Class Note 1961
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
Bob Naegele in March was the recipient of the 2017-18 State of Hockey Legacy Award, which was presented during a pre-game ceremony in front of the largest home crowd of the season for a Minnesota Wild hockey game. Pictures of “Naegs,” the former majority owner of the team and former chairman of the Minnesota Wild hockey franchise, show him looking fit and sporting a near-full head of hair, but the question that lingers is whether he can still rollerblade.
Gerry Kaminsky, current class vice president and former class president, was recently highlighted in an online Dartmouth News lead article that related to a senior fellow from the class of 2016. Gerry and the Kaminsky Family Fund established an endowed fund at Dartmouth that supports projects conducted by senior fellows, of which Gerry himself was one back in 1960-61.
Newly retired Pete Hanauer in January was honored in Oakland, California, for his life’s work in advocating for smoke-free air in work and public places. Pete started his crusade in the 1970s when he cofounded the Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights organization, and has been successful for decades promoting non-smoking issues. Pete previously was awarded the American Lung Association’s C. Everett Koop Award, named in honor of the U.S. surgeon general during the Reagan administration and a renowned Dartmouth ’37.
The class of ’61 special recognition awards committee, chaired by Dave Prewitt and assisted by Denny Denniston, Harris McKee, and Vic Rich, presented ’61 Special Recognition Awards to well-deserving classmates Mike Murphy and Art Kelton during the recent May mini-reunion held in Newport, Rhode Island. In addition to contributions to both class and College, these two classmates primarily were responsible for the creation, class financing, and implementation of the 1990s class project relating to the Robert Frost statue and, after several difficult negotiations with the College’s then administration, for getting the statue accepted and placed on campus. More than 60 classmates and wives and significant others attended the event.
—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516)446-3977; richwind13@gmail.com
Gerry Kaminsky, current class vice president and former class president, was recently highlighted in an online Dartmouth News lead article that related to a senior fellow from the class of 2016. Gerry and the Kaminsky Family Fund established an endowed fund at Dartmouth that supports projects conducted by senior fellows, of which Gerry himself was one back in 1960-61.
Newly retired Pete Hanauer in January was honored in Oakland, California, for his life’s work in advocating for smoke-free air in work and public places. Pete started his crusade in the 1970s when he cofounded the Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights organization, and has been successful for decades promoting non-smoking issues. Pete previously was awarded the American Lung Association’s C. Everett Koop Award, named in honor of the U.S. surgeon general during the Reagan administration and a renowned Dartmouth ’37.
The class of ’61 special recognition awards committee, chaired by Dave Prewitt and assisted by Denny Denniston, Harris McKee, and Vic Rich, presented ’61 Special Recognition Awards to well-deserving classmates Mike Murphy and Art Kelton during the recent May mini-reunion held in Newport, Rhode Island. In addition to contributions to both class and College, these two classmates primarily were responsible for the creation, class financing, and implementation of the 1990s class project relating to the Robert Frost statue and, after several difficult negotiations with the College’s then administration, for getting the statue accepted and placed on campus. More than 60 classmates and wives and significant others attended the event.
—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516)446-3977; richwind13@gmail.com