Class Note 1973
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
One-quarter plus!
Two classmates received sport honors in 2016. In late September the Kings County, Washington, Sammamish Rowing Association (SRA) dedicated the Hod Fowler Boathouse. Hod founded the SRA in 1995 as a community organization dedicated to providing access to rowing for people of all ages and abilities. When he retired from active involvement in the SRA, he helped form the community partnership grant program, a public-private partnership that leverages funding to help create new public recreation facilities. During Homecoming Weekend in October, John Lundgren was inducted into Wearers of the Green as an honorary member, in recognition of his commitment and contribution to the success of Dartmouth athletics. Criteria include making exceptionally generous contributions of time or financial resources to athletic programs. John serves on the athletic advisory board and endowed the men’s golf head coach position. Kudos to Hod and John!
John Kloppenberg has weighed in on the discourse on democracy with Toward Democracy, an almost-900-page opus. More than a set of political practices, he posits that democracy is an ethical ideal. John opines that democracy’s success in securing greater sovereignty, autonomy and equality threatens to erode the virtues on which the ethical ideal depends: a sense of pluralism and reciprocity, and a respect for deliberation, difference and the common good.
Here are reminiscences from two who went on foreign language study to Strasbourg, France, in 1971.
Harold Kurland and his French family became lifelong friends and have visited each other many times, on both sides of the Atlantic. Although his French parents died some years ago, on a visit one of his French brothers brought a ship’s lantern belonging to the father, who had been an executive of a Rhine shipping company; the lantern had been on one of its barges in the old days and now is at Harold’s lake house in the Finger Lakes, New York.
Mike Magill shared, “The experience planted seeds for a long-term sequence of events that have changed my life in more ways and more profoundly than I could ever have imagined. The benefit was not just for learning French, although I have been surprised to have occasion to use the language again in recent years. Rather, getting to know another culture, encountering history and art and people and places up close opened my eyes to a certain kind of joy. It gave me confidence that I could step out across national borders to learn, build deep connections and make a difference in lives, both professionally and personally. My experience in foreign study at Dartmouth made me a multinational citizen, both personally and professionally. It set in motion events that enriched my understanding, relationships, work and family.”
Sadly, three classmates passed in the fall: Thomas Spiliotis, Randal Mel Kirk and Robert Ryan. Tom, better known as Frankie the piano player with Bobby and the Corvairs, is recalled fondly by many. Randal was an alumni interviewer and active Mason. Bob was a consummate singer and actor.
Formal obituaries can be found at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org
Two classmates received sport honors in 2016. In late September the Kings County, Washington, Sammamish Rowing Association (SRA) dedicated the Hod Fowler Boathouse. Hod founded the SRA in 1995 as a community organization dedicated to providing access to rowing for people of all ages and abilities. When he retired from active involvement in the SRA, he helped form the community partnership grant program, a public-private partnership that leverages funding to help create new public recreation facilities. During Homecoming Weekend in October, John Lundgren was inducted into Wearers of the Green as an honorary member, in recognition of his commitment and contribution to the success of Dartmouth athletics. Criteria include making exceptionally generous contributions of time or financial resources to athletic programs. John serves on the athletic advisory board and endowed the men’s golf head coach position. Kudos to Hod and John!
John Kloppenberg has weighed in on the discourse on democracy with Toward Democracy, an almost-900-page opus. More than a set of political practices, he posits that democracy is an ethical ideal. John opines that democracy’s success in securing greater sovereignty, autonomy and equality threatens to erode the virtues on which the ethical ideal depends: a sense of pluralism and reciprocity, and a respect for deliberation, difference and the common good.
Here are reminiscences from two who went on foreign language study to Strasbourg, France, in 1971.
Harold Kurland and his French family became lifelong friends and have visited each other many times, on both sides of the Atlantic. Although his French parents died some years ago, on a visit one of his French brothers brought a ship’s lantern belonging to the father, who had been an executive of a Rhine shipping company; the lantern had been on one of its barges in the old days and now is at Harold’s lake house in the Finger Lakes, New York.
Mike Magill shared, “The experience planted seeds for a long-term sequence of events that have changed my life in more ways and more profoundly than I could ever have imagined. The benefit was not just for learning French, although I have been surprised to have occasion to use the language again in recent years. Rather, getting to know another culture, encountering history and art and people and places up close opened my eyes to a certain kind of joy. It gave me confidence that I could step out across national borders to learn, build deep connections and make a difference in lives, both professionally and personally. My experience in foreign study at Dartmouth made me a multinational citizen, both personally and professionally. It set in motion events that enriched my understanding, relationships, work and family.”
Sadly, three classmates passed in the fall: Thomas Spiliotis, Randal Mel Kirk and Robert Ryan. Tom, better known as Frankie the piano player with Bobby and the Corvairs, is recalled fondly by many. Randal was an alumni interviewer and active Mason. Bob was a consummate singer and actor.
Formal obituaries can be found at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.
—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; val.armento@alum.dartmouth.org