Class Note 1965
Issue
January-February 2025
Our September mini-reunion in Hanover helped kick off the football season. We spotted Sue and Dave Beattie, Rich Beams, Ellen and Mike Bettmann, Marianne Bradley, Gretchen and John Bullock, Larry Duffy, Linda and Steve Fowler, Marcia and Pete Frederick, Betsy and Mike Gonnerman, Debbie and Jim Griffiths, Roger Hansen, Laurie and Sven Karlen, Rick Mahoney, Donna and Stuart Russell, Linda Waterhouse, Sue and Bill Webster, Jane and George Wittreich, and Carol and Bob Ziemian.
On the reunion front, our big 60th is coming up June 18-20. The reunion committee includes Roger Hansen (chair), Mike Gonnerman, Stu Keiller, George Wittreich, Steve Fowler, and John Rogers. Updated details are on the class website at www.biggreen65.com.
Jay Wakefield is a scholar on Bronze Age settlements in North America and explains: “Forty-eight years ago (in 1976), my wife and I attended a family party in New York City assembled to watch the Tall Ships on the Hudson for the 200th bicentennial. The Algonquin Hotel was refusing our reservation because we were not married yet, but that is another story. We came to Hanover for a Dartmouth function afterward and then climbed to a hilltop stone structure across the Connecticut River from campus. It was just as shown in Dr. Barry Fell’s first book, America B.C., describing his discoveries of Celtic people in New England. Four decades later Dartmouth was not interested in [my offer of] a professorship on Bronze Age America despite being located in the thick of it. My four books [on this subject] are available on Amazon under my name and worldwide through Kindle. My latest book is titled Colonies on the Backside. I have a museum in Roche Harbor, should you come to San Juan Island [Washington] to visit.” Reach him at jswakefield@comcast.net.
Since the last Class Notes we have been notified of the loss of Frank Binder, Alan Gibson, Andy Thurm, Carl Boe, Charles Blaisdell, Eric Knox, Frank Costello (2019), and Jon Grumette (2015). By coincidence, this brings the total of ’65 deaths to 65 since I began this column in mid-2020, a sobering statistic. For further information, visit www.biggreen65.com.
—Bob Murphy,7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589, murph65nh@comcast.net
On the reunion front, our big 60th is coming up June 18-20. The reunion committee includes Roger Hansen (chair), Mike Gonnerman, Stu Keiller, George Wittreich, Steve Fowler, and John Rogers. Updated details are on the class website at www.biggreen65.com.
Jay Wakefield is a scholar on Bronze Age settlements in North America and explains: “Forty-eight years ago (in 1976), my wife and I attended a family party in New York City assembled to watch the Tall Ships on the Hudson for the 200th bicentennial. The Algonquin Hotel was refusing our reservation because we were not married yet, but that is another story. We came to Hanover for a Dartmouth function afterward and then climbed to a hilltop stone structure across the Connecticut River from campus. It was just as shown in Dr. Barry Fell’s first book, America B.C., describing his discoveries of Celtic people in New England. Four decades later Dartmouth was not interested in [my offer of] a professorship on Bronze Age America despite being located in the thick of it. My four books [on this subject] are available on Amazon under my name and worldwide through Kindle. My latest book is titled Colonies on the Backside. I have a museum in Roche Harbor, should you come to San Juan Island [Washington] to visit.” Reach him at jswakefield@comcast.net.
Since the last Class Notes we have been notified of the loss of Frank Binder, Alan Gibson, Andy Thurm, Carl Boe, Charles Blaisdell, Eric Knox, Frank Costello (2019), and Jon Grumette (2015). By coincidence, this brings the total of ’65 deaths to 65 since I began this column in mid-2020, a sobering statistic. For further information, visit www.biggreen65.com.
—Bob Murphy,7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589, murph65nh@comcast.net