Class Note 1966
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May-June 2026
Class Note 1966. Registration for our 60th reunion in mid-June is open. No better time or place to renew old friendships.
Some classmates are coping with medical issues, but, happily, continue to move forward.
Retired Maine nuclear radiology specialist Roger Pezzuti ran into health problems about six years ago. “I am currently stable and doing pretty well,” Roger reports from the condo he and Margaret moved into in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. They are close to their three daughters and three grandchildren, and Roger is a leader on the condo association board.
Last September journalist Peter Prichard in Old Lyme, Connecticut, went in for a preop for a knee replacement operation and ended up with two weeks of life-saving heart procedures. “Now all my new heart drugs are working and I’m feeling great, thanks be to God, the Veterans Affairs, and Dr. Sean Regan ’91.” Peter writes. “Otherwise taking frequent walks, reading to first graders, and working on the sequel to my Vietnam mystery, Killing Grace (an Amazon bestseller), in my spare time.”
Wally Elton, who has devoted his career to encouraging conservation and a healthy outdoors lifestyle, has been battling cancer for the past seven years. He’s still at it. “All this time I have mostly felt good,” Wally says, “at least for someone my age.” Not surprisingly, he and his partner, Barbara Blodgett, are both involved in the local gardening club in Middlebury, Vermont.
All’s well with Dave Johnston in West Hartford, Connecticut, who retired in 2012 after 10 years with the Casey Foundation providing life skills training to foster youth throughout New England. He now runs conferences to improve access to and success in higher education for underrepresented students. And he’s a substitute middle school teacher. Dave and Hera, married for 57 years, have four children and three grandchildren.
Our sympathies to the family and friends of three classmates who have recently passed—teacher and community leader Tim Butterworth, mathematics professor and pianist Alfred S. Cavaretta Jr., and financial advisor and philanthropist Caleb Loring III. More on each at dartmouth.66.org and the online Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
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Some classmates are coping with medical issues, but, happily, continue to move forward.
Retired Maine nuclear radiology specialist Roger Pezzuti ran into health problems about six years ago. “I am currently stable and doing pretty well,” Roger reports from the condo he and Margaret moved into in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. They are close to their three daughters and three grandchildren, and Roger is a leader on the condo association board.
Last September journalist Peter Prichard in Old Lyme, Connecticut, went in for a preop for a knee replacement operation and ended up with two weeks of life-saving heart procedures. “Now all my new heart drugs are working and I’m feeling great, thanks be to God, the Veterans Affairs, and Dr. Sean Regan ’91.” Peter writes. “Otherwise taking frequent walks, reading to first graders, and working on the sequel to my Vietnam mystery, Killing Grace (an Amazon bestseller), in my spare time.”
Wally Elton, who has devoted his career to encouraging conservation and a healthy outdoors lifestyle, has been battling cancer for the past seven years. He’s still at it. “All this time I have mostly felt good,” Wally says, “at least for someone my age.” Not surprisingly, he and his partner, Barbara Blodgett, are both involved in the local gardening club in Middlebury, Vermont.
All’s well with Dave Johnston in West Hartford, Connecticut, who retired in 2012 after 10 years with the Casey Foundation providing life skills training to foster youth throughout New England. He now runs conferences to improve access to and success in higher education for underrepresented students. And he’s a substitute middle school teacher. Dave and Hera, married for 57 years, have four children and three grandchildren.
Our sympathies to the family and friends of three classmates who have recently passed—teacher and community leader Tim Butterworth, mathematics professor and pianist Alfred S. Cavaretta Jr., and financial advisor and philanthropist Caleb Loring III. More on each at dartmouth.66.org and the online Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com