Class Note 1956
Issue
March - April 2024
Harry Nutting has sent along the following poem, which considers the spirit of proper tipping.
There is a new practice with customers, a
few,
Who leave tips much larger than
traditionally due.
They’re anonymously given,
And the giver has quickly driven
Away with a good feeling anew.
I received a letter in a format that is ideal for classmate’s use in sending material for this column: career, family, and hobbies or activities. The source of this letter was John B. Gwynn. He writes: “After graduation I spent two years in the Army, mostly in Germany. I then spent 32 years as a U.S. foreign service officer in Colombia, Ecuador, Pakistan, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, plus three assignments in Washington, D.C. My wife and I were married in 1958. We have two daughters and four grandchildren. My principal activity since retirement has been music. I have sung with five choirs and still sing with my church choir. Also, for the past 27 years I have played my guitar and sung gospel music and ‘Golden Oldies’ from the 1950s with a local band at nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and senior citizen clubs in five counties. Our Country Troubadours band has also made three CDs, which we give to the folks in our senior citizens audience.”
Words of the day include “stravaig,” which means to wander around aimlessly. I offer this word for your use when the wife or kids ask you where you have been, and you are hesitant to tell the truth. Another is “heterodox: not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs.” This sums up some political oratory abroad these days.
To provide material for this column, engage artificial intelligence to write 150 words describing your memory of the years at Dartmouth and send it to me. You may learn things you never knew.
With sadness, I report the passing of John “Jack” R. Hubbard Jr.
—Chuck Woodhouse, 29 C Claudette Drive, Milford, MA 01757; (508) 202-2447; kirk8202@gmail.com
There is a new practice with customers, a
few,
Who leave tips much larger than
traditionally due.
They’re anonymously given,
And the giver has quickly driven
Away with a good feeling anew.
I received a letter in a format that is ideal for classmate’s use in sending material for this column: career, family, and hobbies or activities. The source of this letter was John B. Gwynn. He writes: “After graduation I spent two years in the Army, mostly in Germany. I then spent 32 years as a U.S. foreign service officer in Colombia, Ecuador, Pakistan, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, plus three assignments in Washington, D.C. My wife and I were married in 1958. We have two daughters and four grandchildren. My principal activity since retirement has been music. I have sung with five choirs and still sing with my church choir. Also, for the past 27 years I have played my guitar and sung gospel music and ‘Golden Oldies’ from the 1950s with a local band at nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and senior citizen clubs in five counties. Our Country Troubadours band has also made three CDs, which we give to the folks in our senior citizens audience.”
Words of the day include “stravaig,” which means to wander around aimlessly. I offer this word for your use when the wife or kids ask you where you have been, and you are hesitant to tell the truth. Another is “heterodox: not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs.” This sums up some political oratory abroad these days.
To provide material for this column, engage artificial intelligence to write 150 words describing your memory of the years at Dartmouth and send it to me. You may learn things you never knew.
With sadness, I report the passing of John “Jack” R. Hubbard Jr.
—Chuck Woodhouse, 29 C Claudette Drive, Milford, MA 01757; (508) 202-2447; kirk8202@gmail.com