Class Note 1971
Issue
Greetings from sunny Lake Tahoe, California. Jim Coffey wrote that he would be willing to organize a mini-reunion dinner and drinks in Coos County, Oregon, He has an excellent location: his boat shed in Charleston. If done in the summer the menu would include fresh Chinook or silver salmon, fresh Dungeness crab, fresh local oysters and fresh clams. Bud, on tap, is also served at the boat shed. He can guarantee that the salmon, etc., will be fresh because any attendees will have to participate in catching their own dinner! Clams are located in the bay, just off of the boat shed. Sounds pretty enticing to me!
Barry Brink is helping coordinate a reunion weekend for the 1970 football team this fall. The reunion will be held at the Harvard game on October 30. Tentative activities include attending practice on Friday (wind sprints required), a social gathering Friday evening, pregame and postgame receptions at the Friends of Football tent and an informal reception and dinner on Saturday. There has also been a request to have Murray, Willie, Jim, Barry, Shorty, Cords, et al., be ready to suit up for the second half just in case.
James Vreeland has been living in Lima, Peru, for 20 years. He hasn’t been back to Hanover since 1974 and is truly sad to have missed so many opportunities and trips back to his former New Jersey home. James is trying to organize a Dartmouth club in Lima, where he managed to bring together about 20 alums, all Peruvian except him, in hopes of organizing support for small socially sensitive projects in the region following a major earthquake in 2007. His organic textile and apparel business, Naturtex, founded two decades ago is the first to be Fair Trade-certified in the Americas. Hope the world gets the message!
There was a nice article written about Hank Ricklefs, vice president of northern resources and manufacturing, who recently retired from Plum Creek Timber Co. after helping the Montana operation navigate through a very challenging time during the last few years for the timber industry. According to the article, the operation is seeing signs of improvement in virtually all areas of their business and that all of Plum Creek’s divisions in the region are positively contributing cash margins. You can read the full article on the Facebook group page. Congratulations, Hank!
Last July John Lippman resigned at the Spanish language broadcaster Univision, where he’d been for 14 years, and moved to the Voice of America in Washington, D.C., to work in U.S. international broadcasting. Chris Kern ’69 is also there. The work—broadcasting in more than 40 different languages around the world—is very interesting and, when properly done, important. He said it has also been a kick being in Washington, D.C., after having a career on the West Coast since graduation. On weekends he commutes home to the West Coast to be with his wife.
Don’t forget to check out the class website (www.dartmouth.org/classes.71) and the Facebook (Dartmouth class of 1971) group page. Keep the news coming.
—Bob Moore, P.O. Box 1797, Tahoe City, CA 96145; (408) 203-5303; bob4moore@aol.com
July - Aug 2010
Greetings from sunny Lake Tahoe, California. Jim Coffey wrote that he would be willing to organize a mini-reunion dinner and drinks in Coos County, Oregon, He has an excellent location: his boat shed in Charleston. If done in the summer the menu would include fresh Chinook or silver salmon, fresh Dungeness crab, fresh local oysters and fresh clams. Bud, on tap, is also served at the boat shed. He can guarantee that the salmon, etc., will be fresh because any attendees will have to participate in catching their own dinner! Clams are located in the bay, just off of the boat shed. Sounds pretty enticing to me!
Barry Brink is helping coordinate a reunion weekend for the 1970 football team this fall. The reunion will be held at the Harvard game on October 30. Tentative activities include attending practice on Friday (wind sprints required), a social gathering Friday evening, pregame and postgame receptions at the Friends of Football tent and an informal reception and dinner on Saturday. There has also been a request to have Murray, Willie, Jim, Barry, Shorty, Cords, et al., be ready to suit up for the second half just in case.
James Vreeland has been living in Lima, Peru, for 20 years. He hasn’t been back to Hanover since 1974 and is truly sad to have missed so many opportunities and trips back to his former New Jersey home. James is trying to organize a Dartmouth club in Lima, where he managed to bring together about 20 alums, all Peruvian except him, in hopes of organizing support for small socially sensitive projects in the region following a major earthquake in 2007. His organic textile and apparel business, Naturtex, founded two decades ago is the first to be Fair Trade-certified in the Americas. Hope the world gets the message!
There was a nice article written about Hank Ricklefs, vice president of northern resources and manufacturing, who recently retired from Plum Creek Timber Co. after helping the Montana operation navigate through a very challenging time during the last few years for the timber industry. According to the article, the operation is seeing signs of improvement in virtually all areas of their business and that all of Plum Creek’s divisions in the region are positively contributing cash margins. You can read the full article on the Facebook group page. Congratulations, Hank!
Last July John Lippman resigned at the Spanish language broadcaster Univision, where he’d been for 14 years, and moved to the Voice of America in Washington, D.C., to work in U.S. international broadcasting. Chris Kern ’69 is also there. The work—broadcasting in more than 40 different languages around the world—is very interesting and, when properly done, important. He said it has also been a kick being in Washington, D.C., after having a career on the West Coast since graduation. On weekends he commutes home to the West Coast to be with his wife.
Don’t forget to check out the class website (www.dartmouth.org/classes.71) and the Facebook (Dartmouth class of 1971) group page. Keep the news coming.
—Bob Moore, P.O. Box 1797, Tahoe City, CA 96145; (408) 203-5303; bob4moore@aol.com