Our class benefits from the efforts of the recently installed webmaster, Peter Knight. He has developed a new enhanced website that can be accessed at http://1962.dartmouth.org. It has a number of new features that are described in a link from that home page under “Class Updates” just below the top of the page. He encourages all classmates and their families to visit the site and to consider making contributions as editors of new pages under the “Health and Nutrition” and “The Future” sections and to locate classmates using the “’62 Around the Globe” page under “Classmates.” There are obits for departed classmates alphabetically in the “In Memoriam” pages, also under “Classmates.” If you have access to an obit for someone who lacks one here, please provide it to Peter and he will upload it to the appropriate page. Enjoy and tell your classmates, family and friends about it.


The class has been notified of the death of Arthur “Jay” Fritz Jr. at his home in San Francisco, California on December 30, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Barbara, three children and seven grandchildren. Trained as a lawyer, Jay joined his father in the international transportation industry in 1966, concentrating on services to customs brokers and freight forwarders. Jay became a leading figure in his line of work before his retirement in 1988. He was generous with his time and energy, doing many good works in his city and church.


If you did not carefully read The Wall Street Journal dated January 27, you missed an interesting and pertinent article on page one. The story described the travails of serving as secretary to Dartmouth’s class of 1935, of which only Edward Gerson (the secretary) and three other classmates are the last survivors. All classes move inexorably from the back pages of DAM toward the position now held by ’35: the oldest Dartmouth class extant. Someday ’62 will occupy that niche but, in the meantime, there are many publication deadlines still to be met. To quote Mr. Gerson: “The Lord will provide the obits, but the news of your lives has to come from you.” Take heed, and act accordingly.


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