Class Note 1970
Issue
Jul - Aug 2017
The snow that covered my backyard view last issue has been replaced with rapidly growing spring grass. Recent rain has stimulated the dormant tendrils that beckon to my lawn mower, which is buried deep in the back of my garage. By the time you read this column, summer will be in the waning stage.
The Valley News reported that Dartmouth College received a $5-million gift from the family of a former chairman of its board of trustees to endow the job of athletics director.
The gift from the family foundation of Ed and Barbara Haldeman will help expand the athletics director’s “ability to invest in programs and innovations that boost Dartmouth’s competitive advantage and enhance the student-athlete experience,” the College said in a news release.
The endowment means current athletic director, Harry Sheehy, whom the Haldemans have known for almost 20 years, will become the Haldeman Family Director of Athletics and Recreation at Dartmouth.
“A distinguishing characteristic of Dartmouth is how important athletics are to a large number of our students,” Ed Haldeman, a former mutual fund executive, said in the release. “Because athletics have been so important to our family and because we think Harry is the model of what we want in an athletics director, we’re delighted to endow the position.”
Ed Haldeman was president and CEO, and then chairman, of Boston-based Putnam Investment Management. He then served as CEO of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., or Freddie Mac, from 2009 to 2012. Haldeman was a Dartmouth trustee for eight years and served as chairman of the board from 2007 through 2010.
On a very sad note, you may know by now that our classmate John Chittick passed away of unknown causes on April 5, not long after reaching the Micronesian atoll, Ifalik, where he planned to spend the rest of his life working with young men and women. Many of our classmates have supported “Dr. John” on his TeenAIDS Peer Corp mission during the past 25 years to curb the spread of AIDS among young people throughout the world. We received an email from John on March 7 with the subject line, “I’m baaaack,” and several pictures of a very happy John surrounded by Ifalik islanders and the message, “Back on Ifalik for my 69th birthday—more pics and stories to follow in two days on website. Very limited Internet access—after early next week no Internet for six to 12 months. Love, Island Boy.”
Those of us who attended reunion this past June will recall John’s discussion of the final phase of his mission and the trip he was about to undertake. We will all remember John dressed in one of his trademark Hawaiian shirts standing before us at reunion.
I will include John’s last pictures in the next e-newsletter.
I close this column with my usual plea to keep those cards and emails coming.
—Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; willam.g.miller.jr.70@dartmouth.edu
The Valley News reported that Dartmouth College received a $5-million gift from the family of a former chairman of its board of trustees to endow the job of athletics director.
The gift from the family foundation of Ed and Barbara Haldeman will help expand the athletics director’s “ability to invest in programs and innovations that boost Dartmouth’s competitive advantage and enhance the student-athlete experience,” the College said in a news release.
The endowment means current athletic director, Harry Sheehy, whom the Haldemans have known for almost 20 years, will become the Haldeman Family Director of Athletics and Recreation at Dartmouth.
“A distinguishing characteristic of Dartmouth is how important athletics are to a large number of our students,” Ed Haldeman, a former mutual fund executive, said in the release. “Because athletics have been so important to our family and because we think Harry is the model of what we want in an athletics director, we’re delighted to endow the position.”
Ed Haldeman was president and CEO, and then chairman, of Boston-based Putnam Investment Management. He then served as CEO of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., or Freddie Mac, from 2009 to 2012. Haldeman was a Dartmouth trustee for eight years and served as chairman of the board from 2007 through 2010.
On a very sad note, you may know by now that our classmate John Chittick passed away of unknown causes on April 5, not long after reaching the Micronesian atoll, Ifalik, where he planned to spend the rest of his life working with young men and women. Many of our classmates have supported “Dr. John” on his TeenAIDS Peer Corp mission during the past 25 years to curb the spread of AIDS among young people throughout the world. We received an email from John on March 7 with the subject line, “I’m baaaack,” and several pictures of a very happy John surrounded by Ifalik islanders and the message, “Back on Ifalik for my 69th birthday—more pics and stories to follow in two days on website. Very limited Internet access—after early next week no Internet for six to 12 months. Love, Island Boy.”
Those of us who attended reunion this past June will recall John’s discussion of the final phase of his mission and the trip he was about to undertake. We will all remember John dressed in one of his trademark Hawaiian shirts standing before us at reunion.
I will include John’s last pictures in the next e-newsletter.
I close this column with my usual plea to keep those cards and emails coming.
—Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; willam.g.miller.jr.70@dartmouth.edu