Class Note 1966
Issue
May-June 2024
Thanks to the 90 classmates who responded to our 80th birthday survey earlier this year.
Topline results: Classmates are looking forward to good health (22 percent), more time with family (20 percent), travel (19 percent), and the achievement of personal goals (15 percent) in their 80th year. About 70 percent are happy or hopeful about turning 80.
Two-thirds think things are better for themselves and their families than they expected they would be when we graduated, but about three-fourths said things are not better than they expected for the country. Advice to others: Stay healthy, enjoy life, keep giving back, and be thankful. Find full results, with the “whys” for responses, at dartmouth66.org.
Many survey respondents also added some news and updates. Here are just a few.
Jeff Futter is now president of the Dartmouth Club of Long Island, New York. Betsy and Tom Brady delivered the convocation and graduation speeches at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. Bill Duval recently completed 50 years as a high school and college soccer referee in Vermont. He worked 18 state high school finals.
Not only has Dr. Jack Christ been on the Ripon College (Wisconsin) faculty since 1970, when he founded its first leadership studies program, he also founded and still runs a company that has produced more than 100 educational videos. Ed Larner,recently retired from Paychex, is running for a third five-year term on the Concord, Massachusetts, Housing Authority Board.
Fred Hoffman is playing the French horn with two orchestras, a concert band, a brass quintet, and a horn ensemble around Alameda, California. Retiring after 32 years of teaching in Camden, New Jersey, David Stedman has devoted the past two decades to articles, travel, and public speaking about Scotland, particularly the Clan Campbell Society.
John Hughes is manning the info booth on the Green this summer. Drop by and say hi. John Galt continues to serve as a hearing officer for about a dozen cities in greater Seattle. Can anyone top this? Kathy and Wayne LoCurto welcomed their first great-granddaughter last July.
With sadness, we report that Pennsylvania attorney Steve Sloca, editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth when we were seniors, passed away last year.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
Topline results: Classmates are looking forward to good health (22 percent), more time with family (20 percent), travel (19 percent), and the achievement of personal goals (15 percent) in their 80th year. About 70 percent are happy or hopeful about turning 80.
Two-thirds think things are better for themselves and their families than they expected they would be when we graduated, but about three-fourths said things are not better than they expected for the country. Advice to others: Stay healthy, enjoy life, keep giving back, and be thankful. Find full results, with the “whys” for responses, at dartmouth66.org.
Many survey respondents also added some news and updates. Here are just a few.
Jeff Futter is now president of the Dartmouth Club of Long Island, New York. Betsy and Tom Brady delivered the convocation and graduation speeches at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. Bill Duval recently completed 50 years as a high school and college soccer referee in Vermont. He worked 18 state high school finals.
Not only has Dr. Jack Christ been on the Ripon College (Wisconsin) faculty since 1970, when he founded its first leadership studies program, he also founded and still runs a company that has produced more than 100 educational videos. Ed Larner,recently retired from Paychex, is running for a third five-year term on the Concord, Massachusetts, Housing Authority Board.
Fred Hoffman is playing the French horn with two orchestras, a concert band, a brass quintet, and a horn ensemble around Alameda, California. Retiring after 32 years of teaching in Camden, New Jersey, David Stedman has devoted the past two decades to articles, travel, and public speaking about Scotland, particularly the Clan Campbell Society.
John Hughes is manning the info booth on the Green this summer. Drop by and say hi. John Galt continues to serve as a hearing officer for about a dozen cities in greater Seattle. Can anyone top this? Kathy and Wayne LoCurto welcomed their first great-granddaughter last July.
With sadness, we report that Pennsylvania attorney Steve Sloca, editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth when we were seniors, passed away last year.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com