Class Note 1976
Issue
Greetings! We go from famine to feast. I have much to relay and limited space. First, congratulations to Louise Erdrich, who is one of seven honorary degree recipients at Commencement at the College this year. She also delivered the main address. While she has been a successful author, her most recent acclaim has come from her recent novel The Plague of Doves, for which she was a finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Also on the College level, Nancy Kepes Jeton has been chosen to receive the prestigious Dartmouth Alumni Award, honoring her for longstanding and meritorious service to Dartmouth as well as individual achievement and community service. There are usually four to six of these awards given annually.
On the national level, Paul Stockton has been nominated by President Obama to be assistant secretary of defense. Paul had been a senior researcher at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation. I’m sure Paul’s undergraduate experiences in the bowels of Heorot prepared him well for his new duties. Congrats to Paul, as well.
Soon after the first weekend in May I received a bulging envelope in the mail from Pam Gile. The envelope contained all the articles from Monday’s Valley News recap of Dartmouth baseball’s winning of the Ivy League Championship. Par for the course, the Big Green overcame Cornell and the typical chilly New Hampshire spring to make their first trip to the NCAA regional tournament since 1987. I later received a report that in attendance at the winning game were Marty Doyle, Jim Beattie and Peter Jeton. They enjoyed the outcome and had a good time. I had a pleasant surprise when the baseball team was assigned to the Chapel Hill regional tournament bracket. Coach Bob Whalen brought the team here to play against the overall No. 4 seed UNC, Coastal Carolina and the University of Kansas. They represented themselves well against UNC, losing 5-2 and then ran into a Kansas buzz saw the next day. The five runs that UNC scored were the fewest they scored in two weekends of NCAA play and the 5-2 score was their closest game before earning their spot in Omaha. An added benefit to the Chapel Hill tournament location was the chance to see John Gleason. “Goose” has enjoyed following the Dartmouth baseball team and couldn’t miss their trip to the tournament. Goose is splitting time between the coasts and the greater Oneonta area, but manages to get to see a lot of the Big Green nine.
On May 16 in Boston Dartmouth held the 2009 edition of the Wearers of the Green. More than 160 athletes and coaches were inducted into Dartmouth’s version of a hall of fame. Inducted from our class were Tom Fleming for football, hockey and track; William Nutt for kayaking; and Paul Windrath for swimming. Congratulations to all.
On a sad note, we’ve received word of the passing of Paul J. “P.J.” Gill. An obituary appears in this issue.
Please send news.
—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com
Sept - Oct 2009
Greetings! We go from famine to feast. I have much to relay and limited space. First, congratulations to Louise Erdrich, who is one of seven honorary degree recipients at Commencement at the College this year. She also delivered the main address. While she has been a successful author, her most recent acclaim has come from her recent novel The Plague of Doves, for which she was a finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Also on the College level, Nancy Kepes Jeton has been chosen to receive the prestigious Dartmouth Alumni Award, honoring her for longstanding and meritorious service to Dartmouth as well as individual achievement and community service. There are usually four to six of these awards given annually.
On the national level, Paul Stockton has been nominated by President Obama to be assistant secretary of defense. Paul had been a senior researcher at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation. I’m sure Paul’s undergraduate experiences in the bowels of Heorot prepared him well for his new duties. Congrats to Paul, as well.
Soon after the first weekend in May I received a bulging envelope in the mail from Pam Gile. The envelope contained all the articles from Monday’s Valley News recap of Dartmouth baseball’s winning of the Ivy League Championship. Par for the course, the Big Green overcame Cornell and the typical chilly New Hampshire spring to make their first trip to the NCAA regional tournament since 1987. I later received a report that in attendance at the winning game were Marty Doyle, Jim Beattie and Peter Jeton. They enjoyed the outcome and had a good time. I had a pleasant surprise when the baseball team was assigned to the Chapel Hill regional tournament bracket. Coach Bob Whalen brought the team here to play against the overall No. 4 seed UNC, Coastal Carolina and the University of Kansas. They represented themselves well against UNC, losing 5-2 and then ran into a Kansas buzz saw the next day. The five runs that UNC scored were the fewest they scored in two weekends of NCAA play and the 5-2 score was their closest game before earning their spot in Omaha. An added benefit to the Chapel Hill tournament location was the chance to see John Gleason. “Goose” has enjoyed following the Dartmouth baseball team and couldn’t miss their trip to the tournament. Goose is splitting time between the coasts and the greater Oneonta area, but manages to get to see a lot of the Big Green nine.
On May 16 in Boston Dartmouth held the 2009 edition of the Wearers of the Green. More than 160 athletes and coaches were inducted into Dartmouth’s version of a hall of fame. Inducted from our class were Tom Fleming for football, hockey and track; William Nutt for kayaking; and Paul Windrath for swimming. Congratulations to all.
On a sad note, we’ve received word of the passing of Paul J. “P.J.” Gill. An obituary appears in this issue.
Please send news.
—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 493-7814; jayjosselyn@hotmail.com