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42Alien Quest

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WRITE TO USWe welcome letters. The editor reserves the right to determine the suitability of letters for publication and to edit them for accuracy and length. We regret that not all letters can be published, nor can they be returned. Letters should run no more than 200 words in length, refer to material published in the magazine, and include the writer’s full name, address, and telephone number.

Write: Letters, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 7 Allen Street, Suite 201, Hanover, NH 03755Email: [email protected]: dartmouthalumnimagazine.com

A Note to DAM ReadersDAM’s staff and board are dedicated to making a great magazine for you. With all the feedback about the Blake Neff ’13 item in our July/August issue, let me say loud and clear: We hear you, and we thank you.

Our coverage of Neff is a matter of newsworthiness, given his prominent role with Tucker Carlson Tonight, a television show with enormous influence on the president of the United States. That said, DAM should have provided additional context and more rounded reporting to explain the role of Carlson’s show in to-day’s political culture. The magazine’s editorial board and I have held extensive discussions about your feedback and the shortcomings in our story. The editors will be more rigorous moving forward.

A week after DAM published the issue, CNN reported on July 10 that Neff had posted racist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments on an online forum using a pseudonym. Neff resigned from his job at Fox News, and DAM temporarily pulled the online version of the story to provide an update. The original remained available in our digital archive.

A number of alumni wrote letters to express their dismay at Neff and the magazine, and we’re devoting extra pages to include many of them in this issue. We published all letters on our website in early August.

One thing I noticed in the letters: some misunderstanding about DAM’s re-lationship to the College. As the masthead says: “Editorially independent since 1905.” DAM’s mission, according to its charter, is to deliver “news of the College and its alumni, provide a medium for the exchange of views concerning College affairs, and in other ways provide editorial content that relates to the shared and diverse experiences and interests of Dartmouth alumni.”

To those who wrote to ask if DAM is somehow proud of Neff, the emphatic answer is no. The editors condemn Neff ’s reprehensible actions, which in no way reflect the views of this magazine.

Thank you for writing, and thank you for reading.—Sean Plottner, editor

Further ReviewI am extremely disappointed by the maga-zine’s decision to feature Neff, Tucker Carl-son’s writer. Given Carlson’s regular racist, sexist, and false remarks, the institution could easily have anticipated that at one point Neff would cross the line.

ERIN KLEIN ’13Chicago

Really? Out of all the remarkable Dartmouth alumni since 1769, you had to pick Neff ?

ETHAN BRAUNSTEIN ’67Flagstaff, Arizona

You picked the wrong person to lionize. The Dartmouth Review tormented Native and Black students for years. We were tor-mented by the Neffs of the world at a Col-lege founded for the youths “of the various Indian tribes.” We are proud to be alums, but the DAM celebration of Neff scratches at old wounds we still carry beneath the flesh.

WILLIAM HARJO (LONEFIGHT) ’89New Town, North Dakota

It’s so disappointing when alumni such as Neff reinforce the negative aspects of Dartmouth’s brand despite all the good work that so many people are doing. I can only imagine the impact on students and alumni of color.

DAFNA SARNOFF ’85New York City

It should be noted that Neff began his il-lustrious career in journalism at The Re-view. Neff ’s journey from being a bigot in a small town in New Hampshire to being a bigot on the national stage should remind us that The Review remains a stain on the Dartmouth experience and serves only to create a pathway to influence and fame for the worst of our College. Yet again, The Re-view and its alums have brought shame to our great institution.

HEMANT JOSHI ’04Allston, Massachusetts

Whose brilliant idea was it to highlight the most dubious achievements of Neff ? Yes, you’ll tell me this was written before the

current scandal. And yes, we are a com-munity that fosters free speech. But give me a break: I was there (as a member of the staff and later arts editor of The Dartmouth) when The Review was founded. We have always known that while it was based on conservative political philosophy, it was in reality a means to express cruel, rac-ist, xenophobic, and homophobic ideas. As an institution we may have no choice but to tolerate the existence of The Review on campus, but for DAM to highlight how one of its alums has now gone on to pro-mote hateful ideas on a national scale with Carlson is a bridge too far.

JESSICA ROSENBERG BROWN ’83Brooklyn, New York

Dartmouth has wonderful alumni doing important work, but in light of the racist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments that he has posted online over the past few years, Neff is not one of them. Please re-move your profile of him in the current magazine. The College has nothing to be proud of in calling him an alumnus.

SHARON GRAYZEL ’87Portland, Oregon

Unfortunate timing for the Neff profile, but I appreciate how quickly DAM updated the story online with a condemnation of his racist views. I hope that article stands as his last appearance in these pages, but history suggests that might not be the case. Consider the relatively small but highly vis-ible cadre of alumni who’ve turned bigotry into a highly remunerative career path and how frequently they are mentioned in this publication.

I cannot be the only alumna who cring-es whenever someone like Neff makes the

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news for a provocative tweet or screed, then earns another mention in an alumni publi-cation. What responsibility do we have as an institution to opt out of promoting those alumni whose careers are a constant test of the line between political opinion and inflammatory hate speech? Is it necessary to write sympathetically about convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza ’83? Must a book by Laura Ingraham ’85 be noticed?

When alumni profit from white su-premacy and exclusionary politics that conflict directly with the College’s values, why must we remain neutral? Plenty of other media outlets with distributions exponentially greater than DAM’s will continue covering their every utterance. We cannot revoke their diplomas or deny their alumni status, but let’s at least decide to stop including notices about them in alumni publications.

ANDREA GREER ’93Houston

Congratulations on your timely piece about Neff on the eve of his firing. Have you con-sidered running similar articles about Dartmouth grads serving time on death row or in hospitals for the criminally insane?

GREG PRENTISS ’66Lakeview, Arkansas

To find a feature in the most recent issue about Neff under the headline “The Right Stuff ” is truly disgusting. It gets worse. The magazine flippantly adds that Mr. Neff worked for The Daily Caller as if it were some innocuous broadsheet instead of a publication that has published a number of white supremacists, anti-Semites, and big-ots. DAM owes the Dartmouth community an apology. People such as Neff, Laura In-graham, and Dinesh D’Souza should never be featured. These people have no business being anywhere near the Dartmouth we all love.

NICK BERNSTEIN ’84Brooklyn, New York

There is no place for the racist, sexist com-ments of Neff in the Dartmouth commu-nity. I’m incredibly embarrassed to have graduated the same year. The recent article misrepresents what kind of person he is and undesirably draws more attention to his connection with Dartmouth.

JANE CAI ’13New York City

I was so disappointed to find out that Neff is a Dartmouth alum. We certainly do not want to celebrate him. He’s offensive and an embarrassment.

LAURA FRIEDMAN KLEIN ’91Brookeville, Maryland

Yet another member of The Review joins the ranks of the disgraced. I’m rolling on the floor laughing my ass off as I wallow in schadenfreude.

JOHN CHAMBERLIN ’70Falls Church, Virginia

Yet again I find myself incredibly disap-pointed by Dartmouth. It is totally appalling that DAM would publish a feature on Neff. Regardless of the fact that he was just re-cently caught posting racist and misogynist diatribes online, he writes for a racist and misogynist TV host and lets us know that those are his words that Carlson is saying on TV. He’s proud of that, of course, but should DAM be? I fail to understand how someone writing for a TV personality who has a clear disdain for women and for people of color should be celebrated. Does the College feel proud of the job it did educating [Neff ] if these are the views he graduated with? I would hope the College is working to edu-cate and graduate students who value and celebrate diversity and graduating white people who understand the privilege that they were born with and that they carry as Ivy League graduates. Lord knows the Col-lege needs more diversity—and celebrating graduates such as Neff certainly won’t help it attract a student body population that it needs to be a successful school.

BROOKE LIERMAN ’01Baltimore

My husband and I are both alums and were frankly appalled to see the article about Neff. To have that article come out the week Carlson besmirched Tammy Duck-worth—a disabled woman of color and war hero—was ridiculous. And Carlson is so racist and sexist that many advertisers will not even pay for ads on his show. But I held off on saying anything until learning why Neff had to resign from Fox News. I am shocked but not surprised. This is ex-actly the kind of person who would commit themselves to working for Carlson. You owe all of us an apology for normalizing and glamorizing this work. There aren’t two sides to every story. Sometimes there

is just right and wrong. MIRIAM INGBER ’01 AND PETER VASSILEV ’00

Westport, Connecticut

What a “nice” coincidence to have Carol Muller’s interview [“A Failure to Dig Deep-er,” July/August] on the same wall space as the recognition of Neff ’s achievements! Reminders of a couple of Dartmouth’s lega-cies—of John Kemeny, an important mentor of mine [who oversaw Dartmouth’s decision to go coed], and also of the College’s insular, sometimes racist and sexist, environment.

NEIL HENRY, ADV’60 Richmond, Virginia

As a parent of a Dartmouth ’16, ’18, and ’21 as well as the wife of a Tuck board member, I am horrified by the news of Neff and his racist posts. I would hope that DAM will hold Neff accountable and run a follow-up article condemning Neff and exploring the role Dartmouth has played, if any, in forming or allowing his racist views and the College’s current race culture.

SONIA F. MCARDLEChicago

The timing of the article highlighting Neff may have simply been unfortunate, and DAM would never knowingly publish a glowing article about an alum who proudly espouses racism, homophobia, and sex-ism. We are hoping that his unmasking and subsequent dismissal from Fox was exactly at the same time as this article was being written, printed, and mailed.

Neff does not reflect conservatism, and he does not live up to the standards of being a daughter or son of Dartmouth College let alone a human being with any level of basic human decency.

We are ashamed to see that he is an alumnus but unfortunately not surprised that he is a former Review staffer. His in-tolerance and cruelty is typical of some of the more notable Review alums.

Please write an addition or correction acknowledging who and what Neff is and what he’s done, and that the College does not condone his vile views and, in fact, ab-hors and rejects them.

IKE ANYANWU-EBO ’94, TH’96, AND CARMEN HARDEN ’96

Thornton, Colorado I was disappointed to see your piece on Neff, a kindred spirit with, and mouthpiece

of, Carlson and his racism and misogyny. It would appear to be a pretty clear call that this son of Dartmouth’s accomplishments do not deserve celebration. The embarrass-ment from Neff ’s resignation because of his own postings of racist and misogynistic views under the shield of a pseudonym is just confirmation.

While Dartmouth is a great institution, not everything its alumni do is great, even if influential. I am sure there are many like me—who graduated and, without fanfare, worked hard and became leaders in their communities—who have a difficult time seeing their values in this editorial choice.

It is possible someone may wish to turn my comments into a partisan attack. Noth-ing could be further from my point. There are legitimate and illegitimate conservative perspectives just as there are legitimate and illegitimate liberal perspectives. Carl-son, and the hateful words he spews, bear almost no resemblance to, for example, George Will, David Brooks, and The Wall Street Journal.

GEORGE STRANDER ’84Albion, Michigan

Good Question“My Arrest” [“Personal History,” July/Au-gust] by Keith Boykin ’87 was timely and alarming. Why would a Black CNN politi-cal reporter and teacher at Columbia Uni-versity, who was photographing a protest on New York City’s streets after George Floyd’s murder, get arrested? Boykin con-veys the absurdity of his experience—ar-rested and in the custody of the NYPD for six hours that ended with him locked up in a jail cell with 34 other inmates before he was released. He was simply a middle-aged Black reporter photographing another protest. I hope DAM prints more about the words, thoughts, and actions of Black and white undergraduates who are working hard to help release all of us from the grip of systemic racism.

WILLIAM HENGST ’61Philadelphia

Spy GamesThe Rick Beyer ’78 article, “The Professor Was a Spy” [July/August], took me back to the pleasure experienced when I took professor Eldredge’s course on propaganda in my senior year. I disagree, however, that “his students never knew.” It was eminently clear to us that Eldredge had engaged in

important intelligence work during World War II and knew far more than he was telling.

What has stayed with me all these years was his explanation of the knowl-edge Prime Minister Churchill and the Al-lies had of the Nazi extermination camps and the decision they came to with respect to how to deal with them. Our leaders un-derstood that until armies on the ground could actually reach them, there was little that could be done to help them. Perhaps more significant was the decision that if the Nazis were willing to divert precious resources from the fight to prevent the ad-vance of the Allied armies to the operation of these camps, our leaders were prepared to permit them to do so, as the “better” of the choices available.

Those of us who were children during World War II and came of age during the Korean and Cold wars, and actually met and knew at Dartmouth refugees from the 1956 rebellion in Hungary, learned that in the field of ethical and moral decision-making the predominant “color” is “gray.” That is why it is so disappointing that the teachers and administrators of our current generation of “woke” students have failed to help them learn that in matters of good and evil there are few vivid “colors” to as-sist us. The world is far from as simple as they apparently believe.

ALAN M. SHAVER ’60 Brunswick, Maine

President Thad!I enjoyed the “Dad Thad” piece [May/June]. I loved Dean Seymour. He was as fine a man as I’ve ever known. He talked me out of dropping out when I was a scared freshman. He loaned me his car to pick up my date in “White Rivah,” Vermont.

My six college warnings brought us up close and personal on many occasions.

I’ll never forgive Dartmouth for not naming him president. He would have been perfect.

MARSH POTTERTON ’62Northfield, Illinois

DoubleplusgoodOne particularly excellent page from the May/June edition of DAM both delighted and fascinated me. The “Look Who’s Talk-ing” column on page 17 featured Jimmy Martell, the College welder, with great hu-mor and spark (pun intended). I delighted

in his answers to the questions about his becoming a welding teacher and how he describes one of his toughest assignments, when he had to weld upside down using a mirror for orientation.

Also on page 17, “Blast from the Past” describes the time when the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 hit campus. Students’ isolation and restrictions then mirror some of those we see today, with the coronavirus slamming communities so hard.

Joy opposing misery. The placement of these two succinct and pithy articles side-by-side was most intriguing and heartfelt. Well done.

FIONA BAYLY ’89New York City

In the BoothThank you for profiling Aileen Chaltain [“Look Who’s Talking,” July/August]. I ush-ered at the Hopkins Center during my four years at Dartmouth, first as a volunteer and then as a paid head usher. Aileen was the manager at that time, and it’s wonderful to hear that she is still a leader at the Hop all these years later. I have excellent memories of the movies and musical and theatrical performances that occurred. I also fondly remember the monthly head usher meet-ings led by Aileen. Her warmth and humor really made the job fun.

ELIZABETH TERRY ’92Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cover OffenseYour choice of Lis Smith ’05 and the man-ner of representing her on the cover of DAM [“Trail Blazer,” January/February] offends me, as I can determine no merit in her style, substance, or attraction as it per-tains to what I hoped from my Dartmouth experience of the early 1960s. Many of us did not learn to drink responsibly, regard women respectfully, or have the privilege of matriculating with them. Perhaps this is why I shed my graduation gown faster than Houdini shed a strait jacket when immersed 20 feet in New York Harbor, anxious to see the real world again at last. Your choice of adulating Smith graphically and pictorially must offend a great many women and men who were culled from the best of the best to benefit from Dartmouth. I had hoped my College had come a long way.

PETER DORSEN ’66Eagan, Minnesota

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“It was an easy decision,” says new men’s hockey coach Reid Cashman, currently an assistant coach with the NHL Wash-ington Capitals. “I wanted the profes-sional challenge of being a head coach at a place where you can compete for championships.” The former Quinnipiac defenseman and assistant coach (2011-16) knows Dartmouth well—although he didn’t learn that Caps owner Dick Patrick ’68 was an alum until he read the Patrick profile in DAM’s May/June 2020 issue, after he’d accepted the job. (“Honestly, I thought he went to Princeton,” Cashman says.) The new coach already has a house in New Hampshire, where he plans to move with his wife and two young daugh-ters. But first things first: The loaded Cap-itals started a playoff run in August as the NHL resumed play, and Cashman won’t turn green until the season ends. What will he do with no Dartmouth hockey planned before January as the Ivy League monitors the spread of Covid-19? “We’ll use the extra time to get ready,” he says. —Sean Plottner

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LOOK WHO’S TALKING> MATTHEW DELMONT Professor of history and special advisor to the president

i l l u s t r a t i o n b y ANDY FRIEDMAN

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are always on hand with their oxygen tents to

keep the old order alive.”

V I S I T I N G V O I C E S

—MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., MAY 23, 1962, IN 105 DARTMOUTH HALL

Can you explain the purpose of your new role in the president’s office? Trying to provide advice to Dartmouth leadership about how Dartmouth can do better to serve stu-dents, faculty, and staff of color. I don’t have decision-

making power. Part of my job is to convey a sense of urgency and possibility to leadership, to push them to do things they might not normally be comfortable doing.

What’s your most important goal? Increasing the number and success of faculty of color on campus.

What are the current numbers on that front?The number of Black faculty has remained around 3 percent for nearly two decades. The College is much more diverse at the un-dergraduate level than it was two decades ago. The faculty hasn’t kept pace, and that poses a problem because a lot of students

of color turn to faculty of color as mentors, as advisors, and that places a tremendous amount of pressure on those faculty. I think

burnout is a real issue.

How do other Ivy schools compare?Dartmouth has a national reputation, earned or

unearned, as a particularly white space among the Ivies. More so than Columbia, Penn, even

Harvard, it’s seen as a very kind of white, coun-try clubish college. On the faculty side, none of

the Ivies are doing very well. I really think that if Dartmouth were to commit to this seriously, in five to seven years we could be the leader among Ivies. We’re a small enough institution that making real com-mitments to this can move the needle very quickly.

What do you think of the College’s goal to have 25-percent minority faculty by 2025?I don’t think that’s a super-ambitious goal. If we just keep doing business as usual, we’re not going to get there.

How do you respond to people who claim racism is not an issue on campus?Listen to members of our community to understand how the Dartmouth experience is different for dif-ferent people. I think this is true for students, it’s true for faculty, for staff, it’s true for queer or dis-abled members of the community. There are plenty of people whose identity shapes their lived experi-

ence of Dartmouth, and I think if we are serious about creating an inclusive community, we have to be willing to listen to the lived experience of

being here. —Svati Kirsten Narula ’13

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Commencement

C L A S S O F 2 0 2 0 On July 9 the College announced the elimination of five varsity sports:

both swimming and diving teams, both golf teams, and the men’s

lightweight rowing team. Additionally, Hanover Country Club

has been shuttered.

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will reap in savings from the course and team cuts

18Years since the swimming and

diving teams were last dropped by the College, before reinstatement

for 2003

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18-hole course

1904Year that golf became a varsity sport at the College. Later came

swimming (1921), lightweight rowing (1948), women’s swimming (1973),

and women’s golf (1981)

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I C O N O G R A P H Y

Winds of ChangeOn June 25, after nearly a century atop the highest point on Dartmouth’s campus, Baker Library’s weathervane

was taken down from its perch. In the weeks leading up to its removal, students and alumni joined a petition that criticized the weathervane’s design for its “racist” and “stereotypical” portrayal of Native Americans.

The weathervane depicts Dartmouth’s founder, Eleazer Wheelock, sitting on a stump above a feather-clad Native American man smoking a pipe. A round object—presumed to be a barrel of rum—rests behind Wheelock.

“It was a lampoon of Native Americans that shouldn’t have taken 92 years to come down,” says David Vincelette ’84, who created the online petition in late May demanding the weath-ervane’s removal. It garnered nearly 900 signatures.

The removal marks the College’s latest step in addressing its historically troubled relationship with Indigenous peoples. Though chartered as an institution for educating “youth of the Indian tribes,” Dartmouth did not graduate its first Native American student until 20 years after its founding. Two years ago Dartmouth relocated its controversial Hovey murals—which illustrate a legend of the College’s creation involving visibly inebriated Native American men and half-nude Native American women. The weathervane, to art history professor Marlene Heck, was yet another “expansion of the myth” that Wheelock successfully educated and evangelized Native Ameri-cans. Meanwhile, Native American iconography still appears in other places on campus, such as chandeliers featuring “Indian heads” in the Paganucci Lounge in ’53 Commons.

The process of taking down the weathervane was “pretty quick and easy,” according to capital renewal project manager Patrick O’Hern. The College initially considered bringing in a helicopter for the job, but a crane proved to be a more efficient option. Around 7:30 on the morning of its removal, the crane lifted two workmen to the top of Baker Library, where they hooked the weathervane onto a basket and brought it to the ground.

The 600-pound copper relic is currently stored in an off-campus facility maintained by the Hood Museum of Art. Vice president of communications Justin Anderson has been placed in charge of a working group to produce designs for a new weath-ervane and determine other changes to designs around campus.

—Elizabeth Janowski ’21


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With absentee voting getting under way in mid-September, Nyhan of-fers his take on how the media can settle down and provide reasonable election context—and instill electoral confidence. “Our political elites are amplifying the fringe more than we’ve seen,” Nyhan recently said, noting a “grinding attack on factual evidence.” You can read more by Nyhan, an ex-pert on misperceptions about politics and healthcare, at The Upshot from The New York Times.

Inform the public about the process.“Media outlets and civic organizations must provide voters with accurate information about the process by which election officials count votes and determine election winners, which is confusing and often poorly understood.”

Provide realistic timelines for results.“Media outlets need to set expec-tations about the timing of final results. Given an expected increase in absentee ballot voting because of the Covid-19 pandemic, voters need to be prepared for the outcome of the 2020 presidential race to not be determined until days after Election Day.”

Avoid amplifying false claims of fraud.“Media outlets need to avoid repeating misinformation about the electoral process or unsupported allegations of widespread voter fraud or election ma-nipulation. Research I have conducted with Dartmouth students finds that exposure to such claims, which may be especially prevalent on Election Day and immediately afterward, reduces confidence in the election system.”

Counter election misinformation.“My research finds that fact-checks may not undo the damage inflicted on election confidence by claims of voter fraud. It is therefore essential to seek to limit the spread of false claims in a manner that respects our democratic values, including the importance of free speech. For instance, Facebook now removes content from its platform that directly misleads people about how or when to vote. These measures are not perfect, but they can help.”

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—Summer Martin ’21

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All winter term off-campus programs have been

canceled due to Covid-19.

BACK TO THE BIG SCREEN

The Nugget Theater reopened on July 10.

LIVES THEY LIVE

A new Instagram account, @blackatdartmouth, allows Black members of the Dart-mouth community to share

stories anonymously.

VOTING PATTERNS

Dartmouth students nor-mally make up roughly 30 percent of Hanover voters.

But not this fall, when fewer students will be on campus. “I believe this will have an observable impact on our

electorate,” says town clerk Betsy McClain.

BAD APPLES

Violations of the academic honor principle held steady during the spring term, not

that faculty are looking hard for offenders. “The

only ones who are likely to be caught are the ones who are not doing it well,” says earth sciences prof Robert

Hawley.

ALL STARS

Defensive back Isiah Swann ’20 and track star Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 were named

Dartmouth College Athletes of the Year.

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Dean of admissions and financial aid Lee Coffin

is hosting a new podcast aimed at high-school

juniors. The Search features advice and commentary on navigating the college

admissions process.

BENJAMIN DEPARTS

Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin has taken a new position as president of the American Academy in Berlin. Christianne Hardy

has been named interim head of the center.

SMART MONEY

The National Science Foun-dation chose Dartmouth to lead a $10-million research program that will explore

security and privacy issues in homes that use smart technology. Computer

science prof David Kotz ’86 will serve as lead principal

investigator.

AFTER LANGSTON HUGHESEnglish professor Joshua Bennett’s powerful 2018 poem “America Will Be”

was published on Popdust.com as part of its “22 Revolutionary Poems

by Black Poets.”

POLICY PAUSE

The College has dropped its SAT/ACT requirements for applicants to the class of

2025 because of the difficulty so many

prospective students face in accessing a test site.

BITE THE DUST

Hanover restaurants Skinny Pancake, Salt Hill Pub, Swirl

& Pearl, and Noodle Station have all closed for

business.

GONE TOO SOON

The namesake of the Lorna C. Hill ’73 Graduation

and Awards Celebration for graduating seniors who identify as part of the Black

community died recently following a battle with

cancer.

DEMANDS FOR CHANGE

Black faculty and alumni have separately expressed

concerns to Dartmouth leadership about the need for more Black faculty and staff. An open letter from

faculty points out the College has had only three nonwhite senior academic officers and five non-white department chairs during

the past 40 years.

JUST ANNOUNCED

In September DAM contributing editor Jake Tapper ’91 will join the

Hopkins Center’s opening fall program. He’ll

participate in a Zoom session about The Outpost, the recent movie based on

his 2013 book.

O F F C A M P U S

Taking It to the StreetsStudents call for change across the country.

“HOPE IN MY ACTIVISM”

“Activism has always been an important thing for me as a Black woman who grew up in a predominantly white, traditional space. Because of my experience, my hope in my activism is to bring a social awareness to the hurt so many Black people have experienced because of things they are unable to control. You can’t combat a problem until the majority of people understand and can no longer ignore it.”Ashleigh Brady ’21 (in Wilmington, Delaware)

“I CHOSE TO JOIN”

“My attendance at this protest required that I leave my house for the first time in over two months, where I’d been staying due to increasing Covid-19 cases. I chose to join because I believed that this movement was shaking the foundations of the systems of oppression that Blacks have been fighting against for too long in this country.”

Breanna Boland ’23 (in West Palm Beach, Florida)

“THIS HITS CLOSE TO HOME”

“I’ve been protesting because I want to see a world free of the prison-industrial complex. I am motivated by a vision where people like Trayvon Martin and Rayshard Brooks are offered a ride home, where systems of oppression are abolished, and where [we] take care of each other. This hits close to home because of the brutal police violence that takes place in Miami and targets Black and Black Hispanic people.”Marina Cepeda ’21 (in Miami)

“OUR TIME IS NOW”

“Now, more than ever, we need to call upon non-Black individuals, especially white folks, to step up and have the moral courage to join us as we battle white supremacy. We must trust in our collective power to envision new realities and actively work to create them. We must force this nation to make a decision now, whether it will uphold its supposed values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that it deems core to its foundation or if it will continue to crumble under the moral stain of white supremacy.”Carlos Polanco ’21 (in New York City)

“A CHANCE TO HEAL”

“My community is often silenced by the wounds of systemic racism. I was able to scream and not be silenced. I let the pain of friends who have died at the hands of police brutality speak. As a Black woman I want people to realize that racism in America doesn’t just equate to death but is also in those small interactions that we on Dartmouth’s campus have power to control.”Chara Lyons ’23 (in Far Rockaway, New York)

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It’s personal. In 1989 my brother, Ernie, was shot in the back at point-blank range while face down on the ground as he was being handcuffed. The police officer said his shotgun discharged accidentally. After two months of fighting for his life, Ernie died on New Year’s Day 1990.

I was 15. Ernie was 19. We came from a broken home. My parents divorced when I was 4, and we lived with my father and his new wife for five years. Then we went to live with my mother in Norwalk, Connecticut.

My brother was my protector, my teacher, my confidant. People knew me as “Ernie’s little sister” and would not dare to bother me because he was fiercely protec-tive. We fought as brothers and sisters do, but we also shared secrets and covered for one another. He intimidated all my male crushes in middle school.

On October 26, 1989, when I was in 10th grade, everything changed. Ernie and a white friend were in my brother’s red pickup truck when two officers approached, responding to a report of an armed man in Norwalk. The officers did not know that it was Ernie who had called the police after seeing the gunman. For unknown reasons, my brother sped off when the police ap-proached, but he stopped when his truck crashed into a stone wall.

The officers ordered my brother and his friend out of the truck. Both were un-armed. They were face down on the pave-ment of Wolfpit Avenue with their hands behind their backs when one of the cops shot Ernie. Officer David Russo later said his weapon had gone off accidentally. My brother’s friend was unharmed.

The shooting took place around 10 p.m. Well after midnight, the telephone rang. It was one of Ernie’s friends. “Hi, your brother is in the hospital. You have to go,” he said. “What?” I asked. “Your brother was shot.” The Norwalk Police Department had cleaned my brother’s blood off the street, contacted its internal affairs department,

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and called the state’s attorney’s office be-fore notifying our family—three hours after Ernie was shot. At the hospital the police skirted around what had happened.

We were able to see Ernie after hours of surgery. He lay there, heavily sedated. Bloated face. Bandages covering a stomach wound that surgeons would never be able to close. A tracheotomy tube in his neck. All the machines around Ernie beeped, but he was non-responsive. He would never speak again. We slept at the hospital that night, the next night, and the night after that.

The police chaplain on call that night was Pastor Frederic O. Jackson, from our church. He knew Ernie and our family well. When he and an officer were on the way to our house after midnight to talk with “the family,” he did not realize it was us. He was horrified. Earlier that day he had driven me home from choir practice.

Since the death of George Floyd, and the outpouring of Black Lives Matter pro-tests this summer, this wretched experi-ence for our family has all come back to me. I have been crying like a 15-year-old. At 5 one recent morning, I called Pastor Jackson in tears. He, too, remembers the day as though it were yesterday.

Ernie suffered. He lost a kidney and part of his small intestine and had other internal injuries. He lived on in critical condition for more than two months.

One day when Ernie was recovering from yet another surgery, we were alone together. I spoke and sang to him and held ice chips to his lips. I know he heard me—he responded with his eyes or by squeezing my hand. Kidding him, I asked if I could go in his room and listen to his stereo—something that had always been a source of conflict. At first, he shook his head no. Then he slowly looked my way and nodded.

By December the doctors said he was doing better. My parents and pastor thought I was spending too much time in the hospital and told me to go to Florida with my high school band to perform in the Gator Bowl parade. When I called the hospital from Disney World, my father an-swered, crying and telling me I had to come home. Ernie had gone into cardiac arrest and was declared brain dead. I was there when he was taken off life support.

I’ve always wondered if Ernie sensed that I had left him—and had just given up.

Three days later my family and many of Ernie’s friends attended the courtroom hearing for Russo on a misdemeanor

charge of unlawfully discharging his weap-on. Some police officers actually came to support Russo and had their young kids on their shoulders. Officers outside the court-room roughed up journalists, and nine were later disciplined by the police department.

The judge was not amenable to pressing charges against Russo and said the officer “had a family to provide for.” The judge later granted him accelerated rehabilitation.

I’m a Christian. I have forgiven Russo. But I wanted him to say he was sorry. De-spite repeated requests, he never has.

At Dartmouth I never really talked about the heartbreak of my brother’s death. A few friends knew. I fell into a deep de-pression senior year, even after being ad-mitted into Columbia Law School. I should have been happy. To fulfill a requirement to do pro bono work, I worked in Norwalk with the state’s attorney’s office. I wanted to get over the fear and hatred I had for police officers—and I have.

Were Ernie alive today, I imagine he would still be a fun, supportive brother. He would have visited me at Dartmouth and cheered our little brother Ian as he played on his college basketball team. Ernie would have been an adoring uncle to Ian’s chil-dren, Elijah and Abigail.

Ernie would have been voluntarily cut-ting grass for seniors in our church and repairing homes for people he did not know. He would still be playing practical jokes and brightening the lives of those around him. But he cannot.

He cannot breathe anymore.The horrific murders of George Floyd

and countless others have reopened wounds. The pain will never go away. Black lives remain shattered when they’re treated as if they do not matter. Despite a $3.3-million settlement for our family, my brother’s death at the hands of a white po-lice officer was shattering, and it still has repercussions.

I’m not the only sister in this country who has suffered this kind of devastation. So many Black sisters and brothers and mothers and fathers have gone through this kind of tragic agony. It did not start with my brother or George Floyd. Why has it taken America so long to care?

TRACEY R. GAINOR clerked for the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals and worked for 10 years as an attorney in complex commercial litigation. She is now a high school teacher in Baltimore.

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Scattered across a sprawling farm in Norwich, Vermont, sit seven pint-sized structures that defy conven-

tional architecture. There’s the Chicken Chapel, a fiberglass-wrapped chicken coop that glows like a Japanese lantern at night. The Consumable Sugar Shack, nestled on a hill at the edge of a forest, has walls made entirely of split firewood used to fire up a maple syrup evaporator. In the summer the open-air structure serves as a tea house. And the Birch Pavilion—a place for family gatherings, yoga classes, even a memorial service—is made of dozens of statuesque birch timbers that form an apse that faces Mount Ascutney.

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CHICK CHIC Student creations include Chicken Chapel, Birch Pavilion (top right), and Woodland Retreat.

one-week summer workshop run by Keith Moskow and Robert Linn, his partner at Moskow Linn Architects in Boston. “It’s rewarding to work with students design-ing and building a structure in a seven-day period,” Moskow says. “Normally projects take years, and we are responding to clients’ desires and wishes. This is a chance to be our own clients.”

