Class Note 1974
Issue
July-August 2021
Dear classmates, hoping you are all healthy and have gotten your Covid vaccines. Here’s the latest news from our class leadership.
Jerry Bowe and Peter DeNatale, our reunion chairmen (along with their wives), are already hard at work on planning our 50th reunion. In conjunction with the graduating class of 2024, we will be marching across the Green on Sunday, June 8, 2024. There will be many fascinating lectures, great entertainment and food, and, of course, the chance to see all the new changes on the Dartmouth campus. If you haven’t been back in 47 years (and counting), you owe it to yourself and your college friends to be there. Jerry says, “We have not yet determined the start date but it will most likely be June 5 or 6 through Sunday, June 8. Mark your calendars, start saving your pennies for travel, and savor a reunion of old and new friends. While we are not the richest class in Dartmouth history, we are a spirited, loyal, and fun group. Peter and I are working hard to have the best reunion yet!” I certainly hope you will all attend. It’s going to be awesome!
Your class executive committee has been hard at work, not only on this year’s Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) raising, but on plans for the class gift for our 50th reunion. This will include a new scholarship in our class’ name as well as a major project in conjunction with Dartmouth that will leave a lasting legacy. President Matt Putnam says, “Class leadership has been, and continues, in discussion with College leadership related to financial goal setting for our 50th reunion and the separate class project.”
Chris Pfaff chimed in with, “We are excited by the two objectives we have: scholarships and support for our mortality project. We are still framing the scope and objectives for each but are convinced they are important and very worthwhile projects for our class to embrace as we move toward our 50th reunion. And we are blessed to have great class leadership on this journey.”
Treasurer Peter Blodgett reports we’ve already raised approximately $120,000 for our scholarship. We have about $50,000 in our treasury and about $21,000 in our reunion account. More detail is available upon request.
Finally, I want to point out that newsletter editor and former class president Rick Ranger and his wife, Catherine, are finally leaving the Western Hemisphere in June (about the time you are reading this) for their delayed three-year mission to Uganda. Rick will be teaching at the law school of Uganda Christian University and Catherine will be developing a new program in human rights and humanitarian law. Check out their link: http://law.ucu.ac.ug/index/php/about-law/jsi. Rick will continue as our class newsletter editor, but feel free to send news to me.
I’ll close with this: “I’m always amazed at how much we all have in common if we only look for that instead of looking for what divides us,” says Peter DeNatale.
Have a great summer!
—Philip Stebbins, 17 Hardy Road, Londonderry, NH 03053; p.stebs@comcast.net
Jerry Bowe and Peter DeNatale, our reunion chairmen (along with their wives), are already hard at work on planning our 50th reunion. In conjunction with the graduating class of 2024, we will be marching across the Green on Sunday, June 8, 2024. There will be many fascinating lectures, great entertainment and food, and, of course, the chance to see all the new changes on the Dartmouth campus. If you haven’t been back in 47 years (and counting), you owe it to yourself and your college friends to be there. Jerry says, “We have not yet determined the start date but it will most likely be June 5 or 6 through Sunday, June 8. Mark your calendars, start saving your pennies for travel, and savor a reunion of old and new friends. While we are not the richest class in Dartmouth history, we are a spirited, loyal, and fun group. Peter and I are working hard to have the best reunion yet!” I certainly hope you will all attend. It’s going to be awesome!
Your class executive committee has been hard at work, not only on this year’s Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) raising, but on plans for the class gift for our 50th reunion. This will include a new scholarship in our class’ name as well as a major project in conjunction with Dartmouth that will leave a lasting legacy. President Matt Putnam says, “Class leadership has been, and continues, in discussion with College leadership related to financial goal setting for our 50th reunion and the separate class project.”
Chris Pfaff chimed in with, “We are excited by the two objectives we have: scholarships and support for our mortality project. We are still framing the scope and objectives for each but are convinced they are important and very worthwhile projects for our class to embrace as we move toward our 50th reunion. And we are blessed to have great class leadership on this journey.”
Treasurer Peter Blodgett reports we’ve already raised approximately $120,000 for our scholarship. We have about $50,000 in our treasury and about $21,000 in our reunion account. More detail is available upon request.
Finally, I want to point out that newsletter editor and former class president Rick Ranger and his wife, Catherine, are finally leaving the Western Hemisphere in June (about the time you are reading this) for their delayed three-year mission to Uganda. Rick will be teaching at the law school of Uganda Christian University and Catherine will be developing a new program in human rights and humanitarian law. Check out their link: http://law.ucu.ac.ug/index/php/about-law/jsi. Rick will continue as our class newsletter editor, but feel free to send news to me.
I’ll close with this: “I’m always amazed at how much we all have in common if we only look for that instead of looking for what divides us,” says Peter DeNatale.
Have a great summer!
—Philip Stebbins, 17 Hardy Road, Londonderry, NH 03053; p.stebs@comcast.net