Hanover - 04/25/2009

A perfect spring day greeted the 79 Mini-reunion in Hanover. Held at the Dartmouth Harvard Baseball game on FreshpeoplesParents Weekend the event got some great interest from visiting ‘79s enjoying a lunch break. Julia and Bob Brown in from Pittsburgh visiting daughter Carol stopped by as did Eileen Kain Szypko and her clan visiting with son Bob. Alex Spaulding dropped in with husband Art (who was wearing the wrong colors, but since he also hated the Yankees we embraced him into the group). We also spotted Lizanne Galbraith Megrue and son Kyle ’12 as well as Charlie Carr.
The attraction to this particular weekend had been the dedication of Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. Cindy Gunn Biondi ’80 and her boys (including Mike ’10) were all at the field the day before for the dedication and the doubleheader Saturday with Harvard. Coach Bob Whalen ‘79a spoke memorably the day before about Mike and told some great stories from the past. The new field is absolutely spectacular, well worth the trip to Hanover for reunion.
Dartmouth won the first game of the double header with a bunch of crooked numbers. The second game caught up with the Big Green at the end, but they took the Division title the next day in Cambridge. On Sunday May 3 Dartmouth won the Ivy League title for literally the first time in history….Another good reason to come to reunion!