Class Note 1957
Issue
Jan - Feb 2019
Bruce Sloane has been busy working to elect a Democrat in Virginia’s Fifth District, but still found time to join our celebrated authors, Mike Lasser and Chris Wren, by issuing a new book. Bruce has published two, in fact: an e-book about his experiences receiving a cochlear implant and Tales of Shirt Tail Hollow, both available through Amazon.
By the time you read this, Dartmouth will be celebrating its 250th anniversary. It puts our relatively recent 1957 into perspective, for sure. Remembering John Sloan Dickey’s promise—“There is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings cannot fix”—leads me once again to our class website, www.class-57@listserv dartmouth.edu, managed by Adam Block. I have encouraged you to sign on in the last two columns. I do so again today. The website is a kind of mini “Great Issues” course in itself, with passionate expressions of all that is dear and important to us. These guys are not always on the same side of an issue, but I urge you to tune in and join your classmates daring to be better and hoping to fix the world.
And speaking of “Great Issues,” you’ll remember that our class of 1957 endowment fund is being mirrored by the class of 1982, extending our commitment another 25 years. Well that mirroring has now been replicated by the class of 2007. That’s three classes, each 25 years apart. Tom Macy and Mike Smith met with the leadership of the 1982 and 2007 classes to assure that these three funds will keep the world’s great issues a priority for Dartmouth at least 50 years into the future, long after we’re gone. John Sloan Dickey would be proud.
It’s fun to know just how personal and meaningful the 1957-1982 connection really is. Fourteen of our classmates had children in Dartmouth’s class of 1982: Don Burkhardt, Tom Donahoe, Grover Farrish, Jim Howe, Byron Krantz, Bill Newman, Bob Ohl, Mal Robinson, Al Rollins, Wendell Smith, Dick Sunderland, Mike Tompkins, Tom Watt, and Chuck Winslow.
Sincere wishes for a great and happy new year to all.
—John W. Cusick, 251 Sabal Palm Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@aol.com
By the time you read this, Dartmouth will be celebrating its 250th anniversary. It puts our relatively recent 1957 into perspective, for sure. Remembering John Sloan Dickey’s promise—“There is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings cannot fix”—leads me once again to our class website, www.class-57@listserv dartmouth.edu, managed by Adam Block. I have encouraged you to sign on in the last two columns. I do so again today. The website is a kind of mini “Great Issues” course in itself, with passionate expressions of all that is dear and important to us. These guys are not always on the same side of an issue, but I urge you to tune in and join your classmates daring to be better and hoping to fix the world.
And speaking of “Great Issues,” you’ll remember that our class of 1957 endowment fund is being mirrored by the class of 1982, extending our commitment another 25 years. Well that mirroring has now been replicated by the class of 2007. That’s three classes, each 25 years apart. Tom Macy and Mike Smith met with the leadership of the 1982 and 2007 classes to assure that these three funds will keep the world’s great issues a priority for Dartmouth at least 50 years into the future, long after we’re gone. John Sloan Dickey would be proud.
It’s fun to know just how personal and meaningful the 1957-1982 connection really is. Fourteen of our classmates had children in Dartmouth’s class of 1982: Don Burkhardt, Tom Donahoe, Grover Farrish, Jim Howe, Byron Krantz, Bill Newman, Bob Ohl, Mal Robinson, Al Rollins, Wendell Smith, Dick Sunderland, Mike Tompkins, Tom Watt, and Chuck Winslow.
Sincere wishes for a great and happy new year to all.
—John W. Cusick, 251 Sabal Palm Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@aol.com