Class Note 1953
Issue
Nov - Dec 2016
A personal word, please! The star of the 2016 Olympics for me was Abbey D’Agostino ’14. Her display of sportsmanship, character, decency and grit made me so proud of her and proud that she wears the green of Dartmouth. Her act of humanity at a critical moment in her young life set an example for which the Olympics purports to strive and which it seldom achieves. Bravo!
A love affair that began 67 years ago in the fall of 1949 continues to blossom as Ron Lazar and his team of agents set out to work for the Dartmouth College Fund—and encouraged 77 percent of our class to participate this year. We are just one of six classes who surpassed the 60-percent-participation mark. Congratulations to all!
This year’s maxi-mini reunion will take place beginning October 3 in New York City. The event opens with a dinner at the Yale-Dartmouth Club. On Tuesday we’ll visit the Frick Museum and in the evening take a dinner cruise around Manhattan Island on the private yacht Manhattan. Wednesday we’ll visit the Morgan Library and take in a Broadway play in the afternoon. Dinner that evening is set at the historic Union League Club. Finally, on Thursday we’ll visit the new Whitney Museum, then lunch and, for those with enough energy left, a walk along the High Line.
Those already signed up are Phil Beekman and Judy Wilson, Charlotte and Charlie Buchanan, Roberta and Nate Burkan, Cathy Callender, Jackie Fleet, Elena Kingsland, Dick Fleming, Jean Vitalis, Al Collins and Suzanne, Helga and Phil Fast, Marita and Len Gochman, Carol and Bob Henderson, Vivian and Dick Cahn, Liliane and Ron Lazar, Ellen and Fran L’Esperance, Gail and Bob Malin and Frima and Gil Shapiro. Many thanks to Charlie Buchanan for planning and making the arrangements for this wonderful event. And, finally, and with sadness at their loss, I offer the class’ sincere sympathy to the families of Robert Poor, Richard Confair, John Wortley and Harry Bennett. They will be missed.
—Mark H. Smoller, 4 Schuyler Drive, Jericho, NY 11753; (516) 938-3616; dartmark@gmail.com
A love affair that began 67 years ago in the fall of 1949 continues to blossom as Ron Lazar and his team of agents set out to work for the Dartmouth College Fund—and encouraged 77 percent of our class to participate this year. We are just one of six classes who surpassed the 60-percent-participation mark. Congratulations to all!
This year’s maxi-mini reunion will take place beginning October 3 in New York City. The event opens with a dinner at the Yale-Dartmouth Club. On Tuesday we’ll visit the Frick Museum and in the evening take a dinner cruise around Manhattan Island on the private yacht Manhattan. Wednesday we’ll visit the Morgan Library and take in a Broadway play in the afternoon. Dinner that evening is set at the historic Union League Club. Finally, on Thursday we’ll visit the new Whitney Museum, then lunch and, for those with enough energy left, a walk along the High Line.
Those already signed up are Phil Beekman and Judy Wilson, Charlotte and Charlie Buchanan, Roberta and Nate Burkan, Cathy Callender, Jackie Fleet, Elena Kingsland, Dick Fleming, Jean Vitalis, Al Collins and Suzanne, Helga and Phil Fast, Marita and Len Gochman, Carol and Bob Henderson, Vivian and Dick Cahn, Liliane and Ron Lazar, Ellen and Fran L’Esperance, Gail and Bob Malin and Frima and Gil Shapiro. Many thanks to Charlie Buchanan for planning and making the arrangements for this wonderful event. And, finally, and with sadness at their loss, I offer the class’ sincere sympathy to the families of Robert Poor, Richard Confair, John Wortley and Harry Bennett. They will be missed.
—Mark H. Smoller, 4 Schuyler Drive, Jericho, NY 11753; (516) 938-3616; dartmark@gmail.com