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Anyone who participated ac- tively in the DOC will remember Bob Rooke’s dedication to Cabin & Trail. His passion for the outdoors has translated into a lifelong involve- ment in forestry. He worked as a ranger for the U.S. Forest Service in the White Mountain Na- tional Forest for many years before, during and af- ter Dartmouth. Bob earned a master’s in forestry science from the Yale School of Forestry and En- vironmental Studies and helped to establish Du- Moine Farms, which he leads today as president. DuMoine is a timber investment company with several thousand acres throughout the Northeast managed for long-term, sustainable, high-quality timber production. Despite all of this forestry experience though, Bob commented wryly in his recent note to me that Hurricane Sandy presented a serious challenge. He thought he had all the tools necessary to face such a disaster. Bob lost a dozen trees at his home in New Jersey, some as tall as 120 feet with a diameter at breast height of 5 feet. None of Bob’s chainsaws could handle that dimension, so he purchased a new saw with a lon- ger bar and cut up trees that he noted would have been worth a small fortune to a New England log- ger. Bob has a parallel career as an independent fi- nancial advisor with Raymond James and Associ- ates. He recently established his own firm, Broad Arrow Limited, after spending nearly 18 years with Smith Barney. Outside of work Bob outfits and maintains a private World War II museum with many of the artifacts coming from the Eu- ropean theater. He is constantly looking for new items and would love to hear from any classmates with similar interests. Bob’s wife, Anne, is a Bos- ton College graduate with a master’s in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. They have two children. Their son Rob is a recent graduate of Bucknell University and is preparing for gradu- ate school. Their daughter Carolyn ’06 majored in geology like her father and then earned a master’s in public health management from Yale. She now works in New York City.

As always, be safe.

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