Sept - Oct 2011
Dreams, creativity and enthusiasm are neither lost nor dulled with time. Retired Marine John Joy, living in a home he built himself, continues to fulfill his dreams.
Class Notes
Dreams, creativity and enthusiasm are neither lost nor dulled with time. Retired Marine John Joy, living in a home he built himself, continues to fulfill his dreams.
With a little more than six months to go till our sensational 60th reunion, plans are coming together promising to make it one of our most interesting and fulfilling. Harlan Fair reports that Donna Reilly, Chuck’
Our mantra today remains unchanged. It is and has always been to offer our best to our society, to create, produce, engender, launch, institute, design, devise—you get it—provide leadership in every sphere.
With the sensational 60th four months away, I write this already presuming outstanding attendance.
In a year when most of our classmates have achieved octogenarian status, the energy, spirit and production of our class remains high with a large number of us still actively engaged in productive pursuits.
For this year in which many of our classmates are celebrating their 80th birthdays, Fred Whittemore offered the following poem at our annual New York Christmas party.
Today, dear Lord, I’m 80, and there’s much
Almost 60 years removed from our years on the Dartmouth campus, we ’53s continue to take the challenge that President Eisenhower laid before us at graduation as we continue to make worthwhile contributions to our society.
These past two months have been a period of highs and lows for the class. On the plus side was the Hudson Valley, New York, 80th birthday maxi, which Charlie Buchanan and Phil Beekman organized.
’Tis the season! It’s 20 degrees outside and the wet Long Island winds are letting me know that it is winter. The holidays are upon us.
Sixty years back was a
wonderful day!
A charge from the president signaled our
way.
A group of young men, awash with great
verve
Went out from our school a-fired to serve.
What age and time could not accomplish, Mother Nature attempted. She almost succeeded in derailing our annual ski day at the Donovans’ by provoking an untoward storm just one day before the event.
An annual rite of spring is perpetuated as admissions has issued its long-awaited decisions for the class of 2015. It reminded me that 167 of our classmates have produced 236 children who attended Dartmouth.