Impacts simply positive

Dartmouth likes people who will make a "positive impact on society." Interpreting that in a broad, genial way, we offer in the following pages of some of our own nominations for good, better, best. In recognition of a current student mania, an opiate of the people, this year's collection of people and things merits the Golden Cookie Award. Indeed, our annual search for positive impacts possibly extends further than the trustees ever dreamed― even to the bathroom of the Phi Psi house, the source, according to the student editors of the Harbinger, of excellent campus graffiti. A sampling: The Johnson family has 28 flavors.Bresler's has 32 flavors.Martha has 47 shavers.Darth has 59 Waders.John Deere has 71 graders.Every zenith has its nadir.Oakland has 45 Raiders.John the Baptist had lots of waders.Ralph has got one Nader.B & G has 85 spaders.Phi Psi has good debaters.Goldsmith has seen many seders.The Poles raise lots of taters.Never trust a smiling satyr.The Enterprise has four banks of phasers.Mythology has some unlikely mazers.The universe has 9,713 Quasars.The average preppie owns 7-8 blazers.Good whiskey needs no chasers.

Fiddler's law

There's no category for H. Bernard Waugh '74, Esq. Students first meet him at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, where he fiddles and calls contradances for Freshmen Trips. Others may know his book of original Northeast ballads (he's from the Southwest). When he isn't practicing law, Waugh hikes with the D.0.C., jogs about 30 miles a week, skis (in the Canadian Marathon, he did 150 miles in two days), and performs classical music at the Hopkins Center. Every weekend you can find him at community contradances, either dancing or fiddling. He also does weddings.

Maven's haven

Dan and Whit's is the general store in Norwich where you can buy a pint of Haagen-Dazs and a pair of mud boots. Fresh asparagus and feed grain. Gasoline and egg rolls.

Dan started working there in 1933 (the store was founded in 1889) and not long after the place became Dan and Whit's. Whit has since moved to Florida, leaving his partner to bemoan spiraling Vermont sales taxes and inflation but not the vast inventory: "We sell a little bit of everything and not much of anything," boasts Dan.

Faces in the crowd

No doubt this is a special collection, but we wouldn't mind a nickel - maybe a dollar - for every student who could just as easily fit into the exhibit. We include here not only the known greats, but the great unknowns. In the former category are Seth Swirsky and Gail Koziara, two seniors who have taken the directive to "make a significant positive impact" to heart. Swirsky is a rising singer/songwriter who with friend Elana Rutenberg has just been signed to a New York City record label. One of his songs placed first in a nationwide contest, and a musical he wrote with mother Joan received critical applause from the New York Times. When he's not in a Big Apple recording studio or producer's office, he may turn up on campus, giving SRO concerts at the student center. Koziara is: senior co-captain of the woman's basketball team, holder of 22 of 25 individual Dartmouth records, first team Academic All-American, all-Ivy in outdoor track, winner of a N.C.A.A. postgraduate scholarship (to Oxford), winner of the Class of 1976 Award as the outstanding female athlete at Dartmouth. Last winter, the woman who has probably appeared in these pages more than the president (and who will probably be Dartmouth's president come 2002) was honored with a Gail Koziara night at the Alumni Gym.

But here we pause to honor, too, those who pass through Hanover in their strong, silent way ― some of whom are shown above. These students' outlook is positive and social, their work is significant, and their impact ... it suits them fine.

John Henderson '82, on the left and behind the beard, is known for his good ears. He has listened and been listened to as a Freshman Trip leader, an Undergraduate Adviser, and an alcohol peercounselor. Most notably, he puts on a Collegesponsored "road show" for contraception information, complete with props, seen by no less than 600 students each year.

Michael Valerio, next to Henderson, wanted to study bones the easy way. All the second-year Thayer School student had to do was invent that way: He designed and built a noninvasive device that allows doctors to use "vibrational analysis" to determine when a bone fracture is healed. Patent Pending.

Sarah Hutchison '82 is not one to pass up the opportunities Dartmouth offers. She began her college career as an active member of Cabin and Trail. At the same time, she joined up with the Dartmouth Chamber Singers and has remained with them "forever." She participated in the Tucker Foundation's program in Kicking Horse, Montana, and then went off to study art history in Italy, where she stayed behind a while to study voice with the pros. Back in Hanover, she recorded the oral histories of a dozen elderly women residents of the Upper Valley. "Little Rah," as her friends call her, does big things.

