Class Note 1981
Issue
Jan-Feb 2020
There was a large gathering of recently minted 60-year-olds at the Hanover Inn the Saturday night of the 250th Homecoming with food and cake and song. Did I mention Joy? We had spontaneous smiling, inquisitive conversing, and a bona fide shared spirit. It was such an attractive assembly that we drew several party crashers from multiple classes. The picture show of class images through the years collected by Rick Silverman was spectacular and will be available on the class page. (Oh, and if you find more images during your year 60 “cleanup” at home, please send them in to d.81.news@gmail.com for the upcoming 40th reunion June 18-21!) Earlier in the day Toby Reiley served up gallons of his now-signature chili to the combined ’79-’81 tent pre-football game. Big news for bibliophiles in the class is the formation of a book club with one of our class’ favorite faculty, Donald Pease.
As the embodiment of our 40th reunion motto, “60 is the new 40,” Jay Hole reflected on accelerating through the number 60: “It is just a number—I was born in February 1958, so I raced my first year in the 60-64 age group at the cross-country skiing Masters World Cup in Beitostolen, Norway, in March. I was already 61. It was a great trip—two weeks in Nordic skiing heaven with four races in eight days, including 15-, 10-, 30-kilometer races at the Masters World Cup, plus the 54-kilometer Norwegian Birkebeiner on March 16. All went well and I met a few new Dartmouth folks, though none of our vintage. I even skied reasonably well in the races for a flat-lander living in northeast Ohio, where we had the worst snow winter since graduation. I plan to keep training and racing until it isn’t fun any more, which should be a while if my knee holds up. I’m inspired and got some genes from my mom, who skied four times at Whiteface this winter—she’s 88! I still clip into the alpine boards, though very infrequently.”
Mini-reunions are in full bloom now and please look into joining one. Ted Hibben, Larry Dunn, Patricia Fisher, Ellen Brout Lindsey, and Julie Koeninger joined Sally Ankeny Reiley for a private tour of the Heritage Museum and Gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts, by the new president and CEO Anne Scott-Putney. An impromptu gathering was held in Byron Boston’s favorite vacation spot Vienna, Austria, by Mike Doyle and cousin Steve Pignatiello on Mike’s gorgeous terrace overlooking the city. A fun-filled South of the Border get-together included Keith Lindsay, Jeff Goff, Steve Spear, Andy Drexler, Bob Miner, Bill Rockwood, and Bill Lindsay. All of us should be encouraged by these examples to make concrete plans to head to Hanover in June for our 40th. We were chosen to be together for great reason, and on his final day as president in 1981, John Kemeny extolled us to be each other’s keeper. Let’s follow through.
—Emil Miskovsky, 520 Seneca St., Suite 312, Utica, NY 13502; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com; Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; vcwessels@rogers.com
As the embodiment of our 40th reunion motto, “60 is the new 40,” Jay Hole reflected on accelerating through the number 60: “It is just a number—I was born in February 1958, so I raced my first year in the 60-64 age group at the cross-country skiing Masters World Cup in Beitostolen, Norway, in March. I was already 61. It was a great trip—two weeks in Nordic skiing heaven with four races in eight days, including 15-, 10-, 30-kilometer races at the Masters World Cup, plus the 54-kilometer Norwegian Birkebeiner on March 16. All went well and I met a few new Dartmouth folks, though none of our vintage. I even skied reasonably well in the races for a flat-lander living in northeast Ohio, where we had the worst snow winter since graduation. I plan to keep training and racing until it isn’t fun any more, which should be a while if my knee holds up. I’m inspired and got some genes from my mom, who skied four times at Whiteface this winter—she’s 88! I still clip into the alpine boards, though very infrequently.”
Mini-reunions are in full bloom now and please look into joining one. Ted Hibben, Larry Dunn, Patricia Fisher, Ellen Brout Lindsey, and Julie Koeninger joined Sally Ankeny Reiley for a private tour of the Heritage Museum and Gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts, by the new president and CEO Anne Scott-Putney. An impromptu gathering was held in Byron Boston’s favorite vacation spot Vienna, Austria, by Mike Doyle and cousin Steve Pignatiello on Mike’s gorgeous terrace overlooking the city. A fun-filled South of the Border get-together included Keith Lindsay, Jeff Goff, Steve Spear, Andy Drexler, Bob Miner, Bill Rockwood, and Bill Lindsay. All of us should be encouraged by these examples to make concrete plans to head to Hanover in June for our 40th. We were chosen to be together for great reason, and on his final day as president in 1981, John Kemeny extolled us to be each other’s keeper. Let’s follow through.
—Emil Miskovsky, 520 Seneca St., Suite 312, Utica, NY 13502; (802) 345-9861; emilmiskovsky@gmail.com; Veronica Wessels, 224 Buena Vista Road, Rockcliffe, ON K1M0V7, Canada; (613) 864-4491; vcwessels@rogers.com