor, which I greatly appreciate.

Send news.—Rick Beyer, 190 Bridge St., #4409, Salem, MA 01970; rick@rickbeyer.net

79 It’s about time to close the book on another year and welcome in 2019, which marks the 250th anniversary

of the founding of Dartmouth. Yearlong cel-ebratory events—including this special issue of DAM—have been in the planning since 2015 and can be found at 250.dartmouth.edu. Juan and I thought we would help bring the 250th to our class by asking some ’79s to briefly respond to this anniversary-themed question: “If you could talk to our founding father, Eleazar Wheelock, about which aspect of Dartmouth’s ethos is most meaningful or inspirational to you, what would you tell him?” Here are four sample responses.

Laurie Laidlaw: “Eleazar, thank you for Dart-mouth and the versatile motto you adopted for generations of students to find meaning in ac-cording to their unique personal circumstances. Vox. Voice. My voice. Our voices. In making my way in this world and hoping to be a part of making it better, developing, growing, and using my voice has been an important aspect of the journey. Join-ing our voices, being together and understanding each individual’s voice, has been part of reaching the next level of a meaningful life.”

Laura Powers-Swiggett: “Community matters.

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did not sweep every category, there is still more work to do….

It was extra-special that Cheryl Bascomb was there to welcome all alums back for COW—her first as vice president of alumni relations. And Alumni Council president Tee Lotson was in Hanover too. Ann Neumeyer was in town for her husband’s Dartmouth Medical School reunion. Philippa Guthrie, Laura Murray Dobbin, Vaune Dugan, Barb Power, and Sarah Melcher were in Hanover cel-ebrating 40 years of women’s rugby at Dartmouth.

We had a meeting with members of the class of 1957 to discuss our new class project—the Class of 1982 Fund for Great Issues Innovation at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Un-derstanding. The fund will promote extracur-ricular and co-curricular activities that focus on identifying, analyzing, and solving the current and future great issues of the world; instill in Dart-mouth students a desire to make a difference in the world through a deeper understanding of international issues; and rely on innovation and reflect grounding in the liberal arts. Dartmouth founded the Dickey Center in 1982 and our part-nership with the class of 1957 was serendipitous, since at our first meeting we realized that most of the ’57s were 82 years old. Kudos to Robin Shaf-fert, Cathy Judd-Stein, and David Plekenpol for getting this project off the ground.

Finally, 2019 marks the 250th birthday of Dartmouth. There will be a series of events this coming year, culminating in Boston on December 13, which is the date when the College charter was issued in 1769. A kickoff event will be held in Hanover on January 10. Go to 250.dartmouth.edu for more information. In honor of Dartmouth’s sestercentennial, I will close this column with two questions for you. What is one thing that you imagine all Dartmouth graduates share with the four members of that first graduating class in 1771? And, if you had the chance to give founder Eleazar Wheelock a one-hour tour of the campus today, where would you take him?

Happy holidays and happy new year!—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los An-geles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Jennifer Chandler Hauge, 3506 Idaho Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016; jchandlerhauge@gmail.com

83 Whether you adhere to traditions or find them maddening, you’ll probably agree that Dartmouth has many, as do

some of our classmates. Shortly after graduating, a group of our classmates established a tradi-tion of getting together regularly for dinner and a movie. Among the regulars were Bob Gray, Bob Dinan, Barb Dinan, Bob Blum, Caryn “C.C.” Ginsberg, Walter Foster, Anne Marie Healey, and James McKim (yes, an eclectic crowd). With family and work commitments and relocations, the get-togethers became less frequent through the years, but the group still keeps in touch and the friendships endure. Anne Marie Healey and James McKim got together with Bob Gray in Reading, Mas-sachusetts, shortly after Bob’s mother, Sandra, passed away last month. Bob works at the family company, Cushman & Marden. Anne Marie is project manager of the project on race and gender in science and medicine at the Harvard Univer-

with my future husband (class of ’77) at Occom Pond.” Michael Holmes responded that a highlight of his college experience was the night he was tapped for Casque & Gauntlet: “We all had our little corners, but this felt like campus-wide rec-ognition. That meant something.” Two members recalled Moosilauke. Dave Focardi recalls “my freshman trip summit was so clear we could see the Green Mountains in Vermont. Though I’ve had many summits since, none were that clear.” Chip Bettencourt noted the warm post-freshman trip feeling of “walking into Moosilauke Ravine Lodge.” Jon Herron wrote, “Sitting down to din-ner backstage with the Grateful Dead before their concert while working as a cook and stage crew freshman fall.” In terms of further exciting moments, Steve Pignatiello recalls “the day John Rassias asked me to be his teaching assistant in Blois, France, for the spring 1980 term.” We all owe a great debt to our teachers, but there is a special debt Vaughn Halyard owes to recently named chairman of mathematics at Oregon State University Bill Bogley. Apparently, Bill’s assis-tance with Math 3 freshman year eliminated the “very good chance I would be graduating this week from a community college somewhere in Wisconsin.” The experience aided Bill also, since he has earned numerous graduate and under-graduate teaching awards and developed one of the first-in-the-world web-based courses in differential calculus called CalculusQuest.

In “give a rouse” news, our co-presidents Pat Berry and Robert Goldbloom were awarded the 2018 Class President of the Year Award and our very own Lynne Hamel Gaudet was honored at Homecoming as an Alumni Award winner. Bob Gaudet was inducted into the New Hamp-shire Legends of Hockey Hall of Fame just a few weeks earlier.

Stay tuned for the next installment ques-tion for our Big Questions Series, and respond as many times as you wish or write to us spontane-ously. Long live the inspired.—Emil Miskovsky, 520 Seneca St., Suite 312, Uti-ca, NY 13502; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com; Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; vcwessels@rogers.com

82 “And the 2018 Reunion Class of the Year is the great class of 1982.” Those words and the following shouts of

joy made this year’s Class Officers Weekend (COW) especially sweet. The annual gathering of all class officers took place in Hanover at the end of September among beautiful fall weather. Danny Black led our contingent of class leaders, including Robin Shaffert, David Plekenpol, Matt Hoffman, Carol Davis, Betsy Leggat, Mike Berg, Jon Baker, Steve Berger and me. Our record-breaking 35th reunion attendance in June was a key factor in winning our sixth Class of the Year Award. We immediately texted Mary Thomson Renner and Cathy Judd-Stein, who were instrumental in lead-ing us to this triumph.

David Plekenpol also won Treasurer of the Year—for the third time. And Ralph McDevitt, Sally McCoy, and Al Dotson won Gift Planning Chairs of the Year. It was an ’82 lovefest. But since we

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sity Hutchins Center. She and her husband live in Somerville, Massachusetts, and recently be-came empty-nesters when their son, Liam, left for college in Georgia. After a stint at Hewlett Packard, James McKim is advising startups on organizational development and infrastructure. He and his wife live in Goffstown, New Hamp-shire. Similarly, after Dan Scherman accepted a position with financial advisors Waddell & Reed in Kansas City, Kansas, two years ago, he and Art Blackman began hosting micro-reunions for ’83s at Art’s home in Mission Hills, Kansas. Accord-ing to Dan, a strong affinity for premium cigars and fine wine is a plus, but any “son of a gun for beer” is okay too. Likewise, Elliot Stultz and Dina Baker Smallman meet in Palm Springs, California, each October for a long weekend of mid-century modern, swapping the granite of New Hampshire for the desert sun. Closer to the “lone pine above her,” James McKim enjoyed two micro-miniature reunions when he had coffee recently with John Flanders. John is chief of operations at the N.H. Community Loan Fund and on the forefront of business startup programs. He too will become an empty-nester in the spring. Hours later, James ran into Rob Hirschfeld, also an empty-nester (see a pattern?). As the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire, Rob has been ensur-ing the church is a welcoming place. Bob Goldman reports that his traditions include inviting Dart-mouth friends to all his weddings and initiating ongoing friendships at reunions with classmates he hasn’t met before. Bob says he can’t wait until his next wedding! Following a long tradition of ac-complishment and leadership among Dartmouth alums, Karen Toulon recently received the Gwen Ifill Award from the International Women’s Me-dia Foundation. Karen is a senior editor on Bloom-berg’s talent, diversity, standards, and training team and a former New York bureau chief. She was honored for developing and promoting the broadcast skills of Bloomberg journalists and researchers around the world while helping to diversify Bloomberg’s global lineup. Congratu-lations, Karen! Take a moment to submit your traditions. Let us share them with our classmates, lest the old traditions fail.—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chi-cago, IL 60657; elliotstultz@yahoo.com

84 This has been a challenging column to write. You see, 2019 marks the sester-centennial anniversary of Dartmouth,

and all class secretaries were asked to incorporate this important event into our columns. Well, that’s been difficult. I usually don’t do so well with in-structions, but I thought I’d give it a try.

Sestercentennial. A huge word. Sounded very important. I wondered what it meant? I de-cided to google it. It seems that sestercentennial is a Latin word that translates to the number 250. It’s an important-sounding word. I’m always try-ing to make this column seem more important. Perhaps if I added a bit of Latin to the column, people would take me for the serious thinker that I am. First problem is that I don’t speak Latin. No worries, I could ask my old roommate Keith

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Dickey for help. Keith was a Latin major. Or a classics major. Definitely one of those. He has a Ph.D. in classical archaeology. He’s also been to Greece. I figured I would write the column, Keith would sprinkle in some Latin phrases, and, ipso facto, we’re all set. So I proceeded to look him up. It seems that Keith works for Michigan Medicine. It sounds like a great job and it’s a very impressive website, but I don’t think Keith has a job that uses very much Latin. Also, I’m pretty sure Keith’s pictured on the website wearing a tie that he “borrowed” from me in 1982. Decided to avoid the awkward conversation.

What about our classmates who became real teachers? They might be able to help. Af-ter all, teachers know Latin. This could be the solution to my problem, without having to in-teract with the tie-stealer. I quickly looked up Beth McGee, who teaches at Thetford (Vermont) Elementary School. This seemed promising. Un-fortunately, Beth teaches art and theater. Unless Beth is teaching the students to make statues without arms, I realized that she would not be much help in the Latin department. Also, Beth recently wrote a moving essay about her rela-tionship to the College, which is posted on our class Facebook page. Unlike this column, Beth’s essay has a point and is largely true. Well, to each their own, or, as they say in Latin, suum cuique.

On to Pam Ross. Pam molds impressionable minds as a fourth-grade teacher at the Oyster-Adams Bilingual School, which is located in Washington, D.C. This could be perfect. Emo-tionally, I am often compared to a fourth-grader. Not always favorably. Anyway, Pam was very helpful. She pointed out sestercentennial is not the best word choice for this auspicious event. There are far better words, according to Pam. Sure, other schools have already used the ever popular semiquincentennial and bicenquinqua-genary. However, the best Latin word for 250 of all, quarter millennial, is still available. That’s it! We should all urge the College to change sester-centennial to quarter millennial before it’s too late. Imagine, if successful, we would all finally become millennials, if only fractionally.—Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; grubman@sbcglobal.net; Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; julietgiglio@gmail.com

85 Speaking of freshmen, you are no doubt familiar with the term “tri-fecta,” describing a horse-racing bet

challenging the gambler to select the first-, sec-ond-, and third-place finishers in the correct or-der. Quite an accomplishment, and a big payday for anyone able to achieve it. We are broadening the use of the word for this column to highlight Beth Gilman Hobbs and husband Bill’s parental trifecta, having matriculated their oldest—trip-lets Elizabeth, Henry, and Will—with the class of 2022. Does that mean Beth now gets three “DP”s after her ’85? Beth’s youngest son, Sam, is currently a high school senior. Can you say “quadfecta”?

Last August witnessed the wedding of the eldest son of Allison Shutz Moskow, Zac ’14, to Rebekah Hamil. The happy couple tied the knot

on a picture-perfect day at Allison’s farm in Nor-wich, Vermont. Surrounded by many of their adoring family and friends, including ’85s Jen-nifer Archibald Williams, Valerie Hartman, Dr. Ali-son Cooper Phillips, and yours truly, the limitless energy of the mother of the groom kept the dance floor rocking under a star-filled sky. Meanwhile, Alison Phillips used the reception as training for the Lake George Half Ironman. Proving she is truly an Ironwoman, Alison finished first in her age group at the Labor Day Weekend event.

