Class Note 1965
Issue
Sep - Oct 2018
Mike Gonnerman reports the May monthly Hanover micro-mini reunion was “an outstanding breakfast meeting. There were eight from 1965 and four from the class of 1964. Classmates included Bill Webster, Jim Griffiths, Bob McConnaughey, Bob Murphy, Mark Sheingorn, Gonnerman, Larry Duffy, and John Shevlin.Our first joint activity with the ’64s was the fall mini-reunions. This was our second.” We’re looking to continue and expand the relationship.
Five classmates were in Carunchio, Italy, for a week in June attending the Abruzzo Cibus cooking school at the Palazzo Tour d’Eau. Ken and Jorunn McGruther organized the event. Also attending were Betsy and Mike Gonnerman, Pat and Frank Hankins, Ellen and Dave Wagner, and Jane and George Wittreich. The trip included a lecture on wines from a sommelier, a search for truffles with truffle-hunting dogs, visits to an olive oil press, a cheese manufacturer, and a bell-making foundry, and lunch at a trabocco (a fishing house on stilts) in the Adriatic. After making Italian dishes all week, the class ended with a gala pizza party featuring pizzas made by the guests and rousing Italian music by singers and musicians from Carunchio.
The summer class gathering-planning meeting was on July 17 at Bill Webster’s house in Connecticut. If we have your email address, you will have received notification. Bill’s home was featured in an article about the Ledyard Canoe Club Trip to the Sea. Bill hosts a party-reception for the canoers. There is a nice picture of his home in the article at www.news.dartmouth.edu/photos/galleries/2018-trip-sea.
Dartblog.com’sfeatured article on June 6 spoke of the “carefully researched profile of Fletcher Burton’s short life and military service written by Ted Bracken. It is part of Bracken’s series about the men of Dartmouth who died in Normandy in June and July of 1944. He assembled the portraits as background for the class of 1965’s journey to Normandy in June 2016. The trip was planned and led by professor Tom Long ’65 of George Washington University, whose course on the Normandy invasion Bracken audited in the first half of 2016.” Joe Asch ’79, Dartblog’s lead editor, notes, “The site provides a daily report of the goings on at the College: the failings of the administration and the many challenges currently facing Dartmouth. On weekends history and travel are featured.” Along with critical commentary, you get updates on wandering bears, the deer population, and other matters relating to Hanover. Ward Hindman writes, “After a career in aerospace (U.S. Air Force and corporate) I retired summer before last.” He notes that this is his first submission to the notes in decades and urges me to “be gentle with your editing.” In the interest of gentle editing and his great note about travel, I will defer most until next column. (The end of a chapter should induce the reader to hunger for the next, right?) Finally, we note with sadness the passing of two classmates, Joel “Ike” Eiserman and Ted Stafford. As always, send me a note on your doings (or undoings).
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net
Back to 1965 Class Year
More of 1965 Class Notes
Five classmates were in Carunchio, Italy, for a week in June attending the Abruzzo Cibus cooking school at the Palazzo Tour d’Eau. Ken and Jorunn McGruther organized the event. Also attending were Betsy and Mike Gonnerman, Pat and Frank Hankins, Ellen and Dave Wagner, and Jane and George Wittreich. The trip included a lecture on wines from a sommelier, a search for truffles with truffle-hunting dogs, visits to an olive oil press, a cheese manufacturer, and a bell-making foundry, and lunch at a trabocco (a fishing house on stilts) in the Adriatic. After making Italian dishes all week, the class ended with a gala pizza party featuring pizzas made by the guests and rousing Italian music by singers and musicians from Carunchio.
The summer class gathering-planning meeting was on July 17 at Bill Webster’s house in Connecticut. If we have your email address, you will have received notification. Bill’s home was featured in an article about the Ledyard Canoe Club Trip to the Sea. Bill hosts a party-reception for the canoers. There is a nice picture of his home in the article at www.news.dartmouth.edu/photos/galleries/2018-trip-sea.
Dartblog.com’sfeatured article on June 6 spoke of the “carefully researched profile of Fletcher Burton’s short life and military service written by Ted Bracken. It is part of Bracken’s series about the men of Dartmouth who died in Normandy in June and July of 1944. He assembled the portraits as background for the class of 1965’s journey to Normandy in June 2016. The trip was planned and led by professor Tom Long ’65 of George Washington University, whose course on the Normandy invasion Bracken audited in the first half of 2016.” Joe Asch ’79, Dartblog’s lead editor, notes, “The site provides a daily report of the goings on at the College: the failings of the administration and the many challenges currently facing Dartmouth. On weekends history and travel are featured.” Along with critical commentary, you get updates on wandering bears, the deer population, and other matters relating to Hanover. Ward Hindman writes, “After a career in aerospace (U.S. Air Force and corporate) I retired summer before last.” He notes that this is his first submission to the notes in decades and urges me to “be gentle with your editing.” In the interest of gentle editing and his great note about travel, I will defer most until next column. (The end of a chapter should induce the reader to hunger for the next, right?) Finally, we note with sadness the passing of two classmates, Joel “Ike” Eiserman and Ted Stafford. As always, send me a note on your doings (or undoings).
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net