Class Note 1960
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Dartmouth actually beat Yale at football. Confidence was great; the line to buy tickets was half a block long at Homecoming kick-off time. Your correspondent retired to the inn’s new bar to a warm seat instead. Don’t miss the new bar. It’s the hot spot in town. Class President Hasenkamp called in sick for the class meeting, having undergone a 17-hour operation, partially performed by a robot, for a singularly nasty under-the-tongue tumor. He’s on the mend. VP Dudley Smith conducted the session with grace and alacrity. Treasurer Bill Moorman delightedly announced the class was solvent and might want to consider some adjustments to some class undertakings. To wit: We support four class scholars, one in each class. Do we want to add a fifth? Three of the four appeared to brief us on their progress. Take my word: They are worth it and their thanks are sincere. Bob Kenerson continues to watch over this liaison with the College. Check the Musings book, page 309, for more details. The dorm art purchase program is a winner with mobs at the Hop to watch the awards. This scheme where we pay students cash for their works and display them (the art, not the students) in the dorms is believed to be unique in college-land. Then something happened that makes you sit up and say, “Did you see that?” Sort of like one of physics professor Sears’ demonstrations lo these 56 years ago in our room at 104 Wilder. It seems the class gave money to the John Sloan Dickey Foundation to send an intern to South Korea to organize the files they had of the letters of one Homer B. Hulbert, class of 1884. Big deal, you aver. Well, yes, it is! Grab your Musings book and discover the connection to our own Bruce Hulbert, Homer’s grandson and U.S. Navy captain (retired), on page 139. The emperor of Korea in the 1880s wrote the U.S. State Department asking for an envoy to brief the royals on the Western world, especially the United States. Homer was dispatched. He stayed for some 20 years, inventing an alphabet to improve literacy, establishing a nationwide educational system that reveres its founder to this day to the extent that every high school in the country has Homer’s photo and story on its walls. He received the country’s equivalent of the American Medal of Freedom. The coincidences are fascinating in this story. Karl Schutz ’14, the intern sent abroad recently, is a fraternity brother of Bruce. Homer and Bruce, of course, are direct descendants of Eleazer Wheelock. Karl’s parents sent a letter of thanks with a contribution enclosed to the College and John Sloan Dickey Foundation, which in turn thanks us, the class of 1960. It is mere chance that Homer Hulbert was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, founded in 1842, as is your secretary. Your contributions to the class, as distinct from those to the Alumni Fund, are carefully watched over to effect benefit to students as directly as possible. —John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St., 14, Rutland, VT 05701; jmm00033@comcast.net
Jan - Feb 2014
Dartmouth actually beat Yale at football. Confidence was great; the line to buy tickets was half a block long at Homecoming kick-off time. Your correspondent retired to the inn’s new bar to a warm seat instead. Don’t miss the new bar. It’s the hot spot in town. Class President Hasenkamp called in sick for the class meeting, having undergone a 17-hour operation, partially performed by a robot, for a singularly nasty under-the-tongue tumor. He’s on the mend. VP Dudley Smith conducted the session with grace and alacrity. Treasurer Bill Moorman delightedly announced the class was solvent and might want to consider some adjustments to some class undertakings. To wit: We support four class scholars, one in each class. Do we want to add a fifth? Three of the four appeared to brief us on their progress. Take my word: They are worth it and their thanks are sincere. Bob Kenerson continues to watch over this liaison with the College. Check the Musings book, page 309, for more details. The dorm art purchase program is a winner with mobs at the Hop to watch the awards. This scheme where we pay students cash for their works and display them (the art, not the students) in the dorms is believed to be unique in college-land. Then something happened that makes you sit up and say, “Did you see that?” Sort of like one of physics professor Sears’ demonstrations lo these 56 years ago in our room at 104 Wilder. It seems the class gave money to the John Sloan Dickey Foundation to send an intern to South Korea to organize the files they had of the letters of one Homer B. Hulbert, class of 1884. Big deal, you aver. Well, yes, it is! Grab your Musings book and discover the connection to our own Bruce Hulbert, Homer’s grandson and U.S. Navy captain (retired), on page 139. The emperor of Korea in the 1880s wrote the U.S. State Department asking for an envoy to brief the royals on the Western world, especially the United States. Homer was dispatched. He stayed for some 20 years, inventing an alphabet to improve literacy, establishing a nationwide educational system that reveres its founder to this day to the extent that every high school in the country has Homer’s photo and story on its walls. He received the country’s equivalent of the American Medal of Freedom. The coincidences are fascinating in this story. Karl Schutz ’14, the intern sent abroad recently, is a fraternity brother of Bruce. Homer and Bruce, of course, are direct descendants of Eleazer Wheelock. Karl’s parents sent a letter of thanks with a contribution enclosed to the College and John Sloan Dickey Foundation, which in turn thanks us, the class of 1960. It is mere chance that Homer Hulbert was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, founded in 1842, as is your secretary. Your contributions to the class, as distinct from those to the Alumni Fund, are carefully watched over to effect benefit to students as directly as possible. —John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St., 14, Rutland, VT 05701; jmm00033@comcast.net