Class Note 1953
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
When you read this, our sensational 65th reunion will be a pleasant memory. But as I sit here writing this, excitement is building as classmates contact each other to ascertain whether they will be attending. Put Blodgett and his committee have worked hard to make this reunion unforgettable. They have planned super events allowing time to rest and sit and enjoy each other as well as our wonderful College. Ron Lazar writes that his report on this year’s Dartmouth College fund for the class of 1953 is a happy one, worthy of our class of 1953 legacy of leadership. His committee of Bob Henderson, Phil Beekman, Dick Blum, Bob Malin, George Sarner, Bob Simpson, Allen Collins, Dick Loewenthal, Fred Stephens, Jack Avril, John Cernius, Tom Duke, Carl England, Bill Friedman, Dave Halloran, Don McMichael, Dick O’Connor, Dave Stowe, Bernie Sudikoff, Tim Thomas, and Ed Weltman did an admirable job. Our class gift of $476,456 is the second-largest 65th reunion gift the College has received, and our 72.4-percent participation is a new record. The generous and some incredibly generous gifts were received from 202 classmates joined by many widows and friends. Kudos to all!
Once again, our most prolific writer, ambassador Peter Bridges is busy. He has just completed a second memoir, Woods, Lakes, Waters, Peaks: A Diplomat Outdoors. (Read an excerpt at the DAM website.) I have read the book and enjoyed following Peter and Mary Jane on their adventures as they climbed some of the highest mountains of the world. I would call this an ode to the natural world by a man and his wife who have taken the time and expended the energy to see it in its unfettered beauty. In addition, Copperfield Review, which publishes historical fiction and poetry, has just published Peter’s latest poem, “Mount Hope,” about what the New England colonists of the 1600s called King Philip’s War. “King Philip” was really the great Wampanoag chief Metacomet, and this is the story as he might have told it.
With sadness, I offer the condolences of our class to the families of our dear classmates Bryon Menides, James Steubner, Scribner Fauver, and Norman Carpenter. We shall miss them.
—Mark H. Smoller, 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579; (845) 603-5660
Once again, our most prolific writer, ambassador Peter Bridges is busy. He has just completed a second memoir, Woods, Lakes, Waters, Peaks: A Diplomat Outdoors. (Read an excerpt at the DAM website.) I have read the book and enjoyed following Peter and Mary Jane on their adventures as they climbed some of the highest mountains of the world. I would call this an ode to the natural world by a man and his wife who have taken the time and expended the energy to see it in its unfettered beauty. In addition, Copperfield Review, which publishes historical fiction and poetry, has just published Peter’s latest poem, “Mount Hope,” about what the New England colonists of the 1600s called King Philip’s War. “King Philip” was really the great Wampanoag chief Metacomet, and this is the story as he might have told it.
With sadness, I offer the condolences of our class to the families of our dear classmates Bryon Menides, James Steubner, Scribner Fauver, and Norman Carpenter. We shall miss them.
—Mark H. Smoller, 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579; (845) 603-5660