Class Note 1978
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
My last column reported on favorite hideaway study spots back in the day. But since I couldn’t cram (get it?) all your responses into that column, here’s some lagniappe!
Geoff Crew recalls “an ungodly number of hours sitting at a computer terminal on the third floor of Wilder.” Drew Baker got serious work done at Edgerton House, the Episcopal student center. “Pretty secure and good for the soul. Nobody ever suspected I would be there.” Valerie Steele wrote many papers at the Village Green. Maybe I served her there once! Ralph Blanchard studied in his room, despite the fact that there was always a risk of getting dragged into a hearts game. Jim Lattin could be found in the sociology lab in the basement of Silsby, while Walter Malmquist was on the third floor next to the soda machine. “No distractions, and the same favorite study place as the woman whom I would marry but had yet to date.” Which sounds like a distraction to me!
In other news, Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) has been honored by the Dartmouth Club of Washington with its 2018 Daniel Webster Award for Distinguished Public Service. I caught up with Annie recently at the home of Rob Gifford and Clare Sokoloff in Newton, Massachusetts. Annie was rocking Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy’s baby to sleep and contemplating her upcoming hip surgery (now six weeks in the past). The occasion was a fundraiser that featured Kennedy as the main speaker. Other classmates in attendance included Chris Hughes, Ellen Meyer Shorb, and Peter Lewitt.
Peter was one of no less than four ’78s mentioned in the same New Yorker article back in April. Dan Reicher, Rob Portman,and Tony Anella were the other three. They probably never imagined that when they canoed the length of the Rio Grande back in 1977 that their adventure would end up in the pages of a national magazine 40 years later. The article opened with that long-ago journey but focused primarily on a Rio Grande trip Dan led this past winter for American Rivers, an advocacy group.
Congratulations to Mike Carroll, whose new novel Zero to Fifty is available in bookstores and online. “A light summer read set in Saint-Tropez and New York” is how Mike describes the book, adding with keen author insight: “The hardcover edition can also be used to weigh down a towel on the beach or as a substitute for charcoal when barbecuing.”
Finally, it is my duty to issue an official apology to Win Craven.In last month’s column, I reversed his first and last names and called him Craven Winfield. This clearly should be the name of a malicious banker in a Jane Austen novel and just as clearly is not one of our classmates. I’m sorry about the mistake, Win, and as sure as my name is Brick Eyer, I will never make another such error as long as I live.
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—Rick Beyer, 190 Bridge St., #4409, Salem, MA 01970; rick@rickbeyer.net
Geoff Crew recalls “an ungodly number of hours sitting at a computer terminal on the third floor of Wilder.” Drew Baker got serious work done at Edgerton House, the Episcopal student center. “Pretty secure and good for the soul. Nobody ever suspected I would be there.” Valerie Steele wrote many papers at the Village Green. Maybe I served her there once! Ralph Blanchard studied in his room, despite the fact that there was always a risk of getting dragged into a hearts game. Jim Lattin could be found in the sociology lab in the basement of Silsby, while Walter Malmquist was on the third floor next to the soda machine. “No distractions, and the same favorite study place as the woman whom I would marry but had yet to date.” Which sounds like a distraction to me!
In other news, Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) has been honored by the Dartmouth Club of Washington with its 2018 Daniel Webster Award for Distinguished Public Service. I caught up with Annie recently at the home of Rob Gifford and Clare Sokoloff in Newton, Massachusetts. Annie was rocking Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy’s baby to sleep and contemplating her upcoming hip surgery (now six weeks in the past). The occasion was a fundraiser that featured Kennedy as the main speaker. Other classmates in attendance included Chris Hughes, Ellen Meyer Shorb, and Peter Lewitt.
Peter was one of no less than four ’78s mentioned in the same New Yorker article back in April. Dan Reicher, Rob Portman,and Tony Anella were the other three. They probably never imagined that when they canoed the length of the Rio Grande back in 1977 that their adventure would end up in the pages of a national magazine 40 years later. The article opened with that long-ago journey but focused primarily on a Rio Grande trip Dan led this past winter for American Rivers, an advocacy group.
Congratulations to Mike Carroll, whose new novel Zero to Fifty is available in bookstores and online. “A light summer read set in Saint-Tropez and New York” is how Mike describes the book, adding with keen author insight: “The hardcover edition can also be used to weigh down a towel on the beach or as a substitute for charcoal when barbecuing.”
Finally, it is my duty to issue an official apology to Win Craven.In last month’s column, I reversed his first and last names and called him Craven Winfield. This clearly should be the name of a malicious banker in a Jane Austen novel and just as clearly is not one of our classmates. I’m sorry about the mistake, Win, and as sure as my name is Brick Eyer, I will never make another such error as long as I live.
Send news!
—Rick Beyer, 190 Bridge St., #4409, Salem, MA 01970; rick@rickbeyer.net