Time marches on. It has recently become known that Mike Slive will retire as commissioner of the Southeastern Conference of the NCAA this coming summer, after 12 years leading the league. He was among the earliest leaders to lobby publicly for structural and rules reform that produced recent major changes in college football competition. He has been a strong voice for improved safety in football. Mike is contending with a recurrent health problem and ’62 sends its best wishes for his full recovery.


Our mini-reunion in 2014 coincided with the October Homecoming Weekend. Numerous classmates, spouses, friends and companions attended events that strengthened the good vibes of the occasion. The arrangements were well handled by Mike Schaefer and his capable crew. Even the weather cooperated. Let’s do it all over again next year!


John Buckner attended the mini-reunion. He earlier provided this update on his recent doings. A medical doctor resident in Ossining, New York, John reported: “I am alive and kicking. I am still doing a part-time office practice. I started my 70th year by rowing a full marathon on a Concept 2 machine (thanks to rowing in my freshman year) and I expect to do one during my 75th year coming up.” His youngest son lives and works in Australia; his older son is in California and “does sound” for the Hollywood Bowl and the opera house. John closed by saying, “I feel very grateful for my Dartmouth experience and Al Houser was one of the persons who befriended me early on.”


Richard Hannah provided this report on the September 4, 2014, gathering of ’62s at the memorial service for Tom Cutter in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Attending classmates were Jeff Brown, Paul Weinberg, John Walters, Mike Bliss, Bob Needham, Tom Brooks, Bob Sprafkin and Gordy McKean with his wife, Pat. Richard remarked, “It was a lovely service in a magnificent church that reminded some of us of a large Rollins Chapel.” Later a large group of family and friends gathered for lunch. “It was described as a bereavement gathering but the stories about Tom’s big smile, welcoming persona and colorful escapades at the Dartmouth table weren’t tearful. The officiating cleric came over to cheerily greet us. ‘This must be the Dartmouth table,’ he said.” It was a mournful September day, “but it turned out to be a poignant gathering of old and new friends—gathering, reminiscing and sharing—bonded by our years together a long time ago at Dartmouth. Not a bad sendoff for a friend and classmate, Charles Tom Cutter.”


In closing, a note from Steve Reid: “Planned gifts to Dartmouth affiliated graduate schools—Tuck, Thayer and the Medical School (Geisel)—all earn membership in the Bartlett Tower Society.”


—Denny Barnes, 17007 Barn Ridge Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20906; (301) 460-4523; dnbarnes62@verizon.net