Class Notes 1963

Retired banker John Black lives in Westport, Connecticut. Spouse Margie works as a personal shopper for Bergdorf Goodman, New York. John has two children in Massachusetts and enjoys blues, reggae, and rock and roll. The grandson of retired Blue Cross of Texas executive Greg Moore plays football for Denison University. Greg, of Dallas, left Dartmouth sophomore year for Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where the late John Sloan Dickey Jr. was at one time dean. Greg recalls Steve Boise and the late Jim vonGal. He and Connie, 61 years married, have two sons and six grandchildren.

Christopher Ryan, Berkley Township, New Jersey, earned an M.A. in Italian from Middlebury, taught, raised two children, and endured “a bitter divorce.” Christopher overcame struggles to marry “love of his life” Sharon Nzwalla. The two served as prison ministers, authoring Why I Shout, about Sharon’s life and redemption, available on Amazon. Bill Manbeck, Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, traveled recently to Rome, Florence, and Milan, Italy. Divorced, Bill retired 10 years ago from contracting and construction. He has three children and five grandchildren. Tige and Peggy Harris planned a visit to son John in the U.S. Agency for International Development in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Tige also visited Danang, where he served in the Navy; Clay Hering served there with the Marines. Richard Morgan, retired Episcopal priest, Westerly, Rhode Island, spent Thanksgiving with daughter Roanna, exec for United Parcel Service, in Woodstock, Georgia.

Tom Kraig helped organize Dartmouth Club of Rhode Island’s tailgate pre-Brown game. Steve Brenner praised video medicine during Dartmouth Caring Network session. Developer Dick Friedman was featured in the Boston Globe “VIP Lounge” column. Bob and Ginny Baxley live in Birmingham, Alabama, near daughter Julia and have a condo in Winnetka, Illinois, near daughter Frances ’99. Norman Buchsbaum reconnected with Peter Dorsen ’66, whom he mentored when Peter was freshman.

There may be rooms on the Lewis & Clark cruise, April 21-29. Visit the class website or contact Jeff Nothnagle, (781) 383-0895.

I regret to report passing of Roger Griffin, executive committee member Ted Suess, and Bill Woolley. Read obituaries by Tige Harris on the DAM website.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

I share more memories from 60th.

Norman Buchsbaum, John Currier, David Halsted, Bill Hindle, and Mel Meyers were approved for the executive committee.

“Success” panelist hotelier and brewer Johannes von Trapp recalled his mom wanted him to be a priest; film director Peter Israelson had coffee at Lou’s with Robert Frost; Al Palmer chose law after finding philosophy “unreal”; federal judge Ernie Torres began as teacher and coach at boarding school; publisher Roger Parkinson learned in ranger school “you can’t relax”; Steve Lewsinstein’s first real estate deal was with Johnny Unitas; physician Dick Swett encountered voodoo during Ivory Coast stint; and former Cabot Stains head Sam Cabot worked in Chile during the 1973 coup.

“Mock Radio Show” featured John Chamberlain singing Tom Lehrer’s “Oedipus Rex,” Alan March reciting “Birches,” comic duo Bill Wellstead and Judy Derasse, Steve Kurland on piano, Ed Mazer discussing “intellectual curiosity,” a video tribute to Petie Subin, and a comic recitation by Celia Strickler, partner of show director Paul Binder.

We enjoyed meals and conversation with Reg Jones, Joel and Barbara Werbel, Rick Kramer, Tom Beradino, John and Tatiana Kubacki, George and Olga Badenoch, Mike and Carol Larson, Mike Bartels, Skip Mattoon, Gil Knight,and Tom and Connie Clephane.

Ted Morehouse lives in Marina Del Rey, California, not Meriden, New Jersey, as previously reported.

Bill Purcell, Chuck Pfeifer, and Jim Dial could not make the 60th and sent regards.

Days later, a young lady in Brooklyn spotted my reunion cap. “I’m class of ’19,” she exclaimed. “Amazing!”

In May Sam and Deamie Cabot sailed a Dartmouth cruise from Portugal to Normandy with Chris and Anne Wiedenmayer,David and Michele Halstead, George and Mary Sullivan, Charlie and Claire Logan, and Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower, who lectured on D-Day and Normandy. The Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Collections Core opened at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. In June John and Joan Merrow rode bikes for World Central Kitchen and in July Mike and Jeanne Prince biked for Dartmouth Cancer Center.

I regret to report recent passing of John S. Bell, John Hicks, Dan Matyola, and Steve Swirsky and, previously unreported in 2017, Reed Wasson.Read obituaries of recently deceased by Tige Harris in the ’63 obits section on the DAM website.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Excellent Zoom lectures on mental health with aging by Geisel Medical School profs attracted classmates in March and April, including program liaisonJeff Nothnagle, Harris Aaronson, Ed Wirth, Rick Wycoff, Stu Richards, Bob Silverman, Art Williams, John Merrow, Bill Hindle Dick Swett, Bill Subin, Tom Coghlin Dave Goodwillie, Allan March, and Jim Bell. The “Caring Class Lectures” are produced by class of ’62 with participation of class of ’63. Watch email for upcoming events.

Sale of Dartmouth’s commercial radio license in 2021 prompted recollections from ex-DCR staffers Sturgess Dorrance, Bill Subin, and Dan Matyola and a take by Stu Mahlin on a Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Sinatra classic, this titled “One for Old Dartmouth.” Here are excerpts: “Thirteen-forty on the dial the voice of Bill Wooley can still make me smile”; “Septem’ ’62 and Sturge”; “Recall the ad deals in just days we closed”; “Signed enough in a week to keep DCR goin’ the whole broadcast year”; “But the station’s gone ’way, only tapes Bob Gitt made can take us away”; “To the ‘Voice of the Upper Valley’ ”; “And one more for the road.” For entire lyrics, email Stu at stumahlin@yahoo.com. Dartmouth radio still operates online.

Hats off to Joe Heffernan, selected to the 2022 Division I All-New England football team and to the second team All-Ivy, reported by former class sponsored-athletes chair Bill Wellstead. Heffernan led the Ivy League with 98 tackles. Prolific ophthalmologist Bill Hancock (9,000 cataract and 7,000 Lasik surgeries) retired to San Juan Islands in Washington State, where he sails, attends church, and helps Chen, wife of 55 years, serve island youth, according to brother Tom ’71. Bill studied medicine at University of Washington, served as Navy flight surgeon, and founded Northwest Eye Surgeons, now 34 doctors. Bill and Chen have two children and 15 grandchildren.

Sam Cabot was re-elected president through 2028 with vice presidents Ed Mazer and Dan Muchinsky, treasurer Bill Russell, and secretary Harry Zlokower.

I regret to report the passing of Donald Shulkin. See obituary articles by Tige Harris in the ’63 Class Notes section on Dartmouth Alumni Magazine website.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

It was great to be back. Some 35 classmates and spouses celebrated Homecoming and, if the fun and good fellowship were any indication, our 60th reunion, June 12-15, promises to be a “can’t miss event,” an opportunity to reunite with old friends, enjoy special entertainment, engage in sports, attend talks, catch up on Dartmouth, and party, party, and party.

Homecoming began Friday night when Dan Muchinsky, Bill Wellstead, Chuck Wessendorf, Steve Lewsinstein,and others gathered at Dunks in Hanover; Mike Emerson carried the class banner in the parade to the Green.

Led by president Sam Cabot, our class executive committee (EC)—including Bruce Baggaley, Larry Bailey, Bill Russell, Scott Babcock, Tom Jester, and Gordon Weir—met live and via Zoom Saturday plus classmates Gil Knight, Bob Silverman,and Art Williams. EC member Bob Chavey expressed a major theme best: “I liked hearing those kids talk.” Bob was referring to presentations from two student-athletes, a class scholar, and recent Dartmouth Partners in Community Service intern, latest participants in class-funded and -sponsored programs for Dartmouth undergraduates. The agenda included a Ken Kvistad-led tribute to deceased classmates, new exciting Zoom programs announced by Jeff Nothnagle and Ed Mazer, ambitious 2023 gift-giving goals from Bob Bysshe and Tom Kraig, and chair Bill Subin’s much-anticipated report and discussion of our June 12-15 60th, which will focus on socializing and live music and feature speakers and panels plus cabaret produced by Paul Binder.

Seasonable weather made for fun Harvard football viewing in the class section with Dave Goodwillie and Judith List, Tom and Betsey Coghlin, Bill and Carol Hindle, and John and Melissa Lehigh. I caught a ride in Dick Swett’s new electric car to Ariana’s Restaurant within the historic Lyme (New Hampshire) Inn, where classmates and spouses, including Dick and Pam Booma, enjoyed fellowship over choices of braised beef, herb-crusted cod, or penne Bolognese accompanied by fine wines, beer, and soft drinks.

I regret to report the passing of Bruce Coffey and Hank Smith. Obituaries by Tige Harris can be found in the “Obits” section of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine website.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

In summer 1978, 36-year-old Muhammad Ali was recruited by Ford Motorcraft, the auto parts maker, to film a commercial in Alaska. Ali was fresh from a disappointing loss to Leon Spinks; Ford was trying to jumpstart a struggling division. In the middle was Peter Israelson, writer, director, cinematographer, who was running the Ford film crew. Ali’s antics and the zany, affectionate backstory of two weeks of filming and interactions with Peter, fellow actors, and everyday Alaskans provided content for the witty, moving narrative at a Zoom presentation produced by Ed Mazer and attended by an estimated 100-plus classmates, spouses, and guests, including Rich Danziger, Al Palmer, Richard Klein, Gary Silver, Frank Jerabek, Jonathan Bates, Richard Booma, John Howland, Susan Vicinelli (widow of Gae Vicinelli), and Bill King,who commented on apparent lessons learned by Ali at the shoot—the Saswatch Shuffle, Saswatch Sucker Punch and Klondike Kick that may have been used in Ali’s comeback victory over Spinks.

Zoom attendee Fred Jarrett retired six years ago from vascular surgery but still practices medicine in an online counseling and drug treatment program. He and Esther moved from Pittsburgh to Sarasota, Florida. Fred is past president and ongoing participant in a mentoring program for surgical residents and medical students. His memoir To Fruit Street and Beyond: The Massachusetts General Hospital Surgical Residency was published by Archway in 2017. Last June the couple celebrated its 50th anniversary with children James ’97, Julia (Princeton ’01), and Andrew (Princeton ’03) and grandchildren.

Earlier in May another Zoom attendee, Charlie Logan, with wife Claire hosted Psi U brothers and spouses Dave and Michelle Halsted, John and Althea Hicks, Sam and Deamie Cabot, Wick and Liz Warrick, and Chris and Anne Wideenmayer at the historic Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Mike and Gloria Rie of White Plains, New York, embarked on a Burgundy, France, river barge cruise with views of chateaux and vineyards and capped with canapes and champagne.

I regret to report the passing of Richard Davison, Eric Hansen, and Jim McKeon. Obituaries by Tige Harris appear online in this magazine.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Nearly 100 classmates, wives, and guests experienced Mount Everest via Zoom, first in 1923 with George Leigh Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, an ill-fated trip for the two, and again in 1986, when Tom Holzel and others attempted to discover what happened to the famous climbers only to be snowed out and having to return. “What’s important is the climb itself, even more than getting to the top,” observed Tom. Among classmates were Dick Kline, Jim Linksz, Denis Eagle, John Lo, Joe Ruwitch, Tim Ratner, Richard Morgan, Bill Gerchick, Skip Mattoon, John Morris, Jonathan Bates, Frank Ruch, Greg Moore, Ed Wirth, and Victor Poleshuck. You can see the entire presentation on the Dartmouth ’63 website.

Recently retired Rochester, New York, attorney Steve Jacobstein has plenty to keep him occupied: Steve and Kay have “seven kids with 14 grandkids ranging in age from 26 years to three months, scattered all over the country.” Among Steve’s children, Adam studied at Dartmouth, Stephanie at Cornell, Mark at Harvard, and Maggie at McGill. Two “grandkids” are grown and two are in college at Bates and Tufts. If family is not enough, Steve plans on reading, attending classes and “hanging with friends.”

Steve Frank hosted Bruce Coffey, Steve Rosen, Doug Cooper, Vinny Di Figlia, Howard Culver, Kim Morris, Charlie Parton, Steve Lister, and Bill Courtney at the Indian Ridge Country Club golf mini-reunion in Palm Desert, California, March 23. Mike and Jeanne Prince and Bob Silverman and Barbara Berlinwelcomed Peter Israelson, Bill and Carol Hindle, Roy Benson, and Ed and Charlene Mazer at the annual Ponte Vedra, Florida, mini, April 1-4. Rooms set aside for ’63s may still be available at Courtyard by Marriott Hanover Lebanon for the October 28-29 Harvard mini-reunion. Our 60th reunion is scheduled for June 12-15, 2023, reports chair Bill Subin. Bruce Baggaley was praised in friends of Dartmouth rowing newsletter for providing tips to the women’s rowing team at a Sarasota, Florida, competition.

I regret to report the passing of Lenny Waldbaum, James J. Bell, and Dick Harrow. Obituaries by Tige Harris will appear in the magazine online edition.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

These classmates took roads less traveled, achieving satisfying lives, while valuing their Dartmouth ties.

