Mining the internet for interesting notes resulted in this nugget about former linebacker Garrett Wymore '13, a onetime senior associate for Bain & Company starting Petaluma, which " formulates sustainable dog nutrition with environmentally-friendly and animal-free ingredients."
And to watch an interview with Wymore where he discusses his decision to start the company with his fiancé, CLICK HERE.
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Speaking of members of the Dartmouth football class of 2013 . . .
Not really sure why the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' website, IEEE Spectrum, decided to reissue a story written by former defensive lineman Elliot Kastner headlined How A Robot Football Player Will Prevent Concussions, but it went back up yesterday HERE and offers a detailed account of how the MVP came about. Kastner, an engineering major at Dartmouth, helped develop the MVP.
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Offensive lineman Evan Hecimovich '21, who will return this fall as a fifth-year senior, is quoted in a story in The Dartmouth headlined, Summer Shape-up: How Student-Athletes are Preparing for the Upcoming Year; Dartmouth athletes played in local leagues, hit the gym and even travelled abroad to get ready for a competitive year. From the school paper (LINK):
To get back into playing shape, Hecimovich is doing individual field work and hitting the gym in his home state of Illinois, focusing on mastering his technique and hitting his goal weight before returning to campus for one last ride. Like the other athletes, he emphasized that he was excited about finally returning to the live-action version of his sport.
“We won the Ivy League championship the last time we were out there, and obviously, when you’re playing, you never know when your last play is going to be. But when I was walking off the field at Brown (during the last game of 2019), it didn’t even cross my mind that there was a possibility that that would be my last game.”
And this . . .
“The goal is to win another Ivy League Championship. That’s what I would be most excited about, the opportunity to go out there and defend our title.”
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With the first week of the Tokyo Olympics winding down, Dartmouth sports publicity has written about how the college's representatives are faring. Here's the Cliff Notes version (LINK):
• In the lightweight women's double sculls Molly Reckford ’15 and her partner finish fifth, 0.51 seconds from a medal.
• Madison Hughes '15 not only served as the men’s rugby sevens captain, but finished as the team’s leading score with 30 points for Team USA, which finished sixth overall.
• In women's rugby sevens Ariana Ramsey '22 was a starter as the United States topped China, 28-14, Japan, 17-7 and Australia, 14-12, in pool play.
• In women’s basketball, Isalys Quiñones '19 scored 10 points and led her team with five rebounds as Puerto Rico dropped a 97-55 contest to China.
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EXTRA POINT
Those of you who have been regular visitors to this electronic precinct know that Mrs. BGA and I are big movie buffs. You won't catch us at many science fiction, super hero or foreign language films, but we'll see just about anything else.
Like most of you over the past 18 months or so, we haven't been to the movies. Let me take that back. We did see The Call of the Wild with Harrison Ford last year, but that was at our local Drive-In and we never left our car.
That's going to change today. We're going to see Stillwater, the new Matt Damon flick at the Nugget theater in Hanover. We've been to our share of movies at the Nugget over the years when we were among only a handful of people in the theater, and given that they are offering a 3:30 show today we figured this was a very good opportunity to get back on the horse and be socially distanced at the same time. It will no doubt feel a little strange, but we've been fully vaccinated for a long time, will have our masks and expect to have our own row (if not section) in the theater.
I'll let you know tomorrow how it felt and how it went ;-)
