“To whom are we supposed to e-mail Class Notes?” Butch Pendergast asked newsletter editor John Murphy in a June Sound and Fury item about Butch hiring Minxie and Jim Fanin to help rehab the Pendergast family burial ground in Durham, New Hampshire.


The buck stops right here, Butch! 


This bimonthly DAM column comprises the 1958 Class Notes. And, believe me, its author would be eternally grateful if you and fellow ’58s would flood his e-mail and snail-mail inboxes with class news and views. Send your stuff to the addresses footnoted below—even if it’s just a sentence or two to bring us up-to-date. I know from editing The Journey Continues for our 50th that guys really love to read about each other, all the more so with passing years. And in this alumni magazine format, our Class Notes are also read by adjoining classes who shared our Hanover experience. 


Frank Gould reports that 31 classmates and spouses attended the early June annual ’58 luncheon at the Norwich Inn, drawing the likes of Scottie and Walter Vail, John Trimble, Mel Alperin and John Murphy from as far as southern New England. Also present were ever-faithful widows Marcia Armstrong, Sheila Kabat, Jane Yusen and Susan Williamson and daughter Debbie. The nonstop chatter ceased only when Doug Fusonie recounted his experiences as an Army surgeon in Vietnam caring for both military and civilian wounded, including Vietcong. Mini-reunion impresario Frank’s next production will be the fall mini, moved from late October to September 28-30 this year, when the Big Green will play Penn and the weather should be less iffy. 


Bob Downey, spreading his ample talents beyond the College and the class, was honored at a dinner June 7 in Washington, D.C., with the Keystone Founders Award for his many years of service to the Keystone Center, a nonprofit devoted to high-level problem-solving and consensus-building across a broad spectrum of public, private and civic sectors. 


Mel Alperin, our class gift planning chair, reports that 41 classmates are now members of the Bartlett Tower Society. His goal is 58 by the time we celebrate our 55th reunion next June 10-13, in the peaceful Monday to Thursday after Commencement in Hanover. You’ll be hearing more about that soon from reunion chair Larry Weltin, including a post-reunion sojourn to the Trapp Family Lodge at Stowe, Vermont. Larry Hampton and Helga assure me they will attend from their Algarve home in southern Portugal.


For fascinating Dartmouth reading, I recommend Dartmouth at War, a 448-page soft cover collection of 108 sketches by members of the class of 1942, 91 percent of whom served in WW II. Published privately in 2011, the book was taken “on tour” to San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and New York this year, all profits going to the College. Steve ’82 particularly liked the piece titled “All We Did Was Blow Up Bridges.” Order at Amazon.com using keyword “Leo F. Caproni Jr.,” the ’42 editor whose own contribution is “How My Co-Pilot Saved My Life.” 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@usinvestmentreport.com