Class Note 1967
Issue
January-February 2023
Our 55th class reunion is in the books! We had 156 classmates and partners able to attend, 136 in Hanover and 20 via Zoom. The distance prize went to Don Wehrung, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Nancy Smoyer, Fairbanks, Alaska.
At the class meeting Sam Ostrow, Ed Gray (in absentia), Larry Langford, Jim Rooks (in absentia), Joe Alviani,and Howard Sharfstein gave a solid accounting of the past five years and the promise of many more to come. Paul Killebrew, Bob Davidson, Hugh Freund, and Ed Kern gave updates on current class projects and Ford von Reyn (on video) proposed that the class of 1967 support a Dartmouth international vaccine institute. After the meeting came a tour of the new Hood Museum and a box lunch. Classmates gathered at the Top of the Hop for a memorial service conducted by Mobby Larson and George McIlrath to honor the names of the 146 classmates who have passed since 1966. Later that afternoon Chuck Hobbie, Fred Cowan, Paul and Joyce Killebrew, Jeff Pond and Dr. Peter Kilmarx ’83 shared their life-changing experiences from their time in the Peace Corps.
That evening at Dowd’s the meal was delicious, the crowd was boisterous and full of good cheer and animated conversation, the band was great, and Sam Ostrow’s after-dinner remarks were spot on. All in all, it was a fine way to end the day.
Sunday morning several made the trip to Moosilauke and the Class of ’67 Cabin, including Eric and Jean Kintner, Bill White, John and Elizabeth Hodgson, Nick Mason and Karen Matheson, Ed and Pris Kern, Chuck and Young Hobbie, and Bob and Betsy Davidson. Meanwhile, 20 classmates and partners joined Mike and Eileen Gfroerer on tours of two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses in Manchester, New Hampshire. They included Don Wehrung andSwan Zhou, Bill Judd, Bruce Chasan andBarbara Stratton, Bob andKathie Hession, Bob andBarbara Sanner, Knox Johnstone andJudith Pay, Ric andDonna Alpert, Jeff andSarah Maynard, John and Gail Wasson, Wayne and Susan Letizia, and Nancy Smoyer.
Thanks to Bruce Pacht, reunion chair, it was an exceptional event.
—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01339; 1967damnotes@gmail.com
At the class meeting Sam Ostrow, Ed Gray (in absentia), Larry Langford, Jim Rooks (in absentia), Joe Alviani,and Howard Sharfstein gave a solid accounting of the past five years and the promise of many more to come. Paul Killebrew, Bob Davidson, Hugh Freund, and Ed Kern gave updates on current class projects and Ford von Reyn (on video) proposed that the class of 1967 support a Dartmouth international vaccine institute. After the meeting came a tour of the new Hood Museum and a box lunch. Classmates gathered at the Top of the Hop for a memorial service conducted by Mobby Larson and George McIlrath to honor the names of the 146 classmates who have passed since 1966. Later that afternoon Chuck Hobbie, Fred Cowan, Paul and Joyce Killebrew, Jeff Pond and Dr. Peter Kilmarx ’83 shared their life-changing experiences from their time in the Peace Corps.
That evening at Dowd’s the meal was delicious, the crowd was boisterous and full of good cheer and animated conversation, the band was great, and Sam Ostrow’s after-dinner remarks were spot on. All in all, it was a fine way to end the day.
Sunday morning several made the trip to Moosilauke and the Class of ’67 Cabin, including Eric and Jean Kintner, Bill White, John and Elizabeth Hodgson, Nick Mason and Karen Matheson, Ed and Pris Kern, Chuck and Young Hobbie, and Bob and Betsy Davidson. Meanwhile, 20 classmates and partners joined Mike and Eileen Gfroerer on tours of two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses in Manchester, New Hampshire. They included Don Wehrung andSwan Zhou, Bill Judd, Bruce Chasan andBarbara Stratton, Bob andKathie Hession, Bob andBarbara Sanner, Knox Johnstone andJudith Pay, Ric andDonna Alpert, Jeff andSarah Maynard, John and Gail Wasson, Wayne and Susan Letizia, and Nancy Smoyer.
Thanks to Bruce Pacht, reunion chair, it was an exceptional event.
—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01339; 1967damnotes@gmail.com