Nov - Dec 2012
Hap Person’s love of the land was fostered during his years at Dartmouth by his ties to Ross McKinney and Woodsman’s Weekend.
Class Notes
Hap Person’s love of the land was fostered during his years at Dartmouth by his ties to Ross McKinney and Woodsman’s Weekend.
Let’s hear a rousing cheer for Peirce McKee, who has presided over this space for the past 10 years!
Hats off to Al Moses (McLean, Virginia), who received an honorary degree from Georgetown recognizing his “leadership in the fields of law, global finance and regulation, national service, diplomacy and international human rights.
Jean and I are well settled into our continuing care retirement community (CCRC) and we like it a lot. Several ’51 classmates have written to describe similar downsizings and simplified lifestyles.
Winner of the Grimes Award on May 1, 1951, Franklin T.
Jean and I connected with Bill and Ellen Blodgett (Lake Forest, Illinois) over dinner recently. Bill spent a year at Dartmouth, then transferred to Beloit College.
A special pleasure in my after-80 life is reconnecting with old friends, many of whom I’ve been out of touch with for years. My new job as class secretary has inspired me to reach out to Dartmouth classmates. Their responses have been a delight.
Our Woody Klein just keeps on writing books and finding willing publishers. This one, his seventh, is titled The Inside Stories of Modern Political Scandals.
Dave Batchelder’s retirement as editor of our class newsletter marks the end of an era.
Jeff O’Connell (Charlottesville, Virginia) and brother Tom ’50 have written another book, Five 20th Century College Presidents: From Butler to Bok (Plus Summers) (Carolina Academic Press).
Your scribe, or ink-stained wretch as some call us, will attempt to summarize his 10 years in office as the class secretary. My first of 60 renditions of Class Notes was all about our 50th reunion and how satisfying it was for us to be there.
A nice benefit of this job is the extra motivation it provides me to return to Hanover each fall for our annual mini-reunion and class executive committee meeting.