Class Note 1942
Issue
May - Jun 2017
As our ears and eyes are filled with the Washington, D.C., scene, I am going to take you away from it for a few minutes. If you missed the last column, this is to remind you to save September 22-24 for our 75th reunion.
This column thrives on news from classmates, widows and children of classmates. No news, no column. Don’t worry, we will always find something to share with you. First, Bob Gale writes, “I accompanied my beloved attorney-daughter, Chris Gale, from Pittsburgh to Saint Kitts; she worked four days while I loafed.” Bob recently published a book on American poet Robinson Jeffers, class of 1918, and his narrative poems and is now doing research on Mark Twain’s friend George Washington Cable’s Louisiana-based fiction.
While I cannot explore them in depth, there are some interesting headlines coming out of Dartmouth Today, an online newsletter: “Jake Tapper ’91, award-winning journalist and CNN news anchor, will deliver the main address at Dartmouth’s Commencement for the class of 2017 on the Green June 11.” There’s a story from Ema Reid, Tu’17, from the February 21 issue telling firsthand what it really was like to be a refugee from Bosnia and dispelling the stereotypical notion that refugees are people in ruins and tatters and rags. She details how her family, professionals, escaped as her city and their very apartment building were being blown up, never to be able to return to that home again and the important contribution her family made to starting over in America. Thayer professor Eric Fossum won engineering’s biggest prize, the Queen Elizabeth Prize, for his camera on a chip. Finally, students have launched the Pulse app—a new, student-centered confidential platform for gathering public opinion on a range of topics. Students can take surveys via computers or mobile devices while learning their peers’ “views about Dartmouth.” Incentives might be a pizza or a poster.
—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York City, New York 10021; (212) 988-6012; (212) 988-6715 (fax); caproni@aol.com
This column thrives on news from classmates, widows and children of classmates. No news, no column. Don’t worry, we will always find something to share with you. First, Bob Gale writes, “I accompanied my beloved attorney-daughter, Chris Gale, from Pittsburgh to Saint Kitts; she worked four days while I loafed.” Bob recently published a book on American poet Robinson Jeffers, class of 1918, and his narrative poems and is now doing research on Mark Twain’s friend George Washington Cable’s Louisiana-based fiction.
While I cannot explore them in depth, there are some interesting headlines coming out of Dartmouth Today, an online newsletter: “Jake Tapper ’91, award-winning journalist and CNN news anchor, will deliver the main address at Dartmouth’s Commencement for the class of 2017 on the Green June 11.” There’s a story from Ema Reid, Tu’17, from the February 21 issue telling firsthand what it really was like to be a refugee from Bosnia and dispelling the stereotypical notion that refugees are people in ruins and tatters and rags. She details how her family, professionals, escaped as her city and their very apartment building were being blown up, never to be able to return to that home again and the important contribution her family made to starting over in America. Thayer professor Eric Fossum won engineering’s biggest prize, the Queen Elizabeth Prize, for his camera on a chip. Finally, students have launched the Pulse app—a new, student-centered confidential platform for gathering public opinion on a range of topics. Students can take surveys via computers or mobile devices while learning their peers’ “views about Dartmouth.” Incentives might be a pizza or a poster.
—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York City, New York 10021; (212) 988-6012; (212) 988-6715 (fax); caproni@aol.com