Following freshman year Evan Lasky studied at the University of Denver and became an active Dartmouth volunteer. “I loved the place,” said Evan of Dartmouth, serving as district enrollment director in Tucson, Arizona, and in Denver, where till 2009 he was CEO of Pak Mall Centers of America, an international packing and shipping franchisor. Evan and wife Sandy live in a community on land that once housed Lowry Air Force Base, U.S. Air Force Academy and Eisenhower’s Summer White House. Son Scott from Evan’s earlier marriage lives in Atlanta and two grandchildren are in New York City.

John Currier left Dartmouth in November 1961 to join the Army sharing barracks with Tell Schreiber, who has recently died. John returned to graduate from Dartmouth in 1966 with a degree in Russian language and literature and earned a law degree while serving as analyst in the National Security Agency. In 1982 John joined the legal department of defense contractor Sanders Associates, moved to Singer Co., and finished at BAE Systems. Married 55 years, John and Judith live in Leesburg, Virginia. Daughter Sarah is a hospital executive, son Johnathan, a teacher. The Curriers have three grandchildren.

Daryl Erickson decided in his freshman year to become a medical missionary, which he did for 10 years in El Ain, United Arab Emirates, before serving as general surgeon, 1985-2007, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic in Nashua, New Hampshire. Married during medical school, Daryl and Gina live north of Chicago, near daughter Robin, a corporate consultant. Son Dan works for a Christian conference center in California while Mark is a senior foreign service officer in Amman, Jordan. The couple has six grandchildren.

Tom Coghlin’s niece Julie Reiber, cast member of Broadway’s Come from Away, appeared on NBC’s Christmas tree lighting. Mike Rie suggests reunion of New York ’63s at Manhattan’s Dartmouth Club. He and Gloria live in White Plains, New York, and have three children and three granddaughters.

I regret to report the passing of Denny Toll. Obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

The “NW (Northwest) Amigos”, six from Washington State and two from Oregon, met on Zoom during the pandemic with organizer Larry Bailey, who resides north of Seattle. Recently the group supported Sturges Dorrance following the passing of wife Pam. Sturges shared works from Eleazar, a mysterious personage, created by Sturges’ dad, Sturges Dick Dorrance Jr. ’36 and Frank Kenneth Kappler ’36, whose campus writings baffled the Dartmouth community between 1933 and 1936. Larry’s recent blog excerpts of Minnesota author-radio host Garrison Keillor pleased amigo Mike Emerson, whose “kids both live and work in Minneapolis,” and Pete Brown, who “traveled to Minnesota every year to visit high schools” when he worked in the Dartmouth admissions office from 1968 to 1975. Pete also covered the boroughs of New York City, prompting amigo Rick Wyckoff to jest, “The College seemed eager to mess with your mind by assigning you to the five boroughs—along with Minnesota and the Dakotas.” Pete responded, “It was because I knew how to fly in and out of O’Hare Airport.” Steve Brenner, Mike Jarvis, and Bill Spencer round out the tightly knit group.

John Willetts retired in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, the state’s southernmost island near South Carolina. A Spanish and economics major who studied at Tuck, John wrote for a publisher of legal briefs and texts used by compliance officers and broker dealers. John and Susan have three married children and 10 grandchildren. A self-styled “gym rat,” John recovered this summer from a broken femur suffered in a freak accident. John hopes to resume traveling throughout Europe, including Portugal, the only country there he has not yet visited.

Mike and Jeanne Prince biked to raise more than $6,000 for Norris Cotton Cancer Center for the 36th consecutive year. Barry Elson, whose death was reported here, recorded instructive commentary for cancer patients on a YouTube video in 2012. Former class president and recent class scholars chair Marty Bowne died in August following magna cum laude graduation of scholar Danny McClafferty ’21. I regret to report the passing of Rick Asher and Mike Whelan. Obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

In March 1962 a vinyl record titled The Ed and Charlie Show surfaced on campus. Named after its creators—M. Edwin Hobbs (“Ed”) and G. Charles Murphy (“Charlie”), better known as Mike Hobbs ’62 and Geoff Murphy, managers of the WDCR news operation—it was also a nod to the “Ev and Charlie Show,” “a moniker attached to a series of meetings about that time between U.S. Senate leader Everett Dirksen and House leader Charles Halleck,” writes DCR deejay Brent Cromley, who is cited on the record and who provided its link to Dan Matyola, Bill Subin, and alumni of all generations who attended a virtual DCR reunion last February, nearly 60 years after the record was created.

With technical direction from Bob Gitt, Ed and Charlie spoofs a day or so of DCR programming in 1961-62, a la Bob and Ray and Nichols and May, a gentle precursor to SNL Weekend Update with imitations of and references to DCR staffers Tim Dodd, Bill Subin, Bill Woolley, Ed McCabe, Andrew Horn, Stu Mahlin, Ron Rosenfeld, Dave Schwartz, Pete Stern, Sturgess Dorrance, and me. It also includes references to campus characters and popular profs such as Lou Stillwell. “Mike and I knew we were both going off to different worlds in fall of 1962, he to Harvard Law and me to Tuck,” Geoff said. “So we took a chunk of time and thought it fun to do as a parting shot.” Mike eventually went on to the Public Broadcasting System, according to Geoff, who launched a career as a CPA with Price Waterhouse, then as senior executive at Esmark and Beatrice Foods before running his own company and later a consulting firm. Geoff and Karyn divide time between Naples, Florida, and Winnetka, Illinois. They have four children between them and nine grandchildren. Brent Cromley spent two years in the Peace Corps in India, earned a law degree at University of Montana, and lives and practices in Billings, Montana. Wife Dorothea chaired music at University of Montana Billings. Family includes sons Brent Jr. ’91 and Giano ’95 and daughter Taya Rose, Stanford ’00.

David Dawley’s groundbreaking work with a Chicago street gang in the 1960s inspired his 1992 book, The Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords, and career as social services executive, educator, activist, and international consultant. Now living in Hanover, David is compiling and donating files from his work and life to the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth.

Ed Mazer, editor of the 50th reunion yearbook, vice president, mini-reunion chair, and webmaster, will serve as representative to the Alumni Council, it was announced by president Sam Cabot. Lyle and Ann Bjork, Jack and Russell Huber, and Steve Lister were among ’63s cited in the spring edition of Occom for significant support of the College’s Call to Lead fundraising campaign.

I regret to report the passing of Tell Schreiber, Ralph Sanders, and Jim Libby.Classmate obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the DAM online edition.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Following a contentious presidential election between two septuagenarians, I spoke with classmates who know something about such contests: Don Sherwood, Republican congressman of northeastern Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2007, and Tim Kraft, who managed Democrat Jimmy Carter in his bid for a second term against Ronald Reagan in 1980.

“Sure, we will get this resolved,” said Don at home in Tunkhammock, Pennsylvania. While alleging the outcome in Philadelphia is “suspect to say the least,” Don was quick to credit “both candidates for setting the all-time record for votes,” adding, “I have great faith in America. I am not concerned about Joe Biden, who in his heart will know where we want to be. This has got to work.” Don misses the more bipartisan U.S. Congress of the past, but these days his focus is on family—Carol, wife of nearly 50 years; three daughters; and three grandchildren—and on business, including successful car dealerships that kept staff employed in the Covid summer when business rebounded after an “awful” spring.

Tim Kraft also had grandchildren in mind after driving home to Albuquerque, New Mexico, from Seattle, Washington, where he and wife Molly quarantined before visiting granddaughter Sloane, born August 4, 2020, and grandson Beau, 3, children of Josie and son Colt, who manages technology for Washington Federal Bank. On return Tim busied on Zoom with several former colleagues and reporters and with Jonathan Alter, author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life (Simon & Schuster, September 2020). Tim believed Biden benefited from the presidential debate, after what he considered poorly run primary debates, and from a discreet selection of vice presidential running mate Kamala Harris.

In early December Arnold and Junko Low joined San Franciscans in a Covid stay-at-home order. “Each person has a responsibility,” said Arnold, who retired in 2011 from running Low+Associates, an international technology consulting firm. Arnold’s long career includes computerizing the Southern Pacific Railroad, designing systems for I. Magnin & Co., and heading information technology for First Nationwide Bank. Arnold volunteers for his church and museums and keeps in contact with Alpha Delta brothers. Daughter Sarah lives on the East Coast. Arnold joined more than 800 alumni who registered for Dartmouth’s virtual “A Celebration of Light” December 17. Other registered ’63s included Dick Kline, Norris Siert, Tom Kraig, Jim Clouser, Bill Subin, and Paul Binder, whose mid-summer virtual cabaret won class recognition by the Dartmouth Volunteer Officer eXperience Conference October 16 for “featuring several talented classmates during the pandemic.”

Launny and Louise Steffens, Doug and Olivia Floren, Barry and Jane Linsky, and Lou and Robin Gerstner were honored for significant support of Dartmouth’s Call to Lead campaign in the fall edition of Occom published by the office of advancement. Mini-reunion chair Chuck Wessendorf reserved rooms at special rates for classmates for Yale Homecoming, October 8-9. For more info email ckwessendorf@yahoo.com.

I regret to report the passing of Alan Creamer, Bill Bates, Gary Underhill and Phillip “Jim” Quigley Classmate obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Tom Holzel believes he knows now if Andrew Irvine and George Mallory were first to conquer Mount Everest before they perished on the mountain in 1924. The answer is no, says Tom, whose research was covered in July by National Geographic magazine and on film, Lost on Everest, on the National Geographic channel recounting the 2019 search expedition by Mark Synnott, a climber inspired by a 2017 YouTube video by Tom and a 2018 visit with Tom in Litchfield, Connecticut. In 2019 Synnott searched the north side of the mountain, where Tom predicted Irvine must lie. Mallory’s remains had been found earlier further down the mountain; Irvine’s body, believed bearing a small Kodak, was reported in its present location, but not confirmed, in 1960. Synnott’s book, The Third Pole, due in April, describes Tom’s work. “All-in-all it’s been a fabulous adventure for me,” said Tom. “I launched a search expedition to Everest in 1986 and met with nearly all the world’s great climbers, including Edmund Hillary and Reinhold Messner.”

For a lift go to 1963.dartmouth.org and scroll down to “The Gala Premiere & Cocktail Party Featuring the Revival of the Popular ’63 Reunion Cabaret” for delightful musical entertainment organized by Paul Binder with performances by Paul, Petie Subin, John Chamberlain, Steve Kurland, Marty Bowne, and Max Samuels, self-described “moderately tech-savvy member of the class of ’15.” The show was presented via Zoom July 2 to nearly 200 classmates, family, and friends, including George Scott, Alan Kravitz, Alan Flaschner, Ken Novack, Ensign Cowell, Fred Jarrett, Dick Berkowitz, Jeff Nothnagle, Tom Coghlin, Bruce Coggeshall, Frank Finsthwait, and Adam Heyman.

Music connected Chuck Stephany of Redmond, Oregon, in July with Alan Lieberman ’67, who emailed Chuck that he and wife Denise were moved by a 2018 letter to this magazine from Chuck regarding an article about Jerry Zaks ’67, who decided to become a Broadway director after attending a student production of Wonderful Town. Chuck attended the same production. His date that night was moved to tears by the song, “A Quiet Girl.” We were married “for 35 years before she died in 2001 at the age of 58,” wrote Chuck. The student who sang “A Quiet Girl” happened to be Alan Lieberman, singing to his future wife, Denise, who was also in the audience.

An overwhelming 54 out of 69 classmates objected to the College canceling certain designated varsity sports in a class-wide survey conducted by Ed Mazer on behalf of the executive committee. Conversely, in the same question respondents agreed the College should, if necessary, reduce the number of admissions slots set aside for athletic recruitment for those sports. The survey was shared with President Hanlon and the class.

Alumni co-head agent Bob Bysshe congratulated Pi Lam for its 81-percent participation in the 2020 Dartmouth College Fund campaign, second to Theta Delt with 93 percent. Class participation was 54 percent, fourth among non-reunion classes.

I regret to report the passing of Pete Bostwick, Jim Davies, and Alan Davidson. Classmate obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

I am writing in early May, about three months since the pandemic began. Our class’ last reported in-person mini occurred March 10, a golf outing at Indian Ridge Country Club in Palm Desert, California, attended by Marty Bowne, Bill Courtney, Howard Culver, Steve Rosen, Bruce Coffey, Doug Cooper, Vin DiFiglia, Charlie Parton, Steve Lister, and Steve Frank, who hosted classmates and spouses at home for cocktails and dinner. All subsequent in-person gatherings in spring and summer, including Tanglewood on Parade, July 27-28, were canceled. Homecoming October 2-4 football mini is still scheduled, pending decisions made this summer and fall.

In place of live gatherings, our class held two Zoom conferences in April, an approach conceived by Ed Mazer. The first, April 3, simulated the annually scheduled Ponte Vedra, Florida, mini and included Ed and wife Charlene, Roy Benson, Bob and Beth Bysshe, Bill and Carol Hindle, Allan March, Mike and Jeanne Prince, Bill and Petie Subin, Chuck Wessendorf, andMary Ellen Sullivan and yours truly. The second took place April 30 and was administered by Dan Matyola for Alpha Chi Ro (AXR) brothers Mike Emerson, Bud Bruggeman, Denny Emerson, Richard Enholm, Tom Jester, Roger Parkinson, Jeff Weaver, and Bill Lamb. I was invited to sit in.

