Class Note 1952
Issue
The Class Notes a few months back about the dramatically divergent careers followed by actor-writer Buck Henry Zuckerman and Rabbi Marshall Meyer in achieving recognition in the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia brought some interesting responses. Buck, while disclaiming any responsibility, direct or indirect, for his entry, remembered that Marshall’s and his paths had crossed in a Dartmouth Players’ production of The Merchant of Venice, with Marshall playing Shylock and Buck a lesser role. And Dr. Harry Wachen recalled how he and Marshall had successfully petitioned President Dickey to make Rollins Chapel available for Jewish High Holy Days services, which had up to then been held off campus at the Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction, Vermont. President Dickey personally attended the first night, establishing a custom for Dartmouth presidents that has continued to this day. Incidentally, Ken Roman is also now the subject of a Wikipedia entry, so that we now have three classmates who have achieved cyber-immortality.
Don “Dimp” Wagner’s passing earlier this year was particularly poignant for me, partly because of how I learned of it. Returning from a vacation, I found among my accumulated messages one of his sometimes quirky, but generally spirit-lifting group e-mails and the notification of his death, both date-timed within the same week. But I also recalled my personal experience with his indefatigability as class agent for the Tuck annual giving campaign. I left Tuck for law school after the first year and have never considered myself a Tuck alumnus. However, my name was on Dimp’s solicitation list, and his persistent importuning led me to contribute a token amount each year. In 2007 I inadvertently missed the Tuck annual giving deadline. Nonetheless, I received an acknowledgement from Tuck School of a pledge in my usual modest amount. When I taxed Dimp, half tongue-in-cheek, for his presumptuousness in making a pledge for me, he replied that for the sake of his record the continuity of my yearly contributions had to be maintained, and that he would fulfill the pledge if I didn’t. I paid.
—Dave Drexler, 100 Waters Edge Drive, Jupiter, FL 33477; (561) 747-3874; dave@drexler.com
Nov - Dec 2009
The Class Notes a few months back about the dramatically divergent careers followed by actor-writer Buck Henry Zuckerman and Rabbi Marshall Meyer in achieving recognition in the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia brought some interesting responses. Buck, while disclaiming any responsibility, direct or indirect, for his entry, remembered that Marshall’s and his paths had crossed in a Dartmouth Players’ production of The Merchant of Venice, with Marshall playing Shylock and Buck a lesser role. And Dr. Harry Wachen recalled how he and Marshall had successfully petitioned President Dickey to make Rollins Chapel available for Jewish High Holy Days services, which had up to then been held off campus at the Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction, Vermont. President Dickey personally attended the first night, establishing a custom for Dartmouth presidents that has continued to this day. Incidentally, Ken Roman is also now the subject of a Wikipedia entry, so that we now have three classmates who have achieved cyber-immortality.
Don “Dimp” Wagner’s passing earlier this year was particularly poignant for me, partly because of how I learned of it. Returning from a vacation, I found among my accumulated messages one of his sometimes quirky, but generally spirit-lifting group e-mails and the notification of his death, both date-timed within the same week. But I also recalled my personal experience with his indefatigability as class agent for the Tuck annual giving campaign. I left Tuck for law school after the first year and have never considered myself a Tuck alumnus. However, my name was on Dimp’s solicitation list, and his persistent importuning led me to contribute a token amount each year. In 2007 I inadvertently missed the Tuck annual giving deadline. Nonetheless, I received an acknowledgement from Tuck School of a pledge in my usual modest amount. When I taxed Dimp, half tongue-in-cheek, for his presumptuousness in making a pledge for me, he replied that for the sake of his record the continuity of my yearly contributions had to be maintained, and that he would fulfill the pledge if I didn’t. I paid.
—Dave Drexler, 100 Waters Edge Drive, Jupiter, FL 33477; (561) 747-3874; dave@drexler.com