Tuesday, February 17, 2026

The Times They Are A Changin'

Justin Lafleur, who inherited the role of Dartmouth's Associate Athletics Director for Varsity Athletics Communications several years ago from longtime SID Rick Bender, has moved on to the University of Massachusetts as its athletics Director of Communications. A UMass graduate, Lafleur posted this before leaving:

Green Alert Take: Thanks, Justin, for all your help these past couple of years.

Green Alert Take II: Watching Don Dobes and the energy he still has it's hard to believe he's retiring, but the longtime Dartmouth and Ivy League defensive coordinator made it official at the end of January that he's hanging up his battered hat. (LINK) The suspicion here is that even if retirement "takes," Dobes is going to find a way to use that energy somewhere around a football field.

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EXTRA POINT
Yesterday's PAT recalled a "rafter" of turkeys that I came across a couple of days ago. A group of 24 of the birds stopped by our place yesterday for a nibble. Here's about a minute of the group slowly parading behind our house. Watching how orderly they marched I couldn't help but think we could learn something from the way they neatly merge from two "two lanes" into one.


After finishing up behind our house the birds were spooked by something and took flight. Here's a shot of a few of them high up in the trees at the edge of our field:


And as I write this, they've returned to our side yard and are pecking away in the snow under a couple of ornamental trees that produce little berries.
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