Class Note 1965
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Fifty years ago about this time most of us were preparing to submit our applications to Dartmouth. On November 8, 1960, after participating in just seven primaries and the first televised presidential debates, John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States. The USS George Washington, the first ballistic missile submarine, sailed on her first war cruise carrying 16 Polaris missiles. The next month Camelot, starring Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and Robert Goulet, opened on Broadway, and in a small Asian country a group called the National Liberation Front was formed to oppose President Ngo Dinh Diem. The average car cost about $2,600 and the gasoline was 25 cents a gallon. It was a different world.
I love that some of our classmates are exhibiting great talent in areas that we, or at least I, did not expect. Glenn Curry, who was headed for a career in the Navy when we left Hanover, has published several wonderful books of poetry, including my favorite A Boy’s First Diary and his newest, In the Cat’s Eye. John Rogers is embarking on a new career. Many of us knew John when he played the trombone in the Marching Band. A few of us knew that he played the guitar with Weaver Gaines in the dorm. Since then John graduated from NYU Business School and had a distinguished career in finance with major corporations in the Middle West. He and Bev moved from Minnesota (his line was “40 below keeps out the riff-raff”) to Gainesville, Florida, in 1997. In Gainesville he indulged both his scientific interests and his financial and managerial skills in creating a startup biotech company. Now he tells me that he’s moving on—or back. He learned to play guitar from his cousin Gamble Rogers, whom John describes as “a songwriter, fine guitar picker and storyteller from Florida” and the Atlanta Constitution called “an American treasure worthy of inclusion in the Smithsonian.” Now John is following in Gamble’s footsteps, “becoming a musician and speaker.” He is putting together a one-man show on the history of blues music. (See his website: www.goodoldblues.com.) Proving that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, John and Bev’s three sons are involved in music, each in his own way. Geoffrey is executive VP of finance at Full Sail University, the largest school teaching audio and video engineering. Edward ’94 was nominated for the 2010 Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for his Warehouse 13 theme, while James is a performing musician in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, area. Congratulations!
Culminating more than three decades in financial services, Bill Webster has joined Westport Resources as senior vice president-investment and portfolio manager. More congrats!
Remember our out-of-Hanover mini-reunion at the Shades of Green Resort and Golf Facility at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, January 28-30, 2011. We reserved a block of rooms until November 28. Reserve at www.shadesofgreen.org. Our group code is 1001DARTMO. Contact Bob Blake (rblake65@mac.com, 781-235-3139) with your plans or questions.
Please contact me to share news with our classmates.
—Tom Long, 1056 Leigh Mill Road, Great Falls, VA 22066; (703) 759-4255; tomlong@erols.com
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Fifty years ago about this time most of us were preparing to submit our applications to Dartmouth. On November 8, 1960, after participating in just seven primaries and the first televised presidential debates, John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States. The USS George Washington, the first ballistic missile submarine, sailed on her first war cruise carrying 16 Polaris missiles. The next month Camelot, starring Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and Robert Goulet, opened on Broadway, and in a small Asian country a group called the National Liberation Front was formed to oppose President Ngo Dinh Diem. The average car cost about $2,600 and the gasoline was 25 cents a gallon. It was a different world.
I love that some of our classmates are exhibiting great talent in areas that we, or at least I, did not expect. Glenn Curry, who was headed for a career in the Navy when we left Hanover, has published several wonderful books of poetry, including my favorite A Boy’s First Diary and his newest, In the Cat’s Eye. John Rogers is embarking on a new career. Many of us knew John when he played the trombone in the Marching Band. A few of us knew that he played the guitar with Weaver Gaines in the dorm. Since then John graduated from NYU Business School and had a distinguished career in finance with major corporations in the Middle West. He and Bev moved from Minnesota (his line was “40 below keeps out the riff-raff”) to Gainesville, Florida, in 1997. In Gainesville he indulged both his scientific interests and his financial and managerial skills in creating a startup biotech company. Now he tells me that he’s moving on—or back. He learned to play guitar from his cousin Gamble Rogers, whom John describes as “a songwriter, fine guitar picker and storyteller from Florida” and the Atlanta Constitution called “an American treasure worthy of inclusion in the Smithsonian.” Now John is following in Gamble’s footsteps, “becoming a musician and speaker.” He is putting together a one-man show on the history of blues music. (See his website: www.goodoldblues.com.) Proving that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, John and Bev’s three sons are involved in music, each in his own way. Geoffrey is executive VP of finance at Full Sail University, the largest school teaching audio and video engineering. Edward ’94 was nominated for the 2010 Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for his Warehouse 13 theme, while James is a performing musician in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, area. Congratulations!
Culminating more than three decades in financial services, Bill Webster has joined Westport Resources as senior vice president-investment and portfolio manager. More congrats!
Remember our out-of-Hanover mini-reunion at the Shades of Green Resort and Golf Facility at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, January 28-30, 2011. We reserved a block of rooms until November 28. Reserve at www.shadesofgreen.org. Our group code is 1001DARTMO. Contact Bob Blake (rblake65@mac.com, 781-235-3139) with your plans or questions.
Please contact me to share news with our classmates.
—Tom Long, 1056 Leigh Mill Road, Great Falls, VA 22066; (703) 759-4255; tomlong@erols.com