1972

Hail, noble '72s, far and wide! Amid snow and ice the likes of which we haven't seen in decades, greetings from the frozen north!

First, from our fearless leader John Burke came this cryptic passage: "Something for us to ponder (I won't name names) but some of us have grandchildren who could be members of the class of 2022." Hmmm....

Bill Schur took his son Danny to San Francisco for a father-son trip over Presidents' Day weekend. While there they spent a most enjoyable evening and overnight with Dan Cooperman. Dan and his family are doing very well. His son Justin is a recent alumnus of the College and younger son Jeff is a sophomore here.

From the Big Apple Barry Weeks writes, 'As of mid-March this year I will have served 25 years as executive director of the Dartmouth Club and Dartmouth Alumni Association of N.Y.C.! Psychic rewards and Big Green camaraderie have been nonstop. We have about 1,000 members (at the Yale Club, as you know) and 6,000 alums, grad school alums and parents in our N.Y.C. area. I enjoyed a great catch-up with Shel Prentice during a snowy Club Officers Weekend in Hanover Feb 8-10. As it happened, the N.Y.C. Dartmouth Club won the Metro Club of the Year Award during that same weekend. Shel brings good luck as always! How's that for some bragging and some bits? Many more years of right living for all of us!" Amen, Barry, amen!

Shel tells me he will soon assume the post of senior vice president and general counsel for Merchants Bancshares Inc., the holding company for Merchants Bank, in South Burlington, Vermont, after a long tenure with the Chittenden Bank. To offset the winter blues he and Barb just came back from a week in Barbados.

Greg Yadley, our former class president, presided in February at the 26th Annual Federal Securities Institute in Miami. In addition to serving as co-chairman of this advanced securities law program (for the 17th year), he spoke on two panels, one on raising capital by smaller companies and the other on corporate governance. Yads is ahoncho in the ABA business law section, serving as chairman of two committees, though he told me that the recent accomplishment he is most proud of is chairing the search committee to successfully recruit the new CEO of the Florida Orchestra, Florida's largest performing arts organization, with a $10 million annual budget. Greg also is a member of the orchestras executive committee. Oh, by the way, Yads just finished a term as chairman of the Tampa Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau. And finally on a very personal note, I celebrated 25 years of sobriety on March 1, without which I would likely no longer be among us, and certainly not enjoying the honor of serving you as your secretary. Note well here: Dartmouth did not make me an alcoholic, but many among her sons and daughters have helped me during my recovery. I am a very blessed, and grateful, man.

Ever yours in green.

P.O. Box 580, Hanover,NH 03755-0580; lauren.cummings@dartmouth.edu