Class Note 1962
Issue
Jan-Feb 2020
Co-tripmeisters Tom Komarek and Roger Usborne report that 79 classmates, wives, and significant others are booked for our 80th birthday celebration in San Antonio, Texas, April 26-30. Only nine more slots are available. The side-trip to Fredericksburg will include visits to the spectacular National Museum of the Pacific War, plus a luncheon at the Fredericksburg Brewery arranged by local resident Bill Sadd. Further details at 1962.dartmouth.org. As a preview, Tyko Kihlstedt shares a treasure chest of photos of San Antonio at https://bit.ly/33NUe9T.
The September/October online issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine included an online “web extra” and moving eulogy to “the most powerful man in college sports,” Mike Slive: “The Commish,” by John Walters and brother-in-law Alan Rapoport (https://bit.ly/2JoSLzp).
After 10 years of retirement, Michael Tan Creti and Jane are living in Hanover for the fall semester, “reinventing daily life and focusing on their avocations,” Jane on iconography and Mike on his writing. They are both caught up in “the heart of the Dartmouth experience,” enjoying “cultural events at the Hop, lecture series on campus, the open fellowship of St. Thomas’s Church, and walking in the village.” What a wonderful way to rekindle old memories, create new ones, and introduce our wives to a seminal epoch in our lives!
’Round the girdled earth go Susan and Peter Brink, returning to Africa (where Peter served in the Peace Corps), as they do every year. They toured Nairobi, the Serengeti, and Zanzibar. They also participated in an “uncruise” in Panama (everything important takes place off the ship) and tour of Costa Rica.
Next April Paul Weinberg will cruise for 18 days from Mumbai to the Mediterranean transiting the Suez Canal stopping in Jordan, Israel, Cyprus, Crete, Greece, and Sicily before debarking in Civitavecchia, Rome.
Elizabeth and I have been girdling a bit this year as well, spending nearly a month in China and Vietnam, as well as a brief return to my birthplace in Argentina. I must admit to a welter of conflicting emotions as we drove past Hill 327 just south of Danang airbase, the location of my observation post when stationed there in 1965.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com
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The September/October online issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine included an online “web extra” and moving eulogy to “the most powerful man in college sports,” Mike Slive: “The Commish,” by John Walters and brother-in-law Alan Rapoport (https://bit.ly/2JoSLzp).
After 10 years of retirement, Michael Tan Creti and Jane are living in Hanover for the fall semester, “reinventing daily life and focusing on their avocations,” Jane on iconography and Mike on his writing. They are both caught up in “the heart of the Dartmouth experience,” enjoying “cultural events at the Hop, lecture series on campus, the open fellowship of St. Thomas’s Church, and walking in the village.” What a wonderful way to rekindle old memories, create new ones, and introduce our wives to a seminal epoch in our lives!
’Round the girdled earth go Susan and Peter Brink, returning to Africa (where Peter served in the Peace Corps), as they do every year. They toured Nairobi, the Serengeti, and Zanzibar. They also participated in an “uncruise” in Panama (everything important takes place off the ship) and tour of Costa Rica.
Next April Paul Weinberg will cruise for 18 days from Mumbai to the Mediterranean transiting the Suez Canal stopping in Jordan, Israel, Cyprus, Crete, Greece, and Sicily before debarking in Civitavecchia, Rome.
Elizabeth and I have been girdling a bit this year as well, spending nearly a month in China and Vietnam, as well as a brief return to my birthplace in Argentina. I must admit to a welter of conflicting emotions as we drove past Hill 327 just south of Danang airbase, the location of my observation post when stationed there in 1965.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com