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the materials into the remote location, they built four teepee-like structures (a dining hut, two sleeping huts, and a cleansing hut with a pantry, storage, and composting toi-let) surrounding a central outdoor deck and fireplace. They named it Swamp Hut.

“It wasn’t only thinking and drawing; it was sweating and building,” Moskow says. “We like thinking outside the box and looking at the way you can improve an urban situation by inserting a small piece of architecture.”

dollars,’ ” Moskow says. “Students learn that you can have a concept, but when you actu-ally have to do it yourself, you realize how hard it is.”

Dartmouth attracts all kinds of students, but it’s a safe bet that few freshmen arrive with dreams of becoming boat builders. That was Moskow. During his off-term junior fall, he set up a shop at his parents’ house in Newton, Massachusetts, and built Carolina dories—small motor boats, often used for commercial fishing. In search of more op-portunities to solve problems and interact with others, he became an architect.

Moskow and Linn created the win-ning design for Massport’s 9/11 Memo-rial at Logan Airport in Boston. (Moskow calls it “a chapel for looking at the sky in a different way.”) Their 20-foot Ice Chimes sculpture—which creates music from col-lected ice and snow—was exhibited at the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, then at Dartmouth. Their design for the Conser-vation Law Foundation headquarters won the first Sustainable Design Award from the Boston Society of Architects. They are now working on a 48-unit housing devel-opment in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with net-positive energy homes, food from a year-round greenhouse, and shared electric vehicles powered by a solar canopy.

“As architects, we’ve done much big-ger projects with much bigger budgets, but there’s something satisfying about these little projects,” Moskow says of Studio North. “I have 30 years of experience, and it’s a way to transfer some of my knowledge to another generation of architects.”

One of those young architects is Laura Wu ’13. In 2015 she arrived at Studio North armed with a degree in economics and the nagging feeling that she may have chosen the wrong field. She’d never even held a hammer. “It was a long journey from econ major to architect, and Studio North was definitely a turning point in my career trajectory, where I realized, ‘Yes, I want to do this,’ ” says Wu. Now an architectural designer at Dattner Architects in New York City, she designs affordable housing. “In school you do what’s called ‘paper architecture,’ where you think of designs in your head and sketch them out or draw them on the computer. The act of actually building something, from start to finish, is really valuable—and rare these days in design education.”

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“This is a chance to be our own clients.”Since founding their firm in 1990, he and

Linn have developed ambitious concepts that challenge the fundamentals of architec-ture and everyday life. In addition to design-ing schools, offices and high-end residential homes, they also have drawn up theoretical projects such as a floating champagne bar that elevates above the Charles River and a space-saving rental car storage unit à la Pez dispenser for Zipcars.

Swamp Hut did not win the compe-tition, but it did inspire Studio North. At first, even Moskow was skeptical of the idea: “Come to Norwich, Vermont, work with two architects you’ve never heard of, and de-sign and build something—and by the way, you have to pay for the experience?” (The workshop fee of $1,100 covers the cost of materials and food.) He was shocked when five students signed up for the inaugural program in 2011. Through 2017, seven to 10 undergrads, recent college graduates, and grad students—hailing from as far as Dubai and Ecuador and as near as Dartmouth—have gathered in Norwich in June for Studio North. The 2020 summer program, to be held on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, for the first time, was postponed to next summer because of Covid-19.

Working 12-hour days through every kind of weather, students design, develop, and build a structure under Moskow’s and Linn’s guidance. Some have never held a tool. Others are working architects. Every phase offers teachable moments. The first evening the group meets to sketch ideas and establish a design approach. “Some sketches are so far-fetched, it’s like, ‘Yeah that’d be great if we had two years and $2 million, but we have seven days and a few thousand

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It was 3 a.m. in early March 2015, and Minh Lê needed a new idea for his next children’s book. A call from his agent

earlier that evening had brought good news: Illustrator Dan Santat wanted to collabo-rate. But Lê had to pitch an idea fast, in the next day or two, before Santat went on tour to celebrate winning the Caldecott Medal, the Pulitzer Prize of picture books.

Lê (pronounced “lay”) had brought his newborn son home from the hospital a day earlier. Lê held his son in his arms, rock-ing the baby to sleep as he paced back and forth, brainstorming. “How do you come up with an idea for someone who just won the biggest award in children’s literature?” Lê remembers thinking.

Then he spotted a Vietnamese lacquer painting hanging on the wall. It depicted a grandfather and grandson writing calligra-phy together. Something clicked.

As a child, Lê had trouble communi-cating with his grandparents, who spoke only Vietnamese. “I’d go to their house and spend a lot of time with them, and I loved them so much,” Lê says. “But the fact that I couldn’t communicate with them through language was something that always gave me pause.”

Lê wanted to write a story that “hon-ored the depths of love that exist there, but also the struggles that come with not being able to communicate and having to find a way to make a connection despite that,” he says.

The result was Drawn Together, a pic-ture book that tells the story of a young boy who learns to connect with his grandfather through drawing. A commercial and criti-cal success, the book won several awards, including a 2019 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award, and starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal, which described Drawn Together as “perfectly paced to express universal emotions that connect generations separated by time, experience, and even language.”

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action from readers. “What’s been great about having the book out there is being out on tour and going to readings. I’ll get a lot of people who come up with a similar experience,” Lê says during a video call from his home north of San Diego, where he moved this year with his wife and two sons.

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undergrad days at Dartmouth, where he majored in psychology. “I was known as the person who had a journal full of half-baked ideas,” Lê says. It wasn’t until 2014, when he was working in Washington, D.C., as an early childhood policy expert, that he first gave it a try. Lê was part of a team of federal experts who were writing the first compre-hensive national childcare regulations in nearly 20 years. During the day he examined health and safety data and anecdotes from across the country on a tough subject—fa-talities in early childhood settings.

It was important work and something that Lê remains proud of. “But I also needed some creative relief,” he says. “To go home and write something that was also ideally benefiting kids created a nice balance.”

Lê’s first book, Let Me Finish!, came out a few years later and was selected as a “Best Book of 2016” by National Public Radio. Since then, he has written stories for three other picture books, as well as a middle-grade graphic novel for DC Comics called Green Lantern: Legacy.

His latest project is another collabora-tion with Santat. Lê says he enjoys working with the illustrator because of his artistic vision and the inspiration he brings to their projects. For example, in Drawn Together Santat, who is Thai American, created Thai characters.

Lift, their new book published in May, tells the story of a young girl who discovers a magical elevator button in her bedroom that transports her to fantastical worlds. Lê sees a connection to the collaborative process of writer and illustrator working together to tell a story. “A manuscript to me is kind of like having a magic elevator button—you don’t know what’s going to happen on the other end,” he recently told an online audience. Both adults and chil-dren had logged on to watch Lê and Santat perform a live reading of Lift.

“I want to create something, in partner-ship with the illustrator and the editor, that will potentially resonate with all different age groups,” Lê says. “As a picture book au-thor, one of the things I love to think about is, if you do create something that really does resonate with a kid, then that’s like a friend the kid will take with them for their whole life.”

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What kind of fantastical crea-tures might guard the property of Dr. Seuss? That’s what I was

about to find out, one day back in 1985, as I stood fearfully before his home and contem-plated my intention to willfully trespass.

In front of his magnificent hilltop home in La Jolla, California, I paused. Though the property wasn’t fenced, signs warned against entry and threatened a response by security. That’s when I got thinking about Seussian creatures that might be patrolling. I took careful steps across the immaculate lawn. I anticipated trouble coming my way, but until it did, I was determined to approach as close to the house as I could in hope of a lucky break.

AFTER I LEFT DARTMOUTH, MY CAREER goal was to become a restoration architect. Before graduating I secured a grunt job with a reputable contractor in Newport, Rhode Island, with hopes of getting field experience before moving on to an advanced degree. When I spoke to the architects there, how-ever, they lamented the years they had to work before they got any career satisfaction. I sent a lackluster application to grad school and was denied entry.

When I got laid off, I resorted to doing something I always loved: drawing cartoons.

To turn cartooning into a paying job, I needed guidance. In the spring of 1984 I contacted legendary Rhode Island cartoon-ist Don Bousquet, who was enjoying success in Yankee magazine. I found his phone num-ber and was pleasantly surprised when he answered my call. Flattery got me an invita-tion to his home. During my visit Bousquet, who remains a mentor and friend, showed me how he created his cartoons. He took a critical look at my work and advised me to find a place—any place—to get published and paid. Experience, he felt, would steadily improve my skills.

In the fall I played a long shot by writ-ing to Theodor Geisel ’25, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. I figured the odds of his replying would be shortened by the fact we shared an alma mater. I got his address from the alumni

possibly Audrey Geisel. By her expression and rapid grab of a phone, I concluded my luck had run out. Then a bearded, gray-haired man rose beside her and seemed to instruct her to hold off on the call. It was Geisel, who looked out to find me going into a pantomime to indicate that I was the guy who had written about visiting. He interpreted my act and waved me to the back of the house.

I nervously moved into a courtyard that featured an impressive pool and dra-matic architecture. As I stood still on the pristine patio, Seuss came toward me. He looked grizzled, like a man who hadn’t left his house in a long time. He was kind in his approach, extending his hand as I identified myself. In a hoarse voice he let me know that he figured it was me. He had gotten my note. After initial pleasantries I asked if we could sit down and talk. He said it wasn’t possible. He had pneumonia and was headed for the hospital that afternoon. I understood and once again shook that marvelously talented hand, thanking him for his kindness. I then retired across the lawn, still jittery about what might be following me.

After returning home I received another piece of mail from Seuss. It was an apology sent by his secretary, letting me know that he had been very ill the day I visited and that he’d spent time in the hospital but was now much better. She wrote that Seuss wished he could have spent more time with me.

In July of 1991 I received my last note from Seuss, this one handwritten. That spring I had sent him a package that in-cluded a copy of my first nationally pub-lished cartoons. They appeared in Volleyball Monthly Magazine and were printed with a short biography. The bio mentioned that my own volleyball team was called the Cross-Eyed Flies. Geisel included a cartoon of his own. On his Cat in the Hat stationery, Geisel had drawn a dialogue bubble from his mas-cot with the announcement, “Our Favorite Team in the World of Sports is the Cross-Eyed Flies!” No doubt he sensed his influ-ence in my choice of our team name. His note included a benediction for “the next six decades of upwardses and onwardses!”

Today when I’m drawing with hospital-ized children in my role as resident cartoon-ist at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Provi-dence, Rhode Island, I often hear, “Hey—that looks like something Dr. Seuss might have drawn.” My reply is always, “You couldn’t have given me a higher compliment.”

STEVE BROSNIHAN lives in Rhode Island.

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office and reverentially wrote a request for direction. I included copies of my best work.

Within a short time I received a special piece of mail. The stationery was light blue with a one-line return address: Dr. Seuss. In his two-page, typed letter Geisel encour-aged my pursuit of a career as a cartoonist. He urged persistence and noted his own struggle to find a publisher for his first book. He told me to keep the mailman busy by sending work to prospective publishers. I was astonished that he would take the time for such a thoughtful reply. I had gained another mentor.

Dutifully following the advice of both men, I went on a quest for publication. I sold my first drawing in March 1985 to the Phoenix-Times Newspapers based in Bris-tol, Rhode Island. The drive to and from the office to pick up the $8 check likely con-sumed the proceeds, but at 23 I had become a professional cartoonist.

My modest success inspired a desire to meet my unmet mentor. In the spring of 1985 I planned a trip to southern California to visit friends with hopes of including my famous pen pal in La Jolla on the itinerary. I wrote Geisel to request a meeting, but I didn’t hear back.

I took careful steps across the immaculate lawn. I anticipated trouble coming my way.

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I HAD HIS ADDRESS. I HAD WARNED OF my intentions. I felt justified. I went to his neighborhood and decided to risk offense by dropping in without invitation. Accom-panying me was Dave “Weasel” Badger ’83, my four-year Dartmouth roommate. Badger, one of my California hosts, liked the idea of seeing where Seuss lived. I would go in alone and he would wait in the car.

I started across the lawn. When I got near a large picture window I saw a woman,

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A VAN FOR ALL SEASONSMary Hollendoner ’98 and her family embarked on the ultimate road trip nearly three years ago. They made an early stop in the Alabama Hills of California’s Sierra Nevada.

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rossing a border in South America with a U.S. vehicle can be unusually complicated, says Mary Hollen-doner ’98. In the past few years she

has crossed quite a few of them with her husband, John Stanfield, and daughter Lilly, who is now 9.

There was the time they left Guatemala for El Salvador—and spent an hour stuck in “no man’s land” between the two countries, waiting to submit papers to a customs officer who hadn’t returned from his lunch break.

More daunting was when their van broke down at the border of Ecuador and Peru. They had been stamped out of Ecuador and were about 2 miles from the Peru customs office, where they would file paperwork for themselves and for the van, which requires a new permit in nearly ev-ery country. The engine suddenly began to make clunking noises, and Hollendoner wasn’t sure whether they should risk driving those 2 miles. Stanfield, a mechanical engineer, is the designated van fixer and troubleshooter, but he couldn’t find anything wrong. It was a Saturday, and they were unlikely to find any working mechanics to help. After some handwringing under the blazing sun and facing a $390 fine for every day they kept the van in Ecuador past its permit date, they drove the 2 miles, cringing all the way.

It had been nearly two years since they had begun living nomadically, on an ambitious road trip from California to Argentina, and this was the first time they had significant van trouble. It turned into the lowest point of the trip thus far. It took a month of meetings, miscommunications, and arguments with various mechanics at differ-ent shops to get the van repaired, while the family stayed in a motel for two weeks, then lived in their van at a mechanic’s shop for two more.

The family had no difficulty adjusting to life on the road when they started out three years ago. The only problems they’ve faced on the journey had to do with the van breaking down. The van was fine the first 18 months, Hollendoner says from their current stop in Capilla del Monte, Argentina, but then kept having problems. “That’s really getting John down the most, because he’s the mechanic.”

“It’s been kind of a heartbreak for me,” says Stanfield, who spent nearly a year researching and looking for the vehicle, a diesel-powered 1999 Ford E-350. “The battery blew up twice,” says Lilly, be-fore explaining that on New Year’s Eve in Ecuador, where it’s a tradition to draw and burn “a bad mem-ory of the year,” she drew a picture of a van battery.

Hollendoner and Stanfield intended the trip to be an 18-month sabbatical from their careers in Silicon Valley, where she worked in operations for Google and he was the cofounder of a trans-portation startup that was acquired by Zipcar. The couple had experienced overlanding, or van camping, in Australia during their honeymoon and decided that was what they wanted to do again to

ROAD WARRIORSDuring the past three years Hollendoner’s family has ventured through 14 countries of Latin America in its 1999 Ford E-350 van.

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spend more time outdoors. They budgeted 12 to 18 months at approximately $75 per day to drive down the Pan American Highway, from their home to the bottom of Argentina.

In September 2017—after quitting their jobs, selling most of their belongings, and renting out their house in Mountain View, California—they officially moved into the Ford, dubbed “Vancito.” Stanfield had refurbished the interior with cabi-nets, bench seats, and a table, which Hollendoner says is essential for homeschooling Lilly, although it takes up valuable real estate. There’s a pop-up tent on the roof that, when extended, provides enough space for everyone to stand up inside.

Driving through 14 countries wound up tak-ing more time and money than Hollendoner and Stanfield had planned on. That’s okay with them.

“Within three months on the road, we realized, ‘We like this. We think we might do this for more than a year,’ ’’ Hollendoner says.

The family had a loose routine: wake up, eat breakfast, do a few hours of homeschooling, then decide whether to stay where they were or keep moving. Sometimes they stayed for weeks in one place, such as the small town of El Remate, Gua-temala, where the couple volunteered as English teachers for half a month. In Challuabamba, Ecua-dor, they stayed for three months—renting a house and enrolling Lilly in a local school.

“The places we are passing through and the people we are meeting—that’s been much more amazing than the van life aspect,” Hollendoner says. It has been more of an extended study-abroad experience for the family than just a way to be outdoors a lot, she adds, though the many nights and mornings they’ve spent en plein air are what keep them happy.

“I learned at Dartmouth that I just really feel happy and at peace and relaxed when I’m out-doors,” says the former math major, who was born in London. “I’d always been a city girl—pubs and clubs and shopping,” she says. “And Dartmouth turned me into an outdoors person. This is such a great way to fulfill that longing.”

As of mid-summer, the family remains in Ca-pilla del Monte, where they had decided before the pandemic to rent a house and enroll Lilly in a local school. Hollendoner, who documented the majority of her family’s road trip on a blog called Monkeys on the Road, is now writing a book about the journey and will be shopping the manuscript to publishers next year.

If the trip is a cultural immersion experience combined with nature therapy, it’s also been an early but temporary retirement. “We basically ac-cept that we’re going to have to work again later,” says Hollendoner, who adds that she’d rather live out of a van in her 40s than in her 50s. Especially since she gets quality time with her daughter: “Lilly’s small and loves being with me, and when she’s a teenager she won’t.”

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bout a mile from the Red Shed, the living quarters shared by Kevin Peter Hand and about 90 others at Casey Station in Ant-arctica, the NASA crew had cut a square hole in the ice exposing the frigid waters below. Every few days Hand and his team would ride snowmobiles to the site to drop their underwater robot into the water and let it roam the underbelly of the ice.

It didn’t take long for Hand and his team to attract spectators. While working at the site one morning, Hand looked up to find a group of Adélie penguins warily eyeing the NASA scientists from a nearby embankment. Inquisitive by nature, the penguins quickly grew accustomed to the team’s presence and would frequently wander into the test site to get a better look at the action. The bizarre encounters amused Hand.

“Here we have these sapiens wrenching away on their robot, which has a bit of intelligence in its onboard brain so it can try to better understand organisms in the ocean, and these curious birds wander up to us to see what the heck is going on,” Hand recalls. “It’s organisms studying organisms studying organisms.”

Many people assume Antarctica’s ocean is a barren, lifeless place. Compared with Earth’s other oceans, it certainly is. You won’t find the dazzling reefs and rainbow fish native to warmer climates, but Antarctica has a diverse aquatic ecosystem home to gigantic algae blooms, krill, sea stars, and many other creatures that don’t mind the cold. Although scientists are just beginning to understand the dynamics of life in Earth’s frozen ecosystems—known as its cryosphere—it’s abundantly clear that life can thrive in far more extreme conditions than was thought possible just a few decades ago.

“People assume there is little under the surface because it looks so extreme with all the ice and not a lot is visible, but they couldn’t be more wrong,” says Peter Convey, a terrestrial ecologist and expert in polar environments with the British Antarctic Survey. “The seafloor community found in many parts of the continental shelf and coastal regions around Antarctica has been called second only to coral reefs in its species richness and biomass.”

As Hand describes in his new book, Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space, the Antarctic biosphere has big implications for the search for life beyond Earth. The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system has historically focused on Mars, which is believed to have once had a large liquid water ocean and an atmosphere as thick as Earth’s. But now that we know life can thrive beneath Earth’s ice caps, several icy moons in the outer solar system seem to be fertile alien hunting grounds. These so-called “water worlds” are believed to harbor vast oceans beneath their thick, icy shells.

If there’s life beneath the ice in Antarctica, the thinking goes, perhaps there’s life beneath the ice there, too.

Hand had not been to Antarctica in nearly 20 years, and when he returned this past November it wasn’t as he remembered. It was too...warm. It had been colder at his childhood home in Manchester, Vermont, than it was on the base the previous time he had visited. Now temperatures on the frozen continent were hovering at just under 5 below zero—positively balmy by Antarctic standards. This was bad news. Hand and his NASA colleagues had flown to Casey Station, one of Australia’s three Antarctic outposts, for a three-week sojourn to test their new underwater robot. But if temperatures rose any higher, Casey’s runway would become too soft for planes to take off and carry the team back to civilization.

“It was very disconcerting,” Hand says. “It was still cold, but more

COLD COMFORTHand helped invent a robot named BRUIE—Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Explora-tion—which collects data as it crawls along the underside of frozen lakes.

like a sunny, cold spring day in the White Mountains than a day on the shores of the coldest place on Earth.”

Temperatures breached 5 degrees be-low by the end of Hand’s second week at Casey, and the NASA team had to cut its stay short. But it had accomplished what it set out to do. The robot had worked like a charm on its first missions beneath the Antarctic ice and pointed to a promising new direction for the exploration of oceans both on and off the earth. Hand hopes this robot’s progeny will be the first to encounter extraterrestrial life.

MAGIC OF THE SKIES

Hand has always been fascinated with the possibility of extraterrestrial life, an obsession he attributes to growing up un-der the star-studded Vermont night sky. Hollywood sci-fi also played a role. “I read Carl Sagan’s books and watched Cosmos repeatedly,” says Hand. “ET made a huge impression, too. I wanted to be Elliott, and I always hoped that someday I’d go into the

woods behind our house and find an alien spaceship.”As a devotee of Sagan’s brand of extraterrestrial evangelism,

Hand arrived at Dartmouth in 1993 determined to turn alien hunt-ing into a career. He made an unusual choice of a double major—physics and psychology—both essential tools in this pursuit. The training in physics would help him find the aliens; psychology would help him communicate with them. Some of Hand’s physics professors gently tried to persuade him to take up a more “seri-ous” occupation.

But Hand found a sympathetic ear in the late Jack Baird ’60, a professor of psychology who had advised NASA on the agency’s search for extraterrestrial life. Baird’s book on the subject, The Inner Limits of Outer Space, still sits on a shelf in Hand’s office in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, where he works on the cutting edge of the search for alien life—albeit of the non-intelligent variety.

Hand spent most of his free time at Dartmouth with the Out-ing Club exploring the White Mountains or climbing around the United States with the Mountaineering Club. On occasion it could be difficult to balance his passion for astronomy with his thirst for exploration. Hand’s thesis advisor, physics and astronomy professor John Thorstensen, recalls traveling to Kitt Peak Na-tional Observatory in Arizona when Hand was a senior to conduct research. Thorstensen and Hand returned from the trip just a few hours after the Outing Club set out on its annual 54-mile hike to Mount Moosilauke. Undeterred, Hand set out on his own that same night to try to catch up with the group.

“He was determined to do this hike,” Thorstensen says. “He didn’t quite make it to Moosilauke, but he made it a long way. He was a person with a lot of energy, focus, and drive.”

When Hand was a senior, Thorstensen gave him a key to the College’s Shattuck Observatory, which quickly became some-thing of a second home. Hand would bring his sleeping bag to the observatory and, after a long night watching the cosmos, he’d fall asleep outside beneath the statue of Robert Frost, class of 1896, scratching away on a notepad. Hand credits the clear night skies of the Northeast with stoking his passion for the search for life beyond Earth. “You just can’t help but question if we’re alone when you sleep out under those stars.”

In December 1995, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft began its orbit around Jupiter and then spent almost the next decade studying the gas giant and its moons. Eu-ropa, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, proved to be of particular interest. Evidence from Earth-based telescopes and Galileo sug-gested that Europa harbored a planet-wide liquid water ocean beneath its thick icy crust. Some scientists went so far as to pro-pose that conditions in Europa’s oceans might sustain prebiotic molecules or per-haps even simple life forms. At the time it

was a controversial opinion, but today many planetary scientists agree that if there’s extraterrestrial life in our solar system, Europa is the best place to find it.

More than 400 million miles from where Hand dozed beneath Frost’s unwavering gaze, Galileo continued to collect data that built a case for an ocean on Europa. It would be years before the significance of the data was fully understood, but the spacecraft ultimately shaped the course of Hand’s career.

After graduating, Hand moved to California and did a brief stint as a research assistant at the SETI Institute, a nonprofit or-ganization in Silicon Valley dedicated to the search for intelligent alien life. In 2001 he enrolled at Stanford to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering that focused on robotics. Shortly there-after, Hand enrolled as a doctoral student in Stanford’s geological and environmental sciences program. His dissertation was about the physics and chemistry of Europa’s ice shell and subsurface ocean. By this point, it was established that Europa was the most likely place to support extraterrestrial life in the solar system, and Hand was determined to help find it.

But in 2003 Hand received a call that put his Ph.D. ambitions on hold. It was from his friend George Whitesides, who now serves as CEO of the space tourism company Virgin Galactic, and he had a remarkable proposition. James Cameron, director of Titanic and The Terminator, was going on an expedition to the bottom of the ocean. He wanted to make a film about life in the deep sea and what it implied about the possibility of life on Europa. Was Hand interested in joining Cameron on the journey?

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“At first, I didn’t want to go,” Hand says. “I thought it would be a distraction from my Ph.D. and the work I was doing.”

While most people would jump at the chance to explore Earth’s last uncharted regions with a Hollywood A-lister, Hand was con-flicted. The adventure with Cameron would take months. After a conversation with his friend and mentor, microbiologist Ken Nealson, Hand accepted the offer. As he recounts in Alien Oceans, the two were standing on a dock one evening on Catalina Island, California, when Nealson grabbed Hand’s shoulder and offered some sage advice. “You’re overthinking it,” Nealson said. “If there’s even the slightest chance you get to go to the bottom of the ocean, you better go!”

So, less than a month after taking the call from Whitesides, Hand found himself on a Russian research ship in the middle of the Atlantic, preparing to dive 2 miles below the surface of the ocean. The plan was to explore Menez Gwen, a seamount covered with hydrothermal vents spewing a blazing hot and nutrient-rich sludge from deep in the Earth into the ocean. Cameron and Hand would descend in separate submersibles with two other team members and during the course of nine dives would spend hours roaming the ocean floor and collecting samples.

What Hand saw at the bottom of the ocean was Earth’s own alien world. At these depths the darkness is total, temperatures hover near the freezing point, and pressures are 350 times greater than at sea level. It’s the last place on Earth you’d expect to find life, but Hand found a thriving ecosystem clustered around the thermal vents. On the surface, life is dependent on light to drive photosynthesis and provide the energy for plants and microbes. But at the bottom of the ocean, microbial life feeds on the molten metals delivered from deep in the earth, and these microbes form the basis of the deep sea food chain.

“Ken was absolutely right,” Hand says. “Those experiences on the sea floor changed my life forever.”

Hand already knew there was life on the bottom of the ocean, but as he gazed out from the submersible, he was struck by the profound implications of what he was seeing for his own work on Europa. “The scene through that porthole could be what ‘home’ looks like to most life in our universe,” Hand writes in Alien Oceans. The microbes and sea creatures at the bottom of our own ocean may be able to thrive in the salty waters of Europa or other water worlds in the solar system. “Deep, dark, seemingly desolate ocean floors may be some of the best real estate for biology.”

If Hand is right, an abundance of life could be waiting to be discovered in the oceans beneath the frozen surfaces of other planetary bodies. Now he’s building the tech to help find out.

NEXT STOP, EUROPA

When he’s not in Antarctica, Hand usually can be found working as a coinvestigator on NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission. In 2025 NASA will send the spacecraft on the first dedicated mission to the Jovian moon, where it will spend at least three years taking pictures of the surface and probing beneath the ice with ground-penetrating radar. Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft ever to venture into deep space. It will be packed full of instruments, some of which will be able to detect chemical signatures of life on Europa if the spacecraft happens to fly through a plume of water erupting from the moon’s surface.

Evidence pointing to the existence of life on Europa could

then compel NASA to send a robot to its surface. During his time at JPL, Hand has worked on two Europa lander concepts, but nei-ther has been tapped to proceed from concept to hardware. It’s not for a lack of engineering know-how; Hand says the technology is ready if NASA decides to fund a Europa lander tomorrow. Instead, missions to Europa’s surface have been stymied by politics and competing scientific priorities.

Given the bureaucratic roadblocks to a Europa lander, Hand estimates it could be 30 years before human technology touches down on the surface of the Jovian moon and perhaps another 30 years before there’s a mission beneath the surface. While some might be discouraged by these time frames, Hand doesn’t let it get him down. “I like to view these big missions as the cathedrals of our day,” he says. “They are generational tasks, and I feel fortunate to be a part of that.”

In the meantime, Hand is testing prototype Europa explor-ers on Earth. Since 2011 Hand and his colleagues at JPL have been working on the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, or BRUIE, a small robot that looks like a rugged version of a toy hoverboard. Its meter-long body is essentially an orange, hexagonal axle flanked by wheels covered with gear-like teeth, which it uses to slowly crawl along the underside of the ice. A small pole laden with sensors protrudes from the middle of its body, where onboard computers run sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to help the craft autonomously navigate underwater.

As one of BRUIE’s inventors, Hand was intimately involved in its creation. In the early days of the rover’s development, Hand helped with everything from sensor integration to writing BRUIE’s code. Now that the team has grown, Hand says he has taken on a leadership role to ensure that the robot can meet the team’s sci-entific goals and is ready for deployment in the field.

In many respects BRUIE is a spacecraft for Earth. Hand says the rover repurposes a lot of hardware and software used in small satellites. “When it comes to the exploration of distant worlds, one of my passions is that it also helps us better understand our own planet. NASA has invested tens of millions of dollars into space applications, so let’s take some of that and use it to explore our own ocean.”

BRUIE is a dramatic departure from other NASA-funded robots that have probed Antarctica’s ocean in the past. Most have been submersibles, which are designed to sink to a desired depth and use propellers to swim through the water. BRUIE, by contrast, is designed to float. This allows it to ditch the propeller and roll along the ice, conserving the robot’s limited energy supply and preventing its movements from disturbing the fragile aquatic ecosystem the robot is meant to study.

Hand and his colleagues at JPL have conducted numerous tests of a supercharged version of BRUIE in Alaska, where it is used to study lakes that contain unusually high amounts of methane. There, BRUIE has demonstrated the ability to roam the undersides of frozen lakes untethered and beam data up to satellites. The ver-sion that Hand brought to Antarctica is relatively unsophisticated by comparison. It stays attached to a tether that is used to relay data and never ventures more than 300 feet away from where it is deployed. Since this was BRUIE’s first time in Antarctica, Hand and his colleagues wanted to play it safe.

“We were quite nervous, but, thankfully, everything worked beautifully,” Hand says. “It was also quite a relief not having to constantly look over our shoulders for polar bears; down in Ant-arctica all we had to worry about were the (continued on page 87)

WE WERE STUCK ON THE BOTTOM. Batteries were run-ning low. Our air was running out. We had no way to com-municate with the other submersible or with the team on the boat some 10,000 feet above us. We were nestled in a metal sphere, perched on some rocks at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

This was my first trip to the ocean floor, and it had the makings to be my last.

The year was 2003 and I was in the midst of my Ph.D. studying the physics and chemistry of Europa, Jupiter’s ice-covered moon, when I got a phone call: James Cam-eron, filmmaker of Titanic and many other successful movies, was looking for a young scientist to talk about Europa while exploring the depths of our oceans.

And so, a month after that phone call, I found myself on the Russian research vessel Keldysh, floating above the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, preparing to explore the darkness below instead of the stars above.

BEING IN A SUBMERSIBLE at the bottom of the ocean feels like a hot air balloon ride, scuba dive, and space mis-sion rolled into one. The Russian Mir submersibles offer a small (approximately 8-inch) porthole from which to peer out into the depths: one porthole for each occupant, three in total. You can’t stand up, but there’s enough room for a cramped, hunched-over shuffle if one person needs to trade places with another.

As you descend, light begins to fade. Blue goes to black. The sub starts to cool. You can’t feel that you’re falling, but the sounds from the acoustic communication system serve as a metronome reminding you of the distance between you and the rest of the world.

After some initial exploration of the seafloor, we man-aged to track down a site rich with hydrothermal vents. For hours we cruised over the flanks of the Menez Gwen seamount (basically a volcano on the bottom of the ocean) and collected samples with the robotic arm from the gush-ing superheated vents.

But we overextended our stay. It had been a long dive and we had explored quite a large area of the seamount. Both Mir 1 and Mir 2 were at the bottom, and we had worked in tandem to sample and film much of the region. But now our sub (Mir 2) had lost track of Mir 1, and we were starting to run low on battery power.

In addition, our communications link was failing, and our low batteries meant that we could not send strong signals back to the Keldysh or to Mir 1. On top of everything else, the carbon dioxide scrubber was starting to fail, turning our little sphere into a ball of toxic gas.

So there we sat, on the bottom of the ocean. Viktor, the pilot, tried ev-ery trick in the book before resigning himself to relaxing in the sub. From his demeanor, either he had accepted the fate of a watery death for us all or he knew that some sort of search protocol would kick in and our job was to sit and wait.

My mind wandered as I looked out the porthole, staring at a red shrimp-like creature exploring the surface of a rock. My imagination drifted from our ocean to the possibility of oceans beyond Earth.

