Class Note 1964

With this Class Notes column, I invite classmates and their spouses to email me stories about what new activities on either a proprietary or not-for-profit basis you started after retirement or, if you have ever been elected to any public office, your experience in that capacity. Of course, Tom Seymour, class newsletter editor, and I are always interested in whatever news or thoughts you would like to share with your classmates. As members of our class approach their 75th birthdays, Tom and I would both like to know what activities keep you busy and satisfied. Information for Tom can be emailed to tseymour4@gmail.com. Feel free to send to both of us and we will decide who can publish what.

Many of our classmates served our country during the Vietnam conflict. Fourteen of them, some with their spouses, joined together on an exclusive 1964 class trip to Vietnam. They were Tom and Roz Bird, Tim Brooks, Allan and Martha Campbell, Lee and Tuni Chilcote, Fred Kolo, David and Jean Kruger, Mike MacMurray, Mike Parker, Hop and Marianne Potter, Jim and Carolyn Rini, Hugh and Caroline Savage, Phil and Mary Lou Schaefer, Dave Kruger, and John and Ellen Whitmoyer. Professor Ed Miller, an adopted ’64 and member of the Dartmouth history department and specialist in Southeast Asia, was the faculty liaison. A detailed report of the entire trip can be found on our class website at 1964.dartmouth.org. It is an extraordinary addition to the story begun in the book edited by Phil Schaefer, Dartmouth Veterans, Vietnam Perspectives. If you have not read this book, I urge you to do so. After all, this conflict was one of the defining moments of our generation. Our classmates’ stories are informative and insightful. For those in our class who served our country in this conflict, their shared experience carries many lessons for our country’s current foreign policy.

Recently two of our classmates were mentioned in the latest edition of Occom: A Chronicle of Dartmouth Philanthropy for their generosity. Brad and Barbara Evans supported the senior professorship for the Artic engineering in a period of climate change academic cluster. It will be known as the Evans Family Distinguished Professorship at Dartmouth. Sabin Danzinger was featured in an interview and described his 50 years of volunteering in various capacities for the College, including our head class agent, as a labor of love. He indicated his proudest achievement was setting class giving records for 15 consecutive years. As you may recall, earlier this year Sabin was inducted into the Stephen F. Mandel ’52 Society.

Finally, as I am writing this, we are in the throes of the general election. If any of you are attending either the Democratic or Republican national conventions, please provide me a narrative of your experience, including a description of what role you played and any other experience you care to share.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64 @gmail.com