Class Note 1981
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
Vaughn Halyard wrote uproariously about a mini-reunion that took place this summer at a charity golf tournament in “the mosquito and black fly haven of Minnesota.” The tournament was hosted by Marc Belton,with Vaughn, Marvin Smith, Bill Jenkins, Jimmy Bynoe, and Paul Yelder in attendance. Vaughn wore his lucky golf hat, courtesy of Geoff Hatheway and Magic Mountain. Apparently the hat has exhibited magic powers and will be donned for all future golf tournaments until it tatters. The full story, which has been published in the August class newsletter along with photographs, is a must-read. The group plans to reconvene with Tim Itin this winter, when Vaughn promises to “continue prototyping experimental, time-compressed ski instruction techniques on research subject Bill Jenkins.”
Mary and Doug Bates tied the knot in Jackson, New Hampshire. The wedding was attended by Mike Peterson, Steve Levitan ’82, and Mia Luehrmann ’84. The couple, who met back in the day at Mary Hitchcock Hospital, have moved into their new home on Lake Pawtuckaway in Nottingham, New Hampshire. Pictures of the beautiful celebrations can be viewed in the aforementioned class newsletter.
Jeff Healy was honored to join the board of the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles, which won the Metro Alumni Club of the Year Award in 2017.
Lynn Noel shared an interesting connection with the late poet laureate Donald Hall. “I was saddened to read of the passing of poet laureate Donald Hall. I am one of many who love his work, but came by my signed copy in an unusual way, 35 years after a freshman year escapade. We were trimming our tree one December and invited a friend and her husband, whom we barely knew, over to help. He noticed the milk crate the lights were stored in, and asked me where I got it. I coughed and confessed that I’d nicked it from behind the grocery store in college. He said, ‘Dartmouth?’ I said yes, and asked how he knew. ‘It says Hall’s Dairy, and my granddad had a dairy in New Hampshire.’ I was mortified, even more so when he offered to buy the milk crate to give to his dad. I immediately unpacked it and gave it to him. The next time we met, he said, ‘We’d like to thank you for the milk crate, my dad really loved it. He wrote some poems, and he hoped you might like one of his books.’ My jaw hit the floor. So that’s how I met Donald Hall’s son. And returned a stolen milk crate to a poet laureate. I will always see the twinkle in his eye when I open my signed copy of Unpacking the Boxes.” Lynn lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, and has recently re-released an update of her folk heritage CD, A Woman’s Way: First Millennium of Adventurous Women, first recorded while she was a research fellow of the Dickey Institute of Arctic Studies in 1999.
—Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; vcwessels@rogers.com; Emil Miskovsky, 520 Seneca St., Suite 312, Utica, NY 13502; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com
Mary and Doug Bates tied the knot in Jackson, New Hampshire. The wedding was attended by Mike Peterson, Steve Levitan ’82, and Mia Luehrmann ’84. The couple, who met back in the day at Mary Hitchcock Hospital, have moved into their new home on Lake Pawtuckaway in Nottingham, New Hampshire. Pictures of the beautiful celebrations can be viewed in the aforementioned class newsletter.
Jeff Healy was honored to join the board of the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles, which won the Metro Alumni Club of the Year Award in 2017.
Lynn Noel shared an interesting connection with the late poet laureate Donald Hall. “I was saddened to read of the passing of poet laureate Donald Hall. I am one of many who love his work, but came by my signed copy in an unusual way, 35 years after a freshman year escapade. We were trimming our tree one December and invited a friend and her husband, whom we barely knew, over to help. He noticed the milk crate the lights were stored in, and asked me where I got it. I coughed and confessed that I’d nicked it from behind the grocery store in college. He said, ‘Dartmouth?’ I said yes, and asked how he knew. ‘It says Hall’s Dairy, and my granddad had a dairy in New Hampshire.’ I was mortified, even more so when he offered to buy the milk crate to give to his dad. I immediately unpacked it and gave it to him. The next time we met, he said, ‘We’d like to thank you for the milk crate, my dad really loved it. He wrote some poems, and he hoped you might like one of his books.’ My jaw hit the floor. So that’s how I met Donald Hall’s son. And returned a stolen milk crate to a poet laureate. I will always see the twinkle in his eye when I open my signed copy of Unpacking the Boxes.” Lynn lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, and has recently re-released an update of her folk heritage CD, A Woman’s Way: First Millennium of Adventurous Women, first recorded while she was a research fellow of the Dickey Institute of Arctic Studies in 1999.
—Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; vcwessels@rogers.com; Emil Miskovsky, 520 Seneca St., Suite 312, Utica, NY 13502; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com