Class Note 1970
Issue
March-April 2020
Our 50th reunion is less than four months away, from June 11-16. It’s not too late to make plans to attend this momentous event. Watch our class of ’70 website at 1970.dartmouth.org for reunion schedule updates and other details.
Scott Perry says the last and only reunion he attended was our 25th in 1995. Sadly, he will not be able to attend our 50th in June. Scott is still working but loves what he does in his spare time. He continues to sail any time he can. Two years ago he raced across the Atlantic from Europe to the Caribbean, taking far longer than estimated—21 days instead of 18. They very nearly ran out of food! He still races his 1947 classic sloop, Fjord III, in the Mediterranean classic circuit, where they finished this year first in their class in Antibes, Barcelona, and Cannes and a very disappointing fifth in Saint-Tropez. In November he raced in the China Cup in Shenzhen. Scott has volunteered at World Sailing, the international sailing federation, for almost 20 years. He was the technical delegate for all sailing at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Christine and Scott have been married for 47 years and have two daughters and two wonderful grandchildren. They have lived in eight countries and now limit themselves to commuting between Europe and South America, avoiding winter in either place.
We hear from Robert Bourdon for the first time. Sherrilyn and he are living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, after living 22 years in New Zealand. Every summer they do a big motorcycle ride somewhere. This summer they rode from Serbia to Nordkapp, Norway, the most northerly point one can drive in Europe. They stretched the trip out through 20 different countries in six weeks for a total of 7,100 miles. They plan to ride from San Miguel for the reunion, then back via Nova Scotia and west to Alaska before heading back to Mexico.
Robert still creates sculpture and designs and builds unique furniture pieces. They have plenty of room for visitors in San Miquel.
Richard Kenney had a new poetry collection exhibit at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Love, science, and politics collide in Richards’s most recent collection, Terminator: Poems, 2008-2018, organized around the terminator—the line, perpendicular to the equator, that divides night from day. According to the curator of the exhibit, his division of light verse from darker poems serves to remind us that what makes us laugh is often dead serious, and what’s most serious might best be understood through wordplay and an ironic eye. Richard is the author of four previous books of poetry, The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One-Strand River. He is a MacArthur fellow and an English professor at the University of Washington.
Please keep your revelations and recollections coming. We will see you at the reunion.
—Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; garetmiller@mac.com
Scott Perry says the last and only reunion he attended was our 25th in 1995. Sadly, he will not be able to attend our 50th in June. Scott is still working but loves what he does in his spare time. He continues to sail any time he can. Two years ago he raced across the Atlantic from Europe to the Caribbean, taking far longer than estimated—21 days instead of 18. They very nearly ran out of food! He still races his 1947 classic sloop, Fjord III, in the Mediterranean classic circuit, where they finished this year first in their class in Antibes, Barcelona, and Cannes and a very disappointing fifth in Saint-Tropez. In November he raced in the China Cup in Shenzhen. Scott has volunteered at World Sailing, the international sailing federation, for almost 20 years. He was the technical delegate for all sailing at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Christine and Scott have been married for 47 years and have two daughters and two wonderful grandchildren. They have lived in eight countries and now limit themselves to commuting between Europe and South America, avoiding winter in either place.
We hear from Robert Bourdon for the first time. Sherrilyn and he are living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, after living 22 years in New Zealand. Every summer they do a big motorcycle ride somewhere. This summer they rode from Serbia to Nordkapp, Norway, the most northerly point one can drive in Europe. They stretched the trip out through 20 different countries in six weeks for a total of 7,100 miles. They plan to ride from San Miguel for the reunion, then back via Nova Scotia and west to Alaska before heading back to Mexico.
Robert still creates sculpture and designs and builds unique furniture pieces. They have plenty of room for visitors in San Miquel.
Richard Kenney had a new poetry collection exhibit at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Love, science, and politics collide in Richards’s most recent collection, Terminator: Poems, 2008-2018, organized around the terminator—the line, perpendicular to the equator, that divides night from day. According to the curator of the exhibit, his division of light verse from darker poems serves to remind us that what makes us laugh is often dead serious, and what’s most serious might best be understood through wordplay and an ironic eye. Richard is the author of four previous books of poetry, The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One-Strand River. He is a MacArthur fellow and an English professor at the University of Washington.
Please keep your revelations and recollections coming. We will see you at the reunion.
—Gary Miller, 7 East Hill Road, Canton, CT 06019; garetmiller@mac.com