Class Note 1969
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
Let’s begin this column with another look at our 50th reunion, which will be a short eight months from when you are reading this. We are currently showing nearly 300 respondents to our questionnaire and the same number of classmates who have expressed interest in attending. Please do your part to help in this reunion effort by completing your questionnaire and going to the class website www.dartmouth69.org to announce your intention to attend.
The travels Jo and I have taken this year have occasionally had a bit of Big Green activity. In April, while in the Pacific Northwest, we enjoyed a lunch with Allen Denison and Martha at their home on the Oregon coast. We walked the beach, took some pictures, and promptly lost them, so Allen is unable to post anything in the newsletter. In August we went to Scotland for two weeks with a group, including Alpha Theta fraternity brother Ralph Alan Cohen ’67, to attend the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a month-long gathering of 4,000 performers and hundreds of venues where we saw plays, musicals, stand-up comics, solo musicians, street performers, and more. The city is magical. Many of the 15 or so productions we saw were very good, some not so much, and the country in general is well worth the effort to travel there. We spent several days touring the Highlands and western Scotland, stopping at castles and distilleries among many other local attractions along the way. The scenery is breathtaking, and the roads are as well; glad we had a driver for the wrong-side-of-the-road driving.
The Citi Field mini-reunion, so generously hosted by Sandy Alderson, was held once again in July and attracted more than two dozen classmates plus spouses and guests. A full report on the story was in the last ’69 Times Newsletter sent to you in August by Allen Denison.
Next up for minis are Homecoming during the weekend of October 27 and the Charleston, South Carolina, event hosted by Dud Kay and Steve and Judi Cline set for November 11-13. Homecoming will be the same routine as always, with the possible exception of the bonfire, which will be either reduced or missing due to the town of Hanover overreacting to safety concerns. There may be some town leaders burned in effigy instead of the usual tower of railroad ties. For the Southern mini, Dud and Steve have a get-together meal planned for each day and multiple tour options around the beautiful Charleston area. Even though you will be reading this in late October, if you decide you want to participate, contact Dud or Steve (secline7@gmail.com).
As I am writing this, the Dartmouth football team is doing its first day of practice with full pads, and the team held a dance-off, which was videotaped and posted on The Bleacher Report. (Jo reads this all the time.) The results were hilarious, but I hope our guys will show similar, elusive moves during games!
—Steve Larson, 837 Wildcat Trail; 10328 Big Canoe; Big Canoe, GA 30143; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com
The travels Jo and I have taken this year have occasionally had a bit of Big Green activity. In April, while in the Pacific Northwest, we enjoyed a lunch with Allen Denison and Martha at their home on the Oregon coast. We walked the beach, took some pictures, and promptly lost them, so Allen is unable to post anything in the newsletter. In August we went to Scotland for two weeks with a group, including Alpha Theta fraternity brother Ralph Alan Cohen ’67, to attend the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a month-long gathering of 4,000 performers and hundreds of venues where we saw plays, musicals, stand-up comics, solo musicians, street performers, and more. The city is magical. Many of the 15 or so productions we saw were very good, some not so much, and the country in general is well worth the effort to travel there. We spent several days touring the Highlands and western Scotland, stopping at castles and distilleries among many other local attractions along the way. The scenery is breathtaking, and the roads are as well; glad we had a driver for the wrong-side-of-the-road driving.
The Citi Field mini-reunion, so generously hosted by Sandy Alderson, was held once again in July and attracted more than two dozen classmates plus spouses and guests. A full report on the story was in the last ’69 Times Newsletter sent to you in August by Allen Denison.
Next up for minis are Homecoming during the weekend of October 27 and the Charleston, South Carolina, event hosted by Dud Kay and Steve and Judi Cline set for November 11-13. Homecoming will be the same routine as always, with the possible exception of the bonfire, which will be either reduced or missing due to the town of Hanover overreacting to safety concerns. There may be some town leaders burned in effigy instead of the usual tower of railroad ties. For the Southern mini, Dud and Steve have a get-together meal planned for each day and multiple tour options around the beautiful Charleston area. Even though you will be reading this in late October, if you decide you want to participate, contact Dud or Steve (secline7@gmail.com).
As I am writing this, the Dartmouth football team is doing its first day of practice with full pads, and the team held a dance-off, which was videotaped and posted on The Bleacher Report. (Jo reads this all the time.) The results were hilarious, but I hope our guys will show similar, elusive moves during games!
—Steve Larson, 837 Wildcat Trail; 10328 Big Canoe; Big Canoe, GA 30143; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com