Class Note 1966
Issue
Nov - Dec 2017
The awards just keep on coming for our classmates.
The Ivy Football Association honored Tom Clarke, captain of Dartmouth’s first Lambert Trophy team in 1965, for “meritorious lifetime service and achievement.” After football Tom enjoyed a highly respected career as an orthopedic surgeon in the U.S. Navy and, later, in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. “Football experience,” Tom explained, “helps you have the confidence to go ahead with something like saving lives and limbs and do it when the chips are down.” He and Donna have three children and five grandchildren.
Muskegon (Michigan) Community College (MCC) bestowed its highest accolade, the Distinguished Faculty Award, to Blair Morrissey. Now retired in Florida, Blair taught philosophy, created a computer simulation called Choices about the harm of immoral behavior and founded the college success course in his 40 years at MCC. Oh, yes, he also chaired the fine arts department. Distinguished indeed.
Bob Cowen, a partner at Casner & Edwards in Boston, was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2018. Bob’s practice focuses on nonprofit organizations and he is often called as an expert witness in matters involving charitable organizations.
We continue our salute to classmates, and their mates, on their 50th wedding anniversaries.
Jay and Andrea Vincent “happily celebrated our 50th anniversary on July 15” at an intimate dinner with family and friends. The wedding in 1967 may have been a bit more raucous with classmates Mike McConnell, Jeff Marks, Bruce Hamilton and Larry Robbins among those in attendance.
Jay spent nearly 40 years in the industrial chemical business, most notably as chairman and president of HallStar. Andrea, a fine artist, has a website worth a visit at andreavincent.com. Family? “After raising two sons,” Jay reports, “we now have three granddaughters—what a difference!”
Terry Ruggles fondly recalls proposing to Vanna in the basement of Alpha Delta. She accepted. The couple celebrated their 50th anniversary on September 2 and greatly enjoy their six grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 to 17. Terry “retired” from a career in media about eight years ago but remains active on numerous local boards and commissions in western Massachusetts, including Greenfield Community TV.
Terry and Vanna, who suffered and thankfully recovered from a stroke about two and a half years ago, started a stroke support group at the local hospital and participate actively. “Believe me,” Terry writes, “when you watch your wife awake, move, talk and see again after being out for one hour you have seen a miracle.”
We know Chuck Sherman has been Mr. Everything for the class for the better part of 20 years. But don’t think the rest of the time he’s just rockin’ in his hammock. Chuck serves on Dartmouth’s committee for the protection of human subjects that assures all research involving humans is ethical, voluntary, and fair to all. He volunteers at the information booth on the Green, helps Cabin & Trail build lodges and bunkhouses and he’s just become president of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley. And he’s on the board of nonprofit ValleyNet, which is stringing fiber-optic for Internet in 24 Vermont towns. The hammock will have to wait.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
The Ivy Football Association honored Tom Clarke, captain of Dartmouth’s first Lambert Trophy team in 1965, for “meritorious lifetime service and achievement.” After football Tom enjoyed a highly respected career as an orthopedic surgeon in the U.S. Navy and, later, in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. “Football experience,” Tom explained, “helps you have the confidence to go ahead with something like saving lives and limbs and do it when the chips are down.” He and Donna have three children and five grandchildren.
Muskegon (Michigan) Community College (MCC) bestowed its highest accolade, the Distinguished Faculty Award, to Blair Morrissey. Now retired in Florida, Blair taught philosophy, created a computer simulation called Choices about the harm of immoral behavior and founded the college success course in his 40 years at MCC. Oh, yes, he also chaired the fine arts department. Distinguished indeed.
Bob Cowen, a partner at Casner & Edwards in Boston, was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2018. Bob’s practice focuses on nonprofit organizations and he is often called as an expert witness in matters involving charitable organizations.
We continue our salute to classmates, and their mates, on their 50th wedding anniversaries.
Jay and Andrea Vincent “happily celebrated our 50th anniversary on July 15” at an intimate dinner with family and friends. The wedding in 1967 may have been a bit more raucous with classmates Mike McConnell, Jeff Marks, Bruce Hamilton and Larry Robbins among those in attendance.
Jay spent nearly 40 years in the industrial chemical business, most notably as chairman and president of HallStar. Andrea, a fine artist, has a website worth a visit at andreavincent.com. Family? “After raising two sons,” Jay reports, “we now have three granddaughters—what a difference!”
Terry Ruggles fondly recalls proposing to Vanna in the basement of Alpha Delta. She accepted. The couple celebrated their 50th anniversary on September 2 and greatly enjoy their six grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 to 17. Terry “retired” from a career in media about eight years ago but remains active on numerous local boards and commissions in western Massachusetts, including Greenfield Community TV.
Terry and Vanna, who suffered and thankfully recovered from a stroke about two and a half years ago, started a stroke support group at the local hospital and participate actively. “Believe me,” Terry writes, “when you watch your wife awake, move, talk and see again after being out for one hour you have seen a miracle.”
We know Chuck Sherman has been Mr. Everything for the class for the better part of 20 years. But don’t think the rest of the time he’s just rockin’ in his hammock. Chuck serves on Dartmouth’s committee for the protection of human subjects that assures all research involving humans is ethical, voluntary, and fair to all. He volunteers at the information booth on the Green, helps Cabin & Trail build lodges and bunkhouses and he’s just become president of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley. And he’s on the board of nonprofit ValleyNet, which is stringing fiber-optic for Internet in 24 Vermont towns. The hammock will have to wait.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com