Class Notes 1959

Think reunion—it’s a big one. Get it on your calendar and details will be forthcoming.

Jim Wooster, Chris Cundey, and their team are hard at work planning for our 65th class reunion, which is scheduled to begin on the afternoon of Sunday, September 22, and last through the morning of Wednesday, September 25. The plan is for all of us to stay at the Hanover Inn, where most of the meals and meetings will take place during those days. John Ferries and Joanne Wise are putting together a program focused on the College and current events, and there will be plenty of time to reconnect with classmates, spouses, and all of those attending. Of special interest will be the opportunity to see and hear the new president of Dartmouth, Sian Leah Beilock, the first female president of the College. By all early accounts, she is a star.

What is important now is that you save the dates—September 22-25—and plan to attend and reconnect with classmates and their spouses, family members and friends. Reunion registration will probably not be available until April or May, but when you do register, your registration fee will include hotel reservations for Sunday and Monday nights, most likely at the Hanover Inn. At that time you will have the option of signing up for a third night (Tuesday, September 24) in the same room at a reduced rate. Since it is also a football weekend, you may also want to reserve a room for the night before (September 21) and make it a long weekend. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call either Jim at (603) 643-3621 or Chrisat (603) 496-2913. We look forward to seeing you there!

Keep the cards and letters coming and let’s make 2024 a special year recognizing that it has been 65 years since the class of 1959 graduated from Dartmouth.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

It was as universal as any time that I can remember. No matter who or where I probed, the topic was the same: “the weather.” And many suffered a summer of sweltering heat. In many areas the phone number of the air conditioning repair company was prominently displayed on the speed dial. The summer sizzle seemed to endlessly blanket certain areas, but there was almost no area that escaped its time in the sun. And on the West Coast, the first hurricane in almost 100 years stole the headlines for more than a week. As the storm shifted slightly to the east, San Diego escaped any significant punishment but did see more rain than it had seen in seven years. But in the deserts, the story was different. Because the ground is so hard packed and the storm dumped lots of rain during a full day, flooding was very extensive. The city of Palm Springs, California, was isolated as roads at either end of the city became flooded and unpassable. Larry Friedricks, who lives in Rancho Mirage, California, was stuck in his fourth-floor home for most of a day observing the water wash. It took several days for utility crews to clear roads and recover gas, water, and electrical lines uncovered by the big wash. The fires in Lahaina, Maui, was another disaster that was heartfelt by the many in all Dartmouth classes who have made Maui the go-to place for many years of visiting and vacationing. For those of us who have walked Front Street and sat beneath the Banyan Tree, the devastation has left us gasping. On a much more positive note, our hybrid mini-reunion, anchored in Hanover and by Homecoming, brought our class connectivity to a new level. I would hope that participants found it to be a thumbs up and that you have provided appropriate feedback to class officers. Please keep Sam Werner or me up to date on your latest activities.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

Let’s take a moment to reflect on the months at the beginning of this year. The Covid pandemic emergency was declared over. Southern California experienced record amounts of snow and rain. Winter Carnival was all but cancelled for lack of cold or snow. We had a great Zoom mini-reunion in February, and it highlighted a Dartmouth professor addressing the timely topic of Ukraine. It was well received by all who attended, and that presentation is on our website. Check it out. We are proceeding on additional class website updates and upgrades. We are working through a backlog of obituaries also and we will get them posted on our website as soon as we can. Jim Wooster has been so good at keeping a bunch of us updated on Dartmouth athletics. The reports are not always ones of victories, but they do keep us attuned to the fact that athletics are an integral and important part of Dartmouth. We are also thankful to Wayne French and Chris Cundey for their leadership role in the Alumni Fund. Some of their agents may well be in touch with you before June.

Do stay connected and let me know of your happenings or classmate encounters. Feel free to send pictures. Sam Werner, who composes the class newsletter, and I are always on the prowl for updates from you.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

Well, the academics and the athletics of the fall are behind us. Now it is the grind of winter in Hanover with thoughts already reaching toward Green Key and spring break. Our multifaceted Zoom and in-person reunion centered about Hanover last fall was a success and our first (I believe) regional micro-reunion took place. Gathering in San Diego, ’59ers and their spouses enjoyed just being together as well as some spectacular weather. Attendees were able to visit the U.S. Navy submarine base, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, and Cabrillo National Monument at the entrance to San Diego Bay. Others were entirely happy to sit in the sun and read or walk the waterfront.

The centerpiece event was dinner at the San Diego Yacht Club, where we remembered and celebrated those from ’59 in southern California who were no longer with us. Bob Filderman, Jim Bybee, Ron Kabot, Sutton Clark, and Bill Zebedee were all remembered as we joined hearts and hands about the dinner table. Many came from long distances—New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, and north of Los Angeles. It was so meaningful and memorable to be together and have free rein to spend quality time with those we brushed against between 1955 and 1959. It was joyful and unparalleled to be with Kurt Christiansen, Mickey Cohen, June Cohen, Robin (Filderman) Jonas, Jared Jonas, George LeFevre, Herb Schoenberg, Bob Werbel, Ellen MacVean, and Charlie MacVean.

This very important time together, with average age approaching 86, reinforced just how important our time at Dartmouth was and is. Those memories were important backdrops to the accomplishments of our classmates and in particular those who met in San Diego.

Do stay connected and let me know of your happenings or classmate encounters.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

It was only 67 years ago that we arrived in Hanover and quickly learned that “beanie” was an important part of our vocabulary. Soon we were in sensory overload as we were surrounded by the magnificent colors of the fall season as well as a growing stack of textbooks for us to ponder. Soon the totality of the wonders of Thayer Hall would be fully revealed to us. We began to navigate past places such as Topliff, Gile, Russell Sage, Ripley, Wheeler, Wilder, and Sanborn. Parkhurst was a place we tried to avoid. Also to be avoided was Dick’s House. The Tower Room at Baker was the go-to place for a nap—at any time. The centroid of our activities seemed to be located at a place run by two non-professors with the name of Tanzi—but they taught us a lot. Only Lou’s did better at attracting us. Many of us dream of those times and many would like to return for a fall visit. However, for a variety of reasons, it will most likely be Zoom or Teams get together. Standing by our class motto of “Stay Connected,” there are several grassroots efforts to have smaller get-togethers in several locales. Certainly, the classmates in the Hanover area are headed that way and Larry Friedricks is leading an effort to get those connected to the West Coast to coalesce in the Southern California region for a memory roundup. David Marr checked in from Australia. His experiences in Vietnam as a Marine led him to a professorship at the Australian National University Canberra with deep interest in the key factors in the history of Vietnam. His projects “Vietnam 1945-1950: State, War and Revolution” and “A History of the Vietnamese culture in the 20th century” are both worthy of a revisit in the world dynamics of today.

Do “Stay Connected” and let me know of those happenings or of your happenings.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

There’s lots to anticipate as we wait for March Madness and the Major League Baseball season to be finally and fully defined. We also await the publication of Bill Woolley’s book, titled Creating the Modern Army: Citizen Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919-1939. After time in the Navy, Bill earned his Ph.D. in history and then spent more than 30 years teaching history at Ripon College which is in Ripon, Wisconsin. The book is the result of a long-term research project. Bill and I have not discussed the winter weather in our respective locations—Germantown, Wisconsin, and San Diego.

We all continue to wrestle and define the new normal, and the baseline keeps changing: masks on or off, vaccinations yes or no, baseball yea or nay. All are overshowed by the uncertainties and horrific war conditions between Russia and Ukraine, with the possibility of even wider involvements. But there are constant and reliable sources of peacefulness for us, and they reside in our memories of and thankfulness for our time in Hanover. Whether it was “the crunch of feet” or Green Key or catching a nap in Baker’s Tower Room or the fall colors on the hills of New Hampshire or classes in physics or rocks, I think we all day- or night-dream of the peace and protective environment that enveloped us on the Hanover Plain. Few understand our attachment to Dartmouth.

How sad we all are to hear of the passing of Jimmy Lee Bybee. Jim was a wonderful classmate for us and roommate for me. His work as our class secretary was unparalleled, and the marvelous book he produced on the occasion of our 50th reunion is a towering tribute to his incredible purposefulness and love of Dartmouth.

Be well and stay well!

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

There is no question about it. We are all feeling better and more upbeat than we did a year ago. While Covid constraints are still present, they are much less restrictive than in the fall of 2020. To be sure, when someone extends a hand in greeting, some of us do not know whether to grab the hand or our masks. While the term “normal” is being heavily overused, we do see campus life and our own lives recovering from the very abnormal state that we found ourselves in just a year ago. But that memory lingers on as we plan for our fall mini-reunion. It will be in November, and it will again be a Zoom event; that decision being driven by a stack-up of considerations, including classmates’ ability or desire to travel and the ability to get student, faculty, and administration participation in our mini from disparate locations all at a minimum of schedule or cost impact. So preliminary details have been provided, stand by for the agenda and the chat room details. In the comments received about our first Zoom mini, the importance and desirability of chat rooms was heavily emphasized.

Some of the southern California classmates were able to venture out of their Covid lockup and enjoy a luncheon together. Bob Filderman, George LeFevre, Charlie MacVean, and Randy Malin celebrated their newly found vaccinated freedom with an outing to Jimmy’s Famous American Tavern adjacent to the harbor in San Diego. It was a day of fine weather and lots of catch up.

While I am always on the hunt for news of classmates, I am now expanding that request to include pictures. Almost all of us have cellphones with cameras. Use them and send me pictures and I will get them posted on the class website. It might just be easier to take a picture and add a caption than to write me of your activities.

Be well and stay well!