Speaking of doctors and sports, radiologist Dr. Kathleen Buckley continues accumulating hardware on the paddle tennis courts, trans-ferring her tennis-playing skills to the outdoor winter sport. And Jennifer Gabler has dominated the worldwide squash courts, amassing numer-ous victories and honors along the way, as well as supporting and promoting youth squash pro-grams. Jenny is not a doctor but her husband, Stephen Bloch ’84, was a radiology resident at Mass General with Kathleen. Yes, the world is small. So small that at a women’s collegiate lacrosse tournament in Cambridge, Massachu-setts, this past fall, Linda Cooper Marshall (cheer-ing in the stands for Big Green daughter Claire ’21) had occasion to catch up with relatively new Boston resident Valerie Hartman (oldest son, Charlie ’19) and reconnected with Donna Fraser Gourdeau (oldest son, John ’21). Then all three of these senior-year roommates spotted Dr. Buck-ley, even though Kathleen was on the opposite side of the stands cheering on daughter Olivia Gill (Harvard ’22). Seems Kathleen and husband Tom’s two children have both followed their dad to the dark side—crimson.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has re-cently acquired one of four seasonal self-por-traits, Fall: Artist Eats Pho 2011, by Daniel Hey-man. An etching made on nine copper plates, it is available to see in the museum’s print study room. With all due respect to the Hobbs’ family trifecta, a single piece of art acquired by the Met is pretty darn awesome. Daniel sends a special shout-out to all who have helped and inspired him along the way. Let us all give a rouse back to Daniel.

Until our next column update, send us your news—we will print it here.

All the best to all of you!—Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road, Green-wich, CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; dahlleslie@yahoo.com; John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; slampong@aol.com

86 Neil Maher writes: “Dear fellow ’86s, while many of your children have either heard from their colleges of

choice or are waiting for April decisions, my oldest son is heading off to…kindergarten next year. And I have another boy who will be join-ing him two years from now in school! So next fall, when you’re dropping off your freshman, remember to send some energy my way—I’m going to need it.” Jeanne and John Clark’s daughter, Lisa, graduated summa cum laude from Franklin & Marshall, where she was also a member of its Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Their son, Joe, is get-

ting his master’s at University of Illinois with plans to teach high school band. Jeanne’s life story is “warmth, cold, loss, bliss, struggle, fam-ily.” Jeff House shares that his twin daughters graduated from Dartmouth. Sydney graduated cum laude with a double major in economics and government and is starting a consulting firm job in Boston. Ashley graduated with an economics degree with post-baccalaureate plans for medi-cal school. Jeff ’s life story is “K.C., Dartmouth, travel, family, consulting, golf.” Gina Cannon’s life story is “New Hampshire, husband, daughter, Labrador, retired, joy.” Kendall Burney Wilson’s life story is “exciting, unexpected, challenging, blessed, beautiful, full.” Jeffrey Morrison’s life in seven words: “Just completed 30 years teaching at GFA.” I had to look up Greens Farms Academy, and found a school newsletter with photos of Jeff from 30 years ago and recently. André Cramblit writes, “New job: Native cultural resource spe-cialist.” Liz McClintock’s life story is “Joy from family, friends, and negotiation adventures.” Patrick Donovan writes, “Well, I have some news. On May 8 I was sworn in as the 109th associate justice of the N.H. Supreme Court. After 28 years of practicing law as a state homicide prosecutor and private practitioner, I closed my practice for a spot on New Hampshire’s highest court. My four kids are proud and my wife seems to be taking it in stride, but she refuses to call me Justice Patrick.” John Menides writes, “Moved on and not looking back.” Marie Longo writes: “I am the chief advancement officer at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, a private arts boarding high school where I also advise students.” Here’s her six-word life story, “former theater nerd fundraising for same.” Jim Citron wrote, “travels, Mexico, finds love at 52.” This next six-word life story made me laugh. Celeste Boatwright Grace: “Armpit deep in a horse’s rectum.” Peter Arnold poses a slightly different question: “Can you tell our class history in six words? Answer: There is no ‘0’ in ’86.” Laura Gil-lespie writes, “Without a map, made it home.” From Vermont, Alice Rudd Elder and Brooks Elder quote Paul Simon for their life story: “Still crazy after all these years.” Bonnie (Austin) Cluxton’s life story is “a life of family, friends, love.” Keith Noyes writes from China, “graduated, married, two kids, rock on.” In beauty, it is finished.—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com

87 In 2019 Dartmouth is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of its charter, with a year’s worth of events

reflecting on Dartmouth’s past and future. The grand kickoff happens on January 12, “Green-lighting Day,” when Niagara Falls, One World Tower in N.Y.C., and other locations around the world will be lit green. If you are in a “greenlit” location, post a photo on our Facebook page! On January 31 former U.S. solicitor general Greg Garre and former acting U.S. solicitor general (and my husband’s law school housemate and friend) Neal Katyal ’91 will reenact the Dart-mouth College case before the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Greg and Neal will reprise the reenactment at Dartmouth on March

1, so watch the newsletter and your email for news of ’87 events in Hanover that weekend.

Here is more good news from Washington, D.C.: The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute honored Dan Gisser in September as a recipient of a 2018 Angel in Adoption Award, which recognizes people and organizations that have made extraordinary contributions on behalf of children in need of families. Dan is a board member at Adoption Network Cleveland, a non-profit adoption and foster care organization in Ohio. As parents of a daughter from Vietnam, Dan and his wife have worked to ensure that she is connected with her birth family. Dan attended the ceremony in Washington, D.C., and not only met with members of Congress and senators the “chaotic” day before the Kavanaugh-Blasey Ford confirmation hearings, but was also able to squeeze in a visit with Baltimore resident Jim Goodrich. Jim impressively stays in touch with quite a few ’87s: This summer he had a nostal-gic dinner at Jesse’s with Peter DeLong and a visit with Janet (Mailing) Wittenberg in her New Hampshire home. “Janet helped me decipher my own handwriting in letters I had written to her while I was in the Peace Corps 30 years ago,” Jim said. “My 23-year-old self sounded a lot like me now. I am not entirely sure what to make of that!”

David Toll also has an impressive accom-plishment to report: self-publication of his first book, A Cartoon Lover’s Guide to Private Equity. After his experiences with drawing magazine cartoons and designing private equity training, “I figured I could combine the two into a private equity primer that serves as a vehicle for my cartoons,” David said. The book is available for free download at www.privateequitycartoon.com, and you can order hard copies by contacting David at dtoll@buyoutinsider.com. All after-tax profits go to the Robert Toigo Foundation, an organization that encourages women and mi-norities to pursue careers in finance.

David still gets together with fellow New Jersey resident (and law school classmate of mine) John Ashbrook. David joked that, “In 31 years I’ve never had a mention in Class Notes, but I thought I’d give it a shot!” You, too, can see your name in print by simply sending me an email with your news.—Laura Gasser, 746 17th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121; marcklaurag@aol.com

88 Greetings, fellow ’88s! As you receive this issue of the alumni magazine, it is likely cold or wet or dark or all of

the above, at least for most of us in Northern Hemisphere (yes, I see you, Melinda Harrington Fenton-Smith, basking in Australia’s summer right now, and you too, Bob Yee, living in always sunny Hawaii), so this column is devoted to help-ing you find a great book to read while curled up by a warm fire on a wintry afternoon. Two of my recent favorites were Bill Gifford’s Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying), which was fascinating and funny, and Matthew Lansburgh’s award-winning short story collec-tion, Outside Is The Ocean, which was poignant and powerful. I highly recommend both. And, with thanks to our classmates who answered my

call for book suggestions, here is a wide range of additional selections. Adam Rabiner wrote that he enjoyed two books that were companions of a sort: Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, fol-lowed by War of Two, written by John Sedgwick, which is about the long-running rivalry between Hamilton and Aaron Burr, as illuminated by cor-respondence between Hamilton and the author’s ancestor. Perfect for you history majors! Paul Blackburn, who lives in Hood River, Oregon, said he loved the latest Stephen King novel 11/23/63, and also is still pondering a novel he read long ago, The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. Roberta Millstein recommends Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book, Between the World and Me, which she said is styled as a letter from the author to his teen-age son and helped her more fully understand the impact of structural racism. Roberta also enjoyed recently re-reading Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye, which she had read at Dartmouth and she said is an “unblinking depiction of the com-plexity of girls’ friendships.” Jennifer Arlin tells me she expects to curl up with a lot of books this winter, but, instead of novels, they will be related to the history of the Germanic language family. That is because she started a Ph.D. program in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in August. With two children in college and one having graduated from college, Jennifer reports it was a perfect time for this new challenge. She and Sam Braverman now split their time between Philadelphia and New York, where Sam contin-ues with his active law practice. Now that you have plenty of material for your reading lists this winter, I want to conclude with two important pieces of information from the Class Officers Weekend I attended in September. The first is that our own Ann Jackman was awarded Newslet-ter Editor of the Year for her extremely well-done work that truly helps bring this class together. Kudos to you, Ann! The second is that, with the College celebrating its 250th birthday in 2019, there will be events all year long providing great opportunities for us to gather with fellow ’88s, to rekindle old friendships, and to make new ones. I look forward to seeing you!—Victoria Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; torychavey@gmail.com

89 The year 2019—our 30th reunion and the 250th anniversary of the Col-lege—coincidence? Reunion is June

13-16, and reunion co-chairs Ken Horton, Shannon Reid, and Meg Wade are asking everyone to save the dates. Details are on our class of ’89 Face-book page and our ’89 class website (www.1989.dartmouth.org).

In this issue you see the 25 most influential Dartmouth alumni as voted by the faculty. But who were your most influential alumni? Steve Blank: “Ted Geisel ’25, Bob Keeshan ’42 (a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo), and Fred Rogers ’50.” Himraj Dang: “Mike Colby ’84. We share a deep common interest in environmental economics.” Lenora Inez Brown: “Jerry Zaks ’67. Knowing his the-ater background made it all the more possible.” Heidi Reich: “My answer is always Jeff Hoover ’88.” Maryann Mungovan Murphy: “My brother, John Mungovan ’86, and Dan Driscoll ’86, for

introducing me to my husband, Tim!” Susan Allen Cera: “The Perry family, my next-door neighbors growing up. Father was Fred Perry. Three boys all went to Dartmouth in the late 1970s and early 1980s.” Catherine Baggia Duwan: “I applied early decision because I saw a picture of Charlie Win-slow ’82 on the cover of a Men of the Ivy League calendar. Never met him, but his brother, Jon Winslow ’87, married Nellie Huang!”

Karyn Olivier wrote, “Things are super hec-tic here, but great! I am an associate professor and program head of the sculpture department at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. I was awarded the Rome Prize, an 11-month fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. My work often intersects and collapses multiple histories with present-day narratives. (I’ve completed two public works this past year that engage these complex histories—The Battle is Joined in Vernon Park in Philadelphia and Witness at the University of Kentucky.) Rome is the ultimate site to continue this investigation into multiple and conflicting histories. The end goal is to fabricate artworks that are in dialogue with my researched public artworks and sites. I am still very much in touch with Anita Hamilton in N.Y.C., Donielle Howard, Adriane Harris, and, of course, my twin, Karla Olivier!”

Colette Ellis writes, “My coaching business, InStepConsults, is my primary focus these days. Now living in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.C. Happy times this summer were times I made it out to Rockaway Beach. I went up to Dartmouth last July when I was invited to speak for the Young African Leaders Initiative Mandela Washington Fellows Program that the College hosts every year.”

Julia Powell O’Brien writes, “We had a great Hartford mini-reunion with Kerry Kiesel Jones, Catherine Baggia Duwan, Mike Blechner, Jason Lobo, and Russell Wolf. I am in touch with Jen Large Bowman, Gesine Albrecht, Nicole Moser, Bridget Fawcett, Mary Kay Caricato, Laurie Sammis, Martha Boss Bennett, Heidi Briggs Buonanno, Kate Enroth, and Jen Block Cromheecke. My husband and I have lived in West Hartford, Connecticut, for 22 years and we have three great kids. I am the VP and general counsel at BL Cos. and it continues to be a lot of fun.”

On a sad note, I regret to inform everyone that Chesley Adler passed away September 21, 2018. Chesley will be remembered for her spirit, humor, passion, and grace. We will honor and celebrate Chesley and our other classmates who are no longer with us at our reunion in June.