Although each gathering had its own character and atmosphere, the pandemic was not far from everyone’s thoughts. At virtual Ponte Vedra, April 3, Mike Prince reported Jeanne was tested that day at a drive-thru after showing symptoms. (Results were negative; she was recovering from pneumonia.) Allan March, retired physician and director of medical care for military dependents and retirees, said his hometown Gainesville, Florida, went into lockdown weeks ahead of the state after University of Florida students returned from studies in Spain and Portugal with Covid-19. Bill Hindle, retired radiologist from Washington, D.C., who studied at the same time as National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, cut short his ski vacation after Colorado Springs, Colorado, was shut down March 13 and found D.C. “a disaster” on his return. “The only answer is social distancing,” said Bill, who sought a blood bank where he could donate.

A month later, on April 30, AXR brothers shared college memories and listened intently to retired radiologist Bud Bruggeman, who explained the pandemic, his views on how the country should deal with it, and how seniors and others can best cope. There was lively discussion during and afterward on how the situation is being managed and when and how to open the country. More class virtual reunions are reported in the works.

I missed meeting Barry and Jane Linsky November 9, 2019, among the enthusiastic fans at the Dartmouth-Princeton football game at Yankee Stadium. Be sure to check out the March/April alumni magazine piece on Dartmouth siblings that features Blair Wood and his three brothers, George ’67, Michael ’60, and John ’73.

I regret to report the deaths of William Hubbard, Charlie Pugh,and Allan Creamer. Classmate obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

November 9, Yankee Stadium, was a day to be remembered. Nearly 70 years before, in summer of 1951, I visited the old stadium for the first time with Dad to see rookie Mickey Mantle and veteran Joe DiMaggio. Now, thanks to mini-reunion co-chair Chuck Wessendorf, I sat in the class section at field level in the new stadium to cheer on Dartmouth over Princeton along with Tom and Charlene Berardino, George and Mary Jo Hellick, Dan and Lee Matyola and son Greg, Bill and Petie Subin, Steve and Laney Bank with son Josh and grandsons Augie and Moses, Armand Villiger, Mike Jarvis, and Dick Swett, who the night before, joined by wife Carolyn, dined with Nicole and me at a Greenwich Village trattoria. Many alumni, such as Bill King with wife Grace and former teammates Tom Spangenberg ’64 and Bill Madden ’64, made it to higher reaches of the massive park where, in the words of Bill King, they could “experience the pull and tug of the game itself.” With about 10 minutes remaining and victory in sight, classmates still at field level proudly held up large cards, provided by Chuck Wessendorf, that read “Go Green 1963”and were viewed on the stadium’s giant video screen by the some 20,000 fans.

Earlier at halftime at the stadium, Peter Bailey, Princeton ’94, son of former class president Larry Bailey, was honored as one of the top players of the Ivy League football era, as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of college football. Princeton and Rutgers met in the first football game ever played, back on November 6, 1869.

Some fans did come down to the stadium class section though to say hello, including Jerry Herlihy, my former roommate Oli Larmi ’62, and Ivan Weissman, Columbia ’64, a good friend who earlier witnessed the Lions’ exciting home overtime win over Harvard. Speaking of Harvard, Dave and Carolyn Schaefer hosted the tailgate at Dartmouth’s tense last-minute win in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the week earlier that included Larry and Mary Stifler, George and Mary Jo Hellick, Sam and Deamie Cabot, and Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan. “Lots of finger food, soup, and wine,” said Schaef happily.

And before leaving the topic of football, let us note the full-page tribute to Don McKinnon that appeared in the Dartmouth official game program at the Yale Homecoming game October 12. Don, who died in 2015, is celebrated in the program as center and linebacker on the undefeated and untied 1962 team and as Coach Bob Blackman’s first Dartmouth All-American.

I regret to report the deaths of Michael Bisceglia, John Dickey, Walt Zwick, and Jim Puklin.Obituaries of classmates may be found in the magazine online edition, authored by class necrologist Tige Harris. Let us also recognize the passing on October 26 of Dean Thaddeus Seymour who, in the words of Bill Subin, “was like a brother or father to us in the class of ’63.” Feel free to share your memories with all of us.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Barry Sharpless received the 2019 Priestley Medal, the highest honor and lifetime achievement award at the American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in Orlando, Florida. The award recognizes Barry’s distinguished services to chemistry, specifically “the invention of catalytic, asymmetric oxidation methods, the concept of click chemistry, and development of the copper-catalyzed version of the azide-acetylene cycloaddition reaction,” according to Chemistry Views, an international news service.

In his acceptance speech Barry traced his journey from precocious South Jersey fisherman and son of Philadelphia surgeon to Dartmouth premed, where a freshman skiing accident had him hobbling to the library and the embrace of molecules and the periodic table. He also credited the tutelage and encouragement from professor Thomas Spencer, who steered Barry to doctorate, post-doc, and faculty positions at Stanford, Harvard, and MIT and finally to Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, where Barry is a professor and in 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the Sharpless Asymmetric Epoxidation and other work with wide applications in academic and industrial research, including heart medicines. Barry and Jan, a retired science writer, have children Hannah, Will, and Ike and three grandchildren.

Raccoons, deer, wild turkeys, bobcats, and possums do not usually come to mind when one thinks of Florida, but they are standard fare for Russ and Kathy Rothman, longtime residents of Monticello, about 15 miles from Tallahassee. A Florida native, Russ retired as chief of purchasing operations for the state’s department of management services. Prior to the public sector, Russ worked in management for Purdue Frederick pharmaceuticals outside Chicago and in 1978-79 for GTE International in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria, where his fluency from a Dartmouth year in France came in handy. The Rothmans’ daughter, Emily, is a junior at Florida State.

Bob Greenwood and spouse Dana Luebke, artistic directors of Sun.Ergos, the Calgary, Canada, theater and dance company, sponsored a visit and joint collaboration in Calgary with the Zendegi Theater Company of Tehran, Iran. The collaboration included workshops taught in English and Iranian and culminated in two public performances at cSpace of The Chairs, inspired by The Conference of the Birds, a 12th-century Persian poem. The uniting of the two dance companies was conceived following tours of Sun.Ergos in various parts of Iran, including the ancient site of Persepolis, in 2014 and 2017. A prominent participant in the Dartmouth Players, Bob earned an M.F.A. at the Yale University School of Drama with honors in acting, directing, and design.

For the 34th consecutive year, Mike and Jeanne Prince biked through the Connecticut River Valley to raise money for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and in honor of Jeanne’s brother, J.T., who succumbed to cancer in 2013. Mike did 100 miles and Jeanne, who credits Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Norris Cotton with her recovery from Merkel cell carcinoma diagnosed in 2011, added 50 miles of her own.

I regret to report the deaths of Hank Reynolds and Robert Lunden.Obituaries may be found in the magazine online edition.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

From Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2016 and Tuscany, Italy, in 2018, the ’63 mini-reunion “train” pulled into St. Augustine, Florida, April 4-6, when Mike and Jeanne Prince and Bob Silverman organized dinner at the Serenata Beach Club, beach walks, gallery and historical tours, kayaking, even a Beatles tribute concert. Classmates, wives, and friends included Roy Benson, Bud and Marci Weinstein, Bill and Carol Hindle, Alan and Shelley Palmer, Alan and Janet March and Ed andCharlene Mazer.

With Ain’t Too Proud, the new show about the Temptations drawing crowds on New York City’s Broadway, Marty Bowne made his own statement April 26 uptown at The Triad, performing the contra alto parts to The Coasters’ 1959 version of “Along Came Jones” in a cabaret that included John Chamberlin, Tim and Joyce Ratner, Petie Subin,and the show’s producer and director, Paul Binder. Bruce and Patty Baggley were in the audience as pianist (and M.D.) Steve Kurland of Framingham, Massachusetts, rounded off the night with his rendition of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Steve (stkurland@aol.com) will host our annual Tanglewood mini, July 22-23.

Join the ’63 Yale Homecoming mini in Hanover October 11-12, with dinners at Salt Hill Pub on Friday and Jesse’s on Saturday. The class booked rooms at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in White River. Call (802) 299-2700 to reserve.

We are up to 38 classmates and guests expected at Yankee Stadium November 9 to cheer on the Big Green against Princeton. Dave Warr, George Hellick, Joe Shannon, Steve Bank, Barry Linsky, Steve Lister, Roger Parkinson, Armand Villager, and Mike Jarvis have joined the list, according to mini-organizer Chuck Wessendorf. Although advance sales are closed you can purchase tickets for general seating at dartmouthsports.com or by calling (603) 646-2466. Watch the website for a possible get-together.

I caught up with freshman Richardson Hall dormmate and Facebook friend Bill Spencer by phone at his Fox Island beach house on Puget Sound, near Seattle, Washington. It was March, and Bill and Sue were back earlier than usual from their annual winter sojourn in the Mexican Baja Peninsula and looking forward to a possible annual get-together with area classmates Larry Bailey, Sturgess Dorrance, Mike Emerson, Pete Brown, and Rick Wykoff.“The weather was unseasonably cold this year in Baja,” said Bill, whose permanent residence is a 13-acre compound on Fox Island with a beach house (www.foxislandbeachhouse.com), which the Spencers rent out. Bill runs Evergreen Nutritionals, a nutritional supplement company, from his house, selling nutrients wholesale and retail. The Spencers have four children and 11 grandchildren

Jack Huber, investment manager and art collector in Atlanta, recently shot an amazing photo of the steeple of Baker Library through the “pastel hues” of the windows of the historic United Church of Christ at 40 College Street, “gathered” in 1771 by the Rev. Eleazer Wheelock. “The waviness of the glass distorts outside images, creating an aura of modernity,” comments Jack. Write him at huber1050@aol.com.

I regret to report the deaths of Bill Buck, Wheat Allen, Carl Fogelberg, and Pete Slavin.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Our class was proclaimed winner of a recent College-wide mini-reunion attendance competition, which earned a cash award from the Alumni Council and a big congrats from outgoing class president Larry Bailey to Barb and Tom Perry, our former mini-reunion chairs, for laying “the groundwork” over the years “for our successful program.”

The award came on the heels of still another amazing mini-reunion, on a rain-drenched late October Homecoming Weekend with Paul Kappel, Pete Suttmeier, Art Williams, and Bruce Baggley among some 20 diners Friday night at Salt Hill Pub; incoming president Sam Cabot presiding over his first executive committee meeting Saturday morning; Dick Booma, Tom Jester, Tom Kraig, and Dan Muchinsky among a small group braving weather at an exciting football win over Harvard; and Jeff and Taffy Nothnagle, Bill and Sheryl Breetz, Bill and Carol Hindle, and Gil and Debbie Knight joining the contingent of 28 classmates, spouses, and friends for dinner Saturday night at Hinman Forum at Rockefeller Center.

No sooner had that weekend ended than newly appointed mini-reunion chair Chuck Wessendorf was booking our class room block at Holiday Inn Express & Suites in White River Junction, Vermont, for the Yale Homecoming in Hanover October 11-12. Bill and Petie Subin shared gorgeous photos of the class trip to Tuscany, November 8-14, which included Sam and Deamie Cabot, John Lehigh and Melissa Clause, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Steve and Diane Lewinstein, Skip and Carolyn Mattoon, Daryl and Joyce Smith, Gil and Debbie Knight, andMary Lord and friend Karen Tederman.

It is a busy year for the Subins, with Petie preparing for cabaret gigs with Paul Binder at The Triad April 26 in New York City and another May 4 in Cape May, New Jersey, and Bill being named our 60th reunion chair, fresh after winning first place in the New Jersey State Bar Foundation Art Show for his painting, New Orleans Street Band. Paul is coming off knee surgery, which he and Shelley Doctors commemorated with a “ring out the old knee” party in New York that included Paul’s Pi Lam brother Adam Heyman and wife Joanne, who are proud of their children, Gregory ’96, Douglas ’98, and Katherine ’05 and seven grandchildren.

Denny Emerson, one-time Olympic equestrian and renowned rider, teacher, and trainer, has published Know Better to Do Better (Trafalgar Square Publishing), subtitled “Mistakes I Made with Horses (So You Don’t Have To).” The book was featured, with photos of Denny’s storied 60-year career, in The Valley News, the newspaper covering the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont. Denny continues to teach at his indoor ring in Strafford, Vermont.

Joe Attonito, lawyer and chairman of the board of trustees of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, recently announced $2.2 million in grants to explore and preserve history of Long Island and the New York City region. Dick Suett, orthopedic surgeon, completed his 20th year as trustee of Foxcroft Academy, a private school in Dover Foxcroft, Maine.

I regret to report the death of Barry Blackwell.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

This month’s column focuses on two guys who did it their way.

Tom Washing gave up a stable career with an East Coast tax, corporate, and securities law firm in 1985 to move to Boulder, Colorado, where, with little capital of his own, he founded Sequel Venture Partners. One client, the early startup company Pan Theryx, inspired a new book by Tom titled An Unlikely Intervention (Leather Apron Media, July) about Pan Theryx’s battle to eradicate acute infectious diarrhea, the second leading cause of death globally among children aged 5 and under. An Unlikely Intervention is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other sites. With dramatic flair, Tom chronicles the creation of DiaResQ, an inexpensive food-based product, and how Pan Theryx founders Tim and Bimia Starzi got the medicine accepted in India and Guatemala, where the disease has struck hard. Tom served as founding chairman of the University of Colorado Center for Entrepreneurship, chairman of the Colorado Venture Capital Association, and chairman of the University of Michigan technology transfer advisory board. He is a coauthor of Passion for Skiing (2010) and was an assistant film producer of Passion for Snow (2013), the Emmy Award-nominated documentary based on his 2010 book about skiing. Net proceeds from An Unlikely Intervention will be put toward free diarrhea prevention and treatment and access to medical supplies for underserved rural and low-income populations.

