Class Note 1965
Issue
September-October 2024
I’m not sure whether this will reach you in time to be helpful, but our mini-reunion remains scheduled for September 19-22 in Hanover. If you hadn’t planned to come but are nearby, run up and catch some class activities and the opening football game against Fordham. Speaking of Hanover, Dartmouth has been acquiring properties on West Wheelock Street (leading up into town from the Ledyard Bridge) to use for dormitory expansion. Stay tuned.
The different paths we follow: Stormy Mayo recently retired as director of the right whale ecology program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A cofounder of the center, now a respected multidisciplinary scientific institution, he has spent 48 years there. In May Stormy received a citation from the state legislature and the science community at New England Aquarium for his role in advancing the study and protection of North Atlantic right whales. He is particularly well-known for developing a marine disentanglement program that is now taught around the world. You may spot him while driving in Massachusetts by the special commemorative license plate he was awarded for his work.
Dave Beattie wrote, “I am saddened to learn of Bob Lichtenwalter’s passing [see below]. I got to know him quite well through our Thayer School commonality and particularly since Bob, Paul Sowa, Jon Greene, and I lived in a farmhouse at the end of Pinnacle Road in Lyme, New Hampshire, for our fifth year at Thayer. I found an obituary for him on the internet. I think there is one error in it. Bob drove across the country in 1966, not 1965, right after we graduated from Thayer (fifth year), to start his work at Boeing in Seattle. For this trip he drove a used Volkswagen, which he purchased from Paul Sowa. The last time I saw Bob was at our 45th reunion in 2010. During that time Bob and I made a trip back to the place in Lyme where we had lived 44 years earlier.”
We have lost classmates Bob Blake, George Martin,Bob Lichtenwalter,and Ren Carlisle. 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
The different paths we follow: Stormy Mayo recently retired as director of the right whale ecology program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A cofounder of the center, now a respected multidisciplinary scientific institution, he has spent 48 years there. In May Stormy received a citation from the state legislature and the science community at New England Aquarium for his role in advancing the study and protection of North Atlantic right whales. He is particularly well-known for developing a marine disentanglement program that is now taught around the world. You may spot him while driving in Massachusetts by the special commemorative license plate he was awarded for his work.
Dave Beattie wrote, “I am saddened to learn of Bob Lichtenwalter’s passing [see below]. I got to know him quite well through our Thayer School commonality and particularly since Bob, Paul Sowa, Jon Greene, and I lived in a farmhouse at the end of Pinnacle Road in Lyme, New Hampshire, for our fifth year at Thayer. I found an obituary for him on the internet. I think there is one error in it. Bob drove across the country in 1966, not 1965, right after we graduated from Thayer (fifth year), to start his work at Boeing in Seattle. For this trip he drove a used Volkswagen, which he purchased from Paul Sowa. The last time I saw Bob was at our 45th reunion in 2010. During that time Bob and I made a trip back to the place in Lyme where we had lived 44 years earlier.”
We have lost classmates Bob Blake, George Martin,Bob Lichtenwalter,and Ren Carlisle. 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