It’s sad to write in this column about two classmates passing in the same year. I urge you to reach out now to connect—or reconnect—with your fellow ’89s.—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com

90 On the Saturday night of Home-coming Weekend, about 40 ’90s and several spouses gathered at the

Hanover Inn for ’tails and dinner to celebrate our 50th birthdays. Highlights included a brief performance by Noah Drazen ’21 and his fellow Dartmouth Aires—and, because Noah’s daddy

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Brad Drazen and I made it a condition of the gig, we got to perform with them! (Cue Glory Days.) During the dinner Cheryl Shepherd and Brad (who co-organized the event) delivered an informal speech on what turning 50 means to all of us. At times hilarious and poignant, they brilliantly captured our collective mindset at this juncture in our lives—gratitude for joyful moments and re-lationships that have endured, sorrow for dreams and loved ones lost, the evolution of our defini-tion of “success,” the myriad, difficult challenges that 50-year-olds such as us are facing right now, and the special meaning that Dartmouth College retains in our lives.

After dinner Jay Davis, director of First Year Student Enrichment Program (FYSEP), gave us an overview of this remarkable program he directs at Dartmouth—and which our class sup-ports through class dues. (FYSEP’s website sum-marizes it well: “Through one-on-one mentor-mentee meetings, social events, retreats, and workshops, FYSEP students learn the mechanics of a successful Dartmouth experience while forg-ing a strong peer network that will continue even after graduation.”) And then Jay introduced two ’21s, both the first in their families to attend col-lege, who took turns eloquently explaining the positive impact of FYSEP in their lives during their first-year-plus at Dartmouth. The dinner concluded with a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” (to Jay Davis and the rest of us). To all of you who attended, thank you for making the trip! And to all of you who couldn’t make it, we missed you, but you were there in spirit!

Now, here is Part III of your responses to “What are your salient memories of your fresh-man trip?” (Part IV still to come.) Kathy Heafey: “My memory of canoeing is a little different than Elizabeth Allen Edgar’s [in the July/August issue of DAM]. Being a ‘suburban pool child’ raised by city-kid parents, I had never taken a hike and was devoid of any outdoor skills. Since I was a lifeguard, it seemed I could make the cut for a canoeing trip: so 105F it was! As it turned out (and as Martin Short might say), I was not such a strong paddler. We canoed for miles and miles each day (and portaged too!). I am eternally grateful to Mike ‘Spider’ Lee for picking up my slack. Our route was not linked with cabins, so we slept sans tents in the great wide open (and woke up one morning surrounded by cows!). The see-your-breath-kind-of-cold at night had us huddling close in our sleeping bags. Hysterically, my lifeguarding skills ended up being relevant. We had a last-minute addition to our trip—Maz, a new grad student from Pakistan who mistakenly arrived in Hanover weeks before his classes were to begin. His joie de vivre was infectious, but his swimming skills were non-existent. (Thankfully, I did not need to make a rescue!) After gradua-tion Spider and I each landed in Chicago and lived blocks apart in Lincoln Park. In line for a beer at an epic party at an apartment he shared with Les Morant ’89 and Michael Keller, I met my now-husband. In turn, Spider married a child-hood friend of mine. And, happily, I see another trip-mate, Sarah Fjelstul, at least once a month, as we have been in the same book club for more than 20 years.”

—Rob Crawford, 22 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA 02493; crawdaddy37@gmail.com

91 When this issue reaches you, we will be on the cusp of the 250th anniver-sary of the founding of Dartmouth

College. The year 2019 will be full of celebrations dedicated to “honoring our past, inspiring our future.” All of the activities are at 250.dartmouth.edu, but I want to draw the attention of the class of 1991 to March 1-2. If you can make it to Ha-nover, plan to attend the Dartmouth College Case Symposium, as our own Neal Katyal will be part of a group of attorneys, judges, and distinguished alumni reenacting the oral arguments from the Supreme Court case Trustees of Dartmouth Col-lege v. Woodward. Tom Burack ’82 will perform Daniel Webster’s famous peroration: “It is, sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it.” The event is open to the entire Dartmouth community.

Your class officers had a productive call in October, and one of the items we discussed was publishing a few paper (snail mail) newsletters in 2019. Cindy Greene has agreed to take the helm for the winter 2019 newsletter, and will be collect-ing any photos, stories, or news you have at this email address: dartmouth91news@gmail.com. We’d love to hear if you have any plans (big or small) for your 50th birthday or if you have seen any fellow ’91s lately! On the call we also made plans to celebrate our collective 50th birthday in Hanover at Homecoming next fall. So, another item to add to your calendar: October 10-11. Plan to attend, celebrate with classmates, and root against Yale!

Other big Dartmouth news is the “auda-cious” Call to Lead campaign that kicked off this year. President Hanlon and his team came to Stamford, Connecticut, in October, and I was able to attend the exciting event. The evening included a poignant video of Dartmouth’s his-tory, presentations by recent graduates and their professors, and a reception that featured scenes of some of Dartmouth’s iconic buildings, a Win-ter Carnival-themed photo booth, and superb food (including reasonable facsimiles of mini EBAs chicken sandwiches)! A few photos from the event are on our class Facebook page. Class of ’91s in attendance included Julie Grace Burke, Mike Lazar, Sara Burbine Potter, and Deb Van Winkle Dulsky. I encourage you all to attend the Call to Lead programs in 2019 if you live near any of these cities: Palo Alto, California, February 7; Washington, D.C., March 27; New York City, April 2; Dallas, April 8; Houston, April 10; Denver, May 7; Hanover, May 17.

In other news, our classmate and my “new dorm” (a.k.a. East Wheelock cluster) friend Brad Ausmus was named the new manager of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team. ESPN quoted Brad as saying, “I’m very excited to have an opportu-nity to lead a club like this with so many great players.” Brad was drafted by the Yankees in June of 1987, right before coming to Dartmouth. He was able to play in the minor leagues during his terms away from Dartmouth. Congrats to Brad!

In keeping with the College’s 250th theme, here’s a question for all of you: Daniel Webster,

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class of 1801, said, “It is, sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it.” What do you love most about Dartmouth? Please email your responses to me at the address below. I’ll publish them in an upcoming column!

Happy holidays and happy new year!—Deb Karazin Owens, 166 Colonial Drive, Fairfield, CT 06824; djowens@optonline.net

92 It’s truly an honor to wish Dartmouth a happy sestercentennial!

For the next column I’ll be reaching out to you to ask: Which ’92 has influ-enced you the most? This time I’ll tell you about more classmates who have been featured in the media for their achievements.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education reported that the National Humanities Center announced the appointment of its new board chairman, Ben Vinson III. Last year he became the provost at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Ben, who earned a doctorate degree in Latin American history from Columbia University, previously served as dean of George Washington Univer-sity’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences in Washington, D.C.

Jesse Bradley, pastor of Grace Community Church in Auburn, Washington, was featured on the Sports Spectrum podcast. It’s a fascinat-ing conversation about Jesse’s experience with soccer and religion at Dartmouth, his brush with death in Africa (where he went with Tommy Clark to play soccer), and his career path. Jesse also interviews myriad people about their beliefs on his own podcast, available at www.Exploring-Faith.com. He has released two books, Rooted in Grace and A New Season.

The host of the Support is Sexy podcast (which features female entrepreneurs) inter-viewed Jennifer Sandoval Faherty, a certified financial planner and coach and founder of Fi-nancial Wealth-being. I listened to the episode and enjoyed hearing Jennifer talk about her ho-listic approach to helping clients manage their relationship with money.

Variety reported that Tim Greenberg’s series Living With Yourself will be released on Netflix and will star Paul Rudd, who “will play dual roles in the series, which follows a man struggling in life who undergoes a new treatment to become a better person.”

The Dartmouth gave ’92s some well-de-served respect in its sports coverage. In Septem-ber the paper recognized Sal Sciretto’s unbroken record: “Isiah Swann ’20 catalyzed a lockdown defensive effort…vs. the College of the Holy Cross, hauling in three interceptions within the first half. Swann’s historic performance was the first of its kind since Sal Sciretto ’92 intercepted three passes in 1990.”

In October The D commended the success-ful figure skating program, which Loren McGean launched and coached with her father. “Dart-mouth club figure skating has accumulated an impressive amount of trophies over the past two decades since its 1997 inception, qualify-ing for the National Collegiate Figure Skating Team Championships every year since 2000 while winning six titles. Their championships

include a five-year run from 2004 through 2008 under the tutelage of the late Michael McGean ’49 (whom they continue to honor) and his daughter, Loren McGean ’92.”

Check out our latest newsletter (1992.dartmouth.org) for additional classmate news, photos from Class Officers Weekend and Home-coming, and more.

Speaking of which: In an email promoting its Homecoming issue, America’s oldest college newspaper claimed the class of 1992 bonfire “failed to light at all.” The article went on to say our fire did not “burn.” Always looking out for the interests of our class, I wrote in their comments section (thedartmouth.com): “Setting the record straight: The class of 1992 bonfire didn’t ‘fail to light at all,’ as your email stated. It did burn—it just never collapsed. We had a hot, towering fire to run around 92 times, no barricades. (So yes, classmates ran up to it, lit a cigarette, burned off eyebrows, melted jacket sleeves, spent the night at Dick’s House; maybe they started this whole mess—or blame the ’89s who hazed them into it.) We still call ourselves the ‘Standing Bonfire’ class, and attribute our bonfire’s refusal to col-lapse to superior craftsmanship (and the green wood we were given).”—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com

93 I had the pleasure of hearing from John Beebe, who wrote that after 20 years in Madison, Wisconsin, and

four in Baltimore, he moved back to New Eng-land. John missed the reunion this year because he was moving into his new home in northeast Massachusetts.

He said he’s been working for Philips HealthTech for the past four and a half years; he moved earlier this year to its clinical innova-tions team in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he’s verification lead for its NICU of the Future project, working on solutions to improve how care is provided for prematurely born infants. This effort is dear to my heart, since I’m the mother of two children born prematurely (my son, born at 36 weeks weighing just under seven pounds, gave us much more of a scare than the 32-week-old daughter who weighed in at under three pounds at birth).

John said he’s been married for 21 years and has a retired racing greyhound. For fun, John said he likes gardening and is a big movie and history buff.

In September John made his first trip to Hanover in many years. “So many changes in town and on campus, but the nostalgia was fun as I watched new students getting ready for their freshman trips,” he wrote. “It’s so great to be back in the Dartmouth area!”

We are of course all saddened by the pass-ing of Beth Krakower in September. While I had the honor of knowing her, I’m grateful that Jeff Middents was willing to write her obituary for this issue. —Suzanne Spencer Rendahl, 224 Route 120, Plain-field, NH 03781; suzanne.spencer.rendahl@gmail.com

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Cape Town, South Africa, to compete in a mara-thon and raise money for ALS in honor of Vuyi Radebe, who lives in Johannesburg with his wife and two children. Warren reported: “We had a great experience running the marathon (inspir-ing place to do it—the pacesetters had drums and were singing the whole way!). We completed in a respectable 4:24, mostly thinking of Vuyi to get us through. He is doing amazingly well spiritually and appreciated all the support he has had from his friends at Dartmouth, especially rugby and the ’95 class more generally. Anyone who wants to support can contribute to Compassionate Care ALS. Thanks for your help!”

From elsewhere ’round the girdled earth, Alex Lesk writes: “I’ve just started a new job at my high school alma mater, having returned to Vancouver with my family seven years ago to be close to my parents. It is wonderful and strange to have come full circle: teaching high school English and journalism, coaching sports in my old gym, scolding girls for mis-wearing the same uniform I once wore, and teaching alongside my former teachers from 30 years ago! My family is thriving. Seb is almost as tall as me and just started high school. Spencer is audacious and full of questions I can’t answer. Paul is loving the flexibility of his job at UBC as the director of the clean energy research center and as an independent energy consultant.”

Andrea Wetzler left the United States in 2001 after graduating from Wharton to pursue a posi-tion with Accenture’s strategy department in London. “I ended up meeting a Frenchman while there and moved to Toulouse, France, when we got married. I continue to work as a strategy con-sultant and travel throughout Europe to see cli-ents. My travels take me to beautiful and diverse cities such as Dublin, Geneva, Zürich, Frankfurt, and Copenhagen. I have four kids, so I try to avoid cross-continental client work. Daily life is less convenient than in the United States but rich in experience. For instance, food shopping is an al-most daily venture and consists of going to local markets where there are different stands for fish, poultry, beef, cheeses, and produce. Everything is fresh and sourced locally, so food in general is delicious and not as taxing on the environment. I keep in touch with classmates, but there are not many alumni opportunities for me in Toulouse.