Charlie Pugh had a good thing going as officer and director of Wheat, First Securities, a regional investment firm in Richmond, Virginia, and six years as chair of the Richmond City board of education, among many other public service projects, when in 1982 the Tuck School grad and wife Pat decided to pack it all in. The Pughs sold their house and 31-foot sailboat and headed to Mount Desert Island in Maine, where they built a home largely with their own hands. A self-described “corporate dropout,” Charlie took an 80-percent income cut while finding multiple part-time jobs that included serving as a crewmate on sailboats up and down the East Coast and Mississippi River. “I had experienced an epiphany of sorts,” Charlie wrote in our 50th reunion book. “I wanted to know my wife and our two daughters (Sherri and Davonne) better, and I wanted the girls to know me before striking out on their own.” Now married 54 years, the Pughs have six grandchildren, and one of their daughters has returned to build a home next to their parents on part of the original land. These days you can hear Charlie on Maine’s WERU FM Community Radio, streaming on WERU.org, where he is a rotating host of Sunday Morning Coffeehouse, 7 to 10 a.m. playing folk, bluegrass, and Celtic music, and cohost of Front Porch Folk, Tuesdays 9 to 10 a.m., taking requests for old and new songs, especially ones with historically, socially, or politically significant lyrics. Former PBS broadcaster John Merrow is one of his listeners.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Fair warning, there are lots of holes in this story. Dick Friedman, Boston-based developer, and two partners, one a Red Sox owner, the other a restaurateur, purchased Martha’s Vineyard Gourmet Café and Bakery, a.k.a. Back Door Doughnuts, which, says one source, is a “hallowed institution” in the village of Oak Bluffs on the island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where people take their pastry seriously. Up to 250 are said to assemble onsite by 9 p.m. every night. “Literally the back door opens and the doughnuts go flying out the door,” commented John Merrow, a summer resident, who, when he’s not chasing crullers, is taking on the U.S. public education establishment as he did for years at the Public Broadcasting System. According to The Martha’s Vineyard Times, which first broke the story in February, Dick also owns the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has hosted Bill Clinton at his waterfront estate in Edgartown, Massachusetts, and is developing the $125-million Edition hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland. As for the doughnuts, one woman at a town meeting demanded Dick and his partners continue to serve the apple fritters. “That’s how serious it is,” says Merrow.

Three classmates who could not make our 55th in June provided updates.

Pete Wells of Castle Rock, Colorado, who created limited partnerships in retail and office buildings in the Denver area for more than 30 years, retired recently. A record-holding distance runner who served in the intelligence corps in Panama, Pete helps to raise financing for his community’s senior center and recreational facility. Wife Cecilia volunteers at a career education college where she served for 16 years as secretary to the principal. Son Jonathan owns a homecare assistance company and daughter Deborah teaches at a Graded international school in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Don Sauer from Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, is retired from the marketing field now for a decade. He first served the military in Germany, then moved onto sales with “the old” American Can Co. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, relocating for them to Des Moines, Iowa, and eventually Puerto Rico. He went on to earn an M.B.A. from University of Wisconsin that got him to Quaker Oats in Chicago and to Texas for Riviana Foods and Coca-Cola Foods before eventually leaving to do consulting. Don and Mimi, a retired teacher, have son A.J. and daughter Amy, both of whom played soccer at Stanford and, like their dad, are in the business world.

Bob and Virginia Baxley of Birmingham, Alabama, should be en route to Seattle and then to the Canadian Rockies, from where they plan to visit Alaska and the Yukon. Bob retired in 2001 from Monsanto, where he was an industrial engineer since 1973. He began at Eli Lilly & Co. in 1964. The couple has two daughters, Julia and Frances ’99, and four grandchildren, two in the Birmingham area and two in Winnetka, Illinois, where the Baxleys have a condo.

I regret to report the deaths of Bill Bottger, Buck Applegate, Pete Dudley, and Jim Cappio.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201;(917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

A cold, snowy night in Hanover? No, it was on New York’s Upper West Side a week before Christmas—but it may as well have been Hanover when 13 classmates, spouses, and guests climbed the small staircase to the Triad Theater to the intimate cabaret, where the indefatigable circus impresario and ringmaster-turned-entertainer Paul Binder performed duets with three vibrant, talented female singers, including Petie Subin, wife of Bill Subin, providing a preview of what to expect when she and Paul will perform during our 55th reunion in Hanover June 11-14. The ’63 contingent occupied tables in front of the stage, and after the performance we descended to Sevens Turkish Grill below to talk about our lives and family and reminisce about the Dartmouth days over wine, baba ganoush, hummus, chicken Adana, homemade gyros and other delicious plates. Diners included Tom and Connie Clephane (Stamford, Connecticut), Dan and Lee Matyola (Branchburg, New Jersey), Joel Werbel (Warren, New Jersey), Steve Kurland and Erica Goldberg (Framingham, Massachusetts), Bill and Petie Subin (Margate, New Jersey), Harry and Nicole Zlokower (Brooklyn) and Paul Binder and Shelley Doctors (New York City).

In addition to the Binder-Subin performance, the upcoming 55th reunion in Hanover will be filled with activities, including dancing to a Motown band, Gordy and Susan Weir speaking on the latest diabetes research, a special program for women, Dr. Sam Smith ’58 on “Sex and Aging,” an address by President Hanlon, tours and great dining and socializing, culminating with a class banquet on the Alumni Gym lawn. There is also an optional pre-reunion Saturday and SundayMoosilauke Ravine Lodge overnight stay and a special post-reunion extension June 15-16 at the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont, featuring a New England clam bake, Texas barbecue, boating, swimming, hiking and golf.

As of December, 60 classmates were pre-registered for the 55th, including Doug Bell, Ted Morehouse, Steve Spahn, Vaughn Skinner, Alan March, Mike Losee, Joel Jutkowitz, Dick Ahlstrand, Bud Bruggeman, Dennis Eagle, Richard Edelson, Bill Hindle, Freeman Ford, Randy Fields and Jim Ferguson.For further information go to the Dartmouth class of ’63 web page.

The annual Tanglewood on Parade is scheduled for August 6-7, according to mini-reunion chair Sam Cabot. The event includes performances of works by Ravel, Gershwin and Tchaikovsky, reserved rooms at the Seven Hills Inn and class dinners both nights. Check the class website for details.

Having served as class vice president and organizer of many successful mini-reunions, Sam Cabot was nominated by the executive committee in December to be our next class president, succeeding Larry Bailey, who served so well these many years. Other approved officers are Ed Mazer and Dan Muchinsky, vice presidents; Bill Russell, treasurer; and Harry Zlokower, secretary. The nominees would take office, subject to approval of the entire class membership, at the conclusion of the 55th reunion in June.

I regret to report the deaths of Robert Wagstaff, Alex Bass and Jon Loomis, which marks 172 classmates reported deceased, according to numbers provided by newsletter editor Dave Schaefer.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Drawing big interest from ’63s is Dartmouth vs. Brown, Friday night, November 10, at Boston’s Fenway Park. Dave Schaefer and Chuck Wessendorf, owner of a herculean streak of Dartmouth games attended, expect to be on the Brown 50-yard line, where they say viewing is better. You may be able to join them by calling the Red Sox ticket office at (877) 733-7699, and pressing one on prompt.

Otherwise save it for our 55th reunion in Hanover June 11-14 with a special extension June 15-16 at the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont. The class room block at the Hanover Inn may still have room and you also can try the Element Hanover Lebanon and Lyme Inn. Accommodations are available at local motels and dorms. For June 11-14 in Hanover reunion chair Ed Mazer lined up a Motown band, a cabaret evening hosted by Paul Binder, Gordy and Susan Weir speaking on latest diabetes research, Petie Subin and Claire Cabot with a special program for women and Dr. Sam Smith ’58 rendering his advice on “Sex and Aging.” Meet President Hanlon and tour new campus buildings. At Lake Morey June 15-16 enjoy an old-fashioned New England clam bake, Texas barbecue, boating, swimming and hiking. Keep an eye on our class website and email.

Mini-reunion last spring in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, included Roy and Betty Benson, Bill and Carol Hindle, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Howard Nannen, Ralph and Nancy Sanders, Hank Smith, Mike and Jeanne Prince, and Bob Silverman and Barbara Berlin.

Twenty classmates, spouses and friends attended our Tanglewood mini in Massachusetts featuring sumptuous dinners and a cocktail reception hosted by Sam and Deamie Cabot. Other ’63s on hand were Chuck Wessendorf, Tom Berardino, Jeff Nothnagle, Bill Russell, Paul Binder, Steve Rosen, Steve Kurland, Barry Linsky and Pete Suttmeier. Boston Symphony, Boston Pops and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra performed.

Jack Watts, retired director of the New York Fire Safety Institute, now living in Middlebury, Vermont, agreed with the consensus in last issue’s column that the Dartmouth Bible “was required reading in the first-year English course. Some 40 years later I used it as a reference in preparing prefatory remarks for reading scripture at our local church,” remarked Jack.

Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education by John Merrow is in bookstores and on Amazon. (See a review on page 64.) Earlier John upheld the tradition of biking his age on his birthday, going 76 miles at 12.4 miles per hour with his daughter, Elise. Mike and Jeanne Prince upheld their own tradition of biking 25 miles to raise money for cancer research at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Steve Nazro was subject of an article in The Boston Globe on the occasion of his retirement as vice president of event scheduling at TD Garden, successor to the Boston Garden, where he began his productive 50-year career.

I regret to report the deaths of Chuck Applegate February 13 and Bobby Wilson May 15, reported in the class of ’63 newsletter.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

A seemingly simple question emailed by Alumni Council representative Bob Bysshe to the class executive committee on May 31 at 11:48 p.m. stirred riveting dialogue during the ensuing 24-plus hours. The question from Rick Asher, professor of art history at University of Minnesota, asked in effect, whether the Dartmouth Bible was required reading in our freshman year.

Easy? Yes, if you were required to take English I, like me and others. But for some classmates it was more complicated. “Even though I have a Dartmouth Bible, I do not remember ever using it for any course,” Dave Schaefer, our unofficial class historian, responded. “I remember it well. It was part of a required freshman English course,” wrote the Rev. Ken Kvistad. “I personally found it very confusing and giving a very distorted biblical perspective.”

Bob Chavey, Tom Kraig and Dan Muchinsky agreed the Dartmouth Bible was required in English I. Marty Bowne remembers only Chaucer in his class; Tom Jester believes everyone had to take English I, while George Hellick thinks he used the Dartmouth Bible for Religion I. Jim Clouser and Rick Asher discovered they were in the same English I class and the last word arrived Friday, June 2, at 1:14 a.m. from Steve Brenner, who, we hope, was not pulling an all-nighter. “Thanks to Dan Muchinsky,” Steve wrote, “for providing an honorable rationale for my fading brain’s failure to remember the Dartmouth Bible.”

You can stimulate your brain and share your memories with classmates at Homecoming mini-reunion in Hanover October 6-8, featuring dinners, parties and the game against Yale. For more information, contact Sam Cabot, scabot@me.com, (978) 927-2333 or Dan Muchinsky, dmuchinsky@earthlink.net, (603) 469-3593.

Mike Cardozo, who served as deputy counsel to President Jimmy Carter, was quoted in The New York Times on potential benefits President Trump’s renewal of the EB-5 visa program will bring to Kushner Cos. EB-5 offers permanent residence to affluent foreigners who invest in real estate projects and is a cheap source of money for project owners. “It’s just one more dilemma that a family with vast commercial interest has when relatives are in the federal government, particularly the White House,” said Mike, whose Carter administration had problems related to the president’s brother, Billy.

Lee Bateman retired from private medical practice in Port Jefferson, New York, while working part-time at the Stony Brook University Student Health Services. Lee recently spent “a wonderful day” with Jim Leavitt visiting from Hawaii. “We played golf and had a nice dinner,” said Lee. “His daughter, Jocelyn, and my son, Brad, are friends and live in Brooklyn, New York, so we all get together on occasion.”

Brooklyn is where I live, a block from Frank and Lisa Wohl. Recently Frank started walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and then picking up the subway to Lankler Siffert & Wohl, his 35-year-old commercial, regulatory and white-collar criminal law firm. After joining him once, I have two words—magnificent and exhilarating—and the exercise is good too. Go, Dartmouth.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

If you are making summer plans, consider Buster Welch’s legendary fishing mini at Kasba Lake Lodge in the subarctic wilds of Canada July 6-10. We are talking grayling, northern pike and lake trout that are big and abundant. Email Buster at buster@fishquilt.com or call (204) 738-4900. On August 1 our fourth annual Tanglewood class mini will feature the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops and dinner at the historic Red Lion Inn. Your contact is Sam Cabot, scabot@cabotfamily.com, (978) 927-2333.

Our much-anticipated 75th birthday bash last October in Santa Fe, New Mexico, exceeded expectations as some 100 classmates and guests toured galleries, visited Pueblo Indian cliff dwellings and experienced “a blue and beautiful sky.” “There were jewelry stores that could make you berserk,” joked Deamie Cabot, and, “Everyone was just so friendly,” remarked Patty Baggaley. The event was capped by a surprise visit to a class cocktail party from Mayor Javier Gonzales with an official proclamation of October 14, 2016, as “Dartmouth in Santa Fe Day.”

