Class Note 1966
Issue
March - April 2024
How many marriages in the United States last 50 years? Wait for it. Six percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
But ’66ers are working hard to up that total, with dozens, perhaps scores, of couples who have enjoyed good health, displayed the patience, and, most importantly, hitched up with the right partner to reach their golden anniversaries and beyond.
Yolanda and Peter Broad celebrated No. 52 in December. After teaching college Spanish for 40 years, Peter was just reelected to his fifth two-year term on the Indiana, Pennsylvania, borough council, where he serves as president.
As of January it’s been 53 years of marriage for Rebecca and Mike Bromley, who met at the University of Virgina law school. Mike spent 35 years in his own civil law practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Now they spend time in Idaho and Palm Desert, California, where Mike volunteers for a bighorn sheep conservation group. Their most recent trip was a December Mississippi riverboat cruise from Natchez, Mississippi, to New Orleans.
When Dan Boyer was at the University of Munich after Dartmouth he met Ute Weber and, following U.S. Marine Reserve training, they married in 1969, 54 years ago. They both continue to work—Ute as a substitute teacher and Dan as branch manager and senior VP of financial advisory firm Boenning & Scattergood in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, with two children and four grands in nearby Philadelphia.
Barb and Bruce Berger began dating in our junior year at Dartmouth. Now, after 55 years of marriage, and retired after 43 years of dermatology practice in Princeton, New Jersey, they live full time in Naples, Florida. They’re looking forward to taking their four grandchildren (ages 18-21) to Kenya this July.
Need proof that blind dates work? Tom Brady was fixed up with Betsy Carson when he was a senior at Dartmouth. They married right after Betsy graduated from Smith, 55 years ago. Three children and 12 grandchildren (ages 5-23) have followed.
Sympathies to the family and friends of Steve Bryan, an Alabama neurologist who passed away in October 2022.
There’s still time to sign up for the class 80th birthday party in D.C. at the end of April.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
But ’66ers are working hard to up that total, with dozens, perhaps scores, of couples who have enjoyed good health, displayed the patience, and, most importantly, hitched up with the right partner to reach their golden anniversaries and beyond.
Yolanda and Peter Broad celebrated No. 52 in December. After teaching college Spanish for 40 years, Peter was just reelected to his fifth two-year term on the Indiana, Pennsylvania, borough council, where he serves as president.
As of January it’s been 53 years of marriage for Rebecca and Mike Bromley, who met at the University of Virgina law school. Mike spent 35 years in his own civil law practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Now they spend time in Idaho and Palm Desert, California, where Mike volunteers for a bighorn sheep conservation group. Their most recent trip was a December Mississippi riverboat cruise from Natchez, Mississippi, to New Orleans.
When Dan Boyer was at the University of Munich after Dartmouth he met Ute Weber and, following U.S. Marine Reserve training, they married in 1969, 54 years ago. They both continue to work—Ute as a substitute teacher and Dan as branch manager and senior VP of financial advisory firm Boenning & Scattergood in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, with two children and four grands in nearby Philadelphia.
Barb and Bruce Berger began dating in our junior year at Dartmouth. Now, after 55 years of marriage, and retired after 43 years of dermatology practice in Princeton, New Jersey, they live full time in Naples, Florida. They’re looking forward to taking their four grandchildren (ages 18-21) to Kenya this July.
Need proof that blind dates work? Tom Brady was fixed up with Betsy Carson when he was a senior at Dartmouth. They married right after Betsy graduated from Smith, 55 years ago. Three children and 12 grandchildren (ages 5-23) have followed.
Sympathies to the family and friends of Steve Bryan, an Alabama neurologist who passed away in October 2022.
There’s still time to sign up for the class 80th birthday party in D.C. at the end of April.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com