Class Note 1968
Issue
Reminders for upcoming class events in near future: the weekend of September 18-20 being organized by John Everett (jceverettjr@aol.com) with Jack Noon, and Homecoming weekend October 23-25 for the Columbia weekend. There will be an executive committee meeting that Saturday morning and a dinner that evening. Hope you can join us! One (only) incoming legacy to the class of 2013 from our class: Rebecca Drapkin, daughter of Dennis Drapkin. Fewer sons and daughters legacies these days, but we can’t be too far from grandchildren legacies. Pete Wonson’s e-mail reflections on learning more about classmate community service prompted a lively response. Pete’s pre-Dartmouth friend Ted Nixon wrote about becoming a schoolteacher after a 25-year career in the radio business. He went back to school and is now in his 11th year of teaching French in a middle school in the Rochester, New York, area. In addition to becoming a teacher he has dedicated himself to three nonprofits: Action for a Better Community, Reachout Radio for the Blind and Compeer, a friendship program with the mentally ill. Eric Jones wrote that he has taught adult education to men and women in transition from lost jobs and lost goals and purpose. Before moving to the West Coast Eric taught high school in Hanover until 1976. In recent years he has lost both kidneys and does renal dialysis 12 hours a week, making him appreciative of how important life, good health and good friends can be. Paul Fitzgerald checked in by e-mail too: A ski trip regular, he was proselytizing on next year’s planned trip to the Tahoe, California, area not far from his home in San Francisco. He’s been at the University of California San Francisco since starting his endocrinology fellowship in 1976. Big news in his area is a whole new campus at Mission Bay, with good land and better weather (what does that mean?). Daughter Erin is nearby in Oakland, California, and just finished a master’s in music. Son Brent got his master’s at MIT’s media lab and is back on the left coast, where he started a small company called Taco Lab. Our new Facebook group page has at least one more friend (but not much news, to date): Ric Gruder, and possibly Peter Emmel (late news as I write these notes). Incidentally, ’68 wannabe Dave Prentice ’69 wrote to commend trying out Facebook as a communication mode—he says there may be 80 to 90 of his classmates using it. And I got a note from Jim Morrison that he has set up a LinkedIn group for our class—haven’t tried it myself, but will! Let’s all try to ramp up our communication. News welcome in any form.
—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@childrens.harvard.edu
Sept - Oct 2009
Reminders for upcoming class events in near future: the weekend of September 18-20 being organized by John Everett (jceverettjr@aol.com) with Jack Noon, and Homecoming weekend October 23-25 for the Columbia weekend. There will be an executive committee meeting that Saturday morning and a dinner that evening. Hope you can join us! One (only) incoming legacy to the class of 2013 from our class: Rebecca Drapkin, daughter of Dennis Drapkin. Fewer sons and daughters legacies these days, but we can’t be too far from grandchildren legacies. Pete Wonson’s e-mail reflections on learning more about classmate community service prompted a lively response. Pete’s pre-Dartmouth friend Ted Nixon wrote about becoming a schoolteacher after a 25-year career in the radio business. He went back to school and is now in his 11th year of teaching French in a middle school in the Rochester, New York, area. In addition to becoming a teacher he has dedicated himself to three nonprofits: Action for a Better Community, Reachout Radio for the Blind and Compeer, a friendship program with the mentally ill. Eric Jones wrote that he has taught adult education to men and women in transition from lost jobs and lost goals and purpose. Before moving to the West Coast Eric taught high school in Hanover until 1976. In recent years he has lost both kidneys and does renal dialysis 12 hours a week, making him appreciative of how important life, good health and good friends can be. Paul Fitzgerald checked in by e-mail too: A ski trip regular, he was proselytizing on next year’s planned trip to the Tahoe, California, area not far from his home in San Francisco. He’s been at the University of California San Francisco since starting his endocrinology fellowship in 1976. Big news in his area is a whole new campus at Mission Bay, with good land and better weather (what does that mean?). Daughter Erin is nearby in Oakland, California, and just finished a master’s in music. Son Brent got his master’s at MIT’s media lab and is back on the left coast, where he started a small company called Taco Lab. Our new Facebook group page has at least one more friend (but not much news, to date): Ric Gruder, and possibly Peter Emmel (late news as I write these notes). Incidentally, ’68 wannabe Dave Prentice ’69 wrote to commend trying out Facebook as a communication mode—he says there may be 80 to 90 of his classmates using it. And I got a note from Jim Morrison that he has set up a LinkedIn group for our class—haven’t tried it myself, but will! Let’s all try to ramp up our communication. News welcome in any form.
—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@childrens.harvard.edu