Class Note 1962
Issue
Jul - Aug 2017
Depending on when you read this, class officer nominations for five-year terms are about to be or just were voted on at our 55th reunion. Let’s catch up with the nominees.
Barry Alperin (president) practiced corporate and securities law in New York for 20 years then joined his client, Hasbro, the toy company, as a senior executive and ultimately vice chair, for 11 years. Retiring early, he continues a third career as a director of public and private companies. His many volunteer activities have included senior leadership positions with the Jewish Museum, the American Jewish Committee, a New York City prep school, the toy industry association, Dartmouth’s Tucker Foundation and the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Barry has been involved in class fundraising since 1962. He and his wife (of 54 years), Mimi, have two children and five grandchildren.
Gordy Aydelott (vice president) has lived in Katonah, New York, the past 40 years with Judy, his wife of 54 years, whom he met on a blind date Green Key Weekend of our senior year. After Dartmouth, Navy service and two years in business he went to law school. Judy later joined him in a practice specializing in medical malpractice defense work. In 2000 they merged their firm into a larger one and Gordy stepped back from most of his legal work. He did not, however, step back from his involvement in the tennis world, where he competes nationally and captains his Eastern 75 & Over Atlantic Coast Cup team. Active with his church choir and with Rotary, Gordy also has worked with fundraising for the class and the College.
After graduate school at Stanford David Smith (secretary) worked in retail and wholesale investment. Thereafter for 25 years he wrote about economics, finance and geopolitics in subscription newsletters. With Elizabeth Fagan, M.D., his wife of 16 years, David retired to Galveston Island, Texas, in 2015. David and Elizabeth travel quite a bit—to Argentina (his birthplace), Uruguay, England (Elizabeth’s birthplace), Europe, the Balkans, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia and, more recently, long road trips across the United States. Asia is next on their bucket list. He continues to pursue a lifelong hobby playing jazz on keyboards with occasional forays into photography and painting.
Ann and Charlie Balch (treasurer) are living in Virginia about 25 miles west of Washington, D.C. They also have a place near the Shenandoah Park where the family gathers and explores “real country.” They have children and grandchildren in Virginia, Oregon and Florida. Charlie is retired from consulting, primarily for banks. He is active with the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and the Bull Run Civil War Round Table. His interest in local Civil War history has him writing books and working on a DVD. Charlie has been class and reunion treasurer since 1997.
Please google “Moving Dartmouth Forward” and read about President Hanlon’s vision of a Dartmouth living up to its enormous potential.
The mini-reunion is in Hanover October 6-8; details at 1962.dartmouth.org.
—Paul Weinberg, 39 Abbott St., Beverly, MA 01915-5221; (978) 922-4963; pweinmass@aol.com
Barry Alperin (president) practiced corporate and securities law in New York for 20 years then joined his client, Hasbro, the toy company, as a senior executive and ultimately vice chair, for 11 years. Retiring early, he continues a third career as a director of public and private companies. His many volunteer activities have included senior leadership positions with the Jewish Museum, the American Jewish Committee, a New York City prep school, the toy industry association, Dartmouth’s Tucker Foundation and the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Barry has been involved in class fundraising since 1962. He and his wife (of 54 years), Mimi, have two children and five grandchildren.
Gordy Aydelott (vice president) has lived in Katonah, New York, the past 40 years with Judy, his wife of 54 years, whom he met on a blind date Green Key Weekend of our senior year. After Dartmouth, Navy service and two years in business he went to law school. Judy later joined him in a practice specializing in medical malpractice defense work. In 2000 they merged their firm into a larger one and Gordy stepped back from most of his legal work. He did not, however, step back from his involvement in the tennis world, where he competes nationally and captains his Eastern 75 & Over Atlantic Coast Cup team. Active with his church choir and with Rotary, Gordy also has worked with fundraising for the class and the College.
After graduate school at Stanford David Smith (secretary) worked in retail and wholesale investment. Thereafter for 25 years he wrote about economics, finance and geopolitics in subscription newsletters. With Elizabeth Fagan, M.D., his wife of 16 years, David retired to Galveston Island, Texas, in 2015. David and Elizabeth travel quite a bit—to Argentina (his birthplace), Uruguay, England (Elizabeth’s birthplace), Europe, the Balkans, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia and, more recently, long road trips across the United States. Asia is next on their bucket list. He continues to pursue a lifelong hobby playing jazz on keyboards with occasional forays into photography and painting.
Ann and Charlie Balch (treasurer) are living in Virginia about 25 miles west of Washington, D.C. They also have a place near the Shenandoah Park where the family gathers and explores “real country.” They have children and grandchildren in Virginia, Oregon and Florida. Charlie is retired from consulting, primarily for banks. He is active with the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and the Bull Run Civil War Round Table. His interest in local Civil War history has him writing books and working on a DVD. Charlie has been class and reunion treasurer since 1997.
Please google “Moving Dartmouth Forward” and read about President Hanlon’s vision of a Dartmouth living up to its enormous potential.
The mini-reunion is in Hanover October 6-8; details at 1962.dartmouth.org.
—Paul Weinberg, 39 Abbott St., Beverly, MA 01915-5221; (978) 922-4963; pweinmass@aol.com