Class Note 1970
Issue
Sep - Oct 2017
Continuing my practice of framing these notes in a more contemporary timeframe, summer is only a few days away as I sit in my home office composing the notes for a column that appears near the end of the summer. I hope that readers of this column are also enjoying the occasional class newsletter. I am starting to get used to living in this time warp.
Chuck Howarth was happy to report that Dartmouth has accepted his son, Lincoln, into the Ph.D. program in molecular biology and he will be arriving in Hanover in September. He suspects that he just might have bragging rights as the last member of the class to have a child enroll at the College (or is it a university now?).
Dave Muller says he has spent much of his time writing since retiring from intelligence work in 2014: four books now up on Amazon, all in history or biblical studies. The most recent might be of particular interest, as Chapter 1 tells about the experience of being a Naval ROTC student at Dartmouth during the turbulence of the time. The book is Knowing the Enemy: An Intelligence Officer’s Memoir, 1966-2014. The book is mostly sea stories of his 20 years in naval intelligence, then 20-plus years at the CIA, the White House and in counterterrorism, along with reflections on persistent issues in both naval and national intelligence. The story has something for everyone, such as endgames in Cambodia and Vietnam, working undercover on a Soviet ship, counter-subversion ops in El Salvador, recruiting spies in Iran, experiences with Jonathan Pollard and various inside views at the White House and CIA. With that project put to bed, he and Barbara are enjoying perpetual Saturdays in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Stephen Doig reports that after 21 years as Knight chair in journalism at the Cronkite School of Arizona State University, he has worked out a deal with his dean to keep a full teaching load each semester but do his classes online—and from Seattle. Ellyn and he spent the fall of 2016 in the Czech Republic while he was on a Fulbright professorship. While there they realized they could survive and even enjoy a more varied climate than Arizona’s 350 days of sunshine each year. Seattle will be a big change, after they spent his post-Dartmouth years in the heat of Miami and then Phoenix, but they are loving it there already.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with the class. I urge all of you to consider contemplating the 50 years that have passed and experiences we have had since completing our freshman year at the College. As always, I look forward to receiving your cards and emails.
—Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; garettmiller@mac.com
Chuck Howarth was happy to report that Dartmouth has accepted his son, Lincoln, into the Ph.D. program in molecular biology and he will be arriving in Hanover in September. He suspects that he just might have bragging rights as the last member of the class to have a child enroll at the College (or is it a university now?).
Dave Muller says he has spent much of his time writing since retiring from intelligence work in 2014: four books now up on Amazon, all in history or biblical studies. The most recent might be of particular interest, as Chapter 1 tells about the experience of being a Naval ROTC student at Dartmouth during the turbulence of the time. The book is Knowing the Enemy: An Intelligence Officer’s Memoir, 1966-2014. The book is mostly sea stories of his 20 years in naval intelligence, then 20-plus years at the CIA, the White House and in counterterrorism, along with reflections on persistent issues in both naval and national intelligence. The story has something for everyone, such as endgames in Cambodia and Vietnam, working undercover on a Soviet ship, counter-subversion ops in El Salvador, recruiting spies in Iran, experiences with Jonathan Pollard and various inside views at the White House and CIA. With that project put to bed, he and Barbara are enjoying perpetual Saturdays in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Stephen Doig reports that after 21 years as Knight chair in journalism at the Cronkite School of Arizona State University, he has worked out a deal with his dean to keep a full teaching load each semester but do his classes online—and from Seattle. Ellyn and he spent the fall of 2016 in the Czech Republic while he was on a Fulbright professorship. While there they realized they could survive and even enjoy a more varied climate than Arizona’s 350 days of sunshine each year. Seattle will be a big change, after they spent his post-Dartmouth years in the heat of Miami and then Phoenix, but they are loving it there already.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with the class. I urge all of you to consider contemplating the 50 years that have passed and experiences we have had since completing our freshman year at the College. As always, I look forward to receiving your cards and emails.
—Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; garettmiller@mac.com