The scene through that porthole could be what “home” looks like to most of life in our universe. Recent explo-rations of our solar system have taught us that—while planets like Earth may be comparatively rare (one per solar system, if you’re lucky)—worlds with deep oceans, covered with ice and cut off from any sky or atmosphere above, could be ubiquitous.

In our solar system, these worlds are actually moons of the giant planets, with names like Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan, Enceladus, and Triton. These are worlds that likely harbor oceans of liquid water today, right now.

Microbes and sea creatures that inhabit our ocean depths might do fine under the physical and chemical conditions thought to exist within the oceans of Europa, Enceladus, and Titan.

ALTHOUGH IT SEEMED as though we were stranded on the ocean floor for a long time, it could not have been more than 45 minutes. It had grown humid inside the sub from the condensed water of our own biology. Each breath we took converted precious oxygen into water vapor and carbon dioxide. The curved orange walls of the sub were dripping. It was cold, damp, dark, and quiet.

Then, through the porthole a faint light appeared. The light grew, slowly meandering on a path that brought it closer and closer to us. Finally, the light revealed its source—our sister sub, the Mir 1. They had found us.

Knowing that Cameron and the Mir 1 team were run-ning cameras that would be able to see us, we wrote a note on a piece of paper and pressed it against a porthole. The note said simply: “Must surface.” We watched the camera pan and tilt, inspecting us, assessing the situation. They had gotten the message.

Adapted with permission from Kevin Peter Hand’s Alien Oceans © 2020 Princeton University Press.

Deep Trouble

B O O K E XC E R P T

IN AN EXCERPT FROM HIS NEW BOOK, KEVIN PETER HAND ’97DESCRIBES BEING STRANDED ON THE OCEAN’S FLOOR.

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FEDERAL PROSECUTOR TOM SHAKESHAFT ’89

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for you,” the man said, after closing the door. “I have two clients who live in Mexico.” The cartel federation had cracked. Two of the cartels supplying the twins had each issued an ultimatum: Deal our dope and only our dope or else. “My clients don’t think that’s going to end very well for them,” the lawyer said, “and they would like to explore the possibility of cooperating with the United States.”

“You have my attention,” Shakeshaft told him. The Sinaloa Cartel stood at the pinnacle of a multibillion-dollar, international drug-trafficking business with tentacles throughout the Mexican government. “We all of a sudden had a case that went right to the top

Twelve years ago, Tom Shakeshaft flew to Monterrey, Mexico, to meet with a high-level drug dealer. Before that fraught encounter, which contributed a decade later to the conviction of drug czar Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, he wrote a letter to his wife. In it he told her

how much he loved her. He acknowledged his mission involved danger, but as the lead prosecutor on a potentially crucial drug investigation, he told her he felt a sense of duty. Even with a wife and newborn, he couldn’t ask someone else to go in his place.

Shakeshaft sealed the letter, wrote his wife’s name on the envelope and closed it in the top drawer of his desk at the U.S. at-torney’s office in Chicago. He told one colleague about the letter. “This could go badly,” the man said of the trip. “It’s like sliding into Hitler’s Germany.”

“If something bad happens, just make sure she gets it,” Shake-shaft said.

Shakeshaft survived the trip without being gunned down in a flurry of drug violence, but it led to him facing another insidi-ous danger. He spent the next seven anxious years shepherding a sprawling drug prosecution that drove him into heavy drinking. By the time of El Chapo’s conviction in a federal court in Brooklyn in February 2019, Shakeshaft had been in and out of rehab. He was living alone, practicing law by himself, seeing his young kids only after being cleared by Soberlink, a remote breathalyzer device.

Shakeshaft, 53, today says his journey was worth it. El Chapo now languishes in a federal prison in Colorado—“under a mountain,” as Shakeshaft puts it—and the investigation Shakeshaft ran brought down the biggest drug operation in Chicago history. “The one thing I lost out of all this is my marriage, and I loved my wife,” he says. The divorce counts as “one of my largest regrets in the world.” But, he adds, “I’m a Teddy Roosevelt, man-in-the-arena guy. I would rather have gotten a bullet in the head in Monterrey than not have gone.”

Shakeshaft was working in narcotics as an assistant U.S. at-torney in 2007 when a garden-variety drug bust on Chicago’s West Side led to the arrest of a 340-pound dealer who went by the street name “Fat Mike.” In a meeting the next day, Shakeshaft asked Fat Mike who supplied him. “The twins,” he replied.

Drug insiders knew the twins—Pedro and Margarito Flores, a matching pair of young Mexican Americans who had created a huge drug-trafficking operation with a distribution network that stretched across the country. They’d grown up bilingual in a Hispanic neighborhood of Chicago, the sons of a small-time dealer. Though still in their 20s, they’d built an astonishing busi-ness infrastructure, including a fleet of semi-trailers with hidden compartments on their roofs, above the sniffing range of dogs trained to smell drugs. Under the guise of a legitimate shipment of, say, produce, the twins shipped heroin and cocaine to Chicago on the top of a truck and sent cash back to Mexico the same way. The money involved was staggering: Between 2005 and 2008 the twins moved $1.8 billion in drug money from the United States to Mexico, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Illinois.

Already facing indictment in Milwaukee, the Flores twins had fled several years before to Guadalajara, Mexico, where they were living lavishly with their wives and children while running their operation through Chicago. The twins acquired the drugs on consignment from a federation of Mexican traffickers, chiefly the Sinaloa Cartel, headed by the savage kingpin El Chapo. In the course of doing business, the brothers had come to know El Chapo. They had even visited him at his mountain hideaway.

Not long after the arrest of Fat Mike, a Chicago lawyer asked to meet Shakeshaft in his office in the federal building. “I have a proposal

young. I introduce myself, ‘Tom Shakeshaft, I’m from the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago.’ He said, ‘I’m Pedro Flores.’ ”

Through the course of the day, Flores pro-vided an overview of the twins’ operation. Under the terms of the cooperation agreement, they would keep running the business from Mexico, helping to gather evidence. Shakeshaft was back on a plane to Chicago that night, “feeling absolute relief,” he recalls.

his car, a message for the twins: “Tell those f ***ers to shut up or we’ll send you his head.” Shakeshaft had to break the news to the brothers. The father is presumed dead. “My adversary was the most murderous human being on the face of the planet,” Shakeshaft says of El Chapo. “I woke up every morning like, ‘Jesus Christ. God, help me get through this thing.’”

Lorino, the DEA agent, says, “Tom internalized a lot of what was happening out on the street on himself, [worrying] about whether somebody was going to get hurt because of a decision.”

Patrick Radden Keefe, a New Yorker writer who has reported extensively on El Chapo, interviewed Shakeshaft for a 2016 New Yorker podcast that featured the Chicago investigation. The two became friends. “I think if you listen to that [podcast] you can hear—it’s not a word I throw around—but you can hear some of the residual trauma in his voice from that experience,” Keefe says.

The intense story of the drug investigation inevitably folds into the story of Shakeshaft’s alcohol abuse, and some of his pain seems to spring from his surprise at how things have turned out. He came to Dartmouth from Ames, Iowa, in 1985 as a standout athlete. After quarterbacking the freshman football team, he com-peted for the starting QB role through two varsity seasons. “Tom was very thoughtful, very receptive, very competitive, and just a highly intelligent guy,” says Buddy Teevens ’79, who arrived for his first stretch as Dartmouth head football coach when Shakeshaft was a junior. The two have remained in touch.

Although his 6-1 frame has puffed out somewhat, Shakeshaft still carries himself with the assurance of an athlete. “The reason I became a trial lawyer was I tried to find the closest thing in the professional world that approximated competitive athletics,” he says.

After the University of Iowa Law School and a federal clerk-ship, he worked for Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City and made partner at McDermott, Will & Emery in Chicago. In 2004 he joined the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Illinois. He took a pay cut of several hundred thousand dollars, but he carried a strong commitment to public service instilled by his father, who had earned a Silver Star in the Battle of the Bulge and became a beloved political science professor at Iowa State.

By then, Shakeshaft was dating the woman who would become his wife. (She declined to comment for this story and asked that her name not be used.) They married in 2006, and their first child was born two years later.

During the investigation, Shakeshaft reasoned that there was relatively little risk to himself or his family, which in 2010 grew to three children with the birth of twins. He assumed the cartels wouldn’t go after a federal prosecutor or agent because the response would seriously upend business. Still, when the Department of Justice arranged to install a security system in the house of Shakeshaft’s boss, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who had been deeply involved in Al Qaeda cases, Fitzgerald ordered a system for Shakeshaft’s house, too. The equipment amounted to a regular ADT electronic security system, wired to alert both ADT and the U.S. Marshals Service.

Not long after, several marshals visited the Shakeshaft house to inspect the installation. One ran through standard security advice for Shakeshaft’s wife: Don’t take your kids on a walk in the same direction at the same time on consecutive days. “You could have seen the fire come out of her eyes,” Shakeshaft recalls.

As both a private lawyer and a prosecutor, Shakeshaft had enjoyed consistent success, never losing a case. Still, he couldn’t shake a growing fear of failure. Through the Flores twins’ investiga-tion, he was overseeing several dozen cases (continued on page 86)

UNDER PRESSUREMany evenings during the investiga-tion, Shakeshaft and colleagues would gather at a favorite bar for beer or wine. “It was the one time I could shut my brain off for a little bit,” he says. “And then at some point it turned to Scotch.”

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deals, recording scores of conversations. The most significant were with El Chapo himself, including the first recorded conversation to place the drug kingpin in the middle of a deal. “It was the single biggest piece of evidence in the entire case,” says David Lorino, the DEA agent in charge of the Chicago investigation. Meantime, agents seized almost all the twins’ dope coming into the United States, obviously limiting the lifespan of the subterfuge. Shake-shaft and Lorino were working one Sunday when it became clear El Chapo would soon know the twins had betrayed him. The prose-cutors needed the brothers alive to back up the recordings. “If Pedro and Margarito are killed, we got no case on anybody,” Shakeshaft says.

The Americans had the twins flown out that day, while their families left almost im-mediately for the States in a caravan of Range Rovers and then scattered across the country. Back in the States, the twins pretended to deal, gathering evidence against their network of distributors. Once the operation finally shut down, Shakeshaft and his colleagues spent years deciphering the tapes and making cases.

Meanwhile, the pressure increased on Shakeshaft. For their protection, the twins were regularly moved from one Midwestern lockup to another. When their father defied warnings and returned to Mexico, abductors grabbed him at a pool hall and left a note on

of the cartel food chain—it went to Chapo himself,” says Shakeshaft.Arranging the complex logistics of a meeting with the twins

took several months. Because of the existing indictment, they couldn’t come to the United States, so the meeting would be in Mexico. The DEA, the FBI, and the U.S. Diplomatic Security Ser-vice all had a hand. The Mexican government couldn’t know—given El Chapo’s network, someone could tip him off. For the visit, Shakeshaft had to pretend he was a tourist.

The meeting was set for November 6, 2008, in Monterrey, a city outside Sinaloa territory in a region controlled by a rival cartel. One of the twins, Pedro, would attend along with his lawyer. The day before leaving, Shakeshaft wrote the letter to his wife. “I wasn’t worried that I was going to get killed because I was me,” he says, “but when you’re meeting with a cartel member in Mexico, it’s the crossfire, it’s the inadvertent.” Pedro Flores was also at great risk. “Cartel guys are watched, not so much by the Mexican government but by rival cartels and their own cartels.” Being spotted talking to an American official would amount to a death sentence.

The actual trip featured scenes that could have been lifted from Homeland. In Monterrey an armored SUV met Shakeshaft at the airport and the next day carried him to the American con-sulate. A squad of agents armed to the hilt waited behind a huge steel door. “It’s a f***ing armory,” Shakeshaft recalls thinking. “I am sitting there scared out of my mind and I’m running the show.” The American team loaded up in a convoy of SUVs and roared around the streets of Monterrey to make sure they weren’t being followed before ending up at a Radisson hotel.

The twins’ lawyer had flown separately to Monterrey and was with Pedro Flores. Following plans, an agent called the lawyer from a hotel room and told him to be there with his client in 20 minutes. Shortly after, the dealer walked in. “He’s wearing a polo sweater,” Shakeshaft recalls. “He could have been any young [man], really

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Words as MedicineThe new doctor writes his way through pandemic.

GROWING UP, HE PICTURED HIMSELF becoming a medical detective like Dr. House, the cranky TV genius who seems to save patients by force of intellect. Instead, Redel-Traub gradu-ated seven weeks early from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine to confront the helplessness of treating New York City’s surge of coronavirus patients.

“I thought my first time as a doctor I was go-ing to be healing people, and so the fact that often what I was doing…was taking someone who was really sick and shepherding them as gracefully as possible toward passing away, it was not what I felt like I had worked so long to accomplish,” says the former philosophy major.

His hometown’s crisis has ebbed, but Redel-Traub knows it could flow again at any moment, and he has learned to find peace in comforting those he can’t save. Inspired by his mother, Vic-toria Redel ’80, a novelist and poet, he finds writ-ing to be therapeutic. His recent observations on grappling with this historic moment have been featured in New York magazine, Slate, and Medscape.

In June Redel-Traub transitioned from Bel-levue Hospital to Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where he will continue his in-ternal medicine residency in hopes of becoming a cardiologist—and a witness who continues to chronicle wherever it is medicine is heading. “It remains to be seen how this is going to affect a new generation of doctors,” he says.

—Lisa Kocian ’94

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CENTENNIAL CIRCLE CLASS AWARD Greatest number of new Centennial Circle membersClass of 1990

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CHARLES J. ZIMMERMAN 1923 AWARDGreatest percentage improvementin non-reunion donorsClass of 1984: 5.1%

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SOON AFTER TUNICK CEDAR ARRIVED AT DART-mouth, she and her parents took a stroll through the Hood Museum of Art.

“My father is an art dealer, so we paused at a painting and he asked me whether I thought it might have been done by more than one artist. And I said, ‘Well, the hand of this figure looks really different from all the other ones.’ ”

“That’s amazing, Lizzie,” her dad said. “You should take an art history class.”

Good advice. Tunick Cedar majored in art history, earned her master’s at Williams College, and now manages global cultural sustainability programs in the Smithson-ian Institution Office of International Relations. During the past seven years, in 18 countries so far, she has helped museums of all shapes and sizes become accessible sites for learning and beacons of national pride.

In war-torn Colombia, her Smithsonian team helped to create a national museum that can pave the way for recon-ciliation. “So we talked about some of the issues we dealt with at the National Museum of the American Indian and how to ensure that all communities feel represented in the stories exhibitions tell,” Tunick Cedar says. In Iraq’s Mosul Museum, the challenge is to assess damage from recent attacks. Uzbekistan is getting help from the Smithsonian to develop sites within Ichan Qala, a World Heritage Site.

“One reason I love my job is that I’m often working in places I’ve never been. It’s an incredible learning experi-ence,” she says.

It’s also a major juggling act. She and her husband, Andrew, are the parents of 2-year-old Will and his baby sister, Abigail.

“I love spending family time at home in Brooklyn,” says Tunick Cedar. “But being welcomed into places where people are sharing difficult parts of their history and figur-ing out ways to talk about that and create safe spaces—that’s really humbling.” —Charlotte Albright

Dartmouth itself is a character in Parks’ latest novel.<<<<

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Man of MysteryNew thriller is set in Hanover.

AN ACCLAIMED MYSTERY WRITER, PARKS PREV- iously had a thriving career in journalism. At Dartmouth he majored in geography and launched a weekly sports report, The Sports Weekly. (“I’ve always been good with names,” he quips.) Next came a dozen years at The Wash-ington Post and The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, mostly in sports—“a haven for the inebriated, profane, and malodorous,” the novelist has recalled, fondly.

In November 2004 Parks had just left sportswriting to become a general feature reporter when a quadruple murder occurred in Newark. He parlayed his reporting on the case into the fictional Faces of the Gone (2009), the first of six mysteries that chronicle the adventures of investigative reporter Carter Ross. The Ross books have alternated with standalone novels, and now Thomas & Mercer is publishing Interference, a science-based thriller.

Interference will be familiar to Dartmouth readers. The book features a fictional Dartmouth physics professor, Matt Bronik, and is set on the campus and in Hanover. The heroine, Brigid Bronik, is a librarian at Baker Library. “This is a very, very Dartmouth book,” Parks says. “Dartmouth isn’t just a setting in the novel, it’s a character—and one I know and love.”

Parks has been attracting attention from movie people. His most recent novel, The Last Act, has been optioned by SkyDance Media, and Interference is being shopped around. The novelist lives in the Tidewater area of Virginia with his wife, Melissa Taylor ’96 (they met during Sophomore Summer), and their two school-aged children. Parks is a self-confessed “incorrigible ham” and was playing the lead role in the Williamsburg Players’ production of The Scarlet Pimpernel when the Covid crisis intervened.

His artist’s café of choice is a Hardee’s. It’s the only place Parks could find open at 6 a.m., and he loves writing there. Next is a novel tentatively titled Unthinkable. “It’s about an ordinary stay-at-home dad who is told he has to kill his wife or a billion people must die,” he says. “Cheery, no?” —Rand Richards Cooper

<<<< It’s no surprise that CuriosityStream’s CEO majored in history.

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On a RollDocumentary streamer grows with stay-at-home audience.

“WE AIM TO BE THE LEADING ON-DE-mand destination in the world for fact-based entertainment,” says Stinchcomb, CEO of CuriosityStream. Located in Silver Spring, Maryland, the company specializes in video streaming of documentaries. The site fea-tures more than 3,000 titles, ranging from a recent release on the history of homes (nar-rated by Nick Offerman) to Stephen Hawk-ing’s Favorite Places, a 2017 Emmy Award-winning series.

After Stinchcomb was promoted to the top spot in mid-2018, CuriosityStream raised $140 million in the second half of the year. “My goal was to expand and diversify our streams of revenue,” Stinchcomb says. Rather than relying on a traditional single-payer model, which the company still of-fers at $2.99 per month, CuriosityStream partnered with businesses and educational institutions to offer the service to employees and students. Stinchcomb also worked with cable companies and TV providers to add it to their bundled packages.

The pace of growth has quickened as the coronavirus has forced people indoors. “In the first quarter of 2020 we added more direct-to-consumer subscribers than we did during the first two years of the company’s operations,” he says. The CEO has been able to maintain business partnerships through the pandemic by switching from in-person to virtual meet-ings, and says April was the company’s best month ever in terms of revenue.

Stinchcomb has a lot of plans for the future. The company rolled out a live feature, mimicking traditional TV, which chooses a program for indecisive viewers. Curiosity-Stream recently announced a partnership with wildlife production company Doclights to add 50 original natural history documen-taries to its services. Stinchcomb also finds time to enjoy being with his four children. Although his history major drew him to his job, it’s the people who keep him around. “I’m really proud of the team we built here,” he says. “I enjoy coming to work every day.”

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The Hole TruthREADERS OF BEFORE YOU GO, TOMMY BUTLER’S tricky, charming, often quite somber debut novel, will initially be under the impression that it’s a sort of high-concept metaphysical comedy along the lines of Good Omens and The Good Place, two recent TV hits about supernatural bureaucrats mucking about in the lives of ordinary folk.

In this case the angelic functionaries are Merriam and Jollis, who have been tasked with designing the prototype human “traveler” about to be sent to live on Earth. In a last-minute tweak of the design, Merry creates an empty space next to the human heart—a perhaps ill-advised innovation that dooms us all to lifetimes of dissatisfaction with our respective lots.

“They’ll feel it,” Jollis moans, “and they’re going to constantly be look-ing for things to fill it with. They’ll eat too much. They’ll fall in love with the wrong people. They’ll hoard money, and watch too much television, and buy useless crap from holiday catalogs, like potato scrubbing gloves or a spoonula.” (A spoonula? Never mind.)

Some of these dire forecasts—in particular the one about falling in love with the wrong people—come predictably true in the life of Butler’s signifi-cantly named protagonist, Elliot Chance. After a childhood of feeling mis-understood and insufficiently loved (and finding temporary solace in a vivid fantasy life that his parents and older brother fail utterly to appreciate), Elliot settles down to an even less satisfactory adulthood as an accountant in New York City during the dot-com boom.

At a suicide-prevention therapy group—yes, he has considered killing himself—Elliot meets Bannor, an older gentleman who claims to have visited the future and has foreseen his own suicide, and Sasha, a young ad copy writer and frustrated novelist who slips coded messages into ads and is desperately curious about what happens, if anything, when we die.

To explain how Butler’s cosmic story scaffolding is both more and less than it seems would constitute a string of spoilers. He uses various literary sleights of hand to draw his readers into a moving, decidedly realistic tale about one man’s search for the meaning of life and his dawning recognition that confu-sion and sadness are simply parts of the human experience.

That hole in our hearts turns out to be all too real, but in Before You Go, there’s more than we ever dreamed of to fill it with. —Kevin Nance

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Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism

Harper Business

Lively and highly readable, this book explores how capitalism, particularly as practiced by the Fortune 500, is to blame for the current state of pernicious inequal-ity, catastrophic climate change, and global instability. It details a road map to reshape the corpo-rate landscape and rebuild the economy to generate prosperity without peril.

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All The Right Mistakes

She Writes Press

In her debut novel, attorney-turned-author Jamison crafts a heartwarming story about five college friends, just turned 40, who discover that one of them has written a tell-all book exposing the central life mistakes of each of the other four. The resulting drama sheds light on the complex nature of adult relationships, the defini-tion of success, and happiness in a world filled with obstacles.

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Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry

University of Iowa Press

Leong explores why many modern poets turn to public documents as inspiration for their art. Drawing on works by poets such as Amiri Baraka and Claudia Rankine, the work explores not only the source documents but also each poet’s process of selection and curation.

LINDSAY MAITLAND HUNT ’09

Help Yourself: A Guide to Gut Health for People Who Love Delicious Food

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Writer and cook Hunt follows up on Healthyish, her 2018 success, again providing recipes that are nourish-ing, delicious, and good for the gut. The former studio art major shows that eating tasty food that makes us feel good is not so hard after all.

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38 Once upon a time, in the year 1933, a young traveler found his way to the Kingdom of Hanover in New

Hampshire—he was coming for a short visit, a minimum of four years. It was a new experience for this journeyman that, eventually, became the first mile in a lifelong experience. This young man had no idea where the next approximately 85 years would take him, but I’m sure he knew that this was just the beginning of an experience that would be with him forever. It is now 2020, and this man of the world has turned 104 years, a milestone to be celebrated—and celebrated it was, in fine style. This gentleman of Dartmouth is Fred Klein ’37, the most senior resident of Saddlebrooke, Arizona. Fred truly enjoyed the huge parade that passed his house on the morn-ing of April 25—it was reportedly one of the most memorable birthdays of his life.

“Organized by his fellow swimmers from the Saddlebrooke Swim Club with a lot of help from many other service groups, Fred saw more than 220 vehicles pass his house. More than 150 birthday cards were dropped in a basket along with balloons, signs, and even a roll of toilet pa-per! Someone even left a book from Dartmouth with a letter in it written by the president con-gratulating Fred on reaching 104. Due to social distancing guidelines in effect, only golf carts and cars could participate in the parade, which was led by Golder Ranch Fire District in its firetruck. When it passed by, Fred proudly stood at atten-tion, saluting our first responders. He saluted the firefighter, who, in turn, saluted the WW II veteran. It was a party, all done with social dis-tancing, and one truly deserved of the occasion.”

I received notification of the event men-tioned above from Philip Serlin ’60, M.D., who adds, “I hope you can recognize and mention Fred, a neighbor. More than 250 people feted him—much fun!” Certainly this marvelous event had to be mentioned and recognized. Many happy birthday wishes are sent to Fred from the class of ’38. Thank you, Dr. Serlin, for contacting me.

The class of ’38 is always with me and, as usual, holds a very special place in my heart. Stay healthy and follow the rules!—Jean M. Francis, 2205 Boston Road, O-139, Wil-braham, MA 01095; [email protected]

42 This is the 97th day of March or at least that is how it feels after being isolated for 111 days. In fact, Phase

2 just happened this past Monday, permitting us to eat outdoors in restaurants and get a haircut. There have been some peaceful marches in my neighborhood. Every night at 7 there is clap-ping, cheering, and horns blown in thanks to the medical workers caring for Covid patients. Social activity for me has been shopping with mask and gloves infrequently. I miss the personal interaction but have survived with emails, phone, and Zoom visits.

In spite of isolation Jon Mendes gave a vir-

tual presentation on longevity June 2 at the Dartmouth Club of New York. More than 45, including me, attended. Jon has a booklet of his program titled “26 Miles at 96 and Why I Enjoy Good Health and You Can Too.” Jon would be delighted to send a copy to you. It details diet and exercises.

I spoke with Stu Finch the other day, who re-ports he holds a meeting every Friday for people in his senior living residence to bring items for repair—Stu also raised money to create a put-ting green—all of which can be done with proper social distancing and masks. Covid-19 has cre-ated positive things. He says at cocktail hour the residents go out on their balconies with a cocktail or glass of wine and wave at each other.

I received a letter from Bob Gale expressing concern over the removal of the weathervane from Baker Library. To Gale the image was that of Wheelock teaching an American Indian—the basis of the founding of Dartmouth. I called Jon Mendes and Stu Finch—who registered similar feelings, though they also said if the image was objectionable to Dartmouth Native American students, faculty, and graduates who want its removal, they would go along with its removal. Stu wondered if the song “Eleazar Wheelock” was to be eliminated from the songbooks and various other musical programs.

I have the sad duty to report the death of Harry Jacobs May 5 and John C. Harding May 8. The class of ’42 extends condolences to their families. I also noted the passing of Charles Kreter ’78, son of Warren Kreter. Our condolences to his family.—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York, NY 10021; [email protected]

43 Coronavirus, shelter-at-home, social distancing—never in my lifetime (I just turned 100) did I dream we, as

a nation, would be capitulating to an invisible disease. Education is at a standstill, bar exams have been postponed, first-responders are in need of personal protective gear, and face masks are required when outside. As one wag pointed out: “It’s better six feet apart than six feet under!”

Rewind to the summer of 1942. As seniors we all knew we were old enough to serve. After graduation on December 12, 1942, we scattered to all corners of the United States. We were worried and wondered what was in our future. WW II was No. 1 on everyone’s to-do list. No one knew where we would be next year or in two or three years.

In the summer of 1943, about 200 Nisei were ordered to Camp Shelby in Mississippi for three months basic training with the recently formed 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This was composed of Japanese American troops whose families, for the most part, were behind barbed wire in 10 isolated internment camps due to the executive order signed by FDR. I was one of six GIs who qualified as “expert” with the M1 Garand rifle.

In the summer of 1944 I was an interroga-tor of Japanese prisoners of war at the Allied Translators Interpreters Section just outside of Brisbane, Australia. The section was later awarded the prestigious Presidential Unit Cita-tion for outstanding services rendered from 1942

to September 3, 1945.In the summer of 1945 I was on the island

of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. WW II ended on August 15, 1945. More than 12,000 POWs and Japanese civilians were in stockades and ready to return to Japan. The landing ship tanks that we were to board for the invasion of Japan on October 1, 1945, were instead returning the Japanese to their homeland. Then, in early September, I got sick with a fever of 103.8. I was in the 24th Division hospital when a major told me, “George, you’re too sick for us to handle. We’re sending you by hospital plane to a huge Army hospital on Leyte.” I was admitted to the intensive care unit in the hospital on Leyte, another island in the Philippines, for 105 days. I really thought I was a goner. I was only 25, and I only wanted to see my Mary back in Los Angeles. More later.

Our class sends heartfelt condolences to the family of Robert “Bob” Bowman, who died on April 18 in Vero Beach, Florida.—George Shimizu, 2140 Sepulveda Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6142; (408) 930-2488; [email protected]

45 One of the silver linings of the slower pace of life imposed by 2020 events is that when your president, Matt

Marshall, asked me to serve as secretary for the great class of 1945 I was able to accept with plea-sure. Recently I was vice president for alumni re-lations at Dartmouth but from the very beginning I was Spence and Connie Johnson’s daughter. I am delighted to introduce myself, Martha Johnson Beattie ’76, a member of the first coed freshman class. Harry Hampton keeps in touch with me on a regular basis from Exeter, New Hampshire. He invited me to join the ’45 holiday luncheons year after year when I was VP and grapefruit from Harry and his wife, Peg, arrives on my doorstep each December. Harry too had asked if I might take on the secretary duties. With thanks and admiration for all he has done, I want to dedicate this, my first column, to him. I have found that I have big shoes to fill. With a little research I discovered that Bud Elder was named “Secretary of the Year” in 2007. I was saddened to receive notice of our loss of Edward “Ed” Crane, M.D., who passed away in May of this year in Frisco, Colorado, where he had lived since his retirement in 1987. After Dartmouth Ed graduated from the University of Vermont Medical School and served in both the Army and Air Force. Skiing remained a lifelong passion for Ed. He raced on the masters circuit until he was 82 and volun-teered with the Summit Seniors in many roles, including president. Our condolences go to his wife, Anne, four children, four stepchildren, 16 grandchildren, and 19 great-grandchildren. At the time of this column, there is still a small chance that some ’45s will be back on campus this fall for the 75th reunion, but we realize it may be wiser to cancel. If not, I look forward to seeing you there. Send me news by phone or letter please. I look forward to getting to know my dad’s classmates. —Martha J. Beattie ’76, 6 North Balch St., Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 667-7611; [email protected]

47 I write this from a Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Hospital bed because in late May I took a fall while leaving my

house, severely injuring my back. I was told later that four local ambulances showed up. After a week in the hospital I was transferred to a local rehab facility for two more weeks, and that was under quarantine. I couldn’t leave the room and all the nurses showed up in masks and gowns. Sally was driven to the center for a window visit, which proved unsuccessful. So we communi-cated by phone. I did have a TV and was able to talk to family by Zoom. That was cool.

So now I’m finishing this column at home, taking my painkillers, getting help from lo-cal physical therapy people, waiting for the okay to drive—and thankful that I don’t have coronavirus.

There’s a dearth of news from the College, as it’s shut down. It’s hard to believe that through all the wars, strikes, and sit-ins and outs that have occurred through the years we get knocked out by a virus most of us never heard of before.

I did get a note from Lee Coffin, dean of admissions and financial aid, announcing that Dartmouth is admitting 1,881 students to the class of 2024. The new year is only two months away—can you imagine a whole class, never mind a college, learning from home? We will get through this, and I send a sincere hope that you all wear masks and keep your distance from each other.

I am saddened to report the death of William B. Enright of San Diego on March 7.—Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; [email protected]

48 We moved last November to a retire-ment community in northern New Jersey and a couple of weeks later

went down to our winter golf condo in Naples, Florida. Due to Covid-19, we’re still there at this writing. Best way to reach me is through our email and cell phone number below.

Sonny “Rem” Drury died from Covid-19 in May. He enjoyed talking with people and as our chronicler handled Class Notes for many years. He and Colin Stewart, who went on to the Olympics, were brought up in Hanover and anchored the championship Dartmouth ski team.

Sonny traveled the world for Gulf Oil, ending up in Houston, where, virtually blind and tapping his cane, he commuted from home to work by bus until his retirement. His wife, Joan, passed away last year. His daughter, Susan, was able to spend some time with him before he died and noted how, as always, he was uncomplaining, patient, and appreciative of others.

Bob Pilsbury died of Covid-19 May 12 in the Bedford, Massachusetts, VA hospital. He was brought up and went to school in Newton, Mas-sachusetts, and was drafted into the Army during his freshman year at Dartmouth. He went to of-ficer candidate school and served with valor as a lieutenant during the Korean War, during which he was awarded three Bronze stars.

Following in the footsteps of his father and a cousin, Bob was a natural-born piano player. At family outings the three of them would play

one after the other their own improvisations of popular and older songs and melodies. Music was his passion, and after Dartmouth he went on to study at the New England Conservatory of Music and then take a master’s from the Har-vard Graduate School of Education. During these years and while he was establishing a psycho-therapy practice, he was a part of the jazz scene in Boston. He then joined the nationally known Black Eagle Jazz Band for the mainstay of his music career.—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt 331, New Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; [email protected]

49 Well, coronavirus has drastically changed the way our class lives, par-ticularly those in retirement homes.

No visitors, two at a time in an elevator, meals delivered to rooms, etc. Class prez Ray Truncellito had half his belongings moved into his future assisted living residence when the new rules stopped him cold; in late June he is still in his home in Manchester, New Hampshire. My own snowbird wings got clipped after 38 years, so I’m stuck in Sarasota, Florida, until next April.

Fred F. Tilden died on February 16 at his home in Hartford, Connecticut. Fred spent his career in business, retiring as chairman of Venus-Estabrook Ltd., England. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, sons Fred Jr. and Peter, and daughter Cynthia.