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

Is normal near? We can’t say for sure, but several are making more normal noises. David Marr checked in from Australia, where he has been for a good long time. He is an emeritus professor at the Australian National University in Canberra with expertise in Asian history. He also reported that Canberra had a run of five months without a single Covid case. He continues research on the modern history of Vietnam, perhaps drawn to it by his experience as a Marine following NROTC and graduation from Dartmouth. David has published many articles and books on his thoughts and findings. And from Maine Goody Gilman chimed in, reminding me that all three of their children are Dartmouth graduates. Anchored in Maine, he has a home in Quechee, Vermont, to feed his need for Dartmouth football games. It has been a tough year with near fan-less football. There was only one car in the Thompson parking lot for the Dartmouth-Yale game. Rick Luedke tries to steer the Wisconsin senior alum group around the pitfalls of proximity. Phil Marden, Al Brown, and John Hessler are all part of that band of merry snow shovelers. Collectively, they maintain phone connectivity with Peter Strock and Jim Mueller. Bob Filderman and Charlie MacVean managed to find one of the few restaurants in San Diego that Fildy had never been to, so they enjoyed the pasta and the time together. Send me your good stuff.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

Here we are entering 2021 with an entirely different landscape than just one year ago. Zoom was not even in our vocabulary and now it is a near daily event. Virtual has virtually taken us over. The fall saw online renditions of Homecoming, the Volunteer Engagement Week, the Alumni Council meeting, and our own mini-reunion. In spite of our overwhelming desire to be with each other, the ability of the internet to span geographical separations and to clearly convey lots of information will mean that these conveyances will be part of our future.

The College also stepped up communications with us individually with weekly updates and other focused emails. The increased workload on faculty, staff, and students was and is clearly evident as each task undertaken has an additional layer of complexity to keep all concerned safe and healthy in the face of the Covid pandemic, which rampaged through the fall season. The adoption of safe practices by everyone, and particularly the students, on the Hanover Plain has resulted in commendable results in the fight against Covid.

With classmates really hunkered down and staying at home, the usual news of travel and exciting adventures is sorely lacking. Bob Filderman and Charlie MacVean do manage to break out for a luncheon or two, always in an outdoor setting, which is very feasible in San Diego.

Now, more than ever, feel free to drop me a line with updates about you, your classmates, and your activities.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

Was our 60th just a year ago? How things have changed. Those idyllic times on the Hanover Plain, be it in the 1950s or during recent visits still anchor our personalities. I spent four and a half years under water while in submarines of the U.S. Navy. And I was asked many times: “How did you do that, isolated for months?” From that experience I offer some tips for our current isolation.

Sanitize: Wash those hands and clean those surfaces used in food preparation. Envision what an intestinal bug would do on a submarine with 130 folks and five toilets.

Establish a routine: Get out of bed on time and get out of those pjs before noon. Shave or put on your cosmetics.

Get dressed (and I don’t mean slipping into a sweatsuit).

Hydrate: Water will help your immune system stay tuned up.

Exercise: Spend at least 20 to 30 minutes a day in exercise. Walk or use light weights. We all think about exercise, now we must do it.

Moderate food and drink. If you concentrate on minor decreases, clothes fit better. Resist that temptation for extra wine or cocktails.

Plan on measurable projects; make them small and manageable. It may be to clean out a drawer or get six items ready for Goodwill or write or email four high school friends.

Limit your time in front of a screen, computer, or the TV. Be selective. Get away from constant “news.” Give yourself a break—find a comedy.

Stay connected. We are all wired to be social in nature and thrive at being “in touch.” On submarines, family communications were limited, but we were always close to one of 120 shipmates. Check in with a few acquaintances each day.

No matter which ocean, operating a submarine was full of surprises and anxiety. But the memories of Dartmouth have not changed. Think about Dartmouth when you feel that you are about to lose it.

Dave Marshall and Barry Smith continue to work the fall mini details, recognizing that the final plans will be dependent on College posture.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

The turn of the year and the decade saw four ’59ers together for lunch in San Diego. Bob Filderman, Charlie MacVean, Randy Malin, and Bill Zebedee were able to enjoy the memories.

Jim Bybee, after 60 years in southern California, has moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Jim and Marion have been joined in their new home by a daughter who moved from Maryland to co-locate.

While it was an October event, the recognition of Jim Wooster as an outstanding alumnus awardee needs our deeper understanding. As a graduate of Dartmouth, Thayer, and Tuck, Jim’s Hanover lineage goes back to the 1920s, when his dad and uncle attended. Younger attendees include sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, and cousins. Honored for his long-standing and meritorious service to the College and his community, Jim has served in many class and college leadership roles. His professional career centered with New England Telephone, but his true service has been Hanover-centric. He has been our head class agent and our class president (earning Class President of the Year) and his hands are all over a great number of volunteer projects empowering class, college, and community innovation and improvement. Congratulations, Jim, as you join John Ferries, John Nason, and Doug Wise as a recipient of this recognition by the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Jim is a prime example of a New Jersey lad captivated by the granite of New Hampshire.

There is still time to contribute to help Dartmouth in its 250th year. Do it while you are thinking about it.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

The first order of business for this new secretary is to gratefully acknowledge the efforts and contributions of my predecessor, Dick Hoehn. For the past five years he has consistently brought to the fore and to this forum the Class Notes of note. He became a master at mining our minds and sorting through the many achievements and adventures of our classmates. Not an easy task with a bunch that is so geographically dispersed and so accomplished in so many fields of endeavor. In addition, as the creator of the obituaries for passing classmates, he has done an incomparable job of bringing those men to the forefront of our memories in a most respectful way. So I take my hat off to Dick and thank him for his classic and classy fulfilment of the roles and responsibilities of our secretary.

Although our 60th reunion has been chronicled and photographed by many and in many places, I do want to relate how much of an impact it had on me. Having lived in Southern California for more than 40 years, I found myself in sensory overload on my return to Hanover, with the green of the forests, the beauty of the Dartmouth campus and the overwhelming feeling of being “at home” and immersed in memories that have really, in retrospect, forged the individuals and individualism of our class. I found the reunion to be a stunning reaffirmation of the importance of Dartmouth. I was struck by the relevance and the reality of those old, old words—the granite of New Hampshire, the still wind of the North and ’round the girdled earth—they really are right on.

We have a hall of fame inductee. John Folmer has served as the town attorney for Cortlandville, New York, for more than 29 years and he was the first person inducted into the hall of fame for this upstate New York community. John attended the Syracuse University College of Law and, after serving for two years in the U.S. Army, began practicing law, first in New York City and then in Cortlandville, near his birthplace of Cortland. He has actively served in many community, service and law-related organizations. In his 55-plus years practicing law John was president of the New York State Bar Association and a former city prosecutor for Cortland. John, congratulations to you.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com

This is the next-to-the-last Class Notes column written by your current scribe. The final column, however, will recount our 60th reunion and the election, at the class meeting held during that reunion, of a new slate of officers, including a new secretary to pen these notes. So, although this is really only my penultimate column, it is the last column for which the canvas is open. What then should be chronicled? Career and other achievements; the rare classmate who still plies his trade; relocation to be near grandchildren or healthcare; the women who have become such an integral part of the fabric of a class which started all male? Been there, done that.

One au courant technique for Class Notes is modeled on columns by the co-secretaries of the class of 1990 (a son and nephew of dearly departed Scott Palmer). The technique, which has also been used by other class secretaries, is to devise a short, Dartmouth-related question, blast it out electronically to the entire class, and then base a column on the avalanche of answers. What might be a suitable question for ’59s? As this would be both my first and final occasion for using the technique, the question should be appropriately weighty, provocative, and reflective of our place in the senior wing of the alumni body.

But this is just a flight on gossamer wings. Sadly, your scribe is so electronically incompetent that he would have no idea, without inordinate assistance, how to pose a question to the entire class and then compile a column based on the responses. No matter how much I might dream of devising and asking it and some of you might wish to respond, any ’59 Class Notes question must, for the nonce, remain unasked and unanswered. But, for those of you who are intrigued by the technique, including many who would be technologically able to participate, take heart. A new scribe, who has, we hope, embraced more thoroughly the culture of the electronic era and is better able to navigate modern communication channels, will soon take office.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-7194; r06hoehn@gmail.com

Your current scribe’s first Class Notes column appeared in DAM in late 2014. Reviewing these columns, a broad range of activities, of both the class and individual classmates, has been chronicled, with at least one glaring omission. Although these notes have referred to some of the projects currently supported by the class, they have not specifically focused upon Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS), which, without disparaging other projects, is the class’s signature project.

Our 50th reunion memory book includes an article by Karl Holtzschue that recounts the founding in 1995 and early history of DPCS. It also names many of the large number of classmates, including spouses, who have served in leadership positions, mentored interns, and contributed financially. From its beginning, the project gathered support from the College and numerous other classes, and it has grown to an organization under the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact, which last year sponsored 45 interns selected from a record pool of applicants and mentored by members of 20 Dartmouth classes. The mission of DPCS is to inspire Dartmouth students to join with alumni in addressing and impacting social problems. It fits closely with the College’s emphasis on social impact and experiential learning.

