Class Note 1955
Issue
Sep - Oct 2017
Are you ready for some football? Lou Hance has firmed up plans for Homecoming, October 7-8. Friday afternoon President Emeritus Jim Wright will speak to the class and be available for a book signing. Buffet dinner will follow at Rockefeller. Our class meeting will be Saturday morning, football vs. Yale that afternoon and cocktails and dinner at The Fireside after the game. Dartmouth-Brown football is at Fenway Friday night, November 10; Dartmouth Uniformed Services Alumni Veteran’s Day dinner and Jim Wright Award is the next night at the Langham Boston.
Tom McGreevey has a superb mini-reunion plan for September 7-8 at the Staunton, Virginia, Shakespeare Festival, plus visits to a local winery and Montpelier, President Madison’s home.
Tom Byrne, our man in Hanover wearing many hats, reported on his final Alumni Council meeting: Dartmouth had the strongest response to the offer of admission in 25 years at 61 percent; Laurel Ritchie ’81, new trustee chair who was president of the Women’s National Basketball Association, noted that the class of 2021 will receive $26 million in financial aid during its four years. Dartmouth is ranked seventh in U.S. News & World Report in best-value schools and undergraduate teaching. The executive committee voted a strong “well done” to Tom for his outstanding service to the College and class all these years.
Ellen and Marty Aronson have just returned from a grand adventure—“One fascinating day after another”—which included Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Philadelphia. We had a nice chat with Ron Campion recently. He and Connie moved to Vero Beach, Florida, many years ago for tennis and the good life. Ron is getting along since Connie’s passing in April and is unlikely to return to Hanover. Jake Stewart, another Hanover lad, stayed close however. He and Priscilla raised four daughters and live on a 100-acre Vermont farm, although he says 100-acre farms are a bit much in your 80s. Many of you will recall that he skied on Walter Prager’s powerhouse teams with Olympian Ralph Miller. Ralph and Pam have now relocated to the Brookhaven retirement community in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Sadly, we report the passing of Ted Storrs.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com
Tom McGreevey has a superb mini-reunion plan for September 7-8 at the Staunton, Virginia, Shakespeare Festival, plus visits to a local winery and Montpelier, President Madison’s home.
Tom Byrne, our man in Hanover wearing many hats, reported on his final Alumni Council meeting: Dartmouth had the strongest response to the offer of admission in 25 years at 61 percent; Laurel Ritchie ’81, new trustee chair who was president of the Women’s National Basketball Association, noted that the class of 2021 will receive $26 million in financial aid during its four years. Dartmouth is ranked seventh in U.S. News & World Report in best-value schools and undergraduate teaching. The executive committee voted a strong “well done” to Tom for his outstanding service to the College and class all these years.
Ellen and Marty Aronson have just returned from a grand adventure—“One fascinating day after another”—which included Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Philadelphia. We had a nice chat with Ron Campion recently. He and Connie moved to Vero Beach, Florida, many years ago for tennis and the good life. Ron is getting along since Connie’s passing in April and is unlikely to return to Hanover. Jake Stewart, another Hanover lad, stayed close however. He and Priscilla raised four daughters and live on a 100-acre Vermont farm, although he says 100-acre farms are a bit much in your 80s. Many of you will recall that he skied on Walter Prager’s powerhouse teams with Olympian Ralph Miller. Ralph and Pam have now relocated to the Brookhaven retirement community in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Sadly, we report the passing of Ted Storrs.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com