Class Note 1968
Winter is a’comin’ in. Happy holiday season to all as we head toward 2016. Which means Winter Carnival is nearing: February 12 through 14. That will also be the next executive committee meeting (Saturday morning) and mini-reunion in Hanover. Come join us! Homecoming Weekend during Columbus Day Weekend was a terrific success: Between the (damp) Friday night Homecoming parade, the Saturday morning executive committee meeting, tailgate at Alpha Delta (AD), satisfying football win over Yale, and dinner at Quechee, Vermont, at least 19 classmates, plus wives, friends and guests, gathered. Several came from afar. Barbara and Jack Hopke were up from New Orleans and shared stories about the city’s recovery from Katrina. Lael Kellett and wife Susan traveled from Florida. During the tailgate they had fun leading a small tour around the AD house, remembering events not too far removed from, and that in fact may have inspired, some of the iconic stories in Animal House. Mia and Tom Laughlin, also from Florida, were on campus for the weekend. Married for 41 years, they have two grown children. Daughter Laura is a lawyer, recently married and due to deliver grandchild No. 1 in several months; son Kiernan is a senior brand manager with Johnson & Johnson and plans to marry in July. Tom recently retired after a 40-year career in marketing and general management with several consumer healthcare companies, including Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Upjohn and Bayer. For many years he was on the board of directors for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, of which he served as chairman for two years. He and Mia split their time between Florida and a retreat in Vermont near Mount Snow, and enjoy golf and their energetic golden retriever. And Tom is an author! He e-published a novel, Absence of Intent, a fictitious romantic drama about a young Boston family, set in Boston, Tuscany and Rome in Italy and an Ivy League campus in New Hampshire. And our class has other authors with new books out or coming soon: Bob Reich with his Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few; Jeff Garten with From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives (due out March 2016) and Hank Paulson with Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower. The Paulson Institute co-hosted a conference of Chinese and United States CEOs in conjunction with the recent visit of the president of China. Woody Lee recently spoke at the Museum of African American History in Boston on “Dartmouth’s First 133 Black Students.” John Engelman noticed a clever reference to Gordie Rule in a recent Sports Illustrated. From Facebook: Tony Dambrava and wife Susan (Sam) celebrated their anniversary in October, either 51 years from when they first met at ages 18, or 12 years since they re-met and married at age 57. And from your secretary, a new house and new address, but same old (nearly 400 years) town. Come visit sometime!
—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com
