It’s getting close. Our 50th anniversary is practically right around the corner—June 9-16, 2016. Don’t start packing yet, but start planning.


Some classmates are even getting a head start on this 50th thing.


On October 11 members of the 1964 Dartmouth soccer team, which won the Ivy League Championship and was one of only 16 teams nationwide in the 1964 NCAA National Championship, got together in Hanover. The 1964 squad was the first in Dartmouth history to win a league title and participate in post-season play.


Interestingly the entire defensive group returned to celebrate. Fullbacks Peter Barber, Bill Duval, Hank Amon ’65 and Chip Harvey ’67 and goalie Larry Geiger. Also on hand were forward Chris Nevison ’67, team manager Bill Burton ’65 and Fred Burnham, son of the revered 1964 team coach Whitey Burnham.


The returning team members met with today’s players and coaches and were given new Dartmouth soccer hats, introduced at halftime of the Dartmouth-Yale game (a 4-1 Big Green win) and then, accompanied by spouses including Mary Barber and Barbara Duval, enjoyed a private dinner full of warm memories and vintage war stories. The consensus: “It seems like just yesterday.”


Speaking of anniversaries, Tripp and Jeannette Miller are in good health and staying “very busy doing so many things that it is clear that we are not the type that kick back and enjoy a sedentary retirement.” They are approaching their 48th wedding anniversary. “But that’s minor,” Tripp explains, “if you consider the fact that we have known each other since the sixth grade. She has never let me forget that she was valedictorian and I was only salutatorian.


Whether you are celebrating milestones or just life’s every day triumphs, please share the news. And start planning.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com