Class Note 1963
Issue
November-December 2025
Class Note 1963. Harry Zlokower has been temporarily sidelined with a health issue and asked me, Ed Mazer, to fill in for him and write the Class Notes as a guest columnist.
We find ourselves in a world that we never could have imagined, often wishing we had more ability to impact that world. Having retired and left behind our professional bases of influence years ago, we might feel helpless to do much about it. Perhaps that role has passed us by.
If you feel that way, think again. We ’63s still have much to give to this world and to our children and children’s children. What we lack in strength and stamina we make up in the things we learned long ago at Dartmouth: critical thinking, respect for the truth, how to defend ideas, how to write and communicate those ideas persuasively. These are things we still can do and that the world desperately needs.
One of the great things about growing old is that you can speak your mind. Maybe it’s a frontal lobe thing, but people expect it. If you feel strongly about something, don’t be afraid to stand up and make some noise—“good trouble,” as the late John Lewis called it. He wrote, “Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way.”
Sadly, it’s no longer news to us that more and more frequently we are receiving news of lost classmates—most recently Richard Enhom and Larry Chapman.Tige Harris, our class necrologist, has the job of writing obits for this magazine for our departed classmates. I post names and obits on the class website. Go to https://1963.dartmouth.org and click on “In Memoriam.”
The good news is that, though most of us have one thing or another wrong with us heathwise, still many ’63s are upright and still kicking.
That’s my headline.
After this diatribe, I probably won’t be asked back as a guest columnist again. Happily, Harry will be back at it for the next edition.
—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com
We find ourselves in a world that we never could have imagined, often wishing we had more ability to impact that world. Having retired and left behind our professional bases of influence years ago, we might feel helpless to do much about it. Perhaps that role has passed us by.
If you feel that way, think again. We ’63s still have much to give to this world and to our children and children’s children. What we lack in strength and stamina we make up in the things we learned long ago at Dartmouth: critical thinking, respect for the truth, how to defend ideas, how to write and communicate those ideas persuasively. These are things we still can do and that the world desperately needs.
One of the great things about growing old is that you can speak your mind. Maybe it’s a frontal lobe thing, but people expect it. If you feel strongly about something, don’t be afraid to stand up and make some noise—“good trouble,” as the late John Lewis called it. He wrote, “Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way.”
Sadly, it’s no longer news to us that more and more frequently we are receiving news of lost classmates—most recently Richard Enhom and Larry Chapman.Tige Harris, our class necrologist, has the job of writing obits for this magazine for our departed classmates. I post names and obits on the class website. Go to https://1963.dartmouth.org and click on “In Memoriam.”
The good news is that, though most of us have one thing or another wrong with us heathwise, still many ’63s are upright and still kicking.
That’s my headline.
After this diatribe, I probably won’t be asked back as a guest columnist again. Happily, Harry will be back at it for the next edition.
—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com