Class Note 1971

Greetings, fellow ’71s! I hope this issue of DAM finds you all well and enjoying a great time during this 65th summer of our lives. From the mailbox, Bill Powers writes, “I was in Hanover this past weekend for graduation. My daughter Katie received her Ph.D. in psychology and brain sciences. She is off to Boston to be a college fellow at Harvard teaching undergraduates and doing research. She will join my son Brian, who is in his third year at Harvard Medical School. My wife, Karen, and I are in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where we moved in 2007 for me to take the job as chair of the department of neurology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.” Thomas Marshall writes, “So nice to receive the ’71 newsletter and see so many guys and families getting together. My wife, Kathy, retired April 1 this year and I retire July 1 as associate commissioner of insurance for the State of Maryland. Kathy was a R.N.-R.D., at the University of Maryland Hospital.” From Greg Schelkun in Sebastopol, California, “Happy birthday, you ’71s! In April I celebrated my one-year anniversary since my stroke. Hope to get to the Rockies this summer to visit with the friends who aided so much in my recovery. Now I’m trying to write a tale of stroke and recovery. I almost ‘bought the farm’—now I have to cultivate and care for it.” From Darrell Hotchkiss, living in Hanover, who received his law degree from Georgetown and is a partner in the Lebanon, New Hampshire, firm of Burke and Hotchkiss, “Confirming some of the news The New York Times deemed ‘fit to print’—after sitting happily on the fence for 37 years, Jon Gilbert Fox and I got hitched on the Hay There farm in Lyme, New Hampshire, on May 24. The celebration was “over the top.” Weather played us like a violin—perfectly timed brilliant sun, torrential rain and the odd stray rainbow. We’ll never do it again, but we’re certain we couldn’t.” Jon is a freelance photographer in the Upper Valley who I came to know when I was living in Norwich, Vermont, and a member with Jon of the Hanover Rotary Club. Dave Hanchette writes from St. Charles, Illinois, “Taught elementary school for 30 years in Schaumburg, Illinois. Now a freelance writer and loving every minute of it. Love riding my new cyclocross bike. Heading to Edinburgh in a few weeks. Life is good!” John Lippman writes from our nation’s capitol, “Finished a year as acting general manager of Radio/TV Marti, the U.S. government’s broadcaster to Cuba. Now I’m back in D.C. as acting director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ office of performance review, coaching the staff and management of U.S. international broadcasting.” Keep those green cards coming with your news and that of your classmates. Remember our fall mini-reunion in Hanover during Homecoming and a winter outing in Yellowstone February 20-24, just before CarniVail weekend. Contact me for details. 


—Pete Webster, 7 Leblanc Drive, South Hadley, MA 01075; weebs71@gmail.com