1979

Thirty years ago we were entering our junior year at Dartmouth, passing the halfway point of our undergraduate life on campus.

Ben Riley writes, remembering: "Junior year it seemed like the class was spread all over the globe thanks to the Dartmouth plan! I remember a junior fall football game at Harvard when Dartmouth was playing some clearly inferior quarterback and falling behind, and the crowd (largely '79s, I'm sure) started chanting 'Buddy, Buddy!' The coach finally saw the light of our wisdom and Buddy was put in at the end of the third quarter and (in my memory, anyway) almost led us back to victory! Anyway, it was a really fun '79 moment."

In May of this year our Buddy Teevens rode on a cross-country bike trip from San Diego, California, to Hanover, meeting Dartmouth alumni along the way. Another long-distance bicyclist and classmate Paul wetmore writes: "I just finished the last qualifier for the Paris-Brest-Paris 750-mile bike ride this August. The qualifyling ride (made in the United States) was 375 miles with 24,000 feet of climbing in a little over a day."

At the end of June Cathy Johnson, a political science professor at Williams College, is planning to drive from Williamtonw, Massachusetts, to the Pacific Coast and back with her 10-year-old son Joseph, taking five weeks to make the round trip. "The three best reasons for teaching," said Cathy, "are June, July and August." They plan on taking the northern route and will visit Glacier National Park along the way. "And to see them before they melt," I said.

Martha Pollack has been appointed to be the next dean of the University of Michigan's School of Information, effective August 1. According to a press release, "Martha has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 2000. She was a recipient of the Computers and Thought Award (1991) and the University of Pittsburgh Chancellors Distinguished Research Award (2000). The first woman to chair the division of computer science and engineering, Dr. Pollack is a champion of diversity in science and technology. [Previously Martha] won numerous teaching awards at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also directed the intelligent systems program, a Ph. D.-granting multidisciplinary program that drew faculty from business, law, medicine, psychology, computer science and information studies. Her research is driven by her desire to use information technology to achieve societal impact, a goal in alignment with the School of Informations mission to 'bring information, technology and people together in more valuable ways.'" Congratulations, Martha!

Gail Frawley Granowitz helped organize the Summer Concert & Fireworks benefit last week for the Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. It was reported by other classmates that Gail is then heading off to some terrific 50th birthday trip. Gail lives in Basking Ridge, New jersey, and is making a living off selling houses to and for doctors and AT&T executives, according to knowledgeable sources.

The recently released movie A Mighty Heart is the Daniel Pearl story adapted from Mariane Pearl's book. The film re-creates the events that followed The Wall Street Journal reporters January 2002 kidnapping in Pakistan, followed within a month of delivery of the videotape of his murder. In the movie Tony Award-winning actor Denis O'Hare plays our classmate John Bussey, who was Daniel's editor and boss at TheWall Street Journal.

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