Burgess Preston Standley died on March 12 at his home in Medfield, Massachusetts. Mike advised universities on design and construction of new science facilities, then spent 22 years as director of planning at Mass General Hospital in Boston. He was deeply involved in all kinds of civic activities in Medfield. He leaves his wife, Caroline, son Dabney ’83, and daughters Caroline and Anne.

Glenn Mohrman died on May 1 in Princeton, New Jersey, where he lived. Glenn, who had a law degree from the University of Virginia, spent his career in advertising and market research, specializing in pretesting pharmaceutical company ads. He is survived by his wife, Waltraud (“Trudy”), sons Brooks and Mace, and daughters Darby and Morgan.

Russell Wolfertz Sr. died on November 25, 2018, in Rockland, Maine, where he lived, the College has recently learned. Russ’s career was in real estate. He was survived by his wife, Eliza-beth, two sons and four daughters.

Alan S. Harvey died on January 15, 2015, in Manchester, New Hampshire, the College has recently learned. Alan had several occupations—professional actor, teacher, writer, and antique store owner. He left no survivors.

John W. Whelden died on August 26, 2014, probably in Framingham, Massachusetts, where he lived, the College has recently learned. John was a component engineer with Raytheon. Ap-parently, he had no survivors.

Richard A. Eckhart died on December 5, 1998, the College has recently learned. Dick, a Navy V-12, spent his career as a geologist with Sun Oil.—John Adler, 1623 Pelican Cove Road, BA123, Sarasota, FL 34231; (203) 622-9069; (941) 966-2943, fax

>>> Owen Fiss ’59, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, has been awarded the 2020 Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence by the American Philosophical Society in recognition of lifetime contributions and important publications in the field of jurisprudence. Fiss has taught procedure, legal theory, and constitutional law at Yale, and four of his articles have been named as among the top 100 most-cited law review articles of all time.>>> Norm Fine ’55, Th’56, has earned a sil-ver medal at the 24th Annual Independent Publishers Book Awards for Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II. Fine, a retired electronics engineer and publisher of an annual engineering design series in the 1990s, earned the award in the world history category.>>> Crystal Crawford ’87 has been named executive direc-tor of the Los Angeles-based Western Center on Law & Poverty, California’s oldest and largest legal services sup-port center. Crawford brings to the role 20 years of senior management experience in the legal, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, most recently as a program director at the California Wellness Foundation.>>> William Neukom ’64, a Dartmouth trust-ee from 1994 to 2006, has been awarded the 2020 American Bar Association (ABA) Medal. A retired partner in the Seattle office of K&L Gates, Neukom was the lead lawyer for Microsoft Corp. for 25 years, served as president of the ABA in 2007, and founded the World Justice Project as an ABA initia-tive in 2006.>>> Caroline Choi ’90—senior VP of cor-porate affairs at Southern California Edison, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States—has been named one of the “Coolest in L.A.” by nonprofit Climate Resolve. Choi was recognized for her efforts to implement Pathway 2045, the utility’s blueprint for carbon-free power to cus-tomers by 2045.>>> Andy Shamel ’05 has been named chap-lain of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. Shamel was ordained in the Epis-copal Church in 2010, previously served as chaplain at Stanford University, and ex-pects to complete his D.Phil. in philosophy within the year.

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50 Dear classmates, this is my version of a Gershwin number of the 1930s that the Injunaires did called “Bidin’ My

Time.” (Those of you who are voting Republican, go back to bed!)

Joe Biden’s my kind’Cause that’s the kinda guy I amWhile other folks are Trumpin’I keep stumpin’ for Biden’s my kind.This year, this yearElection’s bound to happenThis year, this yearI’ll just keep on rappin’.For Biden’s my guy(Don’t ask me why)There’s no regrettin’On Joe I’m bettin’Biden’s my kind.Call me up and I’ll sing it for you (along with

my uke)!—Tom Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; [email protected]

51 I am shamelessly borrowing from a recent class of ’52 column that analyzed the demographics of that class since its

enrollment 70-plus years ago. Here are our numbers: Our Green Book

profiled 654 new freshmen arriving in 1947. Four years later, according to our Aegis, 546 of us graduated. Today, the number of living ’51s is 180, just more than one-quarter of our entering class and one-third of our graduates. Two hundred forty-two widows are increasingly active members of the ’51 family; six of them serve on the class executive committee. We have sent at least 150 of our children and grandchildren to Dartmouth.

We arrived from 38 states, heavily weighted toward the East and Northeast. Only seven entering students came from outside the United States. Fewer than a dozen were Black, Latino, or Asian. Contrast these numbers with the class entering Dartmouth this fall. The class of ’24 has 1,150 students—half of whom are women. They come from all 50 states (42 percent from the West and South) and 71 foreign countries. Fifteen percent are first-generation college students. One-third of the admits are students of color. Clearly, “global” and “diverse” are key characteristics of the new class.

Could we get in today? Doubtful!Where have we gone and what have we done

since graduation? Nearly 60 percent of us now live in California and Florida. Only four live outside of the United States. More than half (308) went on for advanced degrees, especially M.B.A.s (101, of which nearly half were awarded by Tuck). Class of ’51 members earned 53 degrees in medicine, 41 in law, and eight in theology. Thirty-three are Ph.D.s. More than 60 became professors, elementary and secondary teachers, or academic administrators. (Note: these numbers are close but not perfect; they come from multiple sources, prepared at different times.)

Perhaps the most striking contrast to today’s graduates: 73 percent of us served in the U.S. armed forces. Military service is rare today among new college grads.

We mourn the recent loss of six classmates:

Jim Culberson, Chuck Fitzsimmons, Bob Fullerton, Bill Merkle, Bill Rugg, and Mo Monahan.—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; [email protected]

52 Seventy-two years ago we began our Dartmouth journey, all 715 of us. That was the fall of 1948. Now, here we are,

still some 200 strong, plus an equal number of loyal active widows and partners, experiencing a most tumultuous and unprecedented period that is yet unresolved. Under these circumstances, and at our age, it seems inappropriate to report anecdotal stories of what we have been doing most recently, since, for most of us, it is “ little or nothing.”

Therefore, we offer no casual stories in this report. What we have been doing, of course, is learning how best to protect our lives and the lives of our families and our fellow citizens and, at the same time, maintain some quality of life. This includes the full spectrum of health, economy, and social behavior. Most members of the class are either already nonagenarians or will be in the next 12 months, and we are a high-risk group. Therefore, we sincerely hope you and your families are safe and well. And to those who have been more seriously impacted, we offer hope that the response and care is enabling you to get through the crisis successfully.

In Hanover, not surprisingly, life is quiet and promises to remain so until fall. Those who are now in retirement communities here, and probably everywhere, are residing in some level of enforced lockdown. The rest of us are not much different. Dartmouth will keep you informed of College activities through other channels, but if you would like to keep up on your own and you have access to a computer or smart phone, just type “Dartmouth college news” and a wealth of stories will be at your fingertips.

Sadly, in the very recent past, we have lost four more classmates, Dr. Donald Gann, M.D., of Brooklandville, Maryland; John “Jock” R.D. McClintock of North Andover, Massachusetts; Edmund “Ted” W. Sanderson of Appleton, Wisconsin; and Douglas F. Perthel of Boulder City, Nevada. None of these four classmates were reported as victims of Covid-19.

Please let us know how you are doing.—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755, 603-643-0261; [email protected]

53 In these challenging times, Aaron Epstein has found a way to make use of his not unimposing talents. In a

very newsy letter he writes that he is no longer reporting on the U.S. Supreme Court or the U.S. Justice Department. He has learned to work with kid journalists in the elementary school. “I choose them, teach them, assign them to stories, discuss their drafts, work with them to improve their re-porting and writing, and, ultimately produce the final product in a high-quality newspaper avail-able both in print and online. Everything is dif-ferent now, of course. With schools closed, I had to cancel assignments. Instead, I’ve asked them

to write personal journals about their changed lives. Eight of my staff of 18 are participating, and today I asked a few of my newspaper alums, now in middle school or high school, to contribute, too. Those diaries, I hope, can fill all four pages of an edition in early June.”

I am certain Aaron would have loved such an opportunity when he was in elementary school. When he is not busy with that he has become a gourmet cook. Perhaps he can have the kids taste his food and critique it in their paper.

I was delighted to hear from Anton Phillips. From Naarden, a suburb of Amsterdam, Holland, he writes that they have been dealing with the Covid-19 virus there as well and with many of the same problems we are experiencing here. They are actively tracing and testing, which has allowed them to reopen their schools. He keeps busy counseling young people on their choice of major in college and future careers, adding that he does this in his garden, keeping a safe distance. Congratulations to Dick O’Connor, our new class president, and Donna Reilly, our new class vice president. Our class is fortunate to have you both. Now, sadly, I have to report what has become an ever-increasing number of losses to our class. We offer our condolences to the families of Charles Talamo, Brandon Schnorf Jr., Peter Grenquist, Alan Miller, Thomas Trager, Fred Pollard, and Robert Morris.—Mark H. Smoller, 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579; (845) 603-5066; [email protected]

54 We did it! With the last gift of $2,000 from Paul Dalton, solicited by Dick Page, we accomplished our goal of

raising $100,000 for the Seaver Peters athletic sponsor endowment. Our total is $100,700 and will grow. This endowment ensures that the class of ’54 will almost double its previous level of sup-port for this great program and do it in perpetu-ity. I never cease to marvel at the willingness of our class to support Dartmouth and do it with generosity and enthusiasm. This endowment sets yet another ’54 benchmark for other classes to strive to match.

Following is the first of the comments from our new set of interns. Anindu Rentala ’21 is the Richard A. Pearl ’54 Dartmouth Center for Social Impact 2020 class of 1954 sponsored in-tern at the Georgetown Law School criminal justice clinic in Washington, D.C. She writes: “I worked closely with a team of attorneys and law professors, taking on pro bono criminal defense cases. I went to crime scenes and canvassed for witnesses, went to jail to meet with clients, and helped attorneys with trial preparation. I met with low-income clients and African Americans and began to understand the condition of the American project. It’s the guilty project. For most of our clients, their stories were tragic. The job of the public defender is to tell those stories.”

We mourn the passing of Larry Mamlet, Ed-win Bruce Haertl, Luke Case, David Snow, Donn Hill, Thomas Osborn, Robert Basset, Nelson Putnam, and James Conlin. —Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; (201) 933-4102; [email protected]

55 As we write these notes prior to an-nouncements by the College con-cerning the fall term, the 65th is still

scheduled, but uncertainty exists. The result of all this was presented in the class newsletter this summer.

Norm Fine advises that the judges of the 24th Annual Independent Publishers Book Awards gave his book, Blind Bombing, a silver medal in this year’s national competition in the “world history” category.

On the advice of Dick Barr, I obtained a copy of American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum Art, neatly and sensitively compiled by Bonnie MacAdam with inclusions and citations from 1955—a worthy addition for your library.

I had an engaging phone call from Roger Dol-liver, a pal from our first year in Gile. Turns out among other things, he is an accomplished fly fisherman. He and Doc Hall were good friends, exchanged tales, and were able to fish together. Roger lives in west Texas and spends time in Idaho and Montana and the wonderful streams and rivers there. He has fished the Allagash in Maine with roomie Glen Wathen. He related the story of fishing with his son in Idaho and marvel-ing at the skills of a woman further upstream. After a time they were able to meet and make introductions—the best fisherperson he had ever seen was Sandra Day O’Connor!

Mo Kaufman reports from Spokane Valley, Washington, “We are not too severely affected by the pandemic; we are not able to visit or be visited by our family, which is spread out away from us. My work is either in my small office or in very remote places in British Columbia where normal people don’t go. When I am there, I see only my partner or contractors who occasionally work for us. Judith’s main interest, outside of growing a great garden, is fly fishing, which is very good in this region.”

Nick Kotz was remembered recently on the DAM homepage for “Lives that Matter.” A click on his photo brought one to the memorable obitu-ary from The New York Times.

Sadly, we report the passing of Robert Wenz.—Ken Lundstrom, 1101 Exchange Place, #1106, Durham, NC 27713; (919) 206-4639; [email protected]

56 The first two lines of the second verse of the College alma mater are “Dear old Dartmouth set a watch, Lest the

old traditions fail.” Sadly, ever since I gradu-ated, old traditions have been failing. The latest change being the removal of the weathervane from atop Baker Library. For many alums, old traditions are a treasured part of our youth. This particular symbol is of importance to me for the following reason. Back in the 1980s, my wife went to a crafts fair where the person who made the Baker weathervane had a replica on display. She bought a wall-hanging version for my birthday and it has been displayed on the front of my house ever since. I have no plans to remove it. I do not display it to denigrate anyone, since I believe that the Indian symbol in fact honors Native Ameri-cans. A survey conducted many years ago indi-

cated that many Indian tribes thought that it was an honor to have such a symbol for a prestigious school such as Dartmouth. I can understand why some might find the proximity of the rum barrel to be offensive, and a move to remove that item makes more sense to me. However, the rum bar-rel and the Indian are no more related than the pine tree and the rum barrel. Each item stands alone as a historical symbol of the school, and I for one do not hold with tearing down statues and destroying historical symbols.

I received notice of the passing of two class-mates—John A. Nicolette and Stephen M. Winslow. They follow the Barbary Coast jazz band as it plays a mournful tune and marches up Main Street. All march three times around the Green as we, the living, bow our heads in silent tribute.

I close with the first stanza of my poem titled “The Dartmouth Indians.”

Dartmouth College beneath the Old Pine,Begun seventeen-sixty-nine;The rules guarantee,Indians can go free,A brave symbol no way did malign.

—Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-3360; [email protected]

57 Cars—Bob Copeland started this car thing several months ago when he talked about his ’49 Mercury having

snow tires, chains, and a keg in the back seat. Remember your first car? Gentlemen, start your engines.

Jim Taylor’s first was the ’35 Dodge he and John Roberts drove from Mount Hermon to visit college campuses. Al Rollins’ was a ’40 Ford con-vertible that he loved, rebuilt the engine, and painted fire engine red. Bob Slaughter’s was a canary yellow ’49 Plymouth convertible that he kept pristine with plastic seat covers. John Harper remembers being stranded in a blizzard at Middlebury and driving his ’51 Mercury to the police station for a safe night in jail. Chris Wren recalls that his ’55 Studebaker was inconvenient for dating because the transmission separated the front seats. Howie Howland says his ’57 Chevy, complete with a “DU” decal on the windshield, had a bench seat that precluded any of the prob-lems Chris experienced with his Studebaker.

David Keith remembers lusting after upperclassman Gene Cesari’s Bugatti until he purchased a ’36 seven-passenger Lincoln V-12 limousine. Herb Roskind says his first at Dartmouth was a ’50 Chevrolet, but admits the most fun was the ’41 Packard hearse that he called his “ski-sleeper.”

Not all firsts were at Dartmouth. Upon grad-uation Bert O’Neil ordered a Morgan Plus-4 road-ster directly from the German factory to enjoy the lack of speed limits during his new military assignment. Bob Marchant brought a new Chevy convertible with him from the Navy when he joined our class. He remembers the scholarship committee having big problems with his owning the car, but his service to country won out in the end. Gary Gilson’s first, a ’51 Olds Rocket 88, let him down in a 1958 snowstorm returning from Quantico to his home in Waterbury, Connecti-cut, and Bob Mowbry’s first was his Volkswagen

Brasilia, purchased in Paraguay while serving in the Peace Corps.

Bruce Bernstein provides a fitting close to this column, recalling adventures with his ’53 Plymouth Duster: “We’re just lucky to be alive,” he says.

And that’s the way we were.—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; [email protected]

58 This was written in June, just after the latest Sound & Fury, but I’ll try to keep it as fresh as I can when you

read it in August. Today brought an email from Larry Hamp-

ton alerting us that Forbes (my former stomp-ing ground) has designated Portugal’s Algarve (his and Helga’s longtime stopping ground) as the No. 1 place to live after the pandemic. We knew Larry was bright, and this proves it. Forbes cited chapter and verse—year-round sunshine, low-cost healthcare, great beaches, lots of golf courses, affordable cost of living. Says Larry: “You can live in the Algarve very comfortably indeed on $30,000 a year and less elsewhere in Portugal where prices are even lower.” Forbes’ second and third choices are Mazatlan, Mexico, and Cayo, Belize.

Tryg Myhren weighed in with upbeat thoughts: “Terrific newsletter. You and the con-tributors kept me turning the pages. I’m particu-larly sad about all of the fellows who died from the virus. But so many good ’58s are still alive.” We’ve had three Covid-19 victims: Brad Hubert, Ev Lindgren, and Arnold Tenenbaum (plus wife Lorlee, lost five days later to the virus). Also miss-ing from our ranks since the last DAM are Frank Blatz, former mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey, in riotous times; Bob Rosenberg, a productive physician-biophysicist whose seminal work on the blood thinner heparin saved lives; Phillip Mc-Clanahan, whose no-load mutual funds benefitted clients of a large investment firm; Harvey Bloom, an Oregon physician who sent five kids to Dart-mouth, classes ’87 through ’95; Mike Margulies, a linguist who was fluent in five languages, pianist, and pilot; and Rick Martin, a man of divine incli-nations who roamed the world with his guitar seeking elusive peace.

Finally, this tongue-in-cheek note from Ron Zwart in late June: “Thanks for continuing to publish the Sound & Fury—the glue that holds the class of ’58 together—including your ‘In Me-moriam’ section with touching tributes to the classmates we have lost. With no disrespect to the deceased, and seeking pardon for the pun, have you thought of retitling this section ‘The Quickel and the Dead?’ ” —Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; [email protected]

59 Was our 60th just a year ago? How things have changed. Those idyllic times on the Hanover Plain, be it in

the 1950s or during recent visits still anchor our personalities. I spent four and a half years under water while in submarines of the U.S. Navy. And I was asked many times: “How did you do that,


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isolated for months?” From that experience I offer some tips for our current isolation.

Sanitize: Wash those hands and clean those surfaces used in food preparation. Envision what an intestinal bug would do on a submarine with 130 folks and five toilets.

Establish a routine: Get out of bed on time and get out of those pjs before noon. Shave or put on your cosmetics.

Get dressed (and I don’t mean slipping into a sweatsuit).

Hydrate: Water will help your immune sys-tem stay tuned up.

Exercise: Spend at least 20 to 30 minutes a day in exercise. Walk or use light weights. We all think about exercise, now we must do it.

Moderate food and drink. If you concentrate on minor decreases, clothes fit better. Resist that temptation for extra wine or cocktails.

Plan on measurable projects; make them small and manageable. It may be to clean out a drawer or get six items ready for Goodwill or write or email four high school friends.

Limit your time in front of a screen, com-puter, or the TV. Be selective. Get away from constant “news.” Give yourself a break—find a comedy.

Stay connected. We are all wired to be social in nature and thrive at being “in touch.” On sub-marines, family communications were limited, but we were always close to one of 120 shipmates. Check in with a few acquaintances each day.

No matter which ocean, operating a sub-marine was full of surprises and anxiety. But the memories of Dartmouth have not changed. Think about Dartmouth when you feel that you are about to lose it.

Dave Marshall and Barry Smith continue to work the fall mini details, recognizing that the final plans will be dependent on College posture.—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; [email protected]

60 We have the following haikus from classmates. Ken Johansen: “Nineteen-sixty class/Reunion has been post-

poned/Will meet again soon.” Karl Mayer: “Sweet Fayerweather/Have a sip of beer today/And some old music.” Rick Hite: “I want to be where/Noisy crows critique the dawn/The day and the dusk.” Gene Kohn: “From DOC trip/Adventure in wide, wide world/You last one standing.” Dun-can Mathewson: “Memories are alive/Life in the Upper Valley/Good times remembered.” Bill Mc-Clung: “Covid go away/Little Billy wants to play/Don’t come back some day.” Kevin O’Sullivan: “The Dartmouth magic/Lacked one vital element/Coeducation!” Jim Nolan: “Baker to Bema/Big Green memories linger/Thanks, Eleazer.” Jim Marlow: “The brush of the wind/Paints a thick coat of quiet/On the summer’s day.” Mike Heitner: “She and I marooned/Together in our cabin/Our reunion.”

Nick Muller says, “I am too prolix for five-seven-five syllables. One book out in March, The Rebel the Tory, two more underway.” Steve Gell says, “We’re hunkering down like most classmates. It’s amazing the way Zoom has

taken on so much importance in our lives. We have linked up with friends unseen for years. Nearby neighbors, all younger than we are, have offered to pick up provisions for us. There seems to be a sense of kinship with fellow passengers trapped in the same lifeboat.” Jack Ford says, “On March 3, 2019, my wife, Lorna, died, overcome by her interstitial lung disease. On November 23, 2019, Jennifer, my firstborn, like her maternal grandmother and mother before her, died after an eight-year battle with metastatic breast cancer. Covid-19 is just another reminder that the only thing I can control is myself and listening to God in prayer!” Bill Gundy says, “Now that our world is topsy-turvy, we decided it was time to turn our own world upside down: We sold our condo of 17 years in Vero Beach, Florida, and are buying a unit in a retirement community in Westwood, Massachusetts. How’s that for keeping our feet firmly planted?” Dave Hambleton says, “Frankly we’re counting our blessings! It is wonderful to have time to catch up on so many things right here at home!” Jim Gallagher says, “We’re surviving the plague until it passes, part time at our lake house and the rest in Charlotte, North Carolina.”—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; [email protected]

61 Covid-19 simply will not go away! Some areas have performed much better than others; some areas have

performed more poorly than others. Some areas performed poorly early on but have improved dramatically; some areas that performed well early on have deteriorated dramatically. The bot-tom line at this time is that Covid-19 is not yet under control. Also, the virus’ direct and indirect effects on our class and our classmates are be-coming more apparent. As of June, at least three classmates, unfortunately, had succumbed to this virus. Our anticipated mini-reunion scheduled for this past April in San Diego had to be canceled at the last minute. Our anticipated mini-reunion scheduled for this October is ready to go but is awaiting final clearance from the College.

Though the aforementioned observations do not present a particularly cheerful outlook for the current situation, at least one event occurred recently that was indicative of a thoughtful and positive gesture indicating clearly that we are all in this together and that we are all here within the Dartmouth community to look out for each other. One day in mid-June, a research scientist at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice was walking past the Robert Frost statue near the Bema and noticed a cloth facial mask with “D” lettering lying on the ground. Realizing that Robert Frost was sitting without a face mask on, she picked up the face mask and gently placed it on the face of the statue to make sure Frost was practicing medically approved and socially acceptable anti-coronavirus precautions. She then took a picture of this unusual rendition of the Frost statue. That same day a member of the College administration also walked by the Frost statue and noticed a socially distanced and appropriately face-masked Robert Frost contemplating our world of today. He too

photographed the unusual incident. It turns out that the College selected the image as a “Photo of the Week” in June. This small incident illustrates how we are all looking after the Robert Frost statue, which has been looking after all of us in the class of 1961 and at the College for nearly 24 years.—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516)446-3977; [email protected]

62 Welcome to life in the time of Covid-19.

Zaida and Peter Knight in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: “We’re in good health, shel-tering in place above Copacabana Beach in our gilded cage with dawn outings to walk on the beach. When the water is not too rough, I go paddleboarding.”

Susan and Peter Brink, back in Norwich, Vermont, managed to avoid being stranded in Cape Town, South Africa, in March by switching airlines, returning to Boston via Dubai. Four days later South Africa was totally locked down.

Carl Herbold, Claremont, California, reports the state lockdown forced postponement of their move to a retirement community. In addition to walking the dog for an hour daily, Carl keeps a journal of the “plague experience” for his granddaughter and the archives of the local historical society, of which Carl is a past president.

Neil Drobny retired from Ohio State in May after a rewarding 16-year second career as an academic. Betty and Neil are downsizing for a move in July to Schoolcraft, Michigan, where they will enjoy lakeside living and proximity to Western Michigan University.

Bonnie and David French relocated to a continuing care retirement center in Dover, New Hampshire.

Dick Brooks in Quechee, Vermont: “Staying at home to avoid the Covid-19 infection, I have become more keenly aware of Mother Nature. Myrna and I take our dog for a walk along Dewey’s Pond in Quechee nearly every day where we see Canada geese and ducklings, red-winged blackbirds and waterside plants, flowers, and trees. With the iPhone app Picture This I can identify just about every plant or tree. We also spot a black bear occasionally.” Dick reports “a very strange empty feeling” pervades Hanover and the Green these days.

I regret to report our first loss to Covid-19, John D. (“Sparky”) Ryder, who died May 1. John E. Mann lost a hard-fought battle with leukemia on June 4. Charlie Gaillard, former CEO of General Mills, died of pancreatic cancer on June 14. General Thomas S. (“Tom”) Moorman Jr., former vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, died on June 18. —David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; [email protected]

63 Lou Gerstner, former CEO of IBM and 2013 Dartmouth honorary de-gree recipient, donated $4.8 million

in April to benefit high-achieving, low-income Dartmouth students with a demonstrated inter-est in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). “My path to Dartmouth led me to do

something that reflects not only my passion about the problem of inequality, but also my own experi-ence” as a first-generation college student from a family of modest economic means, Lou said.

In Richmond, Virginia, Ralph Hambrick, retired professor of public policy, published Transforming the James River in Richmond (The History Press), about how citizens, public-private partnerships, government leaders, advocates and volunteers brought about change.

On Martha’s Vineyard, south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, retired PBS broadcaster John Merrow biked his age—79 miles—on June 8 with donations earmarked for nonprofits in communities of color affected by coronavirus and protests over the murder of George Floyd. At home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Jeanne and Mike Prince anticipated their 39th annual ride, July 5 to raise money for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center. It would be virtual and include their three sons and granddaughter.

While all minis, including our 2021 80th birthday event, were canceled till further notice, two virtual Zoom events in May and June came off with great success.

The Psi U mini started with a toast and a lively song, according to Sam Cabot, a.k.a. “Cabbage.” Other partakers included Gerry and Mary Sullivan, Deamie Cabot, John and Althea Hicks, David and Michele Halsted, Dick Friedman, Wick ’62 and Liz Warrick, Charlie and Claire Logan, Pete Suttmeier, Jim and M’Adele Irvin, and Chris and Anne Wiedenmayer.

Thirteen classmates and spouses at the annual south Florida virtual mini in June celebrated the birth of Samuel Matthew Williams, grandchild of Art and Sandra Williams, among other classmate grandchildren, with Bob and Beth Bysshe, Dennis and Kay Eagle, John and Tatiana Kubacki, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Norris and Willie Siert, and Chuck Wessendorf.

In Los Altos Hills, California, retired heart surgeon Gary Silver and spouse MaryEllen enjoyed a visit in May from son Zachary and family. In Sandy Springs, Georgia, senior class president Jim Valentine strummed his 12-string guitar for wife Pam and friends. Writing in his daily journal in Middletown, Connecticut, Steve Bank recalled the birth of son Josh, June 7, 1968, one day following the murder of Robert Kennedy in that tumultuous year.

The death of George Floyd on Memorial Day, May 25, stirred Ed Mazer in Bradenton, Florida, to share feelings with classmates. In Chicago, Tom Jester recalled the police shooting of Laquan McDonald in 2014 while in Margate, New Jersey; former police defense attorney Bill Subin wrote “the Minneapolis incident should never have happened.” We would not know the reaction of Newsday police reporter Len Levitt, whose May 18 passing was recorded in a significant New York Times obituary.

I regret to report also the passing of Bob Burros of New York City on May 7. Classmate obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition. —Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; [email protected]

64 This column provides the opportu-nity to write to all classmates. The world today is full of change and

challenge. We may be retired, but we need not sit on the sidelines. Share your thoughts as members of a transformative generation. How do we or should we handle the corona contagion, the new Cold War, racial injustice, conflicting thought on campus, and increased partisanship in govern-ment? What lessons can our generation pass on to the next? Likewise, what experiences enriched your lives and should be shared?

Controversy can enhance the engagement of active minds: It would enliven this column. So share your wildest thoughts! For example, I think the College mascot should be the “evergreen.” It has the advantage of multiple meanings. Our teams should be called the Evergreens. After all, the unofficial logo or mascot of Stanford is the redwood. What do you think?

I’m not the designated author-at-large, just the class secretary. For obvious reasons there is very little going on by way of Dartmouth alumni events to report. So I need your news to make this column worth reading: Write in!—Jay Evans, 274 New Aldrich Road, Grantham, NH 03753; [email protected]

65 The much-anticipated 55th reunion got the Covid-19 shove into 2021. Keep an eye on this column for

more details as we and the College navigate the unknown.

Being, as we are, liberally educated mod-ern sorts, we held the annual meeting that is always a part of the reunion by Zoom. Thirty-odd participants included Hank Amon, Carl Boe, Dave Beattie, Ted Bracken, Don Bradley, Duncan Burke, Brian Butler, Gerry D’Aquin, Rick Davey, Brad Dewey, Bob Ernst, Pete Frederick, Mike Gonnerman, Jim Griffiths, Walt Harrison, Gary Herbst, Bill Hicks, Stu Keiller, Jaan Lumi, John McGeachie, Bob Murphy, Ken McGruther, Mike Orr, Joe Picken, John Rogers, Joel Sternman, Bill Webster, Tom Wise, George Wittreich, Allen Zern, and Bob Ziemian.

I should mention that Gonnerman is the instigator and driving force behind our assimila-tion of internet technology into our class activi-ties. He and Stu Keiller have given us all bragging rights as savvy old guys boogying into the 21st century. We are grateful for their leadership.

Although the reunion may have to wait a year, a new slate of officers does not. Griffiths chaired the nominating committee for the quinquennial beginning July 1. The officers pro-posed and unanimously elected are president, Don Bradley; vice president, Mike Gonnerman; treasurer, Mark Sheingorn; secretary/DAM col-umn editor, Bob Murphy; Dartmouth College Fund head agent, Joel Sternman; planned giving/Bartlett Tower Society, Hank Amon; webmaster, Stu Keiller; newsletter editor, John Rogers.

In response to the question, “What are you doing during the pandemic?” Brian Butler wrote, “Carolyn and I will live the class motto in July and August, driving from Arizona to visit family and friends in Wyoming, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, and Maine. We’ll spend about three weeks in Maine, where we

have dear friends and I have two brothers (also dear friends, of course). On the leg from Wiscon-sin to Maine we’ll tow our Rangeley guide boat, which we’ll leave in Maine where she belongs. Social distancing will be observed throughout.”

Tom Bettman adds, “Stayin’ alive here in Eugene [Oregon], where Covid is still rare. Daughter Amanda ’12 is managing to survive and still working from home in Boston. Up til the pandemic closed things down I was tutoring math, science, and Spanish at one of our local high schools as a volunteer for 20-plus hours a week; now I am useful only to my dog and as-sorted fruit trees.”

Tom Balogh wrote a marvelous, painful remi-niscence that begins, “Where were you 50 years ago? Where were you for the first moon landing and the Woodstock festival in the summer of 1969?” He speaks of his experience in Vietnam, losing friends and a classmate, Stephen MacVean. I will return to Tom’s piece in the newsletter or biggreen65.com.

Finally, thank you all for reading and com-menting. It has been a signal honor to write the ’65 story these past five years. I hope you will continue to help Murph tell more of it in this column. I’ll be looking forward to your longer-form news for the newsletter.—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Val-ley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; [email protected]

66 We’re still here—and so is Covid-19. I’m writing this on June 26, with the virus very much alive and the world

suddenly humming with the prospect of change—social, educational, political. Who knows where we’ll be or what will be happening when you read this in late August.

Classmates have been sharing their news and views about the past few months of forced confinement and upheaval. Here is what a few had to say.

“Doctors didn’t think I was going to survive,” Bruce Hamilton thankfully reports from Bensalem, Pennsylvania, “but I missed that memo and sur-vived anyway.” Glad you did, Bruce! Bruce waged a courageous battle with Covid-19 that involved four weeks in critical care including six days on a respirator and three weeks in sub-critical care with rehab. “My wife, Pat, my kids, and the grandkids are all doing well,” Bruce says, “but going stir crazy in quarantine. The grandkids in particular (two are 16 and two are 14) are feel-ing bottled up.”

“In these trying months,” Peter Cleaves wrote from Austin, Texas, “I’ve tried to put the downtime to good use for our family history, bi-national appreciation, and the Dartmouth heritage of engendering adventurous youth.” Peter did all this by discovering, then preparing and editing the notes, tapes, and photos his dad, Dick ’32, made about his epic bicycle trip from Laredo, Texas, to Mexico City 88 years ago on the just-inaugurated Pan American Highway. Kindle Amazon will soon be publishing A Mexico Escape 1936: Biking the Pan American Highway.

