Classes & Obits

Class Note 1978

Issue

September-October 2023

Hope you all had wonderful summers, seizing the day and keeping cool. This fall will see the inauguration of Sian Leah Beilock as Dartmouth’s first female president. Watch this space for eyewitness reports in a future column.

For now, my mailbag is still full of travel notes from our amazing and mobile classmates.

Scott Riedler writes: “A few years ago I rode a bike with my three brothers to the summit of Haleakala on Maui, Hawaii, at 10,000-plus feet—six hours of steady climbing, and one and a half hours of white-knuckle coasting downhill trying not to be too distracted by the incredible view.”

Richard “Rick” Heath writes: “My wife (Cindy Harris, Smith ’79) and I recently took a cruise from San Diego, through the Panama Canal, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Cruising the canal has long been on our bucket lists, and it was great to be able to check it off.”

Jeff Miller writes: “Flying to Florence this past spring and driving an hour and a half south to a Tuscan hill town, outside of which live two of my oldest and dearest Italian friends, ages 82 and 90. I enjoyed absorbing all the goodness of Italian country life, taking a morning to shop for food at my favorite salumeria and pecorino farm and producer, and remembering what is important.”

Helene Rassias-Miles writes: “I was co-leader on a spring break trip with undergrads to Morelos and Mexico City, Mexico. We began on Indigenous sacred land, hosted by an ’06, and built walls for compostable toilets. We met with controversial politicians, were hosted by micro-finance bank presidents, danced with children at a school in a challenged part of town, met and discussed with ‘Dreamers’ who had been deported. The trip spirit was so wonderfully full of Dartmouth spirit—no day was too long, no experience anything but exciting.”

C. Craig Woods writes: “Wimbledon has been on the bucket list for me and my wife, Carole, for some time now. Much to our surprise and chagrin, we were not invited to play in the mixed doubles draw this year.”

There are other bucket-list trips on the calendar.

Don Hunton writes: “the small town in central Norway where my great-grandparents grew up.”

Tom Haynes writes: “Togo and Benin.”

Brooks Clark writes: “Karen Clark’s bucket-list trip is to retrace the steps of Burton and Speake from their initial provisioning stop in Zanzibar, then to the east coast of Africa, Lake Tanganyika, and finally Lake Victoria, traveling through Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia—but she might settle for a cruise up the Nile.”

Maggie Fellner Hunt writes: “a three-week cruise from Greenland to Alaska on the Northwest Passage; then in November a bike trip in Kyushu, Japan, originally scheduled for two years ago.”

Bill Dexter writes: “South America.”

Amy Simon Berg writes: Alaska. “I have been to the other 49 states so this will be No. 50.”

Karen Kurkjian writes: “Patagonia.”

Rick Kimball writes: “Anne Bagamery’s balcony in Paris.”

Any time, folks! And please send news!

Anne Bagamery, 13 rue de Presles, 75015 Paris, France; abagamery78@gmail.com; Rick Beyer, 1305 S. Michigan Ave., #1104, Chicago, IL 60605; rickbeyer78@gmail.com