1983

Some unhappy news to report. Whit Smith died recently, so please read his obituary in the back of this magazine. Whit had a lot of family who went to Dartmouth, including his dad, Clyde '54, uncle George Hibben '52 and cousins Ed Hibben '81, Heidi Russell (nee Hibben) '84 and Eliza Hibben, Tu'9o. Whit remembered the following professors who influenced him at Dartmouth: Peter Soccio, Thomas Vargish, Greg Prince, Robert McGrath, James Epperson (late) and Harry Bond (late). He received his master of arts in English and American studies from Columbia and studied religion, literature and art at the Yale Divinity School while on sabbatical from his former job as head of secondary school at Berkshire Country Day in Lenox, Massachusetts. He was a loyal alum who was generous to Dartmouth and seemed to have gotten a tremendous amount from his four years here. Along with his many activities he earned an honors citation for methods of literary criticism during his sophomore summer. He also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, Presidential Classroom for Young Americans in 1995. He is remembered fondly by John Hall and John Fanestil. On behalf of the class, I extend deepest condolences to family and friends.

In the mailbox, Dean Cascadden writes: "I have been selected as the next superintendent of schools for Bow, New Hampshire, and will begin there on July 1.1 will miss my last district in the shadow of Mount Washington, but it is an opportunity to lead a very different district. I'm looking forward to a new challenge—after four years of work in the North Country of New Hampshire, I will be right outside of Concord. I do pass through Hanover occasionally and am amazed at the change. I'm looking forward to returning to a much different place after 25 years and seeing all the changes in peoples lives and dreams. I find my view of life at 46 is very different and I wish I had the opportunity to redo some of my Dartmouth experience with the wisdom of age."

Superintendent Geoff Andrews checks in with his note: "Sorry for having been out of touch for awhile. I am currently the superintendent of schools in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the city in which I grew up, the school system from which I graduated and still home to my parents and older brother and his family. The district is looking to send Dartmouth an Oberlin High School senior (who is the area soccer player of the year) this year. Cindy and I have two kids (12 and' 10) and, as with most parents, our lives revolve around theirs."

I caught up with Joel Reidenberg, who recently was named president of the Fordham University faculty senate for the coming academic year. He met his wife, Pascale, indirectly through his LSA France experience, where he met cousins who later introduced the two. She is a doctor specializing in drug research. They have two sons Jeremy (17) and David (13), who are both bilingual. He teaches upon occasion at the Sorbonne when on break from his current duties teaching law at Fordham, where he founded the Research Center on Law and Information Policy. He received his J.D. from Columbia. Joel says he sees Sam Reckford frequently, a neighbor of his in Short Hills, New Jersey. Sam is married to Sue Spencer '85. I caught up with Sam too, but that will have to wait for the next column, as my limit has been reached.

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