Class Note 1962
Issue
Jan - Feb 2018
Thanks to Mike Schaefer, Heide Bruegmann and Irwin Kramer for their superb organization of the annual class mini-reunion during Homecoming week in October, attended by 26 classmates plus spouses. In addition to the traditional parade, pep rally, bonfire, Friday pizza and beer, Saturday tailgate, football (last-seconds victory over Yale, making it 5-0 so far!), many of us attended a moving lecture by President Emeritus Jim Wright on his latest book, Enduring Vietnam. This year’s Class of 1962 Faculty Fellow, Dr. Zenovia Toloudi, assistant professor of architecture, presented her latest work during the formal dinner at Dowds’. Our new president, Barry Alperin, presided over the class meeting, the minutes of which can be found on Peter Knight’s extraordinary class website (1962.dartmouth.org). (See also “Dartmouth Class of 1962” Facebook page.)
Before the mini Peter Knight and Zaida hosted their annual nano-reunion at his Deer Isle, Maine, cabin on Penobscot Sound. In attendance: Bill Carpenter and Donna Gold (who after 27 years of blissful cohabitation finally tied the knot!), Dick and Sue Maynard, my wife, Elizabeth, and myself. Absent: David Laing, recovering from recent surgery.
Passing through Boston on our way to the reunions, Elizabeth and I met Alan and Lisa Dynner for lunch. I’m pleased to report Alan is looking well, continuing his steady and encouraging progress overcoming his health challenges reported in the last issue of Class Notes.
Kudos to Gerald “Jerry” Cohen on the publication of his Origin of Kibosh: Routledge Studies in Etymology. The book treats the expression “put the kibosh on,” whose origin has long been mysterious, and develops and defends the suggestion that it derives from “kurbash” (a fearsome Mideastern whip made of hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide).
Oliver Larmi reports joining a player in“taking a knee,”hand on heart,and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during the playing of the anthem at recent Penn-Columbia rugby match, where he served as “touch judge.”
Frank Kehl, noted anti-war activist in the 1960s, leads an insightful discussion of the PBS documentary The Vietnam War on the “Great Issues” listserv. Contact Dan Tompkins (pericles@temple.edu) to join this lively forum.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com
Before the mini Peter Knight and Zaida hosted their annual nano-reunion at his Deer Isle, Maine, cabin on Penobscot Sound. In attendance: Bill Carpenter and Donna Gold (who after 27 years of blissful cohabitation finally tied the knot!), Dick and Sue Maynard, my wife, Elizabeth, and myself. Absent: David Laing, recovering from recent surgery.
Passing through Boston on our way to the reunions, Elizabeth and I met Alan and Lisa Dynner for lunch. I’m pleased to report Alan is looking well, continuing his steady and encouraging progress overcoming his health challenges reported in the last issue of Class Notes.
Kudos to Gerald “Jerry” Cohen on the publication of his Origin of Kibosh: Routledge Studies in Etymology. The book treats the expression “put the kibosh on,” whose origin has long been mysterious, and develops and defends the suggestion that it derives from “kurbash” (a fearsome Mideastern whip made of hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide).
Oliver Larmi reports joining a player in“taking a knee,”hand on heart,and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during the playing of the anthem at recent Penn-Columbia rugby match, where he served as “touch judge.”
Frank Kehl, noted anti-war activist in the 1960s, leads an insightful discussion of the PBS documentary The Vietnam War on the “Great Issues” listserv. Contact Dan Tompkins (pericles@temple.edu) to join this lively forum.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com