Class Note 1968
Issue
November-December 2025
Class Note 1968. There’s a large ad touting Dartmouth authors in this issue of the magazine. I propose now to supplement that entry, if not vastly outshine it, with a severely edited, completely unpaid list of authors from our own class who deserve your attention. (A much longer list is available on the class website. The names below are those of classmates who have provided fairly recent publications.) Should you be motivated to join their literary cohort, the site also offers a recording of an “Authors’ Workshop” webinar conducted last March by Tony Abruzzo (chuckles), Bill Zarchy (fantasy and chuckles), Gerry Bell (sci-fi, mystery, and chuckles), David Bergengren (mystery, history, and memory), and Fred Applebaum (medical oncology). Watch and read them.
The commanding place to start is the No. 1 nonfiction book in the country at this writing, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, by Bob Reich. It isdescribed by his publisher as “a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in so many important ways, and still has lots of work to do.”
For art, media, and music reading, our prolific R. Barton Palmer’sworks cover many topics and centuries medieval to modern, from his latest on the innovative composer Guillaume de Machaut to filmdom’s Coen brothers and more.
Woody Lee’s A Noble and Independent Course charts a fascinating life story of an alumnus that ties Dartmouth history to Black history.
From the not-just-for-retired-lawyers department comes Roger Witten’s 2024 collection, Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law, containing 24 essays (including one by Bill Kolasky) on intriguing and influential cases.
Want to pretend that you’re hanging out of an airplane with a daring photographer? Get Eric Hatch’s Glaciers in Retreat. This and his other books offer both social and ecological consciousness.
In 2023 Alex Conn presented The Strategic Enterprise Architect’s Dilemma, which “offers a theoretical basis and practical methodology for architecting flexible enterprise capabilities in a disruptive context.”
These men and unmentioned others of you constitute a world-class library.
—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com
The commanding place to start is the No. 1 nonfiction book in the country at this writing, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, by Bob Reich. It isdescribed by his publisher as “a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in so many important ways, and still has lots of work to do.”
For art, media, and music reading, our prolific R. Barton Palmer’sworks cover many topics and centuries medieval to modern, from his latest on the innovative composer Guillaume de Machaut to filmdom’s Coen brothers and more.
Woody Lee’s A Noble and Independent Course charts a fascinating life story of an alumnus that ties Dartmouth history to Black history.
From the not-just-for-retired-lawyers department comes Roger Witten’s 2024 collection, Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law, containing 24 essays (including one by Bill Kolasky) on intriguing and influential cases.
Want to pretend that you’re hanging out of an airplane with a daring photographer? Get Eric Hatch’s Glaciers in Retreat. This and his other books offer both social and ecological consciousness.
In 2023 Alex Conn presented The Strategic Enterprise Architect’s Dilemma, which “offers a theoretical basis and practical methodology for architecting flexible enterprise capabilities in a disruptive context.”
These men and unmentioned others of you constitute a world-class library.
—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com