Clubs

As winter approaches I am writing about various club happenings this past summer to keep us all in sunshine mode.

President Conrad Smith '87 reports that the Dartmouth Club of the Midwest held its annual golf outing on July 30.Thirty-one alums ranging from the classes of '71 to '06 played at the Edina Country Club, including alums from as far away as Dr. David Hill '7l from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Steve Donovan from Dartmouth Alumni Relations also joined in the event for the second year in a row, participating on the winning team that also included Molly Van Metre '81, Bill Dean '89 and Doug Fulton '85. This event brings visibility to the Dartmouth Club of the Midwest's scholarship fund, which, with a current combined market value of $4.5 million, supports 13 students annually with scholarships.

Dartmouth's beloved Big Green Bus made another national tour and linked to many of our clubs. In June the Dartmouth Club of Piedmont, headed by Betsy Booth Scalco '87 Zi Qiang "Zach" Chen '89 and Sally Davis '92, sponsored an environmental green technology event for the general public, including a stop at the Raleigh, North Carolina, legislature building. People, many from local environmental groups, along with Senator Atwater and Rep. Lucy Allen, participated in the live show-and-tell event. Afterward the bus crew and club members moved to an N.C. Department of Environmental and Natural Resources facility, performing more demonstrations and public education sessions. In the evening the club hosted a greeting and Big Green Southern BBQ party for the 10-member bus crew. Julie and Jason Cillo, both '92s, saw the bus in Richmond, Virginia, and their daughter Hanna (prospective '24) had her first real experience with Dartmouth students, sitting on the top of the bus to watch a Doobie Brothers concert.

The bus also stopped in Seattle, where Elliott May '06 organized a huge shindig with Clif Bar and several local companies, extending the reach and publicity for the bus far beyond just our Dartmouth network. On August 28 members of the Greater Boston Alumni Club, including Christian Atwood '98, Karsten Barde '04, Chip Conner '85 and Danielle Gray '06, organized a brown bag lunch during its stop in Boston, featuring a slide show and stories from the bus's 13,000-mile journey and giving alums and students a chance to catch up. Kate Parizeau '10, a bus crew member, told the Boston club she was amazed by the generosity and warmth of our alums across the country.

The Dartmouth Club of Maine has done a wonderful job' of reaching out to interesting local alums, including Kilt Andrews'ss, formerly the director of public relations at L.L.Bean, who gave club members and guests a view of the inner workings of that Dartmouth staple. In another event Bob Timothy '5B demonstrated how to harvest maple syrup, with the club then serving ice cream topped with fresh maple syrup. Rodger Gilmore '54 gave a view of Portlands world of art.

August is a time for clubs all around the country to hold one of their best attended events, the annual student sendoff. Bill Carpenter '50 of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago has been holding the Chicago event at his 10-acre farm for more than 15 years. Kathy and Mike Coster, both '83s, hosted more than 60 students, parents and alums at their house in Falmouth for the Dartmouth Club of Maine. Catherine Silverman and Karen Lebovich, parents of Benjamin Silverman '06 and Andrew Lebovich '09, organized the Washington D.C., clubs annual sendoff, hosting it for the third time in the Silverman home.

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