Class Note 1965
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March-April 2020
You will be reading this is mid-March, just the time to make spring and summer plans. Pencil in the 55th reunion, Monday, June 15, to Thursday, June 18. For early arrivers there will be a trip to Moosilauke and an informal dinner at the Ravine Lodge on Sunday, June 14. Mike Gonnerman, Roger Hansen, Dick Harris, and Steve Fowler are hard at work on planning the events. We will be staying in the Wheelock Cluster across from Alumni Gym. Activities will include a Robert Frost reenactment, a dinner with President Hanlon, a film and presentation on Dartmouth computing by John McGeachie, a talk on the space program by Ken McGruther, a reception, dinner, and dancing. And, of course, much conversation.
That’s the major reunion news, but during the last several years, several class mini-reunions, breakfasts, and lunches have grown organically. Maybe it’s the draw of Hanover bringing classmates back to the College, maybe a bit more time on our hands, but it’s been a happy development. First was the monthly Hanover breakfast at Skinny Pancake, which often boasts more than a dozen attendees. Then came Florida breakfasts and lunches in the winter months, as well as an annual spring training meeting. More recently, there are quarterly N.Y.C. luncheons and summer meetings at Lake George, New York. More info? Shoot me an email (to the address below) and I will redirect to the organizers.
Classmates living in Hanover can choose from among many activities and programs. Bob McConnaughey is newly elected to the Latham Memorial Library board (Thetford, Vermont). Dave Beattie is co-teaching a course through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on nuclear submarines. At the course’s conclusion, the class will attend the commissioning of the USS Vermont. And Bill Young is teaching an Osher course on ice statues, which will confer on students membership in the proud ice castle crew.
Glenn Currie has published a seventh volume of poetry, Ball of String. Rick Broussard, editor of New Hampshire magazine, notes, “As a poet and photographer, Currie takes notice of the world the way…a beachcomber does after a storm. Ball of String is a memory box filled with moments of living light.” Fine poetry, beautifully produced. Also, my (John Rogers) third novel (unpublished) was long-listed for the Grindstone International Novel Prize.
In early December I was given an affirmation of the American Idea, an antidote to the suspicion and conflict painted daily in the news. It was not the best of circumstances: I was suddenly in the hospital, needing cardiac bypass. On my way through the painful, scary process, I was soothed and protected by some of the fine ya-sure Minnesotans I have come to admire. But there were many more…a nurse’s aide whose family escaped Somali catastrophe, internment in Yemen, and came to Minnesota; men and women from a dozen Asian and African countries. They worked long, hard hours and were committed to doing their jobs well. It was a reminder of the values that make this country unique.
Mark those calendars for the 55th!
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net
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That’s the major reunion news, but during the last several years, several class mini-reunions, breakfasts, and lunches have grown organically. Maybe it’s the draw of Hanover bringing classmates back to the College, maybe a bit more time on our hands, but it’s been a happy development. First was the monthly Hanover breakfast at Skinny Pancake, which often boasts more than a dozen attendees. Then came Florida breakfasts and lunches in the winter months, as well as an annual spring training meeting. More recently, there are quarterly N.Y.C. luncheons and summer meetings at Lake George, New York. More info? Shoot me an email (to the address below) and I will redirect to the organizers.
Classmates living in Hanover can choose from among many activities and programs. Bob McConnaughey is newly elected to the Latham Memorial Library board (Thetford, Vermont). Dave Beattie is co-teaching a course through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on nuclear submarines. At the course’s conclusion, the class will attend the commissioning of the USS Vermont. And Bill Young is teaching an Osher course on ice statues, which will confer on students membership in the proud ice castle crew.
Glenn Currie has published a seventh volume of poetry, Ball of String. Rick Broussard, editor of New Hampshire magazine, notes, “As a poet and photographer, Currie takes notice of the world the way…a beachcomber does after a storm. Ball of String is a memory box filled with moments of living light.” Fine poetry, beautifully produced. Also, my (John Rogers) third novel (unpublished) was long-listed for the Grindstone International Novel Prize.
In early December I was given an affirmation of the American Idea, an antidote to the suspicion and conflict painted daily in the news. It was not the best of circumstances: I was suddenly in the hospital, needing cardiac bypass. On my way through the painful, scary process, I was soothed and protected by some of the fine ya-sure Minnesotans I have come to admire. But there were many more…a nurse’s aide whose family escaped Somali catastrophe, internment in Yemen, and came to Minnesota; men and women from a dozen Asian and African countries. They worked long, hard hours and were committed to doing their jobs well. It was a reminder of the values that make this country unique.
Mark those calendars for the 55th!
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net