Class Note 1968
Issue
July-August 2021
With vaccinations progressing and relief from sequestration in sight, your class is planning numerous opportunities later this year and much of next finally to get together again. Mini-reunion chair Norm Silverman and several active cohorts, including Ed Heald, Gerry Hills, Dan Tom, Peter Diamond, John Engelman, John Pfeiffer and others, have begun, and in some cases completed, plans for a spate of gatherings everywhere from Hanover to Hawaii. Please watch The Transmission and the class website for details, because these exciting opportunities to celebrate with your classmates may have limitations on the number of registrants and time to reserve.
Go also to the same sources for lists of classmates’ fascinating webinars you may wish to attend and to fulfill the commitment you may have made to provide a community service program (CSP) entry. Many CSP obligations remain outstanding. Contact Peter Hofman or Peter Wonson for help getting started.
I had some correspondence with Ed Schneider recently in the wake of the Suez Canal boat incident. Ed crewed on ships during our years at Dartmouth and, after attaining his M.B.A. at Harvard, spent a career in the shipping industry as a supplier to major companies. He and Liliane are doing well in California, despite last year’s dual hits of Covid and the loss of a house to fire.
My ROTC colleague Jeff Garten and I didn’t know we were both at Fort Bragg in 1969, so it’s been almost 52 years since we spoke; lately we’ve been in touch in anticipation of the July publication of his latest book, Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy. It’s a blow-by-blow account of a weekend when the Nixon administration took the dollar off the gold standard and all that ensued. After serving as a managing director of the Blackstone Group, Jeff became undersecretary for international trade in the Clinton administration and later dean of the Yale School of Management. He’s now retired, but he continues to teach courses in international finance and trade, after which he no doubt heads home to enjoy the culinary splendors of his famous wife, Ina.
I sent 75th birthday greetings to Bob Tannenwald in Brookline, Massachusetts, but I was off by a year, since he reminded me that he skipped third grade. Bob’s now fully retired after 30 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He, too, remains professionally and creatively active by writing an occasional column for the magazine, Tax Notes-State. He’s looking forward to the Covid-delayed marriage celebration of his eldest son this summer.
Peter Fahey knows a lot about popular music and, as Darlene Love’s pal, especially about female vocals. He alerted me to an article in the February 1 issue of New York magazine about the great Dusty Springfield. Let me pass the recommendation along; it’s a good, relatively brief read.
Please write to share your post-pandemic plans! They’ll be instructive and motivational to all of us.
—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com
Go also to the same sources for lists of classmates’ fascinating webinars you may wish to attend and to fulfill the commitment you may have made to provide a community service program (CSP) entry. Many CSP obligations remain outstanding. Contact Peter Hofman or Peter Wonson for help getting started.
I had some correspondence with Ed Schneider recently in the wake of the Suez Canal boat incident. Ed crewed on ships during our years at Dartmouth and, after attaining his M.B.A. at Harvard, spent a career in the shipping industry as a supplier to major companies. He and Liliane are doing well in California, despite last year’s dual hits of Covid and the loss of a house to fire.
My ROTC colleague Jeff Garten and I didn’t know we were both at Fort Bragg in 1969, so it’s been almost 52 years since we spoke; lately we’ve been in touch in anticipation of the July publication of his latest book, Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy. It’s a blow-by-blow account of a weekend when the Nixon administration took the dollar off the gold standard and all that ensued. After serving as a managing director of the Blackstone Group, Jeff became undersecretary for international trade in the Clinton administration and later dean of the Yale School of Management. He’s now retired, but he continues to teach courses in international finance and trade, after which he no doubt heads home to enjoy the culinary splendors of his famous wife, Ina.
I sent 75th birthday greetings to Bob Tannenwald in Brookline, Massachusetts, but I was off by a year, since he reminded me that he skipped third grade. Bob’s now fully retired after 30 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He, too, remains professionally and creatively active by writing an occasional column for the magazine, Tax Notes-State. He’s looking forward to the Covid-delayed marriage celebration of his eldest son this summer.
Peter Fahey knows a lot about popular music and, as Darlene Love’s pal, especially about female vocals. He alerted me to an article in the February 1 issue of New York magazine about the great Dusty Springfield. Let me pass the recommendation along; it’s a good, relatively brief read.
Please write to share your post-pandemic plans! They’ll be instructive and motivational to all of us.
—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com