Classmates joined ’62s in a June Zoom session dealing with dementia and Alzheimer’s as explained by Dr. Daniel Stadler, director of geriatrics at DHMC. Although the prognosis is poor and unrelenting, the consensus was to “keep exercising.” It was uplifting to see onscreen faces and home environments of Bruce Ducker, Jay Booker, Mal Churchill, Peter Crumbine, Dick Chase, Bill Gundy, Al Shaver, Wayne Givens, Haley Fromholz, Bill Davidson, Russ Ingersoll, Gary Kanady, Walt Freedman, Jon Tuerk, David Sammons, and Ken Johansen. Our class online forum discussions, “Climate Change” and “Defending Taiwan,” drew eight participants and included some testy comments from Bob Irvine, Dick Ossen, John Omaha, Steve Gell, and Joe McHugh. Enthusiasm then waned, and we shall see if additional topics will be posted at www.dartmouth60.org. After retirement Bob Messner became a historian, focusing on the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela (“Braddock’s Defeat”) in the French and Indian War. Believing too little attention had been paid to this battle, Bob decided to see if an appropriate historical site could be created at the battle site. He collected historical artifacts and paintings of the battle and raised money to create Braddock’s Battlefield History Center, which opened to the public in 2012 (www.braddocksbattlefield.com). Bob’s advancing years and declining health became personal limitations and in 2019 he donated the history center to Fort Ligonier, which now operates it. Our Class of 1960 Curatorial Fellowship recently awarded to Mikaila Ng ’22 was established in 2014 to enable a student to curate exhibitions in the student-run art gallery in the Black Family Visual Arts Center. This year Mikaila will curate, coordinate, and oversee four to six exhibitions of Dartmouth students in the gallery. This involves soliciting artwork, curating work, installing and deinstalling exhibitions, preparing labels, writing publicity materials, and organizing receptions. With Rick Roesch as our liaison, we hope to meet Mikaila at Homecoming. Give a rouse or send a note to graduated ’60 scholar James Yeagley ’21 (james.n.yeagley.21@dartmouth.edu), who expressed sincere gratitude for our funding his education and departed Hanover to search for work in the social-impact sector, preferably at a nonprofit or advocacy group near N.Y.C.

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