Class Note 1957
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In earlier days Clark and Happy Griffiths were members of the Dartmouth ski patrol; in fact, Happy was the first female member. Clark was also a member of the DOC directorate as an undergraduate. With his help, here are updates from some classmates who were active in the DOC, in part to celebrate its 100th anniversary and, more specifically, because the Ledyard Canoe Club’s new facility will be called the Class of 1957 Boathouse.
After retiring as president and CEO of the Piedmont Environmental Council, a nine-county membership organization in Virginia, Bob Dennis continues to do the same work gratis. As a result largely of his efforts 28,000 acres in Rappahannock County are protected through the voluntary promotion of conservation easements.
Henry Crommelin, who was one of those undergrads tamping down the ski jump landing area, is still skiing with his family of four children and 13 grandchildren. He occasionally hears from Ken Brasted and Dave Tyree.
Dick Perkins remembers “jamming eight of us into a car and driving to Waterville Valley, climbing and packing up the mountain and then racing down.” He has a fond memory of working with Ross McKenna on a handle for a double-bitted axe that he still uses.
Concluding 34 years of ecological research in the Arctic, John Hobbie will retire at the end of the year after he finishes editing a book titled Warming Arctic: Ecological Consequences for Tundra, Stream and Lakes. He’ll continue to work and write at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Up in Maine Charlie White’s interest in the Arctic has persisted since his trip there in 1956. He’s a docent at the Bowdoin College Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and also at the Pejepscot Historical Society 1850s house.
Other notes: Last November the College recognized the class for its pursuit of excellence in the mini-reunions at Arizona State and Cooperstown. The planners’ names were in the newsletter, but the one who invests mini-reunions with even more variety, vitality and depth than before is Bruce Bernstein. I believe the Elizabethan equivalent of “round of snaps” is “Huzzah!”
After 40 years of training Labrador retrievers John Stouffer qualified his present dog, Odd Man Rush, for both the National Amateur and the National Open championships of the American Kennel Club and was a finalist in the National Amateur.
Dan Searby reports that he and Larry and Trish Silberman attended a reception at a new Washington, D.C., charter elementary school dedicated to Ricky Silberman, Larry’s first wife, who died just before the 50th reunion. She had served on the district’s equal opportunity commission for a number of years.
Even more than the rest of us, lovers of the outdoors remember that it’s now “schlump” season in Hanover. Two questions: Is there a formal spelling that includes or omits the “c”; do current undergraduates still use the term? I’ll gladly receive all answers, from the speculative to the sarcastic.
—Michael Lasser, 164 New Wickham Drive, Penfield, NY 14526; rhythm2@frontiernet.net
Mar - Apr 2010
In earlier days Clark and Happy Griffiths were members of the Dartmouth ski patrol; in fact, Happy was the first female member. Clark was also a member of the DOC directorate as an undergraduate. With his help, here are updates from some classmates who were active in the DOC, in part to celebrate its 100th anniversary and, more specifically, because the Ledyard Canoe Club’s new facility will be called the Class of 1957 Boathouse.
After retiring as president and CEO of the Piedmont Environmental Council, a nine-county membership organization in Virginia, Bob Dennis continues to do the same work gratis. As a result largely of his efforts 28,000 acres in Rappahannock County are protected through the voluntary promotion of conservation easements.
Henry Crommelin, who was one of those undergrads tamping down the ski jump landing area, is still skiing with his family of four children and 13 grandchildren. He occasionally hears from Ken Brasted and Dave Tyree.
Dick Perkins remembers “jamming eight of us into a car and driving to Waterville Valley, climbing and packing up the mountain and then racing down.” He has a fond memory of working with Ross McKenna on a handle for a double-bitted axe that he still uses.
Concluding 34 years of ecological research in the Arctic, John Hobbie will retire at the end of the year after he finishes editing a book titled Warming Arctic: Ecological Consequences for Tundra, Stream and Lakes. He’ll continue to work and write at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Up in Maine Charlie White’s interest in the Arctic has persisted since his trip there in 1956. He’s a docent at the Bowdoin College Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and also at the Pejepscot Historical Society 1850s house.
Other notes: Last November the College recognized the class for its pursuit of excellence in the mini-reunions at Arizona State and Cooperstown. The planners’ names were in the newsletter, but the one who invests mini-reunions with even more variety, vitality and depth than before is Bruce Bernstein. I believe the Elizabethan equivalent of “round of snaps” is “Huzzah!”
After 40 years of training Labrador retrievers John Stouffer qualified his present dog, Odd Man Rush, for both the National Amateur and the National Open championships of the American Kennel Club and was a finalist in the National Amateur.
Dan Searby reports that he and Larry and Trish Silberman attended a reception at a new Washington, D.C., charter elementary school dedicated to Ricky Silberman, Larry’s first wife, who died just before the 50th reunion. She had served on the district’s equal opportunity commission for a number of years.
Even more than the rest of us, lovers of the outdoors remember that it’s now “schlump” season in Hanover. Two questions: Is there a formal spelling that includes or omits the “c”; do current undergraduates still use the term? I’ll gladly receive all answers, from the speculative to the sarcastic.
—Michael Lasser, 164 New Wickham Drive, Penfield, NY 14526; rhythm2@frontiernet.net