Class Note 1965
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Nov - Dec 2016
Okay. I get it. Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Much too easy, apparently, to drop a line to your humble ob’t secretary. The days are dwindling down to a precious few before deadline (now we’re getting into fall lyrics) and you have good things to do—travel, family, relaxation—but is your wifi down? No? Your cell signal gone? No? Can’t find pen and paper? No? (Do I sound like your mother back when you were supposed to write home? Probably.) So, listen up! I heard from 8 percent of you last year. Let’s set the bar low for this year: 10 percent. As fall approaches, break out the slippers, set a fire in the fireplace, plant yourself next to a glass of good cheer and write. (Please, no emoticons.) A phone call would be nice, too.
Having complained a little, I do have a couple of interesting communications that demonstrate the variety of paths our classmates’ lives have taken.
Hans Kluetmeier says, “Digital technology has allowed a lot of mediocre photographers to take good pictures, but the best are still the best.” If you take a look at “Photo Finish,” the feature story in the July-August Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, you realize what he means. It’s the choice of view, the composition, that sets his pictures apart. Imagining how to capture the essence of the energy and skill of a sport is an art Kluetmeier has mastered as a Sports Illustrated photographer. He has more than 150 covers—and 30-plus interior spreads—to his credit since 1969.
Richard Joseph, now professor of international history and politics at Northwestern, came to Dartmouth in 1979 as a senior lecturer and left as a full professor in 1988. His note, on the way to a reunion of Rhodes scholars, refers to the 2016 issue of Oxford’s Inspires magazineand an article that reminds us that his life trajectory includes a Fulbright; working for voting rights in Ruleville, MS; the Rhodes scholarship; being arrested and roughed up in Los Angeles; D.Phil. from Oxford; Dartmouth again; and his current professorship at Northwestern. Certainly a life well lived.
The summer executive committee meeting at Bill Webster’s included Webster and Hank Amon, Ted Bracken, Mike Gonnerman, Jim Griffiths, Roger Hansen, Dan Walden and George Wittreich.
Upcoming: The ’65 mini-reunion in Hanover, October 28-30. We will again meet at Pierce’s Inn in Etna. There will be ’tails at Fowlers’ on Friday. Saturday will bring soccer, volleyball, field hockey, lunch al fresco before football with the small-c crimson, followed by dinner at Pierce’s. Class meeting at Pierce’s on Sunday. Also, mark your calendar for CarniVail, which Steve Waterhouse says will happen March 3-5, 2017.
Finally, we note the passing of Winfield Shaw Clark. “Binny,” wheelchair bound by an accident in his teens, transferred to University of Illinois after two years. He went on to achieve academic distinction and to a career in teaching concepts of Buddhism and success as a musician. Jim Chandler attended his memorial service.
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net
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Having complained a little, I do have a couple of interesting communications that demonstrate the variety of paths our classmates’ lives have taken.
Hans Kluetmeier says, “Digital technology has allowed a lot of mediocre photographers to take good pictures, but the best are still the best.” If you take a look at “Photo Finish,” the feature story in the July-August Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, you realize what he means. It’s the choice of view, the composition, that sets his pictures apart. Imagining how to capture the essence of the energy and skill of a sport is an art Kluetmeier has mastered as a Sports Illustrated photographer. He has more than 150 covers—and 30-plus interior spreads—to his credit since 1969.
Richard Joseph, now professor of international history and politics at Northwestern, came to Dartmouth in 1979 as a senior lecturer and left as a full professor in 1988. His note, on the way to a reunion of Rhodes scholars, refers to the 2016 issue of Oxford’s Inspires magazineand an article that reminds us that his life trajectory includes a Fulbright; working for voting rights in Ruleville, MS; the Rhodes scholarship; being arrested and roughed up in Los Angeles; D.Phil. from Oxford; Dartmouth again; and his current professorship at Northwestern. Certainly a life well lived.
The summer executive committee meeting at Bill Webster’s included Webster and Hank Amon, Ted Bracken, Mike Gonnerman, Jim Griffiths, Roger Hansen, Dan Walden and George Wittreich.
Upcoming: The ’65 mini-reunion in Hanover, October 28-30. We will again meet at Pierce’s Inn in Etna. There will be ’tails at Fowlers’ on Friday. Saturday will bring soccer, volleyball, field hockey, lunch al fresco before football with the small-c crimson, followed by dinner at Pierce’s. Class meeting at Pierce’s on Sunday. Also, mark your calendar for CarniVail, which Steve Waterhouse says will happen March 3-5, 2017.
Finally, we note the passing of Winfield Shaw Clark. “Binny,” wheelchair bound by an accident in his teens, transferred to University of Illinois after two years. He went on to achieve academic distinction and to a career in teaching concepts of Buddhism and success as a musician. Jim Chandler attended his memorial service.
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net