Recognizing that we are aging and will not be able to continue indefinitely our support of DPCS, the class has begun the delicate process of handing over leadership roles to the College and other Dartmouth classes. Nonetheless, we continue to support DPCS, and Karl Holtzschue currently represents our class on its board. Our founding and continued support of DPCS has resulted in a number of awards to the class and individual classmates, some of which are described in the history written by Karl. Recently, the class was selected by the College, for our legacy support of DPCS, to receive in early 2019 the Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement, awarded annually for exemplary commitment to public service. The award was established in 2002 and all previous recipients have been individuals. This will be the first time that an entire group—our class—will be so honored.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-7194; r06hoehn@gmail.com

Many alumni opening this magazine turn first to the notes for their own class, and some read not only the notes for their class but also notes for other classes, in particular those of similar vintage. Members of ’59 who also look at notes for other classes in the senior wing of the alumni body will find a number of differences in both content and style here. While some class columns chronicle individual deaths, ’59 notes have generally omitted notice of individual passings and related obit-type information, leaving such matters to the “In Memoriam” section of our website (www.1959.Dartmouth.org) and to this magazine, which currently prints just the names of the deceased and posts obituaries on its website. Your current scribe does not intend to change the practice of omitting individual death notices from our Class Notes. However, having tried to focus the notes on common themes, there is no doubt that passing on has become a common theme for us octogenarians. Without listing individual names, here are some general statistics.

There were initially about 750 ’59s. Of those, 234 are known to have died as of the end of June, all of whom are listed on our website. Of those we have lost, almost 50 percent died since our 50th reunion, and 64 have died since the 55th, held in 2014. Some classmates will prefer that these notes, like some others from classes of similar vintage, include individual names and obit-type information. Others will prefer that the delicate subject of death not be addressed in these notes at all, even as a general theme. Regardless of individual preferences, we remember our deceased classmates in several ways. In addition to information on our website and the memorial services held at major reunions, the class has for many years, mostly under the guidance of Jim Bybee, participated in the College’s memorial book program. Through this program the class underwrites the cost of books acquired by the College library system, one for nearly every deceased member of the class, bearing the name of the memorialized classmate.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; r06hoehn@gmail.com

Classmates who follow events in Hanover may know that a member of the class of 2020 recently won the 11th annual Dartmouth Idol competition. Most members of the senior wing of the alumni body, whether or not familiar with the idol competition, remember attending and perhaps even participating in the interfraternity hums competition which, according to The Dartmouth, went “the way of the wind” in the 1970s. Although many hums participants were far more spirited than serious about winning, Alpha Theta was a perennial standout and victorious in three of our four years in Hanover. In the spring of 1957, however, Theta Delta Chi chose to feature a piece with European origins rewritten in English and titled The Three Bells, which several years later rose to the top of popular music charts. The dramatic country lyrics, projected superbly from the steps of Dartmouth Hall by the Theta Delt chorus and its soloist, resulted in the fraternity being selected as one of the six finalists and ultimately winning that year’s competition. Skip Waldron ’57 was soloist in the final round, but in the preliminary round the soloist was Tip Putnam. Tip is known to many classmates as a hockey player; one of 23 ’59s selected in the 3/2 program for the Medical School class of 1960; a Navy doctor assigned to a Marine aviation squadron; a pediatrician in the Buffalo, New York, area; and now, with Arlene, a resident of Hilton Head, South Carolina. Few know he also had a hums-tested, idol-quality singing voice.

A recent column stated that, to your scribe’s knowledge, only three ’59s married the sister of a classmate. Your scribe’s knowledge was grossly incomplete. It appears that at least five classmates married sisters of classmates. Jerry Allyn married Sam Werner’stwinsister, Fran; Roger Condit married Jerry Allyn’s sister, Karyl; Jim Perry married Will Gray’s twin sister, Sally; Greg Stark married Phil Schmehl’s sister, Anita; and Robert Watson married Rob Kilgore’s sister, Ann. Of the 14 classmates and sisters involved, only Robert Watson and Ann Kilgore Watson are no longer with us.

The most recent column, in describing future reunions, incorrectly stated the dates of our 60th reunion. The correct dates are June 10-13, 2019.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; r06hoehn@gmail.com

Some of us have kept a copy of the program for the Commencement exercises held in Hanover on June 14, 1959. Among other information, it lists the names of 591 classmates who that day received bachelor of arts degrees. Although not explicitly noted in the program, more than 100 of those classmates receiving bachelor’s degrees were also in the midst of pursuing postgraduate degrees from one of the three graduate schools (in the case of about a dozen classmates, joint degrees from Tuck and Thayer schools). Almost all of those who had begun their postgraduate studies (pursuant to the now long-defunct 3/2 program) went on to obtain the advanced degrees from either Tuck, Thayer (or both) or the then two-year Medical School. One of the exceptions was Jerry Allyn,who, having started the 3/2 program with the Thayer School, switched schools in mid-stream and finished his master’s program in engineering at Yale. Being a three-year Dartmouth, one-year Thayer and one-year Yale engineer is not the only way in which Jerry stands out as a rara avis among classmates. He was also one of only three (to the knowledge of your scribe) who married the sister of a classmate. Jerry was introduced to his future wife, Fran, by her twin brother—and Jerry’s sophomore-year roommate—Sam Werner. Jerry and Fran vacationed with Sam and Laura Werner in Nag’s Head, North Carolina, about a year ago in celebration of Jerry’s and the twins’ 80th birthdays. Jerry reports that he and his brother-in-law and fellow science maven were intrigued by the changing nature of the Outer Banks and, while browsing in a bookstore in Kitty Hawk, serendipitously found a book that described in expert detail the natural processes that they had observed and wondered about. The book, published in 1995 and titled The Nature of the Outer Banks, was written by Dirk Frankenberg, then a professor of marine science at the University of North Carolina, whose distinguished career was cut short by his death about five years after the book’s publication.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com

This column focuses on women’s perspectives on destination mini-reunions and downsizing. It has been written by Joanne Wise, leader of the ’59 Women’s Initiative Network, which supports many class activities.

PhoebeShaw and Libba Wallwere at the Great Smokies mini-reunion last April. Phoebe said, “When I learned of the trip I thought the time was right to join the ’59 train enthusiasts while exploring the natural beauty of Appalachia. For the first time in nearly 20 years I realized that whenever ’59s gather, there’s bound to be a grand time.” Libba said, “I loved this trip and wish Jim could have participated, as he grew up in Chattanooga. Thanks for the warm welcome and for providing such an interesting and educational opportunity.”

Diane Palmer, destination mini-reunion co-chair with Scott, shares, “It’s nice to be a part of an active class. During the gathering of 18 folks in the Great Smokies of Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia, we learned about local cultures and experienced a beautiful part of the United States, most of us for the first time. Scott and I are always looking for new possibilities for the destination mini-reunions.”

Janice Cundey,in New London, New Hampshire,is thinking about downsizing. “Our biggest challenge is to ‘de-clutter’ our house. We’ve had the benefit of several ’59s who have already taken the plunge. They each looked at our home and said, ‘Do you realize how much work you have ahead of you?’ So we are now planning how to approach it.”

Anne Baldwin, who with John downsized in 2015, says, “We moved to Foulkeways in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. Donna and Sam Swansen were already here. We live independently, but love knowing that continuing care is here for us.” Joanne Wise, who joined neighboring condo activists at Gray Ledges in Grantham, New Hampshire, in developing a program on aging in place, says, “The opportunity to stay in our home so long as we are able sounds like a good plan.”

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com

Among the publicity surrounding the recent Commencement exercises was a photograph of two graduates who had been in an ROTC program and were freshly commissioned lieutenants. Also pictured were former President Jim Wright and trustee Nate Fick ’99, each having served as a Marine, and Commencement speaker Jake Tapper ’91. If a similar photograph had been taken at Commencement in 1959 it would have shown a far larger group, including about 100 ’59s who were in ROTC or similar programs and commissioned upon graduation, together with many officers and senior enlisted personnel who were professors and instructors of military science. About half of all ’59s eventually served either as officers or enlisted personnel, some between undergraduate studies, others commissioned upon graduation and even more entering service following our days in Hanover. The difference in numbers serving in the military between alumni of our vintage and current students is stark. Most of us would agree that key drivers of that difference were the draft and its abolition. More controversial issues concern the effects of the difference and whether it really matters that Dartmouth men and women are largely absent from the entry-level echelons of today’s military forces.

The artistic works of two ’59s have recently been published. The Absence of Strangers contains poetry of Dick Taylor, known to most of us as an Olympic-caliber Nordic skier and coach, but who has also worked in a number of capacities, including as a teacher and coach at Gould Academy in Maine from 1987 to 2007. One reviewer of Dick’s poetic voice commented on its “wit and music…deep empathy…and familiarity with seasons, botany, climate and a variety of literary devices and classical lore.” Cyndy and John Orcutt sold their architectural practice in 2002 and he began to concentrate on his passion for photography. Enduring Heights, edited by John, features photographs and other materials about the high peaks region of Maine, where the Orcutts have lived for about 30 years. The introduction is written by the U.S. senator from Maine, Angus King ’66, also known to many of us as Bunny Neff’s brother.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com

These notes are being written at the end of 2016, but it will be mud season of 2017 in Hanover when they are published. Even though those in the senior wing of the class have already crossed into the fourscore age category, 2017 is the year when a majority of us will reach that milestone. Some may prefer to slink by without fanfare, but the odds are that, whatever our preferences, most occasions will be conspicuously celebrated by family and friends.

Many of us, once fully engaged in careers and civic activities and later in very active semi-retirements, have seen a loosening of the grip of professional and civic responsibilities. There are, of course, some classmates who just don’t slow down very much.

Mal Swenson continues to be actively engaged as the worldwide dean of architectural stone consultants. Our beloved anthem refers to “granite in their muscles and their brains,” but Mal has it in his DNA, having been raised in a family of granite quarriers and working during high school and college summer vacations as an apprentice quarrier and stonecutter. Following business school and a rocky stint in the family business, Mal became a consultant, first in China and then expanding around the globe, to countries and institutions that build with granite and other stone construction materials. Although his business has offices and employs people in a number of countries and Mal travels frequently, the nerve center of Swenson Stone Consultants is within earshot of the bells of Baker Library. When he gets a chance, Mal still enjoys downhill skiing.

