1973

On May 8, during Class Officers Weekend, the class of 1973 received a Special Recognition Award from the College: "You'll soon be back in Hanover to mark the 20th anniversary of your graduation. In the two decades since you departed from the Hanover Plain, you've traveled widely, established yourselves in myriad careers, found success, and felt the pangs of loss and disappointment. But your loyalty to one another and to Dartmouth has been intense and neverflagging. You flock back to the campus for formal and informal gatherings; and your show of dedication to the College is manifest in the generous contributions you make yearly to the Alumni Fund. Moreover, you've not lost any of the social consciousness that marked your generation and was surely the benchmark of your class. Last year you established a Class of 1973 Scholarship Fund, to be administered by the College's Financial Aid Officers, which will aid needy students in their quests for a Dartmouth education... For your continuing devotion to the College and to one another, Dartmouth is honored to single you out for this 1993 Special Recognition Award."

As a class, we have a right to feel particularly gratified. Our recent Alumni Fund showings and our ability to fund the class scholarship could not have been accomplished without each and every one of us who participated. I would be remiss, however, if I did not say that we very much owe this award to Thad King, Chet Homer, Paul Sehl, Brad Little, and Bob Barr, who have continued to pull the load of keeping us organized and productive. Thanks, guys, for being so untiring and for letting us share in your well-deserved moment of recognition!

Speaking of those who embody the Dartmouth spirit and the social consciousness to which our award speaks, Mark Harty has been elected Regional New England Vice President of the Defense Research Institute, a national association of defense lawyers which addresses potential legal reforms.

In March Dr. Jerome Wade established an affiliation with the Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center in Poteau, Okla. An article in the local community paper makes it clear that his neurological services were much needed and are greatly appreciated there. Jerome earned his M.D. at Dartmouth Med, interned at the University of Illinois, and then practiced internal medicine in Tulsa for several years. He completed a residency in neurology at St. Louis University Medical Center in 1991 and retained to Tulsa where he continues to practice in a number of hospitals.

On May 10 Ed Sandifer sent a note via a computer network I should know how to access but don't. Ed's struggles to get me through several math and computer courses are once again fresh in my mind. Somehow, my dependence on a print-out of something that Ed probably wrote in his sleep just reaffirms a Dartmouth friendship undying.

"Wow! e-mail class notes! How convenient! Anyway, on October 2, my wife, Theresa, and I had our second child, a daughter, Victoria. Her brother Philip is ten and in fifth grade (probably sixth by the time this gets to print). She's seven months old as I write this, and is starting to crawl. She bee-lines to any paper left around and eats it. This afternoon she got the Alumni Magazine with Kemeny on the cover.

"My wife is a mathematics professor at Southern Connecticut State University. I, too, am a mathematics professor, but I teach at Western not Southern."

Is that an Ed note or what?

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