Class Note 1963
Issue
January-February 2021
Scott Babcock, Steve Brenner, Bob Chavey, George Hellick, Steve Lewinstein, and Gordon Weir were among 23 class executive committee (EC) members from around the country at our annual meeting, Saturday, October 3. Instead of the Treasure Room in Baker Library, we Zoomed from our own desks, kitchen tables, couches, chairs, or wherever comfortable. President Sam Cabot stressed the College’s need for help during this difficult year, praising our class’ success with virtual mini-reunions and philanthropic activities, including restricted gift initiates, “Friends” programs, Dartmouth College Fund, the Bartlett Tower Society, and dues payments.
At the meeting Frank Finsthwait reported on the four students in our sponsored athletes program, where we continue to lead all donors college-wide. Class scholars committee chair Marty Bowne identified Sri Sathvik Rayala ’24 of Plainsboro, New Jersey, as the newest among four undergraduates in that dynamic program. Bruce Baggaley, chair of our Dartmouth Partners in Community Service committee, was approved by the EC for a pilot project to recruit classmates in New England as mentors. EC members moved to offer honorary membership to Phyllis Coggeshall, wife of member Bruce Coggeshall, who died September 14 and whose obituary by Tige Harris will appear in the magazine online edition. Sixtieth reunion plans are on hold for at least a year, it was noted by committee chair Bill Subin.
So how are classmates coping with the pandemic? Retired radiologist Chris Harvey and wife Barbara are doing well in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, about 10 miles from Stone Harbor Beach. Chris is able to play golf twice a week, which he finds “far more difficult than football, baseball, and rugby.” Chris also follows Dartmouth basketball, “but we can’t compete till we get a couple of good big men over 6-feet-7,” he says. John Bell, who retired in 2018 as manager of a group ophthalmology practice in Wakefield, Massachusetts, “is hanging out” at home with wife Carol in Worcester, with family nearby and “being as careful as you can.” John also served as president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Administrators. Twin brother James J. Bell is living in Oneonta, New York. Jim, as he is better known, keeps fit by working out and walking daily. Bob Shanno, who retired in 2005 after 40 years teaching high school history in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, spends most of his time in or near home reading bestselling novelists such as James Patterson and watching TV programs that interest him. Bob traveled extensively in the past in the United States and Europe.
Charlie Parton and Bill Wellstead voiced support of Ken Kvistad’s written plea to the Alumni Council to restore lightweight crew and, rather than remove an historic weathervane from Baker Tower, to provide opportunities for Native Americans and inner-city applicants. “Dartmouth was always more than an academic institution with narrow objectives but rather about giving a chance to candidates of a full range of cultural and economic heritages,” Ken wrote, echoing earlier letters to the College from Dan Matyola and Bill Subin.
—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com
At the meeting Frank Finsthwait reported on the four students in our sponsored athletes program, where we continue to lead all donors college-wide. Class scholars committee chair Marty Bowne identified Sri Sathvik Rayala ’24 of Plainsboro, New Jersey, as the newest among four undergraduates in that dynamic program. Bruce Baggaley, chair of our Dartmouth Partners in Community Service committee, was approved by the EC for a pilot project to recruit classmates in New England as mentors. EC members moved to offer honorary membership to Phyllis Coggeshall, wife of member Bruce Coggeshall, who died September 14 and whose obituary by Tige Harris will appear in the magazine online edition. Sixtieth reunion plans are on hold for at least a year, it was noted by committee chair Bill Subin.
So how are classmates coping with the pandemic? Retired radiologist Chris Harvey and wife Barbara are doing well in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, about 10 miles from Stone Harbor Beach. Chris is able to play golf twice a week, which he finds “far more difficult than football, baseball, and rugby.” Chris also follows Dartmouth basketball, “but we can’t compete till we get a couple of good big men over 6-feet-7,” he says. John Bell, who retired in 2018 as manager of a group ophthalmology practice in Wakefield, Massachusetts, “is hanging out” at home with wife Carol in Worcester, with family nearby and “being as careful as you can.” John also served as president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Administrators. Twin brother James J. Bell is living in Oneonta, New York. Jim, as he is better known, keeps fit by working out and walking daily. Bob Shanno, who retired in 2005 after 40 years teaching high school history in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, spends most of his time in or near home reading bestselling novelists such as James Patterson and watching TV programs that interest him. Bob traveled extensively in the past in the United States and Europe.
Charlie Parton and Bill Wellstead voiced support of Ken Kvistad’s written plea to the Alumni Council to restore lightweight crew and, rather than remove an historic weathervane from Baker Tower, to provide opportunities for Native Americans and inner-city applicants. “Dartmouth was always more than an academic institution with narrow objectives but rather about giving a chance to candidates of a full range of cultural and economic heritages,” Ken wrote, echoing earlier letters to the College from Dan Matyola and Bill Subin.
—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com