Class Note 1976
Issue
Nov - Dec 2017
Welcome to our new class officers, executive committee and dedicated volunteers, some of whom are continuing their service, others joining the ranks for the first time: Stephen Melikian, president; Naomi Baline Kleinman, vice president of operations; Dana Rowan, vice president of communications; Paul Windrath, treasurer; Judy Csatari, newsletter editor; Stefanie Valar, gift planning (bequest) chair; Andy Shaw, giving co-chair; J.T. Knight, co-head agent; Cindy Shannon, Caring Connections chair; Joe Jasinski, webmaster; Jim Beattie, Martha Beattie, Gary Love, Patricia McClendon, John Sherman, David Spalding, Randy White, executive committee.
Shout-outs to longtime fearless leader Andy Gettinger and to previous executive committee members for their dedication: Martha Hennessey, N.H. stateswoman; Jay Josselyn, my esteemed predecessor; Bob Wetzel, strategy guru; M.K. Beach, nature appreciator supreme; Brewer Doran, dean of Concordia College; Marty Doyle, class tunes historian and international man of mystery.
Hats off to Judy Csatari for the juicy, packed newsletters available at our website: 1976.dartmouth.org.
Also now on our website are newsletters from the past 41 years, thanks to the herculean efforts of retiring webmaster Paul Windrath. We’ve come a long way from those early pre-kid, post-grad days! Fun reading! Thanks to Paul for his continued service as treasurer and prior service as webmaster. Joe Jasinski’s ability to upload our entire Freshman Book to our Facebook page made him the immediate choice as Paul’s successor. Please do check the webpage for mini-reunion news, updates and the continuing classmate outreach efforts of Caring Connections, chaired by Cindy Shannon.
For those who missed Rob Saltzman’s eloquent toast to President Kemeny during our festive Saturday night reunion crowd scene, enjoy these excerpts. Rob, a former Los Angeles police commissioner and University of Southern California law school dean, was handpicked as President Kemeny’s intern our senior year. We were lucky enough to have our classmate Jennifer Kemeny, her husband and two sons with us that special evening.
“[President Kemeny] was not two or three plays ahead of the rest of us…he was 50 or 100 plays ahead….He patiently explained that at some point there will be one device that serves a variety of functions for us on a regular basis. It will be your newspaper, your communication device…and using it you will be able to control the physical things around you….He suggested I think about my watch with those abilities. It didn’t make any sense to me. After all, in my dorm, there was one pay phone two floors away….
“[W]e have been gone from here for over 40 years—which is less time than President Kemeny spent here at Dartmouth….At his retirement there was a bit of a guessing game about where he would choose…Harvard? Cal Tech? MIT?….He said, and I quote, ‘My commitment to Dartmouth is the same as to my wife: ’til death do us part.’ It is a commitment for which we are all grateful—and one to which we might also aspire….”
—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com
Shout-outs to longtime fearless leader Andy Gettinger and to previous executive committee members for their dedication: Martha Hennessey, N.H. stateswoman; Jay Josselyn, my esteemed predecessor; Bob Wetzel, strategy guru; M.K. Beach, nature appreciator supreme; Brewer Doran, dean of Concordia College; Marty Doyle, class tunes historian and international man of mystery.
Hats off to Judy Csatari for the juicy, packed newsletters available at our website: 1976.dartmouth.org.
Also now on our website are newsletters from the past 41 years, thanks to the herculean efforts of retiring webmaster Paul Windrath. We’ve come a long way from those early pre-kid, post-grad days! Fun reading! Thanks to Paul for his continued service as treasurer and prior service as webmaster. Joe Jasinski’s ability to upload our entire Freshman Book to our Facebook page made him the immediate choice as Paul’s successor. Please do check the webpage for mini-reunion news, updates and the continuing classmate outreach efforts of Caring Connections, chaired by Cindy Shannon.
For those who missed Rob Saltzman’s eloquent toast to President Kemeny during our festive Saturday night reunion crowd scene, enjoy these excerpts. Rob, a former Los Angeles police commissioner and University of Southern California law school dean, was handpicked as President Kemeny’s intern our senior year. We were lucky enough to have our classmate Jennifer Kemeny, her husband and two sons with us that special evening.
“[President Kemeny] was not two or three plays ahead of the rest of us…he was 50 or 100 plays ahead….He patiently explained that at some point there will be one device that serves a variety of functions for us on a regular basis. It will be your newspaper, your communication device…and using it you will be able to control the physical things around you….He suggested I think about my watch with those abilities. It didn’t make any sense to me. After all, in my dorm, there was one pay phone two floors away….
“[W]e have been gone from here for over 40 years—which is less time than President Kemeny spent here at Dartmouth….At his retirement there was a bit of a guessing game about where he would choose…Harvard? Cal Tech? MIT?….He said, and I quote, ‘My commitment to Dartmouth is the same as to my wife: ’til death do us part.’ It is a commitment for which we are all grateful—and one to which we might also aspire….”
—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com