It was back to “sharp and misty mornings” October 28-30, when an enthusiastic group of 35 or so dined and discussed class business, cheered on Dartmouth, partied at Dan Muchinsky’s and breakfasted at the Hanover Inn.

At our weekend executive committee meeting (there was one in Santa Fe too), Ed Mazer,co-chair of 55th reunion in 2018, discussed logistics and sought volunteers. Tom Perry announced his retirement after four years chairing our award-winning mini-reunion program.

Other key items of business: Several letters from our board to President Hanlon proposing the College combine discipline with conciliation in dealing with campus protests and urging adoption of a statement of principles of free expression, as published by the University of Chicago; in-person testimony from scholars and athletes who receive class funding; and a presentation by Tracy Dustin-Eichler, new director of Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS), which our class also helps to finance and to provide mentors such as Bob Phillips, nonprofit executive who works with Dartmouth’s San Francisco nonprofit leadership program.

Gordy Weir, a physician who mentors DPCS interns at Boston Community Health, was honored with his wife, Susan Bonner-Weir, also a physician, with the 2016 Global Achievement Award given by the Joslin Diabetes Center.

Fred Jarrett, a vascular and general surgeon in Pittsburgh, has published a new book, To Fruit Street and Beyond: The Massachusetts General Hospital Surgical Residency, his recollections of training at Massachusetts General Hospital, which, according to the book’s website, www.fredricjarrettmd.com, was at the time “the most sought-after surgical training program in the United States.” “This book is not an autobiography,” said Fred. It is about training at the end of an era, “when general surgery was predominant and all-inclusive.”

Paul Binder and chanteuse Dana Mierlak charmed a sell-out crowd with song, dance and patter in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Room in December that included Steve Kurland and wife Erika with son Scott; Joel Werbel; Paul’s partner, Shelley Doctors; and Harry and Nicole Zlokower. Stephen Macht’s Moral Change: A Tragedy or A Return? How Aristotle’s Tragic Reversal Illuminates Maimonides Teshuva is out in paperback on Amazon.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162, harry@zlokower.com

Winemaking was not a required course for ’63s and, in fact, not even an elective, to my recollection. But that did not deter Linc Wolverton, an English major, from learning whatever he could during studies in Dijon, France, where his host family owned a vineyard that made “very good” house-made Burgundian wines, according to an article this past summer in the Oregon Wine Press. Later in the Army, Linc’s French fluency landed him again in Burgundy, another factor that induced him and wife Joan, a former Seattle Times reporter, to launch the Salishan Vineyards in La Center, Washington, in 1971. Their pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, Riesling and chenin blanc received distinguished reviews, the article noted. Joan was occupied with growing and making the wine while Linc, a University of Washington economics Ph.D., commuted to nearby Portland, Oregon. The Wolvertons paved the way for future wine growers in Washington in learning to deal with the challenges of weather and soil as well as the fallout from the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, the article notes. The Wolvertons closed the winery and retired from the business in 2006, although Linc still takes on consulting assignments.

As writer, director and cinematographer for commercials, rock videos, video games, theatrical features, adventure films and IMAX movies, you might say Peter Israelson has seen it all, but nothing may compare with his work with the great Muhammad Ali, who died last June. They spent two weeks, even roomed together, barnstorming Alaska in a shoot for Ford Motor parts. It was one of the few instances, according to Peter, that Ali had been anywhere at the time without handlers, “so Alaska on his own was jaw-dropping to Ali. He loved to play pranks, especially on me,” said Peter, who got his chance for retaliation when he hired a “giant of a man in massive fur and bloody claws” to surprise and chase Ali around the film set. “Peter, you’re a marked man now! You’re never gonna rest. I’m gonna get my revenge,” Ali warned him and for years after, he’d call Peter from airports around the world to pretend payback, “which never happened, of course,” said Peter. “When we left Alaska after the production Ali delayed our flight for hours by kissing every single baby on the 747. No one minded,” said Peter. “He was that charismatic and loving. That shoot was one of the great privileges of my life.”

Michael and Jeanne Prince participated in their 31st consecutive Prouty Century Bike Ride, July 9, to raise money for cancer research at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Jeanne was diagnosed and successfully treated for Merkel cell carcinoma in 2011. Richard Enholm, Dave Schwartz and Dave’s brother-in-law, Ed Feinberg, reported a wonderful time at Buster Welch’s fishing mini at Kasba Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories in July. Before leaving, the group gathered at the home of Buster’s son, Courtney, for a presentation on the Canadian Arctic and then adjourned for “pizza half a block away.”

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Some didn’t get all the snow they needed, others got the rain they never expected. Still, mini-reunions in Stowe, Vermont, and two in Florida came off as promised with all of the excitement and good fellowship that a party of spirited ’63s can muster.

At Trapp Family Lodge the weekend of February 29-March 2, Sam and Deamie Cabot, Johannes and Lynn von Trapp, Daryl and Joy Smith with grandson Steven, Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes and Joe Shannon got to ski the mountain, despite the lack of snow for cross-country, and enjoy great amenities, food and, from what we hear, were some hot political discussions.

A few weeks later, March 18-20, at Harbour Ridge in south Florida, golf was rained out but Daryl Smith got to play host on Friday and Bob and Beth Bysshe on Saturday to lively parties that included Langdon and Carol Scott, Chuck and Mary Ellen Wessendorf, Art and Sandra Williams, Keel and Penny Jones, Bob and Joyce Humboldt, Peter and Michelle Hollingworth, Debbie and Gil Knight, Norris and Willie Siert, John Leigh, Reg Jones and Bruce Nichols.

To the northeast of the state, April 1-4, bad weather forced the cancelation of an outing on Pete Israelson’s speed boat, but not the company, wine and camaraderie. Early birds Howard Nannen, Bud and Marcie Weinstein,and Mike and Jeanne Prince dined at Black Fly in St. Augustine Friday, and were joined by Roy and Betty Benson, Bill and Carol Hindle, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Ralph Saunders, Bob Silverman and Barbara Berlin, and Hank Smith at dinners on Saturday and Sunday, one of them prepared by Jeanne Prince.

If you want to get in on the fun, there is plenty coming up, starting with Buster Welch’s fishing mini at the Kasba Lake Lodge in the Northwest Territories, Canada, July 22-26, and continuing with Tanglewood on Parade organized by Sam Cabot August 1-2; Major League Baseball in Nationals Park, Washington, D.C., September 12 (Chip Bohlinger); in Yankee Stadium, New York City, September 27 (Paul Binder, Dan Matyola); in AT&T Park, San Francisco, September 30 (Howard and Cheryl Neff); and in Fenway Park, Boston, September 30 (Gordon and Susan Weir). Plus the 75th birthday bash in Santa Fe, New Mexico (Ed Mazer and Petie Subin), and Harvard Homecoming in Hanover October 28-30 featuring dinners, parties, meeting and football (Sam Cabot). For further information on all of the above, go to the class page at www.dartmouth.edu. Click on “alumni” and “classes.”

Tom Richards has been elected to the board of managers of the Youth and Family Services YMCA of Santa Barbara, California, which provides safe and supportive programs and environments to high-risk youth. The YMCA had a significant influence on Tom while growing up in Chicago. Retired from a nearly 40-year career at Northwestern Mutual, Tom and Sue, an attorney, are active in volunteerism including Social Venture Partners, a nonprofit that provides funding and business consulting to other nonprofits. Tom is a certified counselor for SCORE, the Small Business Administration volunteer arm helping businesses.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

With its southwestern vistas and pueblo ruins, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a classic destination. Still many of us never got to visit the city that was home to Georgia O’Keeffe and filled with so much history. That is until October 14-18, when the class celebrates our 75th birthdays at a hotel resort in historic downtown. There will be tours, including the Georgia O’Keeffe museum, day trips to Taos and Abiquliu, where Georgia O’Keeffe lived, and a visit to Puye Cliffs, which since the late 1100s was home to Pueblo Indians, ancestors of present-day Santa Clara Pueblo people. You can take a Southwestern cooking class, enjoy a cowboy barbecue and even sip cocktails at the home of Steve Lister. To join the class for this memorable trip, go to www.dartmouth.org/classes/63 and click on “75th Birthday Bash in Santa Fe.” Nearly 100 classmates, spouses and partners have made reservations, including Tom and Evelyn Steiner, Steve and Lillian Frank, Tom and Charlene Berardino, Daryl and Joy Smith, Bob Silverman and Barbra Berlin and Al and Janet March. Don’t miss out! For questions, email co-organizer Ed Mazer at ed@themazers.com.

If you cannot make Santa Fe or even if you can, here are more great activities coming up in other parts of North America: March 18-19, social and golf weekend at the Harbour Ridge Yacht & Golf Country Club, Palm City, Florida. Contact Bob Bysshe, rebysshe@aol.com. July 1-6 or July 5-10, depending on demand, fishing for grayling, northern Pike larger than four feet and lake trout up to 50 pounds at Kasba Lake Lodge in the Northwest Territories, Canada, two and a half hours by plane from Winnipeg. Contact Buster Welch, buster@fishquilt.com. August 1-2, Ravel, Tchaikovsky (“1812 Overture”) and more at Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops; includes class dinner at historic Red Lion Inn and fireworks. Contact Sam Cabot, scabot@cabotfamily.com or Tom Perry, a.thomas.perry@gmail.com. And October 28-30, Harvard Homecoming in Hanover featuring dinners, parties, meeting and football. Contact Sam Cabot per above.

Steve Swirsky, Adam Heyman, Joel Werbel, Steve Kurland and family members came out in December to see Paul Binder figuratively risk his life, singing Danny Kaye and show tune favorites at the Metropolitan Room in New York. Also in town that week from Lexington, Kentucky, to visit grandchildren and enjoy their Greenwich Village pied-a-terre were Mike and Gloria Rie. A month earlier Paul Binder, a designated landmark himself, hosted the annual Living Landmarks Gala at New York’s Plaza ballroom for Joel Gray and Bernadette Peters, among others. Did you see Dave Schaefer’s great-niece and cooking prodigy Elizabeth Oakes, aged 12, on the Food Network in December? Jeff Lapic, recently divorced and retired lawyer in northern California, happily focuses on grandchildren, travel and movies. Former Newsday police columnist Len Levitt now plies that beat for newspaper amNewYork. Ken Kvistad, Anglican minister in Switzerland, was named class liaison to families of departed classmates.

I am sorry to report the deaths of Lloyd Roberts and Ken Foran.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

Our class was on fire during the dog days of July when little seems to happen. Early in the month we presented a gift of $500, joining 40 classes to give support to the $12.5 million renovation at Memorial Stadium. In recent years classmates Doug Floren (Floren Varsity House) and Steve Lewinstein (new HD video scoreboard) have made major gifts. The class was recognized in the 2015 Dartmouth football program and on a permanent plaque dedicated in November.

Then in what seemed a sequel to the Lakers’ acquisition of Indiana Pacers all-star center Roy Hibbert earlier in July, we were informed that our contribution to the Dartmouth athletic sponsor program helped recruit women’s basketball guard Kealy Brown of Las Vegas as an early-decision candidate in the class of 2019.

And finally came icing on the cake. President Larry Bailey informed the class executive committee July 31 that Mary Lord, widow of Dan Watts, who died of lung cancer in 1973, had been unanimously voted our newest honorary class member, joining more than a dozen ’63 wives and partners who already have that designation. A graduate of the Thayer School of Engineering and member of Alpha Delta Phi, Dan was best known by many as an outstanding crew member who won a silver medal in the Pan American games in 1963, partnering with Bob Brayton ’64 in a pair without coxswain. He left as legacy a shell, the Dan Watts, which Mary christened at our 10th reunion and in which their daughter, Margaret ’91, rowed in her freshman year.

Keeping with the theme of celebrity comparisons, TV personalities PBS education correspondent John Merrow and Daily Show host Jon Stewart both retired in the summer. Okay, so Merrow did not generate as much press and cameos from Chris Christie and Stephen Colbert, but he did put out the news on his new blog, The Merrow Report, themerrowreport.com/2015/07/31/i-am-retiring. “How lucky am I?” asked John, who also founded Learning Matters, a nonprofit producer of news reports, documentaries and video production training programs for children who might not have had the opportunity. “Forty-one years of digging into America’s most important activity and the great privilege of trying to explain it to an intelligent and caring audience.” And in New York, another giant of the nonprofit world, Big Apple circus founder (now retired) Paul Binder will perform in cabaret December 5 at the Metropolitan Room, with proceeds going to the circus’ community programs. Paul and Shelley were in Hanover in July, when Paul taught his seminar, “Ritual, Theater, Circus.”

In April Princess Anne inducted ’63 Soaring Pine winner Tom McInerny of Honeoye Falls, New York, as an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Pediatrics and Child Health in the United Kingdom. Tom is retired as professor and associate chair of the department of pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center and immediate past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, where he spearheaded a program calling for a ban on assault weapons.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com

On June 21, 1982, John W. Hinckely was found not guilty by reason of insanity for his attempt in the previous year to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. The trial and verdict produced an outcry that led Congress and some states to revise laws or abolish the insanity defense. The trial also put the spotlight on Roger Adelman, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted Hinckley in, by Roger’s own account, “a unique case in that there were very few insanity cases of this magnitude that had this kind of financial support and lawyering on both sides.” Now a lawyer in Washington, D.C., Roger was named the 2015 recipient of the Justice Potter Stewart Award by the Council for Court Excellence. From 1979 to 1981 Roger prosecuted Richard Kelly, a Florida congressman videotaped taking bribe money in the famous Abscam trials, named for an FBI sting operation that also inspired the 2013 Academy Award nominee American Hustle.


