Bruce Danziger ’83, At Your Service
Meet Your Alumni Council President
You may have known Bruce Danziger as “Bruger” if you were a WDCR listener in the early ’80s, but now he’s Mr. President to you.
Meet Bruce—an ’83, an English literature major, a skier, a radio show host, and your 2025–2026 Alumni Council president.
Involved doesn’t begin to describe Bruce’s time at Dartmouth. He served on the Dartmouth Outing Club’s Winter Sports Council, which organized and ran all of the “home” intercollegiate ski races. He was social chair of his fraternity, now Kappa Pi Kappa. And, of course, he hosted many radio shows, playing those ’70s and ’80s hits.
After a stint in real estate finance on Wall Street after graduation, he returned to his radio roots and has spent more than 35 years in the radio broadcasting and tower business, owning and managing numerous radio and tower properties in the eastern U.S.
Yet even on the cusp of retirement, Bruce is still not ready to slow down. “I don’t want to be bored. No, no, no, no, no.” For that reason, Bruce feels that the opportunity to serve as Alumni Council president has come at the perfect time.
“The timing could not have been better,” Bruce remarked. “I'm happy to be busy doing what I can for and with Dartmouth.”
Bruce’s Dartmouth Favorites
Favorite place on campus to study?
Sanborn
“Are you going to ask my favorite place on campus to nap? Also Sanborn.”
Favorite professor?
Tuck School professor and former dean John W. Hennessey Jr.
“He was also a close family friend of my parents. So that relationship was just a sparkling one. I thought the world of him.”
Favorite class?
Organizational Behavior, taught by JWH above
Favorite place to eat on campus?
Courtyard Café
“We called it the Hopkins Snack Bar.”
Following the Alumni Council constitution, Bruce served as president-elect last year, shadowing then-President Cheryl Shepard ’90 to learn the ropes to ensure a seamless transition in leadership. And an easy transfer of power has never been more important than this year, with unique obstacles in the higher education space occurring just as Bruce officially assumed the role.
“With everything that’s happening in Washington, and the incredible challenges which that creates for colleges and universities, the more alumni can understand what the College is doing and why it’s doing it, the better,” Bruce said.
He takes that responsibility very seriously, noting that the Alumni Council’s role as conduit between the alumni community and College leadership is crucial right now.
“The Council is continuing to improve on one of its core functions, which is communication between the College and the alumni body,” he remarked. “We need councilors and alumni to understand the reasoning behind the College’s actions—even if they disagree—and we want the President and others at the College to really hear the sentiment coming from alumni. ‘We’ve had these conversations, and we’ve had this reaction.’ That’s by far the most important thing.”
Bruce has found that the best way to do that is to invest in relationships with Dartmouth’s senior leaders—opening those lines of communication.
“I’ve been fortunate recently to develop relationships with some of the senior leadership of the College, which has been very helpful. Having productive one-on-one interactions like that is appreciated by the councilors; I’ve seen the benefits of it. And it’s the thing that I feel like I have the most control over.”
Bruce is excited for the year and all the work to be done, with the help of the Dartmouth Alumni Relations team and his fellow councilors—about whom he could not speak more highly.
“It’s been a real privilege to meet such interesting, talented, committed and smart people who are volunteering their time. And the terrific Alumni Relations crew makes what we’re all doing so much easier. Being able to serve Dartmouth in this role has truly been one of my life’s most rewarding experiences.”
Bruce with his father, being dropped off for his first year trip, 1979. Then, Bruce with his son, dropping him off for his first year trip, 2018.
Bruce lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts, with his wife of 36 years, Stacey. They have two adult children and are proud Dartmouth parents of a ’22.