Class Note 1957
Issue
March-April 2025
Editor’s Note: Secretary John Cusick wrote this column before his death September 25, 2024.
Have you read about the Lucy missions, NASA’s explorative missions to asteroids? Lucy was the skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 by Don Johnson. You might know he is the founder of the Institute of Human Origins, but we all should proudly know that Jay Greene, along with Laura and Herb Roskind, serve on the institute’s board.
Bruce Bernstein introduced us to Ben Joel ’27, supported by our Dickey Center Fund and one of 85 to 100 student internships facilitated by the Dickey Center. This past summer Ben visited and recorded his Dartmouth peers in Costa Rica, Kenya, Kosovo, and Vietnam. Colin Calloway, the John Sloan Dickey 3rd Century Professor in the Social Sciences, once said, “Make room for multiple perspectives on difficult issues.” Ben’s reporting matters. (See the January/February issue for more.)
Meanwhile, new input on Lloyd Weinreb places him quite high on our 1957 bookshelf author count, with many editions of his Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice, then Natural Law and Justice, Oedipus at Fenway Park, and finally Erma Elephant and the Really Big Hole—something for everyone.
Following up on a query from a Chicago man asking whether our Wendell Smith was the author of what sounded like a rather weighty tome, I emailedWendell hoping to add him as the 20th author on our ’57 bookshelf. I guessed that Wendell of Polestar could very well be the author so was somewhat disappointed with his “nope.” Oh well, maybe some of you are hiding behind pseudonyms and are really authors of…rom-coms, mysteries, cookbooks? All are welcome.
Clearly ’57s love their books…and their music. So, as the winter solstice turns the corner, it’s hard not to hear Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson reminding us that, “the days dwindle down to a precious few,” and Willie Nelson crooning, “and now the purple dusk of twilight time steals across the meadows of my heart.” Looking back to these Class Notes of four years ago, the height of the pandemic, we also took advice from Johnny Mercer: “Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative and don’t mess with Mr. In-Between.”
Have you read about the Lucy missions, NASA’s explorative missions to asteroids? Lucy was the skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 by Don Johnson. You might know he is the founder of the Institute of Human Origins, but we all should proudly know that Jay Greene, along with Laura and Herb Roskind, serve on the institute’s board.
Bruce Bernstein introduced us to Ben Joel ’27, supported by our Dickey Center Fund and one of 85 to 100 student internships facilitated by the Dickey Center. This past summer Ben visited and recorded his Dartmouth peers in Costa Rica, Kenya, Kosovo, and Vietnam. Colin Calloway, the John Sloan Dickey 3rd Century Professor in the Social Sciences, once said, “Make room for multiple perspectives on difficult issues.” Ben’s reporting matters. (See the January/February issue for more.)
Meanwhile, new input on Lloyd Weinreb places him quite high on our 1957 bookshelf author count, with many editions of his Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice, then Natural Law and Justice, Oedipus at Fenway Park, and finally Erma Elephant and the Really Big Hole—something for everyone.
Following up on a query from a Chicago man asking whether our Wendell Smith was the author of what sounded like a rather weighty tome, I emailedWendell hoping to add him as the 20th author on our ’57 bookshelf. I guessed that Wendell of Polestar could very well be the author so was somewhat disappointed with his “nope.” Oh well, maybe some of you are hiding behind pseudonyms and are really authors of…rom-coms, mysteries, cookbooks? All are welcome.
Clearly ’57s love their books…and their music. So, as the winter solstice turns the corner, it’s hard not to hear Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson reminding us that, “the days dwindle down to a precious few,” and Willie Nelson crooning, “and now the purple dusk of twilight time steals across the meadows of my heart.” Looking back to these Class Notes of four years ago, the height of the pandemic, we also took advice from Johnny Mercer: “Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative and don’t mess with Mr. In-Between.”