Class Note 1966
Issue
Sep - Oct 2017
“With age comes wisdom,” Bob Page recently declared, “and I seemed to have finally figured out the key to athletic success—keep competing longer than your peers.” As proof, Bob provided some recent race results: Tahoe Donner Triathon 2016 sprints (second out of a field of four) and Yosemite half marathon (third out of five). What keeps Bob and wife Grace so spry? It could be keeping up with 10-year-old son Nathaniel.
When he’s not swimming, riding or running Bob continues as director of Tetra Tech DPK, a San Francisco-based organization he founded that is now a unit of publicly traded Tetra Tech. DPK is dedicated to improving the rule of law and justice system management in far-flung locations with new projects underway in El Salvador, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Iraq.
On November 1 Dr. Gene Nattie will be retiring after 42 years as a faculty member at the Geisel School of Medicine. To put that into perspective, in 1975 Gene taught the year one cardiovascular and respiratory physiology course at what was then the Dartmouth Medical School. He’s been doing it every year since. “My research collaboration in trying to understand the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome has been rewarding as has teaching medical students in the classroom and undergraduates in my lab,” Gene recalls. “Overall, it has been an enjoyable run.”
Staying close to Hanover all these years has had another benefit—“I’ve had the privilege to watch close-hand as Dartmouth has grown and changed and, while it no longer may be the Dartmouth we knew, it remains a special place with strong students who continue to develop a strong affection for the College.”
What’s next? Gene and his wife of 48 years, Candace, will be able to spend more time with their four young grandchildren, “who bring unanticipated pleasure.”
Peter Prichard seconds the motion. “Watching grandchildren frolic through their frequent adventures is one of the great joys of old age,” Peter writes. He and wife Ann get to see his six frequently during the summer in Massachusetts. Peter is retired, but still pretty busy, serving on the boards of the fabulous Newseum and Freedom Forum. Peter also now finds more time for painting.
Art is also a passion of Gerry Paul’s wife, Sherri, an award-winning oil painter with a number of exhibits this summer. Check her charming work out at SherriPaul.com. When not in the studio, Sherri plans the couple’s trips, including one soon to Iceland with son Sandy and his family. Gerry’s also pleased that daughter Amy and family are now only 15 minutes from his home in Rye, New York.
Happy to add Rick Olsen to the list of ’66ers celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Rick and Ann marked the date with some 70 relatives and friends at a lunch party on June 16 at the UCLA faculty center in L.A. On hand was Rick’s Phi Psi brother and brother-in-law for 50 years, Joe Furstenthal ’67, who may be responsible for the whole thing!
Have a milestone coming up? Share the news.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
When he’s not swimming, riding or running Bob continues as director of Tetra Tech DPK, a San Francisco-based organization he founded that is now a unit of publicly traded Tetra Tech. DPK is dedicated to improving the rule of law and justice system management in far-flung locations with new projects underway in El Salvador, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Iraq.
On November 1 Dr. Gene Nattie will be retiring after 42 years as a faculty member at the Geisel School of Medicine. To put that into perspective, in 1975 Gene taught the year one cardiovascular and respiratory physiology course at what was then the Dartmouth Medical School. He’s been doing it every year since. “My research collaboration in trying to understand the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome has been rewarding as has teaching medical students in the classroom and undergraduates in my lab,” Gene recalls. “Overall, it has been an enjoyable run.”
Staying close to Hanover all these years has had another benefit—“I’ve had the privilege to watch close-hand as Dartmouth has grown and changed and, while it no longer may be the Dartmouth we knew, it remains a special place with strong students who continue to develop a strong affection for the College.”
What’s next? Gene and his wife of 48 years, Candace, will be able to spend more time with their four young grandchildren, “who bring unanticipated pleasure.”
Peter Prichard seconds the motion. “Watching grandchildren frolic through their frequent adventures is one of the great joys of old age,” Peter writes. He and wife Ann get to see his six frequently during the summer in Massachusetts. Peter is retired, but still pretty busy, serving on the boards of the fabulous Newseum and Freedom Forum. Peter also now finds more time for painting.
Art is also a passion of Gerry Paul’s wife, Sherri, an award-winning oil painter with a number of exhibits this summer. Check her charming work out at SherriPaul.com. When not in the studio, Sherri plans the couple’s trips, including one soon to Iceland with son Sandy and his family. Gerry’s also pleased that daughter Amy and family are now only 15 minutes from his home in Rye, New York.
Happy to add Rick Olsen to the list of ’66ers celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Rick and Ann marked the date with some 70 relatives and friends at a lunch party on June 16 at the UCLA faculty center in L.A. On hand was Rick’s Phi Psi brother and brother-in-law for 50 years, Joe Furstenthal ’67, who may be responsible for the whole thing!
Have a milestone coming up? Share the news.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com