Class Note 1970
Issue
May-June 2023
Catch up with six classmates who were cheated out of listing their high school activities in our Green Book simply because their last names are at the end of the alphabet.
Mitch Wonson retired in 2010 to a small house in Holland, Vermont (the Northeast Kingdom), with 25 acres of woods and brook frontage. He writes, “I dissolved my consulting firm and am enjoying life among the critters, including a two-mile loop trail along the brook for walking and snowshoeing. I stay busy with chores, reading, music, and various town positions. I bemoan that it takes longer to do anything these days. I’m still poor, back is better, life is good.”
Duncan Wood had a long career as a civil engineering consultant and currently does a great job as our class treasurer. At Hamburg High in northern New York he was treasurer of his class and student council. He played on the soccer and wrestling teams and found time to play timpani in the orchestra.
Willis Wood writes, “After spending two years fulfilling my conscientious objector obligations and a few years working in a local sawmill, I’ve lived and worked on a small farm that’s been in my family since the 1790s.” (That number is correct; it’s not a typo.) We make maple syrup and cider products, have beef cows, cut hay, and saw wood. My wife, Tina (Bennington ’70), and I are still working with help from a daughter and periodically from a son in Guatemala.”
Jim Zimpritch went to Duke Law School and then practiced in Portland, Maine, for 41 years. In 2004 he married the widow of his Alpha Chi Alpha brother Steve Nugent ’69. Jim writes, “I have three daughters. My wife, Lynn Means (who, like Steve, was a physician in Indianapolis), has two surviving children (one of whom is a Dartmouth ’06). Like Steve and Lynn, she became a physician and is on the faculty of Emory Medical School. Together we have five grandchildren.”
Phil Zunder writes, “My pre-Dartmouth exploits will remain shrouded in mystery. After Dartmouth I received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Vermont. Until retirement in 2008 I worked for the state of Vermont, first as a research director for social services and then as an information technology manager. Following retirement I served on the board of our local United Way, where I was also marketing director. My son is a D’02. In 1970 we received our diplomas alphabetically so I can claim the distinction of graduating last in our class.”
Finally, the Green Book could have informed you that yours truly was sports editor of his high school newspaper and on the varsity wrestling team (mostly because he was light enough to compete at 103 pounds).
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com
Mitch Wonson retired in 2010 to a small house in Holland, Vermont (the Northeast Kingdom), with 25 acres of woods and brook frontage. He writes, “I dissolved my consulting firm and am enjoying life among the critters, including a two-mile loop trail along the brook for walking and snowshoeing. I stay busy with chores, reading, music, and various town positions. I bemoan that it takes longer to do anything these days. I’m still poor, back is better, life is good.”
Duncan Wood had a long career as a civil engineering consultant and currently does a great job as our class treasurer. At Hamburg High in northern New York he was treasurer of his class and student council. He played on the soccer and wrestling teams and found time to play timpani in the orchestra.
Willis Wood writes, “After spending two years fulfilling my conscientious objector obligations and a few years working in a local sawmill, I’ve lived and worked on a small farm that’s been in my family since the 1790s.” (That number is correct; it’s not a typo.) We make maple syrup and cider products, have beef cows, cut hay, and saw wood. My wife, Tina (Bennington ’70), and I are still working with help from a daughter and periodically from a son in Guatemala.”
Jim Zimpritch went to Duke Law School and then practiced in Portland, Maine, for 41 years. In 2004 he married the widow of his Alpha Chi Alpha brother Steve Nugent ’69. Jim writes, “I have three daughters. My wife, Lynn Means (who, like Steve, was a physician in Indianapolis), has two surviving children (one of whom is a Dartmouth ’06). Like Steve and Lynn, she became a physician and is on the faculty of Emory Medical School. Together we have five grandchildren.”
Phil Zunder writes, “My pre-Dartmouth exploits will remain shrouded in mystery. After Dartmouth I received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Vermont. Until retirement in 2008 I worked for the state of Vermont, first as a research director for social services and then as an information technology manager. Following retirement I served on the board of our local United Way, where I was also marketing director. My son is a D’02. In 1970 we received our diplomas alphabetically so I can claim the distinction of graduating last in our class.”
Finally, the Green Book could have informed you that yours truly was sports editor of his high school newspaper and on the varsity wrestling team (mostly because he was light enough to compete at 103 pounds).
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com