1973

Spring is trying to break though.

This past December 12 the Dartmouth Outing Club concluded its 100th anniversary celebrations with a banquet at the Dartmouth Skiway’s McLane Lodge, which I was privileged to attend, although I did not spy any other ’73s. The crowd present ranged from current students to “Rip” Ripley ’29 at age 102. The robust event undoubtedly made the spirit of originator Fred Harris ’11 proud. Earlier in the day I had the opportunity to visit the new Class of 1966 Lodge in Etna (formerly Harris Cabin), which was featured in the December issue of this magazine. Impressive! Kudos go to Dave Brown, Ed Friedman and Bob Ashton and his wife, Kristina, for participating in the AT in a Day event in October. (Apologies if I missed anyone else.) More than 2,000 of the 2,175 miles of the Appalachian Trail were hiked in one day. Anyone interested in seeing photos of hike scenes and participants should check out www.dartmouth.edu/~dartlife/goto/100.

www.dartmouth.edu/~dartlife/goto/100

Those classmates who resided in Brewster Hall during our College years cannot go home again. Brewster Hall is no more. The dorm has been leveled to make room for the new Visual Arts Center, intended to unite the departments of studio art and film and media studies under one roof.

Todd Stern was busy at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. As the special envoy for climate change he served as the lead negotiator mapping out the U.S. strategy, and in large part he relied on projections from a computer model developed by a group of Dartmouth alumni. Todd and his State Department colleagues used the Climate Rapid Overview and Decision Support Simulator to calculate the effect of each nation’s greenhouse gas reduction pledges on long-term global climate, which provided instant feedback on alternative negotiating positions.

Educator Joseph Ludwig has not strayed far from his roots. A graduate of Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Joseph is principal of the Lower School and oversees almost 300 students on an 18-acre campus. Coeducational Friends’ Central, founded by the Religious Society of Friends in 1845, is guided by Quaker testimonies of simplicity, peace, integrity, community and equality.

A realtor since 1986 in San Francisco, Teri Look has used her fluency in both Cantonese and Mandarin to communicate with a diverse group of buyers and sellers on both personal residential and investment properties.

As Thad King, our Alumni Council class representative, recently advised, balloting for new trustees is taking place between March 10 and April 7. Your participation is encouraged.

In late December word came that Warren Hashagen died in April 2009. Our condolences go to his family. Warren had a very successful career with The Gap. A recent change for the Alumni Magazine is to no longer print obituaries in the magazine itself. Obituaries are now being featured on a new DAM Web site, which should be up by the time you read this. This approach allows for more content as well as classmate posts.

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