Class Note 1964
Issue
May - June 2016
As many of you know who responded to a survey sent to you by Ray Peters and Hunt Whitacre, your class executive committee is attempting to gain information to use its resources effectively and to plan relevant activities. Five hundred twenty-three emails containing this survey were transmitted to classmates or widows, but we know not all of you are receiving emails from the class. Please take the time to make sure the college has your most recent preferred email address.
Three hundred seventy-one classmates opened the email containing the survey and, of these, 115 answered the survey. This represents about 22 percent of all those sent the survey.
Some highlights from the survey responses are the following.
About 20 percent of the 115 respondents said they got together with other ’64s two or more times recently. These mini-reunions (as the College likes to call them) occurred in a wide range of settings and locations.
Eighty-six percent of respondents expressed interest in attending a mini-reunion in their area.
More than 50 percent of the respondents indicated they would attend a class 75th birthday party in 2017, when most of us turn 75.
Although a number of possible venues for the 75th birthday party were popular with classmates, (most in warm, winter settings), a get-together in the Southwest in the Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, area was most popular.
Our four class projects, entirely funded from class dues, all received endorsements from 40 to more than 70 percent of the respondents, with the Rocky intern project receiving the strongest endorsement.
Although there were several interesting suggestions for changing or adding class projects in the future, we are committed to the four approved by the executive committee for 2015-16.
When asked to which class activities a classmate might offer his services, 55 classmates responded with 88 choices. Alumni interviewing led the pack, and these names will be forwarded to alumni relations. Helping organize mini-reunions and the 75th birthday party were selected by 12 classmates each, while 11 indicated “any role that supports a class officer.”
Sixty-seven classmates entered their names and email addresses to qualify for one of the three $50 gift certificates from the Dartmouth Co-op or Amazon. The three randomly selected winners were Peter Coombs Jr., Jim Hughes and Gerald Kolski.
Thanks to all of those who took the time to complete the survey. We hope this information will help guide the executive committee when planning future class events. We are particularly pleased to find a goodly group of classmates who would like to help class activities in some regard. If you did not answer the survey, your executive committee is still interested in your views on the 75th birthday mini-reunion, potential class projects and your willingness to volunteer.
We also welcome your reaction and suggestions regarding the survey. In particular we would like to get your suggestions about how to take advantage of volunteers.
Finally, congratulations to Brad Evans, who on April 5 will be inducted into the Stephen F. Mandell ’52 Society for his volunteer leadership supporting the Dartmouth College Fund.
—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com
Three hundred seventy-one classmates opened the email containing the survey and, of these, 115 answered the survey. This represents about 22 percent of all those sent the survey.
Some highlights from the survey responses are the following.
About 20 percent of the 115 respondents said they got together with other ’64s two or more times recently. These mini-reunions (as the College likes to call them) occurred in a wide range of settings and locations.
Eighty-six percent of respondents expressed interest in attending a mini-reunion in their area.
More than 50 percent of the respondents indicated they would attend a class 75th birthday party in 2017, when most of us turn 75.
Although a number of possible venues for the 75th birthday party were popular with classmates, (most in warm, winter settings), a get-together in the Southwest in the Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, area was most popular.
Our four class projects, entirely funded from class dues, all received endorsements from 40 to more than 70 percent of the respondents, with the Rocky intern project receiving the strongest endorsement.
Although there were several interesting suggestions for changing or adding class projects in the future, we are committed to the four approved by the executive committee for 2015-16.
When asked to which class activities a classmate might offer his services, 55 classmates responded with 88 choices. Alumni interviewing led the pack, and these names will be forwarded to alumni relations. Helping organize mini-reunions and the 75th birthday party were selected by 12 classmates each, while 11 indicated “any role that supports a class officer.”
Sixty-seven classmates entered their names and email addresses to qualify for one of the three $50 gift certificates from the Dartmouth Co-op or Amazon. The three randomly selected winners were Peter Coombs Jr., Jim Hughes and Gerald Kolski.
Thanks to all of those who took the time to complete the survey. We hope this information will help guide the executive committee when planning future class events. We are particularly pleased to find a goodly group of classmates who would like to help class activities in some regard. If you did not answer the survey, your executive committee is still interested in your views on the 75th birthday mini-reunion, potential class projects and your willingness to volunteer.
We also welcome your reaction and suggestions regarding the survey. In particular we would like to get your suggestions about how to take advantage of volunteers.
Finally, congratulations to Brad Evans, who on April 5 will be inducted into the Stephen F. Mandell ’52 Society for his volunteer leadership supporting the Dartmouth College Fund.
—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com