The Rev. Robert Hirschfeld ’83 experienced a “mystical and life-altering” return to faith while rowing crew for the Dartmouth men’s heavyweight crew team in his junior year at the College, he said. It was during this time that Hirschfeld, an English major, read Samuel Beckett and was introduced to the “manifold meanings of silence,” which ultimately took him down a path that led to his election as the new Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire on Saturday.