Class Note 1976
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Greetings! Hope all are well and enjoying a decent spring after putting up with what seems to have been one of the worst winters in recent memory. Somehow dealing with winters now doesn’t seem as easy as it was back in Hanover from 1972 to 1976. As promised, more news from before Christmas from Martha Beattie. Sandy Fichet has taken over for J.T. Knight as our class alumni councilor. J.T. did a wonderful job communicating with the class and we hope Sandy will do the same. Martha also reported that she bumped into Rob Saltzman on campus in the fall. Rob is busy in L.A. on an advisory board for the L.A. Police Department. Carol Vaughan Bemis is serving on the advisory board for the Hood Museum, putting her professional and volunteer career in the arts to good use. Martha also reports that Julie Miller Shepherd is the principal of a school in Denver. Martha said Jim Burns and Art Howe arranged a hike over Mount Dickey and Mount Welch this fall. They were joined by Sean Gorman, Rick Hill, Dave Balderston and spouses, as well as the Beatties and “kindergarten friends.” Rich Hayes and his wife were in Hanover for the Homecoming football game. They were amazed by the changes on campus. After the Homecoming game this past fall almost 50 classmates and families gathered in the Tindle Lounge at the soon to be renamed Thayer Hall. Jim Beattie and Craig Stone found a pong table in the basement and probably dominated. The room has already been reserved for the class of ’76 for next fall after the Homecoming game so make your plans now.
Speaking of making plans, don’t forget that 2011 will be a reunion year for us. I’m sure that during the year we’ll start to get news of dates, times and activities. Keep an eye open for news from the class and the College. Co-presidents Judy Csatari and Andy Gettinger will make sure that everything is in order and we’ll have the added advantage of having them both close by to keep an eye on things.
Also in the vein of making plans, if anyone is looking for a quaint coastal experience not far from Portland, Maine, Dick Prentice, an attorney in Portland, wrote that he and his wife, Gerri, purchased the Chebeague Inn (www.chebeagueinn.com) on Chebeague Island, a 15-minute ferry ride from Yarmouth, Maine (home of the Yarmouth Clamfest). Dick will keep his day job, but his wife and son Casey (Middlebury ’09) will be the innkeepers. The inn has 21 rooms and the restaurant seats 75 and is perfect for group gatherings. They’ll be hosting a Dartmouth alum’s fraternity reunion soon, so keep things like that in mind. The inn is open from mid-May to mid-October and the island has plenty of activities from golf to tennis, biking and swimming. (Dick, the advertising bill will come later.)
Remember the reunion next year and enjoy your time over the summer with your friends and family.
—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com
May - June 2010
Greetings! Hope all are well and enjoying a decent spring after putting up with what seems to have been one of the worst winters in recent memory. Somehow dealing with winters now doesn’t seem as easy as it was back in Hanover from 1972 to 1976. As promised, more news from before Christmas from Martha Beattie. Sandy Fichet has taken over for J.T. Knight as our class alumni councilor. J.T. did a wonderful job communicating with the class and we hope Sandy will do the same. Martha also reported that she bumped into Rob Saltzman on campus in the fall. Rob is busy in L.A. on an advisory board for the L.A. Police Department. Carol Vaughan Bemis is serving on the advisory board for the Hood Museum, putting her professional and volunteer career in the arts to good use. Martha also reports that Julie Miller Shepherd is the principal of a school in Denver. Martha said Jim Burns and Art Howe arranged a hike over Mount Dickey and Mount Welch this fall. They were joined by Sean Gorman, Rick Hill, Dave Balderston and spouses, as well as the Beatties and “kindergarten friends.” Rich Hayes and his wife were in Hanover for the Homecoming football game. They were amazed by the changes on campus. After the Homecoming game this past fall almost 50 classmates and families gathered in the Tindle Lounge at the soon to be renamed Thayer Hall. Jim Beattie and Craig Stone found a pong table in the basement and probably dominated. The room has already been reserved for the class of ’76 for next fall after the Homecoming game so make your plans now.
Speaking of making plans, don’t forget that 2011 will be a reunion year for us. I’m sure that during the year we’ll start to get news of dates, times and activities. Keep an eye open for news from the class and the College. Co-presidents Judy Csatari and Andy Gettinger will make sure that everything is in order and we’ll have the added advantage of having them both close by to keep an eye on things.
Also in the vein of making plans, if anyone is looking for a quaint coastal experience not far from Portland, Maine, Dick Prentice, an attorney in Portland, wrote that he and his wife, Gerri, purchased the Chebeague Inn (www.chebeagueinn.com) on Chebeague Island, a 15-minute ferry ride from Yarmouth, Maine (home of the Yarmouth Clamfest). Dick will keep his day job, but his wife and son Casey (Middlebury ’09) will be the innkeepers. The inn has 21 rooms and the restaurant seats 75 and is perfect for group gatherings. They’ll be hosting a Dartmouth alum’s fraternity reunion soon, so keep things like that in mind. The inn is open from mid-May to mid-October and the island has plenty of activities from golf to tennis, biking and swimming. (Dick, the advertising bill will come later.)
Remember the reunion next year and enjoy your time over the summer with your friends and family.
—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com