Julie Erikson writes: “We moved in Decem-ber 2010 to Christchurch, New Zealand, for six weeks. We had planned for everything…except for a devastating earthquake that reduced the city and our house to rubble. Fortunately, the container ship with our belongings was a few days from arriving at port so we simply redi-rected it back to the States. After recovering from that experience, we applied for permanent resi-dency in Australia and moved to Melbourne in 2014. We’ve lived here for the past five years and are in the final stages of Australian citizenship. Our motivation for moving overseas wasn’t the pull of a job or family or a push to leave the po-litical climate of the United States, but simply a desire to try something new and expose our son, Ethan, to new places, people, and culture. Ethan is now exploring the possibility of returning to the States for his undergraduate years, since

there is no NCAA in Australia.” More from our international classmates in

the next issue. Keep your news coming!—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hing-ham, MA 02043; kaja.k.fickes.95@dartmouth.edu

96 As 2018 comes to a close, I am awash with exciting, inspiring updates in-volving so many of our classmates—

many of whom are doing amazing things in their communities, industries, or (in some cases) both. I could dedicate entire columns to any one of their stories, so I’m afraid I’ll have to be brief in summarizing the great news!

First, Timothy Chow was selected as No. 67 on The Financial Times’ 2018 “OUTstanding Top 100 LGBT+ Executives” list. Tim serves as general counsel for Latin America and the Caribbean for global distillery giant Diageo PLC. “This comes almost exactly 20 years after I came out, and my law school self ’s mind would have been blown to know that not only would LGBT professionals and their organizations be recog-nized in this manner, but also that I would ever be included. Much work still to do, but tremendous progress.” The son of a Chinese surgeon who emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in the late 1960s and an American mother of Dutch-English descent, Chow grew up in a small, rural town in Michigan. “I was one of those kids who never knew which box to tick when they asked for your racial background because ‘other’ wasn’t an option,” Chow says. “We were the minority, but growing up in a small town gave me a re-ally strong sense of community, and I could see the impact my parents had on people’s lives as respected members of that community. That stuck with me.”

Mariya Rosberg was named “2018 Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother maga-zine. She is partner, corporate and institutional banking, at management consulting firm Oliver Wyman and mom to twins Redmond and Delia, 6. “As a firm leader, Mariya sits on the partner-ship committee, driving crucial decisions for the future of the firm. As a mentor, she is determined to connect with and cultivate junior female tal-ent at the firm. Mariya also devotes time to the family life colleague network and often finds herself mentoring colleagues navigating the courses of parenthood and consulting. Mariya seeks to attain balance between her work and personal life. Mariya’s children inspire her. She says that they are the most grounding and joyful forces in her life.”

Next, our own Tyler Stableford won an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Rocky Mountain division for his direction and photography of an episode of the Turning Point documentary series. Tyler says, “I am even more excited to be sending the Emmy statue to the person who deserves it most: Rev. Richard Joyner. Richard is the subject of the documentary; he was named one of CNN’s ‘Top 10 Heroes’ for his work transforming the hard-hit town of Conetoe, North Carolina, from a food desert to a place of healing. Richard is the most compassionate and visionary man I have ever met. To Richard Joyner and the devoted

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94 In just more than six months we will meet in Hanover to celebrate and reminisce about our years at

Dartmouth College. If you haven’t marked your calendar, stop here! Pick up your device of choice and block out June 13-16 on your calendar. We want you to be part of our 25th reunion!

Now that you have appropriately saved the date, there is still a lot that needs to happen dur-ing the next six months. A snow-covered campus needs to thaw and burst with shades of green; days need to lengthen so we can linger under our class tent; you need to contact your friends and make a plan to meet up in June; and you need to register for reunion! Registration will be online later this winter and early spring. You will be invited to link to the registration page electronically.

Reunion co-chairs Jen Susie Hagelston and Samantha Stoddard welcome your help and in-put in planning day or evening events. If you are interested in volunteering, contact me or class president Deme Navab Taleghani at demetra.taleghani@gmail.com. During our reunion we will also vote on a new slate of class officers. Anyone interested in a position and to find out about exciting ways to re-engage with fellow classmates, other Dartmouth grads, as well as the College, reach out to Deme for more information.

During the next six months you can work on sharpening memory recall with a class-favorite challenge, Flashback Fridays. Deme will con-tinue sending these fun, adorable, and somewhat regrettable pictures of classmates through email on Fridays. If you are not receiving these and would like to, please let me know so you can be added to the class list.

Are you too excited to wait until June to reconnect? You’re in luck! We have several mini-reunions planned for 2019 in various cities, such as Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Boston. As the exact locations and dates are finalized, we will share them with you through email and Facebook. If you would like to plan a mini-reunion in your city, please contact Cath-erine Adams Stanzler at catherine@stanzler.net. She will help you make that happen.

If you like the friendly competition of Flash-back Fridays and don’t want to wait until June, then you are going to like this new challenge. Class leaders are running another competition for the person who attends the most mini-re-unions leading up to our 25th reunion in Hanover in June. The rules are straightforward. You must send Deme or Catherine a photo from each of the mini-reunions you attend. The classmate who attends the most mini-reunions will win the grand prize of (drum roll) a free admission ticket to reunion and, perhaps more importantly, bragging rights.

Stay tuned for more updates and news in two months.—Laura Hardegree Davis, 1664 Cambridge Court, Bethlehem, PA 18015; lauradavis723@mac.com

95 Though ’round the girdled earth we roam, her spell on us remains. Warren Valdmanis and Adam Dixon proved the

truth of this in September when they traveled to

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people at the Conetoe Family Life Center: You have my deepest admiration. Enjoy the Emmy Award, you deserve it!”

Finally, Brad Parks can add another award to his increasingly crowded trophy collection. His recent novel, Say Nothing, won the Library of Virginia People’s Choice Award as announced at a recent black tie gala in Richmond, Virginia. His subsequent novel, Closer Than You Know, is available now, and his forthcoming The Last Act is slated for release in March. Fun fact: Brad remains the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty awards, three of crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes.

Congratulations to all our winners! More to come in our next column!—Garrett Gil de Rubio, 1062 Middlebrooke Drive, Canton, GA 30115; ggdr@alum.dartmouth.org

97 At Class Officers Weekend in Sep-tember, Tony Field and I ran into Sariya Sharp and Lynne (Campbell) Soutter at

Murphy’s. They were in Hanover for a women’s rugby reunion. Sariya is a radiologist in Cooper-stown, New York. She and her husband have a 15-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son. Lynne is firm counsel at Ropes & Gray in Boston, where she lives with husband Morgan Soutter, a teacher at Boston College High School, and their 14-year-old and 12-year-old sons.

As I write this, Dartmouth just defeated Harvard in a riveting Homecoming football game, the first win against the Crimson at Me-morial Field since our freshman year 25 years ago. I vaguely remember attending that game, but would never have guessed a quarter century would pass until a repeat victory at home. Go, Big Green!

And it’s been 200 years since Daniel Web-ster, class of 1801, argued before the U.S. Su-preme Court in Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, and delivered his famous tribute to Dartmouth: “It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.” 

In honor of Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary, I asked classmates what they love most about the College. Here are some responses.

Dinsie Williams: “Dartmouth is a small uni-versity, yet you can find our alumni everywhere.”

Kelley Hart: “It’s a magical place that at-tracts a certain kind of person (as students and teachers)—people of great kindness, generosity, curiosity, and community-mindedness. The Col-lege has so much contagious good energy. Going back for reunions makes my heart ache, though. I miss my classmates so much. Even after all these years!”

Kathy Celenza Behling: “The camaraderie among alumni and students. Seeing another Dartmouth grad out in the real-world results in an instant bond, which transcends genera-tions, professions, and socioeconomic standing. Several years ago I was wearing a Dartmouth T-shirt in a grocery store 300-plus miles from the Upper Valley in a suburb of Philadelphia. An older gentleman, who ended up being a Dart-mouth alumnus, got out of his checkout line and traversed half the length of the grocery store just to meet me. We chatted for a few minutes and

exchanged our classes and a few kind words. There are just about no other academic or social families that I have belonged to that have shared this kind of bond and have possessed such love and loyalty to their mother institution. I cherish my Dartmouth family.”

Lindsey Noecker: “Having just come back from Hanover last night, I have to say that I love how a trip to Dartmouth always feels like return-ing home. Home is where the heart is—so true!”

Jeff Longnecker: “I love the Dartmouth com-munity. Alums are afforded a very strong com-mon connection with fascinating people in all walks of life throughout the world.”

Rain Minns: “Phi Tau coed fraternity, the government honors thesis program, and my on-campus summer! Writing my thesis and having meetings with my thesis advisor once to twice a week was an incredible experience that allowed me to explore my ideas about justice that have shaped my entire legal career and values in life. I also used the analytical and writing skills to later write in legal publications in immigration and civil rights that had a meaningful impact.”

Courtenay (Petersen) Barlow: “I love the peo-ple and friendships I formed at Dartmouth. I love the beauty of the campus, the remote location, the seasons, reunions, and the sense of belonging I feel whenever I am there.”

Robbie Ashe: “Easy answer—my lifelong friends.”

Happy sestercentennial, Dartmouth! Here’s to another 250 years!

Take care and please send me your news.—Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, TX 77096; jhcasell@gmail.com

98 Hello, fellow ’98s. Let me begin by congratulating Dartmouth on the big anniversary. Looking good at 250!

And some news of my own: On September 1 my wife, Evelyn, and I welcomed Martha Cate Gal-letti into the world. We are overjoyed, as Mar-tha and big brother Louis, age 2, are happy and healthy.

In honor of the milestone, Brad Jefferson wrote of a tradition shared by ’98s on the foot-ball team. Each year they try to meet at a game to cheer on their teammate and NFL assistant coach Matt Burke. Matt is now defensive coordi-nator of the Miami Dolphins. As I write, Matt’s Dartmouth teammates plan to join him at the Dolphins’ game against the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on November 11. The following gaggle of ’98s plans to attend along with Brad: Ken Bollens, Will Harper, Erik Swanson, Lloyd Lee, Damon Blechen, Forest Wester, Kevin Ritter, Dave Regula, Jason Cecchini, Trevor Keenan, and Dominic Lanza. This last ’98 has news of his own: On September 6 Dominic was confirmed to be a U.S. District Court judge for the District of Arizona.

John (Yalcin) Anderson checked in from San Diego, where he moved in 2010 after finishing law school. About one year ago he started a tax representation firm, which keeps him busy. John has also been keeping up with Dartmouth’s cur-rent football team as it continues its outstanding play. For John it brings back fond memories of

attending home games as an undergraduate.Also writing in from the San Diego area, Lani

(Sipe) Curtis shared that she is the new director of development at the Oceanside Museum of Art, a San Diego museum that exhibits contempo-rary southern California artists. Lani loves the museum and the work—as an art history major, she is excited to once again work with art. Lani recently visited Dara Denberg in New York City. Dara is a partner at the law firm Latham & Wat-kins. The two ’98s shared a wonderful weekend catching up and seeing lots of art.

In other ’98 southern California art news, Mark Brosseau recently exhibited his work in Los Angeles at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, an artist-run space that builds community through art. Mark moved from Philadelphia to Greenville, South Carolina, about two years ago. He lives with his wife and two dogs and he teaches at Clemson University and the Greenville Center for Cre-ative Arts.

Matt Wakeman, who is still in Philadelphia, wrote that he is staying busy growing an analyt-ics consulting practice with a software engi-neering company. For the past five years Matt has been the president of the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia, the 2014 and 2018 winner of the Dartmouth Alumni Large Club of the Year Award. Matt wrote that he runs into Elizabeth Magner every once in a while and the two catch up about everything.

I have so enjoyed reconnecting and hearing what is going on with the class of 1998. Please drop me a line to update me on whatever is go-ing on, personally, professionally, or otherwise. —Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave, Nashville, TN 37209; galletti@gmail.com

99 Hello, ’99s!Here we are at the end of 2018

and, as I reflect on the great year our class had reconnecting at our 20th reunion, I am eagerly looking forward to what 2019 has in store for the class of ’99!

