Class Note 1968
Issue
July-August 2022
Here are some classmates in whose company we exult and of whom we may all be proud. These are the 2022 class of 1968 Give a Rouse Award honorees: Peter Buck, Tom Couser, Peter Hofman, Richard Lappin, Henry Masur, and Hank Paulson. Their awards will be presented at a class dinner on Saturday, May 14, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Read about their initiatives, dedication, and generosity at the class website and in The Transmission. Earlier that same day at our class committee meeting in Hanover we’ll congratulate outgoing Alumni Council representative Tom Stonecipher on three years of exemplary service and welcome Woody Lee to the position.
I was delighted to receive correspondence from several classmates about their current status and recent activities. Chuck Adams, the only American expatriate ever confirmed as an ambassador (to Finland, during the second Obama administration), still resides in Geneva, where he works as a partner in the law form of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as co-head of international arbitration. He remains politically engaged with the United States as coordinator of fundraising with Americans abroad for the Democratic National Committee. He’s glad to note Dartmouth’s globalization of the student body and needs-blind financial support for overseas students. Garrett Bayrd, who came to us as a National Merit scholar and was very active in the DOC for four years, retired last year. He checked in after returning from an annual Bahamas fishing trip with Kappa Sigma and in-law brother Joe Colgan, with whom he shares a busy outdoors lifestyle. John Isaacson continues to work in leadership transitions as chair of Isaacson, Miller. He mentions that he stays busy because so many members of our generation are leaving their professions. Perhaps you attended John’s recent online seminar about the considerations involved in selecting the College’s next president. Clifford Groen wrote to send compliments on that webinar series. Also, Preston Prudente shared a brief CV: Navy officer candidate school, then service onboard the USS Long Beach off Vietnam, then M.B.A. from Michigan and 28 years with Andersen Consulting. He’s serving his community of Issaquah, Washington, as a part-time school bus driver.
The Hawaii mini-reunion of March 12-19 attracted 12 members: Scott Reeves with wife Ginny, Jim Lawrie and Bev, Rich Olin and Dianne Martin, John Pfeiffer and Bev, Gary Horlick and Kathryn, Larry Smith and Mary Pritchard, Peter Diamond and Leila, and Dan Tom stayed throughout. Bob Ross joined for the Honolulu segment, Gerry Hills and Martha accompanied on Hawaii Island, and Tom Stonecipher and John Russell visited on Kona.
Class president David Peck and Diane met his former roommate Dick Jones and Martha for lunch in Maryland recently. Dick volunteers in resettlement work with Afghan refugees and in Veterans Administration as liaison for former servicepersons.
Roy Landy, who went on to earn his M.A. from Princeton and J.D. from Hofstra, has passed away. We send condolences to friends and family.
—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com
I was delighted to receive correspondence from several classmates about their current status and recent activities. Chuck Adams, the only American expatriate ever confirmed as an ambassador (to Finland, during the second Obama administration), still resides in Geneva, where he works as a partner in the law form of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as co-head of international arbitration. He remains politically engaged with the United States as coordinator of fundraising with Americans abroad for the Democratic National Committee. He’s glad to note Dartmouth’s globalization of the student body and needs-blind financial support for overseas students. Garrett Bayrd, who came to us as a National Merit scholar and was very active in the DOC for four years, retired last year. He checked in after returning from an annual Bahamas fishing trip with Kappa Sigma and in-law brother Joe Colgan, with whom he shares a busy outdoors lifestyle. John Isaacson continues to work in leadership transitions as chair of Isaacson, Miller. He mentions that he stays busy because so many members of our generation are leaving their professions. Perhaps you attended John’s recent online seminar about the considerations involved in selecting the College’s next president. Clifford Groen wrote to send compliments on that webinar series. Also, Preston Prudente shared a brief CV: Navy officer candidate school, then service onboard the USS Long Beach off Vietnam, then M.B.A. from Michigan and 28 years with Andersen Consulting. He’s serving his community of Issaquah, Washington, as a part-time school bus driver.
The Hawaii mini-reunion of March 12-19 attracted 12 members: Scott Reeves with wife Ginny, Jim Lawrie and Bev, Rich Olin and Dianne Martin, John Pfeiffer and Bev, Gary Horlick and Kathryn, Larry Smith and Mary Pritchard, Peter Diamond and Leila, and Dan Tom stayed throughout. Bob Ross joined for the Honolulu segment, Gerry Hills and Martha accompanied on Hawaii Island, and Tom Stonecipher and John Russell visited on Kona.
Class president David Peck and Diane met his former roommate Dick Jones and Martha for lunch in Maryland recently. Dick volunteers in resettlement work with Afghan refugees and in Veterans Administration as liaison for former servicepersons.
Roy Landy, who went on to earn his M.A. from Princeton and J.D. from Hofstra, has passed away. We send condolences to friends and family.
—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com