Class Note 1964
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
Despite the wet weather, many members of our class were in attendance at one or more of the Homecoming events. John and Karen Sanders, Ray and Ellen Peters, Hunt and Lynn Whitacre, Phil and Mary Lou Schaefer, and Steve and Victoria Ward attended the Friday pizza party at the Top of the Hop with the classes of ’66 and ’67. Dave and Kate Hewitt, along with the class of ’65, hosted a Saturday tailgate party. Attendees included Fran Hanlon, Bill and Mary Ann Lewis, Tom Spangenberg, Jay and Hasty Evans, Chris and Susanne Palmer, Tom and Donna Parkinson as well as the Whitacres, Peters and Wards. We had 10 seats near the 35-yard line. We gathered again for Saturday dinner at Pierce’s in Etna, New Hampshire. Even though we lost to Harvard, the weekend was a lot of fun and the fall colors were excellent.
The class also held its annual meeting on Saturday, October 29. In attendance were Ray Peters, Hunt Whitacre, Dave Hewitt, Bill Lewis, and Phil Schaefer. Also present were Andrew Samwick, Ed Miller, Angela Stafford from alumni relations and students Kiana Outen ’18, Ben Weinstock ’17 and Emily Smith ’18. We learned about several projects of special interest to our class.
Kiana Outen reported on projects of the center for environmental leadership training at Dartmouth. One project involves working with outside companies to develop a video game, the arctic survival challenge, for middle and high school students. Participants in the Native energy program work with tribes to bring clean energy to Indian lands and hope to obtain a $1.5-million grant to further this work. A third program looks at protecting the power grid against terrorism.
Professor Andrew Samwick updated the class on the leadership program. Our class supports three Rocky interns out of a total of 40 to 50, and it remains a very successful program. The policy research shop manages health, education and environment projects in Montpelier, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire, for the state legislatures. Twenty-three students have developed papers for policymakers. The dean of residential clusters is looking at engaging the leadership model for all freshmen through the residential clusters.
Professor Miller and two of his students discussed the oral history project and the students’ experiences. Students are trained during Sophomore Summer and junior year for one term to do three or more interviews of alumni who are veterans of the Vietnam War. The interviews last several hours and are then professionally transcribed and deposited in the Rauner permanent collection. The goal is to get the transcriptions on a digital screen so that people can access the transcripts. The students who do this work are presidential scholars. There have been some 90 interviews, 14 of which are with ’64s. Funding sources are the Dartmouth center for the advancement of learning, individuals and the history department. About one half of the interviews have been transcribed.
Our class can be especially proud of its support of and involvement in these diverse but fantastic projects.
—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com
The class also held its annual meeting on Saturday, October 29. In attendance were Ray Peters, Hunt Whitacre, Dave Hewitt, Bill Lewis, and Phil Schaefer. Also present were Andrew Samwick, Ed Miller, Angela Stafford from alumni relations and students Kiana Outen ’18, Ben Weinstock ’17 and Emily Smith ’18. We learned about several projects of special interest to our class.
Kiana Outen reported on projects of the center for environmental leadership training at Dartmouth. One project involves working with outside companies to develop a video game, the arctic survival challenge, for middle and high school students. Participants in the Native energy program work with tribes to bring clean energy to Indian lands and hope to obtain a $1.5-million grant to further this work. A third program looks at protecting the power grid against terrorism.
Professor Andrew Samwick updated the class on the leadership program. Our class supports three Rocky interns out of a total of 40 to 50, and it remains a very successful program. The policy research shop manages health, education and environment projects in Montpelier, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire, for the state legislatures. Twenty-three students have developed papers for policymakers. The dean of residential clusters is looking at engaging the leadership model for all freshmen through the residential clusters.
Professor Miller and two of his students discussed the oral history project and the students’ experiences. Students are trained during Sophomore Summer and junior year for one term to do three or more interviews of alumni who are veterans of the Vietnam War. The interviews last several hours and are then professionally transcribed and deposited in the Rauner permanent collection. The goal is to get the transcriptions on a digital screen so that people can access the transcripts. The students who do this work are presidential scholars. There have been some 90 interviews, 14 of which are with ’64s. Funding sources are the Dartmouth center for the advancement of learning, individuals and the history department. About one half of the interviews have been transcribed.
Our class can be especially proud of its support of and involvement in these diverse but fantastic projects.
—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com