Class Note 1961
Issue
July-August 2023
Our current class project, an award-winning collaboration with the class of 1973 to renovate and beautify a large section of College Park, was substantially completed in June. The emphasis of the class of 1961 has been the area immediately surrounding the life-size Robert Frost statue, donated to Dartmouth near the end of the last century, and the path leading up to the life-size statue. Classmates leading the current renovation project include Al Rozycki, Maynard Wheeler, Pete Bleyler, and Ron Wybranowski.
The class of 1961 has just completed its eighth Zoom-only and Zoom-live combination reunion and mini-reunion sessions in June. These events have been superbly produced and executed by Pete Bleyler, with excellent promotional and technical assistance provided by Harris McKee and Maynard Wheeler. Our next class mini-reunion will be on October 5-8 (live on campus and off campus on Zoom).
Classmate Steve Grossman has become the principal pioneer and current research leader discovering how our brains make up our minds using neural models. He is considered by many scientists to be the “Einstein of the mind.” Steve’s recently published book, Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind, won the 2022 Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Book Award in neuroscience.
Classmate Ted Tapper, a retired primary care pediatrician who served the underserved area of South Philadelphia for more than 45 years and father of well-known and successful TV journalist and moderator Jake Tapper (recently appointed to the Dartmouth board of trustees), became intimately involved with the legal injustice system in America in 2011, including making monthly visits to federal prison inmates and since 2015 working with one inmate to overturn or substantially reduce his onerous sentencing (according to Ted and others) as a 16 year-old teenager convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 30-60 years in prison.
In April six members of former Pi Lam met for a two-hour plus luncheon on Florida’s southeast coast. Five members from the class of 1961 (Gerry Kaminsky, Larry Levy, Bob Snyder, Billy Kandel, Vic Rich—plus two spouses) and one member from the class of 1962 (Steve Rotter) attended the enjoyable catchup and discussion session.
—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516) 446-3977; richwind13@gmail.com
The class of 1961 has just completed its eighth Zoom-only and Zoom-live combination reunion and mini-reunion sessions in June. These events have been superbly produced and executed by Pete Bleyler, with excellent promotional and technical assistance provided by Harris McKee and Maynard Wheeler. Our next class mini-reunion will be on October 5-8 (live on campus and off campus on Zoom).
Classmate Steve Grossman has become the principal pioneer and current research leader discovering how our brains make up our minds using neural models. He is considered by many scientists to be the “Einstein of the mind.” Steve’s recently published book, Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind, won the 2022 Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Book Award in neuroscience.
Classmate Ted Tapper, a retired primary care pediatrician who served the underserved area of South Philadelphia for more than 45 years and father of well-known and successful TV journalist and moderator Jake Tapper (recently appointed to the Dartmouth board of trustees), became intimately involved with the legal injustice system in America in 2011, including making monthly visits to federal prison inmates and since 2015 working with one inmate to overturn or substantially reduce his onerous sentencing (according to Ted and others) as a 16 year-old teenager convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 30-60 years in prison.
In April six members of former Pi Lam met for a two-hour plus luncheon on Florida’s southeast coast. Five members from the class of 1961 (Gerry Kaminsky, Larry Levy, Bob Snyder, Billy Kandel, Vic Rich—plus two spouses) and one member from the class of 1962 (Steve Rotter) attended the enjoyable catchup and discussion session.
—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516) 446-3977; richwind13@gmail.com