Class Note 1969
Issue
May - Jun 2017
There is not much personal news from classmates other than Facebook postings of huge snowfalls in New England, providing rich skiing and shoveling opportunities, or warm sunshine in Florida and heavy rains in California, giving people both normal and very different winters to deal with.
So we will move on to the class activities as discussed monthly in executive committee calls and review our progress toward the upcoming memorable reunion in just over two years. Our 50th reunion needs the best of our class leaders and organizers to commit to making this the most enjoyable and best attended gathering ever. With many successful efforts already behind them, we are fortunate to have co-chairs Rick Willets and Paul Tuhus willing to take on the challenge of leading the reunion committee. There are several other members of this group, all listed in The ’69 Times. Our 50th reunion book will be created by other experienced classmates; this committee is led by David Prentice and Dudley Kay and supported by six other volunteers. Both committees have prodigious projects ahead of them and could use additional help, so any of you willing to join the fun of organizing and developing these worthwhile efforts please raise your hands. Remember we are working on a gathering to be held on campus June 7-11, 2019, to celebrate not only our 50th but also the College’s sestercentennial and our connected class of 2019’s graduation.
Our most recent class project, courtesy of the efforts of Dimitri Gerakaris and supported by the executive committee, is to provide a $10,000 grant to Directing through Recreation, Education, Adventure and Mentoring (DREAM), a program that takes Upper Valley students from challenged circumstances to various cities around the country to broaden their horizons while accompanied by Dartmouth chaperones.
In the literary world our classmates’ spouses are doing all the work recently, as Jim Staros’ wife, Alice Harris, has a new book, Multiple Exponence, published by the Oxford University Press; while the spouse of Rick Saunders, Anne, has written A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy, published by Travel Guide Press.
Mini-reunions continue to be available, so note that co-chairs Andy McLane and Norman Jacobs have a May 3-5 gathering planned for Boston. Activities will include dinners, a Red Sox-Orioles game at Fenway, walking the Freedom Trail and visiting the Museum of Fine Arts. This notice will reach you in time to make a last-minute commitment to this entertaining time. Peter Schaeffer reports that in communications with Sandy Alderson he has learned that Sandy is willing to host yet another of his wildly successful ’69 reunions at a N.Y. Mets game sometime this summer. The date will be announced well before the event.
Webmaster Peter Elias urges all of us to log onto the College’s alumni relations website and update our profiles. He also asks us one more time to consider participating in the ’69Cares project previously discussed and lacking volunteers.
Regrettably, we must inform you of the death of David Burwell on February 1.
—Steve Larson, 465 Miller Road; Winchester, VA 22602; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com
So we will move on to the class activities as discussed monthly in executive committee calls and review our progress toward the upcoming memorable reunion in just over two years. Our 50th reunion needs the best of our class leaders and organizers to commit to making this the most enjoyable and best attended gathering ever. With many successful efforts already behind them, we are fortunate to have co-chairs Rick Willets and Paul Tuhus willing to take on the challenge of leading the reunion committee. There are several other members of this group, all listed in The ’69 Times. Our 50th reunion book will be created by other experienced classmates; this committee is led by David Prentice and Dudley Kay and supported by six other volunteers. Both committees have prodigious projects ahead of them and could use additional help, so any of you willing to join the fun of organizing and developing these worthwhile efforts please raise your hands. Remember we are working on a gathering to be held on campus June 7-11, 2019, to celebrate not only our 50th but also the College’s sestercentennial and our connected class of 2019’s graduation.
Our most recent class project, courtesy of the efforts of Dimitri Gerakaris and supported by the executive committee, is to provide a $10,000 grant to Directing through Recreation, Education, Adventure and Mentoring (DREAM), a program that takes Upper Valley students from challenged circumstances to various cities around the country to broaden their horizons while accompanied by Dartmouth chaperones.
In the literary world our classmates’ spouses are doing all the work recently, as Jim Staros’ wife, Alice Harris, has a new book, Multiple Exponence, published by the Oxford University Press; while the spouse of Rick Saunders, Anne, has written A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy, published by Travel Guide Press.
Mini-reunions continue to be available, so note that co-chairs Andy McLane and Norman Jacobs have a May 3-5 gathering planned for Boston. Activities will include dinners, a Red Sox-Orioles game at Fenway, walking the Freedom Trail and visiting the Museum of Fine Arts. This notice will reach you in time to make a last-minute commitment to this entertaining time. Peter Schaeffer reports that in communications with Sandy Alderson he has learned that Sandy is willing to host yet another of his wildly successful ’69 reunions at a N.Y. Mets game sometime this summer. The date will be announced well before the event.
Webmaster Peter Elias urges all of us to log onto the College’s alumni relations website and update our profiles. He also asks us one more time to consider participating in the ’69Cares project previously discussed and lacking volunteers.
Regrettably, we must inform you of the death of David Burwell on February 1.
—Steve Larson, 465 Miller Road; Winchester, VA 22602; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com