Class Note 1957
Issue
Jan-Feb 2020
Homecoming is a special occasion for all classes at Dartmouth, but for the great class of 1957 it was much more. Proclaimed to be our 62nd-and-a-half reunion by class president Tom Macy, ’57s gathered together to reconnect with the College they love.
It all began on Friday with a tour by director John Stomberg of the renovated Hood Museum, a tour that included the display of valuable acquisitions donated by Henry Binder and Bill Curry; then off to a reception and dinner at the Dickey Center, including a panel discussion by Chris Wren and other “Great Issues” scholars; then off to the parade of classes and the grand bonfire.
Saturday was jam-packed as well. Tom led the class meeting attended by two of our four scholarship students, Logan Adams ’21 and Oscar Lee ’23. Lunch included a fun talk by Mike Lasser on his recent bestseller, City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950. The afternoon concluded with a noisy ’57 section at Memorial Field cheering on Big Green over Yale, 42-10.
Saturday evening the entire contingent regrouped at Arline and Barry Rotman’s lovely Norwich, Vermont, home, where all gathered around the Rotmans’ baby grand to be delightfully entertained by Mike Lasser, Jay Greene, and honorary classmates, Matthew Marsit and Steve Swayne. Mystery guest Paulina Greene teamed up with husband Jay for a rousing rendition of “You’re Just in Love.”
Saturday festivities ended with dinner at the Norwich Inn, but the real farewell gathering was the traditional Sunday brunch at the home of Happy and Clark Griffiths. Pancakes and sausage cooked over a wood fire!
Tom was right: This was not so much a homecoming as a great reunion for a great class. Perhaps it’s the commitment to “Great Issues” in our education or the influence of John Sloan Dickey on our development, but it’s certainly a love for Dartmouth. We’ve gone out from “Pollard’s smut class,” “Fergie’s physics,” “Foley’s history”, and our alma mater. We’ve been “out, out in the wide, wide world” for 62 1/2 years. We may be old, but “we’re not sick…we’re just in love.”
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@aol.com
It all began on Friday with a tour by director John Stomberg of the renovated Hood Museum, a tour that included the display of valuable acquisitions donated by Henry Binder and Bill Curry; then off to a reception and dinner at the Dickey Center, including a panel discussion by Chris Wren and other “Great Issues” scholars; then off to the parade of classes and the grand bonfire.
Saturday was jam-packed as well. Tom led the class meeting attended by two of our four scholarship students, Logan Adams ’21 and Oscar Lee ’23. Lunch included a fun talk by Mike Lasser on his recent bestseller, City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950. The afternoon concluded with a noisy ’57 section at Memorial Field cheering on Big Green over Yale, 42-10.
Saturday evening the entire contingent regrouped at Arline and Barry Rotman’s lovely Norwich, Vermont, home, where all gathered around the Rotmans’ baby grand to be delightfully entertained by Mike Lasser, Jay Greene, and honorary classmates, Matthew Marsit and Steve Swayne. Mystery guest Paulina Greene teamed up with husband Jay for a rousing rendition of “You’re Just in Love.”
Saturday festivities ended with dinner at the Norwich Inn, but the real farewell gathering was the traditional Sunday brunch at the home of Happy and Clark Griffiths. Pancakes and sausage cooked over a wood fire!
Tom was right: This was not so much a homecoming as a great reunion for a great class. Perhaps it’s the commitment to “Great Issues” in our education or the influence of John Sloan Dickey on our development, but it’s certainly a love for Dartmouth. We’ve gone out from “Pollard’s smut class,” “Fergie’s physics,” “Foley’s history”, and our alma mater. We’ve been “out, out in the wide, wide world” for 62 1/2 years. We may be old, but “we’re not sick…we’re just in love.”
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@aol.com