To finish out the 2018 news, a hearty con-gratulations to Tony Perry, who wrote a book that was published in October. Tony writes, “Chula the Fox is a historical fiction book about a Chicka-saw (Native American) boy in the early 1700s who comes to terms with the loss of his father in an enemy attack. He vows to avenge his fa-ther’s death and prove himself as a warrior but discovers that revenge may not give the peace he expected it to.” The book is “targeted at pre-teen readers” and is published by the White Dog Press, a fiction imprint of the Chickasaw Press, which is the official publisher of the Chickasaw Nation.

In conjunction with Dartmouth’s 250th an-niversary year-long celebration, the ’99s will be launching the Class of 1999: 250 Points of Light initiative in 2019. Class president Robert Tichio writes, “Our executive committee wants to lead our class to achieve 250 Points of Light by identifying and celebrating engagement of our class to the College.” These points of light will be achieved when you help us find lost class-mates, attend a class event, give to the College, participate in an upcoming service date, and more. Robert will be hosting a mini-reunion at

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his home in New York City on February 2, the 200th anniversary of the date of the decision of the Dartmouth College case.

Also look for mini-reunions or a virtual get-together on April 9 to mark the 99th day of the year. And in late spring the class of ’99 will host a service day in a couple of major cities, where ’99s and other alumni can come together to give service to their communities.

In order to engage with as many of you as we can, we need updated contact information. Unfortunately, many of our classmates are miss-ing, and we would love to reconnect. If you think some of your information might be outdated, please visit www.dartgo.org/update. If you know of any of our classmates who are not receiving mailings or emails from the class or the College, please encourage them to update their informa-tion as well. Also, visit our class page at www.dartmouth.org/classes/99 to find ways to con-nect with our class on social media. If you need help or have any questions, please reach out. Let’s make 2019 a great year to connect with other ’99s!

I am inspired by this month’s feature on Dartmouth’s 25 most influential alumni to ask all of you, who was the most influential person of your Dartmouth experience? Was it a room-mate, a professor, a graduate teaching assistant, or even an EBAs delivery driver? Maybe there was someone that influenced your freshman year or your Sophomore Summer? Drop me a note and let me know, I’d love to hear from you. Until next time.—Jackie Rioux Gladstone, 21 Westwood Circle, Dover, NH 03820; (603) 834-0517; jackie.dart mouth99@gmail.com

00 Congrats to Dara Sanandaji on the pre-miere of his new documentary film about mental health, Breaking the

Silence. In it he describes his personal journey of healing and redemption after psychosis and explores broader questions about mental health and the human brain. He wrote, produced, and codirected the film. He lives in Chicago.

Nils Ericson was recently named one of the “100 Coolest Dads in America” by the digital pub-lication Fatherly, which says his home photos “are much better than your home photos.” For his part, Nils said, “I want my photos to feel like black and white, but in color.” He’s a Protland, Oregon-based professional photographer and he and his partner, Regina, are parents to a young son, Emmett.

Ben Wakelin’s architectural career is thriv-ing—he was promoted to associate at ELS Archi-tecture & Urban Design in Berkeley, California. His work includes reconfiguring the Stonestown Galleria mall in San Francisco. He and his wife have two children and live in the Bay Area.

Finally, and sadly, I wanted to note the news of Carrie Dunsmore’s passing last summer. Many of you probably read a moving article about her that was published in The Boston Globe. She died of complications of colon cancer. She leaves behind a beautiful family—husband Jon Flynn and children Nate, Peter, and Nora—as well as a legacy of public service in the law and love of

our national parks and of reading good books (see her blog, Queen of Booklandia).

Until next issue.—Kate Stowe, 91 Waterman Place, St. Louis, MO 63112; dartmouth2000secretary@gmail.com

01 Happy new year, ’01s! For this set of notes I sent out an email asking what traditions you have maintained with

Dartmouth friends since graduation. One type of response dominated all the rest: The class of 2001 continues to have babies. I received eight updates for this column, and six of them involved new children. Two updates involved Meeta Agrawal, but more on that later.

Jen Feltner shared a nice tradition that she created with her friends from the fencing team. This crew gets together for Mardi Gras-themed fencing reunions, a tradition that sprang up fol-lowing Jen’s time living near New Orleans. Far from Louisiana, Jen is studying mountain lions and their competitors (think wolves and grizzly bears) north of Jackson, Wyoming, during her fifth year in a Ph.D. program in wildlife biology at the University of Montana.

A couple of European updates to share. Georges Dyer and his wife are moving to London. He will still be running the Intentional Endow-ments Network from there and looks forward to connecting with Dartmouth friends in the United Kingdom. Abraham Mahshie is returning to the United States after spending four years in Spain. He is currently writing a travel essay-style book on Spanish bullfighting as well as reporting on crime and the midterm elections for the Macon County News in the Smoky Mountains.

And now to those babies. Abby Nova and Tim Wright welcomed Benjamin Fowler Nova-Wright in February. He joins big brother Alex (9). Abby is a partner and producer at Stand Sure Media and Tim recently joined Guggenheim Invest-ments. They recently moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn and were lucky enough to live upstairs from Meeta Agrawal and family. Meeta has the distinction of being mentioned in two indepen-dent responses to this request for information. Alka Singal wrote about her whirlwind trip to Mexico City with Sylvia Kindermann and Meeta. Meeta will be starting as the arts and leisure editor at The New York Times. Sylvia and her husband, Case Dorkey ’99, recently had a baby, and it was on Alka’s birthday. So much to cel-ebrate! Andy Pease is an assistant professor of music and director of instrumental music at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. He and his wife, Lisa Samols (Columbia ’04), recently added to their family with the arrival of Maya Samols Pease in June. Their older son, Ben (3), is currently thrilled to be a big brother but it is unclear if that goodwill will last through the printing of this column. Pavan Nihalani wrote in to report the arrival of Bodhi Doshi Nihalani in New York City in August. An already impres-sive child, little Bodhi managed to sleep through most of the 13-hour flight back to Dubai when he was just 4 weeks old. Well done. Amar Dhand and Charlene Ong welcomed Daphne Cleopatra Dhand in September and are planning a visit up to Dartmouth soon. Amar also recently had some

of his research on social networks in medicine published in Nature Communications. Susan Kown Lee and her husband, David, welcomed daughter Iris Lee to their family in October.

The ’01 family continues to grow, and based on this non-scientific data collection, will have a 25-percent chance of living near or vacationing with Meeta. I like those odds. Congratulations to all.—Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-693; rachel.sondheimer@gmail.com

02 Hello, ’02s! Leyla (Kamalick) King and her

husband, Ben, welcomed their third (and final!) child on June 27. Tobias “Toby” Jo-seph joins big brother Fred (7) and sister Bea-trice (3 1/2). They live in rural Tennessee at the University of the South in Sewanee (about 50 miles north of Chattanooga), where Leyla teach-es beginning Arabic in addition to her work as a priest at Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church in Chattanooga. She would love to see any Dart-mouth alums who happen to be passing through!

Sarah Weiner sent me an update about her re-cent move and classmates that she’s seen recent-ly: “I’m moving to Portland in October, and have reconnected with Andreas Stavrapolous, staying with him, his lovely wife, and their 6-month-old daughter, Sybil, on my house-hunting trips. I’d love to meet up with any Portland-area ’02s. I am still running the Good Food Foundation and recently traveled to Italy with Alice Waters, an honorary ’04, for a big Slow Food gathering. I have been collaborating with Sue AnderBois ’05, now Rhode Island’s director of food strategy. This summer in New York I saw Michael Rozas, her husband, Bruno Carvalho ’04, and their smi-ley baby, Lola. They were getting ready to move to Boston, where Bruno has taken a tenured posi-tion at Harvard. Michael is an architect (working on some of the Harvard buildings!) and glowing new mom. Last year I also stopped in to Denver to see Nicolette Krickl and her gorgeous and hilari-ous mini-me, Naia Indigo Rose, who is about 4.”

Congratulations to all!—Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; acloudman@gmail.com

03 Greetings, ’03s!Our 15th reunion is mere

months away (June 14-16). Regis-tration will open in early spring. The other class officers and I certainly hope to see a great turnout from our class. Much to celebrate in Hanover with the Call to Lead campaign underway and the College’s pending 250th anniversary! VP Kamil Walji would still welcome any help from classmates to plan and execute the reunion.

I heard from Laura Troullie, who told me she has never written in to Class Notes previously. I hope others will be similarly inspired, particularly as we plan to gather again in Hanover. Laura re-ports that she went on to complete a Ph.D. after Dartmouth and worked at Northwestern Univer-sity and the Adler Planetarium as an astronomer. She’s currently at Adler leading programs to en-gage the public in research from Zooniverse.org

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(online citizen science with nearly 2 million participants worldwide) to Project Aquarius (working with Chicago teens to recover mete-orites from Lake Michigan). She was recently promoted to vice president of citizen science. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two young daughters. Thanks for sending in news, Laura!

Erica Zilioli shares the news of Grace Lee’s wedding to Troy Campbell on September 30, 2018. She notes that many ’03s attended the beautiful event. Congrats, Grace and Troy!

Tara Maller reports she joined McKinsey & Co. as risk manager, public and social sectors, Americas in September. She’ll be remaining in Washington, D.C. Good luck at the new gig, Tara!

Jennifer Casler-Goncalves tells me she is try-ing to restart the Dartmouth Club of Central New York. She urges anyone (’03 or otherwise) who is interested in getting involved to reach out to her. The group hopes to relaunch in December. You can find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/913709379019661.

In addition to help with the reunion, we are still looking for anyone interested in serving as a class officer. We will elect a slate of officers at reunion. If you’d like to help lead our class for the next five years, please get in touch with one of our current class officers: me, Jaime Shatsman, Mike Vidmar, or Kamil Walji.

Are you planning to attend reunion? Send me an update to print in one of our remaining col-umns before we descend on Hanover! I’ll be there with my husband and oldest child in tow and I look forward to catching up with many of you.—Megan (Riley) Kenney, 3408 Quebec St. NW, Washington, DC 20016; dartmouth2003notes@gmail.com

04 Our reunion is just six months away! Please reach out to class of-ficers if you’d like to help organize

the festivities.Here are a few updates from our awesome

class as we say goodbye to 2018 and hello to the new year.

Steph Annear (along with husband Chris and their sons, Gannon and Soren) spent the last four months in Vietnam with a group of college stu-dents studying abroad from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Union College. The family of four was last in Vietnam in 2016 and all were excited to be back working on their Vietnamese and eating!

Back in June Megan Fontanella Remmelts, Jayson Remmelts, Laura Delaney Nichol, Mark Nichol, Carly O’Connell Abrahamson, Robin Deliso Wood-cock (and husband Patrick), Clare Gupta (and husband Drew), and Rachel Holmes Kelly (and husband Miles) all got together in Martha’s Vine-yard, Massachusetts, with their families. There were nine kids under the age of 5 in one house and everyone survived (including the house!).

Miguella Mark-Carew got married to John Fluharty in May in Tobago. The couple moved to London with their two dogs in October!

If you happened to be a recipient of an or-gan transplant at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle during the month of

October, you might have had three different ’04s as your physicians. Catherine (Dale) Kling is an abdominal transplant surgeon who requested infectious disease consultations from Alex Lankowski, a senior fellow in infectious diseases working with Rachel Bender Ignacio, an assistant professor and attending physician on the Trans-plant Infectious Diseases service. Because the world is incredibly small, Rachel and Alex also collaborate in HIV research and recently worked in Peru together. Alex also belatedly reports that he got married to a lovely woman named Shaadi and they had a baby (Inez Louise Lankowski-Baylor, born December 11, 2017). He says that both married life and fatherhood have been a dream so far.

Snowden Wright’s novel American Pop will be published by HarperCollins on February 5. Congratulations, Snowden!

Tristan Perry and his wife, Sarah, had their first baby in June: a boy named Bridger Dean Schindler Perry! Jacyln Stife also had her first baby, Dean Michael Sullivan, on May 3, 2018!

