Class Note 1954
The Dartmouth College Fund report shows the class of ’54 with the highest participation of all classes listed: 42.9 percent. From Robert Ceplikas ’78, deputy director of athletics: “Shel and Dan, I just received a copy of the paperwork committing the class of ’54 to an endowment fund that will essentially continue your generous support of our athletic sponsor program in perpetuity. That’s phenomenal! Please accept our heartfelt thanks for leading this effort and to your many classmates. They sure don’t call it ‘the great class of 1954’ for nothing! You’ve already collected $95,000 in pledges! And it’s wonderful that you’re continuing to shoot for $100,000. All the best.” Our president came up with a terrific idea: “It has been a very long time since all of us did the same thing, like going to Doc Pollard’s smut class in our freshman year or pulling on a rope line in a tug of war with the ’53s or ‘Great Issues’ in our senior year. Now we are all octogenarians, prime targets for the coronavirus, and hunkered down in our homes waiting for it to go away. If there was ever a time that our motto ‘Stay Connected’ speaks to us, it is now. Here is what I am asking you to do: Take out your 65th reunion class directory (if you can’t find yours, email me at swoolf1060@comcast.net and I’ll forward you one) and call a few old friends you haven’t spoken to in a while. Tell them that this is a connection call not a collection call and it has been a while since you have had a visit and touched base. Have a chat, share memories, and some laughs. Explain that the only thing the class is asking is that each person called follows up in a similar fashion by calling a few of his classmate friends asking each to do the same. Our sympathies go out to the families of Seaver Peters, Frank Van Aalst, William Gardner, John Pierce,and Richard Pearl.
—Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; (201) 933-4102; wayne@dartmouthgraphics.com
