Class Note 1950
Issue
Sept - Oct 2015
Do you remember 1955—the year of our fifth reunion? I do. Back on the Hanover Plain for the first time since graduation. Familiar-but-as-yet-unknown faces, new wives, old friends, still learning to fly in the outside world. Most of us not knowing where or how to get to wherever we were going. Then the 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 35th, 40th, 45th, 50th, 55th, 60th and this year—the 65th. Wow!
Those of us who remain now know where we’ve been and how we got to where we are. And those who are lucky enough will meet at the Hanover Inn on the Hanover Plain on September 25 to celebrate 65 years in the outside world, which we know far better than we did in 1955.
Bob Kirby and the ever-active, effervescent Tommy Ruggles have put together a carefully planned program for us. There is a paltry $50 head tax plus free rooms at the Hanover Inn and a banquet, both on the College, and a football game. Tommy has put together a seminar at which Sandy McCulloch, Joe Medlicott, Joel Leavitt and, we hope, Bob Kilmarx will speak on topics of interest. Currently 40 men and 20 women have signed up. Most activities will be in the vicinity of the inn and provisions for assistance in getting around for those who need it will be available. Tommy and his band will host a tea dance Saturday afternoon and there will be a rendition of Dartmouth songs. It promises to be a grand 65th reunion. Tommy and Janot, by the way, have recently moved into Concord (Massachusetts) Green, a condominium project originally built by Frank Harrington.
Ben Shaver’s widow, Joy, writes with the happy news that their granddaughter, Megan Noelle Knight Madara, has graduated from Penn’s veterinary school with a Phi Zeta award (the veterinary equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa). Megan’s father is John Knight ’74. Joy notes that Megan, like Ben, is a redhead.
Randi and I enjoyed brunch on the sunlit deck of the Dockside Grille with Bob and Joan McIlwain just before the McIlwains headed north for the summer. Onlookers might have speculated as to whether it would be Bob or me who would have come in last in the 40-yard dash. I think it would have been me.
—Nev Chamberlain, 1835 North Garden Grove Circle, Vero Beach, FL 32962; (772) 569-2893; ranevero03@gmail.com
Those of us who remain now know where we’ve been and how we got to where we are. And those who are lucky enough will meet at the Hanover Inn on the Hanover Plain on September 25 to celebrate 65 years in the outside world, which we know far better than we did in 1955.
Bob Kirby and the ever-active, effervescent Tommy Ruggles have put together a carefully planned program for us. There is a paltry $50 head tax plus free rooms at the Hanover Inn and a banquet, both on the College, and a football game. Tommy has put together a seminar at which Sandy McCulloch, Joe Medlicott, Joel Leavitt and, we hope, Bob Kilmarx will speak on topics of interest. Currently 40 men and 20 women have signed up. Most activities will be in the vicinity of the inn and provisions for assistance in getting around for those who need it will be available. Tommy and his band will host a tea dance Saturday afternoon and there will be a rendition of Dartmouth songs. It promises to be a grand 65th reunion. Tommy and Janot, by the way, have recently moved into Concord (Massachusetts) Green, a condominium project originally built by Frank Harrington.
Ben Shaver’s widow, Joy, writes with the happy news that their granddaughter, Megan Noelle Knight Madara, has graduated from Penn’s veterinary school with a Phi Zeta award (the veterinary equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa). Megan’s father is John Knight ’74. Joy notes that Megan, like Ben, is a redhead.
Randi and I enjoyed brunch on the sunlit deck of the Dockside Grille with Bob and Joan McIlwain just before the McIlwains headed north for the summer. Onlookers might have speculated as to whether it would be Bob or me who would have come in last in the 40-yard dash. I think it would have been me.
—Nev Chamberlain, 1835 North Garden Grove Circle, Vero Beach, FL 32962; (772) 569-2893; ranevero03@gmail.com