Class Note 1965
Issue
May-June 2024
With sadness I report that in January we lost class president Don Bradley to illness. As specified in our class constitution, our executive committee appointed current vice president Mike Gonnerman to serve as president until our 60th reunion. Mike appointed Stu Keiller as our new vice president. Mike also tapped Stu Russell to lead a new affinity group effort focusing on class members who served in the Peace Corps and similar organizations.
One of our perhaps lesser-known classmates was Kighoma Malima, who passed away in 1995. I was contacted last August by his son Asante to try to find undergraduate information on Kighoma, who had come to Dartmouth from Tanzania.
Jonathan Silbert responded: “I knew Kighoma well. He and my former roommate, the late Naison Mawande of Zimbabwe, were a great help to me during my senior fellowship year when I was trying to untangle ‘The Pattern of Sino-Soviet Rivalry in Sub-Saharan Africa.’ Far more important, both were wonderful human beings dedicated to helping their new nations grow and thrive. My friendship with them, and their insights about life on a continent with which I had been totally unfamiliar (which of course led me to insights about life on the continent with which I was familiar), is one of the great lasting legacies of my time at Dartmouth. It was Kighoma who notified me in the late 1980s that Naison had been murdered, in his words ‘cut down on the streets of Harare’ (the capital of Zimbabwe).
“Asante drew my attention to the Class Notes section of the April 1986 alumni magazine that, amazingly, included excerpts from messages from both Kighoma and me! Kighoma had a distinguished career in government and academia in Tanzania, cut far too short when he passed away while on a family vacation in London in 1995.” More on Jonathan in the next issue.
We have lost classmates Bill Herold, Norm Christianson, Don Bradley,and Mike McKelvy. Condolences also to Roger Hansen, who lost wife Nancy in December, and Bruce Wagner who lost wife Betsy last July. For further information, visit our class website, www.biggreen65.com.
—Bob Murphy,7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589; murph65nh@comcast.net
One of our perhaps lesser-known classmates was Kighoma Malima, who passed away in 1995. I was contacted last August by his son Asante to try to find undergraduate information on Kighoma, who had come to Dartmouth from Tanzania.
Jonathan Silbert responded: “I knew Kighoma well. He and my former roommate, the late Naison Mawande of Zimbabwe, were a great help to me during my senior fellowship year when I was trying to untangle ‘The Pattern of Sino-Soviet Rivalry in Sub-Saharan Africa.’ Far more important, both were wonderful human beings dedicated to helping their new nations grow and thrive. My friendship with them, and their insights about life on a continent with which I had been totally unfamiliar (which of course led me to insights about life on the continent with which I was familiar), is one of the great lasting legacies of my time at Dartmouth. It was Kighoma who notified me in the late 1980s that Naison had been murdered, in his words ‘cut down on the streets of Harare’ (the capital of Zimbabwe).
“Asante drew my attention to the Class Notes section of the April 1986 alumni magazine that, amazingly, included excerpts from messages from both Kighoma and me! Kighoma had a distinguished career in government and academia in Tanzania, cut far too short when he passed away while on a family vacation in London in 1995.” More on Jonathan in the next issue.
We have lost classmates Bill Herold, Norm Christianson, Don Bradley,and Mike McKelvy. Condolences also to Roger Hansen, who lost wife Nancy in December, and Bruce Wagner who lost wife Betsy last July. For further information, visit our class website, www.biggreen65.com.
—Bob Murphy,7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589; murph65nh@comcast.net