54 Sixtieth reunion June 9-12. As of the date this column is written, we expect at least 200 classmates and spouses at reunion. If you have not responded your intentions, please email me or Dick Barker (rdbarker@aol.com).
At Homecoming in September Tom Kelsey was recognized as 2013 Gift Planning Chair of the Year and was the recipient of the Ford Weldon ’25 and Robert Kaiser ’39 Award. He was recognized for his personal commitment and volunteer service as the gift planning chair of the class of 1954, as well as his willingness to be a leader in teaching his peers about the importance of thoughtful estate planning.
The class of 1954 2013 Athletic Sponsorship Grant has been awarded, in memory of Richard S. Danforth, to Kathleen Ratty ’17. Kathleen is a woman’s ice hockey forward from Northfield, Illinois, and was an early admissions applicant. Dan McCarthy managed this sponsorship and will mentor Kathleen.
The class was ably represented at Class Officers Weekend by Dick Barker, Shelly Woolf, Jay Davis, Dana Low and Rick Hartman.
At Homecoming, since we are celebrating a major reunion, the class “rented” a high school band to march and play directly in front of the class at the annual Dartmouth Night and torchlight parade. More in the next column.
The class, Shelly Woolf and his band of jolly solicitors won the John R. Mason’15 Award for attaining the College Fund’s highest participation percentage for a non-reunion class and set a new year out, non-reunion record.
The October issue of the Yale Club of New York News (also home of the Dartmouth Club of New York) highlighted a lecture at the club by Dave Levine on “the toll of the American Civil War, its casualties and rise of the oldest orthopedic hospital in America.”
Dick Page and Shelly Woolf are busy chairing our 60th reunion gift to the College. Our goal is $615,054 and 76-percent participation, both will be College records for a 60th reunion. If you have not already done so, please dig deep and help.
—Don Berlin, 7 Hamilton Drive, Washington Valley, Morristown, NJ 07960-3311; (973) 267-8122; berlin1954@aol.com