1973

Summertime and the living is easy.

Richard Merrill has been busy on a variety of fronts. He served as chair of this year's Dartmouth Lawyer' Association annual winter meeting, held in Breckenridge, Colorado. Prior to that he successfully represented Girls Gone Wild in a six-day jury trial in Denton, Texas, and shared his experiences with the lawyerly crowd. Also on the "wild" side, he finally convinced his wife to join him on a highly sought, limited availability lottery hunt on 70,000 acres of public lands in the Texas Panhandle. Both bagged their first pronghorn antelope. Richard confesses that since Thea was hunting with a muzzleloader and took her pronghorn at about 190 yards, her shot was much more impressive than his, which was at about 140 yards with a modern rifle.

Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Bill Partlan is the artistic director of the highly caffeinated comedy Triple Espresso, and collaborates with directors around the world to adapt the play to other languages and cultures. He also serves as associate professor of directing in the School of Theatre and Film of the Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University. For more than a quarter of a century Bill has directed off-Broadway, regional and international premieres and is known for his work with new plays and new playwrights.

For the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference men's hockey tournament in March Bob Haynes journeyed to Albany, New York, with the throngs of Hanover fans and team family members. The Dartmouth Club in Albany, of which Bob Conway is president, hosted a reception for the team and the Dartmouth fans after the first nights game. Bob Conway made sure that Bob Haynes properly observed St. Patrick's Day with a corned beef and cabbage dinner at a local pub.

After more than 20 years of executive experience in financial services, in 2004 Minnesotan Chip Hayssen joined All Over Media, where his responsibilities include overseeing the creative, production, procurement, franchising and business operations. The company focuses on indoor and out-of-house media, otherwise described as media that cannot be tuned out, turned off or missed. Think of Chip as you move through your day and find yourself a captive audience to advertising.

Two faith-based organizations keep Skip litis busy when not running his company, Pure Flow. He serves as secretary for Young Life Monadnock in New Hampshire and also is on the board of directors for Amazon Salt and Life, which focuses on communities along the Amazon River. Another Granite State denizen, Tom "Spike" Tsirimokos, is a senior attorney with BAE Systems and very active with the Masonic community.

Allan Slipher has kept busy as the chief of party of the USAID-funded Ukraine Land Titling Initiative, the focus of which is to open property and credit markets in Ukraine through simultaneous land privatization, development of land market legislation and development of legally secure property and mortgage credit transaction systems. The project targets small property owners and is the largest titling effort in the history of Ukraine.

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