Class Note 1965
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Nov - Dec 2017
About the time this lands on your doorstep, a new electronic newsletter from the class will land in your inbox—if we have your up-to-date email. If you do not receive an email by November 1 please send a note to Mike Gonnerman at michael@gonnerman.com to update your address. Stu Keiller (our class webmaster) and Dick Harris (newsletter editor) and I, led by Gonnerman, have developed a communication plan we hope both recognizes the richness of current electronic communication opportunities and saves the class a little money. (The plan is on our fine 1965 website, biggreen65.com. An example of why we are going partly electronic: If this column were an email, you could punch through to the website.)
If there is an ongoing storyline to this column, it’s the varied things classmates have done post-retirement (which is to say, “retirement” is an insult to most). Cases in point: Ted Bracken was in Hanover recently at the Rassias Institute to learn new techniques for teaching English as a foreign language. He teaches at the Washington English Center in D.C. His 20 adult students hail from 15 countries with native languages including Spanish, Portuguese, various Slavic languages, French (including West and North African variations), Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. Ted notes, teaching “has become an important and meaningful part of my activities in retirement, and I am enjoying the experience immensely.” Dave Milkowski passed through Hanover in late May. He said, “I’d mentioned to Gonnerman that I’d met with a rep of the Dartmouth Vietnam Project to whom I’m donating my collection of documents and memorabilia (I spent three years total between 1966 and 1971 serving in Vietnam and Laos in special ops and intel) and he suggested we try to visit Jim Wright.” Wright has written Enduring Vietnam, which Milkowski recommends “to anyone of our generation, whether they went to Vietnam or not.” Dave says, “I’ve been trying to do some writing about Vietnam myself, under the rubric 1967: Year of Decision.”Speaking of authorship, Jay Wakefield has written a new book, The Copper Trade, which makes a case that copper mining of the rich reserves in (mainly) Michigan was the source of supply of much of the copper found in Europe in the Bronze Age. Wakefield’s articles trace a robust transcontinental trade in the metal. His biography notes that his pursuit has spanned 20 years and resulted in 30 articles.
Hank Amon reports that 221 members of the class gave a total of $347,895 to the Dartmouth College Fund for the College’s fiscal year ending June 30. The participation rate was 35.6 percent, a bit down from last year’s 39.8 percent.
Finally, we received word that Dan Southard passed away in February, Dan Crobett in July and Lee Arbuckle in June. Bob Komives wrote the obit for Lee, his friend and roommate at Dartmouth. There’s a fine article on Lee in the July-August issue of the alumni magazine. The obits will appear on the alumni magazine website and on the “In Memoriam” page at biggreen65.com—update those emails!
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net
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If there is an ongoing storyline to this column, it’s the varied things classmates have done post-retirement (which is to say, “retirement” is an insult to most). Cases in point: Ted Bracken was in Hanover recently at the Rassias Institute to learn new techniques for teaching English as a foreign language. He teaches at the Washington English Center in D.C. His 20 adult students hail from 15 countries with native languages including Spanish, Portuguese, various Slavic languages, French (including West and North African variations), Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. Ted notes, teaching “has become an important and meaningful part of my activities in retirement, and I am enjoying the experience immensely.” Dave Milkowski passed through Hanover in late May. He said, “I’d mentioned to Gonnerman that I’d met with a rep of the Dartmouth Vietnam Project to whom I’m donating my collection of documents and memorabilia (I spent three years total between 1966 and 1971 serving in Vietnam and Laos in special ops and intel) and he suggested we try to visit Jim Wright.” Wright has written Enduring Vietnam, which Milkowski recommends “to anyone of our generation, whether they went to Vietnam or not.” Dave says, “I’ve been trying to do some writing about Vietnam myself, under the rubric 1967: Year of Decision.”Speaking of authorship, Jay Wakefield has written a new book, The Copper Trade, which makes a case that copper mining of the rich reserves in (mainly) Michigan was the source of supply of much of the copper found in Europe in the Bronze Age. Wakefield’s articles trace a robust transcontinental trade in the metal. His biography notes that his pursuit has spanned 20 years and resulted in 30 articles.
Hank Amon reports that 221 members of the class gave a total of $347,895 to the Dartmouth College Fund for the College’s fiscal year ending June 30. The participation rate was 35.6 percent, a bit down from last year’s 39.8 percent.
Finally, we received word that Dan Southard passed away in February, Dan Crobett in July and Lee Arbuckle in June. Bob Komives wrote the obit for Lee, his friend and roommate at Dartmouth. There’s a fine article on Lee in the July-August issue of the alumni magazine. The obits will appear on the alumni magazine website and on the “In Memoriam” page at biggreen65.com—update those emails!
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net