Class Note 1966
Issue
May - Jun 2019
It is with great pride that the class of 1966 welcomes our new class adoptee, Dr. James S. Jackson, a charter trustee of the College since 2016. At the University of Michigan, Dr. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Professor of Afro-American and African Studies. (Search “Dartmouth trustees” for the full CV of this distinguished academician). We look forward to engaging with Dr. Jackson in class activities in the years ahead.
As you read this there’s still time to sign up, as nearly 100 already have, for the class 75th birthday party in Newport, Rhode Island, June 17-20. Class president Jim Lustenader and the team have laid out a terrific weekend. Register at www.dartmouth66.org.
Jim, who lives in Hanover, sees near neighbors Marya and Paul Klee and Susan and Gus Southworth regularly, and recently watched Dartmouth’s 2-0 hockey victory over Yale with visiting Kathy and Wayne LoCurto.
George Trumbull has made it all the way back. After Lyn, his wife of 42 years, died in 2016, the retired insurance company chairman and CEO understandably “went through a period of self-pity.” But family, old and new friends, and an immersion into nonprofits that change lives have revived George’s spirits.
He joined the board of Education for All Children, an education-to-employment program for disadvantaged youth in Kenya, and has visited Kenya four times. He’s also on the board of Malta House of Care, which provides healthcare to the uninsured in Hartford, Connecticut, via a mobile medical van; led a capital campaign for the Roaring Brook Nature Center; and volunteers at Bikes for Kids, which rehabs and donates bikes to inner-city kids.
Best of all, George found a new life partner in Connie, and his daughter, Melissa, gave birth to Victoria Lyn, first grandchild, last spring. George says, “I am now tremendously optimistic about what lies ahead.”
New York University Law School recently honored Rick Reiss and his family with the naming of the Reiss Center on Law and Security. Rick, his late wife, Bonnie, and his dad are all NYU law grads. Check out the center at www.lawandsecurity.org.
During last November’s gubernatorial campaign in Georgia (yep, that one) Dick Bathrick was one of 250 participants in a “Count Every Vote” demonstration in the Georgia Capitol rotunda—and was one of 15 arrested. It’s no surprise that Dick was on the frontlines. As a consultant and trainer in gender, race, and class, he has spent his career promoting transformational change in individuals, organizations, and communities.
Nelson Lichtenstein, an expert on labor history and a distinguished professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, has written 16 books and is still going strong. He’s now tackling issues from 21st-century populism to teacher strikes and the failure of elite universities to increase their undergraduate enrollments in keeping with population growth, coeducation, foreign students, etc.
Jim Lenfestey met his wife, Susan, a blind date from Skidmore, in the Psi U house. And it’s still all about love. Jim’s fifth book of poems, A Marriage Book: 50 Years of Poems from a Marriage, is a finalist for two Midwest Book awards. Peruse all of Jim’s poetry and other writings at coyotepoet.com.
We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of four classmates who passed away recently—Dale Heckerling, Michael Juha, Arthur Lewis,and Stephen Martin. More about each classmate on the DAM website.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
As you read this there’s still time to sign up, as nearly 100 already have, for the class 75th birthday party in Newport, Rhode Island, June 17-20. Class president Jim Lustenader and the team have laid out a terrific weekend. Register at www.dartmouth66.org.
Jim, who lives in Hanover, sees near neighbors Marya and Paul Klee and Susan and Gus Southworth regularly, and recently watched Dartmouth’s 2-0 hockey victory over Yale with visiting Kathy and Wayne LoCurto.
George Trumbull has made it all the way back. After Lyn, his wife of 42 years, died in 2016, the retired insurance company chairman and CEO understandably “went through a period of self-pity.” But family, old and new friends, and an immersion into nonprofits that change lives have revived George’s spirits.
He joined the board of Education for All Children, an education-to-employment program for disadvantaged youth in Kenya, and has visited Kenya four times. He’s also on the board of Malta House of Care, which provides healthcare to the uninsured in Hartford, Connecticut, via a mobile medical van; led a capital campaign for the Roaring Brook Nature Center; and volunteers at Bikes for Kids, which rehabs and donates bikes to inner-city kids.
Best of all, George found a new life partner in Connie, and his daughter, Melissa, gave birth to Victoria Lyn, first grandchild, last spring. George says, “I am now tremendously optimistic about what lies ahead.”
New York University Law School recently honored Rick Reiss and his family with the naming of the Reiss Center on Law and Security. Rick, his late wife, Bonnie, and his dad are all NYU law grads. Check out the center at www.lawandsecurity.org.
During last November’s gubernatorial campaign in Georgia (yep, that one) Dick Bathrick was one of 250 participants in a “Count Every Vote” demonstration in the Georgia Capitol rotunda—and was one of 15 arrested. It’s no surprise that Dick was on the frontlines. As a consultant and trainer in gender, race, and class, he has spent his career promoting transformational change in individuals, organizations, and communities.
Nelson Lichtenstein, an expert on labor history and a distinguished professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, has written 16 books and is still going strong. He’s now tackling issues from 21st-century populism to teacher strikes and the failure of elite universities to increase their undergraduate enrollments in keeping with population growth, coeducation, foreign students, etc.
Jim Lenfestey met his wife, Susan, a blind date from Skidmore, in the Psi U house. And it’s still all about love. Jim’s fifth book of poems, A Marriage Book: 50 Years of Poems from a Marriage, is a finalist for two Midwest Book awards. Peruse all of Jim’s poetry and other writings at coyotepoet.com.
We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of four classmates who passed away recently—Dale Heckerling, Michael Juha, Arthur Lewis,and Stephen Martin. More about each classmate on the DAM website.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com