Keep the updates coming, and have a great start to 2019!—Cliff Campbell, 10001 Venice Blvd., Apt. 215, Los Angeles, CA 90034; cliff.campbell@gmail.com

05 Happy new year, all. I missed a sub-mission and have quite a bit from the back half of 2018 to update everyone

on. But first, our 15th reunion will take place June 14 to 16. Be sure to check your email and the class website for real-time news and registration information. We hope everyone will make it back to Hanover to celebrate!

Babies were plentiful in 2018. Kevin Gold-stein and wife Sarah moved to Chicago and welcomed their second child, August, in May. Laura (Randolph) Vor Broker and family welcomed daughter Caroline in June. Kaitlin (Bell) Barnett and family welcomed second child, Reuben Ga-briel, in July. My wife, Casey ’06, and I welcomed our second, son Holt, in July. Matt Nielsten and wife Meg welcomed their second, son Teddy, in July. Jesse Klempner and Betsy Williamson wel-comed their third, son Benjamin, in August. Matt Oppenheimer and wife Emily welcomed their first, daughter Alice, in August. Megan (Christian) Dague and husband Jason welcomed their sec-ond child, Madelyn, in August. Brandon Wright and wife Laura welcomed their second, daugh-ter Elizabeth, in the early morning on August 31. A few hours later Pat Keeley and wife Jess welcomed their third, daughter Charlotte, to the family. Congratulations to all the parents, old and new.

Weddings were also plentiful in 2018. Claire Dewalt married Nick Clark on July 14 in Detroit. Claire and Nick met at business school and cur-rently reside in New York City. Dave Gardner also got married on July 14. Dave married Laura Bar-nett in Crystal Mountain, Michigan. No surprise, both weddings had epic alumni showings from many members of our class. Bret Anderson mar-ried Joanna Chow in Newport, Rhode Island, in August. Finally, Isaac Kardon married Lindsay Lieberman on September 23, also in Newport. Best wishes to all of the newlyweds!

Here are some other quick updates. Sasha (Rogers) Baker ran into James Baehr in Baghdad, of all places, in July. She has been in Washington, D.C., for the past 10 years and currently serves as Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s national security advi-sor. Matt Heineman’s A Private War debuted on the big screen in September and brought the world closer to legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin. Abigail Davidson was recently named CEO of Cubic Aerospace located in Reston, Virginia.

Make sure to check out all the other news and information we post on Facebook and Instagram.

Have a great start to the year all!—Matt Nicholson, 5308 Yorktown Road, Bethesda, MD 20816; mtnicholson3@gmail.com

06 Hi, ’06s.Greetings from Hanover! I write

to you from Homecoming Week-end full of school spirit and complete with the bonfire, a campus tour, breakfast at Lou’s, and cheering on the Big Green to wins in football and hockey.

Earlier in the week I attended the New York City mini-reunion hosted by mini-reunion chair Matthew Schwartz, and it was wonderful to catch up with Ricky (Adamah) Cole, Bill Quirk, and the classes of ’07 and ’08. It was a fun visit on the East Coast, and I also visited buddy Anthony Gar-giulo and his wife, Rachel, at their home in North Jersey. We spent time with their 1 1/2-year-old Lucas, who is walking and talking and showed me all his toy trucks, and their puppies Mac and Morgan.

On to classmate news, first from Matt Schwartz. After more than five years working as a corporate entertainment attorney, Matt left traditional TV and moved into the technology sector. He joined the New York City headquar-ters of FourSquare and will be primarily respon-sible for an array of partnerships and commer-cial transactions in the four-person office of the general counsel.

Gavin Phillips married Megan Gast in Boise, Idaho, in an epic celebration at the Bogus Basin Ski Resort this fall. Among others, Dartmouth alums in attendance included Crawford Arnold, Ralph Callaway, Ryan Counter, Scott Feighner, Travis Helms (who officiated at the ceremony), John and Paul Huelskamp, Joe Killefer, Senam Kumahia, Dan Oberlin, Sean and Lauren Offers, Sam Rendall, and Molly Pierce Daniels.

There is lots of baby news this issue: Jona-than and Stephanie (Cochran) Landsberg welcomed son Henry Steven in August. In September An-drew Mayer and his wife, Veronica, welcomed baby girl Gabriella, and Jamie Coffin and Katie (Wolf) Coffin welcomed baby boy Oliver (“Ol-lie”). Griffin Gordon and his wife, Casey, wel-comed daughter Parker Emma to the world in early October.

Jordan Edmonson and Alana Finley announce the birth of son Knox. They are grateful to all their ’06 friends who have provided support and encouragement from ’round the girdled earth! Patrick Lynch and his wife, Anna, had first baby James, who was delivered by Dr. Ingrid Wecht ’90. Annie and Michael Ribero welcomed a baby

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earlier in the summer.Be sure to check out the Class Notes online

at 2006.dartmouth.org/classnotes and see any photos that are included in these updates. There is also an ’06s “In the News” section with news articles about classmates. Recently this section has featured Gillian Apps, Cayelan Carey, Ty Mane-gold, Ben Lovejoy, and Nick Taranto.

Thanks again to all those who have sub-mitted news—I look forward to hearing from you soon.—Cindy Tsai, Synchrony Financial, 222 W Adams St., 27th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606; cindaaay@gmail.com

07 From the first crunch of freshly fallen leaves under our feet that fall when we arrived on campus, our time at

Dartmouth made an enduring impact on each of us. Since then, we’ve carried those lessons, friendships, and traditions with us, sometimes hilariously.

Like George Oh, who recounts, “When I go to a new diner that looks like it has the ingredients, I will ask them to make me a Billy Bob Jr., eggs over medium, and the kitchen will usually oblige. It’s never as good.” Just another example of the Dartmouth difference, I guess.

Karen (Heighes) Perez shares, “The bells used to play the alma mater on campus every day at 6 p.m. It’s one of my favorite memories, linking up arms and singing with a friend on our way to dinner. Here at our house, 6 o’clock is as chaotic as you’d expect a house with little kids, so we don’t maintain quite the same tradition. But we do play the Aires’ version nearly every day. My 5-year-old has our alma mater memorized!”

As the last class to celebrate Tubestock, sadly, one of the old traditions did, well, fail on our watch. (Shout out to the Save Tubestock com-mittee though!) While Dan Linsalata confesses, “Mostly, I just miss a time in my life when I en-joyed the taste of Keystone,” many of you wrote in to share memories and traditions that you fondly recall.

They include Sarah Overton’s memories hiking “the 50” from Hanover to Moosilauke and canoeing on the Trip to the Sea and Hannah (Burzynski) McCullar’s recollection of DOC trips (“I love that the Dartmouth community gives incom-ing students such a unique and wholehearted welcome. The happy memories of sleeping in a cabin, swimming in an icy-cold river, and watch-ing the incredible Lodge Crew show will stay with me forever”). Plus, Blair (Burgreen) Chan’s favorite tradition teaching the incoming freshmen how to do the “Salty Dog Rag” before those trips and Peter Kenseth’s love of Winter Carnival 2005, A Dartmouth Neverland: “The Winter Carnival snow sculptures were always amazing, but the life-sized pirate ship from A Dartmouth Never-land was truly epic.”

Our short time at Dartmouth changed each of us and our lives forever. As she celebrates her 250th anniversary, we are proud to count our-selves among her sons and daughters and will bleed green forever.—Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; dartmouth2007s@gmail.com

08 I have some fascinating updates to share from the class of 2008 around the girdled earth.

Matthew Siegfried is leaving Stanford and starting as an assistant professor at Colorado School of Mines in January. Somewhat inconve-niently, he’ll be in the middle of the West Antarc-tic Ice Sheet on his first day of work. He headed off to start his eighth field season in October. You can see what he’s been up to on Twitter at @MinesGlaciology, where he posts updates via satellite phone.

Some more updates on the job front. Sidd Singhal writes in to share that his current job is to manage Totino’s Pizza Rolls. If anyone is having a Dartmouth reunion (big or small) and wants to celebrate with pizza rolls, he’s happy to help hook them up! RuDee Sade Lipscomb is working with an indigenous rights and community advocacy nonprofit in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. And Emily Frank remains in the Bay Area teach-ing public school in Oakland, California, and practicing medicine as a pediatrician. If you’re in the area, get in touch and you can arrange to visit her class sometime; they would love to have you!

Approaching two years sober, Joshua Turn-bull is engrossed and enjoying his first year at Pitt Law. He writes, “It’s not been an easy path but as our graduation theme told us: ‘You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.’ There can be no doubt I’ve paid my dues. It’s great to finally share some good news.” He keeps the rhyming up to solicit visitors to his neck of the woods: “Need some Dartmouth visitors in Pittsburgh, singly or in twos (Hi, Mitch/Stiffy), it’s up to yous.”

On the wedding front, Adria Buchanan wed Aleksey Karulin in Rancho Palos Verdes, Cali-fornia, on March 27, 2018. They were joined by family and friends, including fellow Casque & Gauntlets Abe Holland, Ian Tapu, Lena Martinez-Wolfinger, Zainep Mahmoud, Denise Abeita, and Uma Shankoor. Adria and Aleksey just returned from their honeymoon in Vietnam and recom-mend it to anyone!

And Evon Noyes shares the amazing story of what he’s been up to for the past half-decade or so. He and four friends were tired of waking up a 7 a.m. to watch the English Premier League, so they started what they hoped would become a professional soccer team in his adopted home-town of Birmingham, Alabama. They put togeth-er exhibition matches in 2013 to raise money and awareness, and then recruited a coach and college players to play a full exhibition season in 2014 in front of crowds of 400 to 500 people. Le-veraging that success, they earned an expansion charter in the National Premier Soccer League in 2015, and for the next three years Evon was a forensic accountant by day and part-time minor league soccer team owner by night.

Without employees, the founder group ran everything from merchandise sales to security, drawing more than a thousand people to some games and beating Nashville in the Vanderbilt Stadium to win the I-65 Cup. In 2017 they sold the team to investors with a United Soccer League franchise, and in 2019 the dream of a

truly professional team in Birmingham will be a reality with Birmingham Legion FC. A truly wild success story. Congrats to Evon, who has now moved to California.

I didn’t start a soccer team, but I did coau-thor a book, The Contagious Commandments: Ten Steps to Brand Bravery, out now from Pen-guin Business UK. It feels weird to write about it, but it’s my duty as class secretary to share. So there it is.

Until next time!—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; cbarthrun@gmail.com

09 Happy holidays, ’09s! Jillian (Hamma) Chingos and Tim Chingos ’08 wel-comed their first child, Emma Elise,

on October 10, 2018. Their house in El Granada, California, has been in a flurry of renovations in preparation for her arrival.

Diana Dinescu wrote, “Lina Isabel Strother was born on May 14, 2018, right on her due date. She is the cutest baby we have ever seen, and we could not love her more.” Georgina Emerson teaches high school humanities in New York City. She loves it because she gets to design her own courses and teach about anything and every-thing. This year she launched a nonprofit called Teach About Women, with the goal of bringing intersectional feminist and gender-inclusive resources into K-12 classrooms. Among other projects, they are creating a global history cur-riculum that explores the relationship between gender and power.

Kyle Finnegan is an associate at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and received an award from the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights for his housing discrimination pro bono work. Denton King and Lauren King welcomed a little girl, McKell King, to the family on April 27. She joins big brother Wesley. Please let him know any advice on dealing with two!

David Kopec married Rebecca Driesen at Dartmouth in Rollins Chapel on October 6, 2018. Neil Kandler, Asafu Suzuki, Molson Hart, David Short, and Tom McDermott were in attendance, as well as professor Gordon Gribble.

Joanne Nachio and Harrison St. Germain (Wake Forest ’09, Notre Dame Law School J.D. ’12) got engaged on September 2, 2018, at the Hollywood Brown Derby at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World. They are planning a wedding in South Florida for October 19. She also recently started at McAlpin Conroy, P.A., in Brickell in Miami, practicing admiralty and maritime litigation.

Greg O’Sullivan married Jessica Felts on October 6, 2018, in Atlanta. I was there along with many other Psi U and Dartmouth ’09s to celebrate! Greg is starting the second year of his M.B.A. at MIT Sloan. Greg and Jessica will be spending the first half of 2019 studying and working in London.

