1974

The first person I met on my freshman trip was Barry Austin. Barry was my hiking partner as Ken Lay '73, our trip leader, marched our group all over the Presidential Range of the White Mountain National Forest to climb a series of 4,000-and 5,000-foot peaks. After graduation Barry attended medical school at Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania, then served four years as a doctor in the U.S. Navy. Today Barry is a dermatologist in Rutland, Vermont, and an adjunct professor of dermatology at Dartmouth Medical School. He and his wife, Barbara, have a son in college and a daughter in high school.

If memory serves me correctly, another intrepid member of my freshman trip group was Chris Wiley. Chris is an anesthesiologist and lives in Hanover. He and his wife, Peggy, have one son who graduated from Colby College in Maine and a second son who attends Reed College in Oregon.

Chris Nicholson is one of many members of our class currently suffering under the weight of college tuition bills. Chris wrote from Washington, D.C., where she is associate general counsel for the Smithsonian Institution. Chris' older daughter, Alexandra '07, is enjoying sophomore summer in Hanover at the time of this writing, and Chris is looking forward to visiting her for sophomore parents' weekend. Chris' younger daughter, Blair, starts at Middlebury this fall.

An e-mail message from John Barbor described a recent 10-day family vacation to Ireland. John practices transactional law in rural Pennsylvania now, but at Dartmouth he was an English major. John explained that while in Ireland he dragged his two children from one literary shrine to another, boring them to distraction. The kids did love the fresh and smoked Irish salmon though, which almost made up for watching Dad get all emotional about visiting Yeats' grave. John's son, Peter, is going into his senior year of high school in September after taking some college credit courses in art at Skidmore over the summer. John's daughter, Katie, will enter seventh grade this fall.

Jim Miller and his wife, Nancy, traveled to Hanover in April to watch Dartmouth battle Princeton for the Ivy League women's lacrosse title. The Dartmouth women won 12-9, which on most occasions would have been cause for celebration. However, Jim's daughter, Kathleen, plays for Princeton, where she is an All-Ivy selection and the teams second leading scorer. Jim wrote that Kathleen would be studying in Florence for the summer. He and Nancy were looking forward to joining her there at the end of the term for two weeks of travel through Tuscany. Back at home in Alexandria, Virginia, Jim chairs the government relations and regulated industries practice at Hunton & Williams in Washington, D.C. Jim is involved in energy, privacy, tax, trade and other legislative issues, which bring him into regular contact with Rep. Charlie Bass (R-N.H.) and the new U.S. trade representative, Rob Portman '78.

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