Brad Denny fulfilled a longtime goal when he won a fourth term on the town select board as a supporter of merging the Town and Village of Northfield, Vermont. The merger was accomplished after a yearlong campaign, which ended with resounding public and state approval of a new town charter, effective July 1, 2014. The merger combines the village’s electric, water and sewer utilities with the tax-supported functions of the town to create a much stronger municipality. Northfield is located 50 miles northwest of Hanover (at I-89, Exit 5) and is best known as the home of Norwich University, now evolved from an all-male military institution of 600 students to a coed institution of 2,400 students with a broad range of academic programs. Brad spent a dozen years in the newspaper business and then three as Norwich University director of public relations before assuming responsibility for Denny family properties. In 2004 he designed and built his own house. Brad and Mary have children Joseph, Heather and Nathan ’88 and four grandchildren.


Bob Gitt, whose interest in broadcast and film began as technical director of WDCR, is producing a noteworthy DVD series on the history of sound and motion pictures with funding by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, among others. Bob retired in 2005 as head of film preservation at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, where he had worked since 1977. In his retirement he continues to restore films, including The Red Shoes, a 1948 British film about the history of ballet directed by Michael Powell. After college Bob worked for Dartmouth Film Society director Blair Watson for seven years. He lives in Studio City, California.


Wally Roberts has been named Network Fellow at Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard and is working on a book on the failure of regulation to reduce neglect and abuse in nursing homes. Class president Larry Bailey announced Bob Bysshe will be our next class Alumni Council representative, succeeding Bruce Coggeshall.


I regret to report the deaths of Jim Bieneman and David Boldt.


—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com


Class activity is not only about fun, nostalgia and college giving. A great deal of time and money goes into helping current and future students through support of scholarship, athletic and internship programs. We call it “investing in people.” 


Under the stewardship of Marty Bowne, our scholarship fund annually helps deserving students including Jennifer Dalecki ’15, a government major and art history minor who studied in Rome and London and writes and edits for The Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Law Journal; James Verhagen ’16 from Johannesburg, South Africa, a computer science and economics major with plans to work in software development or finance; Carter Bastian ’17, Spokane, Washington, a computer science student and member of D-Style, a freestyle rap group; and Angela Liu ’17, who studies acting and is a Thursday night salsa enthusiast. 


Our class projects, managed by Bruce Baggaley, help to defray recruitment expenses for coaches and athletic prospects and sponsor and mentor student internships at community service and healthcare programs. At Bruce’s urging, the executive board voted to increase gifts to Dartmouth athletic sponsors and the Tucker Foundation from $4,000 to $8,000.


Bill Wellstead, who runs our class athletic sponsor program, introduced four recent ’63 recruits: Cody Fullerton ’16, defensive tackle (No. 52), a student of Japanese language from Seattle, Washington; Janine Leger ’15, a field hockey captain from Johannesburg, South Africa, who chose Dartmouth over Harvard and Princeton; Karen Chaw ’17, environmental studies major and softball player renowned for her scrappy at-bats; and Evan Key ’18, the all-time leading lacrosse point scorer from Pingry School, Short Hills, New Jersey, whose dad played football and lacrosse at Dartmouth.


Some of us have chosen investing in people as their life’s work, such as Chris and Sharon Ryan of Toms River, New Jersey, who for the past 20 years have served as chaplain, teacher and volunteer minister to thousands of male and female prison inmates from white collar criminals to gun dealers and sex offenders. Their volunteer program, Safe Harbor Ministries (www.safeharborministry.org), mentors and helps guide prisoners through re-entry to society, a rigorous, personal training program focusing on education, mental and emotional health, decision-making, non-specific spirituality, relationships, wellness, responsibility and, yes, leisure. A former teacher, Chris met Sharon in 1991, joined her in volunteer prison ministry work and has never looked back. Their ministry is sponsored by four churches and currently focuses on two federal prisons in New Jersey. “Former inmates love to visit and take us out,” says Chris who has three children. “Last week a family brought us homemade tortillas.” 


Bill Subin, Margate City, New Jersey, received the 2014 Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law. A sole practitioner, Bill was an assistant U.S. attorney, chair of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s committee on unauthorized practice and currently serves on the advisory board for paralegal education for Atlantic Cape Community College.


I am sorry to report the deaths of William Janes, Lee Tebbetts, Ted Aller, Steve Scott and Jim McAllister.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York City, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292, ext. 17; harry@zlokower.com


Accolades for class lawyers: Bob Wagstaff published Terror Detentions and the Rule of Law: US and UK Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2014), an outgrowth of his Oxford doctoral thesis. The book alleges President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair failed to protect the human rights of individuals suspected of terrorist activity after 9/11. “Outrages happened before in war on an individual basis, but it’s never been official policy,” Bob told the University of Kansas Law Magazine, referring to a policy of torturing prisoners and detainment at Guantanamo without charge. Bob earned his University of Kansas law degree in 1966 and, after a stint in Kansas, moved to Alaska and opened an office in Fairbanks. He now maintains his office in Anchorage, Alaska.


New York criminal lawyer Frank Wohl received the Federal Bar Council’s Seymour Award for public service by a private law practitioner. The award is named after Whitney North Seymour, a prominent lawyer and father of Dean Thaddeus Seymour. Jerry Uram, partner and former practice group chair in the New York City law firm of Davis & Gilbert, was included for the fifth straight year in the Best Lawyers in America guide.


Jerry Ashworth of Cape Neddick, Massachusetts, may be best known for winning a gold medal on the U.S. 4-by-100-meter relay team in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He is also an experienced sailor. I caught up with him by phone as he was sitting on a pavement outside a U-Haul waiting for a trailer hitch to tow his old boat collection. Retired for 11 years from General Metals & Smelting Co., Jerry has sailed during his life from Maine to Bermuda. He celebrated his 49th wedding anniversary with Jeanne in July. The couple has two sons and four grandchildren.


Bruce Nichols, Northfield, Illinois, recalls laughingly how back in 1988 he learned of his appointment as chair of our 25th reunion. “I read about it in the newsletter,” he said. Bruce is retired 10 years now from a 40-year career in commercial and investment banking in New York City and Chicago. He spends two or three months in Florida and likes reading, golf and volunteering. He and Penny have two children and two grandchildren.


There still may be time to reserve for the three-day class mini-reunion, March 3-5, hosted by Johannes and Lynne von Trapp at the Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, Vermont. There will be opportunity for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing at the lodge and downhill skiing at nearby Mount Mansfield. For rates and availability, call or email Tom Perry (603) 298-6034, a.thomas.perry@gmail.com, for info.


On the volunteer front: Ed Mazer assists the College with class websites. Tom Perry has been promoted to co-chair of ’63 mini-reunions. Mike and Jeanne Prince rode in July in the 33rd Annual Prouty Century Bike Ride and Fitness Walk for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. 


I regret to report the deaths of Jeff Fletcher, Michael Geller and Luke Edgar.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York City, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com


Beginning with the Tanglewood concert mini-reunion this August 5, mini-reunion coordinator Tom Perry plans events at all home football games in 2014, another at Princeton November 22 and golf weekends, at least one ski outing and meet-ups at Collegewide programs around the country in 2015.


Class sales of Tanglewood seats have closed, but you may be able to buy tickets in other sections. You are invited to a class cocktail party at the home of Dick and Carole Berkowitz in Lenox, Massachusetts, prior to the event. Call or email Tom Perry at (603) 298-6034 or a.thomas.perry@gmail.com.


Class reserved rooms at the Marriott Residence Inn in Lebanon, New Hampshire, are sold out for Homecoming, October 17-19, but another block is reserved at the White River Inn & Suites, White River Junction, Vermont. Reference “Tom Perry Group” or “Class of 63.” Mini-reunion chairs Sam Cabot and Dan Muchinsky have another great weekend planned. Contact the Dartmouth football office for tickets in the class section. And there are class rooms set aside at the Marriott in Lebanon for all other home games in 2014. Bill and Pat Russell will host the Princeton mini-reunion, Princeton, New Jersey, November 22.


In the whole of 2013 through the first quarter of 2014 Tom Perry and crew helped arrange 23 minis with an aggregate attendance of 277. There were golf mini-reunions in Palm Desert, California, February 25; Sarasota, Florida, February 27-March 2; and Palm City, Florida, March 7-9. 


In Palm Desert were Vin DiFiglia, Doug Cooper, Steve Frank, Howard Culver, Steve Lister and Howard Neff; in Sarasota Willie and Norris Siert, Kathy and Jay Olin, Ensign Cowell, Ed and Mary Wirth and Mike and Peggy Losee; and in Palm City, Daryl and Joy Smith, Bob and Beth Bysshe, Sully and Mary Sullivan, John Kubacki, Art Williams and son Artie, Peter and Michelle Hollingworth and John and Missy Lehigh.


A mini-ski weekend in Vail, Colorado, February 27-March 2, attracted Ralph Lachenmaier, Sarah and Fred Jones, Michele and David Halstead, Jim and Ginny Page and Dick Friedman. 


Second quarter 2014 was kicked off with a Dartmouth on Location mini at a program of Shakespeare plays, lectures, tours and meals hosted by David Goodwillie and Gil Knight April 25-April 27 at Blackfriars Playhouse, Staunton, Virginia. This was followed by a President Hanlon Dartmouth alumni club reception May 6 in Seattle hosted by Rick Wyckoff, Mike Emerson, Michael Herschensohn, Bill Spencer and Mike Jarvis. John Chamberlin was on the guest list for a president’s reception May 10 in Denver. 


Tom Perry is anticipating a fun-filled season in 2015 highlighted with a ski and snowshoe week at the Johannes Van Trapp’s Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, in early March.


Ed Mazer and Petie Subin (Bill) are putting together “The Great Rivers of Europe,” May 7-22, 2015, a class cruise on the Rhine, Main and Danube, which has been endorsed by seasoned travelers Steve Frank, Richard Danziger, Jeff Weaver and Nick Carney. There still may be time to sign up by calling (800) 597-2452 or writing Ed at ed@themazers.com.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York City, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com 


Another trustees and alumni association election has come and gone and this one like others had its share of commotion—which in the end is a good thing because it gets more of us to pay attention to how the College is run and how we choose the folks who run it. Our little sparkler began following a letter to all ’63s from Marty Bowne, Alumni Council representative, urging us to vote and expressing preference for Alumni Council-nominated candidates versus petition candidates. This did not sit well with Pete DeForth, who fired off several protesting e-mails to Larry Bailey, our president, who, in turn, got to hear different points of view from executive committee members. Larry and Pete aired it out online with Larry holding that Marty’s actions were in line with his council role and our class constitution. Notwithstanding, Stu Richards, ex-Marine, father of two alumni, husband of a Dartmouth teacher and himself a developer at Killington and Sugarbush, was an unsuccessful petition candidate for the Association of Alumni executive council.

Far from it all Bob Silverman and Barbara Berlin and Mike and Jeanne Prince, Richardson Hall roommates and now neighbors in a Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, condo complex, hosted a mini-reunion with Ralph and Nancy Sanders. Ralph lived across the hall and now owns a home in St. Augustine Beach, Florida. They were joined by Howard and Janet Nannen of Brunswick, Maine. Missing were Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan, who could not make it, and Jimmy Fox, who died of cancer in 1970 but “who often fantasized about getting together 50 years after graduation and reminiscing about our time together,” reports Bob, who is in touch with Jane Fox, now married to Jim Anderson. Ralph is retired from teaching and administration at Syracuse University. Over in Palm City, Florida, Art and Sandra Williams, Bob and Joyce Humboldt, Daryl and Joy Smith and Bob and Beth Bysshe enjoyed golf at Harbor Ridge and dinner at Bonefish Mac’s.

Was the unidentified truck driver pictured in a Crain’s New York Business story on online grocer Fresh Direct really company president Rick Braddock? “I’m afraid so,” e-mailed Rick. “I tried to keep my gray hair hidden but it didn’t work.” Next stop reality TV’s Undercover Boss? Jeff and Gerri Lapic celebrated their 25th anniversary with daughter Teresa and family in Paris followed by a week in Marsillargue in Provence. Peter and Susan Rollins have moved to a patio home for retirees in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Our bonding with the class of 2013—in preparation for our 50th celebration in 2013—continues. The ’63 class scholar Ben Spero ’13 writes that he loves the College and is “forever grateful” to our class for helping to make his Dartmouth education a reality. Now with the “Great Issues” program being restored, 50th reunion chair Tom Jester proposes we empty our closets of those blow-lunch wide ties and gift them to the class of 2013. The women could wear them as belts or around their head, he says.

—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com

Larry Bailey, our class president, flew from Seattle and was delayed in D.C., so he flew to Boston and then to Manchester, winding up in Hanover at midnight on Thursday. Dave Schaefer drove three hours through torrential rains Saturday morning. Dick Swett took the five-hour scenic route from the north of Maine. Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes came a short distance from the south. Mike and Jeanne Prince drove a few miles from the north. And so it went. More than two dozen ’63s, many with spouses, converged on Hanover for our annual Homecoming mini and they were not disappointed.


From Friday dinner at the Canoe Club through Sunday breakfast at the Hanover Inn, classmates discussed family, travel, work and retirement, books and plays, the economy, healthcare reform and the most burning question, “Could Dartmouth end its 17-game losing streak?”


