Class of 1969
Class Notes
View All Notes for Class of 1969The College cruelly slashed our Class Notes word limit to 350 owing to our advanced age and numbers. Ouch! Visit the lively website (dartmouth69.org) and read The ’69 Times that comes via snailmail. Get news, photos, scheduled Zoom meetings, and more. Both are award winning and updated often. Register now for “ComingHome” in October!
You responded with zest, touching sentimentality, and humor to our query about Freshman Week. Here are a few excerpts. Look for more in the newsletter.
“I remember my mother crying as she got in the car,” a classmate writes, “as they prepared to drive back to Minnesota after delivering me to Wheeler Hall.”
“I don’t remember much more than the shock of seeing the prison cells they called dorm rooms in the Choates.”
“Now they call it ‘new student orientation,’ undoubtedly because a student-faculty working group met for eight months to produce that imaginative, groundbreaking designation.”
“My wallet was stolen at Port Authority, leaving me without ID or money when I stepped off the bus at the corner of Main and Wheelock.”
“There went my hope for a social life.”
“I remember my first beer on frat row. I was enchanted by New England, autumn colors, and foods I’d never tasted: pizza, clam chowder, split pea soup, and yogurt.”
“I remember being worried about being inadequately prepared for whatever we were supposed to present about the book that we were required to read during the summer (by Ortega y Gasset?).”
“I remember not understanding the fun and ‘gear’ associated with wearing the freshman beanie and being at the beck and call of upperclassmen. I remember discovering that no one was in charge and that I had more freedom than I knew what to do with.”
“I now think about my parents and what my going to college (the first in an extended family) meant to them, especially my father. I can still see him standing in my room. I didn’t miss him when he left then but just now I do.”
Call my cell or email me with your tall tales and old-timer reminiscences. And news!
—John “Tex” Talmadge, 3519 Brookline Lane, Farmers Branch, TX 75234; (214) 673-9250; johntalmadgemd@gmail.com
Obituaries
View All Obituaries for Class of 1969Paul Kevin Tuhus ’69
Paul Kevin Tuhus ’69—world traveler, gifted raconteur, collector of odd facts and obituaries of even odder individuals, sworn enemy of all vegetables, and fiercely loyal Dartmouth alum—passed away peacefully in Hanover on November
Jon Stuart Swenson ’69
Jon Stuart Swenson ’69 passed away in his sleep at home on January 6, 2015. He was born to Olaf and Grace Swenson in Minneapolis on March 20, 1947. Hockey was his sport, and he continued to play at Dartmouth.
David Clark Jacobsen ’69
David Clark Jacobsen ’69, M.D., of Needham, Massachusetts, died on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2012, from complications of treatments for esophageal cancer first diagnosed in 1996.
