Class Note 1969
Issue
Jul - Aug 2016
There has been a lot of activity in the class recently and it feels like momentum is building as we roll toward our 50th!
We saw two events in April drawing encouraging numbers of classmates. Trivia Night held on campus at Collis drew 50 ’19s and nearly a dozen ’69s and spouses. Our Class Connections coordinators Norman Jacobs and Dona Heller organized the evening and Rick Willets and Paul Tuhus created the trivia questions and hosted the event. Comments from the students and our classmates were unanimous in their praise for the entertainment and communication among the attendees. As Dona and Norman reported: “The whole evening’s experience embodied the essence and goals of the Class Connections program: fostering inter-class, inter-generational bonds and enhancing a sense of the Dartmouth community.”
A day later more than 45 members of our class, accompanied by spouses and friends, attended another Sandy Alderson-sponsored Mets baseball game at Citi Field. Among those present who do not appear often in this column were Richard Detwiler, Greg Dobbs, Richard Bourgeois, Glen Culbertson, Bruce Henry, David Kinsey, Peter Lawrence, Loren Lortscher, James “Mac” Mullins, Ken Paul, Clay Roberts, Don Syracuse, Allan Wolkoff and John Singler. Sandy reserved two suites for this august group and was present before game time to greet people as they arrived. There was seating available on an outdoor terrace for the hard-core ball fans but most chose to stay in the suites and mingle. All reports were wildly positive about the generous hospitality shown by Sandy and his staff and the good time meeting old and new friends among the attendees. When Sandy returned after a disappointing loss Paul presented him with a beautiful graphic of Citi Field in Mets’ colors in a shadowbox frame as a gesture of appreciation from the class.
For those of us who missed these April events, there are more opportunities to be with classmates. The first is the Hudson Valley gathering July 11-13, when more than a dozen have already agreed to participate and details can be found on the class website (www.dartmouth69.org). In October we will again have a Homecoming reunion, and plans are in the works for new and exciting events designed to interest and intrigue as much as last year’s.
Our webmaster Peter Elias has reached out to the class and received a response from Bill Shade, who reports enjoying retirement after leaving his insurance agency in 2012. He and Sue are healthy and their three sons are doing well, while he remains active with hobbies, a local bank board and working outdoors at their home near Decatur, Illinois. Also responding to Peter, Brian Maracle says he has been living on the Six Nations Indian Reserve in southern Ontario for the past 23 years, during which he taught the Mohawk language in an adult immersion program.
Class agent John Myers reports our Alumni Fund progress is ahead of the College’s performance at about 55 percent of our target. Please participate and help us exceed our goal.
Next column look for more on Gene Pinover and a book from Arnie Weingart.
—Steve Larson, 465 Miller Road, Winchester, VA 22602; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com
We saw two events in April drawing encouraging numbers of classmates. Trivia Night held on campus at Collis drew 50 ’19s and nearly a dozen ’69s and spouses. Our Class Connections coordinators Norman Jacobs and Dona Heller organized the evening and Rick Willets and Paul Tuhus created the trivia questions and hosted the event. Comments from the students and our classmates were unanimous in their praise for the entertainment and communication among the attendees. As Dona and Norman reported: “The whole evening’s experience embodied the essence and goals of the Class Connections program: fostering inter-class, inter-generational bonds and enhancing a sense of the Dartmouth community.”
A day later more than 45 members of our class, accompanied by spouses and friends, attended another Sandy Alderson-sponsored Mets baseball game at Citi Field. Among those present who do not appear often in this column were Richard Detwiler, Greg Dobbs, Richard Bourgeois, Glen Culbertson, Bruce Henry, David Kinsey, Peter Lawrence, Loren Lortscher, James “Mac” Mullins, Ken Paul, Clay Roberts, Don Syracuse, Allan Wolkoff and John Singler. Sandy reserved two suites for this august group and was present before game time to greet people as they arrived. There was seating available on an outdoor terrace for the hard-core ball fans but most chose to stay in the suites and mingle. All reports were wildly positive about the generous hospitality shown by Sandy and his staff and the good time meeting old and new friends among the attendees. When Sandy returned after a disappointing loss Paul presented him with a beautiful graphic of Citi Field in Mets’ colors in a shadowbox frame as a gesture of appreciation from the class.
For those of us who missed these April events, there are more opportunities to be with classmates. The first is the Hudson Valley gathering July 11-13, when more than a dozen have already agreed to participate and details can be found on the class website (www.dartmouth69.org). In October we will again have a Homecoming reunion, and plans are in the works for new and exciting events designed to interest and intrigue as much as last year’s.
Our webmaster Peter Elias has reached out to the class and received a response from Bill Shade, who reports enjoying retirement after leaving his insurance agency in 2012. He and Sue are healthy and their three sons are doing well, while he remains active with hobbies, a local bank board and working outdoors at their home near Decatur, Illinois. Also responding to Peter, Brian Maracle says he has been living on the Six Nations Indian Reserve in southern Ontario for the past 23 years, during which he taught the Mohawk language in an adult immersion program.
Class agent John Myers reports our Alumni Fund progress is ahead of the College’s performance at about 55 percent of our target. Please participate and help us exceed our goal.
Next column look for more on Gene Pinover and a book from Arnie Weingart.
—Steve Larson, 465 Miller Road, Winchester, VA 22602; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com