Alan Ziegler is another classmate with a full plate of responsibilities. He continues to be engaged in the life insurance business in the Rochester, New York, area, although somewhat less actively than in previous years. In addition, he became a trustee of Keuka College in Penn Yan, New York, several years ago and, since 2015, has served as president of the board. Until he developed knee problems a couple of years ago, Al was a top-ranked national and international senior squash doubles player.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com

Recognizing that spouses are integral to the fabric of our class, the Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) was established in 2002. Joanne Wise and Tina Long have spearheaded WIN since its inception. This column, written by Joanne, is about ’59 women. Much additional detail about them appears on the class website under “About Us—Classmate’s Stories: Women on the Go.”

Arlene Johnson andKitty Quirk attended the mini-reunion in Cuba. Arlene has also cruised from Budapest to Amsterdam and seen Hamilton twice. Joan French enjoyed the Portland, Oregon, mini a year ago with Wayne, and they went on to visit the Chatfields and Planks in California. Donna Ferries traveled with John to Lisbon, Barcelona and Berlin. She spends time with grandchildren, gardens and revels in two lifelong learning programs.

Sue Pinkerton, on their move to Richmond, Virginia: “What I can say about downsizing and moving out of state at our age is probably not printable.” Arlyss Beckeron their move to a retirement/life-care community near Portland, Maine: “Downsizing, packing, repacking, making art, remaking art, saying goodbye, beach walking, beach combing, more saying goodbye, joking, laughing, crying, whining, emptying, resolving, moving out, moving on and on!”

Polly Allen, relishes her Kendal Chicago home: “I connect with people of like interests—artists, gallery owners and arts enthusiasts; am enriched by many museum offerings; and serve on contemporary craft boards. Traveling for personal pleasure is a priority. Life is good!”

Sue Boyle:“We just celebrated our 50th with all the children and grandchildren. We’re lucky—all of us are congenial and close to one another.” Ellen MacVean: “I appreciate each day and make the most of it. We enjoy being together. We’re looking forward to a cruise next March to celebrate Charlie’s 80th and my 79th.”

Tina Long travels, enjoys her two children and is contemplating where and when to move into a life-care community. Chris Bartlett and Don are restoring an antique house in Norwich, Vermont, that was Don’s family home and have traveled extensively following his retirement.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com

In March 1955, selecting from just more than 3,000 applicants, Dartmouth offered admission to almost 1,500 young men. About half of them matriculated in September of that year, becoming the class of 1959. An autumn 1955 issue of this magazine commented that, “By all predictive criteria, 1959 in every respect looks like one of the strongest classes ever to matriculate.” A couple of months ago the College announced that, from nearly 21,000 applicants, 2,176 men and women were offered places in the class of 2020. The actual 1,100 or so who are expected to enroll won’t be finally known until September but the class, based upon the group admitted and commonly used metrics, will differ in many ways from our class. A College news outlet characterized the accepted students as “a socioeconomically, culturally and geographically diverse group that includes the highest percentage of students of color in the College’s history.” Most of us are familiar with the publicized metrics and the many stark differences in profile between a class admitted more than 60 years ago and the most recently admitted class. Some of us may conclude that other reference points and metrics are needed for a more balanced perspective of the real changes in the incoming “stuff of the institution.” Whatever our different views may be, we are surely united in extending our best wishes to the members of the class of 2020 and joining the Dartmouth family in welcoming them.

Dick Liesching brought to Hanover from his native England a love for and knowledge of rugby. Among his many contributions to the sport at Dartmouth, he was instrumental in facilitating the highly publicized trip of the team, including about 10 ’59s, to England in late 1958. On his 80th birthday, after a rugby match in Hanover, Dick was honored by the presentation from his son, John, of a book containing reflections of former ruggers, including all recipients of the award given annually in Dick’s name. The presentation was in the Dick Liesching Trophy Room at the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse. Will Gray was there together with many other members of the Dartmouth rugby community.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com

If each of our classmates was asked whether the class motto is “Be Prepared,” “Vox Clamantis in Deserto,” “Stay Connected” or “Semper Fidelis,” the odds are good that a majority would correctly pick the third. The motto quite accurately describes how so many of us continue to maintain our many connections with one another and the College.

An early November weekend in the Hanover area attests to that continuing connectedness. On Thursday Doug Wise was honored by the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce for his outstanding leadership of the chamber and substantial contributions to the community during many years. At least eight ’59s and spouses, together with several hundred others, joined Doug and Joanne for the event. The next day the Geisel School of Medicine (better known to most of us as Dartmouth Medical School) honored Haig Kazazian and several other remarkably distinguished DMS alumni with a career achievement award. More than 15 of our classmates and spouses joined Haig and Lillian for the event, including four who were fellow members of the DMS class of 1960: Stu Hanson, who had nominated Haig and presented the award; Don Abel; Tom Magill; and Barry Smith. Later that evening Dartmouth played Cornell in football, and watching was the regular cadre of ’59s, augmented by a few irregulars who were in Hanover for other weekend events. Finally, on Saturday, classmates who were on the crew (both heavy and lightweight) returned to Hanover for a reunion with other crew members from the 1950s, joined by their cherished mentor Thad Seymour. Scott Palmer organized that reunion, and joining him were Pete Collins, Mark Gates, Bob Helsell, Haig Kazazian (the premed also rowed), Tim Rich, Marty Sherwin and Pete Strock. Recognizing that so many were planning to be in Hanover for the weekend, Doug and Scott organized a special class brunch on Saturday morning that was attended by a lively crowd of docs, jocks and sundry others, including many spouses, all delighting in the pleasures of staying connected.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com

These notes recently opined that almost all ’59s are now retired from active engagement in the fields in which they made their livings. Although no one challenged the general premise, several classmates reported that they are still actively pursuing their lifetime careers.

Pat and Aron Wolf have lived in Anchorage, Alaska, for nearly 50 years. Although Pat retired several years ago from her work as a museum director and arts consultant, Aron continues to practice psychiatry in Anchorage and also serves as a healthcare consultant throughout the state. Far east of Anchorage and, although further south, still closer to the Arctic than most to us choose to hang out, Goody Gilman continues to work in the wholesale electrical supply business that he established years ago. He sold the business in 1985 and since the sale has managed its northern New England operations for the owners. Goody entered Dartmouth from Newport, Maine, and still lives and works from there. Roz Gilman commutes about 25 miles east to Bangor, where she practices law. Jim Ertle continues to practice dermatology in Hinsdale, Illinois, and teach at Rush Medical School in Chicago. Jim has received numerous honors and awards during the course of his long career in medicine and most recently was the recipient of the Humanism in Medicine Award from the American Academy of Dermatology. As the recent notes also suggested, the line between working and retired is not always clear and, for some, the easing away from one’s life work is gradual and prolonged. Sam Werner retired as a full-time professor of physics at the University of Missouri in 2000. He and Laura moved to Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Sam has since then served as a part-time consultant for the National Institute of Science and Technology. Sam continues to attend, and often speaks at, physics conferences, and he and a colleague from Vienna, Austria, are authors of Neutron Interferometry, a definitive text now in its second edition. He also co-chairs the Dartmouth alumni advisory committee for physics and astronomy.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com

For our 50th reunion Donna and John Ferries conducted a survey that showed that about 80 percent of us were then retired. For some the line between working and retired is well defined; for others the line is blurred and the transition complex. Whether we transitioned to retirement in one fell swoop or by a more subtle and sinuous path, almost all ’59s have by now retired from active engagement in their chosen fields. But there are exceptions. You may have missed the news that Phil Langley was recently elected to a fourth consecutive three-year term as president of the U. S. Trotting Association, which is the trade organization for harness racing, both trotting and pacing. Phil tried his hand with some success at insurance underwriting but, within five years of our graduation he was at work at Sportsman’s Park in the Chicago area. He has done about everything a non-equine can do in his industry, including director and secretary of racing at major venues, serving industry organizations and owning both horses and racing facilities. He also claims to have driven a sulky in at least two official races. Although he technically retired from some of the daily responsibilities he once had, Phil is the dean of American harness racing and he remains fully engaged in the industry that called him more than 50 years ago. The survey conducted by the Ferries focused on classmates and did not provide statistics about the retirement of spouses. Whatever those numbers might be, Sally Jaeger, for one, is fully immersed in her position as director of the M.B.A. program office at Tuck School. In addition to her regular responsibilities, she has served on two high-profile Dartmouth committees. She was a member of the search committee that recently selected the incoming dean of the Tuck School. She was also the Tuck representative on the College-wide committee that made recommendations to President Hanlon in connection with the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiatives. 


—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com


About 57 years ago the Dartmouth baseball team was selected for post-season NCAA play and, with eight ’59s on the roster, met the University of Connecticut in a best-of-three series. Alas, Dartmouth was unable to score a single run in either of the first two games. UConn struggled to score against Art Quirk in the first game and then, facing a cadre of Dartmouth pitchers, scored 10 runs in the second game. The first game was scoreless after eight and one-half innings. Art Quirk had allowed only one hit and the UConn pitcher had allowed only three. In the bottom of the ninth the first UConn batter tripled. Art then struck out two and had two strikes on the next batter. His next pitch broke extremely sharply. The UConn batter swung and missed, but the ball got past the catcher and the runner on third scored to win the game for UConn, 1-0. The official scorer ruled it a wild pitch and not a passed ball, but that did not end the discussion for Art and the catcher, Woody Woodworth ’60. Whenever they got together, the discussion about the sharply breaking pitch continued. “Wild pitch,” Woody would say; “Passed ball,” Art would reply. In early November last year Woody visited Art. Each knew that it was almost certainly the last time the two of them would be together in this life. As Woody was leaving, he said, without stopping or even turning around, “Passed ball.” Art’s reaction, as reported by his son, Kent, was “I think he’s just feeling sorry for me.” Many of us who knew Art Quirk did not have or make the opportunity to say to him our version of passed ball. Whatever one’s version was or might have been, it would have included a full measure of sorrow for Art. But despite Art’s typically terse understatement, it also would have included, as surely as did Woody’s passed ball, an equal measure of sorrow for our own loss of a person so thoroughly respected, admired and loved.


