1973

John Floberg sent a note (Bless him!) to include him among the naval ROTC '73s mentioned in the November 1995 Class Notes. After Dartmouth Flo served four years on a destroyer home ported in Norfolk, Va. Following the navy he completed a pre-med program and medical school at the University of Minnesota and a neurology residency at the University of Michigan. Flo's neurology practice is in St. Paul, Minn., where his wife, Martha Hickner, is a family physician. Flo and Marti have a son and four daughters, ages 12 through six. The Floberg household is in Minneapolis, Minn.

Army Major John Towers, an artillery officer on loan to the Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, N.C., stopped by for a visit. John, wife Faye, and 12-year-old son "J.D." have set up household at the base.

Last May John received a master's degree in national security studies after spending a year at the Naval Command and Staff College in Newport, R.I. During his army career John, a native of Concord, N.H., has served at Fort Sill, Okla., in Korea, and at Ford Hood, Texas.

While pursuing graduate studies in Newport, John attended a HarvardDartmouth football game with PhilMurphy, a Liberty Mutual Insurance Cos. attorney in Boston. John also contacted Dale Vernon, who works with McLaughry Associates Inc., Realtors, and lives with wife Pamela and family in Norwich, Vt. Dale and other Dartmouth alumni played in the first Annual New Hampshire Lacrosse Foundation's Fall Masters Classic last October at Brewster Academy in Wolfe boro, N.H. The National Lacrosse Foundation, of which the N.H. chapter is a part, educates the public about the game and promotes youth lacrosse as well as the development of women's lacrosse.

Rob Bast, who is partner with MacRood in Bast & Rood, Architects of Hine sburg, Vt., has been elected president of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns. Rob brings 16 years of service to municipal government to the league post, which coordinates municipal interests in the state in legislative, educational, and insurance initiatives. Rob and Mac focus their professional work as architects on municipal, educational, light commercial, and residential projects in Vermont, New York, and New Hampshire. They specialize in renovation and adaptive reuse in public structures. Rob and wife Laura live in Hine sburg, Vt., while Mac and wife Roberta reside in Warren, Vt.

Derek Rice informed the College that Marvin Johnson died on October 23 last year. Marvin, who was active in the Afro American Society and a member of Casque & Gauntlet, was self-employed as an artist at the time of his death. Marvin had considerable professional experience in both the business and the non-profit sectors, having worked in insurance, investments, banking, and communications. From 1984 to 1992 he was the vice president and co-administrator of the Urban League of Essex County in Newark, N.J. Fellow North Carolinian R. Harrison Marks works for the Wachovia Operational Services Corp. in Winston-Salem, where he, wife Catherine, and family make their home.

Class officers Paul Sehl, president, Andy Caffrey, vice president, SteveKessner, head agent, and Bob Barr, newsletter editor, met in Hanover during the mini-reunion weekend last October. Bob will provide the details of the meeting in his next and always "most excellent" newsletter. Planning continues for our 25th Reunion, which is less than three years away. Keep this in mind as we gear up for, among other good things associated with reunions, our class gift, which I hope will meet the $1-million mark.

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