Class Note 1979
Sat down to decompress after work last night and watched about five minutes of the 2013 NFL Draft before remembering that it’s unwatchable reality TV. So instead I decided to offload some guilt by honoring my annual pledge to Terry Gould to contribute to the Dartmouth College Fund. This edition of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine should hit mailboxes mid-June, leaving a week or two to spare for those of you who are similarly inclined but still procrastinating. Please support the College we love if you can, gang; it takes only a minute online at dartmouthcollegefund.org/dcf.php.
In a canny trade I managed to extract some bullet-point news from Terry, and it goes something like this: “I am living in Winnetka, Illinois, with my wife, Susan. My son Ellis is a freshman at the University of Southern California. My daughter Hilary is at New Trier High School, where she rows crew. My younger daughter, Claire, is in junior high and plays hockey. I get out for some men’s league hockey now and then with teammate Kent Mathewson. Travels often take me to Boston and the Bay Area, where I enjoy seeing the likes of Bill Stewart ’80, Mark Alperin ’80 and Joe Henley.”
In fairness, I caught Terry while he was away on business, so I turned to Karen Thompson Dale for some exclamation points: “What could be better than meeting up with two classmates, specifically Anna Burack Wilson and Bill Mitchell, for spring skiing on the slopes of Vail, Colorado? I wish I could send everyone a ‘wish you were here’ postcard; you would be envious! Imagine how much fun it was for this intermediate skier to follow in the tracks of two former Dartmouth Skiway instructors who, decades later, still manage to keep up with their children. Speaking of children, Anna’s daughter Sarah came back west to study so she could compete in extreme skiing—you know, the kind a mother watches with her eyes closed as the child goes over the cliff! Thank you, Bill, for organizing this small but wonderful March gathering of ’79s!”
And now, in the immortal words of Ed McMahon, “Here’s Johnny!” “Time to break a nearly 25-year run of enjoying Class Notes from the sidelines! I was fortunate to be up in Hanover in late March to watch my oldest son (Johnny ’13) play for the Dartmouth men’s lacrosse team vs. Harvard and had the pleasure of seeing Bill Mitchell, Mike McCarthy (son Harrison ’16) and our omnipresent class secretary in the bleachers. Harvard prevailed, but it was a thrill to see Johnny and Jake Weil ’15 each find the back of the net! Later that weekend I literally almost stumbled into Tom Tomai and John Dolan while looking through the window at Lou’s Restaurant. It was wonderful and momentarily shocking to see them in the flesh (pledge raid?) after these many years. I’m glad to see time treating these classmates well.”
Until next time, refresh, enjoy and travel on friends!
—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com
