Class Note 1982
Issue
Nov - Dec 2017
As I write this column your class officers have just submitted our annual class activities report, in which we describe in great detail all of the activities we have done this past school year. By the time you read this column your class officers will have traveled to Hanover for Class Officers Weekend. I thought it would be fun to focus in this column on class numbers rather than classmate names, so here we go.
There were 1,054 of us who matriculated back in September 1978. As of July 1, 2017, 1,018 of us are still alive. We have current email addresses for 976 classmates.
Our class dues participation rate was 51 percent this past year. Our class raised $1,268,995 for the Dartmouth College Fund this year, with 38.3 percent of classmates participating. I know our class agents would like to see that percentage rise as we head into our 35th reunion (June 14-17, 2018).
Twenty-three members of the class are in the Bartlett Tower Society (BTS), which means they have included Dartmouth in their estate plans. The amount of the bequest is not important: Any amount is welcome. The goal for our 35th reunion is to have 40 BTS members.
As class co-secretaries Robin and I submitted six Class Notes columns this past year for Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Sixty-one different classmates’ names appeared in our columns, including 18 classmates whose names had not previously been mentioned. We strive to report on classmates who we have not included before—and even keep a list to help us. And lest you think we only want to hear about job promotions and honorary degrees, we welcome anything that you would like to share. Sadly, Robin and I also wrote two classmate obituaries this past year.
One of the special joys of being class secretary for the great class of 1982 is sending birthday emails. I am fascinated by the age range in our class. Our oldest member was born in March of 1952 and our youngest in March of 1962—a full 10-year difference! We have two classmates who were born on February 29—1960 was a leap year! There are four classmate birthdays on Valentine’s Day and three classmates with Christmas Day birthdays. None of us were born on the 4th of July or Christmas Eve! The two classmates born on May 1 are married to each other. The dates with the most birthdays are January 16, February 16 and September 3—with eight birthdays each. And there are only 19 days during the year where we do not need to send a birthday email: January 2, 9, 17; February 3, 20; April 26; May 20; June 24, 29; July 3, 4; September 7; October 21, 23; November 7, 23; and December 10, 23, 24.
The final number I will mention is 265. That is the number of classmates we need to bring back to Hanover next June in order to break the 35th reunion record set by the class of 1979. That would make all your class officers very happy!
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@gmail.com
There were 1,054 of us who matriculated back in September 1978. As of July 1, 2017, 1,018 of us are still alive. We have current email addresses for 976 classmates.
Our class dues participation rate was 51 percent this past year. Our class raised $1,268,995 for the Dartmouth College Fund this year, with 38.3 percent of classmates participating. I know our class agents would like to see that percentage rise as we head into our 35th reunion (June 14-17, 2018).
Twenty-three members of the class are in the Bartlett Tower Society (BTS), which means they have included Dartmouth in their estate plans. The amount of the bequest is not important: Any amount is welcome. The goal for our 35th reunion is to have 40 BTS members.
As class co-secretaries Robin and I submitted six Class Notes columns this past year for Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Sixty-one different classmates’ names appeared in our columns, including 18 classmates whose names had not previously been mentioned. We strive to report on classmates who we have not included before—and even keep a list to help us. And lest you think we only want to hear about job promotions and honorary degrees, we welcome anything that you would like to share. Sadly, Robin and I also wrote two classmate obituaries this past year.
One of the special joys of being class secretary for the great class of 1982 is sending birthday emails. I am fascinated by the age range in our class. Our oldest member was born in March of 1952 and our youngest in March of 1962—a full 10-year difference! We have two classmates who were born on February 29—1960 was a leap year! There are four classmate birthdays on Valentine’s Day and three classmates with Christmas Day birthdays. None of us were born on the 4th of July or Christmas Eve! The two classmates born on May 1 are married to each other. The dates with the most birthdays are January 16, February 16 and September 3—with eight birthdays each. And there are only 19 days during the year where we do not need to send a birthday email: January 2, 9, 17; February 3, 20; April 26; May 20; June 24, 29; July 3, 4; September 7; October 21, 23; November 7, 23; and December 10, 23, 24.
The final number I will mention is 265. That is the number of classmates we need to bring back to Hanover next June in order to break the 35th reunion record set by the class of 1979. That would make all your class officers very happy!
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@gmail.com