Class Note 1951
Issue
July-August 2023
A few months back I devoted two columns to the remarkable impact our class had in the field of international relations. That set me to wondering about the paths chosen by the rest of us and the difference we’ve made.
More education was a consistent theme. More than half of us went on to earn graduate degrees, including 40 doctorates. Class of ’51 alumni received 83 M.B.A.s (nearly 20 percent of the classmates who submitted bios for our 50th reunion yearbook). Other major fields of interest: 56 M.D.s, 44 J.D.s, and 25 diverse master’s ranging from engineering to theology to landscape design.
Teaching has been the life work of many ’51s. Among those with long and distinguished academic careers are Sam Chu and Mort Briggs (history), Ed Hazen (chemistry), Bob Maguire (Russian studies), Howie Reynolds (psychology), Jeff Hart (humanities—at Dartmouth, from which he received the President’s Medal for teaching), Frank Smallwood (also at Dartmouth, where he was the Nelson Rockefeller Professor of Government), Hal Stahmer and Lloyd Gaston (religion), Jim Wheatley (English literature), Marshall Cohen (philosophy), Jack Woods (finance), and Paul Meyer (math), to name a few.
High school teaching and administration attracted George Southwick, Chuck Packard, Bob Hustek, Bill Monahan, Bill Ricketts, Dick Lyons, and Mike Choukas.
Several classmates with Ph.D.s have been widely praised for their scholarly research, including Wes Blake (geology), Andy Jones (electronic microscopy), and Les Viereck (ecology).
What does this tell us about our undergraduate experience? Every one of us benefitted from exposure to the excellence and diversity of our Dartmouth teachers and mentors who lit a fire under our curiosity. They inspired us to explore new interests, many of which we became aware of for the first time. Who would have thought about building a life around plant breeding?
I am grateful for the richness of my four years in Hanover.
Word has reached us of the recent deaths of Tom Savage, Jack Skewes, Loye Miller, Dick Miner, Milt Olander, Bob “Jerry” Crossley, and JoAnn McKee, wife of Peirce.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com
More education was a consistent theme. More than half of us went on to earn graduate degrees, including 40 doctorates. Class of ’51 alumni received 83 M.B.A.s (nearly 20 percent of the classmates who submitted bios for our 50th reunion yearbook). Other major fields of interest: 56 M.D.s, 44 J.D.s, and 25 diverse master’s ranging from engineering to theology to landscape design.
Teaching has been the life work of many ’51s. Among those with long and distinguished academic careers are Sam Chu and Mort Briggs (history), Ed Hazen (chemistry), Bob Maguire (Russian studies), Howie Reynolds (psychology), Jeff Hart (humanities—at Dartmouth, from which he received the President’s Medal for teaching), Frank Smallwood (also at Dartmouth, where he was the Nelson Rockefeller Professor of Government), Hal Stahmer and Lloyd Gaston (religion), Jim Wheatley (English literature), Marshall Cohen (philosophy), Jack Woods (finance), and Paul Meyer (math), to name a few.
High school teaching and administration attracted George Southwick, Chuck Packard, Bob Hustek, Bill Monahan, Bill Ricketts, Dick Lyons, and Mike Choukas.
Several classmates with Ph.D.s have been widely praised for their scholarly research, including Wes Blake (geology), Andy Jones (electronic microscopy), and Les Viereck (ecology).
What does this tell us about our undergraduate experience? Every one of us benefitted from exposure to the excellence and diversity of our Dartmouth teachers and mentors who lit a fire under our curiosity. They inspired us to explore new interests, many of which we became aware of for the first time. Who would have thought about building a life around plant breeding?
I am grateful for the richness of my four years in Hanover.
Word has reached us of the recent deaths of Tom Savage, Jack Skewes, Loye Miller, Dick Miner, Milt Olander, Bob “Jerry” Crossley, and JoAnn McKee, wife of Peirce.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com