Class of 1966

I received terrific responses to a “What’s up?” email sent to a few classmates. Top line info follows, with much more on each classmate in the class newsletter.

Author and writing professor Geoff Huck is working with the Toronto Rotary Club to fund the teaching of the Indigenous Dixhsa language to younger generations of the Zapotec peoples of Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico, who have largely abandoned their grandparents’ language in favor of Spanish. After the “No Kings” march in Alameda, California, this June consulting hydrogeologist Fred Hoffman “grabbed my French horn and joined my brass quintet for two sets at the annual Carnivorous Plant Festival.” Fred’s now learning Taiko drumming, and he and wife, Rose, planned to camp this summer on the eastern slope of the Sierras. After 40 years teaching at Brandeis University, Gary Jefferson has transitioned to Carl Marks Professor of Trade and Finance, emeritus. Gary, a specialist in the Chinese economy, will continue “to focus on my current research passions: economics, technology, and the natural sciences.”

Sandy, Colorado, retired architect Ed Jereb got in 37 days of skiing last winter at nearby Alta, where he’s old enough to ski for free. He’s spent 56 summers at Atlantic Beach in East Hampton, New York, all with wife Paulette and many with Dartmouth daughters Margot ’92 and Justine ’94.

Retired college American literature professor Thornton Jordan has been working to resurrect Historic Westville, a pre-industrial Southern working village with interpreters and craftsman in Columbus, Georgia, that’s been around for 50-plus years. It closed during Covid. Latest from Thornton: “Historic Westville plans to reopen this fall.” Former IBM system engineer and computer consultant Jim Hourdequin and Mary split their time between Vero Beach, Florida, and Hartford, Connecticut. “We recently have become active in democracy action and local peaceful protests in both Florida and Connecticut,” Jim writes, “that we never expected we’d need to be doing in our later years!” Our sympathies to the families and friends of retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. John Garrison and New Orleans radiologist James Keating, and New Hampshire lawyer Dick Krans, who have recently passed. More on each at dartmouth.66.org or the online alumni magazine.

Our 60th reunion is June 15-17, 2026, in Hanover. Buckle up!

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com