Class Note 1962

As previously announced, our class 80th birthday celebration in San Antonio, Texas, will take place from April 26 to 30, 2020. You can reserve your space at $1,499 per person by calling Collette Tours at (800) 581-8942 and referencing our booking number, 943762. A deposit of $250 per person is required to book the tour. Given our age, you are also encouraged to take the trip insurance for a reasonable $99 per person. For more information, please contact ’62 tripmeister Tom Komarek at tckomarek@aol.com or visit our class home page, http://1962.dartmouth.org.

Reminder: Our annual mini-reunion in Hanover will be October 4-6.

Apropos our class website, be sure to check in often, as our award-winning digital content manager, Peter Knight, updates it frequently with such items as Al Huck’s latest class newsletter, photos, and reports of classmates getting together. He follows impromptu get-togethers such as my visit with Peter Knight and Zaida in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in February; Susan and Peter Brink’s visit to our home in Galveston, Texas, last April; and the micro-reunion at Alan Rapoport’s home in Woodside, California, last March that included Phil Meyer, Chuck Preuss, and Sam Anderson. He also reports on regularly scheduled gatherings, such as the North Shore group meeting at the Sylvan St. Grille in Peabody, Massachusetts, attended by regulars Paul Weinberg, John Wilkinson, Joel Monell, Gary Spiess, Richard Hannah, David French, George Freedman, and Bob Needham. The website also includes discussions about health and nutrition issues we face and, for those interested in the latest deliberations and decisions by the class executive committee, the secretary’s minutes by yours truly. You may be interested in the latest decision, to suspend the collection of class dues indefinitely, thanks to an abundance of funds in the class bank account! In addition, Peter also maintains a lively class Facebook page you can view at “Dartmouth Class of 1962.”

Sadly, I must report the death of David Laing, who died peacefully March 17 at his home in Maine with his wife, Margaret, at his side after a long battle with cancer. His obituary can be found on the class website.

—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com