Class Note 1978
Issue
Nov - Dec 2016
Time to make plans to attend to our 40th reunion (which will actually be our 39th reunion) this June in Hanover. It will be a three class affair, with the classes of ’77 and ’76 also along for the ride. Charlie Allison, Barbara Kelly Hack, Keith McCrae and Steve Peseckis are working hard to put the reunion together, and if you are interested in helping, I’m sure they would love to hear from you.
Barbara was down in Rio this summer cheering on her son, Austin, who rowed in the Olympic U.S. men’s eight. The crew rowed an amazing race in the repechage (semi-final) to get into the final, where they finished a close fourth. Barbara summed up her 16 days in Rio this way: “We’re so excited they had the opportunity to be here racing at the Olympics! What a trip. Nipped at the finish, but that doesn’t detract one bit from our immense pride.
We lost another classmate this summer. Tim Moore of Bradford, Vermont, passed away on August 4. A native of nearby Woodstock, Tim dedicated his life to firefighting in the Upper Valley. He served at various times as a Hanover firefighter; lead instructor at the Vermont Fire Academy; deputy fire chief in Bradford; fire captain in Corinth, Vermont; and fire chief in Thetford, Vermont. A post on the Corinth Fire Department Facebook page said that Tim’s dedication “has created a lasting positive impact, and he will be fiercely missed.” At Dartmouth he lived in Russell Sage freshman year, joined Zeta Psi and was in the French language study abroad program. He is survived by his wife, Brenda, and children Nathaniel and Rebecca.
The New York Times ran a charming story in July about Therese Ojibway and the dozens of exquisite miniature fairy houses she built along a hiking trail in New Jersey’s South Mountain Reservation. “Delicate creations made of natural material,” tucked into tree hollows or roots, they have enchanted visitors of all ages. Therese is a special education teacher whose son, Clinton, has autism. Therese started building the houses five years ago, inspired by stories such as Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina. “I started looking at the hollows of the trees and thought, ‘If I were a fairy I would live there,’ ” she told the Times.
The Mount Desert Islander (a slightly lesser known paper than the Times, but nonetheless faithfully serving the people of Bar Harbor, Maine) reported Mike Coffin came back from Tasmania, Australia, this summer to visit his native state and give a talk about the possibility that the Earth will soon face a new mass extinction, a subject he first talked about at TEDxHobart in 2014 (youtube.com/watch?v=3vyreb8y_zg). Mike is a marine geoscientist at the University of Tasmania Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart. He has led or participated in 32 research voyages in the Pacific, Southern, Indian and Atlantic oceans. If only he got frequent floater points for those, he would be set for life!
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—Rick Beyer, 34 Outlook Drive, Lexington, MA 02421; rick@rickbeyer.net
Barbara was down in Rio this summer cheering on her son, Austin, who rowed in the Olympic U.S. men’s eight. The crew rowed an amazing race in the repechage (semi-final) to get into the final, where they finished a close fourth. Barbara summed up her 16 days in Rio this way: “We’re so excited they had the opportunity to be here racing at the Olympics! What a trip. Nipped at the finish, but that doesn’t detract one bit from our immense pride.
We lost another classmate this summer. Tim Moore of Bradford, Vermont, passed away on August 4. A native of nearby Woodstock, Tim dedicated his life to firefighting in the Upper Valley. He served at various times as a Hanover firefighter; lead instructor at the Vermont Fire Academy; deputy fire chief in Bradford; fire captain in Corinth, Vermont; and fire chief in Thetford, Vermont. A post on the Corinth Fire Department Facebook page said that Tim’s dedication “has created a lasting positive impact, and he will be fiercely missed.” At Dartmouth he lived in Russell Sage freshman year, joined Zeta Psi and was in the French language study abroad program. He is survived by his wife, Brenda, and children Nathaniel and Rebecca.
The New York Times ran a charming story in July about Therese Ojibway and the dozens of exquisite miniature fairy houses she built along a hiking trail in New Jersey’s South Mountain Reservation. “Delicate creations made of natural material,” tucked into tree hollows or roots, they have enchanted visitors of all ages. Therese is a special education teacher whose son, Clinton, has autism. Therese started building the houses five years ago, inspired by stories such as Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina. “I started looking at the hollows of the trees and thought, ‘If I were a fairy I would live there,’ ” she told the Times.
The Mount Desert Islander (a slightly lesser known paper than the Times, but nonetheless faithfully serving the people of Bar Harbor, Maine) reported Mike Coffin came back from Tasmania, Australia, this summer to visit his native state and give a talk about the possibility that the Earth will soon face a new mass extinction, a subject he first talked about at TEDxHobart in 2014 (youtube.com/watch?v=3vyreb8y_zg). Mike is a marine geoscientist at the University of Tasmania Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart. He has led or participated in 32 research voyages in the Pacific, Southern, Indian and Atlantic oceans. If only he got frequent floater points for those, he would be set for life!
Send news!
—Rick Beyer, 34 Outlook Drive, Lexington, MA 02421; rick@rickbeyer.net