Steve Kardon, still beaming after wedding Ellen Sulkin in Boston, carried the ’63 sign in the parade on Main Street ahead of Keel and Penny Jones, Bob Haubrich and Marilyn Boyd, Tom and Peggy Kraig, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Bruce and Patty Baggaley, Jim and Heidi Clouser, Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan and Bruce and Phyllis Coggeshall. Victory was in the air. 


Special projects and scholarships and our 50th reunion June 7-9, 2013, headed the agenda Saturday morning in the Treasure Room of Baker Library. We were visited by two members of the class of ’13 and an ’11, all beneficiaries of this year’s ’63 scholarship fund. We voted to continue funding an athletic scholarship and Dartmouth Partners for Community Service program. Bruce Baggaley offered to outline a program on how—while others invest in monuments and buildings—’63s invest in people. Terry Russell became our new Webmaster. Tom Jester will chair our 50th reunion. Ed Mazer is spearheading an effort to assemble content for the 50th reunion book.


Rain began to fall as we headed for the stadium. Friends of Dartmouth Football served up a delightful buffet in a nearby tent. Rain started to come down harder, but it did not prevent the game from proceeding nor did it deter some hardy ’63s, Dave Schaefer and Larry Bailey included, from hanging on till the sweet end: Dartmouth’s first victory after 17 straight losses.


The celebration continued Saturday night at the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes in beautiful Plainfield, New Hampshire. DKE brothers Steve Kardon and Hank Rogers caught up with each other. Gordy and Susan Weir were there, as were Bob Chavey and Kerry Nix, Dick and Pam Booma, Terry Russell and Diane Ames, Tom and Pat Jester, Steve and Diana Lewinstein and Bob and Kappy Berenbroick. Chuck Wessendorf was relieved about the football outcome, having attended many Dartmouth home games in the last two years. Breakfast at the Hanover Inn found a relaxed contingent of Sam and Deamie Cabot, Bill and Pat Russell, Steve and Ellen Kardon, Larry Bailey and Dick Swett enjoying waffles and eggs and sharing travel experiences in Chile and Turkey.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com


A major issue in the national healthcare debate is how hospitals and doctors allocate resources to keep seriously ill patients alive and how such allocations are balanced between private and public needs. The Hippocratic Oath, Nuremberg Code, Karen Quinlan case, Dartmouth Atlas Project and Sarah Palin “death panels” are often cited in the discussion.


Mike Rie, professor of anesthesiology/surgery at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, has made a career of studying the issue and was recognized for his efforts with the 2009 Grenvik Family Award for Ethics by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. A former Harvard professor and Mass General physician, Mike has published extensively, including a 1986 breakthrough paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the ethics of resource allocation in intensive care units. Mike’s questioning stance has won him supporters and detractors, but he remains dedicated to the field. Nicole and I had the pleasure of seeing Mike and Gloria at their lovely pied-a-terre apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village. A native New Yorker, Mike comes periodically to visit family and friends and take a break from the calmer lifestyle of Lexington, where he has lived since the 1980s. Gloria, Mike’s bride of 18 years, hails from Manhattan and Scarsdale, New York. Mike is writing a book on his personal experiences. 


Rick Braddock, chairman and CEO of Fresh Direct, the grocery home-delivery service, was guest of young Dartmouth alumni entrepreneurs at the home of Hermann ’87 and Peggy Mazard in the Carroll Manor neighborhood of Brooklyn. Rick was there to advise on how he invests in growing businesses. His best tip? “If you have the vision, you should do it.” Class fundraising guru and head agent Bob Bysshe has been chosen by the Dartmouth College Fund as the first president of the newly formed head agents association. 


Steve Kardon and Ellen Sulkin, who celebrated their first wedding anniversary in February, were sweethearts in Lille, France, nearly a half century ago, according to a photo story in the Times “Vows” section. They were on a foreign exchange program, but Ellen, a Bennington student, was committed to another so they parted ways and did not see or speak to each other for the next 47 years. The two reconnected briefly in 2007 for an alumni article and, after Steve became widowed in 2008, he contacted her. No longer the shy boy, “he was persistent,” said Ellen, who was married twice and had been in a relationship that ended when her boyfriend died. The couple has 10 grandchildren. Steve is a radiologist at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. Ellen is, that’s right, a wedding and events planner.


Like cool jazz vocals? Click on http://bit.ly/1YreGH for this tune by Kelsey Jillette, daughter of John Merrow. She appears Monday nights at Swing 46 with the Big Bang Big Band in Manhattan. Proud dad Tom Holzel escorted daughter Maggie in her marriage to Christian Lange at the Congregational Church in York, Maine, where Tom’s mom, 90, lives.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com


Come to our ’63 Hanover mini-reunion, October 29-31, when the Big Green battles Harvard. Enjoy our Friday night dinner at the Canoe Club on Main Street and march with our class to the Dartmouth Green. You will hear inspirational speeches against the brightly lit Dartmouth Row and, if you are lucky, see President Kim dash around the bonfire with 2014s in tow. Our executive committee meets over breakfast Saturday in the Treasure Room of Baker Library. Spouses and friends are welcome. Our 50th reunion, June 7-9, 2013, tops the agenda. Before and after the game, shop, stroll, visit haunts or the magnificent Hood Museum before driving the gorgeous country route to the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes for our Saturday night reception and dinner. Friends will gather for breakfast Sunday morning at the Hanover Inn, but be sure to pick up some doughnuts at Lou’s for the trip back. Questions? Contact mini chair Sam Cabot at scabot@cabotfamily.com, (978) 927 2333.


Nick Carney, author of two books on early family life in Alaska and another on World War II, served on the Wasilla, Alaska, City Council for four years with Sarah Palin. The two had a falling out when she became mayor and haven’t talked in 20 years, Nick says. Nick, a former business owner, and Helen, an accountant, are retired in Ivins, Utah. Daughter Katy, an accountant, was a high school classmate of Palin. Son B.J. ’88 is CFO of a California company. To order signed copies of Nick’s books, e-mail him at hcarney@beyondbb.com. Nick is in touch with pals John Bell and Fred Chaffee.


Stu Richards, petition candidate last spring for the Association of Alumni executive council, says, “it is simply untrue” that all petition candidates are backers of the Hanover Institute and litigants against the College. “Sixty thousand plus alumni by virtue of their financial and moral support do have the right to question how things are done and have an equal say on the Board of Trustees,” he says, “about why the curriculum has gone light on Western classics, how administrative bloat harms the College and how the real estate office changed the character of the Upper Valley.” Stu, a 40-year Vermont resident and New York transplant, lives a mile from campus in Norwich. He was attracted to the area by its charm and ski slopes, but today the suburban feel reminds him of Boston, which, he says, is the result of College and hospital expansion. “Dartmouth should be a small teaching college, not a large research university,” he says. A retired developer, Stu is vice president of Global Rescue, a crisis response company founded by his son Daniel, a Tuck grad.


Don Wertz, retired after 20 years as auditor with Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with English-born wife Wendy, who is writing a book on Lynton Keith Caldwell, the environmentalist. A Tuck M.B.A., Don has three children and six grandchildren from a previous marriage. You can reach him at donald.wertz@att.net.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com


There is a mental health crisis in America, according to Gil Knight, retired investment banker who is board president and a director of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Montgomery County Maryland. In his testimony to that state’s continuity of care advisory panel last October, Gil argued that the “refusal to take medication among the mentally ill is quite common” and must be addressed. Having had firsthand experience with mental illness in his own family, Gil became an advocate for “assisted outpatient treatment” (AOT) in Maryland, one of the few states, he says, where AOT is not required. People afflicted with severe mental disease can be hospitalized only five days after an arrest, he said. After that they are out on their own, when they often refuse the required medications and treatment becoming a danger to themselves and to others. Gil worked in advertising in New York City after Dartmouth, while studying for an M.B.A. in finance at Baruch College. He launched an investment banking career in Philadelphia and then Bethesda, Maryland, where he now lives with Deborah, his wife of 27 years. Gil has three children.


Michael Rie is another classmate speaking out on public health policy. In a New York Times op-ed piece Michael with two other colleagues called on the Obama administration and Congress to protect patients from vital drug shortages that are “inflicting suffering on patients and, in some cases, causing needless deaths.” They blame a 1987 law that they say permits giant purchasing organizations to accept fees from select suppliers in return for the purchasing organizations awarding those suppliers exclusive contracts. The result is fewer suppliers of generic drugs. Michael is associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. 


If you are looking for David Schwartz, you are likely to find him on patrol off the Florida west coast, where he serves as volunteer vice commander of the coast guard artillery. David moved to Fort Myers, Florida, after retiring as head of cardiothoracic imaging at Jackson Memorial in Miami. Previously David was chief of radiology for 17 years at Worcester (Massachusetts) Hahnemann Hospital. A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, David is married to Nancy, a computer systems analyst, and has two sons, Eric ’91 and Daniel, both radiologists, and five grandchildren.


Whom did you root for in the Super Bowl? For Jeremy “Troll” Subin, son of Bill Subin, it was a tough call. Having trained quarterback Russell Wilson and 21 Seahawks at his Yard fitness center in Hermosa Beach, California, the junior Subin was “especially glad for Wilson,” he told the Press of Atlantic City. But he felt bad for Wes Welker, the Broncos wide receiver, whom he helped recover from a torn ligament in 2010. 


I am sorry to report the death of Steve Kardon of Scarsdale, New York, January 12. An obituary article will follow in the online edition of this magazine.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York City, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com


We all have special memories of the 50th. I list here a few of mine. Chatting with Jerry Herlihy, recently retired Delaware chief judge, at Saturday breakfast under the tent. My wife, Nicole, racing from Main Street to be in class photo in front of Dartmouth Hall. Sitting with old friend Len Levitt at memorial service in Rollins Chapel. Meeting up at Saturday lunch on the river with Rick Kramer of Paradise Valley, Arizona; painter Peter Dudley with wife Francesca from Greenfield, Massachusetts; David Rogers, Mayflower descendent; lawyer Howard Culver and wife Monique, also a lawyer, from La Quinta, California, by way of Cannes, Nice and Montreal; Steve Rosen, 25 years with Goldman Sachs, whose wife, Chickie, was sidelined at home with a torn meniscus. Returning to dorm from Saturday afternoon seminar on aging and finding psychologist Larry Stiffler, Brookline, Massachusetts, completing a long run. Napping and regrettably missing Dick Berkowitz, Ken Novack and other Pi Lam reunion celebrants at Hanover Inn. Listening to animated conversation of Parisian Ed Torn, retired French teacher Neil Duprey, Monique Culver and my wife before dinner on the river Saturday night. Hearing moving acceptance speeches from Soaring Pine winners. Enjoying Paul Binder’s entertaining recap of news from the Sixties and Thad Seymour’s true tales of life as a freshly minted dean. Catching up with lawyers Dan Matyola and Mike Cardozo after dinner. Experiencing beautiful Commencement exercises with Len and Bobbi Waldbaum of Denver. Sharing Chuck Wessendorf’s satisfaction from his organized trip to Mount Moosilauke, which included 33 people with nine men and women who actually hiked to the top. What are your memories? E-mail me at harry@zlokower.com or call (917) 541-8162.


In the meantime, actor Michael Moriarty devotes most of his time these days to writing symphony orchestra compositions, according to a recent interview in The Washington Times. You can hear some of Michael’s work on his YouTube site, 77gelsomina. Paul Binder’s just released book, Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion and Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus, is available on Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com or by sending a check for $26 to Paul at 730 Columbus Ave., 16A, New York City, NY 10025.


Busy criminal attorney Frank Wohl was retained by the trustees of St. John’s University in New York City to review the financial and business ties that former St. John’s chief of staff had to the university. Tom Carter of Gaithersburg, Maryland, serves as senior advisor for cooperative development at the U.S. Agency for International Development, managing grant programs in 26 countries involving U.S. companies such as Land O’ Lakes. Steve Lewinstein is the benefactor along with Friends of Football for a new video scoreboard at Dartmouth. Randy Fields of the Orlando, Florida, office of Gray Robinson has been recognized on the 2014 Best Lawyers of America list. Boston developer Dick Friedman was named to the board of the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Toronto. And sad news, I am sorry to report the death of New York lawyer Morris Kramer.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York City, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com


Bruce Berman, a prominent scholar on Africa, has been awarded the prestigious Smuts Fellowship by the University of Cambridge. The fellowship is awarded in memory of Jan Smuts (1870-1950), South African military leader and prime minister, who served as chancellor of Cambridge in 1948-50. Bruce, professor emeritus of political studies and history at Queens University, Ontario, will be a visiting fellow at Wolfson College at Cambridge. He will be working on a book that is the outcome of the ethnicity and democratic governance program (EDG) at Queens University, where he has been the director and principal investigator since 2006. The EDG program has involved some 38 scholars from 20 universities in nine countries and more than 100 graduate students. It has produced 14 volumes of research, including a series with University of British Columbia press, where Bruce is the general editor. A native of New York City, Bruce has taught at Queens University since 1971 and has had visiting appointments at universities in Nairobi, England, Australia and the United States. He is author, co-author and co-editor of seven books and more than 50 papers on subjects ranging from the political economy of colonial Africa to the development of modern African ethnicities and their political expression. Bruce majored in international relations at Dartmouth, earned an M.A. in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale. He has been president of the African Studies associations in Canada and the United States. 


