Class Note 1954
Issue
Nov - Dec 2016
Kassie Pike of the Dartmouth College Fund wrote to Dick Page and Shelly Woolf regarding the class award ’54 took home this year: “Thank you so much for your work this year! I’m so impressed with your passion for your class and for Dartmouth to succeed. Best to the both of you.”
From our intern Sarah Khatry ’17: “It was an honor and a world-opening opportunity to be sponsored to pursue regional journalism. My experiences abroad will prove invaluable to my future career skills, connections and knowledge of what’s out there. While in Nepal I worked on the editorial staff of Himal Southasian, the only regional publication transforming in the Internet age. The model is changing through the rise of national media. The practice of foreign correspondents, sent from Western media outlets abroad, is being slowly phased out. Instead, trained and remarkable journalism is happening in-country by nationals, whose work reaches a global platform over the web. Himal operates by reaching out into its network of journalists already based in or from South Asian countries. With Himal I was exposed to the challenge of financing the magazine and was witness to an attempt at government censorship. It’s been instructive to witness. Should I want to pursue journalism abroad, I will have to work with and within national-based medias. Thank you again so much.”
From Faith Rotich ’18: “Dear class of1954, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for making possible my internship in Washington, D.C., this summer. The process of finding an internship in Washington, D.C., and securing funding for it had been quite challenging and strenuous. This summer I will be interning with the World Justice Project (worldjusticeproject.org), an independent nonprofit that seeks to drive and improve the rule of law in countries around the world. The organization works effortlessly to increase public awareness about the rule of law, especially in regions where it is weak or non-existent. Again, I am grateful for your support.”
Please be advised that George Dudley Fletcher passed away on May 7, Peter Franz Geithner onJuly 29 and Rollin F. Haynes on August 12.
—Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; (201) 933-4102; wayne@dartmouthgraphics.com
From our intern Sarah Khatry ’17: “It was an honor and a world-opening opportunity to be sponsored to pursue regional journalism. My experiences abroad will prove invaluable to my future career skills, connections and knowledge of what’s out there. While in Nepal I worked on the editorial staff of Himal Southasian, the only regional publication transforming in the Internet age. The model is changing through the rise of national media. The practice of foreign correspondents, sent from Western media outlets abroad, is being slowly phased out. Instead, trained and remarkable journalism is happening in-country by nationals, whose work reaches a global platform over the web. Himal operates by reaching out into its network of journalists already based in or from South Asian countries. With Himal I was exposed to the challenge of financing the magazine and was witness to an attempt at government censorship. It’s been instructive to witness. Should I want to pursue journalism abroad, I will have to work with and within national-based medias. Thank you again so much.”
From Faith Rotich ’18: “Dear class of1954, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for making possible my internship in Washington, D.C., this summer. The process of finding an internship in Washington, D.C., and securing funding for it had been quite challenging and strenuous. This summer I will be interning with the World Justice Project (worldjusticeproject.org), an independent nonprofit that seeks to drive and improve the rule of law in countries around the world. The organization works effortlessly to increase public awareness about the rule of law, especially in regions where it is weak or non-existent. Again, I am grateful for your support.”
Please be advised that George Dudley Fletcher passed away on May 7, Peter Franz Geithner onJuly 29 and Rollin F. Haynes on August 12.
—Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; (201) 933-4102; wayne@dartmouthgraphics.com