Class Note 1970

John Morse says Dan Steele fans will want to know that a sequel, titled Chokepoint, was due out sometime in July. Dave Muller and Bill Wilson, both Dartmouth Navy ROTC classmates, helped with the story. John will likely self-publish again. Finding a publisher is all about reputation in publishing today and the barriers to entry are very difficult. This book is better than the first one, in John’s opinion.

Bill Wilson recently spent eight days back in New England centered around a Memorial Day Weekend wedding in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He and Ann spent a day in Hanover. “It was disturbing to see the old Dartmouth Bookstore building boarded up and the neighboring storefront, former home of the Canoe Club restaurant, dark. A stroll around the corner on Allen Street revealed that nothing has yet gone into the space vacated by Everything But Anchovies a couple of years ago. Lots of change in my boyhood hometown, not all of it good! On a more positive note, we stopped at the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge on our way from Hanover to Wolfeboro the following morning—very impressive.”

Dave Muller and wife Barbara are enjoying retirement in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Dave is out with three books during the past year or so, two of which spend some pages on his Dartmouth years. The revised edition of Knowing the Enemy: An Intelligence Officer’s Memoir, 1966-2014, is on the street, with a new chapter on his clandestine operations in Central America and against Iran. Dave collaborated with his three sisters in writing Our Roots Remain as One: A Family Autobiography. Each chapter interleaves their parallel recollections of childhood and youth, up through college years. Under the pen name Peter Hussein, Dave also recently published Islam in its Own Words, in which he selects key primary-source passages from the Koran and ancient and modern Islamic authorities concerning a wide range of topics, from theology to terrorism. Dave is in regular touch with John Morse—fellow author, Dartmouth classmate, and Navy ROTC shipmate—concerning their publishing ventures.

Larry DeVan says he is still working, most recently with a boutique investment advisory firm in Greenwich, Connecticut. He and Ann will celebrate their 42nd anniversary this year. They have a son and daughter plus two grandchildren. Larry keeps in touch with Mike Thorman, Pete Bradstreet, Paul Gambaccini, and Tim Welsh. He looks forward to our 50th next year.

Jeff Eagan celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Parkhurst Hall takeover and Dartmouth’s antiwar movement. Reuniting with old comrades, faculty, staff, and alumni plus families and friends was very moving. Jeff caught up on a half century of experience after college while swapping memories of campus activism and a month-long tenure in the New Hampshire state penal system. The struggle continues to make Dartmouth a true community responsive and responsible to its members and our greater society.

Save the dates of our 50th reunion, on June 11-16, 2020.

—Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019, garettmiller@mac.com