—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA. 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com


At our 55th reunion last May officers were elected to guide class activities for the next five years. In August Doug Wise, who became president, and Scott Palmer, who continued as vice president, led a gathering of officers and wives on what moviegoers know as Golden Pond (actually Squam Lake) in New Hampshire. The group discussed goals and activities for the next five years leading to our 60th reunion. A report will be posted on the class website. The report will probably not convey the striking beauty of the setting and the spirited fellowship of the non-business activities, including hiking up a hill called West Rattlesnake Mountain. The hike resulted in a fitting tableau of a dozen or so ’59 summiteers, male and female, happily perched on a rocky overlook about 1,000 feet above a grand panorama of Golden Pond.


A report of the 55th reunion is also posted on the website. It doesn’t disclose that Vicki and Jim Lust left Hanover as the reunion was barely beginning. Jim, a frequent winner of class golf events, once again excelled on the links but tore his Achilles tendon and departed the next day to seek medical attention. As of mid-summer Jim was still undergoing treatment with the prospect of surgery. He claims that he regrets having had but one leg to sacrifice for his class. Cynics may question both his altruism and arithmetic and wonder if he counts strokes the way he counts legs, but preponderant class sentiment is for Jim to return to the tee with his customary bipedal stance.


Al Munro became secretary at the 50th reunion and wrote the preceding 30 of these ’59 Class Notes, six per year for five years. Rather than waiting for random news, Al planned notes around specific themes and was proactive in reaching out for information. Kudos to Al for those efforts. He will not be resting on his oars as he continues, with Bill Colehower, to be responsible for class leadership giving and takes on, with wife Kathy, responsibility for organizing Hanover mini-reunions.


—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com


Mea culpa to Bob Torrens and Bob Ogg, as the Class Notes in the March/April issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine somehow merged Bob Torrens’ career description into the note about Bob Ogg. Both live in Canada and were part of the reporting on classmates living outside the United States. To set things right: Bob Ogg spent 31 years with Sears Canada Inc. in various merchandise-buying assignments and managing the national supply operation, where he implemented a company-wide recycling program for corrugated boxes, paper and plastic wrap. After his retirement in 1993 he worked with The Canadian General Standards Board, along with other “seasoned executives” on business management and audit standards. As for Bob Torrens, he became a senior partner of Torys, one of Canada’s leading law firms, and served financial firms for merger and acquisitions law and as one bank’s board of directors.


In honor of our 55th reunion Paula and Larry Fredericks donated to the Rauner Special Collections Library the premier issues of Ms. magazine (July 1972) and Omni’s prototype, which was originally called Nova (October 1978—the first publication to combine science fact with science fiction). Paula worked closely with Gloria Steinam, editor of Ms., when Paula was the advertising sales director.


Hartley Paul forwarded a picture of Peter Jarvis in full regalia as the newly appointed chief of Socks Outside Your Pants Tribe of Skiers, formed in 1920. Peter’s main task is to initiate new members from the Tacoma and Seattle area, called Chechakos. The tribal rights of initiation are secret. Peter’s tribal name is Duckabush and Hartley’s is Skookum Wa Wa. When you see them, please ask about the tribal meanings of their names. The tribe has four-day ski outings at famous ski areas. (The picture resides with our newsletter editor.)


To continue from the last column: Harvey Galper—as a visiting fellow to the Urban Institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C.—is volunteering at its tax policy center, where with staff economists he is writing on tax policy issues, and at its international and governance center, where he is helping expand its international program. He and Alice try to travel frequently, recently to Cuba to witness its transition to a market economy. Their travel includes visiting two granddaughters in Connecticut.


During our 55th reunion Polly and Dick Sameth will be moving back into their home in Mantoloking, New Jersey, which was severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy.


This past winter Ginny and Bob Foot visited them in Vero Beach, Florida.


At the 55th reunion class meeting Dick Hoehn was unanimously elected as our new class secretary. Dick’s first column will appear in the November/December issue, leaving me with my final column in the September-October issue. This gives Dick time to attend the Class Officers Weekend in September to learn the ropes.


The 55th reunion marks the time when our Class Notes are reduced from 500 words to 350, starting with Dick’s first column.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net


At our 50th reunion class meeting new officers were elected for five-year terms by unanimous vote of all classmates present. Congratulations to president Ray Becker, vice president Scott Palmer, treasurer Art Quirk, Alumni Council representative Chris Cundey and secretary Al Munroe, who will write these Class Notes from now on, a duty of his new office. 


Another duty of class secretaries is writing classmates’ obituaries. Starting with our Aegis information, Dartmouth’s alumni records office keeps files so something can be available when an obituary must be published. However, in many cases the file is very thin, leaving the poor class secretary trying to locate next of kin or friends of the deceased who may have helpful information, Googling and otherwise seeking data. Sadly, it is sometimes impossible to track down anything or anyone. 


Here is a suggestion: Write a letter to Michelle Brown, Alumni Records Office, 6066 Development Office, Hanover, NH 03766 telling her what you would like to see appear in your obituary someday and asking her to file it. This will be a favor to yourself, your family and some future class secretary. 


An example of someone for whom no adequate obituary could be prepared is Charles B. Hotchkiss. Long after the fact, we learned that back in 1995 he died of a heart attack while fighting a grass fire at his home in Missouri Heights, Colorado. Chuck was a friend of mine during freshman year, an outdoorsman with whom I hunted that first fall and a person more mature than most of us, I thought. That year he won first place for Dartmouth in the amazing initial (and probably only) intercollegiate skydiving contest. The last time I saw Chuck was at the end of our freshman year, as he headed out West to spend the summer as a smokejumper for the U.S. Forest Service to build up his very slender bank account. Chuck did not return to Dartmouth, we know not how he spent his life and I have been unable to locate any of his friends or next of kin. 


Mike Miller’s widow, Lorna Derry Miller-Meyung, wrote a nice note when she sent a check to the Dartmouth Fund in his name. “Mike enjoyed being a member of the famous rugby team that went to England. He attended Harvard Business School and found his true career in medicine after med school at the University of Virginia. Mike was a skilled orthopedic surgeon but, sadly, died in December 2004. I regret that we never attended a class reunion.”


On a happier note, Mal Halliday, Potomac, Maryland, pianist, writes that he must miss the 50th because two granddaughters are performing in concerts across Iceland that week, their first international tour, and he wants to be with them. Of course a proud grandfather is excused!


Tom Noonan’s widow, Norma, also sent greetings to all, writing that she is “sure Tom would have enjoyed the festivities of the 50th.” 


—Paul A. Stein, 172 Oenoke Lane, New Canaan, CT 06840; p.stein@sbcglobal.net


As your new secretary I have large shoes to fill, as Paul Stein did a fabulous job over the past five years. The creativity and scope of his Class Notes will be hard to match. He has been very helpful in guiding me through the process to my first set of notes. Thanks, Paul!


Those of us fortunate enough to attend the 50th reunion had a great time catching up with classmates. Of course a number of 1959s had conflicts that prevented them from attending. They wished to join us but could not. The following covers some of them:


Bob Liberman writes that his UCLA team of experts in psychiatric rehabilitation have trained more than 150 clinicians of the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut, in the use of social skills training modules developed and validated by Bob during the past two decades. Bob’s programs for psychiatric rehabilitation have been translated into 23 languages and are used on all continents.


Don Gilden, Bob Liberman reports, identified the virus that causes chicken pox as the same that causes shingles—lying dormant in the spinal ganglia for 20 to 30 years. Don is now on the trail of the virus that causes multiple sclerosis.


Jon Mandaville retired from Portland (Oregon) State University, where he had been a professor in Middle Eastern studies for more than 40 years. Jon worked for some periods in Yemen, Damascus and Istanbul.


Ted Johanson retired from shoe manufacturing in 1995 but “retirement” is not in his vocabulary. Living on Vinalhaven Island, Maine, just off the coast of Camden, Maine, Ted is the volunteer head of the Vinalhaven Lobsterman’s Association, having managed it from the red to the black in a short period. Ted spent part of his early retirement pulling lobster traps. He also is a partner in 4 Fossils, which is a granite quarry. Ted and his three 70-year-old-plus partners revitalized the quarry to provide for the island’s needs. Stew and Lauretta Economou and Al and Kathy Munro had a terrific visit with Ted and Patty right after our 50th.


Randy Malin says his absence from the 50th is “no more mysterious” than the need to attend a family wedding. Bob “Fildy” Filderman and he are planning all sorts of wonderful things for us for the mini-reunion in San Diego in May 2010.


Our retired class president Chris Cundey has redirected his energies to the New London (New Hampshire) Hospital, where fellow ’59s David Marshall and John Ferries also are board members.


Now my appeal: Please use the Green Card to let me know news—interactions with classmates, interesting trips, funny situations—the news does not have to be of the major variety, just something we’d all enjoy. Thanks.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; amunro1@comcast.net


Okay, an admission: I made the first rookie secretary error by confusing dates of magazine issues. So you may have wondered how I knew in the last March/April issue about how everyone had such a good time at the May San Diego mini-reunion. It was based on a sincere belief in Jim Bybee, Fildy Filderman, Randy Malin and Charlie MacVean, the mini chairs.
Following up on this column’s Olympic notes, Fran Noel wrote that he had joined Dick Taylor on the 1960 Nordic team training squad. They were invited to be forerunners for the Nordic team in 1960 in Squaw Valley in California. Unfortunately, Fran could not convince the Navy to let him do so. They had him go back to his station in Hanover, where they lost sight of him until his commander asked why he did not have an assignment, which resulted in Fran finishing out his tour on the USS Lake Champlain. Fran and Dick stay in close touch.


