1953

Have you ever noticed that when we sing our glorious alma mater, that the first reference to gender, aside from the title, occurs in the line "For the Lone Pine above her." And that's what this issue is all about, the "hers" of our Dartmouth, their love for this unique Dartmouth experience, and, especially, the '53 women's dedication to the class' legacy of kadership.

has touched, and been touched by the Dartmouth 1953 experience. And, rather than gloss over the details of the ten, we will take this and the following two issues to tell you their stories. Stay tuned.

Except for Sissel McCarthy '84, daughter by marriage to Beverly and BillMcCarthy, the women of 1953 are unique because none of them went to school in Hanover! They all adopted Dartmouth as their own and years ago melded into the landscape of what we call the legacy of leadership. They are another 600 or so classmates. The women of 1953 are wives, daughters, and daughters-in-law, friends, mothers, sisters, and any lovely lady who has come to love the things that Dartmouth 1953 loves, and most especially the College. Some have even transferred their Alumni Fund giving to Dartmouth. How about that?

Meet Sissel McCarthy '84, wife of Steve McCarthy also of '84, and probably our most famous woman of 1953, whom we share with 1984! Sissel became the anchor of World Business Today and World BusinessThis Week on CNN International during 1996. She and Steve live with their two children, Elliot and Connor, in London. She preceded her journalistic career with six years of the hard knocks in New York's financial world with Lehman Brothers and Bankers Trust. She is a cum laude graduate of the College as a Daniel Webster Scholar, and has earned master's degrees at Columbia in journalism and international affairs. With all of her intellectual and professional experiences, which she can articulate in four languages, Sissel and Steve have still kept family first and enjoy living and raising their children in London. The Dartmouth experience is never far away, however, remaining in their hearts as it does for all of us, but also in their "geography" with the unique opportunity to live near and visit the estate of the family that granted the land to the College, the earl of Dartmouth, whose family also founded the Royal Naval Academy at Dartmouth, England.

Liliane Lazar, the lovely wife of one of our most popular classmates, Ron, is recognized internationally as one of the world's experts on Simone de Beauvoir, French author/philosopher who, along with Jean-Paul Satre, matured the concept of existentialism. Liliane did her dissertation on the famous author, which led to a lifelong friendship with her and her family. Liliane recently delivered a paper on Simone de Beauvoir at Trinity College in Dublin, one of the literary centers of the western world. She has also been awarded Les Palmes Academiques from the French government for her extraordinary work. Today Liliane is an adjunct professor at both Hofstra, where she earned her Ph.D., and at Pace University. But with all those accomplishments, one is humbled when one realizes that all this was done while supporting Ron in his successful career in retailing and real estate, raising three children, serving as a fulltime public highschool teacher of foreign languages in Great Neck, Long Island, and helping Ron in the myriad of things he has done for Dartmouth. Liliane, we stand in awe and are so proud to have you in the class of 1953.

Tune in next issue to read about LynnCutler Scheman, Arlene Bloomer,Annie Thron, and Jody Zimmerman. And more to follow in the following issue.

"The Mother keeps them in her heart, and guards their altar flame."

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