Julian Thomas got married in July and will be starting an international M.B.A. in January at the Lisbon M.B.A. program in Portugal—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Hen-derson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d. kahane@gmail.com

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11 Hard to believe you’ll be reading this column in 2019! Time flies. It’s still October as I’m writing this, and

Homecoming Weekend at Dartmouth is about to begin. Eleven years have passed since we pa-raded around campus and ran our 11 (or 111) laps around the bonfire!

Jen McDonald wrote in with a wonderful update about her recent engagement in early October. She wrote, “After a couple trips to the old lodge to help with the new bunkhouses and hike other N.H. mountains, Peter Johnson (UVM ’11) and I got engaged this month on the top of Mount Moosilauke. I had initially thought that the momentous relationship milestone of the weekend was simply our first Moosilauke hike together! We’re also currently working on hiking New England’s 100 highest peaks and would love to catch up with any of you next time you’re near Burlington, Vermont!”

Thomas Lane and I saw Jenny Zhao and Roger Zhu a few weekends ago when they were visiting Los Angeles. Jenny loves animals, and they vis-ited the Shambala Preserve in Acton, California, about an hour outside of L.A., which cares for big cats that used to belong to circuses, zoos, or private owners. Before Jenny and Roger left on their flight out of LAX, we had brunch in Venice and visited the canals, inspired by the Venetian canals in Italy, that were just around the corner!

Amanda Trunzo was recently quoted by The Boston Globe in an article about Fenway Park hosting an extreme winter sports event, the ice cross downhill course, in February. Amanda is the reigning women’s ice cross downhill world champion, and she played hockey while at Dartmouth.

Write me with your updates! How far have the ’11s come in the 11 years since we first arrived at the College on the Hill? And where will we be in another 11?! —Hillary S. Cheng, 16013 Legacy Road, Unit 304, Tu-stin, CA 92782; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu

14 Happy new year! This issue marks the first for Dartmouth’s special cel-ebration of the College’s 250th anni-

versary. Of course the College on the Hill is a storied institution, one with many alumni across the world who work hard to make change in a multitude of different ways. I’ve been proud to be a Dartmouth alumna, and there are countless ways I’ve used lessons I learned at Dartmouth (both inside and outside of the classroom) to work to become a better person. I met people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences during my time at the College that broadened my perspective, challenged me, and helped shape me, and I personally hope that, in another 250 years, Dartmouth thrives as a place that pushes people out of their comfort zones and nurtures students who are open, global citizens. So, what do you think Dartmouth will look like in another 250 years? Send me your updates for next issue with an answer to this question! Now on to this month’s news.

On October 7 Kelly Brait ran the Chicago Marathon. Even though it rained, it did not

dampen her spirit and enthusiasm to complete her first marathon. She was enjoying her time so much throughout the race that she said, “I never got to my playlist!” Kelly also earned her C.F.P. designation this year and is working with J.P. Morgan Chase in Chicago. She still meets with former Dartmouth soccer teammates and enjoys annual trips with the girls.

Patton Lowenstein writes in, “I spent the first year or so working on an oyster farm on Cape Cod, including the winter when New England got about 8 feet of snow—we spent a lot of time in sub-30-degree water in leaky waders. For a year or so after that (plus about two weeks of unemployment) I worked as baker, then line cook, then sous chef at Water Street Kitchen in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Since mid-2017 I have been working in the chemistry depart-ment at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, studying coral skeleton chemistry as proxy for ocean temperature and chemistry change. I am beginning with a new lab next week to study lipid biomarkers (metabolic indicators) in marine microbes.”

And, if I may, I’d love to share some per-sonal news. I had the pleasure of marrying Brian Flint in New Orleans on October 27. We were so thrilled to share our hometown (we met at a Dart-mouth meet-up event the summer before fresh-man year) with people we love so much. Many Dartmouth alumni attended, including Brian’s parents, Delos and Elizabeth (Putnam) Flint ’78. Maids-of-honor Semarley Jarrett and Tashneen Bakht, best man Brendan Nagle, and bridesmaid Chisom Obi-Okoye were a part of our wedding party, which also included, among others, Con-nor Flint ’12 and Caitlin Flint ’16. Thank you to all of the alums who joined us for this special day!

Looking forward to receiving your news! Also, don’t forget to tell me what you hope the College will look like in 250 years!—Jessica Womack, 223 Madison Ave., Box E, Fort Washington, PA 19034; jrwomack1991@gmail.com

15 Despite the Post-It note on my desk at work reminding me in bright pink marker “DAM content,” I’ve been a

neglectful solicitor of class updates for this issue. The key outcome of that note was my boss’s boss coming by my desk and saying, “What did the content ever do to you?” My sincerest apologies.

In the time since I drafted the last edition of our Class Notes, news has come out that the Canoe Club will be closing. Students are forbid-den from running more than one lap around the bonfire at Homecoming. Joseph Asch ’79, known for his commentary on the College through the website Dartblog, passed away at age 60. Dart-mouth hired the first female Division I college football assistant coach. As they say, the only constant is change. Lest the old traditions fail.

On the note of traditions, in this issue we celebrate Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary. Since the celebration has been stretched to well over a year, it feels we will not be too out of line in doing a bit of reflection for the next issue. I re-ceived such wonderful thoughts from classmates when we used this space to share memories of

10 Alina Plavsky is in her first job out of residency working as an internist at Kaiser Permanente in Washington

state and she’s getting married this summer in France!

Bret Vallacher and Blair (Sullivan) Vallacher are delighted to announce that they welcomed daughter Catherine Anne Vallacher (’40?) this past June.

Tay Stevenson formed Envoy Public Labs in June. He stopped by the College on the way to hiking Mount Madison with Sam Edandison in September!

In September Ellie Stoltzfus and Dan Cham-berlain, now collectively the Chamberlain-

Stoltzfuses, welcomed Arthur William, future member of the class of 2041!

Lily Eom recently relocated to Seattle to work for Microsoft: “If anyone is in Seattle or passing by, let’s hang out!”

Andrew Smith got engaged to Jenna Pallay; they’re both living in N.Y.C.

Claire Wagner: “Happy to report that I re-cently got married to Josh Klein (Penn alum). We live in Boston’s South End and love seeing Dartmouth folks around town. I am finishing my M.D./M.B.A. at Harvard and looking ahead to the next adventure!

Sara Coffin and Tyler Young ’09 welcomed their first baby, Elizabeth “Tibby,” this fall. 

Teale Orme and Zach Rioux are living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Teale is a small-animal veteri-narian and Zach works for a private equity advi-sor. They tied the knot in September in nearby Heber Valley, where numerous Big Green friends helped them celebrate, including Kyle Betts, Mike Biondi, Ian Blumenthal, Diane Cheney ’09, Chase Decker, Taylor DiGloria, James Francis, Samantha Haw, Lucas Henderson ’09, Sharat Raju, Hannah Sehn, and John Smith ’09.

Short column this time. Wishing you all good health and much happiness in 2019!—Jennifer Chong, 7A Marine View, 19 Middle Lane, Discovery Bay, Lantau, Hong Kong; jenniferashley chong@gmail.com

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time spent at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and I would love to hear from you again.

In the spirit of celebrating 250 years of the College on the Hill, please share with us a Dartmouth tradition you hold dear or a personal tradition with classmates that has endured since graduation.

In the meantime, as an update on our class-mates, Marina Plesons and Amanda Zieselman have continued work on their global health nonprofit, Health Advocacy Innovations, founded while at Dartmouth. Recently they received a major grant from TB Reach, a project of the UN, to support their efforts to improve treatment for children with tuberculosis.

Two people have recently reached out to me about columns they have read here, and I am grateful to them for checking in on our class when they receive the alumni magazine. To both of you, and anyone who flips to our column, what are you up to? Please send your updates, thoughts, themes, or suggestions to 15classup-dates@gmail.com. —Samantha Webster, 665 Washington St., Apt. 711, Boston, MA 02111; (484) 356-3678; samw-web15@gmail.com

16 Happy new year, ’16s! I have a few quick updates from

our classmates. Penelope Williams just started a new job in design thinking consulting at Accenture in Boston.

Natalie Cantave started a new job as a mar-keting and communications coordinator for the HealthTech Program at MassChallenge, a startup accelerator in Boston. MassChallenge is a nonprofit that focuses on innovation and supporting startups and entrepreneurs. If you work for or know of any interesting digital health startups, definitely reach out to Natalie!

After being in New York City for the past two years, Colby Ye is excited to be in Boston, where he is now working for Berkshire Partners.

I hope you all have a wonderful start to the new year. And don’t hesitate to email in news about you and your friends!—Feyaad Allie, 144 Ayrshire Farm Lane, Apt. 104, Stanford CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

17 Happy holidays, ’17s! As we start to switch to those 2019 calendars, let’s take a look at what a couple of our

classmates have been up to these past few months.

Out in the small part city of Mokpo, South Korea, is ’17’s own Nicole Simineri. Nicole has been out east teaching English since graduation, and she is currently in South Korea as a teaching assistant as part of her Fulbright scholarship. Nicole majored in Asian and Middle Eastern studies and was eager to immerse herself in the culture of South Korea, a country in which she had never lived. Although she did not speak a word of Korean beforehand, she enjoys her role and has formed close bonds with her students. As if working five days a week in a foreign language isn’t tiring enough, Nicole also volunteers for two organizations. She works with the North Korean Defectors Program, which helps children learn

English, and the Korea Bridge Initiative, which is geared toward students who cannot afford English preparatory classes for college admis-sions standardized tests. In her free time Nicole explores her local community in Mokpo and even ventures out to other cities, such as Busan, Seoul, Daegu, and Ginzhu. While in Mokpo, she enjoys free kayaking in the port, going to arcades, and befriending locals and foreigners alike. When she is out of Mokpo, she typically attends cul-tural festivals. For instance, this fall she went to Andong for a mask festival that showcased traditional mask culture and performance in Korea. Although she adores teaching in Asia, Nicole is considering a change in scenery after the academic year ends, likely close to her family in New York.

Back on the East Coast, rather than in the eastern hemisphere, is Katie Vareika, who is a development associate for the special events team at the Boston Children’s Hospital Trust. Since she is from the suburbs of Boston, Katie is living at home with her family. She says it’s fun coming home and being able to eat dinner with her parents every night. Katie is particularly delighted to be at home because her parents just got an adorable puppy, Ruby.

For those, who didn’t know, Katie is one of the wonderful head agents for the class of ’17. Early in September alums returned to campus for the annual Class Officers Weekend. During this weekend there were speakers, panels, work-shops, and social events for the various class officers. On the Friday of her arrival, Katie was relieved to spend a quiet night relaxing in the Hanover Inn and eating her favorite meal from the Hop. However, she received a phone call and was told to take the long trek to the Life Sci-ences Center for a gala. Quite unexpectedly, Katie learned that the reason she was called over was that the class of 2017 won the award for Class of the Year for all classes 25 years and younger! Although Katie was shocked and wearing jeans during the fancy gala, she went on stage with decorum and represented us well. Additionally, Mercedes de Guardiola won Treasurer of the Year and Elaine Lunsford and Alexandra Pattillo won Class Newsletter Editors of the Year. Thank you to all the class officers for your hard work and for being such a standout team!—Dorian Allen, 117 West Grant St., Apt. 123, Min-neapolis, MN 55403; (973) 986-5988; dorallen@comcast.net

18 Happy new year, ’18s! This year Dart-mouth celebrates its 250th anniver-sary. To mark the occasion, I pulled

together a set of prompts so that everyone could share some of their favorite Dartmouth memories. Here were some highlights from your responses.

First I asked, “Tell us about a Dartmouth tradition you hold dear or about a tradition you share with your classmates.”

Andrew Sun wrote, “ ‘Let’s get a meal some-time!’ I’m sure everyone has asked this of a class-mate at one point. It’s almost become a running joke at Dartmouth because of how often this exact phrase is used. However, I think we really

took for granted how easy it was to actually get a meal, sometimes with a complete stranger, while being a student at Dartmouth. Maybe it’s the small size of the student body or the strong sense of community that is cultivated starting from first-year trips. All I know is that I built many strong relationships that started with, ‘Let’s get a meal sometime!’ ”

Sarah Rote wrote, “Though it’s not talked about as often, one of my favorite traditions is the midnight snowball fight on the Green after the first significant snowfall. Large groups of people, summoned by a Dr. Seuss Blitz, mill about until snow starts flying in all directions. It’s dark out and chaotic, so I might have launched a few snowballs into unsuspecting clusters and then run the opposite way.”

