Class Note 1971
Issue
Jan - Feb 2016
Burleigh “Bo” Smith writes from Fairway, Kansas, that Going Into the City, the memoir of rock critic Robert Christgau ’62, includes a chapter of reflections on Dartmouth’s lasting impact. This comes along when I find myself doing much the same. Specifically, thinking about how Dartmouth introduced me to the game of squash and the ongoing presence of certain guys, two of whom (Peter Phillips and Bill Street) were also on the fourth floor of South Topliff in 1967-68. Those two introduced me to many things, including Tchaikovsky.
From Cameron Bopp: “Greetings from South Sudan, where I am finishing my 20th mission with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF; Doctors Without Borders). I’ve worked in a dozen countries since 2006, most in Africa; last year I helped coordinate our Ebola efforts in Liberia and Guinea. The challenges and rewards have been immense. I exhort classmates to strongly consider a mission or three. On my current mission, where I am the medical team leader for a large pediatric and maternity hospital, I am one of four docs our age or older—I suspect many of you have no excuse not to join us but inertia. We constantly need physicians of all specialties, but surgeons and anesthesiologists are in shortest supply. And for every medical team, logisticians and administrators (finance/human resources) are needed in support, so it’s not only docs that MSF needs. I guarantee you will be stretched but amply rewarded. Full info at msf.org or write me at cameronbopp@gmail.com.”
Bruce Tepper sends the following: “Belinda and I married off both of our children within a five-month period. In November 2014 Laura Kate ’02 married Joshua Bukstein in Marin, California. There were at least 30 Dartmouth graduates attending, including Mal Graham (Mary Ford) Art Hittner (Peggy) and Gerry Nielsten (Anne). In March of 2015 Jacob (Cornell Engineering ’07-’08) married Danielle Liebling at Bethpage on Long Island. It was largely a Big Red affair, although Mssrs. Graham, Hittner and Nielsten attended with spouses. Belinda and I have relocated to a Westwood high rise after 30 years in the hills of Studio City, California.” Roger Prince writes, “Just finished an interesting and entertaining new book by Albert Lamarre. In Mountains, Minerals and Me: Thirteen Years Revealing Earth’s Mysteries, Albert covers the period when he worked as an exploration geologist all over the western United States and parts of Canada and Mexico looking for economic deposits of minerals. It was a boom time for minerals exploration in the United States and, as Albert details, there was a ‘mafia’ of Dartmouth geology grads active in the field. As a fellow geologist, but one who never did much actual fieldwork (on land that is; I was an oceanographer during that same time period), I found the book full of fascinating local history and simple to follow geologic explanations. I recommend it highly. Albert writes well and does an excellent job of thoroughly covering his life story in an engaging manner over those 13 years, while still keeping the pace moving along briskly. Well done, Albert!”
—Pete Webster, 7 Leblanc Dr., South Hadley, MA 01075; weebs71@gmail.com
From Cameron Bopp: “Greetings from South Sudan, where I am finishing my 20th mission with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF; Doctors Without Borders). I’ve worked in a dozen countries since 2006, most in Africa; last year I helped coordinate our Ebola efforts in Liberia and Guinea. The challenges and rewards have been immense. I exhort classmates to strongly consider a mission or three. On my current mission, where I am the medical team leader for a large pediatric and maternity hospital, I am one of four docs our age or older—I suspect many of you have no excuse not to join us but inertia. We constantly need physicians of all specialties, but surgeons and anesthesiologists are in shortest supply. And for every medical team, logisticians and administrators (finance/human resources) are needed in support, so it’s not only docs that MSF needs. I guarantee you will be stretched but amply rewarded. Full info at msf.org or write me at cameronbopp@gmail.com.”
Bruce Tepper sends the following: “Belinda and I married off both of our children within a five-month period. In November 2014 Laura Kate ’02 married Joshua Bukstein in Marin, California. There were at least 30 Dartmouth graduates attending, including Mal Graham (Mary Ford) Art Hittner (Peggy) and Gerry Nielsten (Anne). In March of 2015 Jacob (Cornell Engineering ’07-’08) married Danielle Liebling at Bethpage on Long Island. It was largely a Big Red affair, although Mssrs. Graham, Hittner and Nielsten attended with spouses. Belinda and I have relocated to a Westwood high rise after 30 years in the hills of Studio City, California.” Roger Prince writes, “Just finished an interesting and entertaining new book by Albert Lamarre. In Mountains, Minerals and Me: Thirteen Years Revealing Earth’s Mysteries, Albert covers the period when he worked as an exploration geologist all over the western United States and parts of Canada and Mexico looking for economic deposits of minerals. It was a boom time for minerals exploration in the United States and, as Albert details, there was a ‘mafia’ of Dartmouth geology grads active in the field. As a fellow geologist, but one who never did much actual fieldwork (on land that is; I was an oceanographer during that same time period), I found the book full of fascinating local history and simple to follow geologic explanations. I recommend it highly. Albert writes well and does an excellent job of thoroughly covering his life story in an engaging manner over those 13 years, while still keeping the pace moving along briskly. Well done, Albert!”
—Pete Webster, 7 Leblanc Dr., South Hadley, MA 01075; weebs71@gmail.com