Table of Contents

FEATURES

36 Law and Order

Police Chief Dean Esserman '79 cleans up the mean streets of Providence, Rhode Island. BY DIRK OLIN '81

42 Mud, Madras and Madness!

One alumna shares her humorous take on the early days of coeducation. BY GINA BARRECA '79

46 Greenhouse Effect

Off the beaten path (and up five flights of stairs), Dartmouth's secret garden draws—and presents—a diverse crowd. BY ABIGAIL KLINGBEIL '97

DEPARTMENTS

10 Letters

Notebook

20 CAMPUS

News and notes from around the Green.

24 INTERVIEW

Thayer professor Edmond Cooley offers low-tech methods for thwarting high-tech cheating in the classroom. BY LEE MICHAELIDES

26 FACULTY

A professor emeritus recalls his early days of standing at a lectern—with no idea what he was going to say. BY JAMES HEFFERNAN

30 HISTORY

The original "Americas Coach" of hockey, Jack Riley '44. BY JOE BERTAGNA

32 SPORTS

The first female captain of the Dartmouth boxing club recalls her biggest bout. BY JENNIFER DZIURA '00

34 OUTSIDE

A naturalist tunes into voices crying out from the wilderness of the Second College Grant. BY TED LEVIN

Alumni News

52 SEEN & HEARD

58 THE CLASSES

90 CLUBS

90 OBITUARIES

Continuing Ed 96

Howard Bad Hand '73 on finding harmony in a discordant world. BY LISA FURLONG

ON THE COVER Police Chief Dean Esserman and fourof his officers, photographed in downtown Providence April 1Photo by fared Leeds.

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Another Green Day Assistant Andrea Morgan tends to some Carolina jessamine in the Murdough Greenhouses.