For the past 25 years Paul Doscher has helped lead the Tuck Business Bridge program, an inten-


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sive, three-week management course for liberal arts and sciences students normally held on cam-pus during the summer. It became “entirely vir-tual” this year. “I miss most the interaction with students and their parents,” Paul says, “and the long-term relationships that have grown from Bridge, with 6,800 graduates.”

For years Chuck Vernon has been putting his home shop in Windsor, Connecticut, to good use, constructing and then donating Lego tables to schools, churches, and daycares. With the lock-down he’s been making the attractive and sturdy tables for grandparents to give to their grandkids with the money Chuck receives going to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or FoodShare in the buyer’s name. Nice!

The pandemic has demonstrated to Will Wilkoff how good a decision it was for him and Marilyn to settle in Harpswell, Maine, on the Atlantic coast. “There is no better feeling than getting up with the sunrise and rowing several miles on flat ocean water,” Will reports. “It’s just me and the seals and the eider ducks.” Will is also hoping that “in some way the pandemic will be a kind of Sputnik moment that restores in this country a reverence for science and the scientific method.”

Toni and Tim Urban have been watching the unfolding swirl of unprecedented events during the past few months from Winter Park, Colorado, giving Tim a chance to conclude, “We are on a trajectory of great social change. We may look back in 10 years (those of us still kicking) and wonder how we made so many transformative changes in our way of life, coping with climate change, human health, public education, social media, and, of course, social and racial justice. Bring it on!”

Stay well. Be safe. And start planning for our 55th reunion next June in Hanover!—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; [email protected]

67 Recently I asked, “If you were at the table wrestling with plans and options for resuming in September

and making the tough choices Covid-19 will require that Dartmouth make, what would be the one thing you believe should remain unchanged?”

Wayne Letizia, Jim Rooks, and Dave Larson agreed on not changing the freshman trip, as it is “very important for building a sense of com-munity in the incoming frosh.”

Considering the financial impact of the pandemic, Jon Bash would save the need-blind admission policy and “provide extra financial assistance to students coping with the added financial burdens of this health crisis and eco-nomic collapse.” Others focused on Dartmouth’s educational quality and engaged in the “resi-dence vs. online education debate.”

Rick Geissinger says he “would never drop the residency requirement for students to be in Hanover. That is such a rich and important part of the Dartmouth experience.”

But John Manopoli says it depends on testing: “Should students return to campus in person, every student, every member of the faculty and

staff, and everyone in Hanover who interacts with students should be tested—100 percent, no exceptions.”

Harry Jaffe thinks “It’s too difficult and ex-pensive to test all of the students and faculty on-campus on a recurring, regular basis, so I think that it will have to remain an online education until a vaccine is available.”

Tom Smith stresses the importance of stu-dent engagement and performance review: “We focus on the easy part (content presentation) and excuse the hard parts (student engagement and performance review). Students who come to a small, teaching-oriented, and highly selec-tive college must be engaged, challenged, and reminded why they are there. The whole online experience can become too routine.”

Russell Pae concurs: “If the students can’t be on campus, then it is essential that all stu-dents be able to have good virtual contact with their professors. Unless professors are willing to change how they deal with students in an online environment, then colleges and universities such as Dartmouth will need to count on a vaccination to get its students back on campus. Without the campus life and the outstanding professors, there is not much reason to go to Dartmouth. Save your money and go to a community college. Covid-19 quickly becomes a direct attack on quality uni-versity education.”

Christian Smith believes the College should “make the on-campus experience available for students who choose it. Other students could have the option of taking part online or of skip-ping the term.”

Larry McArthur thinks “online distance learn-ing should be minimized if it is considered at all.” Bill Bredehoft says, “The one thing that should not change is a willingness to be flexible, to change as things develop. Nobody foresaw all the changes that occurred during the last three months, and there will be many more this fall and beyond.”

On a sad note, it is with a very heavy heart that I must report the recent passing of Beirne Lovely. His obituary will appear in a forthcom-ing alumni magazine and on our website, 1967.dartmouth.org.—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01339; [email protected]

68 First, a mea culpa regarding the last issue’s column: I got the extended deadline wrong and posted late, so

there was no room for what follows here, now slightly edited from the original, unpublished submission. Some of our classmates have worked hard to stand “as sister stands by brother” by continuing their Dartmouth community service activities, each of which, perhaps not surprisingly, involves education. George Spivey follows, as he has throughout his life as an educator, the guideline spoken at his mother’s funeral to “help somebody” in his mentoring and community service work; Richard Lappin works through his Providence Promise organization to promote financial awareness by and support for students in Rhode Island; and Jim Morrison’s work with the Learning Ally Audiobook Solution provides a multisensory accommodation for

students with reading deficits. Ric Gruder wrote to say that he hopes I’m

“well and playing music all [I] can.” He’s still working full-time at his law practice, although things have slowed because his business clients have seen a drop in activity. Ric adds that he has “hunkered down to live a dull life filled with family” on Long Island. Frederic, you haven’t been dull for a moment since our days at Teaneck (New Jersey) High. As for me, I do play music on Saturday Night Jazz at www.wwno.org, 7 p.m. to CDT.

Another former Jerseyite, Richard Livingston, says that he’s involved in a couple of engineering projects that aren’t ready for public disclosure, but we do know that he continues his activities involving construction materials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research, as well as work connected with Catholic University.

My ROTC and 101st Airborne/Vietnam col-league Terry Lichty sent me a copy of the 1970 orders on which we were both promoted to cap-tain. Terry retired from Raytheon to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 2011 and soon after bought a place on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, where he became friends with Gerry Hills. Terry and Susan are sequestered there, but “at an elevation that affords us great breezes and great views of the Caribbean.” They read. They sip. They commune with birds. They endure.

Andy Hotaling has just retired after a 35-year career as a pediatric otolaryngologist, the last 29 of which were spent at Loyola University Medi-cal Center in Maywood, Illinois. His wife, Ann, and son Jeff are also medical professionals, con-tinuing to work on the front lines on the Covid-19 pandemic. Praise and thanks to all.

At this point, we’re hoping to know soon about how and where to plan our fall class com-mittee meeting and possible attendant activities, including those involving the Frederick Douglass bust. In the meantime, please continue to stay smart and safe.

Now give a thought to Lucy Anich. Her hus-band of 44 years, Steven Golladay, died this past December 9.

See you on the radio.—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; [email protected]

69 At our 50th reunion the class of 1969 gave a rouse for the graduating class of 2019. Unlike our 1969

Commencement, washed out by a summer storm, the 2019 event was joyous, sun-drenched, and near-perfect. At our 50th few in our gray-haired gang could recall details of our connection to the class of 1919, although many of those alumni were with us for our turbulent 1969 Commencement. Christopher J. Stillbach reminds us that 50 years ago, Robert Stecher, class of 1919 (a legendary physician, philanthropist, and educator), predicted that by 2019 Dartmouth would change: “It will contain a substantial proportion of women,” Dr. Stecher said to the men assembled on the lawn, “and that is threatening.” Nonetheless, we are confident that he was secretly pleased that the class of 1969

had already welcomed women to our ranks. The film Early Daughters of Dartmouth: Blazing the Trail to Coeducation is now available online at preunions.dartmouth.edu.

Shedding our rain-soaked gowns and look-ing for our rolled-up diplomas spread out in the gym, we didn’t realize how much we would ulti-mately have in common with the class of 1919. By graduation they had survived three waves of H1N1 avian flu and a pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans, including fellow students. World War I, which claimed the lives of 112 Dartmouth men, ended during their senior year.

Dartmouth Memorial Field, completed in 1923, is dedicated to the memory of those who have served their country in war and peace, and the elegant 2015 sculpture “The Hill Wind Knows Their Name,” by Dimitri Gerakaris symbol-izes the unbreakable bonds of memory that unite us. Among the names we can find members of the class of 1919.

The class of 1919 held father-son dinners at the Dartmouth Outing Club, which our class is renovating. John Myers and Tom Hunt have worked tirelessly to raise money for the Dartmouth Col-lege Fund (DCF), and our class has responded. When giving to the DCF, classmates may allocate a portion to our 50th reunion class gift, the DOC renovation. Go to dartgo.org/1969doc to con-tribute to the DCF, the DOC House renovation, or both. Contributions can also be mailed to the Gift Recording Office, 6066 Development Office, Hanover, NH 03755.

We also salute the class of 1970, whose 50th reunion plans were disrupted by the pandemic, and the class of 2020, the first to create a virtual celebration. Norm Jacobs reports from the Alumni Council, where President Hanlon praised the class of 2020: “They will depart the Dartmouth campus missing their senior spring and the op-portunity to celebrate together at Commence-ment,” he said, “and my ask of you is to rally the alumni community to let the class of ’20 know that Dartmouth cares and that the Dartmouth fellowship is there for them, now and forever.” The class of 1969 rises to shout our support!

Also, we note with sadness that William E. “Bill” Ferguson passed away on June 116. I’ve sent a note to our email list and our next column will include remembrances.—John “Tex” Talmadge, 3519 Brookline Lane, Farmers Branch, TX 75234; (214) 673-9250; [email protected]

70 In these turbulent times, we remem-ber this Commencement address, delivered on June 14, 1970, by our

classmate Wallace Ford. “We are gathered here this morning to cel-

ebrate what is supposed to be a great day, a day of significance and a day of meaning for all those involved. But what does this day mean for us, the Black students who have survived the Dartmouth College experience?

“This day means that we recognize ourselves as being the result of years of labor and sacrifice, the labor of fathers, the sacrifice of mothers, the encouragement and help from brothers and sis-ters, the support of friends. What we owe for

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this labor, this sacrifice, this encouragement, this help, this support, we can never pay back in material terms no matter how hard we try.

“If we are to make the years of labor and sacrifice meaningful, then we must dedicate ourselves to our people. We must dedicate ourselves to Black freedom and Black peace of mind, no matter the obstacles, no matter the barriers, no matter the side alleys that lead to dead ends of frustration and negation.

“When we were first put in chains, our ancestors were surprised; when Reconstruction was found to be a sick white joke, we were surprised; when Marcus Garvey was railroaded to prison, we were surprised; when Emmett Till and Mack Parker were murdered, we were surprised; when Malcolm X, the prince of Blackness, was murdered in cold blood, we were surprised; when Martin Luther King, the prince of peace, was killed, we were still surprised; when Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed by the animals that masquerade as Chicago police, we were still surprised; and even last month, when more of our brothers and sisters were shot down in Augusta and Jackson, we were surprised.

“The time has now come for us to believe in ourselves. The time has come to make ourselves free. Our stars of freedom still shine and our saints of righteousness do live. You only have to look around.

“That is what we are about, that is what to-day means for us. To best sum up our feelings, though, I would like to quote a poem written by brother Herschel Johnson, of this class, as this poem speaks for the souls and spirits of all of us.

For you mothers with dirt-rough handsFor you with backs aching from bendingAnd flushing and scrubbingFor all you women on transitYou with brown bags under your armsBringing home the leavings of white folksBringing it to your childrenFor all you Black mothers and fathersWho had to live with humilityAnd yet have had the pride to surviveFor you Black mothers and fathers who raised upYour men are now with you.“Thank you and may a beautiful Black peace

always be with you.”—Gary Miller, 7 E Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; [email protected]

71 Wah hoo wah to Willis Newton for hosting Zoom calls for West Coast classmates that have since been ex-

panded to include classmates across the coun-try. Every Wednesday classmates participate in informative and entertaining discussions on a wide variety of interesting topics, including but not limited to reminiscing about how we prepared to flunk our pre-induction physical to avoid being drafted; discussing the merits of the former ROTC program; sharing the new normal and impact of Covid-19 on our lives (including sheltering at home with our families), the arts, traveling, medical care, and how the College is addressing the challenges of providing the Dartmouth experience to students during the

pandemic; reminiscing about our fathers who fought valiantly in World War II and the scant information we received from them given their reluctance to share details on their experiences; and recalling some of the great College professors we were privileged to know. Participating in Wil-lis’s Zoom conference calls were Sam Cuddeback, Malcolm Jones, Dick Wenzel, Greg Schelkun, Dave Paradise, Dan Clouse, Roger Prince, Peter Graves, Bernie Wysocki, Peter Pratt, Bob Lider, Doug Jones, Mac Barrett, Jon Osgood, Don Ebberly, Bob Cordy, Steve Hoverman, Janet Rosa, John Hanley, Michael Maynard, Pete Webster, Albert Lamarre, Joe Cecere, Simon Potter, David Aylward, John Eaton David Kra-koff, and others. Congratulations to Bob Cordy, who has retired from active law firm duty but still remains on senior status call. Jim Smith has retired from Webster Bank after years of dedi-cated leadership and service. Under the direction of David Aylward, editor of our 50th reunion book, Jim Rager has asked classmates serving as captains and volunteers to email the follow-ing excerpted letter to members of fraternities, sports teams, clubs, organizations, societies, etc.: “Classmates, the heart of our class 50th reunion book will be the individual entries that you and our classmates submit. We hope that you will do this in the spring or the summer, at the latest. Start by signing into the class reunion website, dartmouth71.reuniontechnologies.com. You can fill in the blanks under your name, write a short essay, and share a few pictures. To save you time, we have already downloaded all the information that you entered for the 45th reunion book, if any, as well as the latest contact and other informa-tion the College has for you.”

Follow these steps to update your entry. First, use your browser to go to dartmouth71.reuniontechnologies.com. Then click on the “Login” button and log in using your Dartmouth NetID and password. (If you don’t know your NetID call the help desk at 603-646-3202 or email [email protected] and ask for your NetID and help setting your password.) Once you are logged in, click on “My Reunion Book Entry” and follow the instructions to enter your reunion book submission. You’ll find that your basic contact information has already been loaded with whatever Dartmouth has on record for you. Use the screens that follow to update your information.

Classmates, stay safe and well.—Bob Lider, 9225 Veneto Place, Naples, FL 34113; [email protected]

72 I was so pleased to hear from Jack Vayda and Owen Kelly recently. Jack was headed to Nashville from the

New York City metro area and suggested that we three have a mini class reunion to catch up. Jack is a lawyer in New York City and is still practicing there and in Brazil, where he was born. He was coming south to visit his two daughters (one a Dartmouth ’10) and his grandson, who live here in Music City. Owen is retired after a long career in the financial services industry and still lives with his wife of 44 years, Ann Kelly, in Nashville, where he is active in the nonprofit world. They have a son who is finishing his Ph.D.

in clinical psychology with an internship at the University of Rochester and a daughter who lives in Nashville. Unfortunately, my schedule did not allow us to get together this time, but we are planning to do so when Jack next comes down for a family visit.

Joe Davis reported in to say that in May he retired as the chief operating officer of BKV Corp., the natural gas company he helped to start in 2014. Joe will continue as a director of the company and will “continue to champion natural gas as the low-carbon complement to renewable energy while the world transitions to sustainable energy sources.” Well done, Joe! He also tells me that he recently heard from Lawrie Lieberman, who is now living in Montana. Lawrie just celebrated his 48th wedding anniversary. He and his bride, Moira, were married in Rollins Chapel a few days before we graduated in 1972. Congratulations, Lawrie and Moira!

Ragnvald Bratz dropped me a note from Nor-way to say that life is “slack” for a 73-year-old retired guy, “but children (four boys) and grand-children (two girls and a boy) keep us halfway busy.” He and Kristin, his wife of 44 years, spend about half the year in Oslo and the other half up in the mountains north of there. Ragnvald says that, thankfully, the impact of the coronavirus has been milder in Norway than in the rest of Europe. He keeps in touch with John Musser, who is in the Boston area, and with Jan Opsahl, who is retired in the countryside outside of London. Thanks for reaching out, Ragnvald!

Sadly, I must close by reporting the death of two classmates. Bill French died at home in July from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He is survived by Janet, his wife of 38 years, and his son, William French III ’08. Peter Kaczowka passed away under hospice care in April at his home in Adams, Massachusetts. He is survived by his two sons, Aaron and Ethan. Our heartfelt condolences are extended to the families and friends of these sons of Dartmouth. The hill winds know their names.

As Jim Morrison said, “Strange days have found us.” Please check in with me to report on how you are doing during these difficult times. —David Hetzel, 997 State Blvd., Franklin, TN 37064; [email protected]

73 Tiresome summer ended!Did readers catch the “Stagecraft”

article and great photo of Lorna Mills Hill and her life’s work in this magazine’s May/June issue?

Shortly before everyone’s life went sideways, Don Lepley drove 300-plus miles from Lassen County, California, to the Bay Area, where he and Jim Dougherty caught the last pre-shutdown San Francisco Symphony concert. Don wrote: “The chief [Covid-19] impact on me was the extra load of emails and virtual meetings and telework adjustments, as the U.S. Forest Service picks its way through this turbulent time. I applied for retirement two years ago but chickened out—this time I’ve gone through with it. I may still have involvement with the botany program in Lassen National Forest, but for now I’m relieved to be off-schedule!”

As if the pandemic wasn’t enough, Sue Burt Stetson and Steve Stetson also experienced the severe tornado devastating the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area in mid-April. A large tree fell in their yard and many trees were uprooted directly behind them, but “miraculously we escaped any damage.” They moved to Tennessee three years ago to be near their grandchildren.

In Virginia, Greg Barry reported, “We’re both okay (wife Donna Sorkin, exchange ’72). We are living in McLean and walk daily (as we have been for 15 years) and are staying home. Northern Virginia has been hit fairly hard and we are mourning the likely cancellation of a trip to the Galapagos with my son and his wife, to say nothing of our trip to Norway during the sum-mer.” Further south in Old Dominion, Dave Pel-land shared, “We’ve hunkered down at home for the last two-and-one-half months. Fortunately, we did make our annual trip to Florida in late February-early March to see friends and take in some baseball spring training games before the pandemic hit. Happy to be retired and not trying to teach calculus online. If all goes well, by our 50th reunion the pandemic should be just an unpleasant memory.”

From upstate New York, Mark Elmer noted, “I am well enough, and although I did supervise one graduating math major this spring, I am happy to have retired. I live a quiet life with my pets, reading, some math, and birdwatching. I ride about the village on my recumbent trike. Before my daughter moves to Ithaca for graduate school in the fall, she is living with me, a happy shock to my existence!”

Charlie Boarman reported from St. Peters-burg, Florida. “We have beautiful weather, golf courses remained open, bike trails and public space provided options to exercise. My wife and I have remained civil. Without a vaccine or effec-tive treatment, this may be with us for another 18 months or more. It’s hard to predict the strain on the social fabric that would produce.”

While no virus-based classmate deaths have been reported thus far, 1973 spouses, fam-ily members, and relatives did succumb, as did alumni from across the decades; all the class officers extend heartfelt condolences to everyone who lost someone dear.—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; [email protected]

74 Hi, everyone.Matt Putnam and the executive

committee are hard at work on fun-draising, class projects, and our 50th reunion. I read in Rick Ranger’s recent newsletter that he will be taking over bios on our classmates, which really makes sense since he doesn’t have the word limit that we do.

So I am going to finish with this profile of Freddie Fu, M.D. I had the pleasure of knowing Freddie, taking many classes with him, and, as a doctor myself, always took pleasure in knowing I “knew him when….”

Freddie graduated summa cum laude, received his B.M.S. in 1975 from Dartmouth Medical School and earned his M.D. in 1977 from the University of Pittsburgh (UP). He


completed his general surgery internship at Brown University and returned to Pitt to complete his residency training. He is the David Silver Professor and chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and a distinguished service professor at UP. Freddie specializes in sports medicine and serves as head team physician for UP and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater.

Freddie reinvented how doctors deal with anterior cruciate ligament repairs. Innumerable amateur and professional athletes have benefited from his research and skills in this area. For 40 years he has had the most publications in this specialty. His state-of-the-art sports medicine complexes provide the comprehensive care for patients of all ages and athletes at all levels.

Freddie Fu is recognized throughout the world as representing excellence and innova-tion in sports medicine. His leadership has been frequently acknowledged nationally and internationally as well as within the community. He oversees more than 200 surgeons as head of orthopedics at Pitt. In addition, he oversees one of the best and most ethnically and gender-diver-sified orthopedic residency training programs in the country. He has been honored with more than 300 professional awards and was inducted to the 2016 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Hall of Fame. For Freddie’s pioneering work and his contributions to UPMC and UP, the UPMC Sports Medicine Center was renamed the UPMC Freddie Fu Sports Medicine Center.

Freddie credits DMS Dean James Strickler ’50, DMS’51 (a Pittsburgh native), for encourag-ing him to work with Dr. Albert Ferguson ’41, DMS’42, orthopedics chair in sports medicine at UP. Freddie exemplifies Dr. Ferguson’s phi-losophy: “Do the right thing, take care of your patients, and they will take care of you.”

The Dartmouth tradition continues throughout the Fu family with brother Frank ’76 and children Gordon ’99 and Joyce ’03. Freddie remains on the board of overseers for Geisel School of Medicine. Freddie cohosts an annual reception for incoming Dartmouth freshmen in the region to welcome them. He maintains a residence in Hanover. Nominated by classmates Oge Young and Doug Hamlin, he received the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award.

Freddie is married to Hilda Pang Fu, a por-celain painter and founder and president of a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit formed to broaden minds and inspire innovation. They have five grandchildren.

Please send me news.—Philip Stebbins, 17 Hardy Road, Londonderry, NH 03053; [email protected]

75 This installation of our Class Notes features a couple of classmates with whom we have not been in touch for

quite some time. First comes news from Larry Conley, who,

after Dartmouth and Columbia, has spent almost 40 years as a communicator, teacher, and primarily journalist. His journalism career covered various cities, including Memphis,

Tennessee, where he was the first Black editor of a city magazine in the country. In 2009, after 16 years as an editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he dipped in and out of retirement until taking the plunge for good in 2013.

Currently, in his words, “I’ve also been teaching adult literacy since 2010, first as a vol-unteer working with American adults and since last fall on a paid, part-time basis working with adult English as a second language students. Of course now, with the Covid outbreak, all my classes are online, which has been challenging but interesting. Personally, I’m living solo in an Atlanta suburb, have a grown son in Fort Worth, Texas, and, most importantly, my cutie grand-daughter turned 1 year old on June 8. When it seems safe to fly again, first thing I’m booking is a ticket to Texas.”

Well, get on over here, Larry! He is still in regular touch with several ’75s, including Jerome Taylor, Rick Jones, Jeff Hunter, and Darryl Lewis.

Rich Yurko describes himself as “one of those silent readers of the Class Notes who always mean to write but almost never do.” Well, he did this month! Rich is still a practicing lawyer in Boston, having founded his own firm, a business litigation boutique, 25 1/2 years ago and is now in an “of counsel” role. He has always maintained outside interests, and after 10 years, including two as president, he just rolled off the board at GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the “legal group that got marriage equality recog-nized throughout New England and then in the U.S. Supreme Court. As a member of the Supreme Court bar, I was in the well of the courtroom when our lawyer successfully argued our cause.”

His family still owns the Lyme, New Hamp-shire-based B&B, Breakfast on the Connecticut, and Rich is able to see lots of grads and lots of parents of current students as a result. He has remained in close touch with Hoyt Zia, with whom he and a couple of other high school friends gath-ered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, late last year. Hoyt has just retired as general counsel at Hawai-ian Airlines. He also stays in touch with one of his former roommates, Dr. Mark Greenstein, who just retired from teaching at the UConn Medical School. “Finally, there are our classmates who worked for The Daily D. We stay in touch via Facebook and Instagram and poke each other when the news warrants it.”

Rich has promised to tell me over a beer about his trip out of China in January and Aus-tralia after that, escaping the virus and wildfires. Indiana Jones?

Vox clamantis in Tejas.—Stephen D. Gray, 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX 77550; (650) 302-8739; [email protected]

76 Forty-eight falls ago we converged on Hanover from various vantage points and life experiences, each with a sto-

ry, each wondering what college would be like and how we would fit in. I am asked more often than I could ever have expected what it was like to be in the first class of coeducation. Mine is just one of 177 answers to that question, the one commonality being that it required strength. In our chrysalis state of developing identity, we, like


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our male counterparts, sought safety in the com-fort of what the College now refers to as affinity groups. Although a natural inclination and jus-tifiable survival tactic, this comfort-clustering reduced our range of social interactions. Fortu-nately, I continue to meet new friends and learn their stories at reunions, mini-reunions, and in researching this column. I am increasingly awed by the strength of our approximately 20 intrepid Black female classmates. I knew a few and am grateful to be connecting with others. I first met Donna Humphrey, Debbie Humphrey, and Andrea Lewis in our North Mass enclave, one of two all- female dorms. Donna’s warmth, humanity, and humor continue to inform me. Debbie’s good-ness and serenity remain an anchor. Andrea’s unwavering sense of principle and fearlessness made her the perfect unofficial first-floor sentry during that crazy fall of 1972. Her verbal reaming of an unwitting, inebriated football player who wandered in to harass one of our dormmates late one night made her my instant hero. Decades later, she is elegant and eloquent regaling me with tales of her travels with Sharon Ali, Cynthia Taylor, Karen Evans, and the Humphreys. I recently learned about Juneteenth in Amanda Green’s rich reminiscences of multi-generational family cel-ebrations published in the PBS publication Re-wire. Professor Karen Turner shared her historical perspective on Juneteenth in an interview with Kay Angrum of New York’s NBC affiliate. Karen has dedicated her career to teaching, explaining, researching, and sharing as a journalist, radio reporter, mayoral press secretary, Temple Uni-versity professor, and director of the university’s academic center on research in diversity. J.B. Redding (coauthor with Monica Hargrove and Eileen Cave of the 1974 report on institutional racism at Dartmouth) recently opened up about a lifetime of humiliating, scary, and exhausting experiences with the police. Her pain was made even more poignant when I read J.B.’s mission as founder of Caring Hands, a Maryland organiza-tion committed to providing homes for adults with disabilities: to “honor the wishes of the individual, accept people as they are, give oppor-tunity for full lives in the community, maximize healthy outcomes, and preserve dignity.” Deep gratitude for these friends is the magnifying glass that brings the term “systemic racism” into sharp focus, revealing the life-and-death urgency of this hour. Understanding our classmates’ stories and generational history precludes any arms-length observation of injustice. The burden to explain, prove, educate, and take action can no longer be borne solely by our Black classmates who have been doing it for too long. It is the re-sponsibility of all of us.—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; [email protected]

77 This winter George Shackelford (who knows a little something about Im-pressionism) joined Hood Museum

of Art Director John Stomberg for a private visit to the exhibition Monet: Places at the Denver Art Museum. Attendees included Brian Deevy and John Grant. This spring Dartmouth on Location took the show online for a series of programs

on “Impressionist Paintings You Should Know,” highlighting collections across the United States.

In May President Phil Hanlon gave a Zoom talk for the class about the “uncharted territory” the College is navigating. “Profoundly dedicat-ed educators” have made the switch to online learning possible. The faculty report more one-on-one meetings with students than ever. The College projects significant losses for this year and next. Hiring and salary freezes have been implemented. Another major round of budget cuts will be imposed this summer. Neverthe-less, Phil reiterated the College’s commitment to need-blind admissions, noting that the admit-ted class of 2024 is the most socioeconomically diverse in history. Ninety-six percent of admitted students are in the top 10 percent of their high school class. The pandemic has highlighted the importance of a liberal arts education to prepare leaders—at all levels of society and throughout the world. A major challenge facing the College is how to maintain the unique sense of com-munity and place that distinguishes Dartmouth from its peers.

In June Dee Dee Granzow Simpson, Dr. Dan Lu-cey, and Susan Dentzer joined Dr. Steve Mentzer on a class Zoom call about the SARS-CoV-2 corona-virus. Steve is a thoracic surgeon and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He discussed the research findings he and colleagues recently published in The New England Journal of Medi-cine. Steve’s group of international researchers recognized early that Covid-19 produced unique signs of disease in the lungs. This realization spurred a hunt for autopsied lungs from Co-vid-19 victims in Europe. The lungs revealed numerous blood clots, illustrating that Covid-19 is a vascular as well as respiratory ailment. In addition to the relentless assault it makes on the immune system, it can cause massive organ failure and death. Dan, Susan, and Steve agreed on the need “to keep vigilant” by wearing masks, washing hands regularly, and socially distancing as Covid caseloads continue to rise in more than half the states. These precautions are especially necessary for the 60-plus set, such as us, whose immune systems become less robust with age.

On July 1 Gina Russo will become the chair of the board of advisors of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum. She looks forward to working with Director Stomberg and his amazing team, plus other board members, including Maud Welles. The Hood concluded a multi-year renovation and expansion in early 2019. This project rei-magined the physical spaces of the museum and the way in which the collection was hung and interpreted for the public. Increased gallery spaces, a public concourse connecting to the campus arts district, and three state-of-the-art, smart classrooms are all hallmarks of the new Hood. Please try a virtual visit at hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu.—Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540; [email protected]; Eric Edmondson, DC Advisory, 425 California St., Suite 19, San Francisco, CA 94104; [email protected]; Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, Washington, DC 20037; [email protected]

78 More responses to last issue’s ques-tion: What will you no longer take for granted in 2021? “Spontaneity,” is Har-

riet Schwartz Crew’s one-word answer. “Haircuts!” writes Julie Hill Fulcher, adding: “Family dinners, sitting down in a restaurant, and anti-bacterial dish soap!” On the other hand, says Julie, her whole family is now Zoom proficient, including her 92-year-old dad.

“The simple pleasure of giving a solid handshake to both colleagues and clients,” writes David King. “Being able to spend time with my father,” says Andy Ebbott. “He lives in a locked-down memory care facility. He doesn’t have much time left and I hope I’ll be able to give him at least one more hug and tell him how much he’s meant to me.” For Ellen Meyer Shorb it is the ability to fly to Guatemala twice a year. “I sit on the board of a school that serves children whose parents scavenge the Guatemala City dump for a living. I never thought I would not be able to visit the school and community on a regular basis.”

And from someone whose mind is clearly on something other than Covid-19: “I won’t take for granted that all Major League Baseball teams play by the rules,” says Chris Morris about MLB’s base-stealing controversy. “The Red Sox and Astros should be harshly penalized.” I long for the day when we can have more arguments about things like this!

Will Fraizer has a new gig. He is operations engineering manager for Freeport LNG Development, L.P., which operates the world’s largest electric motor-driven liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and export facility, on Quintana Island along the Texas Gulf Coast. “I am enjoying the opportunity to work with some very talented people and use my international LNG experience again,” says Will, “not to mention the interesting technical challenges, combined with regular ocean views.”

Bob Kaler reports he is still a partner with the law firm of Holland & Knight. He and his wife, Liri, live in the Boston area. They have a son finishing up at Dartmouth as a math and music major and a daughter finishing up at NYU.

I am sad to report the passing of two classmates. Charlie Kreter died on April 20 in Severna Park, Maryland. Susan Fera Assmann lost her battle with cancer on May 30 in Waltham, Massachusetts. Look for remembrances of them on the class website: http://1978.dartmouth.org/in-memoriam.

The May/June column on remembering lost classmates generated more response than any other I’ve written. Gordon Holbein wrote: “Thank you from my heart for the most sincere and meaningful piece I have ever read in our Class Notes.” Gordon added that it “moved me to reflect and to see some important things more clearly.” I heard from members of other classes as well. “What a wonderful sentiment,” emailed Jonathan London ’90, “to make sure that everyone’s life is acknowledged and celebrated in some small way, even if it has to be posthumously.” Thanks to everyone who reached out. I am glad it was meaningful. Send news!—Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago, IL 60605; [email protected]

79 It’s 6 p.m. on Father’s Day and John and I have just finished talking about what we want to say in this, our last Class

Notes column. We are waxing nostalgic about our dads, thinking about how much we miss them, when we learn that these men we loved, admired, and respected died in our arms, mine just a month before our fifth reunion at the age of 58. The mem-ory of how proud he looked when we arrived on campus freshman fall is still strong in me, like the granite of New Hampshire that was made part of us ’til death. Equally strong is the gratitude John and I feel at having been given the opportunity to serve as class secretaries. Thank you for allowing us to share your news and tell your stories—it has been an honor and a privilege.

We are thrilled to be passing the torch to Janie Simms Hamner, a loyal daughter of Dartmouth, starting with the November/December issue of DAM. But before we do, I thought I would take a few paragraphs to reflect on my many years in this role, the most rewarding of them being the last five working alongside my brother from another mother, John “Juan” Currier. I could not have asked for a better wing man.

