Class Note 1960
Issue
Jan - Feb 2018
Homecoming meant class meeting, where we decided to raise $500,000 for the Alumni Fund, purchase art from the students for the dorm art program and continue to welcome Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program’s worker bees who help high schoolers learn about college.
Then your correspondent and Peter Crumbine headed south to Newport, Rhode Island, to revel in high society with Bob Armknecht, Don Belcher, Frank Bell, Jim Burns, Bill Danforth, Bill Langley and Jim Nolan,along with assorted wives and girlfriends, to celebrate victory over Yale at Alumni Field. We sailed on the True Love’sbig-sister ship, gasped at the mansions and dined in splendor. It was a good exercise in helping decide to take in Key West, Florida, next February.
On a sadder note, Eric Sailer let us know his wife, Joanne, had been living with cancer for some months. She has passed away, and those of us who had the privilege of knowing Joanne will remember her as a warm, caring, delightful person.
But all is not lost: John Goyette wants to inform us of an “old age” achievement. Last week he and Margie successfully concluded their 13-year quest to climb to the summits of all 48 of New Hampshire’s 4,000-foot mountains. The tallest is Mount Washington at 6,288 feet. They concluded with Mount Adams, second highest, and Mount Isolation, the most distant. Adams was tough with steep terrain, high wind gusts and fog. Isolation was a very long 15-hour day on the trail. The awards ceremony for the Appalachian Mountain Club 4,000-footers club will be April 21. Hurrah!
Peter Klarén ’60, professor emeritus at George Washington University, and Sara Castro-Klarén, professor at Johns Hopkins University (and former professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth from 1970 to 1982), were each awarded the Orden del Sol del Perú by the Peruvian government. The medals, the highest honor bestowed by the nation, are in recognition of Peter’s scholarship on the history and politics of Peru and Sara’s scholarship on the literature and culture of Peru. The Order of the Sun was founded by Gen. José de San Martín in 1821 shortly after the declaration of Peru’s independence.
—John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St., Rutland, VT 05701, (802)775 3716; john00033@comcast.net
Then your correspondent and Peter Crumbine headed south to Newport, Rhode Island, to revel in high society with Bob Armknecht, Don Belcher, Frank Bell, Jim Burns, Bill Danforth, Bill Langley and Jim Nolan,along with assorted wives and girlfriends, to celebrate victory over Yale at Alumni Field. We sailed on the True Love’sbig-sister ship, gasped at the mansions and dined in splendor. It was a good exercise in helping decide to take in Key West, Florida, next February.
On a sadder note, Eric Sailer let us know his wife, Joanne, had been living with cancer for some months. She has passed away, and those of us who had the privilege of knowing Joanne will remember her as a warm, caring, delightful person.
But all is not lost: John Goyette wants to inform us of an “old age” achievement. Last week he and Margie successfully concluded their 13-year quest to climb to the summits of all 48 of New Hampshire’s 4,000-foot mountains. The tallest is Mount Washington at 6,288 feet. They concluded with Mount Adams, second highest, and Mount Isolation, the most distant. Adams was tough with steep terrain, high wind gusts and fog. Isolation was a very long 15-hour day on the trail. The awards ceremony for the Appalachian Mountain Club 4,000-footers club will be April 21. Hurrah!
Peter Klarén ’60, professor emeritus at George Washington University, and Sara Castro-Klarén, professor at Johns Hopkins University (and former professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth from 1970 to 1982), were each awarded the Orden del Sol del Perú by the Peruvian government. The medals, the highest honor bestowed by the nation, are in recognition of Peter’s scholarship on the history and politics of Peru and Sara’s scholarship on the literature and culture of Peru. The Order of the Sun was founded by Gen. José de San Martín in 1821 shortly after the declaration of Peru’s independence.
—John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St., Rutland, VT 05701, (802)775 3716; john00033@comcast.net