Class Note 1963
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
If you are making summer plans, consider Buster Welch’s legendary fishing mini at Kasba Lake Lodge in the subarctic wilds of Canada July 6-10. We are talking grayling, northern pike and lake trout that are big and abundant. Email Buster at buster@fishquilt.com or call (204) 738-4900. On August 1 our fourth annual Tanglewood class mini will feature the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops and dinner at the historic Red Lion Inn. Your contact is Sam Cabot, scabot@cabotfamily.com, (978) 927-2333.
Our much-anticipated 75th birthday bash last October in Santa Fe, New Mexico, exceeded expectations as some 100 classmates and guests toured galleries, visited Pueblo Indian cliff dwellings and experienced “a blue and beautiful sky.” “There were jewelry stores that could make you berserk,” joked Deamie Cabot, and, “Everyone was just so friendly,” remarked Patty Baggaley. The event was capped by a surprise visit to a class cocktail party from Mayor Javier Gonzales with an official proclamation of October 14, 2016, as “Dartmouth in Santa Fe Day.”
It was back to “sharp and misty mornings” October 28-30, when an enthusiastic group of 35 or so dined and discussed class business, cheered on Dartmouth, partied at Dan Muchinsky’s and breakfasted at the Hanover Inn.
At our weekend executive committee meeting (there was one in Santa Fe too), Ed Mazer,co-chair of 55th reunion in 2018, discussed logistics and sought volunteers. Tom Perry announced his retirement after four years chairing our award-winning mini-reunion program.
Other key items of business: Several letters from our board to President Hanlon proposing the College combine discipline with conciliation in dealing with campus protests and urging adoption of a statement of principles of free expression, as published by the University of Chicago; in-person testimony from scholars and athletes who receive class funding; and a presentation by Tracy Dustin-Eichler, new director of Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS), which our class also helps to finance and to provide mentors such as Bob Phillips, nonprofit executive who works with Dartmouth’s San Francisco nonprofit leadership program.
Gordy Weir, a physician who mentors DPCS interns at Boston Community Health, was honored with his wife, Susan Bonner-Weir, also a physician, with the 2016 Global Achievement Award given by the Joslin Diabetes Center.
Fred Jarrett, a vascular and general surgeon in Pittsburgh, has published a new book, To Fruit Street and Beyond: The Massachusetts General Hospital Surgical Residency, his recollections of training at Massachusetts General Hospital, which, according to the book’s website, www.fredricjarrettmd.com, was at the time “the most sought-after surgical training program in the United States.” “This book is not an autobiography,” said Fred. It is about training at the end of an era, “when general surgery was predominant and all-inclusive.”
Paul Binder and chanteuse Dana Mierlak charmed a sell-out crowd with song, dance and patter in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Room in December that included Steve Kurland and wife Erika with son Scott; Joel Werbel; Paul’s partner, Shelley Doctors; and Harry and Nicole Zlokower. Stephen Macht’s Moral Change: A Tragedy or A Return? How Aristotle’s Tragic Reversal Illuminates Maimonides Teshuva is out in paperback on Amazon.
—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162, harry@zlokower.com
Our much-anticipated 75th birthday bash last October in Santa Fe, New Mexico, exceeded expectations as some 100 classmates and guests toured galleries, visited Pueblo Indian cliff dwellings and experienced “a blue and beautiful sky.” “There were jewelry stores that could make you berserk,” joked Deamie Cabot, and, “Everyone was just so friendly,” remarked Patty Baggaley. The event was capped by a surprise visit to a class cocktail party from Mayor Javier Gonzales with an official proclamation of October 14, 2016, as “Dartmouth in Santa Fe Day.”
It was back to “sharp and misty mornings” October 28-30, when an enthusiastic group of 35 or so dined and discussed class business, cheered on Dartmouth, partied at Dan Muchinsky’s and breakfasted at the Hanover Inn.
At our weekend executive committee meeting (there was one in Santa Fe too), Ed Mazer,co-chair of 55th reunion in 2018, discussed logistics and sought volunteers. Tom Perry announced his retirement after four years chairing our award-winning mini-reunion program.
Other key items of business: Several letters from our board to President Hanlon proposing the College combine discipline with conciliation in dealing with campus protests and urging adoption of a statement of principles of free expression, as published by the University of Chicago; in-person testimony from scholars and athletes who receive class funding; and a presentation by Tracy Dustin-Eichler, new director of Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS), which our class also helps to finance and to provide mentors such as Bob Phillips, nonprofit executive who works with Dartmouth’s San Francisco nonprofit leadership program.
Gordy Weir, a physician who mentors DPCS interns at Boston Community Health, was honored with his wife, Susan Bonner-Weir, also a physician, with the 2016 Global Achievement Award given by the Joslin Diabetes Center.
Fred Jarrett, a vascular and general surgeon in Pittsburgh, has published a new book, To Fruit Street and Beyond: The Massachusetts General Hospital Surgical Residency, his recollections of training at Massachusetts General Hospital, which, according to the book’s website, www.fredricjarrettmd.com, was at the time “the most sought-after surgical training program in the United States.” “This book is not an autobiography,” said Fred. It is about training at the end of an era, “when general surgery was predominant and all-inclusive.”
Paul Binder and chanteuse Dana Mierlak charmed a sell-out crowd with song, dance and patter in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Room in December that included Steve Kurland and wife Erika with son Scott; Joel Werbel; Paul’s partner, Shelley Doctors; and Harry and Nicole Zlokower. Stephen Macht’s Moral Change: A Tragedy or A Return? How Aristotle’s Tragic Reversal Illuminates Maimonides Teshuva is out in paperback on Amazon.
—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162, harry@zlokower.com