1972

Hail fellow '72s well met! From the verdant but steamy Hanover Plain in summer your humble scribe sends good tidings to all! I hope you are enjoying or have experienced some well-deserved time away from any work routine, that you and your families are in good health, that your spirits are high and your coffers full!

Late spring brought little news of classmates my way. Our esteemed newsletter editor, JohnRockwell, has already shared what items of note surfaced. I trust this will prompt others among you to apprise us of your whereabouts and travels? Put differently, the next issue of the AlumniMag will come out in the fall. Please don't make me dust off my treatise on fall yard work titled, "Those Pesky Leaves! Mulch 'em or Burn em? Environmentalism Meets Convenience in the new Millennium."

I did hear some great news from Charlie Schudson. Since leaving the bench Charlie has been quite busy, most recently serving as the global legal studies Scholar-in-residence at Universidad Diego Portales Law School in Santiago, Chile. Charlie writes: "So I have just returned from three months of teaching, in Spanish (thank you, Dartmouth foreign study program in Spain), an intra to U.S. law and a children's rights seminar. It was quite an adventure, to say the least. Chile is currently implementing its post-Pinochet legal reforms, so this was a particularly meaningful time to work with the law students who will shape the country's future with particular sensitivity to human rights." Charlie, my friend, you never cease to amaze me!

One of the sad duties I shoulder as your secretary is to share news of those among our brothers who have passed from among us. Word has reached me that on Wednesday, May 11, a heart attack took the life of Bruce McLane. After Dartmouth he received a masters degree in modern European history and an M.B.A. degree, both from George Washington University. Bruce had a distinguished career in the advertising department of the Washington Post spanning more than 20 years. Bruce was a member of the Harold Parmington Foundation and a longtime resident of Woodward Hall. He was also a dear friend to many. He leaves his wife, Claire, and two daughters: Alexis, who just graduated from high school, and Isabelle, 13. On behalf of our class I extend our deepest sympathy to his family. A more complete obituary will appear in this or a subsequent issue of the magazine.

I've also been notified of the passing on March 29, 2004, of Bismarch Williams. Bismarch matriculated but didn't graduate with us. Nonetheless, he was still a '72, and our sympathies go out to his friends and family. I've been unable to discover any details of his life since Dartmouth. If anyone was in touch with him, please share your memories with us.

Thus another column draws to a close. Please share your lives and times with me that I may enlighten the masses!

Yours in green always.

P.O. Box 580, Hanover,NH 03755-0580; lauren.cummings@dartmouth.edu