A pall of sadness hung over the class as we learned our beloved dean of the College, Thad Seymour, died on October 26 at age 91. Our hearts go out to Polly and the Seymour family, extending to the fourth generation and including two great-grandkids. Webmaster Peter Knight has assembled a fitting tribute section for the class website under “Classmates” at 1962.dartmouth.org, including a fulsome obituary, photos, and fond remembrances by many of us whose lives “Dad Thad” influenced immeasurably for the better. Send remembrances and photos to dartmouth62webmaster@gmail.com.

Classmates witnessing Dartmouth’s 27-10 trouncing of Princeton at Yankee Stadium on November 9, 2019, included Jim Biggs, Candy and Carl Funke, Judy and Gordy Aydelott, John Knight, John Walters, and president Barry Alperin. The rest of us were glued to our television sets. Peter Norstrand wondered if the victory would produce a Thayer food fight redux, but ever-penetrating thinker Jim Blair demurred: “But maybe the Thayer debauch was at least in part attributed to the 1958 Princeton game sealing Dartmouth’s first Ivy championship ever, now not such a rare event.”

Peter Norstrand retired in 2011 after a lengthy career as a lawyer and later a founding principal of AEW Capital Management, eventually accumulating $16 billion under management. During the last 10 years of his career, as deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts Construction and Real Estate Agency, he was responsible for developing thousands of acres and millions of square feet of surplus state property. He and wife of 26 years, Katherine Tallman, now live in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, where Peter serves as treasurer and president of the board of Brookline Community Mental Health Center and the Brookline Teen Center.

Sad to report the passing of Robert J. Barton on May 20, 2018. You will find his obituary on the class website.

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