Class Note 1968
Issue
We have a new class newsletter editor: Dave Gang has succeeded Greg Marshall. Let’s thank Greg and welcome Dave and send lots of news his way—but save some for me! More listserv news: Dirk Hartogs, in addition to his usual intellectual property and patent litigation work and grandchildren, has been working for the 2010 census locating and counting homeless people in Silicon Valley. Even in a location of prosperity, achievement and wealth there are a surprising number of such “outdoor people” who may well be undercounted in the census. John Pierce reported in on his Vancouver Olympic experiences. He was a volunteer on the timing team for cross-country and Nordic combined events and was in charge of putting transponders on the ankles of the racers and GPS units on their bibs. He noted there was a Dartmouth reception in Vancouver, where he met Gordon Campbell ’70, the premier of British Columbia. John did note that only time will tell if the lavish expenditures by the province and country to host the Olympics will be a net benefit in the long run. But Canadian patriotism definitely got a boost! Jeff Garten and his wife, Ina, the “Barefoot Contessa,” spent their 41st wedding anniversary in Paris. She is finishing up her seventh cookbook, for which he is chief taster. Jeff remains in teaching at the Yale School of Management, with classes on Wall Street and China, both timely and continuing topics of relevance. He also finds time to chair a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm called Garten Rothkopf. John Miksic wrote from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he and wife Heimun were visiting daughter Vonya, son-in-law Nate Eisinger, a 2-year-old granddaughter and son Ezra, who was visiting from San Diego. Both Vonya and Ezra have multiple degrees and both in biotechnology. John hopes to see Don Middleton on one of these future Pittsburgh trips, since John’s home is in Singapore. He teaches in the Southeast Asia studies program at the National University of Singapore, where he is involved in archeological projects at Angkor, Cambodia, Bagan, Myanmar, Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, as well as Singapore. He welcomes any Dartmouth classmate to come visit! Bill Escovitz was a recent traveler as well; he and Sari went from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to New York City to visit their sons Dan and Dave. Dave, 27, works in video post-production; Dan, 30, is in first year of an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago after six years of consulting. Howard Hoffman wrote to report he is a fulltime Hasidic rabbi and psychotherapist in Denver. Learn more at www.rabbihenochdov.com.
Have a great summer, all, and send news now to both of us Davids.
—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@childrens.harvard.edu
July - Aug 2010
We have a new class newsletter editor: Dave Gang has succeeded Greg Marshall. Let’s thank Greg and welcome Dave and send lots of news his way—but save some for me! More listserv news: Dirk Hartogs, in addition to his usual intellectual property and patent litigation work and grandchildren, has been working for the 2010 census locating and counting homeless people in Silicon Valley. Even in a location of prosperity, achievement and wealth there are a surprising number of such “outdoor people” who may well be undercounted in the census. John Pierce reported in on his Vancouver Olympic experiences. He was a volunteer on the timing team for cross-country and Nordic combined events and was in charge of putting transponders on the ankles of the racers and GPS units on their bibs. He noted there was a Dartmouth reception in Vancouver, where he met Gordon Campbell ’70, the premier of British Columbia. John did note that only time will tell if the lavish expenditures by the province and country to host the Olympics will be a net benefit in the long run. But Canadian patriotism definitely got a boost! Jeff Garten and his wife, Ina, the “Barefoot Contessa,” spent their 41st wedding anniversary in Paris. She is finishing up her seventh cookbook, for which he is chief taster. Jeff remains in teaching at the Yale School of Management, with classes on Wall Street and China, both timely and continuing topics of relevance. He also finds time to chair a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm called Garten Rothkopf. John Miksic wrote from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he and wife Heimun were visiting daughter Vonya, son-in-law Nate Eisinger, a 2-year-old granddaughter and son Ezra, who was visiting from San Diego. Both Vonya and Ezra have multiple degrees and both in biotechnology. John hopes to see Don Middleton on one of these future Pittsburgh trips, since John’s home is in Singapore. He teaches in the Southeast Asia studies program at the National University of Singapore, where he is involved in archeological projects at Angkor, Cambodia, Bagan, Myanmar, Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, as well as Singapore. He welcomes any Dartmouth classmate to come visit! Bill Escovitz was a recent traveler as well; he and Sari went from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to New York City to visit their sons Dan and Dave. Dave, 27, works in video post-production; Dan, 30, is in first year of an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago after six years of consulting. Howard Hoffman wrote to report he is a fulltime Hasidic rabbi and psychotherapist in Denver. Learn more at www.rabbihenochdov.com.
Have a great summer, all, and send news now to both of us Davids.
—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@childrens.harvard.edu