Class Note 1975
Issue
May-June 2022
Steve Gaige sent a note after Dartmouth Alumni Magazine caught his attention at the Maine Stay Inn in Camden, Maine, which happens to be owned by Peter Kesser ’80 and his wife, Janis. Steve writes, “Coincidentally, Peter was from Missoula, Montana, where I hitchhiked between my junior and senior years at Dartmouth. He had a painting on the wall by his grandmother of Rattlesnake Creek, the area I visited.”
After 37 years, Steve is now retired from the law but stays active as in most years he would be out skiing at Squaw Valley with his son, who has a place on the mountain, works for Apple, and lives in Palo Alto, California. He has two grandsons who I suspect keep him moving reasonably swiftly.
Rich Lane responded to my big hair issue with this, “In case your interest in hair is real, I still have a reasonable portion of it despite a slow and steady disappearance during the past 45 years.” You are better than I, Rich, having suffered some serious deforestation on the dome.
Rich spent 40 years in toxicology, the last 25 assessing the safety of food additives and contaminants—making sure new and existing materials are safe for their intended uses or do not exceed certain levels. He still consults for food companies looking to market new ingredients. With Covid, we hope, receding in the rearview mirror, he and Mary want to spend more time traveling and visiting family and friends.
Upon retirement four years ago the Lanes moved to Colorado to see new things and learn about another part of the country where they now enjoy living near the mountains and exploring the vast areas of the West. A bonus is that they are now closer to their oldest son and his family and roughly halfway between their other two sons who live with their families on both coasts.
Prompted by a previous Class Notes mention of Stephen Harper, Sam James contributed the following Iowa summary: “I went with Stephen and his brother, Andrew Harper ’71, on an eight-day, geezer-paced backpacking trip in Yosemite last August (No. 4 was a University of Michigan grad). We had a great time, including twice driving into the apocalypse, once on the way south from Reno, Nevada, through a vast plume of forest fire smoke, and once going north to an overnight in Tahoe, California, under a snow of ash. In between we had perfect weather, slightly hazy vistas, and beautiful scenes along the trail. Besides Stephen and I, Scott Herriott and John Hagelin ’76 (graduated 1975) are here in our little town of Fairfield, Iowa. I met Lon Cross on a Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa a couple of years ago. Jake Dann and I had a great month of teaching and exploring in the North Channel of Lake Huron a few summers ago. He is in the Catskills now, I believe.”
Vox clamantis in Tejas.
—Stephen D. Gray, 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX 77550; (650) 302-8739; fratergray@gmail.com
After 37 years, Steve is now retired from the law but stays active as in most years he would be out skiing at Squaw Valley with his son, who has a place on the mountain, works for Apple, and lives in Palo Alto, California. He has two grandsons who I suspect keep him moving reasonably swiftly.
Rich Lane responded to my big hair issue with this, “In case your interest in hair is real, I still have a reasonable portion of it despite a slow and steady disappearance during the past 45 years.” You are better than I, Rich, having suffered some serious deforestation on the dome.
Rich spent 40 years in toxicology, the last 25 assessing the safety of food additives and contaminants—making sure new and existing materials are safe for their intended uses or do not exceed certain levels. He still consults for food companies looking to market new ingredients. With Covid, we hope, receding in the rearview mirror, he and Mary want to spend more time traveling and visiting family and friends.
Upon retirement four years ago the Lanes moved to Colorado to see new things and learn about another part of the country where they now enjoy living near the mountains and exploring the vast areas of the West. A bonus is that they are now closer to their oldest son and his family and roughly halfway between their other two sons who live with their families on both coasts.
Prompted by a previous Class Notes mention of Stephen Harper, Sam James contributed the following Iowa summary: “I went with Stephen and his brother, Andrew Harper ’71, on an eight-day, geezer-paced backpacking trip in Yosemite last August (No. 4 was a University of Michigan grad). We had a great time, including twice driving into the apocalypse, once on the way south from Reno, Nevada, through a vast plume of forest fire smoke, and once going north to an overnight in Tahoe, California, under a snow of ash. In between we had perfect weather, slightly hazy vistas, and beautiful scenes along the trail. Besides Stephen and I, Scott Herriott and John Hagelin ’76 (graduated 1975) are here in our little town of Fairfield, Iowa. I met Lon Cross on a Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa a couple of years ago. Jake Dann and I had a great month of teaching and exploring in the North Channel of Lake Huron a few summers ago. He is in the Catskills now, I believe.”
Vox clamantis in Tejas.
—Stephen D. Gray, 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX 77550; (650) 302-8739; fratergray@gmail.com