Class Note 1974
Issue
Sept - Oct 2019
Nearly 140 classmates plus friends and family members celebrated our 45th reunion, delighting in the fellowship of catching up with old and new friends and enjoying the wide range of programming provided by the College. Heartfelt thanks go out to Matt Putnam (Ann) and John Haulenbeek (Karen) for the fine job they did as reunion co-chairs and to Walt Singletary and Rocky Whitaker for organizing and conducting the class memorial service. The service—at the same time both sorrowful and joyful—celebrated the lives of our 81 deceased classmates.
At our class meeting we elected the following class officers for a five-year term until our next reunion: Matt Putnam, president; Chris Pfaff and Phil Franklin, vice presidents; Peter Blodgett, treasurer; Phil Stebbins, secretary; Rick Ranger, newsletter editor; Tom Guidi, Alumni Council representative (three-year term); Jerry Bowe (Eleanor) and Peter DeNatale (Sue), 50th reunion chairs; Ken Hall, webmaster; Ken Marable, gift planning chair, Rick Sample, memorialist-necrologist; and John Haulenbeek, head agent.
This is my 90th and final Class Notes column. Thank you to all who allowed me to share your news and stories during the past 15 years. It has been a pleasure writing about our lives and having a special opportunity through the process to meet members of our class I didn’t know on campus. I will continue to write classmate obituaries for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine website, but, as noted above, Phil Stebbins has generously accepted the position of class secretary. Phil will be writing our Class Notes columns going forward. You can reach Phil at p.stebs@comcast.net.
Phil is a physician. After graduating from Dartmouth Medical School (now Geisel School of Medicine) in 1977, he completed a residency in family medicine at Riverside General Hospital at the San Bernardino County University Medical Center in California. Phil and his wife, Linda, live in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Linda was originally a hospital systems analyst before she worked as a medical coder and billing specialist, managed several medical offices, and ultimately started her own medical billing company. Phil has four children. Katherine ’04 completed a master’s in costume design at Carnegie Mellon. Rebecca ’11 is finishing her Ph.D. in public health at the University of North Carolina. Jeff (NYU ’03) works as a film editor and freelance writer and producer. Amy (Harvard ’07) was a Fulbright scholar in Berlin, Germany, and recently finished her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Amy lives in Germany with her fiancé, cowriting and producing new, award-winning operas. Phil also has four stepchildren through Linda. Phil and Linda have a total of 12 grandchildren. Phil practices family medicine part time, plays guitar, and leads a contemporary Christian band. He still loves to sail and participate in water sports and softball. He enjoys reading and roots for the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox.
Apologies to Andy Wexler for misspelling his surname in my July-August column.
Be safe. Please send Phil your news.
—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com
At our class meeting we elected the following class officers for a five-year term until our next reunion: Matt Putnam, president; Chris Pfaff and Phil Franklin, vice presidents; Peter Blodgett, treasurer; Phil Stebbins, secretary; Rick Ranger, newsletter editor; Tom Guidi, Alumni Council representative (three-year term); Jerry Bowe (Eleanor) and Peter DeNatale (Sue), 50th reunion chairs; Ken Hall, webmaster; Ken Marable, gift planning chair, Rick Sample, memorialist-necrologist; and John Haulenbeek, head agent.
This is my 90th and final Class Notes column. Thank you to all who allowed me to share your news and stories during the past 15 years. It has been a pleasure writing about our lives and having a special opportunity through the process to meet members of our class I didn’t know on campus. I will continue to write classmate obituaries for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine website, but, as noted above, Phil Stebbins has generously accepted the position of class secretary. Phil will be writing our Class Notes columns going forward. You can reach Phil at p.stebs@comcast.net.
Phil is a physician. After graduating from Dartmouth Medical School (now Geisel School of Medicine) in 1977, he completed a residency in family medicine at Riverside General Hospital at the San Bernardino County University Medical Center in California. Phil and his wife, Linda, live in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Linda was originally a hospital systems analyst before she worked as a medical coder and billing specialist, managed several medical offices, and ultimately started her own medical billing company. Phil has four children. Katherine ’04 completed a master’s in costume design at Carnegie Mellon. Rebecca ’11 is finishing her Ph.D. in public health at the University of North Carolina. Jeff (NYU ’03) works as a film editor and freelance writer and producer. Amy (Harvard ’07) was a Fulbright scholar in Berlin, Germany, and recently finished her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Amy lives in Germany with her fiancé, cowriting and producing new, award-winning operas. Phil also has four stepchildren through Linda. Phil and Linda have a total of 12 grandchildren. Phil practices family medicine part time, plays guitar, and leads a contemporary Christian band. He still loves to sail and participate in water sports and softball. He enjoys reading and roots for the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox.
Apologies to Andy Wexler for misspelling his surname in my July-August column.
Be safe. Please send Phil your news.
—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com