At our 50th reunion classmates who were on the 1958-59 Dartmouth rugby team held a mini-reunion of their own. The team was the first American college side to cross the Atlantic, surprising the British with a 5-2 win-loss record. Overall the side was 19-3-1 for the fall and spring seasons. In attendance at the rugby reunion were Wil Gray (team historian), Dave Reber, Al Brown, Howard Greene, Donn Chickering, John Hessler and Dick Liesching, who was our United Kingdom classmate and had help with logistics from his parents.


Last November Randy Malin had the joy of witnessing the installation by the bishop of Massachusetts of his daughter Kate as the new rector of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Randy was joined by daughter Sarah and all of his six grandchildren at the installation.


Raise a cheer for Donna and Tom Margetts, who on May 20 in Short Hills, New Jersey, were honored for their philanthropic contributions by Partnership in Philanthropy, which advises New Jersey nonprofits on fundraising and management. Many classmates know of their participation in the U.S. Congress/Bundestag Young Professionals Program, in which during 15 years they hosted 18 German students. Each of whom lived with the Margetts for a year. Their education at the County College at Morris was underwritten by Tom and Donna. The Margetts’ philanthropic list is a long one!


At the end of 2009 Art Quirk was inducted into the Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame. In his first game in 1958 he struck out 17 and went 3-for-5 at the plate. Art signed with the Baltimore Orioles in 1959, earning Major League stints with the Orioles and Washington Senators. He and Kitty celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last fall.


Pat and Ed Hobbie took a mid-winter tour of Florida, starting in Key West and moving north, catching up with Bob Czelusniak in Delray Beach. Bob had just returned from the Florida’s West Coast and, quoting Ed, is “the same funny, entertaining ‘Celoos,’ enjoying life as usual.”


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net 


You will remember that we have covered the Winter Olympics and the arts in our most recent columns. We continue.


Carlos Plummer’s meeting with Walt Disney at the 1960 Winter Olympics was just one highlight for Carlos. He also supervised building the Olympic Tower with all the participating countries’ shields. His instruction of the Air Force airmen inflating balloons to be released at the opening ceremony was slowed a bit when he taught them how to inhale helium and change their voices. And his 15 minutes of fame passed without his being called to perform as the standby torch carrier.


Following coverage in the last DAM of Michael Stern’s son, Mark ’85, we add coverage on his daughter, Ricki ’87. Both have impressive film careers. Ricki co-directed, wrote the screenplay and was executive director of a documentary screened last January at the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. She has won awards at this film festival in the past for Trials of Daryl Hannah and The Devil Came on Horseback. She grew up making Super 8 films with Mark. For Ricki, “storytelling always starts with character,” of which her dad has a full complement.


Jerry Cott’s daughter Susan is general manager of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, a position that includes responsibility for all operations. She advises the music director on programming. Jerry surmises that having classical music playing whenever he was home was a motivation for Susan.


Last year Bob Worthington formed a movie production company and made a professional documentary film titled Combat Advisors in Vietnam. It is based on his experiences from 1966-69 as a special operations combat advisor to Vietnamese units.


At Dartmouth Bob worked as a commercial artist for a couple of advertising agencies in Hanover and produced many illustrations for the Outing Club.


Some travel news from Bob Hedley and Bob Ogg. Barbara and Bob Hedley last October celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a trip to China with their three children and their seven grandchildren. Bob says, “It was a whirlwind Indiana Jones-inspired trip into the Land of the Dragon,” during which they entered the Forbidden City, among many other adventures. The award for this month for covering the most classmates in a trip goes to Bob Ogg. He and Mary tried to escape the cold of Canada by going to Florida in March. The temperatures followed them down South for one of the coldest winters in many years as our many snowbird and resident classmates know. So it was all Bob’s fault. They visited with Tina and Bill Colehower in Boca Grande, ran in to Read Heydt, who is overseeing a major addition to St. Andrews Episcopal Church in town and dined with Lou Gerber at his acclaimed Waterside Café, Harbor Town, South Carolina, which is now managed by Lou’s daughter. Lou has operated the cafe for 24 years.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net


With our 55th reunion just around the corner, your classmates hope that you will make a big effort to attend. The class website is the place to go to review plans and the listing of those who plan to attend, although the list will obviously be ever evolving. The reunion planning committee, under the direction of Donna and John Ferries, has worked hard to have “something for everyone!” 


Joe Koucky was stimulated by one of the last Class Notes to write his “first and probably my only” letter setting forth his activities since graduation. After completing Tuck School in his senior year he went to the University of Michigan Law School. He passed the Illinois Bar on the first try and joined his dad’s office representing clients who were injured on the job. In 1975 he and Peg were married. They have two children: a son who recently married and a daughter who has a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology, working at the Boston Veterans Administration and Boston University.


David Robinson has self-published five books. They include a combined memoir and photo essays of his four trips to Africa (1960) at the University of Ghana; 1963-65 working for Harvard and USAID building a secondary school in Nigeria; his 1998 return to Ghana and his 1999 return to Nigeria. He started photographing while in Nigeria and eventually switched from academics to photography. All his books are available at Blurb.com. You can search the bookstore under his name or see summaries on his website (www.davidrobinsonphotos.com). You will get a great description of David’s approach and see some truly wonderful photos from his 40-plus-year career.


Last fall the New Hampshire Pediatric Society named Bill Boyle as its Retired Pediatrician of the Year. Bill has been a pediatrician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center since 1970. In addition to teaching, lecturing and writing, Bill is active in Hanover, where he was town health officer, director of the Hanover water works and remains the school physician for the Dresden School District.


Wally May reports that Cathy and he spend a lot of time at their lake house in Minnesota with their five grandchildren, plus golfing in the summer and cross-country skiing in the winter. He also plays piano and “makes things in his workshop.”


Doug Wheeler will be associated with the University of New Hampshire for 49 years this year as professor of history emeritus. Katie and he will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary the same month as our 55th reunion. 


Harvey Galper retired in 2012 after a 50-year career as an academic, including a stint on the economics faculty at Dartmouth and at the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury. He then spent 25 years in private practice. It sounds as if retirement is only a word for Harvey, as he continues to work almost full-time at the Urban Institute (District of Columbia), a nonpartisan think tank that investigates and analyzes United States social and economic problems and issues.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net


Haruko and Pete Vultee had a delightful visit with Donna and Kurt Wehbring in Portland, Oregon, where they toured the park commemorating the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Pete will retire shortly from teaching at a community college in Spokane, Washington.


John Greppin and Al Ziegler were able to have a nice Italian meal together when Al visited in Cleveland, Ohio, during a trip to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


Sam Swansen was attending a Delta Upsilon reunion during the Williamsburg, Virginia, mini-reunion and reports that he moved his law firm inside a local Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, law firm, where he continues to do estate planning. He sees this as putting a “safety net” under his clients and himself.


A headline in the Valley News July 14 read “Hanover Man Joins Board of Directors of Hanover Conservancy.” The man is our own Jim Wooster. It stated that Jim (and Betsy) moved to Hanover after his 33-year career with New England Telephone. It adds that since retiring Jim has been involved in many Dartmouth activities and has served on the board of the Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice. He also belongs to the Appalachian Mountain Club’s 4,000 Footer Club and is a section adopter of the Appalachian Trail. It left out that Jim leads the 1959 hikes during mini-reunions.


Pete Schreier and Bob Davidson ’67 organized a Dartmouth club event to recognize the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Alumni from 13 states—from New Hampshire through Illinois down to North Carolina—attended, including Arlene Johnson, Bob Johnson’s widow, and John Burkhardt. More than 500 were in attendance. Pete and Bob received a standing ovation for their organizing abilities. Pete and Margie also visited Jerry Scott on July 4th on Assawoman Bay, New Jersey.


Thanks to the caring of Mark Gates, Al Brown, Bob Helsell, Art Duggan, Mike D’Elia, Cynthia and Dave Marshall and Jack McDonough, the group provided a trip to London for Susan Peterson, Don Peterson’s widow, to visit their only child. 


Art “Spike” Boschen is a part owner in a garbage recycling company in Ensenada, Mexico, where he visits weekly. Attending seminars in the United States allows him to employ the latest technology: Only 8 percent of what is picked up is deposited in the landfill. The remainder gets reduced into “2-inch minus material” that is sold for fuel to a local cement plant. He concludes that our politicians require an “endless permit process” that stifles our ability to recycle efficiently in our country.


Word from Warren Huse is that he is doing well, although trying to counter the return of some weight that he lost after his open-heart surgery in 2011. He is learning a new computer program to paginate his history pages for The Citizen of Laconia (New Hampshire) newspaper.


The next column will focus on our 19 classmates who live outside the United Sates and the circumstances that have them living in eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, France, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Peru.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net


With 11 Class Note columns between this issue and our 55th reunion in June 2014, I decided to audit classmate coverage to see what the potential reporting classmate pool is between now and our 55th. It is large! Of our 570 current classmates who continue to stay connected to the College, this column has reported on 129 or only 23 percent. Please continue to fill out Green Cards, e-mail or send notes to me. Modesty seems to rule in 1959, so please realize we all care about your activities. This column has some limitations on length, so Doug Wise (class website) and Jim Bybee (newsletter) and I coordinate our reporting. Class Notes, of course, allow other classes to keep up with 1959s.


