Class Note 1965
Issue
May-June 2020
Greetings! It’s been an easy winter in Minnesota. I’m writing at the end of February, and we’re anticipating a couple of 40-degree days. Suitable reason to break out shorts and T-shirts. Forty degrees feels toasty after 10 or 20 below. (We forget that March is often our snowiest month.)
And speaking as we were about calendars and warm weather, I hope you’re planning for the 55th reunion, coming up sooner than we all think the week of June 14. There will be a trip to Moosilauke and an informal dinner at the Ravine Lodge on Sunday, June 14. The reunion starts on Monday, June 15, and runs to Thursday, June 18. We will be staying in the East Wheelock Cluster across from Alumni Gym. Mike Gonnerman, Roger Hansen, Dick Harris, Steve Fowler,and George Wittreich are the reunion committee and are hard at work on planning events. These will include a film and presentation on Dartmouth computing by Dan Rockmore, head of the Neukom Institute, and John McGeachie and John Kunz. There will be a talk by the college librarian, a memorial service for deceased classmates, and a reception and dinner with President Hanlon. More activities in and around campus will make for full days and nights. Gonnerman notes that there are “lots of moving pieces” at this stage; with this group moving those pieces around, the puzzle is going to be a good one. (How’s that for a limping metaphor?)
You will have by now received registration materials. If, by chance, that did not happen, email Roger Hansen at hhansen@ne.rr.com.
While we’re on the subject of the reunion, class pride, and communication, drop me a line for the next column. Since we’re reuning, reminiscences are in order: What foolish thing did you do in those magnificent few days between comps and graduation (it was a few, wasn’t it, or did it just fly by for me?) or the first job or internship? Or tell me about the transition for a lot of you from college life to military life (I count 88 classmates in the commissioning ceremony.) or where your undergraduate degree took you. I went off to business school, later imbibing operations research. Those courses in how to do things, from accounting to finance to math, were the intellectual equivalent of the stuff you score at Home Depot with that holiday gift card. The English major probably wouldn’t have gotten me a job (after all, Starbucks was years in the future), but it and Dartmouth gave me a way to look at the world and at the problems my day job presented that made all those other tools work. I’d like to hear your thoughts.
Finally, the College has belatedly learned of the deaths of three of our classmates: Don Del Dio in April 2019; Capt. Bill Mackey (Navy, retired) in November 2016; and David Street in December 2005.
See you at the 55th!
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net
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And speaking as we were about calendars and warm weather, I hope you’re planning for the 55th reunion, coming up sooner than we all think the week of June 14. There will be a trip to Moosilauke and an informal dinner at the Ravine Lodge on Sunday, June 14. The reunion starts on Monday, June 15, and runs to Thursday, June 18. We will be staying in the East Wheelock Cluster across from Alumni Gym. Mike Gonnerman, Roger Hansen, Dick Harris, Steve Fowler,and George Wittreich are the reunion committee and are hard at work on planning events. These will include a film and presentation on Dartmouth computing by Dan Rockmore, head of the Neukom Institute, and John McGeachie and John Kunz. There will be a talk by the college librarian, a memorial service for deceased classmates, and a reception and dinner with President Hanlon. More activities in and around campus will make for full days and nights. Gonnerman notes that there are “lots of moving pieces” at this stage; with this group moving those pieces around, the puzzle is going to be a good one. (How’s that for a limping metaphor?)
You will have by now received registration materials. If, by chance, that did not happen, email Roger Hansen at hhansen@ne.rr.com.
While we’re on the subject of the reunion, class pride, and communication, drop me a line for the next column. Since we’re reuning, reminiscences are in order: What foolish thing did you do in those magnificent few days between comps and graduation (it was a few, wasn’t it, or did it just fly by for me?) or the first job or internship? Or tell me about the transition for a lot of you from college life to military life (I count 88 classmates in the commissioning ceremony.) or where your undergraduate degree took you. I went off to business school, later imbibing operations research. Those courses in how to do things, from accounting to finance to math, were the intellectual equivalent of the stuff you score at Home Depot with that holiday gift card. The English major probably wouldn’t have gotten me a job (after all, Starbucks was years in the future), but it and Dartmouth gave me a way to look at the world and at the problems my day job presented that made all those other tools work. I’d like to hear your thoughts.
Finally, the College has belatedly learned of the deaths of three of our classmates: Don Del Dio in April 2019; Capt. Bill Mackey (Navy, retired) in November 2016; and David Street in December 2005.
See you at the 55th!
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net