Class Note 1958
Issue
March-April 2020
Normally we mention lots of names in this space. This issue spotlights only one, our world-class journalist classmate Bill Hartley.
You’ll remember Bill as president of The Daily D and a familiar campus byline. In December Heather Mallinson emailed that her “beloved Bill” had died of a long, mind-numbing illness in Melbourne, Australia, her hometown. They’d lived there for 15 years after he retired from his remarkable career, and she said it cheered him when she read him news about Dartmouth.
Seattle-born Bill had roamed the girdled earth as foreign correspondent and TV anchorman—“a wanderer, notebook in hand, asking embarrassing questions in Europe, then Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. I was shot at a couple times, fortunately by people who didn’t know one end of a rifle from the other.”
Working for The Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report, he covered 70 countries on six continents, interviewing the likes of Saddam Hussein, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Ferdinand Marcos, and assorted prime ministers of Japan, India, Australia, and Rhodesia—plus heads of many “small nations and boardrooms full of corporate CEOs.” And, oh yes, Audrey Hepburn. He’d interviewed Audrey for his high school newspaper and never quite got over it.
Bill produced our 25th reunion book, “The Greying of the Green,” manually typing every word in that pre-PC era. In New York he switched to TV as a CNN anchor, then in the 1990s moved to CNBC-Asia in Hong Kong, where he met Heather. They came to our 50th together.
When Ralph Manuel asked if he’d edit our 50th reunion book, Bill said, “See if Quickel will do it.” Which I did. But when I asked Bill to put his background to work writing a 50-year history of the world since we’d graduated, he growled a string of expletives—then said okay. Together, he and Heather researched and wrote the book’s masterful, 50-page “A ’58’s History of the World: 1958-2007.”
It took nearly a year, sending 10-year segments piecemeal, but was worth the wait. Haul down your dusty copy of the “The Journey Continues” to reread 50 pages of world-class journalist Bill Hartley at his erudite, entertaining best.
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net
You’ll remember Bill as president of The Daily D and a familiar campus byline. In December Heather Mallinson emailed that her “beloved Bill” had died of a long, mind-numbing illness in Melbourne, Australia, her hometown. They’d lived there for 15 years after he retired from his remarkable career, and she said it cheered him when she read him news about Dartmouth.
Seattle-born Bill had roamed the girdled earth as foreign correspondent and TV anchorman—“a wanderer, notebook in hand, asking embarrassing questions in Europe, then Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. I was shot at a couple times, fortunately by people who didn’t know one end of a rifle from the other.”
Working for The Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report, he covered 70 countries on six continents, interviewing the likes of Saddam Hussein, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Ferdinand Marcos, and assorted prime ministers of Japan, India, Australia, and Rhodesia—plus heads of many “small nations and boardrooms full of corporate CEOs.” And, oh yes, Audrey Hepburn. He’d interviewed Audrey for his high school newspaper and never quite got over it.
Bill produced our 25th reunion book, “The Greying of the Green,” manually typing every word in that pre-PC era. In New York he switched to TV as a CNN anchor, then in the 1990s moved to CNBC-Asia in Hong Kong, where he met Heather. They came to our 50th together.
When Ralph Manuel asked if he’d edit our 50th reunion book, Bill said, “See if Quickel will do it.” Which I did. But when I asked Bill to put his background to work writing a 50-year history of the world since we’d graduated, he growled a string of expletives—then said okay. Together, he and Heather researched and wrote the book’s masterful, 50-page “A ’58’s History of the World: 1958-2007.”
It took nearly a year, sending 10-year segments piecemeal, but was worth the wait. Haul down your dusty copy of the “The Journey Continues” to reread 50 pages of world-class journalist Bill Hartley at his erudite, entertaining best.
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net