Class Note 1965
Issue
May - Jun 2019
Greetings, classmates. I write from the polar vortexed North, where staying indoors with a good book and perhaps a glass of cheer is the best idea. For now. However, many of you are out in the world traveling, giving lectures and TED talks, climbing mountains, and doing good works. All of this activity no doubt leads to exhaustion and the concomitant dearth of notes about those interesting and exciting undertakings. For now, the cupboard (electronic) in which I store up stories is bare. As you recover from all your excellent adventures, let me know about them!
Speaking of undertakings, I reported in last column Dave Beattie and Mike Gonnerman scaled Moosilauke at the October mini-reunion. Beattie corrected me: Roger Hansen and Hank Amon climbed with Dave. (I should have known—I was stumping around the base of the mountain.) Gonnerman had done the climb before, otherwise he just does marathons.
Mike Gonnerman led the February class teleconference. He pioneered the idea, and it’s working well. Carl Boe, Beattie, Don Bradley, Peter Frederick,Gonnerman, Hansen, Dick Harris, Gary Herbst, Ward Hindman, Ken McGruther, Howard Mueller, Joel Sternman, Bruce Wagner, Bill Webster, George Wittreich, and Alan Zern attended. Any classmate can join the meeting—Mike sends a notification to those of you who have registered emails. (At last count, 434 of the 739 names on the class list had registered emails. In other words, we have 305 opportunities to expand the list if you email laggards contact Dartmouth alumni records.) Mike’s slides gave updates on class doings and a growing number of informal class meetings (Hanover, of course, but also New York, Lake George, and Florida). The next teleconference is scheduled for May 15. Mark your calendars.
I have had conversations with some of you over time about being, as we are by definition, entitled. After all, we graduated from an elite institution. I haven’t met many of those stuffy, overprivileged male classmates who seem to populate the imaginations of those who generalize us as part of the problem of American malaise. I’d love to hear from you on the subject.
As for me, Dartmouth made an enormous difference. I arrived from an overcrowded Illinois high school that had never sent a graduate to the East Coast, much less Dartmouth. In my first year I mingled with classmates from fine public and private schools. They were two years ahead of me academically, farther than that socially. Valedictorians, Merit scholars, elite athletes; high-achievers and gentlemen all, it seemed to me. True, some got those gentleman’s C’s the world speaks of dismissively (although back before grade inflation, they were C-minuses). I got several myself, not because I was a gentleman (in either the correct or the pejorative sense, I hope), but because I was befogged or lazy or both.
Finally, we have learned of the passing of Bill Stanton in Long Beach, California, and Stephen Hope in Pennsylvania. Obits will appear in the magazine and on the class website at www.biggreen65.com.
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net
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Speaking of undertakings, I reported in last column Dave Beattie and Mike Gonnerman scaled Moosilauke at the October mini-reunion. Beattie corrected me: Roger Hansen and Hank Amon climbed with Dave. (I should have known—I was stumping around the base of the mountain.) Gonnerman had done the climb before, otherwise he just does marathons.
Mike Gonnerman led the February class teleconference. He pioneered the idea, and it’s working well. Carl Boe, Beattie, Don Bradley, Peter Frederick,Gonnerman, Hansen, Dick Harris, Gary Herbst, Ward Hindman, Ken McGruther, Howard Mueller, Joel Sternman, Bruce Wagner, Bill Webster, George Wittreich, and Alan Zern attended. Any classmate can join the meeting—Mike sends a notification to those of you who have registered emails. (At last count, 434 of the 739 names on the class list had registered emails. In other words, we have 305 opportunities to expand the list if you email laggards contact Dartmouth alumni records.) Mike’s slides gave updates on class doings and a growing number of informal class meetings (Hanover, of course, but also New York, Lake George, and Florida). The next teleconference is scheduled for May 15. Mark your calendars.
I have had conversations with some of you over time about being, as we are by definition, entitled. After all, we graduated from an elite institution. I haven’t met many of those stuffy, overprivileged male classmates who seem to populate the imaginations of those who generalize us as part of the problem of American malaise. I’d love to hear from you on the subject.
As for me, Dartmouth made an enormous difference. I arrived from an overcrowded Illinois high school that had never sent a graduate to the East Coast, much less Dartmouth. In my first year I mingled with classmates from fine public and private schools. They were two years ahead of me academically, farther than that socially. Valedictorians, Merit scholars, elite athletes; high-achievers and gentlemen all, it seemed to me. True, some got those gentleman’s C’s the world speaks of dismissively (although back before grade inflation, they were C-minuses). I got several myself, not because I was a gentleman (in either the correct or the pejorative sense, I hope), but because I was befogged or lazy or both.
Finally, we have learned of the passing of Bill Stanton in Long Beach, California, and Stephen Hope in Pennsylvania. Obits will appear in the magazine and on the class website at www.biggreen65.com.
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net