It occurs to me that “Building Bridges,” the welcoming 40th reunion theme coined by Dawn Hudson and Otho Kerr, our can-do co-chairs, aptly describes the job John and I have been doing during our tenures as class secretaries. We have derived immense satisfaction from connecting with a broad and diverse spectrum of classmates, particularly those who, for any number of good reasons, have been reluctant to respond to class outreaches in the past. With 54 columns and more than 2,500 birthday greetings in the rearview mirror, we hope our message of inclusivity has come through loud and clear: “We are grateful for you” (thank you, Gemma Lockhart!); you all matter.

Since penning my first column nearly a decade ago, I have written about 142 of you (including nine guest columns) and mentioned 113 others, chronicling your families, careers, activities, successes, and tribulations. You are educators, authors, surgeons, politicians, philanthropists, social workers, artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, scientists, and so much more. Sadly, we have also mourned the passing of 22 of our 52 deceased classmates, the most recent being the death of Doug Egan on May 14. John and I have always regarded you as an exceptionally talented, kind, caring, and supportive collection of individuals; what we couldn’t have fully appreciated without meeting you or reconnecting with you through our class secretary efforts, however, is the incredible breadth and depth of your humanity. You are a remarkable group!

We want to thank Dawn, Otho, and the 50-plus members of their 40th reunion committee for their hard work during the past year and commend them for successfully pivoting to a series of joyful virtual reunions following the postponement of our eagerly anticipated physical reunion. Despite our shared disappointment, there is much to look forward to when we return to Dartmouth next June or July, including lots of 60-something-year-old dancing to classic 1975-1979 tunes culled from your responses to the music committee’s online “Battle of the Bands” contests.

Finally, to the more than 600 classmates whose names have yet to appear in this column, we want to hear from you! Please send news to [email protected] and help Janie hit the ground running.

Refresh, enjoy, and travel on, good people.—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; [email protected]; John Currier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) 649-2577; [email protected]

80 A quarantine is like college: no hair-cuts, no dentist, no church, no visits to parents, but flexible schedules and

too much drinking. The word quarantine, as we all now know, derives from the Italian word for 40.

Forty marks a time of waiting, preparing, testing. Pregnancy lasts 40 weeks. We have been out of college for 40 years. Forty is a long time, whatever you are marking.

Our reunion, of course, has been postponed. The 110 lawyers in our class best understand that we have all received an extension of time. We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when.

Many thanks to reunion chairs Cathy McGrath and Alex Frank for their hard work. They are still on the hook for when we do gather together. Cathy and Alex determined long ago (in March) that our reunion would not take place this year. Who could have seen this coming? Cathy and Alex did.

Susan Fagerstrom and Mark Alperin have been most excellent co-presidents, encouraging new ideas while keeping us focused on getting things done. Our 60th birthday party in Scottsdale, Arizona, was a highlight of their administration. Susan and Mark are writing a book about alumni volunteerism titled Herding Cats.

Frank Fesnak and Rob Daisley were great co-secretaries, bringing new wit and perspective to these pages. Our partnership was a troika that worked.

Lisa Shanahan carefully steered the committee that selected the recipients of the Parker Small Award. The names of the honorees will be kept under wraps awaiting a public ceremony. While preparing for reunion, Lisa was running for election to the common council in Norwalk, Connecticut. Lisa received the most votes in her district and more than double the vote totals received by her Republican challengers. Is Lisa’s victory a harbinger of November?

With sorrow, I report the sudden passing of Andy Glassberg in early June. With his positive energy, intellectual curiosity, and warm hospitality, Andy embodied the Dartmouth spirit. Last reunion, Andy stood with me on the dais in Rollins Chapel and helped read the names of our deceased classmates. When we meet again, we will read Andy’s name. Thoughts and prayers for Barbara and their two daughters.

Pandemics are a time to remember what is important. Dartmouth is important. The Upper Valley is important. Old friends are important. The ties that bind are important.

Reunions are about the here and now, not old glory days. Moving forward through time, my connections to Dartmouth and my friendships with classmates have grown and deepened, enriched with layers of meaning. Now more than

ever, I am grateful for the College, the beauty of its place in the world, and longtime friends.

Don Henley decided the heart of the matter is forgiveness. I will gratefully accept forgiveness, but as we remember what is important and why we have been called to be present in this strange and charged time, I turn again to faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love. —Wade Herring, P.O. Box 9484, Savannah, GA 31412; (912) 944-1639; [email protected]

81 No one does it alone. At times of great-est difficulty, someone helps, some thoughts inspire, and hope and commu-

nity coalesce. This is the essence of the big ques-tion about the concept of “trail magic,” a term used by long-distance hikers to describe an unexpected occurrence that lifts spirits, inspires gratitude, or otherwise eases the strain of an arduous journey, like the one we all find ourselves on during this time of pandemic and social awareness.

Philip Gibbs relates, “Most of this pandemic has been pretty lousy. I have friends who are sick and relatives of friends who have passed away. That said, perhaps we will appreciate some of the things that really matter. My trail magic moment occurred when my daughter, who is doing her sophomore spring term in her bedroom, said to me, ‘I’m okay; there are people with much bigger problems.’ Good kid.” Weyman Lundquist seems to have both received and created trail magic. “My trail magic was getting Small Business Administration approval for a Paycheck Protection Program loan for my company, West Coast Magnetics. With close to 100 employees in the United States and 150 south of the border, a lot of people are relying on me. It has been a wild three weeks, very stressful. I have been able to dial back the cortisol with regular trips to the bay to race with my buddies on my hydrofoil windsurfer.” John Curtis suggests a cyclical nature to the beneficence of trail magic. “As some of you know, I stepped in to rescue a botanic garden several years ago. During the pandemic we elected to remain open. A worker emailed: ‘The garden is looking lovely. We had a nurse visit and become a member almost in tears, thanking us for being open and providing a much-needed escape.’ After working with the local police on how to stay open to support visitors’ well-being and getting staff behind our approach, this email was the trail magic to keep me hiking.”

Greg Slayton sees magic all around him. “Early one morning many years ago our 5-year-old (Christian ’15) asked why I was leaving so early for work. When I told him I wanted to be sure we could send him to Dartmouth, he volunteered to stay 5 years old for the rest of his life so I wouldn’t have to work so hard.” The Covid-19-inspired question caused Betsy Slotnick Rubinstein to write an appropriate 19-stanza poem that will be reproduced in the ’81 newsletter. She ends her oeuvre with: “For all the magic that has shone, Upon this unmarked trail, Has lit our path, will lead us on, And proves we will prevail.”

Lastly, I wish to thank heartily my fellow co-secretary Veronica Wessels, who ends her five-year stint with this column. She has injected her obvious passion, top-notch organizational talent, and a very special level of creativity to her role.


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Thankfully, she will continue involvement in various communications initiatives for the class. Cheers, Vee!—Emil Miskovsky, P.O. Box 2162, North Conway, NH, 03860; (802)345-9861; [email protected]; Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; [email protected]

82 By the time you read this column, I imagine we will still be dealing with the coronavirus and its impacts. In the

last column Jenny shared thoughts from several class leaders on how being a member of the Dart-mouth community has helped them cope with this pandemic. For Part II of “Vox Clamantis in Pan-demus,” I reached out to classmates living abroad. According to my very unofficial count, there are at least 28 members of our class who live outside of the United States.

Sean Burke writes from Paris: “France went into a strict lockdown on March 17. Only grocery stores, pharmacies, and some takeout restaurants were open. To be outside of our homes, we needed to carry a signed self-declaration explaining why we were out. There were only a few valid reasons: work (in some circumstances), food shopping, medical appointments. We could exercise outdoors, but only alone and no more than half a mile from home. In my spare time indoors, during April, I wrote rhymes about life in lockdown.” Sean wrote a total of 30 poems. Email me if you would like a copy of his “Quarantine Chronicles.”

Bob Faber shared the following from Bulgaria: “Camaraderie and creativity are two important aspects of life at Dartmouth that I remember fondly and always try to recreate, wherever my travels take me. When Bulgaria entered its lockdown, every aspect of life here turned upside down. Our work with children through the PINK Foundation came to a screeching halt. Within a few days I realized morale would quickly sink if we didn’t do something proactive to raise spirits among the team, so I organized weekly Zoom meetings just to give us a way to share news and encourage each other. These times together gave rise to activities such as distributing food parcels to hungry families, preparing home use materials for children out of school, and developing an online story hour to teach and entertain local preschoolers. We even held an impromptu Facebook live fundraiser to support summer programs for children at risk.”

And John Henderson writes from Asia: “Here in Myanmar things aren’t too far from normal. People know what’s going on in the rest of the world, but mostly they don’t have a personal connection to Covid-19. Official numbers here in mid-June are just around 250 infected and just under 10 died in a country of more than 50 million. I am lucky enough to be able to keep consulting from my Yangon apartment and to keep taking long bike rides nearly every day. Since the start of the pandemic some Dartmouth pals organized a twice-monthly happy hour on Zoom. It’s now morphed into an online book club—nice!”

I am saddened to report the deaths of classmates Anchie Kuo and Kerek Frierson. Please visit 1982.dartmouth.org and click on

“In Memoriam” at the top for more information about them and all the members of our class who have died. You can share a memory or a photo on the page of a deceased classmate by sending an email to Matt Hoffman at [email protected].

Stay healthy and safe!—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; [email protected]; Jenny Chandler, 3506 Idaho Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016; [email protected]

83 As Sam Sanders recently said during his NPR podcast It’s Been a Minute, “It feels like we’re living in three movies at

once: a satire, and a horror movie and a Spike Lee Joint.” The recent national wave of conversations about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, systemic racism, unemployment, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings protecting LGBTQ employees and supporting the DACA program makes the first six months of 2020 an historic and momentous time. Peter Kilmarx, M.D., writes that since March 13 he has been working from home in Bethesda, Maryland, and alternatively from his farm in Lyme, New Hampshire. In his role at the National Insti-tutes of Health he is supporting global Covid-19 research partnerships, SARS-CoV-2 genomic sur-veillance, contact tracing challenges, and many other projects. Peter has given many updates on Covid-19 research and epidemiology including a webinar, “What’s Needed to Re-open Safely” for the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Since May, people have been vigorously coming together worldwide in record numbers in response to multiple video recordings of police officers and white supremacists brutalizing and sometimes killing Black people and other people of color over minor violations, suspicion, or simply living while Black. These protests also shine a light on increas-ing violence against trans women of color. Brian Roy, attorney for UnitedLex in Richmond, Virginia, likens the recent profound bipartisan, multiracial, interfaith union of people to two earlier events he experienced firsthand. In the early 1990s Brian arrived in Los Angeles within days of the Rodney King beating on March 3. 1991. Ten years later Brian was a newly appointed attorney for Morgan Stanley, with offices in the World Trade Center in New York City. Fortunately, on the morning of 9/11, Brian and his new wife were in Maui, Hawaii, on the second day of their honeymoon. In New Jersey, Maddie Thomas of Glen Rock resonantly marched in a Black Lives Matter protest and last week celebrated Juneteenth, a tradition passed down through the generations of her family. As a senior writer for Bloomberg News focusing on business and economic news and global equal-ity, Karen Toulon writes: “It’s essential to include voices and perspectives from all communities and cultures—in our newsrooms and as sources in our stories.” Dave Wallinga and his family live in St. Paul, Minnesota, just a few miles away from the site in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered. Dave reports the official lines of communication among the city, police, and citizens have been al-most nonexistent for years. Dave has worked at two nonprofit organizations dealing with agriculture and the environment. Both organizations are now intensively addressing race-based and non-race-

based inequities in their policy arenas. After the popularity of the N.Y.C. and Boston first Friday lunches organized by Dave Ellis and Patty Shepard, respectively, other regions have recently begun fol-lowing their footsteps. In May Elliot Stultz and Becky Ankeny hosted the first virtual lunch for classmates living in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Not to be outdone, Maren Christensen, Shanta Sullivan, and Ian Wiener hosted the first West Coast virtual cocktail hour in June.—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; [email protected]; Elliot Stultz, 421 West Melrose St., #8A, Chicago, IL 60657; [email protected]

84 The world’s been on lockdown but one day we will all travel again. As your trusty co-secretary, I am ignoring the

students in my Zoom classroom for however long it takes to write this column. I’ll guide you toward some interesting places to visit once the pandemic is over. And who said travel agents were obsolete!

For those of you living on the East Coast, why not drive to Maine? You could visit Kate Hotchkiss. Kate is debuting her first book, On Harbor’s Edge, the first in a series of dramatic, generationally layered stories from 1912 to the present, against the backdrop of Maine island imagery that award-winning author Susan Conley describes as “so rich it is its own character.” Kate is empty-nesting with her husband, Ellard, on a Maine island with their adult sons’ dogs.

And if you live on the West Coast, why not drive up to Alaska? Gas is cheap now. The roads are empty. Shouldn’t take too long. We have four classmates living in Anchorage: Sarah, Steve, Jan-ice and Ken. (There will be a quiz later.) And if you’re not feeling well, never fear, as we have two doctors. Sarah Burrell Troxel, M.D., is a plastic sur-geon. Steve Compton, M.D., is a cardiologist. Steve writes: “My wife and I have two college-age boys who are back for the summer and who knows how much longer. Alaska is probably the easiest state to socially distance. We’ve been getting outside, hiking, biking, fishing, kayaking.” Janice Tanaka Tower is the owner of Tower Health. Ken Miller is president of Denali FSP Fundraising Consultants. Ken writes: “I have been doing well, in contact with a few fellow classmates, including Peter Ellis and Gary Witherspoon. I have been active in the conversations around anti-racism and remain privileged to mentor and support young men of color. Beautiful summer so far in Alaska but miss traveling to the Lower 48.”

Traveling past Anchorage, you could visit Jennifer Reynolds in Fairbanks, where she’s a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences. Or drive south on the Highway 1 and stop at the Kenai peninsula to see Katie Tongue Bramante, accountant at Peninsula Internal Medicine.

Or you could sail out to Hawaii. Just think of the excuses you’d have to get off that Zoom call. “Sorry, I’m losing you. Boat has limited wi-fi.”

In Honolulu you could visit Terry Yee, M.D., in case you got sick on the boat.

Monica Latini King also lives in Hawaii but over in Kauai, where she’s been the editor of Hawaii Fishing News since 1984. Monica writes: “Almost

everyone else in the islands has been fishing, so life is full of thrilling fishing stories and fresh ’ah and ono. Sharing the home time with our two teenage boys has been an added bonus.”

Fishing, hiking, plastic surgery—just be sure to write me a thank you note after visiting all of these great classmates. I’ll be waiting to hear from you.—Juliet Aires Giglio, 4915 Bentbrook Drive, Manlius, NY 13104; [email protected]; Eric Grubman, 2 Fox Den Way, Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 710-7933; [email protected]

85 Writing this column as our shut-in spring evolves into essentially a stay-in-place summer (and who knows

what next?) is an attempt to provide some ele-ment of “normal” during these unprecedented times. So let me begin with a shout-out to our class webmaster, Jeff Weitzman, for his creative redesign of our website (www.dartmouth85.com). The site incorporates links to our Shades of Green class newsletter, cleverly curated by Lisa Sweeney Herrington and Margaret Warram Marder—be sure to read the spring 2020 edition that includes sto-ries about classmates who have chosen a career in religion, either as clergy or staff, including Bo Beatty, Claudia Broeker Egger, Ellen Jennings, Blaine Richard, and Greg Somerville. The website also contains an entertaining visual of our Hol-lywood Squares way of staying connected while remaining socially distant—check out the Zoom call screenshots.

Our site is an easy way to review updates on important initiatives, such as our class project, co-chaired by Veronica Jenkins and Pamela Ponce-Johnson. We are teaming up with Dartmouth Partners in Community Service to provide scholarship aid and mentoring to current undergraduates pursuing social impact internships. Ann Schonfield was a winter 2020 mentor, and currently serving as our class mentors (albeit remotely connecting with their mentees) are Sue Finegan and Ted Meisel. Anyone interested in participating in this program, please reach out to either Veronica ( [email protected]) or Pam ([email protected]).

Our website also highlights “in memoriam” news of classmates. It is with profound sadness that I share the most recent news of the passing of Sarah Snyder Morris at her home in Salem, Oregon, on May 15, after a courageous battle with metastatic breast cancer. Sarah is survived by her loving husband of nearly 20 years, Russ Morris, her mother, three sisters, and seven nieces and nephews.

Believe it or not, efforts on planning our 35th class reunion are well underway with the guidance of our reunion chair, Beth Parish. We are cautiously optimistic that this cluster reunion will take place in Hanover from June 17-21, 2021. Anyone eager to chair the committee on evening entertainment, please let your interest be known via the centralized email: [email protected]. And the reunion committee is interested in hearing from you about what you want to do, see, and hear when we gather next year so please take a moment to complete this short survey (www.dartmouth85.com/35-reunion-interest-survey).


In the face of the ongoing global health pandemic, national protests addressing systemic racism and an overdue overhaul of policing, fallout from the economic shutdown, and associated future uncertainty for so many, it is easy to despair. Rather, perhaps we will seize this moment to face these challenges, no longer looking through a prism of individual fear and excuses, but with a focused lens of collective opportunity. We are all learning and adjusting, and we hope you are staying healthy and safe. May your voice be heard, your actions be constructive, and we will be part of the solution toward making a difference.

All the best to all of you!—Leslie A. Davis Dahl, 83 Pecksland Road Greenwich, CT 06831; (203) 552-0070; [email protected]; John MacManus, 188 Ringwood Road, Rosemont, PA 19010; (610) 525-4541; [email protected]

86 First, I’d like to thank Liz Babb for using her valuable skills, a lot of time, and hard work to improve our class

communication tools. Because of her efforts, we now have an up-to-date class website (1986.dartmouth.org), a larger Facebook public group (www.facebook.com/groups/dart1986), an awe-some digital May newsletter (also on the class website), and the amazing class Zoom calls. It is always so wonderful to see all your faces, as we catch up or talk about issues that concern us all in this stage of our lives and prepare to meet back on campus in 2021. John Hueston and I are thrilled to co-chair our 35th ’86 class reunion—“It’s So Easy Being Green”—from June 17-20, 2021. Thanks to Todd Gomez, Jayne Daigle Jones, Liz Babb, Jona-than Skurnik, Laura Gillespie, Dawn Carey, Harry Carrel, Kelly Keller, Lynn Tracy Nerland, Jonno Wil-liams, Ned Groves, Alex Rossides, Mike Moody, Liz McClintock, and Burgie Howard for agreeing to join the reunion committee. (Reunion updates post to website.) Please catch Bill Rodgers’ commen-tary, “Black Americans Have No Choice but to Protest,” published by Barron’s on June 4. Bill is professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. He was chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2000 to 2001. He serves on New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s Re-start and Recovery Commission. Josh Greenberg currently serves as the vice president of govern-ment relations at Boston Children’s Hospital. Josh shares, “I have been lucky to host several groups of Dartmouth Partnership in Community Service health-focused summer placements in Boston for informal dinners with discussions with health policy figures about what they are experiencing on the ground. The students are active thinkers from multiple undergraduate ma-jors. To a person they care deeply about eliminat-ing health disparities and recognize the impact that poverty, underemployment, and structural racism can have on their clients’ health. We’ve drawn on the wider Boston Dartmouth commu-nity, including fellow ’86 Mary Beckman for their insights.” Gary Greene shared, “Last week Carolyn, Emily ’17, and I were in Hanover for graduation so that we could celebrate with Alison ’20.” He also was there with Peter Ramsden and his daughter,

Haley ’20. We send our best wishes to Greg Lesko and his bride, Kelly, as they celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary this year. Congratulations are due to Jonathan Skurnik, director of Becom-ing Johanna, a documentary about navigating transgender identity, which aired multiple times on PBS through July 7. Synopsis: When Johan-na, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive. Jonathan participated in a live question-and-answer session through Eventbrite to discuss his movie with viewers. The documentary was included in PBS’ SoCal events celebrating Pride Month (June), noting that the film “painted an insightful picture of the LGBTQ movement.” It is finished in beauty.—Mae Drake Hueston, P.O. Box 264, Balboa Island, CA 92662; (949) 500-2191; [email protected]

87 Difficult times such as these make us appreciate the things in life we may have taken for granted before Cov-

id-19: leisure time with family, connecting with friends, comforting food and drink, being outside in the fresh air, and positive news of any and all kinds. Susannah Drake and Katherine Faulkner are celebrating just such good news: Earlier this year the American Institute of Architects recognized them as fellows, the organization’s highest honor, bestowed on members with exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society. An associate professor of architecture and land-scape architecture at the University of Colorado Boulder, Susannah also reports that her firm, DLANDstudio, is one of five landscape architec-ture firms in the country asked to reimagine the landscape of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to address the effect of climate change on the city’s beloved cherry trees. “Just the other day I saw [co-head class agent] Peter Murane and [class alumni councilor] Anne Kubik and helped Peter out with the design of his own garden,” Susannah said. “It was fun to connect!”

In another entry in the good news column, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont included a shout-out to our very own Skip Kodak in a televised address broadcast by WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut. Based at Lego’s American headquarters in Enfield, Connecticut, Skip is the executive vice president of the Americas market group at Lego, overseeing sales and marketing in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, and Brazil. Gov. Lamont complimented Skip’s and the Enfield headquarters’ success in fully transitioning to 100-percent staff telecommuting during the Covid-19 crisis, “taking social distancing seriously,” and keeping the infection rate “extraordinarily low.” As an example of how businesses can help the community and “stick together” during the crisis, Gov. Lamont praised Lego’s donation of 1,600 games to every first-grader in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where there had been a spike of virus cases. Nice work, Skip!

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88 Greetings, ’88s! As I write this column, the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread, with some areas of the world

impacted more severely than others, and I hope all of our classmates are staying healthy. Since the pandemic hit, I am taking more neighborhood walks than ever, and I see an abundance of color-ful yard signs thanking healthcare providers and other front-line workers for all they are doing. Many of our classmates fall into these categories. Did you know we have nearly 100 medical doctors in our class, not to mention scores of others who are playing important roles in this public health crisis? I will highlight just a few of our medical doctors who are doing amazing things.

Tom Chiller is an epidemiologist who went to Tulane School of Medicine and now works at the Centers for Disease Control as chief of the mycotic (fungal) diseases branch. He also serves on the faculty of Emory School of Medicine, division of infectious diseases, and practices at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Atlanta.

Ed Merrens serves as the chief clinical officer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where his work focuses on clinical operations, service lines, and care across the hospital system. He trained as an internist after graduating from Geisel School of Medicine, and also graduated from the master’s in healthcare delivery science program at Dartmouth and the Tuck School of Business.

Genevieve Neal-Perry this spring was named chair of University of North Carolina School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She previously worked at University of Washington, where she was a division director, and at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She earned her medical degree and a Ph.D. in pharmacology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Betsey (Cuervo) Tilson serves as state health director and chief medical officer for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. She went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University and also received a master’s of public health from UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a pediatrician and preventive medicine physician.

Our classmates also include emergency medicine physicians, such as Stuart Michelson in the Lake Tahoe, Nevada, area, and Tom Swoboda, who currently runs the emergency medicine residency program in Henderson, Nevada, as well as primary care physicians, mental health treaters, and a wide range of medical specialists. A huge thank you to all ’88 healthcare providers and other frontline workers who are facing the pandemic with courage and vision.

Let’s now switch gears to celebrate some wonderful news. Laura and Paul Steinwald welcomed a baby girl, who joins her three older sisters. And Charlene Perilla and Saad Iqbal had twins in May, a boy and a girl. Congratulations to all!

Be well, and I look forward to hearing from

you with news, updates, and stories to share.—Tory Woodin Chavey, 128 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119; [email protected]

89 By the time you read this in late August, some students will be pre-paring to return to Dartmouth and

some will be preparing to take classes virtually. We still don’t know at this writing how it will be decided, but for ’24s, their first year will be radically different than our first year in Hanover. It’s unclear how first-year trips will be made up, but I’m hoping that Homecoming can happen October 2 safely for students and alumni by then.

I’m writing this at the end of June and so much has happened since May 2, when I submitted our Class Notes for July/August. We were only 45 days into Covid-19 lockdown and George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were still alive. Suddenly, posting pictures of our kids, what I’m grilling, or cars seems less important. I know that fellow ’89s are hurting, and I want to understand and help. I want to listen and learn.

Our 30th reunion theme of “Many Roads, One Spirit” seems incredibly pertinent, now more than ever. Our diversity and ability to respect the different roads classmates took to get to Dartmouth as well as the roads they have traveled afterward are all valid, we are united as one under Dartmouth. Our voices may be different, and it’s worthwhile to respect other voices and also understand how our words may affect others.

Our own ’89 Cares group has been there for fellow classmates suffering from individual or community loss, and I want to reiterate that ’89 Cares is here to assist any of our classmates in need. You can reach it on our class site at 1989.dartmouth.org.

Again, I know I don’t have the answer, but I’m willing to be in conversations that may be uncomfortable, because I know my discomfort is slight in comparison to others. I look forward to our Saturday Zoom calls to have many conversations—difficult or not—with all of our classmates together. I’ll continue to post the details in our class Facebook page and class emails from time to time. The frequency may have changed by October, but I think the need will still be there to connect with classmates around the girdled earth, and we will make it happen.

I regret to inform the class that Dennis Donnelly passed away on June 5. Dennis’ full obituary is on our 1989 class page and you can send me any remembrances of Dennis to add to the “Class Reflections” on his page. —Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; [email protected]

90 Back in late April, way before our successful, awesome 30th reunion on Zoom in mid-June, I asked ’90s,

“Please tell us one positive thing that’s come out of the Covid-19 pandemic for you or a member of your family.” Here is Part II. Ted Carleton: “First time in my life I’ve ever been deemed essential. So, like Carl Spackler, I’ve got that going for me.” Kim Lewis: “I’ve had 42 consecutive nights (and

counting) of family dinner with all four of us (husband, son aged 21, daughter aged 18) in at-tendance, leisurely one- to two-hour dinners followed by all-family clean ups and movie or game nights. No one wanted this drastic change of pace, but Brent and I are cherishing it.” Mark Sternman: “I’ve gotten to grow my first beard since my Edinburgh foreign study program. On a more serious note, I’ve done multiple Zoom calls with Tor Blaisdell, Roth Herrlinger, Jamie Pringle, and Scott Spring. The old banter never fails to cheer me.” Josh Vogel: “Renewed family time has been an unexpected treat. I never expected to once again have us all together, with time to really con-nect. I find that my children have become mature, thoughtful, caring individuals whose company I really enjoy. Having a taste of retirement has been a nice treat as well. My wife and I haven’t spent this much time together since before we were married.” Quincy Vale: “The ability of humans to adapt to change is truly remarkable. I look at the wrenching change in lifestyles wrought by the global pandemic in a few short months and it makes me hopeful that the collective, global ‘we’ will be able to address climate change in a meaningful manner. The money can be found and invested. The laws and policies can be enacted. The technologies can be repurposed, developed, and deployed at scale. And we can do it quickly and efficiently in a way to minimize loss of life and our natural world. In short, one positive of all this is that it is a good dress rehearsal for what we all need to do during the coming 20 years to manage and mitigate the unintended impact we are hav-ing on our home planet. We can do it, and we will.” Jane Blum DeMarchi: “I have to admit I am enjoying spending so much time with my college-aged children. I thought they were gone for good and now I get to eat lunch with them!” Sue Domchek: “At the risk of sounding flippant, given that I work in a hospital and things have been stressful (and I fully realize that the following is a First World problem), I learned how to color my own hair. However, I have no intention of continuing this newfound skill on the other side.” Brad Drazen: “The five of us have really enjoyed reconnecting as a family unit. It’s been a decade since we sat down at the dinner table consistently, and we’ve found a great sense of comfort in being together. I believe one of the positive, long-lasting results of the pandemic will be that nuclear families will remain stronger and more cohesive for years to come.” Gary Katz: “The one positive thing that has come out of the Covid-19 shelter-in-place orders are the Wednesday night ‘virtual house meetings’ we have been having on Zoom with the Sigma Nu ’90s, including Bruce Sacerdote, Quincy Vale, Todd Eagle, Brian Mittman, Rob Fasciano, Bob Galindo, Chris Farrens, Jon Ezrow, Mike Kanarick, and Matt Hemry. I’m embarrassed to admit, though, that given our age we have adjusted the start time from 10 p.m. to 8 p.m.”—Rob Crawford, 22 Black Oak Road, Weston, MA 02493; [email protected]

92 As I write this, the June edition of our ’92 newsletter, The Standing Bonfire, was just emailed. It begins with an

introduction by Kimberly Malone Bobb, the class

of 1992 executive committee liaison to the Black Alumni at Dartmouth Association (BADA).

Kimberly wrote: “As a former president of the Dartmouth Afro-American Society (AAm) and, ironically, having been our class historian, I look back on our years at Dartmouth with both nostalgia and angst, as I contemplate these challenging times in our nation and in our world.

“Speaking from a podium on the Green in our senior spring, I and others sought to bring awareness, at Dartmouth, to the cause of justice and the scourge of police brutality. When I agreed to serve as the class of 1992 committee’s liaison to BADA during our reunion in 2017, I could hardly have known that the events of 2020 would so clearly punctuate the current need to have mechanisms in place to amplify Black voices and perspectives.

“Black lives matter. With that said, our class leadership team invites you to listen to the contributors whom we’ve asked to share their experiences, both past and present, herein. Our hope is that we all will more consciously embrace the ever-present challenge to move from listening to ‘hearing’ and from hearing to action when it comes to confronting racism and systems of inequity and supporting intentional efforts toward equity and justice.”

Christine Griffith-Legette, in her essay, “Turning 50 Amidst Two Pandemics,” described her personal battle with Covid-19, encouraging classmates to research systemic racism and anti-racism. She wrote: “As members of the class of ’92, most of you should remember the protests about the Rodney King verdict that were a significant part of our senior spring. In viewing pictures from those protests, I realized that we could have taken many of the signs that we were carrying across campus in 1992 and recreated them to join one of the current protests. It disgusts me that these protests are still necessary 28 years later. These experiences cause undue stress to Black people. Our mental health is challenged by the graphic footage and inconsiderate comments made by those who do not value the lives lost or those of us still fighting for our lives and our rights.”

Willie W. Williams wrote “Reflections on Police Misconduct: From Rodney King to George Floyd.” He also looked back on spring 1992: “It was our senior year and graduation was taking center stage; however, the situation in Los Angeles grabbed our attention, particularly those in the Black community. I had a front row seat working on the executive committee of the AAm and with other allies interested in speaking up for justice. At the time I was editor of the Black Praxis newspaper, which was the official publication of the AAm. In the ensuing student actions, I was a reporter, photographer, and participant. We planned marches, a rally, and a sit-in at Parkhurst. We quickly published a special edition of the Black Praxis that we personally delivered door to door because we wanted to express ourselves to the Dartmouth community. Beyond expressing our anger, we gained modest support for diversity goals from college leadership.” He recounts experiences since then, concluding with: “I am tired. I am emotionally drained. I remain hopeful.”

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impact of these essays here. Be sure to carve out some time to visit 1992.dartmouth.org/june2020 and read the entire newsletter.—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; [email protected]

93 When Natalie and I completed the last issue’s Class Notes, I think we both assumed that a once-in-a-100-

year pandemic might be the heaviest of issues we’d tackle during our tenure. Little did we know. As I write this next one in late June (Nata-lie and I will be alternating issues generally go-ing forward) the country is experiencing a Covid resurgence and historic civil protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

I’ll leave the correlations between them to the historians to sort out, but there is a clear, palpable sense of uncertainty and unrest in this country that we have to face. Both pandemics are complex and what that path forward looks like is unclear, so I find myself looking all around for the right pieces to inform how to engage most authentically and effectively. Every day is an evolution. We would love to know what others are doing, reading, watching, etc., during this time. Feel free to write Natalie or me directly at the addresses below or go to our Facebook page, “Dartmouth Class of 1993.”

I recently exchanged texts with Sophie (Cof-man) Shabel (married to Alan Shabel ’92 with two kids) to find out what the life of an obstetrician-gynecologist in the Bay Area is like during this time of Covid. “Our curve has been so flat that it’s been barely perceptible at work apart from the extra personal protective equipment, of course.” That curve may not stay as flat during this next stage as the cases in California seem to be spiking, but I will keep my fingers crossed that they are able to gain control again by the time you read this.

Also some news from John Sargent. John’s business, BroadReach is one of the only or-ganizations that is scaling population-based Covid-19 solutions in middle east Africa. “In partnership with Microsoft, we have to date screened more than 2 million people for Co-vid-19, are helping governments manage the pandemic in their public health systems, and are working with Microsoft to spread their work to more countries.” I hope John keeps us posted on this important work.

Finally, I wanted to share the edifying words of College President Hanlon as, if your inbox is like mine, there’s a good chance you missed them the first time.

