Class Note 1960

Kudos to Walt Freedman and Karen Harrison for endowing a scholarship for first-generation students transitioning to business careers. After many occupations Walt and his wife are in a position to give back, and they’ve applied their entrepreneurial model to their philanthropy, with a particular emphasis on education. See more at www.campaign.tuck.dartmouth.edu/bridge-builders.

Pete Crumbine is retired but still actively volunteers in Greenwich, Connecticut. Health-wise he has had episodic ataxia for 17 years now, which affects his coordination and speech, so Bea drives or he takes Uber. Their five grandchildren give them no end of pleasure. Eldest Olivia is a junior at Harvard and treasurer of the Kennedy School Institute of Politics. Peter enjoys circulating jokes and political emails to friends and family. He welcomes email at pcrumbine@gmail.com.

Dartmouth Undying, the book published as part of the 250th anniversary, can be purchased through the Dartmouth Co-op. Jim Adler has a copy and recommends it as a very handsome and well-written “coffee table” history—lots of great photos and illustrations and all kinds of interesting information.

Our botany professor Carl Louis “Weeds” Wilson would have been proud. Bob Conklin left Dartmouth before Christmas vacation of our sophomore year, volunteered for the draft, and spent two years in the Army. He returned in January 1960, when the rest of us were seniors preparing to graduate. After law school at the University of California, Berkeley, he returned to Portland, Oregon, to practice litigation. Twenty years later he made a career change, taking over a fledgling book publishing company from a client who had had a heart attack shortly after starting it. Bob ran and built Timber Press, specializing in high-end books on plants, horticulture, natural history, gardening, and related subjects, for the next 20 years. In 2006 he sold the company to Workman Publishing, which continues to operate it in Portland. Wilson coauthored Botany in 1952. This text has been used by more than 200 colleges.

We’re settled in La Quinta, California. Does anyone have interest in starting the Dartmouth Club of the Desert? I’m still receiving suggestions for our 85th. Think positively. Reminder: 60th reunion June 15-18, 2020.

—Sidney Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; sidgoldman@gmail.com