Class Note 1952
Issue
January-February 2023
Greetings of the New Year! We hope this finds you in good health as we celebrate the 75th year of our relationship with Dartmouth College.
Following up on the last issue regarding our 70th reunion, we are very pleased to report the election of George C. Hibben of Bedford, Massachusetts, as our new class president to serve the next five years. George, and his wife, Julie, have been active in alumni affairs throughout all our College-related experience and he is well respected in our class. George excelled as an involved undergraduate and Rufus Choate scholar, graduated from Harvard Business School, and enjoyed a long and successful career at Polaroid before retiring in 1985.
Steve Parkhurst, who had been serving first as class treasurer and then as vice president, chose not to stay on. Our new vice president is Gene Cesari, a resident of nearby South Ryegate, Vermont, and chairman of our successful 70th reunion. Gene is well known as a senior college educator, college president, and Bugatti car collector, among other talents.
The other officers are re-elected incumbents, Frank Logan (retiring as class president) as head of planned giving, Jim Churchill as head agent for our annual fund, and the class secretary/newsletter editor, listed at the end of this report. In other news, at the opening of our reunion in September the Dartmouth crew became the beneficiary of a new shell, gifted by our classmate, Jim Toffey, and named in honor of his wife, Sally Toffey. The christening ceremony, with the Toffeys in attendance, took place at the newly expanded boathouse facility along the Connecticut River. This was the sixth vessel that Jim and Sally have given to the crew, a truly committed devotion by the Toffeys, now dividing their time between Vero Beach, Florida, and Kennebunk, Maine.
At the present time we have no news of planned class activities for 2023, but we will keep you posted.
Finally, we regret to advise you of the recent passing of several classmates, James C. “Brud” Leiter Jr., Peter W. Burnside, George F. Sherman Jr.,and Bennett M. Stein, M.D.
—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@aol.com
Following up on the last issue regarding our 70th reunion, we are very pleased to report the election of George C. Hibben of Bedford, Massachusetts, as our new class president to serve the next five years. George, and his wife, Julie, have been active in alumni affairs throughout all our College-related experience and he is well respected in our class. George excelled as an involved undergraduate and Rufus Choate scholar, graduated from Harvard Business School, and enjoyed a long and successful career at Polaroid before retiring in 1985.
Steve Parkhurst, who had been serving first as class treasurer and then as vice president, chose not to stay on. Our new vice president is Gene Cesari, a resident of nearby South Ryegate, Vermont, and chairman of our successful 70th reunion. Gene is well known as a senior college educator, college president, and Bugatti car collector, among other talents.
The other officers are re-elected incumbents, Frank Logan (retiring as class president) as head of planned giving, Jim Churchill as head agent for our annual fund, and the class secretary/newsletter editor, listed at the end of this report. In other news, at the opening of our reunion in September the Dartmouth crew became the beneficiary of a new shell, gifted by our classmate, Jim Toffey, and named in honor of his wife, Sally Toffey. The christening ceremony, with the Toffeys in attendance, took place at the newly expanded boathouse facility along the Connecticut River. This was the sixth vessel that Jim and Sally have given to the crew, a truly committed devotion by the Toffeys, now dividing their time between Vero Beach, Florida, and Kennebunk, Maine.
At the present time we have no news of planned class activities for 2023, but we will keep you posted.
Finally, we regret to advise you of the recent passing of several classmates, James C. “Brud” Leiter Jr., Peter W. Burnside, George F. Sherman Jr.,and Bennett M. Stein, M.D.
—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@aol.com