Class Note 1971
Issue
Greetings from beautiful Lake Tahoe, California. The football department sent out an e-mail that it will be hosting a reunion for the 1969 co-championship team on October 3 for the game against Penn. A rumor was passed along through the grapevine that Joe Jarrett applied some of his doctoring magic to a Dartmouth baseball player at the NCAA regional playoffs despite being the team doctor for Coastal Carolina.
The Beta house resurgence on campus has spread to the ’71 alums who are planning to join a Beta golf outing in Denver in September, including planned attendance by Bob Moore, Bill Brooks and Murry Bowden and possible attendance by John Colangelo. I hope there aren’t too many houses close to the fairways.
While hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail I struck up a conversation with a former Bay Area Rapid Transit employee who used to work for Dick Wenzel. He related that Dick’s loquacious style resulted in fairly long staff meetings on Friday afternoons. He also added that Dick played a mean third base on the company softball team.
Wayne Hobin has stepped up and volunteered to be the reunion chair for our 40th reunion, which is less than two years away. Dave Brooks has volunteered to be the reunion treasurer. Wayne is looking for volunteers for the site committee (to figure out where we want to party), food committee (obvious), drinking director, lodging committee and reunion giving committee. Feel free to contact Wayne if you can help.
Peter Phillips writes that he’s recently been in touch with classmate Terry Parkinson, who lives near Derry, New Hampshire, and joined Peter and his wife, Elaine Bromka, for a lovely Sunday in Woodstock, Vermont. Terry works as an information consultant but his real love is his contributions as keyboard player for the Jonny Earthquake Band and the remarkable photographic project of fin de siècle Paris that has been ongoing for more than 10 years. He’s also recently been in contact with Burleigh “Bo” Smith, who recently left his post as director of film for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to take a position as executive director of the Denver Film Society. Peter has recently left the CPR Institute in New York and is building a practice as a commercial mediator and arbitrator in Montclair, New Jersey, with the firm Business Conflict Management, LLC. Elaine and Peter are about to celebrate their 33rd anniversary and both son Peter and daughter Julia will be graduating from Cal State and Barnard, respectively, in the next year. Life is good.
An interesting article was recently published in the Edmonton Journal (June 25) about economist John Williams, who has been a thorn in the side of many past and present administrations. John has been analyzing what he believes to be generously “rosy” economic statistics for many years. Some of his analysis can be found at the Shadow Government Stats Web site (www.shadowstats.com).
Don’t forget to check out the class Web site (www.dartmouth.org/classes/71) and the Facebook group page. Keep the news coming.
—Bob Moore, P.O. Box 1797, Tahoe City, CA 96145; (408) 203-5303; bob4moore@aol.com
Nov - Dec 2009
Greetings from beautiful Lake Tahoe, California. The football department sent out an e-mail that it will be hosting a reunion for the 1969 co-championship team on October 3 for the game against Penn. A rumor was passed along through the grapevine that Joe Jarrett applied some of his doctoring magic to a Dartmouth baseball player at the NCAA regional playoffs despite being the team doctor for Coastal Carolina.
The Beta house resurgence on campus has spread to the ’71 alums who are planning to join a Beta golf outing in Denver in September, including planned attendance by Bob Moore, Bill Brooks and Murry Bowden and possible attendance by John Colangelo. I hope there aren’t too many houses close to the fairways.
While hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail I struck up a conversation with a former Bay Area Rapid Transit employee who used to work for Dick Wenzel. He related that Dick’s loquacious style resulted in fairly long staff meetings on Friday afternoons. He also added that Dick played a mean third base on the company softball team.
Wayne Hobin has stepped up and volunteered to be the reunion chair for our 40th reunion, which is less than two years away. Dave Brooks has volunteered to be the reunion treasurer. Wayne is looking for volunteers for the site committee (to figure out where we want to party), food committee (obvious), drinking director, lodging committee and reunion giving committee. Feel free to contact Wayne if you can help.
Peter Phillips writes that he’s recently been in touch with classmate Terry Parkinson, who lives near Derry, New Hampshire, and joined Peter and his wife, Elaine Bromka, for a lovely Sunday in Woodstock, Vermont. Terry works as an information consultant but his real love is his contributions as keyboard player for the Jonny Earthquake Band and the remarkable photographic project of fin de siècle Paris that has been ongoing for more than 10 years. He’s also recently been in contact with Burleigh “Bo” Smith, who recently left his post as director of film for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to take a position as executive director of the Denver Film Society. Peter has recently left the CPR Institute in New York and is building a practice as a commercial mediator and arbitrator in Montclair, New Jersey, with the firm Business Conflict Management, LLC. Elaine and Peter are about to celebrate their 33rd anniversary and both son Peter and daughter Julia will be graduating from Cal State and Barnard, respectively, in the next year. Life is good.
An interesting article was recently published in the Edmonton Journal (June 25) about economist John Williams, who has been a thorn in the side of many past and present administrations. John has been analyzing what he believes to be generously “rosy” economic statistics for many years. Some of his analysis can be found at the Shadow Government Stats Web site (www.shadowstats.com).
Don’t forget to check out the class Web site (www.dartmouth.org/classes/71) and the Facebook group page. Keep the news coming.
—Bob Moore, P.O. Box 1797, Tahoe City, CA 96145; (408) 203-5303; bob4moore@aol.com