Class Note 1962
Issue
January-February 2021
Coping with Covid-19, continued. Dick Zartler checks in from Garland, Texas: “Fortunately I have been able to stay a little busy with online classes, both giving and taking, mostly with various environmental (but not tree-hugging) groups to which I belong: Texas Master Naturalist, Native Plant Society, Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, and West Texas Geology. The U.S. Tennis Association has also opened up tennis leagues under strict guidelines, so I get some exercise outdoors with socially distancing friends a couple of times a week. I do, however, miss the after-match world problem-solving discussions. I fear this will be the norm for quite a while.”
From Louisville, Kentucky, Fairleigh Lussky recommends Quartet, “a perfectly delightful movie found on Netflix. It is set in a retirement home for musicians in an English countryside. Beautiful photography, wonderful actors, no angst, just pure enjoyment.”
U.S. Navy Capt. Wendell Kjos after 51 (!) years of distinguished service as a Navy lawyer retired to Oakton, Virginia, with Nina, his wife of 52 years. Wendell finished his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Minnesota. He served in a mind-boggling series of assignments, including assistant legal advisor and legislative assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the immediate offices of Gen. Jones and Gen. Vessey, responsible for all international law as well as use of force. At one point Wendell was leading multiple cases totaling 80 percent of the Navy’s potential litigation liability. The class Facebook page contains a full description of his remarkable career and numerous awards.
Class Zoom sessions and lively political discussions on the G.I. listserv keep us in contact and engaged. To join the discussion, contact Dan Tompkins at pericles@temple.edu. We also stay in touch on Facebook (“Dartmouth Class of 1962”). From there you can follow links to the Facebook pages of 92 active members. To join contact digital content manager Peter Knight at peter@petertknight.com.
I regret to report the deaths of Dennis E. Niewoehner, M.D., on August 31, 2020, in Edina, Minnesota, and Edward A. Peterson of Hilton Head, South Carolina, on September 2, 2020. Obituaries are posted to the class website.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com
From Louisville, Kentucky, Fairleigh Lussky recommends Quartet, “a perfectly delightful movie found on Netflix. It is set in a retirement home for musicians in an English countryside. Beautiful photography, wonderful actors, no angst, just pure enjoyment.”
U.S. Navy Capt. Wendell Kjos after 51 (!) years of distinguished service as a Navy lawyer retired to Oakton, Virginia, with Nina, his wife of 52 years. Wendell finished his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Minnesota. He served in a mind-boggling series of assignments, including assistant legal advisor and legislative assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the immediate offices of Gen. Jones and Gen. Vessey, responsible for all international law as well as use of force. At one point Wendell was leading multiple cases totaling 80 percent of the Navy’s potential litigation liability. The class Facebook page contains a full description of his remarkable career and numerous awards.
Class Zoom sessions and lively political discussions on the G.I. listserv keep us in contact and engaged. To join the discussion, contact Dan Tompkins at pericles@temple.edu. We also stay in touch on Facebook (“Dartmouth Class of 1962”). From there you can follow links to the Facebook pages of 92 active members. To join contact digital content manager Peter Knight at peter@petertknight.com.
I regret to report the deaths of Dennis E. Niewoehner, M.D., on August 31, 2020, in Edina, Minnesota, and Edward A. Peterson of Hilton Head, South Carolina, on September 2, 2020. Obituaries are posted to the class website.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com