1973

1973

There is a light at the end of the tunnel!

We just do not know how long the tunnel is.

Check out the alumni small business directory. Classmates include Chuck Appleby, Bob Jones, Richard Merrill, Hilary Miller, and Steve Toll. Appears Hilary used his college yearbook photo.

Bob Jones reported in late October “my wife and I zoomed with Tom Beckmann and his wife and Steve Quigley and his wife, and Dr. Jeff Adam (all former swimmers). I also see Mark Luning ’77, who works in Naples, Florida, and who has helped me reconnect with Craig Colberg. Early this year I enjoyed a lunch with Bunk Rosenblum at one of our favorite places here owned by fellow swimmer Mick Moore ’93. Dartmouth’s decision to cancel men’s and women’s swimming because the College has a higher percentage of entering athletes (as explained to me by the athletic department) compared to the entering class (because we are the smallest Ivy) makes no sense to me practically and experientially. Many of my clients tell me they hire only former athletes and a few clients focus on hiring only former swimmers or crew (rowing) members because ofthe demands ofthe sports.” Tom also rues the cancellation of swimming. “Unfortunately, I feel more disconnected than ever—with Dartmouth, not with my classmates. As a member of the swimming team for three years, I was disappointed to hear that the team was being cancelled, along with golf and rowing. And the reason? Because Dartmouth likes ‘other’ people better than it likes athletes—as if the two were mutually exclusive.”

Those who listen to Marketplace Morning Report on NPR may have heard Bill McDonough speaking on eliminating the concept of waste from the economy. “What we’ve been doing is take, make, waste. That’s a linear economy. That’s why it’s known as ‘cradle to grave.’ What we’re saying is, materials and things, you can take them from nature, and then we make things with them. But when we’re finished with the use of it, we can start to imagine what its next use is and design it for its next use. That’s what’s so much fun. Then you end up with a circular economy. It’s for intergenerational benefit.”

Nick Chamousis reported, “I am particularly excited to be building another pod of Dartmouth lesbian, bisexual, gay, and trangender (mostly) mentees, including a kid from Hempstead High School, a ’20, Latino, who may be the first kid from Hempstead since me to make it to our beloved College on the Hill! It is so often said that college admissions at the highest levels is a crapshoot, but from what I have observed firsthand, the College has done an incredible job offerreting out talented young people. Though most of‘my kids’ came from nothing, each and every one of them is extraordinary and has done exceptionally well.”

Sadly, Jethon Sharrieff died in June, John Murray died in July, and Ken Swinski died in November. Obits can be found at dartmouthalumnimagazine. com/obits.

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., Sa?i Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu

Val Armento