Class Note 1960
Issue
January-February 2022
Bob Hager, esteemed reunion chair, is our guest columnist.
It was our third attempt at a 60th reunion, after postponements due to the pandemic. This time it worked. Ninety of us, counting spouses, gathered in Hanover during Homecoming Weekend. What a time we had! At a nostalgia night, Art LaFrance confessed to being the one who, in the 3 a.m. darkness of an October day our freshman year, burned a 20-yard-wide “D” in the turf of Harvard stadium. Jack Patterson and Frank Currin described how, sophomore year, they donned fake Dartmouth band uniforms to take the field at halftime and assault the huge Harvard drum. Bob Boye detailed his role in unleashing a baked potato the length of Thayer Dining Hall, which inspired a gigantic food fight while our stern dining supervisor “Miss Gill” (retired Marine Corps Women’s Reserve Maj. Jeanette Gill) looked on helplessly. The stories were interspersed with slides documenting our undergrad years in an after-dinner program at today’s version of the dining hall, where we rubbed elbows with students and filled our trays with steamed clams, sushi, and other sophisticated cuisine. What a contrast to the “mystery meat” served in our day. On class of ’60 campus tours, Susan and Joel Martin, Marilyn and Jim Gallagher, Heather and Rory Mullet, and Malora and Bill Gundy were awed by the huge construction project at the tech-heavy West End. Bobbie and Craig Jameson, Ray Martinelli, and Lindy, and Dorothy and Neil Koreman peered at the renovation of Dartmouth Hall. John Bundy and Annalee, Steve Gell and Shelia, and Ruth and Ken Johansen walked over the artificial turf of the new, 80-yard-long indoor practice fieldhouse. Other highlights included our traditional pregame tailgate with grillmeister Jim Adler’s bratwurst and fixin’s prepared by 1960 wives; “Dartmouth’s thrilling, come-from-behind overtime victory over Yale”; a catch-up panel on campus growth and reports from the deans of students and admissions; a solemn memorial service conducted by the Rev. Jim Pollard; and, finally, an emotional sendoff with traditional College songs from the Dartmouth Aires—reminding us that after 60-plus years, “Her spell on us remains.”
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com
It was our third attempt at a 60th reunion, after postponements due to the pandemic. This time it worked. Ninety of us, counting spouses, gathered in Hanover during Homecoming Weekend. What a time we had! At a nostalgia night, Art LaFrance confessed to being the one who, in the 3 a.m. darkness of an October day our freshman year, burned a 20-yard-wide “D” in the turf of Harvard stadium. Jack Patterson and Frank Currin described how, sophomore year, they donned fake Dartmouth band uniforms to take the field at halftime and assault the huge Harvard drum. Bob Boye detailed his role in unleashing a baked potato the length of Thayer Dining Hall, which inspired a gigantic food fight while our stern dining supervisor “Miss Gill” (retired Marine Corps Women’s Reserve Maj. Jeanette Gill) looked on helplessly. The stories were interspersed with slides documenting our undergrad years in an after-dinner program at today’s version of the dining hall, where we rubbed elbows with students and filled our trays with steamed clams, sushi, and other sophisticated cuisine. What a contrast to the “mystery meat” served in our day. On class of ’60 campus tours, Susan and Joel Martin, Marilyn and Jim Gallagher, Heather and Rory Mullet, and Malora and Bill Gundy were awed by the huge construction project at the tech-heavy West End. Bobbie and Craig Jameson, Ray Martinelli, and Lindy, and Dorothy and Neil Koreman peered at the renovation of Dartmouth Hall. John Bundy and Annalee, Steve Gell and Shelia, and Ruth and Ken Johansen walked over the artificial turf of the new, 80-yard-long indoor practice fieldhouse. Other highlights included our traditional pregame tailgate with grillmeister Jim Adler’s bratwurst and fixin’s prepared by 1960 wives; “Dartmouth’s thrilling, come-from-behind overtime victory over Yale”; a catch-up panel on campus growth and reports from the deans of students and admissions; a solemn memorial service conducted by the Rev. Jim Pollard; and, finally, an emotional sendoff with traditional College songs from the Dartmouth Aires—reminding us that after 60-plus years, “Her spell on us remains.”
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com