Class Note 1954
Sinclair Hitchings, who became keeper of the prints at the Boston Library, retired this past February. During his regime the department’s endowment grew from $30,000 to roughly $10 million, while its holdings grew to include more than 650,000 photos, 135,000 postcards and 100,000 prints, drawings and watercolors, including the single largest public collection of works by Boston artists. In 2006 he started Art In Boston. Its purpose is to study, exhibit, publish and promote the art currently being created in Boston with an emphasis on work by living artists who have ties to Boston. Art In Boston is part a collection of Boston art and part a research library.
The initial Victor C. Mahler 1954 Visiting Architects Lecture was given at Dartmouth in February. The inaugural speaker was J. Meejin Yoon, an award-winning architect and designer who is an associate professor at M.I.T., where she serves as the director of M.I.T’s undergraduate program in architecture.
Dick Page was honored as an inductee of the Stephen F. Mandel ’52 Society at a reception and dinner at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in April. The society recognizes Dartmouth alumni volunteers who provide visionary leadership in raising gifts to the College through the Dartmouth College Fund. Dick was the first ’54 to receive this award. Besides Jane and Dick Page, present were Barbara and Don Berlin, Jean and Bob Adnopoz,Elizabeth and Sheldon Woolf,Lynn and Art Rauch, Marcia and Lyon Greenberg, Norm Veasey, Dick Barker and Tony Kane.
During March Barbara and Don Berlin, Jane and Dick Page and Jane and Bob Buchanan traveled to Havana, Cuba, on a Dartmouth trip with professor Marysa Navarro.
Dick Trowbridge has been a key member of the class’ project committee for many years. This committee is in charge of internships and our athletic sponsorship programs. Dick was the committee’s primary contact at Dartmouth for these programs and a major contributor to their success. He has resigned for health reasons. We take this opportunity to thank him for his good work.
We sadly report the passing of Robert L. Spears, Edward F. Everett and Robert W. Locklin.
—Don Berlin, 7 Hamilton Drive, Washington Valley, Morristown, NJ 07960-3311; (973) 267-8122; berlin1954@aol.com