Andi Norman wrote, “Class Day was really special for me. I got to experience the ’16 Class Day as a sophomore and then again during my senior week. To be all together with my class at the Bema, right where we began as freshmen, gave me chills and filled me with so much joy and nostalgia for my time at the College on the Hill.”

Then I asked, “This fall we celebrated our first Homecoming as alumni. What’s your favor-ite Homecoming memory?”

Lindsay Salem wrote, “My favorite Home-coming memory is running around the bonfire with my dad, Steve Salem ’87. Sharing that expe-rience with him will always be one of my favorite Dartmouth memories.”

Finally, “What do you love most about Dartmouth?”

Andrew Sun wrote, “ ‘Dartmouth Undying’ has a line—‘Dartmouth…the gleaming, dream-ing walls of Dartmouth, miraculously builded in our hearts.’ I’m not sure I can put it much better than that. Dartmouth holds a special place in my memory—not because it was a perfect ex-perience; it was far from perfect. My Dartmouth experience was fraught with struggle, deep real-izations, and sometimes painful self-discovery. Yet I do feel I came out a better and stronger person. So whenever I think about Dartmouth, with its beautiful trees, benches, and libraries, I also feel a deep sense of nostalgia for the place, its people, and what Dartmouth has meant to me.”

Emma Mouzon wrote, “What I love most about Dartmouth is, undoubtedly, the unique bond it has as a community. The endless love and support of the Dartmouth community extends far past the grandiose pines of New Hampshire. I fell in love with Dartmouth during my interview after hearing my interviewer reminisce about this magnificent college on the hill and its lasting traditions. Welcomed by the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles after being admitted, I knew that Dartmouth had become my home even before stepping foot on campus. To me, Dartmouth is more than just my college; it’s an identity that I am truly proud to uphold and celebrate around the girdled earth.”

Thank you to everyone who shared their re-flections for this column! I hope that 2019 is full of exciting new adventures for the class of 2018.—Emily Choate, 172 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. 3, Boston, MA 02116; (603) 305-5346; eschoate@gmail.com

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GradsI received the following message from Roland Adams (MALS’98), who is a member of the MALS Alumni Council.

He now lives in Greene, Maine (an hour northwest of Portland), with his wife, Sandy. They have been there since 2011. Roland retired from his position as director of media relations for Dartmouth in mid-2010, after working at the College for 20 years, and he spent another three-plus years at Bates College as senior com-munications advisor before getting semi-serious about a real retirement.

He has continued to work since then as a strategic communications consultant for vari-ous higher-education institutions and private high schools. This includes Agnes Scott College, the Loomis Chaffee School, and Emma Willard School, among others. He also works for various other organizations, both profit and nonprofit.

Sandy, former assistant vice president of strategic communications for the DMS-DHMC advancement office, also continues to work as a communications consultant. Her clients have included the University of Michigan, Northwell Health on Long Island, and the University of Maine at Farmington.

However, both Roland and Sandy now have much more free time for personal pursuits. These include periodic travels to destinations they both enjoy. Roland occasionally presents communication seminars for the Maine Associa-tion of Nonprofits, and he is also a member of the board of the Maine Indoor Air Quality Council. Sandy’s sideline is as a photo artist whose works have been exhibited in several galleries. (She has even sold some!)

They are not often back in the Upper Valley, but do follow developments here and at Dart-mouth closely. They wish all the best for the Col-lege and their many friends in the Upper Valley.

I am writing this on Dartmouth Homecom-ing Weekend and just want to say that I am so sorry all of you were not able to watch the spec-tacular bonfire on the Green on Friday night. It was an event not to be missed—and the snow flurries didn’t even begin until Saturday!—Jane Welsh, 175 Greensboro Road, Hanover, NH 03755; (603-643-3789; m.jane.welsh.gr@dartmouth.edu

Clubs &GroupsDartmouth clubs and groups around the coun-try were busy organizing events this fall. The Dartmouth Club of Suburban New Jersey recently hosted a football watching party with great turn-out. About 30 alumni and friends of Dartmouth gathered at a sports bar in downtown Summit to cheer on Dartmouth’s Big Green as it pre-vailed over Yale on October 5. Event organizers included David Dietze ’78, club president, and Tara Gulla ’95, club officer.

Additionally, the Dartmouth Club of Sub-urban New Jersey reported that its Joseph A. Carter III Scholarship recipient for the 2018-19 academic year is Millenah L. Nascimento ’21 from Newark. She had a great freshman year, embarking on premed studies and enjoying many extracurricular programs, including providing assistance to theatrical productions. This past summer she assisted at the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, as part of its GirlsFirst em-powerment summer camp. She is an alumna of that school, attending it as part of the NJ SEEDS program.

Dorothy Carter ’58 and David Dietze ’78 con-gratulate her on all of her accomplishments. The club is very proud of her successes.

In the next state over, Dan O’Brien ’09, com-munications chair for the Dartmouth Club of Phila-delphia reported on several recent activities. The club participated in the Big Green Affair, which included organizing several local happy hours, and they began the initial stages of planning for Philadelphia-based celebrations in honor of the College’s 250th. The Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia is also gearing up for some great end-of-year programs, such as the Princeton-Dartmouth game, a day of service in November, and the annual holiday party.

Ken Bower ’94 wrote in from the Dartmouth Club of St. Louis. The club is looking forward to welcoming former President Jim Wright to town November 12 for a speech he is making at the Missouri History Museum. A final event for the year will be a Christmas-holiday dinner at the Log Cabin Club on November 29 with new Dart-mouth Provost Jim Helble. More than 60 alumni and spouses will be in attendance to welcome him to his first official speech outside of Hanover!

In Massachusetts Tracey Taylor ’87, president of the Dartmouth Club of Cape Cod, organized a club luncheon meeting at the Hyannis Yacht Club on September 21. Hayden Lizotte, senior assistant director of admissions, was the fea-tured guest speaker. Hayden was an excellent and dynamic speaker and gave the attendees firsthand insight into how the admissions office narrows down more than 22,000 applicants to the lucky few (8.7 percent for the class of 2022) who are admitted. It’s an impressive process.

Finally, Tom Skilton ’89 and Curtis Leitner ’04 provided an update from the Dartmouth Lawyers Association (DLA). The DLA and the Women of Dartmouth jointly sponsored a timely event on August 2, 2018, featuring Curtis Leitner, Khris-tina Gonzalez ’04, and Alyssa Rower ’01. The three alumni led a panel discussion called “The Im-pact of #MeToo: On the Job, In the Home, and on Campus.” The event was followed by a lively discussion lasting longer than expected due to the engagement with the crowd. It was a great forum for alumni to engage with each other on a charged topic in a thoughtful and respectful manner.

Please send me brief updates about the great events that your club, association, or affiliated group have organized! Newsletters and other email updates are also welcomed.—Stina Brock ’01, PO Box 9274, Jackson, WY 83002; stina.brock@gmail.com

DeathsThe following is a list of deaths reported to us since the previous issue. Full obituaries, usually written by the class secretaries, may appear on the DAM website at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com, where friends and classmates may post their own remembrances of the deceased. Please contact alumni records at (603) 646-2253 to report an alumnus death.

Louis Frederick Oldershaw ’39 • Oct. 19, 2018James Alexander Browning ’44 • Oct. 8, 2018Robert Benjamin Jabara ’45 • Sept. 26, 2018

William Lamson Swartzbaugh ’45 • Oct. 17, 2018Frederick J. Beddiges ’46 • Sept. 2018John Horton Smith ’46 • Sept. 9, 2018

Donald Wayne Edwards ’47 • Sept. 27, 2018Robert William Belfit Jr. ’49 • Aug. 29, 2018Philip Walling Brown Jr. ’50 • Sept. 19, 2018Thomas Myer Green III ’50 • Aug. 16, 2018Alexander Carr Hoffman ’50 • Aug. 6, 2018H. Clifton Whiteman III ’50 • Sept. 8, 2018Nason Arthur Hurowitz ’51 • Oct. 16, 2018

Robert H. Moore ’51 • Aug. 6, 2018J. Howard Reynolds ’51 • May 14, 2017William Hall Terry ’51 • Aug. 31, 2018

John Chester Klein ’52 • July 23, 2018Gerald C. Lukeman ’52 • Aug. 26, 2018Roy C. Megargel ’52 • Sept. 22, 2018

William C. Quimby ’52 • Sept. 16, 2018David L. Lewis ’53 • Sept. 22, 2015

A. Kelly McBride Jr. ’53 • July 9, 2016Peter H. Patterson ’53 • Sept. 9, 2016Prasong Sukhum ’53 • May 6, 2017

Peter Eberth Bullis ’54 • Sept. 4, 2018Myles Livingston Jacobs ’54 • Oct. 11, 2018

Walter Tumeniuk ’54 • Sept. 15, 2018Dean Conrad Allard Jr. ’55 • Sept. 27, 2018

C. Raymond Durkee ’55 • Sept. 24, 2018Richard Marshmont Targett Jr. ’55 • Sept. 9, 2018Laurence Russell Veator Jr. ’55 • Sept. 20, 2018James Alexander Cochrane Jr. ’56 • Oct. 2, 2018

Richard B. Foster Jr. ’56 • Sept. 25, 2018Donald Francis Hamson ’56 • Aug. 18, 2018

Herbert David Kleber ’56 • Oct. 5, 2018John William Koehring ’56 • Sept. 16, 2018

Frederick Sherwood Lowry ’56 • Dec. 25, 2017James Russell Donnelley ’57 • Sept. 25, 2018

Michael Harry Dikman ’58 • Oct. 7, 2018Laurence Hamblen Shaw ’58 • Sept. 23, 2018

Stephen Jay Wilson ’58 • Sept. 6, 2018Hibbard Gough Davis ’62 • Nov. 18, 2011

William Reinhold Hjortsberg ’62 • April 22, 2017Stephen Marc Serlin ’62 • Sept. 13, 2018

Richard Kristian Anderson ’63 • Nov. 17, 2010Lawrence Halstead Keyes ’63 • Aug. 30, 2018

Robert Gene Busch ’65 • Oct. 7, 2018Robert Savin Shertz ’65 • Sept. 28, 2018

John Borland Harbaugh ’66 • Sept. 3, 2018Robert Kevin Hughes ’66 • Sept. 19, 2018William Walter Roberts ’66 • Oct. 9, 2017

Donald James Clausing ’68 • Sept. 12, 2018Robert Alan Paley ’70 • May 2018Joan Perry Snell ’73 • April 3, 2017

Calvin Eugene Conyers ’74 • Aug. 16, 2018Michael Louis Nemeth ’74 • Sept. 11, 2018

Joseph Charles Asch ’79 • Oct. 9, 2018Chesley Helen Adler ’89 • Sept. 21, 2018

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King George III, Benjamin Franklin, and Benedict Arnold all donated money to help Wheelock develop his Indian Charity School.

The founder proposed naming the College after New Hampshire governor John Wentworth, whose approval was necessary to obtain the charter. The governor declined the offer.

A minister, Wheelock had purchased his doctor of divinity certificate. The University of Edinburgh, which granted degrees upon “acceptable recommendations,” charged about 10 pounds.

He owned several slaves.

Wheelock considered Albany, New York, as a location for the College, but a friend denounced its townspeople for “Corousing frolicking Cursing and Damming their own Souls and Sutch Great wickedness I Never Saw In my Life Before.”

Although he disapproved of hard liquor and drank for medicinal purposes only, Wheelock established

Hanover’s first tavern in 1771.

Among provisions he brought with him to Hanover were eight pounds of chocolate, 31 gallons of rum, and several beaver hats for students.

When smallpox broke out in 1777, Wheelock kept a room about a mile south of the Green where he could

“be sick and likely die in within a few days,” he wrote, prematurely.

His original gravestone, unearthed during cem-etery repairs in 1954, is stored in Rauner Library.

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ELEAZAR WHEELOCKTHE ORIGINAL BIG MAN ON CAMPUS (1711-79)

HIS STORY

BIRTHPLACE: Windham, ConnecticutPROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS: Minister. Educator. Farmer. Founder of Dartmouth in 1769.PERSONAL: Married Sarah Davenport Maltby in 1735. After her death in 1746, he married Mary Brinsmead. He had eight children with his wives and two stepchildren.EDUCATION: Yale, class of 1733