Class Note 1966
Back East, Ladd Jeffers, who retired from institutional stock trading in 2003 at Neuberger Berman in New York City, has two passions—singing and not smoking. “I do a lot of singing (baritone) mostly classical and sacred,” reports the Long Island Choral Society board member. “It’s a joy, especially now that I’m 10 years free of smoking, thanks to a terrific, little-known 12-step group called Nicotine Anonymous.” Another joy: Ladd’s “fabulous” daughter and two grandsons.
Tom Vosteen credits fellow French linguist Peter Cleaves with getting him interested in interpreting for the U.S. State Department, something Tom did under contract on and off for 25 years. “I finally came to my senses,” Tom confesses, “and got tenured and promoted to full professor of French at Eastern Michigan University. Retirement?” Tom adds. “Not yet.”
Steve Smith places himself and wife Jean in the semi-retired category since both are founding board members of a land trust they established in 1999 to preserve open space and natural areas in southwest Michigan. Steve now serves as president and a board colleague told him, “You didn’t retire, you just work for no pay.”
George Trumbull retired (“for the third time and I think the last time”) last November when Goldman Sachs Private Equity Fund bought the company George ran as CEO. He now has more time to travel, especially to Hanover, where George’s son is a professor of history, a faculty rep on the athletic council and the Beta house advisor.
This item about Don Reis points to globalization of, well, of our class! Don spent the last year teaching seventh- and eighth-grade science at the International School of the Gothenburg Region in Sweden, where wife Lin worked with students with special learning needs. They got the job through friends from their days in Bucharest, Romania. Don is even more excited about his daughter Ai, who married Ivan Collazo, an American man she met working in Japan, and they now have twin boys with the very classic names of Julius and Gaius. Don and Lin now have four grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. “Scary,” he says.
Dozens of classmates gathered in 66th Night activities in and around March 7. Jon Colby and Wayne LoCurto met on top of Vermont’s Okemo Mountain. Eighteen members of the Upper Valley gang, including Dick Birnie, Richard Blacklow, Robin Carpenter, Neil Castaldo, Paul Doscher, Bill Malcolm, Bill Risso and our ubiquitous class president Chuck Sherman, broke bread at the Canoe Club in Hanover. Bob Cohn, Andy Seidman and your correspondent slipped out for lunch in Murray Hill, N.Y.C. Two separate events in Washington, D.C., attracted Jack Bennett, Joff Keane, Ken Meyercord and Jim Weiskopf. And in California Pete Barber and 66th coordinator Roger Brett guaranteed future success at the No Fail Café in Emeryville.
All this is prelude to our 45th reunion this October 14-17. We’ll have President Kim, our own Dean Thaddeus Seymour and fall in Hanover with classes in session. Sign up now. More on the info packed class website—www.dartmouth.org/classes/66.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com
