Class Note 1969
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
Homecoming was a great success, according to the many attendees who reported on it. The final count for classmates and spouses was more than 40, with dinners, the parade, bonfire, pre-game tent party, football game and even a reunion with several of our 1960s-era professors.
The annual class meeting was held and new officers were elected for two positions. Rick Willets replaces Paul Tuhus as treasurer and Paul was elevated to class schmoozer (joining Dimitri Gerakaris, the class blacksmith, as men who have actual responsible positions in the class despite their titles). In addition, Arthur Fergenson was named to a new office as class mini-reunion chair. Arthur welcomes input from all of you for ideas on venues and activities that can bring a few or many classmates together anywhere in the country and, yes, David Prentice, Canada too, eh? Plans for the next mini are a Boston area gathering in the spring.
At the meeting webmaster Peter Elias announced our class website has been rebuilt and can now be reached at dartmouth69.org. It includes class news and updates, information about connecting with classmates, a list of obituaries with an “In Memoriam” slideshow and photo galleries with more than 2,100 photos dating back to our campus years. There are many other features, including “The Ds of Old” series, with excerpts from The D during the 1960s posted once a week from now through our 50th.
Homecoming marked the 10th anniversary of our adoption of the 10 women who attended classes with us our senior year. After several years of effort on behalf of the 200 some women who attended after we graduated but before coeducation was official, the College and the classes of ’70, ’71 and ’72 agreed to offer the same unconditional adoption status to those women. We can all be proud of our class and the diligent effort of those individuals in the class who worked so hard to achieve this goal for all the women.
Thanks to the generous efforts of Norman Jacobs we all received a beautiful reminder cup to start planning to attend our 50th reunion in just 30 fast-moving months. He and Dona Heller, as co-chairs of our class connection project, have plans for a repeat of trivia night for the ’19s on April 8 and a mini-reunion in Hanover the last half of July that will have shared projects with the class of ’19. All of us are invited to attend both events.
Peter Elias presented the executive committee with a proposal called “69Cares,” an initiative to support classmates in crisis and the families of departed classmates. The website will have details on the proposal and we need your help to participate or even take leadership of this worthwhile venture, so please contact us with your ideas.
Regrettably, we learned of the passing of Don Pogue on October 26 and Bob Cox on November 19 of 2016.
Please keep your stories coming to Allen, Peter and me.
—Steve Larson, 465 Miller Road, Winchester, VA 22602; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com
The annual class meeting was held and new officers were elected for two positions. Rick Willets replaces Paul Tuhus as treasurer and Paul was elevated to class schmoozer (joining Dimitri Gerakaris, the class blacksmith, as men who have actual responsible positions in the class despite their titles). In addition, Arthur Fergenson was named to a new office as class mini-reunion chair. Arthur welcomes input from all of you for ideas on venues and activities that can bring a few or many classmates together anywhere in the country and, yes, David Prentice, Canada too, eh? Plans for the next mini are a Boston area gathering in the spring.
At the meeting webmaster Peter Elias announced our class website has been rebuilt and can now be reached at dartmouth69.org. It includes class news and updates, information about connecting with classmates, a list of obituaries with an “In Memoriam” slideshow and photo galleries with more than 2,100 photos dating back to our campus years. There are many other features, including “The Ds of Old” series, with excerpts from The D during the 1960s posted once a week from now through our 50th.
Homecoming marked the 10th anniversary of our adoption of the 10 women who attended classes with us our senior year. After several years of effort on behalf of the 200 some women who attended after we graduated but before coeducation was official, the College and the classes of ’70, ’71 and ’72 agreed to offer the same unconditional adoption status to those women. We can all be proud of our class and the diligent effort of those individuals in the class who worked so hard to achieve this goal for all the women.
Thanks to the generous efforts of Norman Jacobs we all received a beautiful reminder cup to start planning to attend our 50th reunion in just 30 fast-moving months. He and Dona Heller, as co-chairs of our class connection project, have plans for a repeat of trivia night for the ’19s on April 8 and a mini-reunion in Hanover the last half of July that will have shared projects with the class of ’19. All of us are invited to attend both events.
Peter Elias presented the executive committee with a proposal called “69Cares,” an initiative to support classmates in crisis and the families of departed classmates. The website will have details on the proposal and we need your help to participate or even take leadership of this worthwhile venture, so please contact us with your ideas.
Regrettably, we learned of the passing of Don Pogue on October 26 and Bob Cox on November 19 of 2016.
Please keep your stories coming to Allen, Peter and me.
—Steve Larson, 465 Miller Road, Winchester, VA 22602; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com