The New York Times business section on May 19 featured a picture of Jim Giddens, MF Global’s trustee and his success at recovering $168 million from a bank, the first payment since the commodity brokerage firm filed for bankruptcy. Is Jim our first front-page classmate picture? Maybe Pete Schreier will convince Jim to be a class agent.


Les Larsen says he sprang to attention while watching Jeopardy and came up with the right answer to the question: Who outfitted the Ivy League through the years? Answer: J. Press. Les still has an “Indian head” tie he purchased from J. Press. Les remembers a full display of these ties at the New York City store way back when. Dick Press will be a contributor to the Ivy style exhibit at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. The exhibit will be open from September 14 through January 5, 2013. Stop by for a memory jog.


Another professional recognition for Bob Josefsberg! Last April he was inducted into the National Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. Bob was honored for contributions to the legal profession—both inside and outside of the courtroom. Most recently he was granted the Ted Klein Special Recognition Award by the Greater Miami Jewish Federation for his work as a committed philanthropist and passionate advocate for the most vulnerable.


Ed Hobbie sent an article from the New York Post (February 8, 2009) titled “Their Very Own Field of Dreams.” See if you remember. In 1960 a DC-3 set down in a snowy Iowa cornfield. Ten Minneapolis Lakers and nine others were on board. All were unscathed. 


Rudy LaRusso missed the flight as he was home nursing an ulcer. The article notes that Rudy played 10 seasons with the Lakers, averaging 15.6 points and 9.4 rebounds (worth tens of millions in today’s NBA) and was 67 years old when he died of Parkinson’s disease in 2004. Ed’s brother, who followed Rudy’s career, sent the article and thought it should go into our class history file. Anyone have that file?


The column has 5,500 words available in the next two years. When you get together with classmates, whether by design or by chance, agree who will contact me, as chance meetings often have “six degrees of separation” stories.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603)-2176; amunro1@comcast.net


Larry Toal once sat on 10 nonprofit boards. He is now chairman emeritus of the Healthcare Chaplaincy (New York City). He chaired the chaplaincy board for eight years. The Healthcare Chaplaincy helps people find meaning and comfort as they cope with life-changing health situations. He still serves on the Big Brothers of New York board, for which he was chairman of the board for a number of years, and has spent 20 years helping the organization. Max Fischer graduated from the NROTC program and spent three years in the Marines in Okinawa. After that tour he earned a law degree at Boston University. In 1967 he re-enlisted with a group of Marine friends whom he served with on the first tour; for the Vietnam War he spent a total of 26 months in the South China Sea and Vietnam. He spent time in the South China Sea and in Vietnam, serving through the TET Offensive. He was in the infantry, but eventually was transferred to Judge Advocate General’s Corps due to his law degree. After leaving the Marines as a major in 1968, Max practiced law for 30 years in Massachusetts, Florida and Texas, where he did a lot of pro bono work for those who could not pay for a lawyer. He was once paid with a pair of goats. For six years he was the Kimble (Texas) County attorney. He lost his wife just before our mini-reunion in Colorado Springs, Colorado, so he could not attend. Max has two daughters and two sons. After nearly 40 years of research, Dick Knutson published the secret of Egyptian wound healing. Egyptians used honey and grease on wounds, killing all bacteria. He and fellow doctors now use three parts confectioners sugar and one part canola oil. (See sugardyne.com for details.) The Hood Museum Quarterly (page 8) shows Joanne Wise, Doug Wise’sspouse,describing how the Wises assembled a collection of Japanese-inspired contemporary prints, drawings and ceramics that they donated to the Hood. Nashville (Tennessee) to Naples (Florida) by bike, 1,132 miles, 21 days riding, four day layovers, 81 total hours in saddle: This was completed by Cindy and John Orcutt. Why? “Because we could.” Memory lane: The Dartmouth, October 20, 1955: “Chances are that every member of the class of ’59 plans to be on the Green this afternoon at 3:30 for the opportunity to shed his beanie after defeating the ’58s in the traditional tug-of-war contest. Immediately after the tug-of-war the ’59s begin construction of biggest, hottest bonfire ever for tomorrow’s Dartmouth Night, Harvard weekend rally.” If we won the tug-of-war we got to toss our beanies on the fire. If we lost we had to wear them until House Party Weekend. We lost, but the football team upset Harvard for the first win under Coach Blackman. Joe Graham, Taylor Tyler and Jim Burke scored to lead our frosh team 20-0 over Harvard’s frosh. Pat Burns, Dave Robinson, Mike Miller and Walt Vincent were elected our freshman class officers.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net


Whit Evans was selected as the 2012 alcalde (honorary mayor) of Sonoma, California. This recognized Whit as the founding president of the Sonoma Valley Fund, a community foundation that partners with 22 local nonprofits to support their development of legacy/endowment programs. He also keeps busy with the Boys and Girls Club. He still has time for golf. He shot his age three times last year, including a 71. He invites classmates who golf to stop by Sonoma, as he “needs retirement income.” 


John Orcutt had his photography in a four-month long exhibit in the legislative council chambers of the Maine State House in Augusta. The photos feature the High Peaks area of western Maine. Cynthia and John have their gallery in Kingfield, Maine (www.schoolhousegallery.com).


Mary and Will Ogg spent last summer getting into new digs in Oakville, Ontario. They did get away in July to visit family on Penobscot Bay and were able to have dinner with Arlyss and Ray Becker on Deer Isle, Maine. Arlyss is very involved with other local artists in displaying their individual works in Deer Isle Village. 


Terry Troy is busier than ever with his apartment investment business and with 15 grandchildren. One of his companies, Elite Destination Homes, a fractional vacation home ownership company, manages homes from Paris to Cabo San Lucas. He also is chairman of the Retreat, a 12-step-based recovery program for alcoholism and addiction that is changing and saving lives.


Les Larsen reports that Bill Brigiani continues as a divorce lawyer in Newark, New Jersey, and attends Rutgers games as well as steeplechase races in Bedminster, New York, in his vintage Cadillac and in appropriate costumes with his gold drinking goblet. He has been pictured in the Newark Star-Ledger and The Wall Street Journal. 


Tom L’Esperance retired from a 30-year career as an insurance agent with AXA Advisors, LLC, in San Diego. In retirement he was a concierge for seven years at a couple of posh resorts in La Costa and La Jolla, California, and is now waiting for wife, Merry, to retire in two years as a speech therapist. He is glad that Dick Hoehn is our Alumni Council representative. He feels that “Dick’s language skills are as precise as his tennis shots were in the last century.” 


Of Howard Greene’s 10 books, his most recent is College Grad Seeks Future: Turning Your Talents, Strengths, and Passions into the Perfect Career (St. Martin’s Press), which aims to guide recent college graduates on career paths. He has also updated the successful The Hidden Ivies: 50 Top Colleges From Amherst to Williams (Harper Collins). 


Wally May “is completely out of work, no job, no consulting and no charitable work” and likes it. He is a golfer and “getting poorer at it by the minute.” Wally can give advice to two new retirees: Stew Economou after running his own law practice in Alexandria, Virginia, and Bob DiMauro after 44 years as a pediatric radiologist at Kapi’olani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176


Bob Worthington completed a film documentary based on his book, Combat Advisor in Vietnam. A chapter, “The Night the Vietcong Stopped the War,” is being published in Vietnam Magazine in April. As an advisor to the South Vietnam Army Bob helped arrange for the Vietcong to stop fighting long enough for an American helicopter to airlift a wounded Vietnam child to safety. Movie clips of the event will be on the magazine’s website.


Bob King has been involved with the Seattle Repertory Theatre as a board member, treasurer, president and chairman. Clearly Bob is a master of many talents.


“Seniors Who Shoot Hoops” (San Francisco Chronicle, January 4) pictures Bill Beshore “dunking” a basketball. He felt he was not getting enough cardio exercise so joined a once-a-week basketball group, bringing back memories of his place on the Dartmouth freshman team. He advises that “nobody will remember the score tomorrow,” so go for it! He also plays on a senior Redwood City (California) softball club so is our athlete of the month!


In attendance at the Princeton football game in New Jersey were Margie and Pete Schreier. Pete had on his 1959 cap, but no other 1959s came up to him. Later at a Dartmouth Club of Delaware event he was chatting with Frank Waldberger, who mentioned he too was at the game.


An unplanned mini-reunion happened in Boca Grande, Florida, when Tina and Bill Colehower and Donna and Tom Margetts went to a theater production and unexpectedly met up with Tom Aley, Paul Clarkin and Read Heydt.


Pam and Bill Long spent last summer in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, playing golf and hiking. Pam reports that the cuisine at Café Diva gets better and better with Chef Katie in the kitchen. Katie is Pam’s daughter.


Donna and Art Wolff spent a wonderful week in Rome as guests of Reginald Bartholomew ’58, former ambassador to Italy. They had not seen each other for 40 years. Art received a call when Reginald read about Art’s activities in our Class Notes. (Another good reason for you to send me items for our Class Notes. One never knows who is reading!)


After moving to Fallbrook, California, “The Avocado Capital of the World,” via other California stops and Norwich, Connecticut, Judy and Steve Plank are loving it. He is active in the Bonsall Rotary Club, she in Newcomers. They do not mind paying the higher taxes, classifying them as the “weather tax,” which they are willing to pay.


Sue and Charlie Pinkerton are completing their fifth year in the Upper Valley, after Charlie’s retirement from the insurance business. Charlie is sharing his business skills as chairman of the local chapter of Upper Valley SCORE. He manages 30 counselors who are experienced business professionals advising small businesses in ways to succeed. He says Ray Becker is involved in the Maine chapter and urges classmates to reach out to their local chapters as it is a rewarding experience. (View score.org). 


