Class Note 1965
Issue
Jan - Feb 2016
Lots to write about this time: mini-reunion at Pierce’s, upcoming CarniVail March 4-6, a Normandy trip led by Tom Long June 4-13.
The Hanover mini October 9-11 was smaller than usual, possibly the result of it having followed closely on the 50th. But a good time was had by all. Linda and Steve Fowler hosted a Friday night reception that included great food and drink and (later) a place to dry off after the (un-forecast) rain. Saturday dawned cool and bright, perfect setting for a record-setting football game with Yale (35-3, 435 yards passing, a school record). Many of us partook of several Homecoming lectures before the tailgate lunch and the game. We moved to conversations at Pierce’s, then a dinner and performance by the Decibelles. Attending this year were Mike Gonnerman,Linda andSteve Fowler,Jane and George Wittreich, Ted Bracken, Ed Keible, Marianne and Don Bradley, Marcia and Pete Frederick,Debbie and Jim Griffiths, Susan andTom Long, Jaan Lumi and Brenda Ringwald, Rich Beams,Ellen and Claude Liman,French and Bob McConnaughey,Barbara and Mark Nackman, Charlie LaFiura and John Rogers. In the class meeting next morning (minutes: www.biggreen65.com/newsletter) Tom Long discussed the June 4-13 alumni travel trip to Normandy. Tom has led this trip several times for graduate and undergraduate students at George Washington University, as well as West Point cadets. It covers the history and geography of the Normandy invasion. The trip is limited to 30 people. For more information, call Academic Travel Abroad at (800) 566-7896. Ted Bracken mentioned the consolidation of war memorials at Memorial Field. With the renovation of Alumni Field and renaming as Memorial Field, these were brought together in a single memorial at the field, with the ’65 playing a major part in the effort.
Donaldo “Donny” Hart wrote of the impact of the ’65 “Picturing the World” exhibit at the Hood Museum (see www.biggreen65.com/class-of-1965-digital-art-show), featuring the work of Dick Durrance, Dewitt Jones, Heinz Kluetmeier, Chris Knight and Joel Sternfeld. Donny was inspired to ask Dick to give the keynote presentation at Ad Week in Washington. Donny notes, “It was a terrific success and inspiring to many, not least to me. Through a series of his own spectacular photographs Dick taught that perseverance is an indispensable companion to reaching one’s creative goals. He emphasized that it is through images rather than through words that we recall past moments in our lives and, similarly, it can be through images and visualization that we shape our futures—at any age. I am surely not the only ’65 who at our time in life finds that the future is not a wholly familiar landscape. Dick’s thoughtful and entertaining presentation helps make that territory look less disconcerting.”
By the time this appears, the wolf-wind will be wailing at our doorways and the ice gnomes marching from their Norways. Time for pipes and bowls and fireside. In short, plenty of time, I hope, for you to drop me a line at johnbairdrogers@comcast.net.
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; john.b.rogers.65@dartmouth.edu
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The Hanover mini October 9-11 was smaller than usual, possibly the result of it having followed closely on the 50th. But a good time was had by all. Linda and Steve Fowler hosted a Friday night reception that included great food and drink and (later) a place to dry off after the (un-forecast) rain. Saturday dawned cool and bright, perfect setting for a record-setting football game with Yale (35-3, 435 yards passing, a school record). Many of us partook of several Homecoming lectures before the tailgate lunch and the game. We moved to conversations at Pierce’s, then a dinner and performance by the Decibelles. Attending this year were Mike Gonnerman,Linda andSteve Fowler,Jane and George Wittreich, Ted Bracken, Ed Keible, Marianne and Don Bradley, Marcia and Pete Frederick,Debbie and Jim Griffiths, Susan andTom Long, Jaan Lumi and Brenda Ringwald, Rich Beams,Ellen and Claude Liman,French and Bob McConnaughey,Barbara and Mark Nackman, Charlie LaFiura and John Rogers. In the class meeting next morning (minutes: www.biggreen65.com/newsletter) Tom Long discussed the June 4-13 alumni travel trip to Normandy. Tom has led this trip several times for graduate and undergraduate students at George Washington University, as well as West Point cadets. It covers the history and geography of the Normandy invasion. The trip is limited to 30 people. For more information, call Academic Travel Abroad at (800) 566-7896. Ted Bracken mentioned the consolidation of war memorials at Memorial Field. With the renovation of Alumni Field and renaming as Memorial Field, these were brought together in a single memorial at the field, with the ’65 playing a major part in the effort.
Donaldo “Donny” Hart wrote of the impact of the ’65 “Picturing the World” exhibit at the Hood Museum (see www.biggreen65.com/class-of-1965-digital-art-show), featuring the work of Dick Durrance, Dewitt Jones, Heinz Kluetmeier, Chris Knight and Joel Sternfeld. Donny was inspired to ask Dick to give the keynote presentation at Ad Week in Washington. Donny notes, “It was a terrific success and inspiring to many, not least to me. Through a series of his own spectacular photographs Dick taught that perseverance is an indispensable companion to reaching one’s creative goals. He emphasized that it is through images rather than through words that we recall past moments in our lives and, similarly, it can be through images and visualization that we shape our futures—at any age. I am surely not the only ’65 who at our time in life finds that the future is not a wholly familiar landscape. Dick’s thoughtful and entertaining presentation helps make that territory look less disconcerting.”
By the time this appears, the wolf-wind will be wailing at our doorways and the ice gnomes marching from their Norways. Time for pipes and bowls and fireside. In short, plenty of time, I hope, for you to drop me a line at johnbairdrogers@comcast.net.
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; john.b.rogers.65@dartmouth.edu