Greetings from cool, but sunny Lake Tahoe, California. By the time you get this the 40th reunion of the 1970 undefeated football team will have taken place. Twenty of 23 ’71s on the team planned to attended which must be some kind of record. Attending were Russ Adams, Jay Bennett, Willie Bogan, Murry Bowden, Barry Brink, John Colangelo, Bob Cordy, Joe Daly, Darrel Gavle, Mike Hannigan, Brad Houser, Joe Jarrett, Jim Knox, Bob Moore, Bill Munich, Bob Peters, Tom Price, Dan Radakovich, Tim Risley, Bobby Schnabel, John Short, Bill Skibitsky, Mark Stevenson and Jim Wallace. Two who couldn’t make it were Jim Chasey, who is somewhere in New Zealand, and Bob Brown, who was vacationing in New Mexico.


Wayne Hobin continues to make progress with the plans for our 40th reunion. Mark your calendars for Homecoming weekend (October 20-23). Check out the latest information at the class website (www.dartmouth.org/classes/71), including a newly designed logo for the reunion.


Mike Hannigan reports that he has started down the grandfather road with daughter Kelly’s first child. She is moving to Omaha, Nebraska, which brought back some memories of a hitchhiking adventure that Mike and your Class Note’s author took 40 years ago to watch Dartmouth compete in the College Baseball World Series


Groundbreaking for the L. William Seidman building at Grand Valley University in Allendale, Michigan, will start this coming spring. Bill Seidman was a key player in the world of finance, working as the chairman for the FDIC and advising several presidents.


Jim Smith, CEO and chairman of Webster Financial Corp, was recently featured in an article in the greater Waterbury, Connecticut, newspaper. Jim is only the second CEO of the bank that was started by his father 75 years ago with a $25,000 investment in the depths of the Depression. Jim became CEO in 1987 and has grown it to a $17.7 billion institution. The article pointed out that the company has become a potential acquisition target by larger banks. Jim’s response was that he will continue to focus on strong operating performance, which is, in his father’s words, “the antidote to vulnerability.” That’s good advice for all of us.


Bob Brown reported that he wasn’t going to be able to make the football team reunion (despite the fact that he lives in Hanover) because he will be vacationing with his family in New Mexico. Bob retired from teaching three years ago and has been taking annual trips to New Mexico, from which he and his sister’s family take an excursion somewhere in the Southwest.


Russ Schleipman made the front cover of the Valley News in September. Russ, who is a freelance advertising photographer, and his father founded Telescopes of Vermont a few years ago. They create functional telescopes that become works of art. One of the most famous of their works, a duplicate of the Porter Garden Telescope, was viewed by the queen of England while it was on display at the Royal Horticulture Show in London.


Keep the news coming.


—Bob Moore, P.O. Box 1797, Tahoe City, CA 96145; (408) 203-5303; bob4moore@aol.com