Class Note 1959
Issue
It is mid-August as I write these notes for the November/December issue: hard to believe that many of you will be reading them with snow on the ground!
Continuing reports on our classmates’ involvement with film and theater: Goody Gilman reports that daughter Gayle has been doing documentaries for many years in New York City, London and Santa Monica. After having twins in her early 40s she now works for the History Channel, most recently on Ice Road Truckers. “It is a job to die for,” she says.
In mid-July Stuart Mackler returned from his second tour in Haiti with a surgical group from Norfolk, Virginia. He worked at a hospital at an orphanage—Love a Child—30 kilometers east of Port au Prince. Many surgeries and skin grafts were completed in hot and exhausting conditions, but Stu has a sense of rewarding results. Because of the continuing tremendous need, he plans to return in the near future. Stu practiced medicine for 44 years after graduation.
Joe Nadeau and wife Cathy were in Indonesia on the Fourth of July: “No red, white and blue banners, no Boston Pops, no fireworks. But we can still feel the wonder of our country and its influence on this new democracy. What we notice most is the affection people here have for Americans.” Cathy and Joe flew to Sulawesi, Kalimantan and Sumatra, where their team conducted assessments of the equivalent of New Hampshire Superior Courts. They talked with judges, staff and attorneys to gather information that will help them develop training and mentoring, administrative practices and cases management techniques. After Boston University Law School Joe practiced law, including 37 years on the bench, where he was active in judicial education and reform programs in many parts of the world.
“Every so often a fella makes a good decision,” is how John Hessler explains an event on a Lake Michigan beach: When he left the family lakeside house to go for a walk, he chose to wear his green cap with the lone pine tree on the front. He crossed paths with a man half his age, and found he had bumped into the son of Roli Kolman ’60, who was actually in the house next to John’s! The Dartmouth rugby club captains of 1959 and 1960 suddenly found themselves in the same place at the same time during the Fourth of July weekend. John advises: Whenever traveling, be sure to wear your Dartmouth colors!
Sig Ginsburg’s first retirement was in 2002 as senior vice president of finance and business development at the American Museum of Natural History. In 2003 he joined DHR International as executive vice president and director of its nonprofit practice, and has just retired a second time to enjoy New York City, travel to children and grandchildren in London and California and, whoops! do some pro bono work for New York City in management consulting. Well, Sig almost made it to full retirement!
—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net
Nov - Dec 2010
It is mid-August as I write these notes for the November/December issue: hard to believe that many of you will be reading them with snow on the ground!
Continuing reports on our classmates’ involvement with film and theater: Goody Gilman reports that daughter Gayle has been doing documentaries for many years in New York City, London and Santa Monica. After having twins in her early 40s she now works for the History Channel, most recently on Ice Road Truckers. “It is a job to die for,” she says.
In mid-July Stuart Mackler returned from his second tour in Haiti with a surgical group from Norfolk, Virginia. He worked at a hospital at an orphanage—Love a Child—30 kilometers east of Port au Prince. Many surgeries and skin grafts were completed in hot and exhausting conditions, but Stu has a sense of rewarding results. Because of the continuing tremendous need, he plans to return in the near future. Stu practiced medicine for 44 years after graduation.
Joe Nadeau and wife Cathy were in Indonesia on the Fourth of July: “No red, white and blue banners, no Boston Pops, no fireworks. But we can still feel the wonder of our country and its influence on this new democracy. What we notice most is the affection people here have for Americans.” Cathy and Joe flew to Sulawesi, Kalimantan and Sumatra, where their team conducted assessments of the equivalent of New Hampshire Superior Courts. They talked with judges, staff and attorneys to gather information that will help them develop training and mentoring, administrative practices and cases management techniques. After Boston University Law School Joe practiced law, including 37 years on the bench, where he was active in judicial education and reform programs in many parts of the world.
“Every so often a fella makes a good decision,” is how John Hessler explains an event on a Lake Michigan beach: When he left the family lakeside house to go for a walk, he chose to wear his green cap with the lone pine tree on the front. He crossed paths with a man half his age, and found he had bumped into the son of Roli Kolman ’60, who was actually in the house next to John’s! The Dartmouth rugby club captains of 1959 and 1960 suddenly found themselves in the same place at the same time during the Fourth of July weekend. John advises: Whenever traveling, be sure to wear your Dartmouth colors!
Sig Ginsburg’s first retirement was in 2002 as senior vice president of finance and business development at the American Museum of Natural History. In 2003 he joined DHR International as executive vice president and director of its nonprofit practice, and has just retired a second time to enjoy New York City, travel to children and grandchildren in London and California and, whoops! do some pro bono work for New York City in management consulting. Well, Sig almost made it to full retirement!
—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net