Class Note 1955
Issue
November-December 2022
It’s the end of a hot, dry August as we write this and yet you will be reading it as the holiday season approaches with thoughts of joyful family gatherings and celebrations in mind. Maybe even a little World Series memory plus the Harvard game at Homecoming is present too. But the big story from Hanover is the announcement of the 19th president in the Wheelock succession, Sian Beilock, Ph.D. President-elect Beilock, currently president of Barnard College, will join Dartmouth as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of coeducation and will be the first woman to lead Dartmouth when she succeeds Philip J. Hanlon ’77 on July 1, 2023. I wonder if she will reinstitute Convocation.
Marty Aronson and Ellen Sax traveled this summer to our Western states and on into the west coast of Canada. Marty has also authored a legal genre novel, Full Courtroom Press, a spicey, fast-paced tale about multiple challenges facing a young trial lawyer and Dartmouth basketball player. Marty had a long career as both a trial lawyer in Boston and adjunct faculty member at Boston College Law School. Traveling in August also were John French and Carole to Austria and the annual Salzburg Festival. John is chairman of the U.S.-based Salzburg Festival Society and had a lot of things to do at the festival, including a reception in honor of the outgoing director, at which he presented her with a Simon Pearce bowl, and a gala benefit the society he chaired attended by 140 guests.
Congratulations to John Braestrup and his agents team of 1955 classmates for contributions of 51.6 percent to the Dartmouth College Fund, an especially notable achievement in that only six other classes had a better result. Post-campaign John had gastroenterology surgery, his recovery enhanced by wife Justi reading to him Bill Barr’s book, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General. Perhaps not a tummy soother, but one he recommends nonetheless.
Sadly, we report the passing of Herbert W. Chandler, Thomas T. “Tuck” Creamer, David Q. Moore, Jay R. Olson, and Barry Tolman.
—Ken Lundstrom, 1912 Marsh Road, IL Apt. 132, Wilmington, DE 19810; (919) 641-5219; kenlundstrom@yahoo.com
Marty Aronson and Ellen Sax traveled this summer to our Western states and on into the west coast of Canada. Marty has also authored a legal genre novel, Full Courtroom Press, a spicey, fast-paced tale about multiple challenges facing a young trial lawyer and Dartmouth basketball player. Marty had a long career as both a trial lawyer in Boston and adjunct faculty member at Boston College Law School. Traveling in August also were John French and Carole to Austria and the annual Salzburg Festival. John is chairman of the U.S.-based Salzburg Festival Society and had a lot of things to do at the festival, including a reception in honor of the outgoing director, at which he presented her with a Simon Pearce bowl, and a gala benefit the society he chaired attended by 140 guests.
Congratulations to John Braestrup and his agents team of 1955 classmates for contributions of 51.6 percent to the Dartmouth College Fund, an especially notable achievement in that only six other classes had a better result. Post-campaign John had gastroenterology surgery, his recovery enhanced by wife Justi reading to him Bill Barr’s book, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General. Perhaps not a tummy soother, but one he recommends nonetheless.
Sadly, we report the passing of Herbert W. Chandler, Thomas T. “Tuck” Creamer, David Q. Moore, Jay R. Olson, and Barry Tolman.
—Ken Lundstrom, 1912 Marsh Road, IL Apt. 132, Wilmington, DE 19810; (919) 641-5219; kenlundstrom@yahoo.com