Class Note 1954
Issue
As many of us have during the last two weeks of February, to date the time of this writing, I’ve spent countless hours glued to our HDTV screen watching the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver, British Columbia. Having the opportunity to cheer on the U.S. hockey team in its first victory over Canada since 1960 or watch the tremendously exciting, first-time Olympic event of ski cross, I keep reflecting on the importance of sports—and at this moment winter sports—in the history of Dartmouth. It was great to see Andrew Weibrecht ’09 win a bronze in the super-G race. Noteworthy is the fact that Andrew joins the elite group of eight other Dartmouth-affiliated Olympians participating in the 2010 Games and the other 109 Olympic alumni who have competed in the Winter Olympics since 1924, the most of any of the Ivies. When asked to comment on his impression of the current games compared to the 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics in which he participated as a member of the U.S. alpine ski team, Olympian Tom Corcoran said: “In 1956 half the men’s alpine team (four of us) were Dartmouth guys; in 1960 I was the sole Dartmouth guy.” (Secretary’s Note: See Tom’s complete, highly interesting and informative comments as the first addendum to this issue’s online column.)
Hockey stars Seaver Peters, Dan McCarthy, Irv Sherwood and John Titus still keep in touch and maintain an e-mail circle to share thoughts on Big Green hockey.
Former ’54 class president and varsity lacrosse player Bill White, who is to this day an incredible Dartmouth sports aficionado, devotes Sunday evenings to writing a timely and highly readable summary of Dartmouth sporting events concluded over each weekend. Bill has graciously agreed to expand his rather limited list of column readers to any classmate interested in being kept up-to-date on Big Green athletics. To join Bill’s privileged list, simply e-mail him at njwhitehouse@verizon.net and say: “Bill, please put me on your list.”
With our shortened in-print column, the online addenda represent the fastest and most efficient way of promulgating timely news of classmates. Your contribution via e-mail can be shared with classmates within 24-48 hours of your message to me at akane32@nyc.rr.com.
—Anthony Kane, 650 Park Ave., 18A, New York, NY 10065; (212) 628-2147; akane32@nyc.rr.com
May - June 2010
As many of us have during the last two weeks of February, to date the time of this writing, I’ve spent countless hours glued to our HDTV screen watching the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver, British Columbia. Having the opportunity to cheer on the U.S. hockey team in its first victory over Canada since 1960 or watch the tremendously exciting, first-time Olympic event of ski cross, I keep reflecting on the importance of sports—and at this moment winter sports—in the history of Dartmouth. It was great to see Andrew Weibrecht ’09 win a bronze in the super-G race. Noteworthy is the fact that Andrew joins the elite group of eight other Dartmouth-affiliated Olympians participating in the 2010 Games and the other 109 Olympic alumni who have competed in the Winter Olympics since 1924, the most of any of the Ivies. When asked to comment on his impression of the current games compared to the 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics in which he participated as a member of the U.S. alpine ski team, Olympian Tom Corcoran said: “In 1956 half the men’s alpine team (four of us) were Dartmouth guys; in 1960 I was the sole Dartmouth guy.” (Secretary’s Note: See Tom’s complete, highly interesting and informative comments as the first addendum to this issue’s online column.)
Hockey stars Seaver Peters, Dan McCarthy, Irv Sherwood and John Titus still keep in touch and maintain an e-mail circle to share thoughts on Big Green hockey.
Former ’54 class president and varsity lacrosse player Bill White, who is to this day an incredible Dartmouth sports aficionado, devotes Sunday evenings to writing a timely and highly readable summary of Dartmouth sporting events concluded over each weekend. Bill has graciously agreed to expand his rather limited list of column readers to any classmate interested in being kept up-to-date on Big Green athletics. To join Bill’s privileged list, simply e-mail him at njwhitehouse@verizon.net and say: “Bill, please put me on your list.”
With our shortened in-print column, the online addenda represent the fastest and most efficient way of promulgating timely news of classmates. Your contribution via e-mail can be shared with classmates within 24-48 hours of your message to me at akane32@nyc.rr.com.
—Anthony Kane, 650 Park Ave., 18A, New York, NY 10065; (212) 628-2147; akane32@nyc.rr.com