Class Note 1967
Issue
Brief note from Chris Ware in North Carolina. “It’s very hard to imagine how different life would have been if I had finished at Dartmouth.” Vietnam, radicalized in “Chiprago,” counterculture years, B.S. at VA Tech and 25 years in Arkansas working for the Game & Fish Commission—that’s an unimaginable “life-route.” John Talbott of Atlanta linked up with Hank Alrich of Austin, Texas. John mentioned looking for William J. O’Reilly. Bill was last seen at O’Dowds in 1997. Hank left Hanover in 1965. Hank shepherded the Armadillo World Headquarters through its last great days, then moved away. Thirty years later he has returned to Austin. Details about Hank are available: www.austin360.com/music/home-with-the-armadillo-191202.html?imw=Y.
John comments he and Hank spent more than a few lazy afternoons playing guitar while sitting on lawn chairs in front of Hitchcock. John and Suzanne are trying to sell their Atlanta-suburbs house and move close to salt water and ocean breezes. But with house values dropping John fears that may limit them to Greenland and New Guinea. Bill Reilly says he enjoyed reading the article on the “Dillo” in Austin, which he had the good fortune to visit sometime during the early 1970s. Hank was there and they had a pleasant evening listening to whoever was playing that night. Bill was on a business trip and had to get back into the pinstripes the following day. Dwight MacKerron is occupying himself with a lot of outdoorsy stuff—hiking with dogs, gardening, hunting and windsurfing—and also just published Exult O Americans & Rejoice! The Revolutionary War Diary of Ezra Tilden, a local (Stoughton, Massachusetts) man who served at Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga. The Stoughton Historical Society published A Civil War Diary a couple years ago. After teaching and heading a high school English department for 36 years Dwight enjoys retirement puttering with primary sources in local history. “It ain’t the great American novel, but evidently I did not have that in me anyway.” A second marriage to Joan Bryant has yielded nine grandchildren. Life is good. Mark your calendars for the class’ 65th birthday—“Celebrating a Road Well Traveled”—for October 16. For the latest news, view the revised class Web page and comment on the blogs.
—Dave Mangelsdorff, 3410 Turtle Village Drive, San Antonio, TX 78230-3918; (210) 344-0942; dmangels@idworld.net
May - June 2010
Brief note from Chris Ware in North Carolina. “It’s very hard to imagine how different life would have been if I had finished at Dartmouth.” Vietnam, radicalized in “Chiprago,” counterculture years, B.S. at VA Tech and 25 years in Arkansas working for the Game & Fish Commission—that’s an unimaginable “life-route.” John Talbott of Atlanta linked up with Hank Alrich of Austin, Texas. John mentioned looking for William J. O’Reilly. Bill was last seen at O’Dowds in 1997. Hank left Hanover in 1965. Hank shepherded the Armadillo World Headquarters through its last great days, then moved away. Thirty years later he has returned to Austin. Details about Hank are available: www.austin360.com/music/home-with-the-armadillo-191202.html?imw=Y.
John comments he and Hank spent more than a few lazy afternoons playing guitar while sitting on lawn chairs in front of Hitchcock. John and Suzanne are trying to sell their Atlanta-suburbs house and move close to salt water and ocean breezes. But with house values dropping John fears that may limit them to Greenland and New Guinea. Bill Reilly says he enjoyed reading the article on the “Dillo” in Austin, which he had the good fortune to visit sometime during the early 1970s. Hank was there and they had a pleasant evening listening to whoever was playing that night. Bill was on a business trip and had to get back into the pinstripes the following day. Dwight MacKerron is occupying himself with a lot of outdoorsy stuff—hiking with dogs, gardening, hunting and windsurfing—and also just published Exult O Americans & Rejoice! The Revolutionary War Diary of Ezra Tilden, a local (Stoughton, Massachusetts) man who served at Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga. The Stoughton Historical Society published A Civil War Diary a couple years ago. After teaching and heading a high school English department for 36 years Dwight enjoys retirement puttering with primary sources in local history. “It ain’t the great American novel, but evidently I did not have that in me anyway.” A second marriage to Joan Bryant has yielded nine grandchildren. Life is good. Mark your calendars for the class’ 65th birthday—“Celebrating a Road Well Traveled”—for October 16. For the latest news, view the revised class Web page and comment on the blogs.
—Dave Mangelsdorff, 3410 Turtle Village Drive, San Antonio, TX 78230-3918; (210) 344-0942; dmangels@idworld.net