Class Note 1968
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
What are we going to do when we grow up? This Dartmouth magazine should be arriving right around reunion time, a time of looking back, for sure, but also ahead. We are all entering (or already in) a new chapter in our lives, and our financial advisors are telling us we may have another 20 or more years. How we use these years, for family, for creative retirement or continued work, for travel, for volunteering and community service is bound to be interesting. So, continue sharing with this column and the website! One thing the future will bring, for certain, is more grandchildren. I checked our SurveyMonkey results and, not surprisingly, the number of grandchildren per classmate is still going up, up from 3.4 to 4.4 for all classmates with grandkids.
Speaking of reunion, one honorary degree recipient will be our own Peter Fahey. Check out the College’s website on Commencement to see Peter’s accomplishments, the greatest of which, of course, is his service as our class president. Congratulations, Peter and Helen, without whom those accomplishments would not have been possible. As a class we continue to support the travel industry. Nancy and Bill Mutterperl have visited all seven continents, including a recent trip to Antarctica. They have seen enough penguins for several lifetimes. But as interesting as that trip was, they still prefer sitting in a café in Paris. Mike O’Connor wrote from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he is still working, though with reduced hours. Mike has three adult children in Boston, Detroit, and Chicago, and Mike’s wife, Mary, has three as well, two in Michigan and one in Florida. They have a total of 13 grandchildren between them, with the youngest born in March. Mike is bringing up the travel mileage and grandchildren average, for sure! The last Dartmouth magazine scooped me! Mark Nelson has a new book out: Pushing Our Limits: Insights from Biosphere 2. It is a re-examination of that high-profile and controversial project. Mark was one of eight “crewmembers” who lived in Biosphere 2 for two years between 1991 and 1993. Mark has also published The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time. Mark serves as the chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Some quick notes from classmates: George Spivey was featured in a Cape Cod Times article about Martin Luther King Jr.’s ongoing inspiration to service. In 2003 George was a founding member of the No Place for Hate chapter on the Cape and remains active working in the community on racial justice. Rich Olin noted that he has finally retired and is getting back to some hiking after multiple body part replacements. “I should have opted for the extended warranty!” John Lynch,M.D., has moved from Connecticut to Richmond, Virginia, after a divorce and plans to come out of retirement. There will be plenty of trips back to Connecticut to visit his daughter and three grandchildren.
—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com
Speaking of reunion, one honorary degree recipient will be our own Peter Fahey. Check out the College’s website on Commencement to see Peter’s accomplishments, the greatest of which, of course, is his service as our class president. Congratulations, Peter and Helen, without whom those accomplishments would not have been possible. As a class we continue to support the travel industry. Nancy and Bill Mutterperl have visited all seven continents, including a recent trip to Antarctica. They have seen enough penguins for several lifetimes. But as interesting as that trip was, they still prefer sitting in a café in Paris. Mike O’Connor wrote from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he is still working, though with reduced hours. Mike has three adult children in Boston, Detroit, and Chicago, and Mike’s wife, Mary, has three as well, two in Michigan and one in Florida. They have a total of 13 grandchildren between them, with the youngest born in March. Mike is bringing up the travel mileage and grandchildren average, for sure! The last Dartmouth magazine scooped me! Mark Nelson has a new book out: Pushing Our Limits: Insights from Biosphere 2. It is a re-examination of that high-profile and controversial project. Mark was one of eight “crewmembers” who lived in Biosphere 2 for two years between 1991 and 1993. Mark has also published The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time. Mark serves as the chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Some quick notes from classmates: George Spivey was featured in a Cape Cod Times article about Martin Luther King Jr.’s ongoing inspiration to service. In 2003 George was a founding member of the No Place for Hate chapter on the Cape and remains active working in the community on racial justice. Rich Olin noted that he has finally retired and is getting back to some hiking after multiple body part replacements. “I should have opted for the extended warranty!” John Lynch,M.D., has moved from Connecticut to Richmond, Virginia, after a divorce and plans to come out of retirement. There will be plenty of trips back to Connecticut to visit his daughter and three grandchildren.
—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com