Class Note 1950
Issue
May - Jun 2017
I recently spoke with John Caldwell, who was featured in the January/February issue of the new UpCountry magazine. The article describes him as “the founding father of Nordic skiing in America.” After Dartmouth John skied on the U.S. Nordic team in the 1952 Olympic Games and coached the U.S. team through four Olympics, 1960-1972. His son, Tim ’76, was a four-time Olympian. His son, Sverre ’77, coached the 1988 U.S. Olympic team and Sverre’s daughter, Sophie, was an Olympian at the Sochi games. I think that having Olympic skiers in three successive generations of the same family is unique. (There may be something to this thing about the granite of New Hampshire turning up in muscles.)
I heard from Joel Leavitt that Frank Harrington passed away on February 4 in Vero Beach, Florida. Joel had taken Frank to lunch every Friday for the past few years during his long illness. Frank was truly a loyal son of Dartmouth.
Jilly and Jack Harned and I will go to Vero in late March to visit Joel and then Joan McIlwain. Jack and I will resume our putting competition from last year, and Joel and I will comprise a new doubles team on the tennis court. If Roger Federer can thrive in his old age, why not us?
Doug Smith reported that Don Hannigan had passed away on Christmas Day 2016. You can read a lovely obituary of a good life that will make you smile at firtionadams.com/notices/Donald-Hannigan.
I have been notified by the College of the passing of classmates Sherman M. Clough Jr., November 12, 2016; George F. Johnson, October 4, 2016; Reynolds W. Smith Jr., November 18, 2016; and James P. Lyons, August 31, 2016.
As a long-retired publisher living under a president who is a purveyor of “alternative facts” who says that “journalists are among the most dishonest people on earth” and who identifies an independent press as “the enemy,” I (along with my three grandchildren and millions of women all over the world) am very nervous. How about you?
—Alex Hoffman, 49 Maple St., Apt. 113, Manchester Center, VT 05255; (802) 362-2486; twinksalex@comcast.net
I heard from Joel Leavitt that Frank Harrington passed away on February 4 in Vero Beach, Florida. Joel had taken Frank to lunch every Friday for the past few years during his long illness. Frank was truly a loyal son of Dartmouth.
Jilly and Jack Harned and I will go to Vero in late March to visit Joel and then Joan McIlwain. Jack and I will resume our putting competition from last year, and Joel and I will comprise a new doubles team on the tennis court. If Roger Federer can thrive in his old age, why not us?
Doug Smith reported that Don Hannigan had passed away on Christmas Day 2016. You can read a lovely obituary of a good life that will make you smile at firtionadams.com/notices/Donald-Hannigan.
I have been notified by the College of the passing of classmates Sherman M. Clough Jr., November 12, 2016; George F. Johnson, October 4, 2016; Reynolds W. Smith Jr., November 18, 2016; and James P. Lyons, August 31, 2016.
As a long-retired publisher living under a president who is a purveyor of “alternative facts” who says that “journalists are among the most dishonest people on earth” and who identifies an independent press as “the enemy,” I (along with my three grandchildren and millions of women all over the world) am very nervous. How about you?
—Alex Hoffman, 49 Maple St., Apt. 113, Manchester Center, VT 05255; (802) 362-2486; twinksalex@comcast.net