1971

Tim Dreisbach has announced our first "class project, a John Sloan Dickey Center international internship to support an undergraduate term abroad. JSD, a North Country outdoorsman who also was a great statesman on international issues, epitomized Dartmouth's unique heritage as a relatively remote and small institution educating promising young people for significant positions of leadership. The JSD Center for International Understanding fosters this through these internships. While we leave it to the center to select a specific student and program, our one requirement is that at a minireunion next fall the sponsored intern be present to share his or her experience with us."

Keith Luckenbach reports on this year's Homecoming: "Nels Armstrong has emceed Dartmouth Night for the past two years. He does a great job of it, energetically exhorting the crowd to cheer for all the Green teams. This year, as usual, he said all the necessary deprecatory things about the football opponent. Relating his comments to the date (Halloween), he indicated that the members of the Harvard football team would need masks to sneak out of town after their inevitable ignominious defeat the next day. Alas, his prognostications were for naught as the Green suffered its first shutout in ten years. The lack of a running game we saw at Yale hurt the Green again against Harvard as Dartmouth had minus-three yards rushing offense on Saturday. Dave Pallotta and his wife, Ann, caught up to us Friday night just as we were finishing up our march from Memorial Stadium to Dartmouth Hall. Dave is doing very well, continuing his successful dentistry practice in the Pittsfield, Maine, area. He and Ann live in Detroit, Maine, where they raise horses and ride motorcycles. Dave's newest motorcycle is a BMW that evidently has everything on it including heated grips. They didn't make the trip to Hanover by motorcycle (an F-150 instead), being concerned about threatening weather rightly, as it turned out. We tailgated with them and other Alpha Delts on the front lawn of the house prior to the game."

Mark Totman tells us that "Jon Osgood and new wife Debbie held a wonderful reception in Boston to celebrate their marriage last year. Marital bliss must suit him as he looks great. After taking a company public in 1996 and watching its price fall from $11 to $2 per share (thank goodness Jon didn't help us with the deal), I decided to move on and am now on my sixth start-up. We are developing a non-invasive, personal wearable defibrillator, which many of us may need in the coming years. Its intended use is for those who've had one cardiac event but don't qualify for an implantable defibrillator or who are waiting for transplants."

Last August Bob Cushman "managed to get a permit through the Forest Service lottery to do a private raft trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho. I was joined for the seven-day, 105-mile trip by Andy Krakoff '74, who co-owns a garage full of rafting equipment with me, and classmates David Krakoff and John Eaton. Our 12-person trip was outfitted with four 14 foot rafts and four one-man inflatable kayaks. We had the best week of weather that had occurred all summer in Idaho and saw superb scenery as we negotiated our way down one of the most pristine free flowing rivers remaining in the lower 48 states. A great time was had by all."

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