Class Note 1968
Issue
Sept - Oct 2019
The Dartmouth Alumni Council presented the Dartmouth Alumni Award to Ed Heald for his extraordinary service to Dartmouth and civic organizations in addition to career accomplishment. Ed’s contributions to our class have been endless: He organized three class reunions and many mini-reunions, annual ski trips and golf trips, and an annual men’s soccer alumni weekend. That’s in addition to working with the Dartmouth College Fund and the admissions interviewing program. Ed is the sixth ’68 class member to receive this honor.
The Vietnam War had a profound impact on our class. So at our May class meeting the class decided to contribute $10,000 to the Dartmouth Vietnam Project, which is taping and transcribing interviews with former students and community members who lived through the Vietnam War era. Several classmates—some veterans and some antiwar protestors—have already been interviewed: Bear Elliot, Jeffrey Hinman, Andrew Hotaling, Calvin Jones Jr., Michael Lenehan, Arnold Resnicoff, Richard Parker, David Stearns, and John Spritzler. Search online for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. There’s information on this website about how to become an interviewee. Peace Corps and Teacher Corps stories are welcome.
Upcoming mini-reunion in New York City November 8-10 will center around the Dartmouth-Princeton game at Yankee Stadium on November 9. Contact Roger Witten at rogermwitten@gmail.com if you’re coming.
The information booth on the Green has been a fixture for decades. After longstanding funding sources dried up, John Engelman helped save the booth by organizing alumni and friends to staff it. He also convinced Sphinx to make a grant through its foundation.
Our class is fully supportive of Dartmouth’s Call to Serve campaign, which aims for 250,000 volunteer hours. Hours spent on community garden projects and soup kitchens all count. An idea list is on the College website. The Rassias Center is supporting an education project in Mexico in November.
If you’d like to target a contribution to help low-income students or international students or to endow Dartmouth Hall or for any one of 100 special projects (outside the annual Dartmouth Alumni Fund), check out the Call to Lead on the Dartmouth website.
Dr. Roger Lenke showed up at our last class meeting in Hanover—classmates are always welcome. Roger and his wife, Joanne, moved to Hanover from Indiana a few years ago. They join a growing class presence in Hanover and environs. The class meeting was well-attended. Besides officers and regulars, Norm Silverman came from Michigan, Cedric Kam from Massachusetts, Roger Arvid Anderson from San Francisco, Jack Hopke from New Orleans, and Daniel Tom flew in from Hawaii.
David Prentice ’69, who produced our 40th reunion book, found extra copies in his garage in Canada. I’ve got a few extras too. If anyone wants a copy, let me know.
Our classmate Dr. Stephen F. Bauer died February 22 in Rochester, New York. An obituary for him appears online at www.dartmouthalumni magazine.com/obits and at our class website at www.dartmouth68.org.
—Dick Olson, 1021 Nottingham Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230; rwolson68@gmail.com
The Vietnam War had a profound impact on our class. So at our May class meeting the class decided to contribute $10,000 to the Dartmouth Vietnam Project, which is taping and transcribing interviews with former students and community members who lived through the Vietnam War era. Several classmates—some veterans and some antiwar protestors—have already been interviewed: Bear Elliot, Jeffrey Hinman, Andrew Hotaling, Calvin Jones Jr., Michael Lenehan, Arnold Resnicoff, Richard Parker, David Stearns, and John Spritzler. Search online for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. There’s information on this website about how to become an interviewee. Peace Corps and Teacher Corps stories are welcome.
Upcoming mini-reunion in New York City November 8-10 will center around the Dartmouth-Princeton game at Yankee Stadium on November 9. Contact Roger Witten at rogermwitten@gmail.com if you’re coming.
The information booth on the Green has been a fixture for decades. After longstanding funding sources dried up, John Engelman helped save the booth by organizing alumni and friends to staff it. He also convinced Sphinx to make a grant through its foundation.
Our class is fully supportive of Dartmouth’s Call to Serve campaign, which aims for 250,000 volunteer hours. Hours spent on community garden projects and soup kitchens all count. An idea list is on the College website. The Rassias Center is supporting an education project in Mexico in November.
If you’d like to target a contribution to help low-income students or international students or to endow Dartmouth Hall or for any one of 100 special projects (outside the annual Dartmouth Alumni Fund), check out the Call to Lead on the Dartmouth website.
Dr. Roger Lenke showed up at our last class meeting in Hanover—classmates are always welcome. Roger and his wife, Joanne, moved to Hanover from Indiana a few years ago. They join a growing class presence in Hanover and environs. The class meeting was well-attended. Besides officers and regulars, Norm Silverman came from Michigan, Cedric Kam from Massachusetts, Roger Arvid Anderson from San Francisco, Jack Hopke from New Orleans, and Daniel Tom flew in from Hawaii.
David Prentice ’69, who produced our 40th reunion book, found extra copies in his garage in Canada. I’ve got a few extras too. If anyone wants a copy, let me know.
Our classmate Dr. Stephen F. Bauer died February 22 in Rochester, New York. An obituary for him appears online at www.dartmouthalumni magazine.com/obits and at our class website at www.dartmouth68.org.
—Dick Olson, 1021 Nottingham Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230; rwolson68@gmail.com