Class Note 1966

David Tucker may represent our quintessential classmate. Dave enjoyed a successful career—30 years as an employee benefit legal expert at Cooper, White & Cooper in San Francisco. He’s an active volunteer, providing pro bono services to change the labor practices of the local Catholic archdiocese. He’s a budding author with an historical novel, a book on how to negotiate mortgages and a paean to his long-gone Westy all coming along. He has strong Dartmouth connections, including a 35-year friendship that started as soccer dads with classmate David Spring. And, most significantly of all, he has a wonderful family—three healthy kids, two healthy grandchildren and a 50-year marriage with Pat, whom he met in 1964 on Cape Cod, about 500 yards from the Tuckers’ Woods Hole vacation home on Cape Cod.

Another couple marking their 50th anniversary, Anne and Steve Warhover,celebrated with some friends on a safari in Tanzania (where else?) and have the Serengeti photos to prove it. The now-retired couple splits their time between Vero Beach, Florida, and Gloucester, Massachusetts, enjoying golf, bridge, pickleball, travel and “partying (still).”

Tom Vosteen is also celebrating a 50th—50 years of teaching French at Midwest colleges. For a while Tom led kind of a double life. After college he spent 25 years working intermittently as a French-English interpreter under contract with the U.S. Department of State, accompanying French-speaking official guests of the international visitor program of the State Department and interpreting for them in their official meetings and unofficially in everyday situations. At the same time Tom taught French at a number of schools—the universities of Iowa and South Dakota and Wartburg, Grinnell and Cornell college–until he finished his Ph.D. in 1990 and came to rest at Eastern Michigan University in 1991. Now retired as a professor after a quarter-century run at EMU, Tom and Michele live in Iowa City, Iowa, where they met during his Ph.D. studies.

Dr. William Viar reports that he is “still enjoying life” as a retired general surgeon, spending the summers with wife of 33 years, Barbara, in the North Carolina mountains and the fall and winter in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Bill is into hunting, fishing and the Crimson Tide, with a little golf and tennis mixed in, and is most proud of his five grandchildren, one of whom is Will Synnott ’21 (not a typo!).

Take a quick look back to 2017 to what certainly must be considered a once-in-a-lifetime class mini-reunion. Don Graves has reported that he joined a group of ’66s, including Steve Abram, Rob Cleary’s widow, Judy, Greg Eden, Josh Grindlay, Caleb Loring, Tony Muller, Kevin Trainer and Steve Zeller in Ketchum, Idaho, last August to revel in a full 64 seconds of total darkness during the solar eclipse.

Our sympathies are extended to the family and friends of Dr. Walter Harrison, a revered pediatrician in Lynn, Massachusetts, for 35 years, who passed away December 9, 2017.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com