“The forces that seek to divide us, the voices that sow bigotry and hate, are strong and loud at this moment. Racism continues to be a stain on our nation. We are outraged by deplorable acts of violence against Black men and women, such as the recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. And by the less vis-ible structural forms of racism that lead people of color to disproportionately shoulder the bur-dens of poverty and inequality as has been so strikingly evident in the higher incidence of illness, job loss, and death they are experiencing

as a result of the pandemic.…Let us redouble our efforts to build a world that is equitable, diverse, and inclusive, free from racism, bigotry, and hate. Let us give voice to the values that unite us rather than divide us. No threat is too grave if we face it together.”

Apologies for the back-to-back weighty Class Notes, looking forward to mixing in more news and bold-font names of our classmates going forward!

To that end and until next time, please send us your news: Dwight Fenton ([email protected]) or Nata-lie Weidener Kupinsky ([email protected]).—Dwight Fenton, 200 E 72nd St., Apt. 20K, NY, NY 10021; [email protected]; Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 9733 Beman Woods Way, Potomac, MD 20854; [email protected]

94 Hi, class of ’94. I have two bits of exciting news to share with you. During the past few months good

things have still been happening beneath the overriding arc of alarming headlines, and I’m happy to share them with you below.

Pam Kunz has recently moved into a new leadership role at Yale School of Medicine as the leader of gastrointestinal cancer programs. This new position brings Pam and her family to New Haven, Connecticut, from the Palo Alto area in California. Pam joins the Yale team from Stanford University School of Medicine, where she has served as the director of the Stanford neuroendocrine tumor program and leader of the endocrine research group. Prior to both com-pleting her clinical and research fellowship in medical oncology and serving as chief resident in internal medicine at Stanford University, she graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 2001. Pam’s professional accomplishments are impressive, but I will always remember Pam’s supportive ear and warm smile for her many friends and fellow Tri-Delts. Congratulations and welcome back to the East Coast, Pam!

Congratulations also go out to Elizabeth Cook Donohue, who was inducted into Dartmouth’s Stephen F. Mandel ’52 Society in April. For those of you not familiar with this honor, the Stephen F. Mandel ’52 Society recognizes alumni vol-unteers who provide distinguished service and visionary leadership for the Dartmouth College Fund. As many of you know, Beth has been an active Dartmouth volunteer for years and an ex-traordinary class fundraising leader. As a class, we are fortunate to have Beth in this position! Year after year she is constantly willing to serve; she generously gives her time, heart, and energy to the College on behalf of her classmates; and she demonstrates her savvy abilities by meeting and exceeding lofty goals set by the Dartmouth College Fund. Beth deserves the College’s re-cent recognition and honor, as well as our class’ thanks! Cheers to Beth!

Please send me updates and news to share in the next column.—Laura Hardegree Davis, 520 Meadowlark Lane, Brentwood, TN 37027; [email protected]

95 Congratulations to our new class of-ficers! Alyse (Kornfeld) Streicher, our senior class president, will be our

class president for the next five years. She lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, David, and their three kids (10, 11, and 13.) Alyse is doing some private investing after having run a nonprofit for three years, before which she was with Accenture for about 20 years. “It’s an honor to be class president and I look forward to working with and connecting with many of you. I hope to see you at our reunion next June!”

Kate Chamberlain, Teru Clavel, and Jonathan Weinberger are our newsletter editors. Teru lives in New York City with her two teenage boys and a ’tween girl. Her first book, World Class, was a bestseller and the paperback is coming out with some amazing endorsements, including from Arne Duncan, secretary of education un-der President Obama; Sen. Richard Blumenthal; and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Andreas Schleicher. Teru recently appeared on Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square on CNN, discussing her education findings, “which are even more relevant now: equity, teacher preparation, education funding, and governance, community, parent involvement all through a global lens. Working on my next two projects—hope some good news about those soon. Fingers crossed!”

Two years ago Kate bought her family’s Hanover home in the neighborhood behind Chase Field. “My parents moved to Lebanon [New Hampshire], and a year later my brother moved to Pike, so we’re close together geographi-cally for the first time since our move in 1991, when I came to Dartmouth and they went to Munich.” Kate is a senior director of develop-ment at Memorial Sloan Kettering, working to use data to inform strategy and investment in the hospital’s fundraising operation. “Hanover has been an interesting vantage point for this dramatic year. The town without students is such a different place, yet the Baker bells are still ringing. I’m singing with the Handel Society again (or will be when it’s safe to do so) fighting invasive species in my yard, and learning about the local N.H. political scene. At the moment we’re mobilizing to ensure everyone will be able to vote in the fall.”

Steve Fagell is joining Lou Spelios as co-head agent. Steve lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Phyllis (Steinberg) Fagell, and their three children. “We’re very excited that my oldest, Ben, will be a Dartmouth ’24 in the fall! I work in Washington, D.C., at the law firm Covington & Burling LLP, where I serve as global co-chair of the white collar defense and investigations prac-tice group. Phyllis is the author of Middle School Matters (Hachette, 2019), regularly contributes to The Washington Post and other national pub-lications on parenting issues, and serves as the counselor at the K-8 Sheridan School.”

Our treasurer, Rose Mitchell, lives in Hills-borough, New Jersey, not far from Princeton, with her husband of two years, Jeff, and their res-cue dogs Marty and Amelia. Rose is a pediatric optometrist at University Children’s Eye Center, where she’s worked for the past 13 years. Rose

will do double-duty, since she decided to run for class treasurer while serving as our reunion treasurer, which is still needed since we haven’t had our reunion yet!

And speaking of reunions, our class reunion book online will be kept open through next sum-mer, so please start or update your page anytime. If you have questions about it, drop me a line. More from our other new officers in the next issue. In the meantime, keep your news coming!—Kaja (Schuppert) Fickes, 2 Bishops Lane, Hing-ham, MA 02043; [email protected]

96 This year has been unlike any other in our tenures as alumni, not to men-tion our tenures as human beings.

When last I wrote, we were in the initial throes of a global pandemic that had shut down most of the globe, isolated so many of us to our respec-tive homes, and truly redefined what it is to be a society in a changing world. In the months since, horrifying events across the United States have forced American (and global) society to address its effects on many of the individuals that make up the very fabric of our nation.

I have a few updates to include in this col-umn, but I want to first applaud the many ’96s who have made their voices heard in taking a strong stand against racism, made loud state-ments against hierarchical structures that

continue to persecute specific members of our society, and who have fully asserted that Black Lives Matter. I have received or seen so many updates of classmates who have protested, who have affected change within their businesses and communities, or who have simply made the statement aloud that inherently racist structures must be removed from our society once and for all—I simply can’t do them all justice. Thank you all for your powerful messages and please continue to let your voices be heard. The world is listening.

With all the Covid-specific updates in the last column, I was unable to include that our own Shakari (Cameron) Byerly had published a coauthored article titled “More than Spare Change: A Case Study of Contact and Voter Sup-port for the Homeless in Los Angeles County, California” in Urban Affairs, a peer-reviewed journal. She and her husband, Rodrego Byerly ’98, are founders and owners of Evitarus, a Los Angeles-based public opinion research and pub-lic policy consulting firm that delivers action-able strategic advice and data to public policy, political, and corporate decision-makers. Their firm had served as one of the pollsters for U.S Sen. Kamala Harris’ presidential run. “Our two local candidates this cycle, Los Angeles County supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and California State Senate budget chair Holly Mitchell, won

their primaries—so it’s on to the general election! And last year we provided the research to sup-port the legalization of recreational cannabis use in Illinois, which included a first-in-the-nation proposal to set aside a portion of the resulting tax revenue for communities disproportionately affected by mass incarceration.” The nation and our political leaders truly need their consultative services perhaps now more than ever, so I truly hope Evitarus is called on more in the weeks and months ahead!

I do also want to extend congratulations to David Kasregis, as he and his now-wife, Sara, were wed in June! Further congrats to Susie (Brown) Sax on the nomination for her album, Under the Surface, for an Independent Music Award for best folk singer-songwriter album! I also want to congratulate Holly Parker, who, after leaving her role a year ago as associate director at the University of New England North to work in its provost’s office, now returns as the interim director! She will be working and collaborating with people throughout the North Atlantic re-gion to “support resilient communities, healthy environments, and thriving economies in Maine and elsewhere throughout the region.”

Everyone please stay safe and be good to each other.—Garrett Gil de Rubio, 1062 Middlebrooke Drive, Canton, GA 30115; [email protected]

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97 I really enjoyed Laura (Zachman) Jamison’s debut novel, All the Right Mistakes. The book centers on five

friends turning 40 in different circumstances: lawyers Elizabeth and Sara; physician Martha, a Dartmouth graduate; wealthy homemaker Car-men, also a Dartmouth graduate; and famous tech executive Heather, the most successful of the group. When Heather writes a women’s advice book detailing what she characterizes as her four friends’ mistakes, her friends are understandably hurt. The novel explores the unique obstacles the women face as they wonder whether their lives might have been different had they followed Heather’s advice. Look for numerous fun College references throughout.

I asked Laura what inspired her to write the book. “I was visiting my parents when the idea for the book came to me. I read a news item that Ivanka Trump was writing a book about how women could architect their lives to be successful. ‘Here we go again,’ I thought. Another book geared toward telling women, not institutions or society, to change themselves (and from an author who I doubted had a perspective that would be relevant to most moms). Exhausting and irritating. But Ivanka, after all, is a person who is trying to be helpful, in her way. What if she was your friend, even your best friend? And so the idea for All the Right Mistakes was born.”

Laura wrote the book in 2016 and spent the next four years working toward publication. “It was weekends, and a fair amount of writing from the sidelines of my kids’ soccer practices.” She noted the characters reflect her experiences and those of her friends and colleagues, but the book and the women are purely fiction. “I’m probably closest to Elizabeth and Sara, because, like them, I work full-time as an attorney. But, in truth, there is a little of me in all of the five women.”

Kevin Hand’s latest book, Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space, should also be on your reading list. The book explores the science behind the search for life on water-rich moons at the solar system’s outer reaches. I asked Kevin about his interest in life beyond Earth.

“I credit the clear night skies of Vermont where I grew up and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos with really getting me hooked. One can’t help but wonder whether we’re alone in the universe when you’re bathed in starlight, looking up on a cold, clear winter night.”

While Kevin was an undergraduate, the Galileo spacecraft began returning data indicating an ocean beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, still Kevin’s research focus. “The Dartmouth physics department was great—I had the keys to the Shattuck Observatory and could go look at Jupiter, and the rest of the night sky, whenever I wanted. When I was a junior, professor John Thorstensen brought me to Kitt Peak in Arizona, where Dartmouth had time on a pair of telescopes. That was my first experience at a large observatory, working with a research-class telescope, and it was phenomenal.”

Kevin hopes to get a lander on Europa’s surface to search for signs of life. “In some ways the science is perhaps easier than the

sociopolitics of getting a mission like this to the launch pad. We’ve got a great team, though, and a lot of new faces with diverse backgrounds are joining the project and that’s tremendously inspiring.”

Regarding future books, about 100 pages of science history and thermodynamics details were cut from Alien Oceans, “so that may serve as good starting material for a book I want to write about the physics of life.” (Read more about his work on page 42.)—Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, TX 77096; [email protected]

98 Hello, ’98s. I reached out to you for your thoughts, including whether current events made you rethink your

Dartmouth experience. Here is what I found out.Christine Lin took a break from Zoom to

write in for the first time! During the pandemic Christine has reconnected with Kimberly Coffey through regular Zoom chats. Christine has also had Zoom reunions with classmates from her summer 1995 foreign study program (FSP) in Beijing: Joan Ai, Lilei Huang, Eric White, Gary Jan, and Kevin Nguyen. They have been joined by Kenneth Leon and his wife, Meier Hsu, along with Christina Campo and Young Bae. While these ’98s would not have thought to meet before the world shut down, they have had a ton of fun reminiscing, catching up, and laughing. The group also has a soundtrack, as Christine unearthed a mix tape of songs playing in Beijing nightclubs during the FSP that she shared via Spotify. Christine also wrote that, although Dartmouth could have done better at promoting certain values, her experience there contributed to her pursuing a career as an attorney in social justice and advocating and representing asylum seekers and refugees. For the past eight years Christine has worked at the University of California, Hastings, College of the Law Center for Gender and Refugee Studies.

Natalie (Wood) Vogel wrote in from Reno, Nevada, where she resides with husband Alex Vogel and their two kids, 9 and 12. Recently they enjoyed a socially distanced, back-deck reunion with Nora (Bryan) and Scott Behrens and their three kids. Both Natalie and Alex work in healthcare, allowing them to see firsthand the effects of Covid-19. Natalie is the chief medical officer of a small health center that cares for indigent patients, Alex is an interventional radiologist. Natalie opined that 2020 has been quite a year. She and Alex feel optimistic that our country’s newfound attention and energy will lead to real change at every level. Natalie also hopes that our Dartmouth family is making it through this with curiosity, love, and kindness, our strongest tools.

Denise (Saunders) Norse is happy to report that she, her husband, and three sons are all doing well. Denise teaches math and introductory computer programming at Shelton (Connecticut) High School. Recently she has encouraged students to participate in Girls Go CyberStart, which fosters creativity and problem-solving through exploring cybersecurity. Last year Denise had five students sign up. This year the number increased to 17, and Denise’s top four students were invited to

the two-day online national competition. There they finished 66th out of 366, including first in the state of Connecticut, which made Denise a very proud teacher.

I connected with fellow attorney James Jung, who checked in from northern Virginia and wrote that he is wrapping up active duty service as an officer in the Navy Judge Advocate General Corps. We reflected on our time in Hanover and our new perspectives on a Dartmouth education in light of Covid-19. As it turns out, James and I are both big fans of the New York Mets, so we spent the bulk of our time strategizing my next steps as his co-counsel for a class-action suit against Mets ownership on behalf of aggrieved and emotionally harmed fans everywhere.

As a history major, I can appreciate the significance of the times in which we live. On one hand, I am astounded to be witnessing the events of 2020. On the other, I just hope that you all are staying safe and sane. Please continue to keep me updated, as I love hearing from you.—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN 37209; [email protected]

99 Hello, ’99s! Sara Zrike updated me on her

family news. She has a new baby, named Isabella Sara Casey, who was born on February 7. “Her dad, Ryan Casey, and I were supposed to get married on August 1 of this year, but I’ve had to postpone the wedding. We bought a new house in Roslindale, Massachusetts, and both work for the Boston public schools. He is a math teacher and math coach and I am a director of instruction at one of the bilingual schools in the city.” Congratulations, Sara and Ryan!

Let us also give a rouse to our class treasurer, Jeffery Loeb, and Ashley Feder, who were married in June at San Moritz Lodge in California.

Abigail Marsh wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post titled, “How We Can Keep Fear from Spiraling Out of Our Control,” published on June 23. Abigail writes, “We have endured denials of risk, confusing information, and inadequate tools with tragic consequences: needless deaths, shamefully inequitable outcomes for minority communities, and widespread fear and anxiety. But we need not succumb to fear. Instead, we should harness it to minimize transmission while making judicious efforts to serve higher goals—educating our children, reducing inequities, and doing what we can to support local businesses and each other—to avoid compounding the tragedy” (www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/23/era-covid-19-our-fear-doesnt-have-define-us). Abigail is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University and authored the book, The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between.—Jackie Rioux Gladstone, 21 Westwood Circle, Dover, NH 03820; (603) 834-0517; [email protected]

01 Hello, ’01 family. As I write this in June, I truly have no idea what Sep-tember will be looking like. Wherever

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didate for Manhattan district attorney living in New York City. Janos has been involved with the criminal justice movement there for many years and during these challenging months of protest has been in steady communication with elected officials, Black Lives Matter activists, and other community members trying to for-ward constructive changes.

Andy Foery is a speech-language pathologist in the Boston metro area. He works in nursing homes that have been utterly devastated by Covid-19. Now that the initial wave has passed in the region, he is focused on helping surviving residents recover any abilities that were lost during that time.

To all of my ’04s, continue to stay safe and be well!—Johanna Thomas, 14 Logan Circle, NW, Wash-ington, DC 20005; [email protected]

05 I need to, unfortunately, start this column with some very sad news. Classmate Christopher “Zeke” Mc-

Mullen-Laird unexpectedly passed away on June 18. His tragic passing came just a few short weeks after writing in to provide an update to our class.

Please take a moment to visit Zeke’s memo-rial website, https://christopherquentin.com/memorial, to learn more about his wonderful life, many musical accomplishments, family, and friends. All who knew him at Dartmouth are encouraged to submit a tribute, memory, story, recipe, or photo to the site as well. There have been so many wonderful tributes already shared with so many online. It is clear through these tributes that Zeke’s loving nature, extreme care for others, and joy for life will be sorely missed by family and friends. Rest in peace, Zeke.

A conversation on implicit bias with Tif-fany Harper sponsored by Women of Dartmouth took place virtually on June 12. More than 350 alumni and friends joined to hear from Tiffany as she instructed how we can identify and chal-lenge our own biases and incorporate what we have learned to help take action to dismantle systemic inequity.

In other news, we would like to introduce this year’s Class of 2005 Fund for Entrepre-neurship grant recipient. Our winner is Ayan Agarwal ’20 and his startup, Blabl, a mobile-based tool for speech therapy. Ayan’s goal is to increase access to speech therapy, especially for marginalized students. We are proud to support an undergraduate social entrepreneur who is striving to improve the world. Many thanks as always to Ashley Shackelton and Andy Rankin for their leadership here on behalf of the class.

Lastly, the ’05 family has continued to grow throughout 2020 with many new additions. Ben Grinnell and wife Courtney welcomed their third son, George Hudson, to the world in January. Deane Somerville and his partner, Claire, wel-comed daughter Maeve, their first, into pre-pandemic London in February. Andy Rankin and wife Ally welcomed their first child, Sophie Francis Rankin, in April. David Gardner and wife Laura welcomed their first, daughter Elle, in May. Nick Crofoot and wife Elizabeth welcomed

their third child, Georgianna McDermott Cro-foot, also in May. Lastly, Oliver Harker-Smith and wife Laura welcomed their first, son Teddy, in June. Congratulations to all parents, especially the new ones!—Matt Nicholson, 5308 Yorktown Road, Bethesda, MD 20816; [email protected]

06 Hi ’06s, It was great to speak with ev-

eryone for this column and hear how you are all staying busy.

Stephanie Lawrence recently launched Trav-eling Spoon online cooking classes. The compa-ny now has more than 70 private online classes and was dubbed by Forbes as “reinventing the future of food tourism.” Traveling Spoon also announced its acquisition of Meal Sharing, a Chicago-based company. Meal Sharing founder Jay Savsani will join the Traveling Spoon team, and his hosts will be integrated into the Travel-ing Spoon host community.

Echo Brown was named on Esquire’s list of Black authors telling essential stories. Her debut young adult novel, Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard, is about a fictional Echo Brown. The book was deemed by Esquire as “the arrival of a bold new literary imagination” and tells the story of a teen wizard who travels between two dimen-sions: the troubled dimension where her fam-ily lives and the rarefied dimension where she attends school.

Helen Parsons was named the 2020 Order of the Eastern Star Scholar. This honor recognizes Helen’s commitment to the Masonic Cancer Center and to the order’s commitment to sup-porting the development of novel therapies and new treatments in the quest to cure cancer.

Brian Taylor executive produced Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird, starring Ethan Hawke in his television debut. The show is based on the National Book Award-winning novel of the same name. The series tells the story of fiery freedom fighter John Brown, who dreamed of a land where all people could live free and equal—even a boy who chose to dress like a girl. The series premiered on August 9.

After studying Python on her own for a while and getting to know Insomniac’s engine and tools, Alexis Ruegger has accepted the qual-ity assurance engineer position she has been working toward for a long time. Husband Nate’s short horror film Trust Me now has a home on YouTube’s top horror channel, Alter.

Sean Anthony and his wife, Kaitlin, had their first child, Noah Wells Anthony, on May 30. They are loving life as a now bigger family in Columbus, Ohio.

Laura Liston married her longtime love, Jason Greenberg (Penn State ’00) in a beauti-ful sunset ceremony on her sister’s five-acre property. After a change to all the original wed-ding plans, Laura’s mom and sister pulled off an intimate celebration, including nuptials that took place under a gorgeous birch arbor chup-pah. Laura and her husband hope to celebrate with all of their friends and family in 2021. They reside in the Haddonfield, New Jersey, area and

Laura would love to hear from anyone looking for personal training in the surrounding area (laliston@gmail).

As always, you can view Class Notes online at 2006.dartmouth.org/classnotes. On our class website you can also pay class dues, learn more about class efforts, and read about other ’06s who have been featured in the news.

I look forward to hearing from you for fu-ture columns! —Cindy Tsai, 343 West Wolf Point Plaza, #1310, Chicago, IL 60654; [email protected]

07 Hi there, Austin Lewis here from Los Angeles. Jaime Padgett asked me to guest write this edition of Class

Notes. I jumped at the chance to take a break from my never-ending game of online Scrabble (coronavirus has made my life infinitely more interesting) to share news and updates from our class. Stay safe, everyone!

Yasemin Elci moved from Istanbul, Turkey, to Luxembourg last year with her husband. Yas-emin works as an art writer and hosts a radio show about art. She also is an art consultant on independent projects. Elci says Luxembourg re-minds her of Dartmouth a lot because there are more trees than people. She and her husband often go hiking in the woods.

Katherine Kalaris is starting a doctor of phi-losophy program in evidence-based healthcare at Oxford University in Oxford, England, this fall. She will study clinical and operational interventions to improve neonatal outcomes in Kenya.

Amanda Greenberg and her husband, Noah, welcomed a second baby boy on April 2. His name is Range Morris Greenberg. He’s cute and cuddly and has a message for you—wear a mask so he can meet his grandparents soon. Congratulations, Amanda!

Beata Lobel married Daniel Scholfield in a tiny, socially distant wedding in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 21. Cara Foster Karim was at the small ceremony. Beata and Daniel com-bined their names and now answer to “Dr. and Mr. Belfield.” The newlyweds plan to move to Syracuse, New York, this fall. Any ’07s in Syra-cuse? If so, please reach out to Beata. Beata will start her work as a minimally invasive general surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Jaime here. That was fun, right? As I have been your class secretary for more than three years now(!), I thought you may enjoy hearing from some new voices. Interested in guest writ-ing? Let me know! And, as always, we all hope to hear from you soon! —Jaime Padgett, 1837 W. Patterson Ave, #109, Chicago, IL 60613; (574) 303-6944; [email protected]

08 It has been quite a year so far, to say the least. But our classmates continue to find bright spots.

Zachary Dorner published his first book in June, a history of early modern medicine and empire from the University of Chicago Press. Congrats, Zack! Buy it and support a struggling academic!

and yours are healthy, safe, and enjoying each other’s company. Even though everyone is still pretty cooped up in late June, our ’01 family remains busy. Chance Hill is enjoying his time as one of nine elected University of Colorado regents overseeing the college system. He got married in December, and he and his wife, Nicole, were able to honeymoon in Jamaica before the lockdowns. If you are looking for something to read this fall, we have another class author in our midst. Aaron B. Wilkinson’s book, Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press this fall.

We have some ’01s taking on some new jobs. After 13 years at Nixon Peabody, Leah Threatte is now corporate counsel for AMRI, a research and manufacturing organization. Joe McKnight recently took a management role on Amgen’s cardiovascular marketing team and is looking to relocate to either Connecticut or California. Ricky Joshi cofounded Saatva, a luxury, direct-to-consumer mattress company that is one of the fastest growing e-commerce brands ever.

Kelly (Keene) Horst, her husband, Adam ’00, and their three children recently moved to Rochester, Minnesota, where the adults will take on roles at the Mayo Clinic. Kelly will join the faculty in the department of radiology. She was also recently recognized by the Indiana High School Cross Country Hall of Fame. Con-gratulations to all of these great ’01s! —Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, 143 Branchville Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877; (203) 645-6938; [email protected]

02 Hello, ’02s!I hope you all are weathering

the Covid-19 pandemic intact. I heard from Cara Kinsey: “The last few

months have really allowed for connecting with my Dartmouth friends around the world and across the decades with virtual meetings. Dartmouth alums who I’ve become ‘friends’ with on social media through other friends I’ve now had real conversations with on Zoom! I’ve spent hours discussing life and playing games. I’ve had intelligent conversations with people other than my cat. It’s been like mini-reunions every week!”

Matt Jones filled me in on his many life changes: “Making up for lost time, I got mar-ried to Danielle Suarez (Hunter ’04), got a dog, bought a house, and celebrated the birth of my first child, all within about two years. This year will mark my 10 years since founding Molten Metal Works, a community metal shop in Los Angeles, teaching welding for sculpture, furni-ture, and general do-it-yourself.”

Our 20th reunion is less than a year away—June 18-20, 2021. Mark your calendars and come help us with the planning— email [email protected] to join the committee. You can also join us in the class Facebook group or follow us on Instagram @dartmouth2002 for more class news and information. —Anne Cloudman, 315 West 99th St., Apt. 2D, New York, NY 10025; [email protected]

04 Hi, ’04s! I hope everyone contin-ues to be physically and mentally healthy and safe during these very

trying times in our nation’s history. From the Covid-19 pandemic to the continuing racial injustices we have all witnessed in these last few months, 2020 has not been for the faint of heart. But even in the most difficult of times, there is always hope and room to acknowledge those who are on the frontlines fighting to make the world a better place for all of us. So I want to take this opportunity to celebrate our ’04 heroes by sharing some of their stories below. Thank you for all that you are doing and do not forget that your classmates and the rest of the world are here cheering you on!

Rachel Bender Ignacio, assistant profes-sor of infectious diseases at the University of Washington Medical School and the director of the university’s clinical AIDS trials, has been running the UW/Novartis study of hydroxy-chloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment—a badly needed, full-scale clinical trial.

Heather Tanana is the founder of the In-dian law section of the Utah bar. Recently, she helped launch Utah Tribal Covid-19 Relief in partnership with various state agencies and other organizations to help Utah’s eight tribes during the pandemic. You can learn more and support her efforts at http://indianlaw.utahbar.org/covid-19-tribal-relief-fund.html.

Hemant Joshi is an anesthesiologist in Bos-ton. He shares, “It’s tough taking care of these folks (intubating, putting in intravenous lines, etc.) in hot, space-suit-like contraptions while also not infecting or contaminating myself or my family when I leave the hospital. Unfortu-nately, I have realized I am the last face some patients see or voice they hear before they pass away, so that’s a heavy burden. I am very for-tunate to have the opportunity to take care of these patients and also fortunate to have my job and health during these times, as there are many folks in much tougher situations.”

Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, the com-pany founded by Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus and his dad, offered its Danbury, Connecticut, fac-tory as an emergency overflow hospital space, though thankfully, it has not been needed. They also created a respirator mask that can be made using a full-face snorkeling mask.

Ben Wade is the senior vice president of strategy and marketing at Stamford Health, helping to lead the hospital’s response in a coro-navirus hotspot.

The owner of Flower City Psychiatry, Alli-son Giordano is continuing to work with her child and adolescent patients using telemedicine.

Yan Somoza is a clinical psychologist with the Desert AIDS Project in Palm Springs, Cali-fornia. As one of the leaders in medical treat-ment in the areas, the Desert AIDS Project has stayed open during the pandemic to provide Covid-19 diagnoses. It has also expanded its behavioral health services, so, in addition to his usual patients, Yan is caring for frontline medical staff, patients impacted by a diagnosis of Covid-19, and the community at large.

Janos Marton is a civil rights lawyer and can-

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Glavy Cruz continues working at Lynn (Massachusetts) Community Health Center, where she is part of the care team for patients diagnosed with Covid-19. She engages patients in psychotherapy in both Spanish and English and has led a couple of forums for youth in Lynn and nearby Lawrence, providing safe spaces to share perspectives about racial tension and discuss steps toward racial equity.

After spending the last 22 months staying home with her daughter, Van, Rachel Hochman started work as an aerospace engineer at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab. In June she and her husband took their daughter backpacking for the first time—hoping she will be a future member of the Dartmouth Outing Club!

Kids are keeping plenty of ’08s occupied. Benjamin David Brown was born on May 18 to parents Robin (McKechnie) Brown and Will Brown ’07 and big sister Abby. Neil Willis and his wife, Lilly, are expecting a baby boy in December. And Angela Libby and her husband, Anwar, wel-comed their first child, Calista Libby Ragep, in October. Angela was also promoted to partner in the restructuring department at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP last July.

Tim Chingos and his wife, Jillian (Hamma) Chingos ’09, are being kept busy with their 21-month-old daughter, Emma. Emma’s favor-ite words are “move” and “owl” and she gets very upset when things don’t go her way.

Katherine Michelis and her husband, Chad, welcomed son Milo Theodore Priest on April 20. “He’s been the best distraction,” she says. Katherine finished her eighth and final year of post-medical school training at the end of June and will join the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center as an advanced heart failure attending this fall.

Before the pandemic began Emily Chen traveled to Australia for a meditation retreat and stopped over in Sydney to catch up with Jeanie Lau for a fancy dinner overlooking Syd-ney Harbour.

Jeffrey Coleman got promoted to associate professor with tenure at Marquette University, his first book (The Necropolitical Theater: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage) came out with Northwestern University Press in May, and he launched a podcast called Tinterías (the first Spanish-language podcast about fountain pens and stationery).

Ian Tapu graduated from the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law this past May. He is proposing to his partner, Alika Masei, in July on the beach, so expect an Hawaiian sunset wedding in a year or two.

Elliott Dial is currently in Windsor, Con-necticut, and was just married to Molly Giorgio. They weren’t able to have anyone in attendance, but the party part of the ceremony is expected next year in Vermont. Elliott will be the junior dean at Loomis Chaffee next year and is look-ing for educators who might want a change of scenery.

Kiersten Hallquist and her partner, Mike, are getting married in October. As things started to take off in March, they promised to marry each other—whether it was the 175-person wed-

ding they’d been planning for two-plus years or just them and an officiant. They landed with something very close to the latter for safety and invite you to raise a glass with them at 3 p.m. October 3. “We could end up celebrating with so many more than we had planned!” says Kiersten. “Together, apart.”—Chris Barth, 315 14th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413; (609) 405-9153; [email protected]

09 I hope everyone is healthy and doing well. I missed having the chance to catch up with everyone at the

reunion but hope we all have the chance to see each other soon.

I have a few updates from our classmates and some sad news to share. Ellen (Pettigrew) Cousins ’08 and Robert Cousins welcomed a daughter, Adelyn Sophia, on May 11. She was born at DHMC and her car ride home began with a trip around the Green. Johannes Lohmann moved to London with his wife and is now the head of employment and organizational behavior at the Behavioural Insights Team, where he works on solutions to social challenges based on behavioral economics. Let him know if you are in London or happen to come through.

Taylor (Dryman) Wilmer is excited to share that she and her husband, Harry, welcomed son Wyatt on May 30. They look forward to intro-ducing him to the class of ’09 at next year’s re-scheduled reunion! On March 14 Laura Romain married Neil Templeton in Jersey City, New Jersey. Bridesmaids were Elizabeth Teague and Whitney Buckholz (in absentia). I’m deeply sad-dened to share that our classmate and friend Whitney Buckholz passed away on June 5 at her home in Brooklyn after a brave battle with meta-static breast cancer. You can read more about her and her many contributions to our community in the magazine online. I’m so sorry for the loss to our community, and my condolences to her many loved ones.—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; [email protected]

10 In this time of protest and pandemic, I asked classmates to share activities they are engaged in relating to civil

rights, protests, or fighting Covid.Kari Cholnoky: “I feel lucky to have been

out on the street protesting through the cur-few in New York City in one of the largest civil rights actions in 50 years. Every single action I participated in during the last three weeks has been organized by a Black New Yorker—it has been incredible to observe firsthand the powerful grassroots leadership of Black Lives Matter and youth Black-led movements in the city (almost all of which has been female-led). As an adjunct at SUNY Purchase with a job this fall, I feel fortunate to be reconsidering my role as an educator and working to incorporate not only the political climate, but also the status of community health and my life as an artist in my fall semester. This time can feel paralyzing and intimidating until you comprehend your poten-tial for positive change. These conversations

have already begun with former Dartmouth students of mine from my 2018 semester teach-ing as they have transitioned to life in New York City as artists and activists in their own right.”

Zoe Lawrence: “I have spent much of the final three months of my internal medicine residency at N.Y.U. working in makeshift Co-vid intensive care units at Bellevue, one of the largest public hospitals in the United States. The devastation wrought by this pandemic is heartbreaking, but the resilience of the N.Y.C. community has been inspiring. The daily 7 p.m. cheers for essential workers have quieted down and the hospital is finally starting to return to a (new) normal—so here’s hoping that we can see one another in person for our next reunion!”

