Class Note 1951
Issue
November-December 2023
During the past year 11 of our classmates and three class of ’51 spouses have died. The most recent of these was Bob Pack, a renowned poet and recipient of the Dartmouth Award for Lifetime Achievement, who died on June 5. Bob wrote 21 books of poetry; taught at Barnard, Middlebury, and the University of Montana; and, for more than 40 years, directed the Breadloaf Writers Conference, this country’s premiere gathering of creative writers.
Obituaries for deceased classmates were included in our class newsletter until its demise when Charlie Russell retired as its editor. I plan to include in this and future columns occasional descriptions of the remarkable lives led by recently deceased members of the ’51 family. Obituaries may be found in full on our class website, 1951.dartmouth.org.
Judy Hood, widow of Charlie, was deeply committed to the renovation and expansion of the Hood Museum. Their active involvement had a major positive impact on the museum and its collections.
Loye Miller was a heavily engaged contributor to our class as an undergraduate and as an alumnus. He served as class president, secretary, newsletter editor, and mini-reunion chair and was honored by our class with its Spirit of ’51 Award. His career was in journalism; he filled major positions for Time magazine, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, and Newhouse Newspapers, notably as White House correspondent and political writer. In retirement he lived in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, where he regularly housed classmates when they visited the College.
Like Loye, Jack Skewes chose to live near the College. He spent more than three decades as Dartmouth’s director of business affairs, with responsibility for buildings and grounds, dining services, student housing, purchasing, human resources, risk management, and the Hanover Inn. He was named Hanover’s Citizen of the Year in 1993 in recognition of his many years of contributions to the community as school board president, president of the Hanover Improvement Society, and founder of the Youth Hockey Association.
All of these beloved members of our class are greatly missed.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com
Obituaries for deceased classmates were included in our class newsletter until its demise when Charlie Russell retired as its editor. I plan to include in this and future columns occasional descriptions of the remarkable lives led by recently deceased members of the ’51 family. Obituaries may be found in full on our class website, 1951.dartmouth.org.
Judy Hood, widow of Charlie, was deeply committed to the renovation and expansion of the Hood Museum. Their active involvement had a major positive impact on the museum and its collections.
Loye Miller was a heavily engaged contributor to our class as an undergraduate and as an alumnus. He served as class president, secretary, newsletter editor, and mini-reunion chair and was honored by our class with its Spirit of ’51 Award. His career was in journalism; he filled major positions for Time magazine, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, and Newhouse Newspapers, notably as White House correspondent and political writer. In retirement he lived in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, where he regularly housed classmates when they visited the College.
Like Loye, Jack Skewes chose to live near the College. He spent more than three decades as Dartmouth’s director of business affairs, with responsibility for buildings and grounds, dining services, student housing, purchasing, human resources, risk management, and the Hanover Inn. He was named Hanover’s Citizen of the Year in 1993 in recognition of his many years of contributions to the community as school board president, president of the Hanover Improvement Society, and founder of the Youth Hockey Association.
All of these beloved members of our class are greatly missed.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com