Class Note 1974
Issue
May-June 2024
I hope by now you’ve all made plans to attend our amazing 50th reunion. Jerry Bowe and Peter DeNatale have a busy schedule planned with lots of entertainment and a chance to hobnob with classmates, faculty, trustees, administration, and students from the class of 2024. Lots of great food, entertainment, and, of course, time (though never enough) to socialize. Major events are the memorial service coordinated by Walt Singletary, a concert with keyboard prodigy Matthew Whitaker (nephew of Morris “Rocky” Whitaker), a presentation by the Health Equity Assessment Laboratory (HEAL), and Commencement with the ’24s on Sunday. Registration opened at noon on February 29. Our very low price of $199 includes all meals and drinks. Hope to see you all then.
Please go to our class website for more up-to-date information and to check out our progress on all three of our current fundraising opportunities. We have targeted optimistic goals. We aim for a total of $2 million with $1 million for Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) and $500,000 each for our class scholarship (set up at the 45th reunion) and our new health equity scholars program. We have already reached about 75 percent of our goals for each project and hope to achieve them all by June. Please consider joining us. Details are available on our 1974 class website.
All class officers remind you that gifts to the Class of 1974 Scholarship Fund will support financial aid resources in perpetuityand help make an unparalleled liberal arts education affordable and accessible to a wider range of students and their families. It also helps the College improve competitiveness with peer institutions. Support for the scholarship fund goes 100 percent to financial aid and is not part of the DCF.
Mike Thomas, co-chair of the health equity fund working group sent in that they have completed a second short film at the end of January. I hope you’ve all had a chance to see the first film released almost a year ago. Too Many Too Soon II, edited by Christian Beck ’24, concisely describes this groundbreaking class project and results already delivered for its first cohort of Dartmouth undergraduate scholars.
For the last five years I’ve had the honor of serving as your class secretary. It’s been a true privilege to work with this group of class officers and especially class president, Matt Putnam. Matt would not want to be singled out but has done an incredible job guiding us through some difficult issues as we approach our 50th reunion. I urge all of you to send him brief notes of thanks if you are so inclined. The best thanks you can give him would be to attend this reunion and support our class projects, either all of them or whichever fires your passion.
We will also need new blood to fill many roles in the coming years, so please consider answering vice president Phil Franklin’s call for new officer candidates before we meet in June.
Hope to see you soon!
—Philip Stebbins, 17 Hardy Road, Londonderry, NH 03053; p.stebs@gmail.com
Please go to our class website for more up-to-date information and to check out our progress on all three of our current fundraising opportunities. We have targeted optimistic goals. We aim for a total of $2 million with $1 million for Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) and $500,000 each for our class scholarship (set up at the 45th reunion) and our new health equity scholars program. We have already reached about 75 percent of our goals for each project and hope to achieve them all by June. Please consider joining us. Details are available on our 1974 class website.
All class officers remind you that gifts to the Class of 1974 Scholarship Fund will support financial aid resources in perpetuityand help make an unparalleled liberal arts education affordable and accessible to a wider range of students and their families. It also helps the College improve competitiveness with peer institutions. Support for the scholarship fund goes 100 percent to financial aid and is not part of the DCF.
Mike Thomas, co-chair of the health equity fund working group sent in that they have completed a second short film at the end of January. I hope you’ve all had a chance to see the first film released almost a year ago. Too Many Too Soon II, edited by Christian Beck ’24, concisely describes this groundbreaking class project and results already delivered for its first cohort of Dartmouth undergraduate scholars.
For the last five years I’ve had the honor of serving as your class secretary. It’s been a true privilege to work with this group of class officers and especially class president, Matt Putnam. Matt would not want to be singled out but has done an incredible job guiding us through some difficult issues as we approach our 50th reunion. I urge all of you to send him brief notes of thanks if you are so inclined. The best thanks you can give him would be to attend this reunion and support our class projects, either all of them or whichever fires your passion.
We will also need new blood to fill many roles in the coming years, so please consider answering vice president Phil Franklin’s call for new officer candidates before we meet in June.
Hope to see you soon!
—Philip Stebbins, 17 Hardy Road, Londonderry, NH 03053; p.stebs@gmail.com