Devon Saliga started Beepboop.us, a com-pany that provides groups of language learners free on-demand access to live language learn-ing online (like drill!). In September 2019 it launched its first product, medical Spanish drills. Because of Covid-19’s disproportionate effect on the Spanish-speaking population, the product became so popular that its systems were crashing under the 35-percent week-over-week growth. As of today, the 10 Mexico-based instructors have helped thousands of health-care professionals learn the basic Spanish they need to build stronger connections with patients. The company will be expanding drill offerings this summer to include conversational Spanish and Spanish for teachers. Feel free to book a free drill at www.beepboop.us. Inter-ested in investing? Contact Devon at [email protected].

In other news, Leah Weisman completed a master’s in natural science education this summer and is currently embarking on a bi-cycle journey through the Colorado River Basin. Along with three other women, she is conducting place-based watershed education and collecting stories of people who depend on the river, ultimately documenting the river’s value and impact on all aspects of life in the arid Southwest. Reach out and follow along with her at www.waterbicycle.org, especially if you live in the watershed!

Laurel Marcus graduated with her M.B.A. from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management with a certificate in sustainability.

Phil Aubart: “I’m just moving to the D.C. area., living in Springfield, and working at Fort Belvoir in the Army’s contact and fiscal law litigation division.”

Eric Sanabria went “all-in” on changes this year. After 10 years of living in the Bay Area, Eric moved to Mexico City and moved in with his girlfriend, whom he met during his sabbatical last year. He left Google and is now the VP of revenue and operations for Oyster.io, a neobank focused on empowering small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Congrats to Cory Kendrick and her husband Alexander Berger, who welcomed a baby girl, Max, in May.

All my best—and Black lives matter.—Jennifer Chong, 7A Marine View, 19 Middle Lane, Discovery Bay, Lantau, Hong Kong; [email protected]

11 In June our executive committee is-sued the following message.While the submissions via Google Forms have

since closed, please get in touch with us at [email protected] with any comments you would like to share.

“Dear 2011 classmates, our hearts are ex-traordinarily heavy. We have been saddened and enraged by the recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony Mc-Dade, Rayshard Brooks, Dominique Fells, and the countless others who have had their lives cut short due to police brutality and systemic rac-ism and oppression. We condemn racism, white supremacy, and state-sanctioned and extralegal violence, and we stand in solidarity with our Black classmates and the Black communities around the globe: Black Lives Matter.

“We have heard from you and seen some of your reactions to the present moment and know many of you are working to learn and un-learn. You are supporting our peers and other friends and colleagues. You are mobilizing in the streets, donating, and challenging yourselves, your family members, coworkers, and each other. We write to you to ask that you continue this throughout the summer and beyond. Do not let this momentum fade away! It will feel uncomfortable, but there cannot be a return to ‘normal.’ We must remember: Our agency, our actions, and our futures are all interconnected, and we owe it to ourselves and each other to help build a better world. In the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, ‘Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.’ We must all speak up and show up whenever and wherever there is injustice.

“As your class executive committee, it is our job to serve as liaisons between you and the College. We are always here to communicate your questions, suggestions, and concerns to Dartmouth leadership, and we are especially committed to using our platform to do so at this time, particularly since we know issues related to race, access, and inclusion are, of course, deeply rooted and pervade every aspect of our society—including Dartmouth. If Dartmouth leadership continues to rhetorically emphasize the importance of ‘diversity,’ they must actu-ally confront and dismantle the College’s own institutional racism and meet the intellectual, physical, mental, emotional, financial, and so-cial needs of all students.

“As alumni, our voices carry weight. As the committee communicates with the Col-lege regarding these issues over the next few months and throughout our tenure, we want our correspondence to be informed by your spe-cific feedback and calls for action. If you have questions, recommendations, or solutions you would like us to relay, please submit them here by June 30, and we will communicate them to President Hanlon and other leaders on behalf of the members of the class of 2011. We also are working to create a coalition with other young alumni classes and regional clubs so that they may do the same.

“Thank you for your time and energy. Be well and stay safe.”—Hillary S. Cheng, 26611 La Roda, Mission Viejo,

CA 92691; (603) 546-8452; [email protected]

12 For this month’s issue, the class of 2012 wanted to take a pause from our regularly scheduled program-

ming to discuss the role artists can be playing in the current global movement for change. Our guest columnist is classmate Joan Leslie, spoken word artist and nonprofit fundraiser based out of Atlanta. To join this journey, consider looking into your local Black Lives Matter movement and your city’s vendor database of independent artists to follow their work.

Every movement illuminating issues facing Black Americans has had a soundtrack. Dur-ing and post slavery we had spirituals. During the Jim Crow era we had freedom songs, and today we have a plethora of genres that share the sentiments of the people. Music is one art form that has always had that power, and as a poet, I’m proud to say poetry has had a seat at that table as well.

It all comes down to how words move us and speak life into dead situations, systems, and ideologies. As an artist, it is not just my responsibility to deliver the poems to a people seeking inspiration. It’s my job to be a connec-tor. Artists have a responsibility to have our ears to the ground so we are giving the people what they need during turmoil. Some days I may not have the words, but on those days I share the art. I share the graffiti, the portraits, the animations, the pottery. I share reminders that there is no struggle we are facing that the generations before us have not seen.

We have the privilege of social media and lightning fast communication (depending on the wi-fi provider). And what a privilege it is to share clips of Amber Riley singing Beyonce’s “Freedom” in the streets of L.A. so my West Coast friends can follow her and the movement on the ground there. The power of sharing sto-ries of injustice is in this generation’s hands right along with their cell phones and social mediums.

Our stories as a nation are art no matter how tragic they may be, and it’s our duty to share those stories with as many people as we can through our various gifts. In the spoken word community, we often embrace the notion that when a poem comes to you, it is no longer yours. We go even further to suggest that we are required to give it to the world because someone is waiting to hear it. I’ve accepted that when the world gives me tragedy, I am allowed to grieve first, but then I am also required to give others tools to help them grieve as well.

How many times have you heard a song or read a poem or analyzed a piece of art and been amazed that someone managed to capture your exact sentiments in a language foreign to you? It happens to me daily. At a time when we all need some encouragement and inspiration, it is crucial that we elevate artist voices in this movement for national policing reform and drastic changes to infrastructures built on systemic racism.

I also urge artists to practice self-care first and foremost. But know that when your healing

comes, you can use your powers for good. Heal others. I don’t have all the answers, but I do know how to convert pain into poetry. It will continue to be my toolkit for publicizing a revolution our ancestors predicted would not be televised. If there is one thing I’m proud to say they didn’t get quite right, it is that.—Liz Sullivan, 1811 Wyoming Ave NW, #44, Washington, DC 20009; [email protected]

13 Hello, ’13s. I hope this will find you, your fam-

ily, and your friends safe and well. As I write this, we remain in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and the incredible changes and uncer-tainty that it has brought. We are also in the midst of the continued cries for racial justice that urge us all to both reflect and take action in a myriad of ways. Though these are difficult times, we hope you will continue to lean on your Dartmouth com-munity for both support and action.

We have a few updates this edition, so let’s get to them. First, we received a note about our classmate Allie Young, who is a Navajo tribal member and creator of “Protect the Sacred,” a social media campaign calling on youth to protect their elders, their language, and their culture. You can check out Allie’s work in numerous outlets, including NBC News, the Tamron Hall show, and The Hollywood Reporter. Incredible work, Allie!

Courtney Karol recently graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and has traded the desert of Tucson, Arizona, for the mountains of Denver to start her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She also writes that she’s found a beautiful Big Green coincidence in that Julia Hudnut Bueller will be her chief resident! ’Round the girdled earth we roam! Sarah Aronson Fischell graduated from her Ph.D. program in neuroscience. She pursued a partnership program between the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). She will be returning to medical school at UMSOM to finish her clerkships. Reese Ramponi has been working as a psychiatric advanced practice nurse and just got grant funding to start a multidisciplinary program that includes both mental and medical health for transgender teens.

Maggie (Conners) Deforge got married in May 2019 to Robby Deforge. They just bought a house in Durham, North Carolina, with a big back yard for their dogs Rugger and Skipper. She will be starting a yearlong geriatric psychology occupational therapy fellowship at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in September. Alexis (Monroe) Lightner and her husband, Jacob Lightner, recently moved to the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where she’ll be doing dissertation research for her Ph.D. in art history. She would love to connect with other alums in the area! Finally, Teo Larsson Sax, Libby (Hamlin) Sax, and 2-year-old Eva welcomed Emma into the family in late April. Congratulations!

Thank you everyone for your submissions, and we hope to hear from you again soon! —Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; [email protected]


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15 Mariah Claw writes, “Two things. First, Black lives matter. Second, with the removal of the weathervane

from Baker Tower, many Indigenous students and alumni (including myself ) have expelled a collective: ‘It’s about damn time.’ The deci-sion to remove the distasteful iconography from the highest point in Hanover comes only after decades of hard-fought battles to have the In-dian mascot eradicated from campus. Given the widespread call for institutions to commit to antiracist policies, it is pertinent that the Dartmouth community push Phil Hanlon to go beyond measures of performativity. While removing the weathervane is a tiny step in the right direction, it means nothing without the banning and condemning of Indian head logos, a holistic investment in Indigenous students, and sincere ownership by the administration for the way Dartmouth has upheld systemic racism by dismissing the concerns of Indigenous students. Instead of continuing to (re)issue statements such as ‘The institution is tremendously proud of its historic, although sometimes flawed, com-mitment to welcoming and educating its accom-plished Native American students.’ Dartmouth owes its community, especially prospective students, a truthful discussion of how Eleazar Wheelock betrayed Samson Occom’s trust to benefit white, wealthy, cisgendered men. Too long, didn’t read. Dartmouth College is not be-yond racism and settler colonialism; it was built on and is steeped in violence and pain.”

Deby Xiadani is bouncing between Brooklyn; Hoboken, New Jersey; and Cambridge, Massa-chusetts; directing comedy; hosting fundraisers; studying for the MCAT; and teaching fitness—all of course, virtually! She says reach out if you’d like to fitness or coffee together!

In May Hannah Seulgee Jung graduated from UCLA School of Law with a J.D., specializing in international and comparative law coupled with public interest law and policy. She is currently working as a research and advocacy fellow to the UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism. She would love to (re)connect with anyone, including students interested in antiracism work specifically and international human rights work broadly. She can be reached at [email protected].

Adam Schneider was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on June 1 and continues to serve aboard the warship USS Manchester as the navigator. After separating from the Navy at the end of the summer, he will be pursuing a joint J.D./M.P.P. at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Georgetown Law Center. He can’t wait to see all of his friends back in Boston and D.C.!—Samantha Webster, 665 Washington St., Apt. 711, Boston, MA 02111; (484) 356-3678; [email protected]

17 Hello, ’17s! I hope you are staying safe and well! As the days start to get cooler and things move indoors, please

remember to take care of yourselves, social dis-tance, and make efforts to get your daily doses of Vitamin D!

One ’17 who has been doing a great job of social distancing, soaking up the sun, and con-ducting productive work is Briana Franklin. After graduation Briana moved back home to Atlanta; however, she has always had a dream of moving to the West Coast. In the fall of 2019 Briana flew out to the Bay Area to attend Afrotech, one of the largest multicultural tech conferences in the United States, and listen to the stories, engage with the Black tech community, and explore some professional opportunities. She even re-connected with some fellow Dartmouth alums such as Isaiah Matthews.

Briana’s trips and networking out West paid off and she eventually pursued an opportunity with Orangetheory Fitness in the Bay Area; however, she’s been spending the majority of her time on her own entrepreneurial venture, the Prosp(a)rity Project. Briana started this initiative as a means for equipping young Black girls and women with the tools necessary for achieving personal, professional, and financial success. Since starting this project she has had a lot of success. In just a few months she gathered more than 1,000 responses on her initial survey to collect data on Black, Native American, and people of color experiences; launched the Eco-nomic Empower Fund, a fundraiser aimed at attacking financial inequality through sources such as student debt relief and financial coach-ing; and brought on two codirectors, including Cori Lopez.

Keep up the great work, Briana! You’re mak-ing a real impact!—Dorian J. Allen, 33 Kensington Terrace, Maple-wood, NJ 07040; [email protected]

19 Hi, ’19s!For this edition of Class Notes,

I asked you to share your (or a class-mate’s) experiences doing good in the world: supporting charitable endeavors, working on advocacy efforts, or otherwise lending a hand or raising your voice. I’m so impressed by the work that my fellow ’19s are doing in the world and share this work here. I also share some exciting life updates from our classmates.

Jarely Lopez has been elected to the board of trustees of the Oxnard, California, school district. Jarely is hoping to advocate for civic engagement and youth leadership and hopes to facilitate classroom conversations about race and inequality. She is also currently working as a contractor for the Navy.

Matthew Rauner shared that Charlotte Evans, Io Jones, and Tara Gallagher have built a web-site that tracks the recent changes that have occurred in legislation that governs access to reproductive services on a state-by-state level. Charlotte writes, “During the past few weeks we watched states with already restrictive abortion laws exploit the pandemic to further limit or outright ban abortion care. We also watched as activists, abortion clinics, and researchers fought back against these restrictions. Amidst it all, we questioned how a woman in need of an abortion could figure whether this is available, let alone accessible, in her state. Access Atlas seeks to provide much-needed clarity on abor-

tion availability and access across the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Ryan Monasch has been volunteering to help with the beautification of the outdoor spaces in his neighborhood. He has been planting flowers, clearing debris, and doing other outdoor work. Ryan also reports that he has been having tightly contested games of Quiplash over Zoom with David Jelke and Danny Li to keep in touch and keep laughing.

Christopher Colby wrote that he’s made plans to move to England in the fall to pursue a master’s in classics at the University of Oxford through a fellowship. He has also spent time working remotely for a law firm, doing advocacy work in the form of research contributing to amici briefs that could be used for upcoming U.S. Supreme Court cases that deal with con-stitutional law. Christopher’s goal this summer is to get his nonprofit, which will focus on legal activism and education for the average citizen, off the ground.

Anneliese Thomas shared that Steffi Colao will be starting law school at the University of California, Los Angeles. Steffi has been named to the distinguished scholars program at the law school.

Finally, I want to congratulate Liz Michel and Henry Cawthorne on their engagement!

Thank you to everyone who shared updates for this column. I always look forward to keep-ing in touch with and hearing from my fellow ’19s! Please always feel free to send updates to [email protected].—Morgan Lee, 417 Grand St., Apt. D1705, New York, NY 10002; [email protected]

20 Hi, ’20s, and congratulations! While our time together at Dartmouth came to an early, unprecedented

end, I have never been more proud of the tire-less efforts of our class and community. I’m so excited to see how we all continue to positively affect the world as alumni.

For the next five years I’ll be updating you on all of the fun, awesome, and inspiring things our classmates are doing. Please send your up-dates to me to highlight in the next Class Notes column at [email protected]. Whether you’re moving to a new city, starting a new career, or simply spending time with other ’20s, I hope you share your many achieve-ments with me so that we can all celebrate them together.

Many ’20s developed innovative solutions or pivoted the focus of current organizations to address problems created or revealed through the twin crises of the global pandemic and anti-Black violence.

Amy Guan cofounded Give Essential, a plat-form that allows individuals to donate extra household items to essential workers. As of early June, Give Essential had raised more than $300,000 and had more than 100 volunteers across the country.

Uma Ramesh founded Health Access for All three years ago to raise money for organi-zations addressing health disparities in the United States. Since then it has raised more

than $6,500, recently donating to Covid-19 relief and Black Lives Matter organizations.

James MchLaughlin, Clay Kirwood, and Nate Stuart raised $22,000 for Feeding America through their Covid-19 mustache fundraiser.

Sam Greenberg worked in the Upper Valley as an emergency medical technician.

Angelina Choi solicited her Dartmouth com-munity to raise more than $11,000 for Black Lives Matter charities.

Morgan Mason and Kennedy Mason founded Heartfelt Cases, a phone case company, and have raised hundreds of dollars for at-risk communi-ties during these difficult times.

Other classmates earned prestigious aca-demic scholarships.

Garrett Muscatel was awarded a Knight-Hen-nessy scholarship to pursue a J.D. at Stanford Law School.

Sarah Pearl was awarded a Marshall scholar-ship to study physics and environmental studies in the United Kingdom.

Katrina Keating, Sloane Sambuco, Sabena Allen, Mychaela Anderson, and Mary Tobin were awarded Fulbright scholarships and are pur-suing English teaching assistant positions and graduate education abroad beginning in January 2021. Mary noted that she “applied to Germany because I fell in love with the country” on her Berlin language study abroad.

And many of our peers will continue their athletic journeys in professional or college capacities.

Isiah Swann signed an NFL contract with the Cincinnati Bengals and Niko Lalos signed an NFL contract with the New York Giants. Says Niko: “Thank you to the team, my coaches, and other ’20s for helping me make this opportunity possible!”

Several cross country and track and field athletes will continue their student-athlete ca-reers, running for other universities while pur-suing graduate studies. Cha’Mia Rothwell will run at Duke, Sean Laverty will run at the University of Oregon, Henry Raymond will run at Arizona State University, Lauren Sapone will run at the University of Notre Dame, and Georgia Fear will run for the University of Virginia. Says Georgia: “I’m so thankful for my time at Dartmouth and the moments I’ve had with my teammates. I’m excited to learn more and improve—and for the warmer weather!

Many thanks to everyone who wrote in. Wishing you all the best of luck as we navigate our early 20s in this turbulent world. I can’t wait to celebrate our accomplishments during our in-person Commencement! Until then, FaceTime will have to do.—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; [email protected]

Clubs &GroupsI hope everyone is getting through these challenging times.

Given the restrictions on gathering, Dartmouth clubs and groups largely did not hold events. A few were able to transition some meetings to virtual events.

The Dartmouth Alumni Association of San Diego hosted a Zoom graduation party on June 14. Unfortunately, only one 2020, Mary Tobin ’20, was able to join. Also on the call were Neil Tarzy ’76, club president, Stuart Yee ’03, Roger Usborne ’62, Maren Christensen ’83, and Peter Nytzen, Tu’89.

The Dartmouth Club of Suburban New Jersey had its very first virtual event in May. David Di-etze ’78, club president, served as host, and after introductions, Marco Zarbin ’78, M.D., provided insights on how the pandemic is affecting New Jersey. Bill Cunningham ’78 previewed a possible future talk on wildflowers in New Jersey. Jona-than Rabinowitz ’74 discussed preliminary plans for next year’s annual seminar plus semi-annual luncheon events, and Tara Gulla ’95 gave an up-date on Dartmouth’s fastest-growing affiliated group, Women of Dartmouth. They also heard about how the latest admission cycle worked out in New Jersey.

Women of Dartmouth organized several virtual events recently. One was a workshop titled “While Navigating Uncharted Waters” on May 8 with Dr. Catherine Florio Pipas, DMS’11, an award-winning faculty member at the Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Karyn Crosby, Tu’14, also launched an international, virtual book club for Women of Dartmouth that has more than 250 participants.

Please stay safe and send me updates about the great virtual events that your club, association, or affiliated group has organized.—Stina Brock ’01, P.O. Box 9274, Jackson, WY 83002; [email protected]

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.

Charles E. Compton ’38 • June 16Harry A. Jacobs Jr. ’42 • May 5

Frank P. Sherwood ’43 • Aug. 28, 2019Kenneth F. Eldredge ’45 • June 8

Donald J. Evans ’47 • April 17Alan Goldstein ’47 • March 22Donald G. Symer ’47 • June 6

Thomas J. Williams ’47 • June 7Francis R. Drury Jr. ’48 • May 27

Matthew C. Fenton III ’49 • April 28Dick T. Hollands ’50 • April 12Chester F. Cotter ’51 • June 23

James M. Culberson Jr. ’51 • May 31Robert P. Fullerton ’51 • May 25

F. Gilbert Merrill III ’51 • Nov. 20, 2019William R. Rugg ’51 • Oct. 18, 2019

Donald S. Gann ’52 • Feb. 3

Arthur Judson II ’52 • May 1John R.D. McClintock ’52 • May 1

Garry H. Meyers ’52 • June 11Douglas F. Perthel ’52 • Feb. 25

Edmund W. Sanderson ’52 • May 30Peter C. Grenquist ’53 • April 27

Allan L. Miller ’53 • April 26Thomas H. Trager ’53 • May 9

Larry Mamlet ’54 • April 8Nelson B. Putnam ’54 • May 26

Joseph F. Bachman ’55 • Nov. 8, 2019John A. Nicolette ’56 • May 3

James B. Dawson ’57 • May 30George E. Dodge Jr. ’57 • April 13Ronald C. Fuerstner ’57 • May 26Daniel P. Harrington ’57 • Jan. 11

William H. Muldoon III ’57 • May 3David Bathrick ’58 • April 30

John R. Germani ’58 • June 24Jaegwon Kim ’58 • Nov. 27, 2019

James A. Block ’59 • May 7David E. Dennehy ’59 • March 13

Dennis H. Lacoss ’59 • April 26F. Phillip Langley ’59 • April 11

Kenneth A. Rogers ’59 • Dec. 6, 2019Stephen V. Spaulding III ’59 • May 28

Maxwell F. Eveleth ’60 • June 21Donald W. Hall ’60 • Jan. 22

Robert C. Rhines ’60 • April 16Neal B. Davis ’61 • unknown

L. Benjamin Fauver II ’61 • Oct. 13, 2018William J. Flanigan ’61 • May 9, 2009

Ira Gorman ’61 • April 18Harold A. Knott ’61 • April 22Edmond Lau ’61 • unknown

John J. Linczmajer ’61 • April 26, 2009Alan R. Orschel ’61 • June 1

W. Scott Piper III ’61 • Dec. 2, 2019Charles W. Gaillard ’62 • June 14

John E. Mann ’62 • June 4Thomas S. Moorman Jr. ’62 • June 18

John D. Ryder ’62 • May 1Robert D. Burros ’63 • May 7

Throop C. Brown Jr. ’64 • April 8Peter R. Akley ’65 • May 1

Ray A. Meyer ’65 • Feb. 21, 2019David A. Oesterheld ’65 • June 9

Frank B. Leib ’66 • March 18Donald C. Hansen ’67 • April 9Lewis E. Hitchner ’67 • June 18F. Beirne Lovely Jr. ’67 • June 7

George W. Cobb ’68 • May 6Allen L. Skean ’68 • Dec. 18, 2019William E. Ferguson ’69 • June 11

Benedict J. Semmes III ’71 • June 18Richard J. Roby ’73 • May 28

Herbert J. Hopkins ’74 • June 2Susan F. Assmann ’78 • May 30Douglas F. Egan ’79 • May 14

Andrew M. Glassberg ’80 • June 2Kerek E. Frierson ’82 • March 27

Sally Adnopoz Gendler ’82 • April 22Anchie H. Kuo ’82 • May 23

Joel R. Reidenberg ’83 • April 21Sarah S. Morris ’85 • May 15

Lillie Brown-McNeill ’86 • June 20Dennis C. Donnelly ’89 • June 5

Christopher Q. McMullen-Laird ’05 • June 18Whitney A. Buckholz ’09 • June 5

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involving 62 defendants, including El Chapo. “It was very complex, it was really stressful, and you had to be in nine different places at one time,” Shakeshaft recalls. At one point, referring to the twins’ investigation, Patrick Fitzgerald told him, “This is the most impor-tant case in the country. We can’t f*** it up.”

Shakeshaft often worked late nights and weekends. He was virtually absent from home, where he says his wife was coping with three small children. Because of concerns for secrecy, almost the only people Shakeshaft could talk to about the investigation were fellow prosecutors and federal agents. Many evenings he and col-leagues would gather at a favorite bar near the federal building. “It was the one time I could shut my brain off for a little bit.” At first he mostly drank beer or wine. “And then at some point it turned to Scotch. That’s sort of when it became a problem.”

By Shakeshaft’s account, he basically held things together until the spring of 2014, when he handled a guilty plea in one of the last Chicago-based cases to come out of the investigation. He thought once his role ended, the stress would pass and he would return to normal. Early the next year, he left the U.S. attorney’s office for a big Chicago firm, but the work he expected to do for a major corporate client never materialized. And it turned out he’d triggered a habit he now couldn’t throttle. He went through sev-eral rehabs, but each time fell back.

He says his wife grew worried about the impact on their children. He devised schemes to hide his problem. “I had all the same gimmicks as the other guys. Mine was to put little red wine bottles in my golf bag in the garage. And so after dinner I’d say, ‘I’ll go park the car.’ ” Finally, in October 2016, he says, his wife told him to move out.

Shakeshaft acknowledges that he can’t simply blame his problem on his former job. Alcoholism runs through his family. Shake-shaft says that at some point in his life some-thing stressful would have driven him to find solace in alcohol. “It’s in my heredity.”

The Justice Department consolidated nearly a dozen El Chapo indictments around the country into a single prosecution in the Eastern District of New York. In December 2018, Pedro Flores appeared as a govern-ment witness. During two days, Flores, then 37, testified that he had sold about 38 tons of drugs for El Chapo. Jurors listened to the recordings of conversations between the two men. Flores was one of more than a dozen prosecution witnesses with inside knowl-edge of the cartel, but his testimony came up repeatedly in Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Goldbarg’s closing argument. The

jury convicted El Chapo on all 10 counts, and the judge sent him away for life.

The Justice Department views the in-vestigation that started with a minor drug deal on Chicago’s West Side as a success. Of the 62 people indicted under Shakeshaft’s watch, 58 were convicted. The other four are either dead or on the run.

Shakeshaft doesn’t pretend that El Cha-po’s conviction comes close to squelching the drug trade. The Sinaloa Cartel continues to send drugs into the United States, report-edly with Chapo’s sons taking a growing role in the business. So what’s the point? “It certainly can lead to the feeling that we were playing whack-a-mole,” Shakeshaft says. “But the flipside to that question is what’s the alternative? Just give up?”

These days Shakeshaft has his own quiet practice, but he is looking to sign on with a Chicago firm. He says he’s not concerned about the stress of big cases—he knows he’s better when he’s working hard. He admits that he has struggled even recently to stop drinking. “My biggest times are when I’m alone or feeling useless, which makes the last couple of years pretty tough,” he says. As of this writing, he thinks he’s made it, pushed by his commitment to his children and the physical pain of withdrawal. “My body is telling my brain, ‘You can’t do that anymore.’ ” He lives in a tiny house just down the street from his family and breathes into Soberlink 90 minutes before he picks up his kids. His ex-wife gets the report immediately. Then he’ll breathe into the device several times when they are with him. His Jeep has a breathalyzer ignition device. Alcohol, he says, “just messed up my life.”

Keefe, the New Yorker writer, says Shakeshaft’s decision to come forward about his drinking problem is brave. “He has a sort of warts-and-all candor about his own life and experience,” he says.

Buddy Teevens puts it this way: “He takes ownership.”

Shakeshaft says it is possible to come out on the other side. He maintains that he’s “weathered the storm. Certainly, I did not weather it like a champion, but if this were a disease that were that easy, you would just snap your fingers and say, ‘Oh, okay, I’m done.’ It doesn’t work that way. And so I have taken seriously my responsibilities to my children, to my—to use a technical term they use in AA—my fellow sufferers, to my community, and to everybody else. And to my country. That’s why I did all this stuff.”

RICHARD BABCOCK, the former editor of Chicago magazine, is a novelist and teaches journalism at Northwestern University.

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adorable, and incredibly curious, Adélie penguins.”

Hand’s team deployed the rover half a dozen times in Antarctica on missions that lasted up to three hours. BRUIE was flexing its mechanical muscles in a new environ-ment, proving to Hand and his colleagues that it could collect data on the salinity and oxygen levels and temperatures of the wa-ter, while also taking high-definition pic-tures. Hand says the bot performed flaw-lessly, and the researchers eventually grew comfortable enough with its performance to let it crawl around unsupervised for 48 hours.

“Building and testing robotic vehicles in the field is always a highly iterative evolution process fueled by insomnia and caffeine,” Hand says. “Often we think we’ve moved one step forward, but then we discover we actually moved two steps backward. That’s what makes this process so important. In the field we can pull the robots out and re-solder a wire or replace a sensor. In space that’s not an option.”

Absent plans to land on Europa, it’s entirely possible that BRUIE will never see an alien shore. In the meantime, Hand says, there’s a lot the robot can do on Earth to help us better understand the woefully understudied cryosphere. It’s an urgent task. Convey, of the British Ant-arctic Survey, says climate change creates multiple threats to Antarctic ecosystems and species, such as habitat loss and de-clining populations. Without robots such as BRUIE, researchers may never have a chance to study these ecosystems before they’re gone.

Hand hopes that there will be more missions to Antarctica to test even more sophisticated versions of BRUIE in the future. He envisions an armada of robots like BRUIE crawling under the polar ice caps for months on end, studying changes in this unique environment. “At NASA we build these robotic vehicles that survive for decades in space or roaming the surface of Mars,” Hand says. “Why don’t we have robotic vehicles swimming around in our own ocean investigating the sea ice and surviving for years on end?”

For now, this remains a distant dream. But Hand’s work in Antarctica is an impor-tant step toward a deeper understanding of life on our own planet—and beyond.

DANIEL OBERHAUS is a staff writer at Wired, where he covers space exploration and the future of energy, and the author of Extraterrestrial Languages (The MIT Press 2019).

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Welton Chang ’05On using technology to defend human rights

Notable: At Human Rights First, a New York City- and Washington, D.C.-based nongovernmental organization (NGO), develops apps that can be used on the ground by those protesting oppression; has researched how technology can be used to identify and ad-dress disinformation campaigns; served in Iraq as an Army officer and with the U.S. Defense Intelligence AgencyCareer: Previously senior researcher at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Truman National Security ProjectEducation: A.B., government/Asian and Middle Eastern studies; M.A., security studies, Georgetown, 2013; M.A. and Ph.D., psychol-ogy, University of Pennsylvania, 2015, 2017Personal: Lives in Washington, D.C., with wife Meredith Wilson Chang ’07 and baby son Apollo

“When I first came to Dartmouth I met Mike Breen ’02, who encouraged me to join ROTC by telling me how much fun it is to jump out of an airplane. In 2007, when I was doing just that, I wondered, ‘Why did he think I’d enjoy this?’ Nonetheless, when he became CEO of Human Rights First [HRF] and recruited me, I decided to take a metaphorical leap.”“I’m in a nontraditional role for a human rights organization. It’s a hybrid of what a chief product officer would do at a startup, responsible for the application of technology being developed in-house, while also serving as a chief information security officer.” “A couple of things have transferred across the weird, interesting jobs I’ve held. One is being able to game out potential scenarios; the other is resilience to events, which has come into play between the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests.” “We’ve all seen the United States pull back on commitments to human rights at home and abroad. We’ve all been witnesses to inhumane policies such as family separations at the border and to detainees in ICE facilities put at risk from the pandemic. HRF has enlisted the Harvard College Data Analytics Group to track Covid-19 in those facilities, and our lawyers have secured the release of five detained clients. We want to evolve to take unilateral action when necessary, especially when America doesn’t live up to its founding ideals.”“Human rights face severe challenges from advanced surveillance, climate change, economic inequity, and authoritarian governments taking advan-tage of events such as the pandemic to limit civil liberties.”“While technology can enable massive human rights abuses, tools such as encryption can help defend activists and protesters. Technology companies can do more to ensure their programs and tools don’t fall into the wrong hands, but activists and movement leaders should educate themselves about the best ways to use technology both offensively and defensively.”“Human rights abusers, from white supremacists to military officers commit-ting genocide, leave behind physical and digital trails of evidence. Human rights organizations must master the collection of this evidence to bring these individuals to justice.”“It’s the cross-pollination of ideas that’s really going to deliver on the promise of tech to improve lives. Often when I have conversations about human rights issues, my first reaction is to suggest we apply technology, and the people I’m talking with aren’t aware that such tools exist.”“I wrote my dissertation on how people perceive accountability systems psycho-logically. I learned that technology is just going to make you more of who you already were. Someone who already felt accountable to public scrutiny would feel that even more intensely if being recorded, but body cameras haven’t stopped police officers from committing horrendous acts.” “I don’t buy the argument that tech is ‘just a tool like a gun, and guns don’t kill people, people kill people.’ Technology doesn’t kill people, but it can enable a lot of massive abuses.”“For us to help our partners on the ground, we need their trust. No human rights organization in the United States can be a credible messenger on human rights anywhere if America doesn’t get its own house in order.”

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