Nice to hear from John Hatheway that his grandson Jack (son of Geoff ’81) has been accepted into the class of ’17. Jack received an achievement award as the top male student athlete at Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York. Ken Pinkero was U.S. Navy V-12 at Dartmouth in 1944 and went into active duty in time to be in an LST during the landing on Iwo Jima in February of 1945. It was the last and one of the bloodiest battles in the South Pacific. Ken completed his education at the University of New Hampshire. Recently deceased David Walsh (see obituary on DAM website) was in the Air Force from 1942 to 1945, flew 18 missions as a radio operator and side gunner before being shot down, and was a POW for 18 months before returning to Dartmouth and a subsequent lifelong career in foreign service.


Dick Donahue joined our class in July of 1944, living in Crosby Hall, presumably drinking as much booze as we all did there. Turning on the fire hose to wash down the stairwells seemed perfectly reasonable. He spent one year in the Navy, returned to Dartmouth for his A.B. and went to Boston University for a law degree. A partner in the law firm of Donahue & Donahue Attorneys from 1951, he became the personal lawyer for Jack Kennedy and moved his office from his home in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he still is in private practice, to Washington, D.C., from 1960 to 1963. (Read more about his work during that time on page 34.) He was made president and chief operating office for Nike Inc. from 1990 to 1994 and then vice chairman of the board of directors, where he had been a director since 1977. Dick was an original member of the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Committee, which he served and chaired at its inception in 1989. The annual award is presented to a public official who has demonstrated a willingness to choose public interest over partisanship. Dick and Nancy, who has served a variety of institutions and been a community volunteer and advocate, have been married for 59 years with 11 children and 20 grandchildren. They enjoy traveling.


—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net