With the Hanover Inn not fully renovated, our annual class meeting and both mini-reunion dinners were held during the Penn football weekend at the very attractive Dowd’s Country Inn on the Green in Lyme, New Hampshire. Officers for the next three years who were nominated and elected were Ray Richard, president; Bud Munson, vice president; Dave Kurr, secretary; and Foxy Parker, treasurer. While our class is diminishing with 137 active members, we’re solvent with about $10,000 in the bank. With only 3 percent (five members) of the active class required for a quorum, our executive committee meetings held the first Tuesday of every month for lunch at the Norwich Inn are typically fully empowered. Pat McAllister, an honorary member of our class, has a very strong program with our 70 active widows and they have meetings at the same time. 


Our Scholar Athlete Award students, Sara Leonard ’13 and Josh Konieczny ’13, joined and spoke to us at dinner. Sarah comes from Norwalk, Connecticut, and is captain of the tennis team with a 3.8 grade average as a philosophy major. She plans to get a master’s in her major in the United Kingdom and then go on to law school. John comes from Ohio, has a 3.91 average as an economics major and is stroke on the lightweight crew. His score on the ERG workouts is world class and he hopes to row in the next Olympics. 


Our guest speaker David Spaulding’76 is past vice president for alumni affairs and chief of staff for President Kim and now interim President Carol Folt. With his father in the class of ’52, he said he had a Dartmouth heritage and had worked closely with three college presidents. He felt President Kim had been properly aggressive in making the necessary budget cuts early and had left the College in a stronger financial condition. He endorsed the peak performance program for athletes established by Harry Sheehy and would like to eventually see it rolled out to cover all students. He felt the ROTC program started in 1980 was helpful in working with returning veterans. 


—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582, djkurr@verizon.net