Class Note 1965
Issue
November-December 2021
Writing in mid-August, it’s impossible in this Covid era to even predict whether our October mini-reunion will or has taken place. I hope to have notes for the next issue.
One advantage of living in Hanover is access to Dartmouth events, of which the annual Pow Wow is one of the most interesting. Our classmate Rich Beams is a regular at our Upper Valley monthly breakfasts, where his diverse interests ranging from opera to Native American art always provide interesting conversational twists. Here’s what he is up to now.
Rich writes: “Inspired by the recent article in the May/June Dartmouth Alumni Magazine by Betsy Vereckey, ‘Heartbeat of the People: There’s more to the annual Pow Wow than meets the eye,’ I have begun planning an illustrated book titled A Journey in Time; a Pow Wow Through Pottery. In the article, painter Mateo Romero ’89, a member of the Cochiti Pueblo Tribe, describes the Pow Wow as a spiritual moment; so too is the making of pueblo pottery with its connection to community, nature, and ancestors—even as it has become very much a commercial enterprise today. Using my extensive Native American pottery collection, which goes from pre-historic, historic, to the contemporary, I hope to illustrate and examine the organic interdependence of Native Americans and their communities built around the making of their pottery, a journey through time, or rather a Pow Wow through pottery. As Lonnie Vigil, an award-winning Nambé Pueblo potter writes, ‘Each pot speaks to the continuity in the identity of family and community [and is] simultaneously an act of connection between the potter, the Earth Mother, and the ancestral spirits that guide them.’ My plan is to have as many Dartmouth Native Americans as possible comment on the various pots, making whatever observations or associations they may bring to mind. If it all comes together as a book, I’ll donate all proceeds to student fundraising efforts to sustain this admirable, 50-year tradition, the annual Pow Wow.”
I regret to report the loss of classmates Jim Hofrichter and Rick Suberman. Check the class website for obituaries and other updates: www.biggreen65.com.
—Bob Murphy,7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589; murph65nh@comcast.net
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One advantage of living in Hanover is access to Dartmouth events, of which the annual Pow Wow is one of the most interesting. Our classmate Rich Beams is a regular at our Upper Valley monthly breakfasts, where his diverse interests ranging from opera to Native American art always provide interesting conversational twists. Here’s what he is up to now.
Rich writes: “Inspired by the recent article in the May/June Dartmouth Alumni Magazine by Betsy Vereckey, ‘Heartbeat of the People: There’s more to the annual Pow Wow than meets the eye,’ I have begun planning an illustrated book titled A Journey in Time; a Pow Wow Through Pottery. In the article, painter Mateo Romero ’89, a member of the Cochiti Pueblo Tribe, describes the Pow Wow as a spiritual moment; so too is the making of pueblo pottery with its connection to community, nature, and ancestors—even as it has become very much a commercial enterprise today. Using my extensive Native American pottery collection, which goes from pre-historic, historic, to the contemporary, I hope to illustrate and examine the organic interdependence of Native Americans and their communities built around the making of their pottery, a journey through time, or rather a Pow Wow through pottery. As Lonnie Vigil, an award-winning Nambé Pueblo potter writes, ‘Each pot speaks to the continuity in the identity of family and community [and is] simultaneously an act of connection between the potter, the Earth Mother, and the ancestral spirits that guide them.’ My plan is to have as many Dartmouth Native Americans as possible comment on the various pots, making whatever observations or associations they may bring to mind. If it all comes together as a book, I’ll donate all proceeds to student fundraising efforts to sustain this admirable, 50-year tradition, the annual Pow Wow.”
I regret to report the loss of classmates Jim Hofrichter and Rick Suberman. Check the class website for obituaries and other updates: www.biggreen65.com.
—Bob Murphy,7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589; murph65nh@comcast.net