Class Note 1958
Issue
You can’t believe everything you read, not even in these Class Notes. Be it known that the correct dates for the 2010 fall mini-reunion are the weekend of October 29-31. For many reasons you won’t want to miss this one. Look for reservation forms around July 1, says mini-reunion co-chair Frank Gould. For starters this year’s Homecoming game on Saturday will be against Harvard—whose strength “naught avails…when they hear our mighty cheers,” according to the old fight song. What’s more we will be gathering at a beautiful, cozy setting. The indefatigable Frank, working with new mini co-chairs Bob Eleveld and Sam Smith, has arranged for 15 rooms at the scenic Breakfast on the Connecticut in Lyme, New Hampshire, and five rooms at the equally worthy Dowd’s Country Inn, also in Lyme. Saturday’s class dinner at BotC will be prepared by innkeeper Donna Andersen, arguably the Upper Valley’s finest chef.
Other traditional mini features—the Dartmouth Night parade, the post-bonfire open house at Lewiston Depot in Norwich and the pregame lunch/band serenade at Dave Bradley’s law offices—will remain unchanged. But the class meeting will be held Friday afternoon instead of Saturday morning, allowing more time for socializing and shopping. I can speak for fellow class officers Gersh Abraham, John Trimble and Andy Thomas in guaranteeing that this year’s meeting will be shorter.
Two springtime alumni events bear noting. Results of the March 10-April 7 voting for two open trustee seats will be announced just a week or so before you receive this magazine. Here’s hoping that you voted, whichever candidates you favored—the two put forth by the Association of Alumni or the lone petition candidate.
The other big springtime event is the Dartmouth College Fund drive, ably led by head agent Jack Bennett. He and his persistent volunteers performed miracles in reaching 2009’s class goal and setting a 51st-year participation record of 74 percent in a deep recession. Our 2010 DCF goals are $275,000 and the 78 percent 52nd-year participation mark of the ’44s. If you’ve kept up with President Kim’s reports on the College’s finances, all available online, you’ll realize that the DCF, tough times or no, needs alumni support more than ever.
Tidbits from classmates: Pete Flowers, retired from practicing family medicine in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, reports that he and Ann now have time to enjoy some long-deferred travel. Henry Hof of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, a student of the stock market, has tipped me onto another shared interest—words—covered engagingly in an e-mail newsletter from the United Kingdom called World Wide Words. “As a fellow English major you may enjoy Michael Quinion’s weekly essays about the wondrous world of words and their origins,” writes Henry. Among classmates enjoying Colorado’s ski slopes this winter was Chik Onodero and his wife, Kay, of Tokyo, who attended the annual CarniVail staged by the Tuck and Dartmouth/alumni at Vail. I look forward to reading Passion for Skiing, the Dartmouth ski book edited by Nick Stevens, which I’m told is absolutely sensational.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org
May - June 2010
You can’t believe everything you read, not even in these Class Notes. Be it known that the correct dates for the 2010 fall mini-reunion are the weekend of October 29-31. For many reasons you won’t want to miss this one. Look for reservation forms around July 1, says mini-reunion co-chair Frank Gould. For starters this year’s Homecoming game on Saturday will be against Harvard—whose strength “naught avails…when they hear our mighty cheers,” according to the old fight song. What’s more we will be gathering at a beautiful, cozy setting. The indefatigable Frank, working with new mini co-chairs Bob Eleveld and Sam Smith, has arranged for 15 rooms at the scenic Breakfast on the Connecticut in Lyme, New Hampshire, and five rooms at the equally worthy Dowd’s Country Inn, also in Lyme. Saturday’s class dinner at BotC will be prepared by innkeeper Donna Andersen, arguably the Upper Valley’s finest chef.
Other traditional mini features—the Dartmouth Night parade, the post-bonfire open house at Lewiston Depot in Norwich and the pregame lunch/band serenade at Dave Bradley’s law offices—will remain unchanged. But the class meeting will be held Friday afternoon instead of Saturday morning, allowing more time for socializing and shopping. I can speak for fellow class officers Gersh Abraham, John Trimble and Andy Thomas in guaranteeing that this year’s meeting will be shorter.
Two springtime alumni events bear noting. Results of the March 10-April 7 voting for two open trustee seats will be announced just a week or so before you receive this magazine. Here’s hoping that you voted, whichever candidates you favored—the two put forth by the Association of Alumni or the lone petition candidate.
The other big springtime event is the Dartmouth College Fund drive, ably led by head agent Jack Bennett. He and his persistent volunteers performed miracles in reaching 2009’s class goal and setting a 51st-year participation record of 74 percent in a deep recession. Our 2010 DCF goals are $275,000 and the 78 percent 52nd-year participation mark of the ’44s. If you’ve kept up with President Kim’s reports on the College’s finances, all available online, you’ll realize that the DCF, tough times or no, needs alumni support more than ever.
Tidbits from classmates: Pete Flowers, retired from practicing family medicine in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, reports that he and Ann now have time to enjoy some long-deferred travel. Henry Hof of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, a student of the stock market, has tipped me onto another shared interest—words—covered engagingly in an e-mail newsletter from the United Kingdom called World Wide Words. “As a fellow English major you may enjoy Michael Quinion’s weekly essays about the wondrous world of words and their origins,” writes Henry. Among classmates enjoying Colorado’s ski slopes this winter was Chik Onodero and his wife, Kay, of Tokyo, who attended the annual CarniVail staged by the Tuck and Dartmouth/alumni at Vail. I look forward to reading Passion for Skiing, the Dartmouth ski book edited by Nick Stevens, which I’m told is absolutely sensational.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org