Pacey Pet '82 is allNew England and all-Ivy in the shot put and the discus throw. Last year, he was number one in New England in the shot. For three years, the Theta Delt brother has played his viola with the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, and now he's got a quartet of his own. Pet, a psychology major who will enter the Medical School this fall, assesses his psyche: "I'm just going through school in my own quiet way."

Wilbert Anderson '83 director of the Black Underground Theater Association, has directed and produced three shows in the past year. He's performed in Frost plays and repertory productions and is currently treasurer of the Dartmouth Players. There's another angle: Anderson's both a member of Green Key and a two- year veteran of the Undergraduate Council. The skates came with him from California.

Joe Kool, reclining in the center, deserves to be here as much as the next person. Winter, it's skiing; spring, it's Softball on the Green; summer, it's the docks at Ledyard. All year round it's "C's," good friends, and good times. Let's hear it for the average multitudes (see also page 41).

Or persuasive?

Upon moving into Dartmouth's first sorority house, the women of Sigma Kappa managed to convince the national organization to waive its rules requiring a live-in house mother and banning alcohol ― and the women still received the national's Wick Award, a tea set, for Most Cooperative Chapter.

Tenure

Talk about seniority: Stu Fraser has been a mason at Dartmouth for three decades and half that time president of Local 560 of the Service Employees International Union. He's also a valued friend of coworker and management alike, no small feat these days.

New symbol?

An observant student reports: "There is - and this sounds crazy - a bean growing in President McLaughlin's garden that occasionally spills onto the Webster Avenue sidewalk. It is twice the size of a lima. It is light purple - sort of lavender - with little black dots. Very strange. But what is it?"

Happy tunes

No song was written about it, but the Glee Club recently went through a mood-indigo period. Four different directors in as many years didn't help. Now, with a new full-time director in Louis Burkot, new uniforms, and a triumphant spring tour of Dixie, this venerable Dartmouth institution is walking the sunny side of the street.

Top rocks

Perhaps it was the 180degree view of the Vermont hills that inspired somebody to make the fourth floor of Fairchild Physical Sciences Center into a mini-museum of fascinating gemstones. Here you can see Kyanite from Lyme and the centerpiece, a weighty sunburst of quartz crystal unearthed on Moose Mountain. Also represented are stones from Hawaii, Brazil, Nicaragua, delicate celestite from Sicily, and pumice from Mount St. Helens. And a whole display featuring six different types of granite from New Hampshire.

Distractions

It's not your fault. You came here to study. But who can study when Brezhnev, Burt Lancaster, Meryl Streep, a Rocky Mountain goat, and a raspberry-filled sponge cake are staring at you from the rack? The periodical section of Hanover's Howe Library is a procrastinator's paradise soft, overstuffed furniture, picture windows, and three walls of magazines, journals, and newspapers. Here you can thumb through all the regulars along with the FreeChina Weekly, Hanover High s Pen-of-Iron, ForestNotes. Gourmet, sundry seed catalogues, and the WorldMarxist Review. Take heart, though: Your professor is Probably on the next couch over, reading AmericanHome or Life.

Tiny books

Some of the best books in Baker Library are also its smallest - almost 200 rare miniature volumes recently given by Madelyn C. Hickmott, widow of Allerton C. Hickmott '17. Some are as small as a postage stamp, one was produced for the library of the dollhouse of Queen Mary of England. Authors represented include Keats, Beatrix Potter, and Richard Nixon.

Picasso's legacy

In its brief prime, the student residence at 10 South College Street was something of a tourist attraction. Passing motorists would slow down to examine the junk-bedecked tree out front ― muffin tins, bicycle tires, a bicycle, baseball, ladder, and hubcap dangling from bare branches. The "Bateau Lavoir," named after Picasso's first studio, launched the outdoor exhibit last December. But the current residents have stripped the tree to its last baseball and tidied up the adjoining yard. "I guess we're trying to go suburban," said one. The only noticeable carryover is an old fruit-box sign hanging over the front door. The brand name: "Prosperity."

Familiar face

Joe Kool (a/k/a "Reclining Man Drinking") appears opposite and as one of our quintessential students on page 39. In fact, he never went to college. In fact, he is the work of sculptor Duane Hanson, and he was in a recent Hopkins Center exhibition titled "Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection." Yes, but he looks just like my roommate.

Waugh's law and musk, too.

Dan and Whit's like Alice's Restaurant, almost anything you uant.

Five — well, six — of the strong, mostly silent types

The Glee Club is all smiles again.

Sigma Kappa's teapot.

Stu Fraser: local president.

One of Baker's tiny books peer closely

Duane Hanson's super-real figure.