1972

Holiday greetings! Looks like for my first year in e-tailing, Tradi and I will need to change our vacation plans as do other seasonally stressed folks. Luckily Washington State schools provide for a "ski week" holiday in February, so not much longer to wait.

You've probably noticed in the DartmouthAlumni Magazine the elegant furniture from Pompanoosue Mills, whose owner is Dwight Sargent. Just wondering, Dwightany discount for fellow '72s? Go take a look at their stuff at www.pompy.com.

This month we follow Mike Harris to Lebanon, N.H., where he's been named school superintendent and is also finishing his doctorate in education from the University of New Hampshire, focusing on the correlation between state funding and student achievement (no doubt a hot topic across all school districts and states!). Mike's been teaching, starting schools, and running the administrative side of schools since graduation.

Even though it's mid-winter and not terribly sunny for most of us, it's instructive to look for free skin cancer screening programs such as the ones offered by Jay Schechter, noted in earlier columns. Jay examines each patient and suggests follow-up where needed; while most patients exhibit no problems, Jay says that "at each such screening there are several pre-cancerous conditions uncovered, as well as a few of the more common true skin cancers and rarely a serious case of melanoma."

Back to N.H. news, Young Dawkins is leading the charge as UNH Foundation president to raise $100 million. Young is over 35 percent of the way there, leveraging his expertise from days at Oberlin and our fund, noting that fundraising is "really about communicating clearly and with some passion the needs of the university...a communications art." And more from N.H.: MichaelGreen was recently named bank corporator of Merrimack County Savings Bank, where he's been president and CEO of Capital Region Health Care and Concord Hospital since 1992. Michael's also active with the chamber of commerce, the Concord YMCA, and the Foundation for Healthy Communities.

That wraps it up for this month. Keep those e-mails, letters, and flyers coming!

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'72s Brendan O'Neill and Wayne Pirmannscore a Top Ten football game, p. 24