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net


Our class will be giving back in another way, as approved at last October’s class meeting, by supporting interns in the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program managed by the Tucker Foundation. This is in addition to our other Tucker program, Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS). Please refer to www.dartmouth.org/classes/59.


John Ferries became chair of The Fells, an historic site in Newbury, New Hampshire, located on the shores of Lake Sunapee. The Fells was the summer home of John Hay, who for our history buffs was the 21-year-old personal secretary of Abraham Lincoln and the secretary of state for President Teddy Roosevelt. Chairman Ferries quickly convinced Bill Colehower to become the development chair and Al Munro to head the governance committee. 


After retiring from sales and finance positions with Chrysler, Wachovia/Wells Fargo and First Colony Life Insurance, Vince Sawyer applied his skills as director of a transitional living program (group home) for homeless alcoholics and drug addicts. He spent nine years of “probably the most fulfilling, stressful and energizing work I have ever done.” Since leaving that position Vince has focused on family time and a number of nonprofits (currently five), with considerable attention on a cardiac rehab program. Vince says: “I am most grateful for the financial help I received from Dartmouth as an undergraduate and am glad to have been able to give back through the College Annual Fund.”


Congratulations to Bill Boyle’s Boyle Fund (at the Vermont Community Foundation) for earning a new grant for “programs supporting pediatric oral health, parenting, nutrition and afterschool care in Vermont and New Hampshire.” The Boyle Fund was created in 2008 to support a community pediatrics program at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth and advocates for family-centered care and administers for chronically ill children and their families.


Paul Stein is currently president of the New Canaan (Connecticut) Senior Men’s Club, an organization of about 475 men more than 55 years old. They meet weekly to hear a speaker of note. An example of the speakers are the president of CBS talking about ways to keep news reports without political bias; an anonymous SEAL team trainer talking about how the SEALs learn their skills; and the head of risk management at IBM. Paul also is operations director of a van service for seniors and the handicapped. He finds both organizations rewarding and volunteers to discuss details with any 1959s who wish to start similar efforts (paul_stein@msn.com). 


With apologies to Jane and Paul Egner, I am late in reporting on their volunteer efforts in hosting young singers for the Houston Grand Opera and an intern in our class project, DPCS. They were with the DPCS intern 10 times, providing transportation, having meals together and celebrating her birthday.


After three years of volunteering, Tom Brackett joined the board of Fairhill Partners, on a 9.5-acre campus in Cleveland, Ohio, which provides direct and ancillary services to adults and their caregivers. I encourage you to view the website (www.fairhillpartners.org).


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net


Pete Klinge’s wife Sandy’s new novel, Infinity of Being in the Beyond, is a saga of people who survive death and find that living on another planet requires them to change their thinking about the meaning of existence. The novel received a 98-percent approval rating on Amazon. After Pete’s professorship in communications at Ithaca College, they retired to St. Augustine, Florida, where they enjoy the fellowship of their church, tennis, dancing, swimming and walking the beach. They have four children and many grandchildren.


Retiring from The Washington Post has not stopped Tom Wilkinson from putting his experiences in print. He produced an article for the newspaper about a group of 70-year-olds, including Tom, who play weekly on a hockey team, The Gerihatricks. The article ran on the front page of the Post’s health section March 12. CBS5 News filmed the team and ran the footage on March 20 emphasizing the health benefits of “continuous movement.”


Anne and Herb Schoenberg met recently in San Diego with June and Mickey Cohen, Marilynand Bob Filderman and Paula and Larry Freidricks while Mickey was down from the Bay Area attending a medical conference. The three Pi Lambda Phi brothers and their spouses had a lively time dining and sharing memories about the good old days. 


The March 18 Sports Illustrated article about the restructuring of the Big East is also a tribute to Dave Gavitt, who “envisioned the phenomenal success of the Big East—and made it a reality—but also recognized that the encroaching influence of big-time football would threaten his creation.”


Majid Tehranian’s passing caused Jon Mandaville to reflect on being one of the few international students in our class. Jon grew up in an oil camp in Saudi Arabia and went to high school in Beirut. The Dartmouth Glee Club and Outing Club helped Jon acclimate to the United States and create strong relationships with many classmates. His college experience led to his career in Middle Eastern history, with graduate work at the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. from Princeton.


Mark Gates has been on the board and secretary of Trout Unlimited for a number of years. When Betsy and he built their log house in Sun Valley, Idaho, they learned to fly-fish; a learning experience that Mark says has never stopped. The sport has taken them around the globe and created a commitment to various environmental groups. Betsy does ask occasionally whether they can take a trip that does not involve fishing.


Dick Liesching was honored at the New York Athletic Club earlier this year as one of seven Dartmouth Rugby Club “Legends.” (See our class website for pictures and details. Will Gray also is pictured.)


Bill Colehower reports that our class again led all classes in having the most classmates supporting the Athletic Sponsors Program that provides funds to bring student athletes to Hanover and helps defray expenses for coaches’ recruiting trips. Bill and Charlie Pinkerton run this highly successful program.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176


Our note about Cliff Eprahim’s acting career reminded Pete Klinge that he and Cliff met on the Dartmouth stage and acquired their Screen Actors Guild cards together. Pete’s career took a different turn than Cliff’s but stayed close to film. He spent many years in advertising at McCann Erickson, The Los Angeles Times, RKO General and Chicago Tribune Broadcasting, followed by a career as a professor teaching television and film.


Good morning, Vietnam! Judy and Alan Hurlburt spent most of February visiting Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. They were amazed at the friendliness of the people, especially in Vietnam. Most of the people are Buddhists who are taught that it is discourteous not to smile and bow when meeting strangers. Alan listed their many highlight sites, which I am passing along to our newsletter editor.


Marianne and Bob Monahan were seen touring the Kennedy Space Center in March. It is another case of the “1959 connection.” Margie and Pete Schreier were doing the same. While Bob and Pete did not know each other in college, they struck up a conversation while waiting for the tour bus and found they are classmates. The Monahans were in the sixth week of a three-month tour of the country. Starting from home in British Columbia, they made their way through the West, came across the Southwest and were heading up through New England to return home across the Northern states.


Our skiing classmate Norrie Nims has stayed where the snow is in Alaska ever since graduation, having grown up in Keene, New Hampshire. Norrie hunts moose and stocks up on salmon. His theater connection was through his deceased wife, Sue, who was an accomplished playwright. Norrie was a founding member of the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the largest in the Pacific Northwest, when he was on the corporate contributions committee at Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Sue had a play selected by the conference. Norrie sees Ginny and Bob Foot every year in Florida when he visits his dad (class of 1935) and his sister.


An article in the opinion page of The New York Times (April 3) caught Les Larsen’s eye and raised a question for Les about our class project, Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS). It made a case that colleges are complicit with corporations in taking advantage of unpaid college interns. He was assured that the DPCS interns are protected by the oversight of the board and the professionals at Tucker Foundation. Besides, each DPCS intern has a Dartmouth alumnus as a mentor. Many 1959s have served in this role. But glad you checked on it, Les!


For Dartmouth sports fanatics, Jim Wooster is performing a great class service. He reports to about 60 of us every week about the varsity and club sports results that do not often make the newspapers outside the Upper Valley. Jim will add you to his reports if you let him know your interest at james.w.wooster@valley.net.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net


Two days a week Dick Jaeger delivers free meals—often with a side of good-natured banter—to the elderly and shut-ins for the Grafton County Senior Citizens Council. The Valley News, the local Upper Valley, New Hampshire, newspaper, quoted Dick as saying: “You like to think you’re making a difference in people’s lives. I get a lot out of this too.”


Activities with educational institutions continue to occupy George Hess’ time. George is chair of the board of the Baltimore Curriculum Project that operates four charter schools with nearly 2,000 students in the Baltimore public city school system. He also chairs the American board of an Israeli organization, Melitz, a pluralistic organization that helps Jews around the world to understand their Judaism through creative educational programs. George is on the boards of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, the Gilman School, Santa’s Helpers Anonymous and the Jewish Federation, all in Baltimore.


Jack Daniels is a full-time mediator and arbitrator for legal disputes after no longer trying legal cases. He is chosen by the contending sides to help resolve their problems. Jack also works with Judicate West, an alternative dispute resolution service.


Tom Bransford has been serving the National Urban Technology Center, New York City, since 1994 when his wife, Pat, founded the organization. The organization addresses the technology gap in underserved communities. Its first project was with six Dartmouth graduates who helped teach 60 at-risk foster children in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. Its good works can be reviewed at www.urbantech.org.


Wayne French asks: Are there other EMTs in our class? Wayne earned his emergency medical technician certificate and served for seven years on the volunteer ambulance squad, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, before moving to New London, New Hampshire. Besides being a crew chief for a team of EMTs, he also served as chair of the board and treasurer.


Karl Holtzschue continues his pioneering work for Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS). He was the founding chair in 1995, continues on the alumni board, and is a founding member of the new DPCS postgraduate program that has placed 14 Dartmouth graduates in the past two years in postgraduate jobs with community service organizations. Karl is area coordinator for New York City and is joined on the N.Y.C. area committee by Larry Toal and Michael Stern. He points out that classmates serving on the DPCS alumni board are Bill Boyle, Janice and Chris Cundey, Howard Greene, Bill Long’s widow Tina, Al Munro, Scott Palmer, Michael Stern, Bill Sweet, Larry Toal,Joanne and Doug Wise and Jim Wooster. He closes by saying: “That is a lot of giving back!”


On the board of the 50-acre M-Bar-C Ranch is Bob King. On Whitby Island, 30 miles from Seattle, the ranch provides an experience for disadvantaged (emotionally, mentally, physically or economically) children. It has horseback rides and good food so they can forget their difficulties. This past year, it served more than 1,600 visitors from the Puget Sound region.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net