1972

Close to 30th year reunion time—got your plans made yet? Lots of wrap-ups 30 years ago, including: fraternity visitations in early March; squash with Rags Bratz; New Hampshire primaries with Nixon getting 69 percent and Pat Paulson 1 percent; finals and then spring break—with Rudy Ellis, Dick Gamper '73 and other Baltimorons watching BU lose to Big Greens lacrosse team led by Peter Johnsons three goals and then the final quarter beginning at the end of March (more to follow in the next issue).

Portions from another long update from Andy Harrison: "Though the events of 9/11 have depressed and affected us all, there are, nonetheless, a few pleasant things to report. The recent spate of reunion-related mail puts me in mind of three Dartmouth-centered encounters, two completely unplanned, that my wife, Adrienne, and I enjoyed during a vacation trip to Italy this past August. It was my first trip to Italy in 30 years, having last been there with a classics department Foreign Study Program based in Rome, and I was particularly happy to be going back with my wife, who had never been to Italy before this trip.

"When we were in Rome we had a completely serendipitous Dartmouth encounter, which I could not have scripted if Id tried. Adrienne and I signed up for a half-day walking tour of the 'Highlights of Ancient Rome' for our second or third day in Rome. We showed up at the appointed meeting place, outside the Colosseum. I happened to be wearing my Dartmouth '72 25th reunion shirt. Our tour guide, a young woman in her early 20s, noticed my shirt and asked if I'd gone to Dartmouth. Upon learning that I had, indeed, come by the shirt honestly, she identified herself as Sylvie Hogg '98.

"I soon learned that she too, had attended the classics departments Roman Foreign Study Program (albeit some 28 years later than mine), and that she's been inspired to come back to Rome to live and work after graduation by professor Edward Bradley, the very same professor who led the inaugural Roman Foreign Study Program in the fall of our senior year, a program attended by myself, Hank Moore, Bill Boardman and seven other '72s and '73s.

"The final and equally pleasant green encounter occurred on a Euro-Star express train between Rome and Venice. A very nice woman was traveling with a young teenage boy. The woman, who looked familiar, turned out to be Joel Hyatt's wife, Susan, traveling with their younger son, Zachary, and expecting to rendezvous with Joel and older son Jared a bit later in their trip. We passed some very pleasant time together, exchanging war stories about college and Italy. Susan couldn't have been nicer. It really is a small world."

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REUNION June 13-16 2002