Class Note 1961
Issue
May-June 2023
The class of 1961 has just completed its approximately seventh entirely Zoom only or Zoom-live combination reunion and mini-reunion sessions, each min-reunion comprising approximately a five-hour day and the single full reunion during that period comprising two-plus days including on-campus College events and class meals in addition to combination live-Zoom themed classmate panel discussions. All of these events have been well thought out, produced, and executed by Pete Bleyler, with excellent promotional and technical assistance provided by Harris McKee and Maynard Wheeler. Each panel discussion included excellent themed sessions involving multiple classmates along with a classmate moderator plus sessions involving key administrators from the College. Attendance at each session has averaged about 100 people.
For many, probably the most interesting and unusual speaker topics included in the February ’61 mini-reunion dealt with classmates Steve Grossman and Ted Tapper, with Doug Zipes as the effective moderator of the session. Due to the need to submit this May/June column to DAM in a timely manner, the unusual professional career turns of both Steve and Ted will be covered more thoroughly in the next edition of DAM.
Our ongoing class project, in collaboration with the class of 1973, to renovate and beautify a large section of College Park has begun.
Rog McArt became the 18th classmate presented with the Dartmouth ’61 Special Classmate Awardfor outstanding service to the class, College, and society, in that order, during the most recent class mini-reunion, in February.
Ron Boss’s granddaughter, a freshman at Dartmouth, is doing well and has earned a spot on the freshman women’s lacrosse team. Thus, the “Boss” legacy carries on at Dartmouth.
While in New Orleans for a few days at the end of February to visit a granddaughter at Tulane, Patti and I spent an enjoyable afternoon with classmate Ken Kolb and spouse Pani Kolb, an active member of the ’61 women’s initiative committee. During the recent February mini-reunion Ken was an effective moderator of a panel discussion of five classmates on classmate service in America’s military services primarily during the 1960s and 1970s.
—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516) 446-3977; richwind13@gmail.com
For many, probably the most interesting and unusual speaker topics included in the February ’61 mini-reunion dealt with classmates Steve Grossman and Ted Tapper, with Doug Zipes as the effective moderator of the session. Due to the need to submit this May/June column to DAM in a timely manner, the unusual professional career turns of both Steve and Ted will be covered more thoroughly in the next edition of DAM.
Our ongoing class project, in collaboration with the class of 1973, to renovate and beautify a large section of College Park has begun.
Rog McArt became the 18th classmate presented with the Dartmouth ’61 Special Classmate Awardfor outstanding service to the class, College, and society, in that order, during the most recent class mini-reunion, in February.
Ron Boss’s granddaughter, a freshman at Dartmouth, is doing well and has earned a spot on the freshman women’s lacrosse team. Thus, the “Boss” legacy carries on at Dartmouth.
While in New Orleans for a few days at the end of February to visit a granddaughter at Tulane, Patti and I spent an enjoyable afternoon with classmate Ken Kolb and spouse Pani Kolb, an active member of the ’61 women’s initiative committee. During the recent February mini-reunion Ken was an effective moderator of a panel discussion of five classmates on classmate service in America’s military services primarily during the 1960s and 1970s.
—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516) 446-3977; richwind13@gmail.com