Class Note 1964
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
The 2018 Dartmouth College Fund drive ended June 30. Thank you to our 248 classmates who donated $481,232 to support Dartmouth primarily with what will be financial aid for students. If you missed contributing, the next Dartmouth College Fund drive has started and will end June 2019, the same year as our 55th reunion—June 10-13, 2019, in Hanover. Thanks also to the 38 classmates who served as volunteers for the Alumni Fund to help raise money from our classmates. The 38 for 2017-18 were Lynn Bates, Peter H. Benzoin, Steven D. Blecher, Bob Bucher II, Lee A. Chilcote, Fritz Corrigan, Sabin Danziger, Carl S. DuRei, Bob Engelman Jr., Brad Evans, Woody Flowers, Al Gruber, Bill Gunn, Paul E. Hale, Fran Hanlon, Stan Herr, Buck Kirch IV, Reed Langenbach Jr., Roy J. Lewicki, Bill Madden Jr., Sandy McGinnes, Bill McGregor Jr., Roger G. Nastou, Ray Neff, Chris Palmer, Ray Peters, Jay Regan, Robert W. Reidy II, Stan Roman Jr., Fred Rothenberg, Randy Stayin, Steve Stein, Jeff Swain, Harvey M. Tettlebaum, Hunt Whitacre, Ed Williams, Karl F. Winkler, and Alan S. Woodberry, our class head agent, who gets much of the credit for his leadership of the aforementioned team. As the College has a financial aid policy that is truly need blind for all American applicants, it is important for us to support that effort to allow it to admit students from financially challenged environments.
Because Bob Bartles is so shy and retiring that he would never mention it himself (well…), allow me to point out that his poem “The Almanac,” has been selected from among hundreds of other possible “Anecdotes & Pleasantries” for publication in the 2019 Old Farmer’s Almanac, which is available this fall. These days we seldom publish poetry at all, so this is a great accomplishment by and honor for Bob, whose work will now reach more than 3 million readers. I will be trying in future articles to feature other talents among our class members.
Throop Brown provided some interesting information that I would like to share with you. While we all have stories about how we got into Dartmouth, Throop has one of the more interesting ones. He says that when answering the question whether any relative had attended Dartmouth, he truthfully answered: “Yes, my seventh-generation grandfather went to Hanover with Reverend Wheelock and graduated in 1774! He planned to be a missionary to the Indians, but the best-laid plans get screwed up. In 1775 he found himself the chaplain of Knox’s artillery when they dragged the guns from Ticonderoga overland for the siege of Boston!” Throop’s daughter Sandy, a member of the city council of Santa Cruz, California, has a Ph.D. from Berkeley. Throop is retired, lives in Snow Camp, North Carolina, in a doublewide trailer with cows and deer as his nearest neighbors, and is happily married to his third wife, who is a glass artist and former librarian.
—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com
Because Bob Bartles is so shy and retiring that he would never mention it himself (well…), allow me to point out that his poem “The Almanac,” has been selected from among hundreds of other possible “Anecdotes & Pleasantries” for publication in the 2019 Old Farmer’s Almanac, which is available this fall. These days we seldom publish poetry at all, so this is a great accomplishment by and honor for Bob, whose work will now reach more than 3 million readers. I will be trying in future articles to feature other talents among our class members.
Throop Brown provided some interesting information that I would like to share with you. While we all have stories about how we got into Dartmouth, Throop has one of the more interesting ones. He says that when answering the question whether any relative had attended Dartmouth, he truthfully answered: “Yes, my seventh-generation grandfather went to Hanover with Reverend Wheelock and graduated in 1774! He planned to be a missionary to the Indians, but the best-laid plans get screwed up. In 1775 he found himself the chaplain of Knox’s artillery when they dragged the guns from Ticonderoga overland for the siege of Boston!” Throop’s daughter Sandy, a member of the city council of Santa Cruz, California, has a Ph.D. from Berkeley. Throop is retired, lives in Snow Camp, North Carolina, in a doublewide trailer with cows and deer as his nearest neighbors, and is happily married to his third wife, who is a glass artist and former librarian.
—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com