Class Note 1968
Issue
November-December 2021
Grandparental advisory: The following is rated PG-75 for euphemisms and public unconcealment.
A College email displaying recent campus summer scenes was as a petite-madeleine dipped in tea to several classmates. Their thoughts and senses were cast back to undergraduate summers spent in Hanover. Several synesthetic recollections of Proustian detail were shared about warmly remembered academic and social situations, all of which revealed gratitude for being there and descriptions of Hanover summers as “magical.”
Dave Gang’s 1967 Hanover summer of premed physics study with roommate Ted Renna was highlighted by two extracurricular events. The first earned him a lifetime ban from Storrs Pond, after he and a girlfriend from Smith attempted an au naturel natatorial visit but were interrupted by the local gendarmerie. On another occasion, the same couple ignored towering thunderheads and the revealing absence of other boaters for a canoeing stint on Lake Mascoma. They rolled their vessel in reaction to frighteningly close lightning and thunder, but were rescued by observers onshore, who “were not at all surprised to learn that we had come from Dartmouth.”
Gary Horlick did some local canoeing too. In 1966 he spent six summer weeks working for a Thayer professor on the “relatively compact campus.” In afternoons not darkened by storm clouds or lit by thunderbolts he’d walk from Middle Mass to the calm Connecticut for paddling sessions.
Tom Stonecipher recalled the summer of 1967, when he, Henry Homeyer, and Joe Carbonari were running an office of economic opportunity children’s program in Norwich, Vermont. He and Henry housed with Barbara Barnes (later a Dartmouth dean) and hitchhiked to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and the Montreal World’s Fair. Tom also recalled trips with the program’s kids to watch ox-pulling contests at the Norwich Fair and go blueberry picking. He gave J.D. Salinger’s daughter a piggyback ride on the Norwich Green.
Jim Lawrie is hard to top for undergraduate summers in Hanover. He spent three, the first while taking a 20-week organic chemistry course in just eight, and the others doing data analysis in the psychiatry department at the Med School. Write to Jim to enroll in the class community service program and ask him if he remembers any organic chemistry.
The Peace Corps language-culture training for Francophone West Africa was on campus in the summers of 1966 and 1967, and Warren Cooke spent that time there working with John Rassias. Warren and Mark Waterhouse, who also stayed in Hanover for two summers while working for the psychology department, shared happy memories of special times.
Peter Wonson spent seven summers in Hanover, but after graduation, first as a member of the rock band, Tracks, and later while taking M.A.L.S. coursework. He mentioned liking the slower pace of the campus scene in those years.
In present day events, Cedric Kam is anticipating a Cape Cod meeting with Sam Swisher and Dennis Donahue, and Frederic Gruder has been enjoying monthly Zoom sessions with fellow Pi Lams, doctors Ted Levin, Freddy Appelbaum, and a fully clothed Dave Gang.
—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com
A College email displaying recent campus summer scenes was as a petite-madeleine dipped in tea to several classmates. Their thoughts and senses were cast back to undergraduate summers spent in Hanover. Several synesthetic recollections of Proustian detail were shared about warmly remembered academic and social situations, all of which revealed gratitude for being there and descriptions of Hanover summers as “magical.”
Dave Gang’s 1967 Hanover summer of premed physics study with roommate Ted Renna was highlighted by two extracurricular events. The first earned him a lifetime ban from Storrs Pond, after he and a girlfriend from Smith attempted an au naturel natatorial visit but were interrupted by the local gendarmerie. On another occasion, the same couple ignored towering thunderheads and the revealing absence of other boaters for a canoeing stint on Lake Mascoma. They rolled their vessel in reaction to frighteningly close lightning and thunder, but were rescued by observers onshore, who “were not at all surprised to learn that we had come from Dartmouth.”
Gary Horlick did some local canoeing too. In 1966 he spent six summer weeks working for a Thayer professor on the “relatively compact campus.” In afternoons not darkened by storm clouds or lit by thunderbolts he’d walk from Middle Mass to the calm Connecticut for paddling sessions.
Tom Stonecipher recalled the summer of 1967, when he, Henry Homeyer, and Joe Carbonari were running an office of economic opportunity children’s program in Norwich, Vermont. He and Henry housed with Barbara Barnes (later a Dartmouth dean) and hitchhiked to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and the Montreal World’s Fair. Tom also recalled trips with the program’s kids to watch ox-pulling contests at the Norwich Fair and go blueberry picking. He gave J.D. Salinger’s daughter a piggyback ride on the Norwich Green.
Jim Lawrie is hard to top for undergraduate summers in Hanover. He spent three, the first while taking a 20-week organic chemistry course in just eight, and the others doing data analysis in the psychiatry department at the Med School. Write to Jim to enroll in the class community service program and ask him if he remembers any organic chemistry.
The Peace Corps language-culture training for Francophone West Africa was on campus in the summers of 1966 and 1967, and Warren Cooke spent that time there working with John Rassias. Warren and Mark Waterhouse, who also stayed in Hanover for two summers while working for the psychology department, shared happy memories of special times.
Peter Wonson spent seven summers in Hanover, but after graduation, first as a member of the rock band, Tracks, and later while taking M.A.L.S. coursework. He mentioned liking the slower pace of the campus scene in those years.
In present day events, Cedric Kam is anticipating a Cape Cod meeting with Sam Swisher and Dennis Donahue, and Frederic Gruder has been enjoying monthly Zoom sessions with fellow Pi Lams, doctors Ted Levin, Freddy Appelbaum, and a fully clothed Dave Gang.
—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com