Class Note 1960
Issue
Nov - Dec 2015
More sad news: Tom Huyck and Frank Loeb have passed away since we last wrote.
Jim Adler reports some impressive news: “This is to fill you in on the final results for our 55th reunion Dartmouth College Fund. Participation amounted to 72.8 percent (426 donors), the highest participation rate of any reunion-year class, breaking the 55th reunion record held by the class of ’59 by 10 percentage points. Revenue of $1,207,229 broke the 55th reunion dollar record held by the class of ’53 by an amazing 21 percent. With 73 of us contributing $2,500 or more, we had the highest percentage of 1769 Society membership fund-wide at 12.48 percent. In short, we had the kind of remarkable year we and the College have come to expect. Thank you for being the classmates who made it all possible.”
Bob Colyer wrote: “I quit running in 2013 after 60 years and I am now a Masters swimming competitor. I hit .600 in a softball league at 76, and my wife and I still tent-camp. Our camping in 45 states since we retired in 2004 included Storrs Pond for my 50th reunion. What’s more important is that I don’t consider myself an aberration among my classmates, so many of whom are active as hikers and skiers and in racquet and ball sports, among other activities. It is my hope (no, my expectation) that the 65th reunion of the class of 1960 will not only more than double 1950’s meager participation, but also spread itself over the entire range of the College’s facilities.”
Not much news this go-around, but we are practicing for the 350-word limit!
—John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St., Rutland, VT 05701; (802) 775 3716; jmm00033@comcast.net
Jim Adler reports some impressive news: “This is to fill you in on the final results for our 55th reunion Dartmouth College Fund. Participation amounted to 72.8 percent (426 donors), the highest participation rate of any reunion-year class, breaking the 55th reunion record held by the class of ’59 by 10 percentage points. Revenue of $1,207,229 broke the 55th reunion dollar record held by the class of ’53 by an amazing 21 percent. With 73 of us contributing $2,500 or more, we had the highest percentage of 1769 Society membership fund-wide at 12.48 percent. In short, we had the kind of remarkable year we and the College have come to expect. Thank you for being the classmates who made it all possible.”
Bob Colyer wrote: “I quit running in 2013 after 60 years and I am now a Masters swimming competitor. I hit .600 in a softball league at 76, and my wife and I still tent-camp. Our camping in 45 states since we retired in 2004 included Storrs Pond for my 50th reunion. What’s more important is that I don’t consider myself an aberration among my classmates, so many of whom are active as hikers and skiers and in racquet and ball sports, among other activities. It is my hope (no, my expectation) that the 65th reunion of the class of 1960 will not only more than double 1950’s meager participation, but also spread itself over the entire range of the College’s facilities.”
Not much news this go-around, but we are practicing for the 350-word limit!
—John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St., Rutland, VT 05701; (802) 775 3716; jmm00033@comcast.net