Answering “What was your most memorable summer?” Jim Grotta said that in 1961 he “landed a bellboy job on the SS Independence and spent the summer sailing from New York to exotic Mediterranean ports.” Christian Smith spent the “summer 1965 with Rick Meyer touring the Middle East, Russia, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and most of Europe.” For Warren Cook it was the summer of 1968, “when my best friend was killed in Vietnam, and 1969 as platoon commander. But my best summers were putting up hay on the farm I grew up on.” Wayne Beyer spent part of the summer of 1967 “in the Amazon jungle with my father traveling among the few groups left in the world untouched by civilization.” In 1957 John Lobitz “went to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and climbed the Grand Teton with my father, my brother, and legendary guide Glen Exum.” Bruce Pacht in 1967 “drove leisurely alone across the country for two weeks, played $2 blackjack in Reno, Nevada, arrived at Stanford at the end of the ‘Summer of Love,’ and plunged into an entirely new world.” In 1968 Paul Killebrew’s “draft board refused to let me finish graduate school. I made immediate application to the Peace Corps, a marriage proposal to Joyce, had our wedding six weeks later, and then waited two months for my acceptance into the Peace Corps or my draft notice.” In 1962 Ed Mallett “drove with a friend in his 1953 Chevrolet across the West to Yosemite, San Francisco, Seattle, and back down through Colorado into Texas. My first trip west of Austin, Texas: unforgettable.” For Al Hine it was “the summer of 1973 I spent in Iceland at a very remote site studying glaciers and glacial floods, where I nearly drowned.” In 1968, out of nowhere, Jeff Zorn got a life-changing offer to teach at Miles College, a historically Black college in Alabama, which he “accepted with “pure Sixties logic: My father strongly disapproved, calling the job too dangerous and a waste of my Ivy League education, so I knew it had to be right to take it.” You can read all these stories in full at 1967.dartmouth.org.

—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01339; 1967damnotes@gmail.com