1973

Longtime Bay Stater Mark Harty has left Boston for the Garden State to assume his new role as managing partner for the recently opened law office of Morrison Mahoney, located in Parsippany, New Jersey. Someone in the area should stop by and see if his new digs in Waterview Plaza actually have a view of the water.

Thayer School's Class Day speaker this past June was none other than our Tom O'Neill, who also is a Thayer grad. Tom is president and CEO of Parsons Brinkerhoff, one of the oldest continuously operating engineering firms in the world. (Founder William Barclay Parsons was named chief engineering the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners in New York City in 1894 and oversaw the planning, design and construction of the original Interborough Rapid Transit, IRT, subway line.) The firm provides comprehensive infrastructure services on six continents and has helped shape public works projects on a global scale, from Bostons Central Artery/Tunnel to Cairo's Metro to Singapore's Deep Tunnel Sewerage System. Current projects include managing the Los Angeles Unified School District's new schools construction program and the East Side Access Project in N.Y.C., which will bring the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Terminal. Tom received the Thayer School's 2005 Robert Fletcher Award for distinguished achievement and service. Congrats, Tom!

Dance company Pilobolus, which was started in 1971 in a rehearsal studio in Webster Hall by a group of Dartmouth students and then dance professor Alison Chase, has donated its archives to the Colleges Special Collections library (by coincidence now located in Webster Hall). The archive includes videos illustrating the history of individual pieces, publicity material, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters and playbills, as well as interviews with dance company founders. One of those founders is Michael Tracy, who is still involved in the company's artistic leadership. The College plans to commission new works and host several performances at The Hop over the next few years and the archive will continue to grow so long as Pilobolus exists.

What do Dartmouth, the modern Olympic Games, the Rolling Stones, the American Constitution, the International Telecommunications Union, General Electric, Sony, the Rockerfeller Foundation and the Salvation Army have in common? The firm of Booz Allen Hamilton named these as the worlds 10 most enduring institutions of the 20th and 21st centuries. Institutions were evaluated in five categories based on history of innovative capabilities, governance and leadership, information flow, culture and values, adaptive response, risk structure and legitimacy. Joining Dartmouth in the academic category was the University of Oxford.

For all movie trivia buffs, former quarterback Brian Mann '02 serves as a stand-in for Adam Sandler in the current remake of The Longest Yard.

Just as I am submitting this column, newspapers report the death of professor emeritus Richard Eberhart at 101, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and successor to Robert Frost as poet laureate of the United States (see the tribute, page 28). He was still teaching part-time during our student years; those who frequented Sanborn House will certainly recall this genial academic.

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