Class Note 1969
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
Thanks to webmaster Peter Elias’ additions to the class website we are making strides on our race to the 50th reunion! He has added a front page section, “Snippets from The D,” which brings us articles and ads from The Daily Dartmouth pages on the days we were on campus in 1965. Peter will be adding these wonderful remembrances throughout the summer until he catches up with the 50-year spread, so by September we will be reading his snippets on the same day 50 years earlier. Please check it out at 1969.dartmouth.org. While you are there peruse the other new and interesting facets of our website.
Gene Pinover and Diana have funded the learning center at Dartmouth with a grant to give kids with learning issues the money to allow testing so they might qualify for computers and other assistance. He hopes his work with dyslexia and other learning conditions might appeal to others in our class. Gene is in his last year as senior counsel at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York and is still contemplating the next phase of his life.
Arne Weingart has published a book of poetry, Levitation for Agnostics, for which he was named the winner of the 2014 New American Press Poetry Prize. A review describes the work as “laying bare the contradictions between faith and the human condition in their rawest form.” Arne also won the 2013 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review contest and has had numerous poems published in literary magazines. Following Dartmouth he attended Columbia University, at the urging of professor Richard Eberhart, where he received his M.F.A. in writing. Arne and his wife live in Chicago, where he is the principal of a graphic design firm specializing in identity and wayfinding. An edition of Allen Denison’s newsletter will expand upon Arne’s business.
Hearing from Bob Throndsen was a treat. I now know why that name was familiar all those years I was watching KOMO news while living north of Seattle. He reports he and Sonja still live in Edmonds, home for 38 years, but retired in 2012 after 43 years in broadcast news, 34 of them with KOMO-TV and Newsradio. Both their daughters are married and have provided them with four grandchildren, with another on the way. Bob worked as an anchor, reporter, managing editor and news director, but they are now traveling and just finished a South American cruise from Chile to Peru, Ecuador and through the Panama Canal. He is looking forward to attending the 50th reunion.
In May I received an interesting letter from Charles Courtney weighing in on some of the political and economic issues of the day. I encourage him and others who have ideas to share with classmates to jump into the class of ’69 listserv at listserv@listserv.dartmouth.edu with the message (in the body of the email): “sub class-69 your name” (using two names).
Please continue to keep Peter, Allen and me informed of what you are doing.
—Steve Larson, 465 Miller Road; Winchester, VA 22602; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com
Gene Pinover and Diana have funded the learning center at Dartmouth with a grant to give kids with learning issues the money to allow testing so they might qualify for computers and other assistance. He hopes his work with dyslexia and other learning conditions might appeal to others in our class. Gene is in his last year as senior counsel at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York and is still contemplating the next phase of his life.
Arne Weingart has published a book of poetry, Levitation for Agnostics, for which he was named the winner of the 2014 New American Press Poetry Prize. A review describes the work as “laying bare the contradictions between faith and the human condition in their rawest form.” Arne also won the 2013 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review contest and has had numerous poems published in literary magazines. Following Dartmouth he attended Columbia University, at the urging of professor Richard Eberhart, where he received his M.F.A. in writing. Arne and his wife live in Chicago, where he is the principal of a graphic design firm specializing in identity and wayfinding. An edition of Allen Denison’s newsletter will expand upon Arne’s business.
Hearing from Bob Throndsen was a treat. I now know why that name was familiar all those years I was watching KOMO news while living north of Seattle. He reports he and Sonja still live in Edmonds, home for 38 years, but retired in 2012 after 43 years in broadcast news, 34 of them with KOMO-TV and Newsradio. Both their daughters are married and have provided them with four grandchildren, with another on the way. Bob worked as an anchor, reporter, managing editor and news director, but they are now traveling and just finished a South American cruise from Chile to Peru, Ecuador and through the Panama Canal. He is looking forward to attending the 50th reunion.
In May I received an interesting letter from Charles Courtney weighing in on some of the political and economic issues of the day. I encourage him and others who have ideas to share with classmates to jump into the class of ’69 listserv at listserv@listserv.dartmouth.edu with the message (in the body of the email): “sub class-69 your name” (using two names).
Please continue to keep Peter, Allen and me informed of what you are doing.
—Steve Larson, 465 Miller Road; Winchester, VA 22602; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com