Frank deSerio drove from home in Luray, Virginia, in July to the University of North Carolina in Asheville for Roy Benson’s “Send Him Packin’ ” bash celebrating the retirement of “our beloved running coach, fitness writer and class of ’63 Soaring Pine Award winner.” A competitive runner for 45 years, including a 4:19.8 mile, Roy operated Nike-sponsored summer camps for high school runners in North Carolina and Vermont since 1987. He coached for 10 years at the University of Florida and was president of the Florida track club that placed marathon gold medalist Frank Shorter on the 1972 U.S. Olympic team. Roy is senior writer at Running Times and contributing editor for Running Journal. His booklet, Precision Running,” sold more than 200,000 copies and his new book, Secret Workouts, has already sold 7,000 copies.


Frank deSerio runs Avio, a corporate art consultancy, with his wife, Monica Lesko, sister of Matthew Lesko, who wears the “question mark” suits in late night talk shows and infomercials. Frank also writes textbooks for corporate executives and interior designers on how to lead and write good “request for quotes” for corporate and healthcare art programs. He is into writing poetry and a guide to meditation, which he is certified to teach. “Monica and I have a great marriage and I’m in a happy place in my life,” says Frank. 


Don’t forget our 50th reunion June 7-9 www.dartmouth.org/classes/63.


I am sorry to report the deaths of Lee Erdman, Pete Stevenson and Tom Gladders. Obituaries will appear online in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@ zlokower.com


Olympic gold medalist (1964) Gerry Ashworth expects to be at our 50th class reunion in Hanover June 7-9, so do Sturges Dorrance, Whit Kimball, John Rose, Bill King and hundreds of other classmates. How do I know? I saw it on the ’63 class website. Volunteers led by Tom Perry surveyed everyone they could find and posted findings for all to see. The numbers are updated regularly. You can explore the entire list or check by fraternity, team or club to see if your friends are coming and they can do the same. 


The use of an online informational site to build interest in a major reunion is a first for our class. We will also offer online registration for the first time as a class and only the second time for any Dartmouth class, according to reunion chair Tom Jester. Mike Emerson and Bill Russell are being trained to make it as easy as possible to register online, but if you prefer to register manually you will be able to without a problem. 


Even if you cannot make the 50th, you can share in the excitement through the 1963 50th reunion book that will be mailed to everyone free of charge, thanks to the generosity of some of our classmates. The book will include individual life surveys and essays by classmates with their photos, and obituary tributes to deceased classmates.


There is a packed schedule of meals, forums, receptions and commencement exercises as well as cool events you will not want to miss. Did you hike Mount Moosilauke as a student? If not, you still have a chance Thursday and Friday, June 6-7. For details contact Chuck Wessendorf, (203) 762-9334, ckwessendorf@yahoo.com.


You are encouraged to contribute your own memorabilia to the Rauner Library exhibition of class-related archival material that will include Winter Carnival, important sports moments, major buildings completed or opened, plays, concerts and celebrations. Dave Schaefer expects to lend photos of him building the winning 1960 Winter Carnival dorm statue (he designed and sculpted it) and pieces of the clay pipe he smoked and broke over the Old Pine stump. What do you have? Contact College Archivist Peter Carini at peter.carini@dartmouth.edu.


Then there is “the Lisa Love experience.” No, I am not kidding. Lisa Love is the female vocalist of a top New England and East Coast rock, dance and R&B band, consisting of guitar, drums and bass, that has been booked for the gala Saturday night dinner by our veteran impresario, Steve Lewinstein. Bring your ears and your dancing shoes. 


Our 50th reunion will hold a memorial service to remember deceased classmates. The loss of classmates is reported regularly in the newsletter, this column and obituary section of the online Dartmouth Alumni Magazine when sufficient information is available.


Bill Subin’s painting, The Osprey Nest, a Back Bay Ventnor, New Jersey, scene viewed by rowers, is one of 10 winners for the 2012 Ventnor postcard contest. Peter Rollins’ film, Will Rogers’ 1920s, was aired in August on Oklahoma educational TV.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com


John Dickey’s Quebradillas (AuthorHouse, 2011), a collection of poems about life in rural Puerto Rico, made me want to go there, and now comes The Solar System: A Tour in Verse, a companion to Earth: A Narrative in Verse (AuthorHouse, 2005). The Solar System is a rolling song of celebration, occasionally whimsical and ironic, but ground in careful research with great photos from NASA. It is a book written for all of us, the scientifically challenged like me and the more erudite who got respectable grades in “Astronomy I.” John, a geologist and former dean, has a way of pulling you in by combining the didacticism of a prof with the intimacy of a good friend. Earth is a “garden in outer space,” Jupiter “a bully in a striped sweater pushing asteroids around” and Mars “a planet smaller than the Earth, yet earthlike in its sunlit sky and connate H2O.” You can find The Solar System: A Tour in Verse on Amazon. It comes with a solar system glossary, which I love.


Philip J. Hanlon ’77, Dartmouth’s 18th president, will address us, his first class ever as president, at dinner during the 50th Reunion, Monday, June 10, on the Kemeny Patio. If you haven’t registered for the 50th June 7-11, go online to our site at www.dartmouth.edu, click on “alumni,” then “classes,” and find your way from there. If you need help registering, contact Mike Emerson, johnmichaelemerson@comcast.net, (206) 242-0992. He’ll gladly help. See you there!


A group of classmates got an early start in April at the third annual mini-reunion in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Planned by Mike Prince and Bob Silverman, who along with Peter Israelson have residences in Ponte Vedra Beach, the gathering included Roy and Betty Benson, Bill and Carol Hindle, Bud and Marci Weinstein, Howard and Janet Nannen, Ralph and Nancy Sanders, Peter Israelson and significant other Vanni, Mike and Jeanne Prince and Bob Silverman and significant other Barbara Berlin. Mike, Bob and Peter mapped it all out while riding Peter’s super-hot Chris Craft called the Flying Vonnster. Peter is a partner in Epic Entertainment, which develops IMAX sites throughout the world, most recently four sites in Israel.


The Dwight School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, whose chancellor is Steve Spahn, is opening a comprehensive athletic facility in East Harlem to benefit both Dwight students and neighborhood residents. “We measure our success by the number of young people whose lives we touch in a positive way,” said Steve as reported in New York’s Real Estate Weekly. Dwight will run joint student-resident programs on Saturdays and offer scholarships to qualified students in need.


Povl and Barbara Jorgensen dropped into New York from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to take in hit musical The Book of Mormon. Rich Borofsky and Jeff Rosen devote time helping others solve personal problems. Rich, a couples therapist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, leads couple retreats with wife Antra. Jeff, a retired hospital systems analyst, is a volunteer mediator in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, Dispute Resolution Center.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@ zlokower.com


Basketball star and educator Steve Spahn received the Lewis Hine Distinguished Service Award for Service to Children & Youth, joining Andre Agassi, Elaine Wynn, Hillary Clinton, Tipper Gore and Charles Schultz. Lewis Hine was a photographer who documented early 20th-century exploitation of children. The award is given by the National Child Labor Committee. Steve, chancellor of the Dwight School and the longest serving headmaster in New York City, brought the international baccalaureate to Dwight, which educates students from 40 countries and provides $1.6 million in scholarships. At Bill King’s invitation Steve helps recruit top Asian basketball scholars to Dartmouth. Hats off to Bill Breetz, winner of the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Connecticut Law School Alumni Association, and to Peter Rollins, recipient of the 2011 Oklahoma Humanities Award. 


John Merrow launched his new book, The Influence of Teachers, at a party hosted by former New York City Public Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and lawyer Richard Beattie ’61. University of South Carolina Press just released Kevin Lowther’s The African American Odyssey of John Kizell. Bruce Berman, political science professor at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, advised Kevin. Chuck Pfeifer celebrated his 70th birthday party at Elaine’s, legendary New York City celebrity haunt. He will appear in Border Crosses, a new film by Sam Shepard. Gabriel Macht, son of Stephen Macht, is featured in the hit movie Love and Other Drugs.


A future Lewis Hine winner could be Hannah Younger ’13 of Rochester, New York, our ’63 class-sponsored student intern who worked eight hours a day, five days or more a week last winter with children at Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn. The program is managed by Dartmouth Partners for Community Service, a partnership of the Tucker Foundation and Dartmouth alumni. Bob Chavey asked me to be the program mentor for Hannah, an eager and motivated psych major, who was quickly drawn in and moved by the opportunity to give comfort to children frightened and bewildered by the seemingly impersonal nature of a large treatment center. Hannah was exposed for the first time to challenges of families with many different backgrounds and issues. My role was to listen to Hannah’s experiences, provide advice and help her understand and articulate her goals and accomplishments. The experience helped me appreciate what our undergraduates do and how our class is helping to make a difference by financing student internships and serving as mentors.


Ed and Charlene Mazer trained disabled land-mine victims to use computers and get jobs in Vientiane, Laos. Prior to the recent turn of events in Egypt, Psi U’s Sam Cabot, Chris Wiedenmayer, John Hicks, Dave Halstead, George Sullivan and Theta Delt Gordy Weir and wives visited Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Luxor, Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens on a Dartmouth travel tour. Steve and Sharon Brenner relaxed in Cancun and Tom Perry was spotted snorkeling in Belize. 


I regret to report the deaths of Mike Letis, William Riley, Cotter Rainey and Michael Marantz. Obituary articles will appear at http://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obituaries.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York City, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry @zlokower.com


In late spring of 1988 PBS education correspondent John Merrow decided to do a piece on our 25th class reunion. As we approach our 50th I recall John with his cameraman asking classmates one question in particular, “Why are you here?” Clearly he was searching for something that would help him tell his story. What I did not realize was that John was probing the essence of what we are about and why, come June 6 through 11, 2013, hundreds of us will converge on Hanover to commemorate 50 years since we left the College to pursue our expectations and the challenges life has posed.


Yes, in a sense reunions are about time, but they also are about creating a fresh perspective of the experiences and relationships we had during a most formative and important period of our lives. I have wonderful memories of past reunions—parties, dinners, sports, speeches, lectures—but what I remember and cherish most are the friendships that were renewed or made anew. There are certain truths about reunions that the most skeptical of critics cannot contest. We are the same age, at the same stage in our lives, and more than 50 years ago shared many of the same experiences. If we did not know each other then, we can meet now and instantly have things in common. Reunions are about remembering the past in a fun setting, but they are also about building on that past to make new friends, to learn things we did not know, to take home an idea, a unique experience that will help sustain us in the years to come. 


Putting together a reunion the size and scope of the 50th is no small feat. While the College provides a structure and backdrop, the real work is done by committed volunteers headed by reunion chair Tom Jester, volunteer chair Tom Perry and reunion book editor Ed Mazer. These guys have been hard at work for at least a year, assembling a team, fundraising, attending to food and lodging and designing a schedule to knock your socks off. The 50th was the focus of our executive committee meeting at our fall mini-reunion, where 42 classmates, wives and friends turned out for post-game festivities at the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes. For the latest update on our 50th, go to www.dartmouth.org/classes/63.


In other news Gerry Uram, real estate chair at Davis & Gilbert, New York, was honored by Chambers USA for the third year, and the Best Lawyers in America for a second year. The service of Dave Dawley, Len Levitt, Kevin Lowther, Sam Cabot, Ash Hartwell, Joel August, Dave Boldt, Tim Kraft and Stu Ulman was recognized with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps at Dartmouth. Thomas McInerny became president-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics.


I am sad to report the deaths of Fred Doane, Clark Edwards, Rich Evans and Jeff Galper.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com


I hope all of you who attended our 50th, June 7-11, had a great time. Earlier I caught up with Tom McInerny on the phone at his three-acre home in Honeoye Falls, New York, outside Rochester, where he was taking a breather from his hectic schedule as president of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Tom was preparing for a trip to Japan, which would force him to miss our 50th, after returning from trips to Scotland and Poland. He spends 10 to 15 days a month on the road including numerous trips to Washington, D.C. Tom became especially busy after the Newtown, Connecticut, gun massacre, advocating for gun safety legislation. “Three thousand kids a year die from gun violence,” he said. “We have developed a comprehensive plan that includes banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and universal background checks.” Tom has met three times with Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. secretary of health and human services. He has taken a sabbatical from his practice and has a wonderful 48-year marriage to Beverly, an artist and landscape designer who has built an Oriental-style garden in their back yard with Tom doing the heavy work. His Twitter handle is @AAPPres.


Meanwhile, down in New Orleans, Jim Irvin was about to leave for the hospital to visit his wife, M’Adele, who was doing well after a serious accident in which she was dragged by their bolting giant schnauzer. The couple was nevertheless planning a trip north in June to visit family and drop by Hanover. Born in the New York City area and raised in Miami, Jim has practiced commercial law since 1972 at the firm of Milling Benson Woodward. Jim and M’Adele live in Uptown, New Orleans, where Jim plays banjo for friends and gatherings. The couple has four daughters.


Ken Meyer is catching up on science fiction and history, having retired in 2010 from a 30-plus-year career with the U.S. Census Bureau. Trained as geographer, Ken taught at Temple, joined the Census Bureau in the 1980s and became regional director of the New York City region, charged with preparing for the 2000 census, or “the big show,” as the Census Bureau calls it. The year 2000 was the first time the Census Bureau would invest in paid advertising in a significant way to improve mail returns and reduce the expense of census takers. The bet paid off, and Ken was able to return part of the expenses back to the government. He moved to Washington, D.C., as chief of the public information office with the goal of turning the census into a brand. Did he succeed? Well, census is not exactly toothpaste, but has much more awareness and plenty of media exposure. Ken and Karen, his wife by second marriage, live in Annapolis, Maryland. Ken had to miss the reunion as he, Karen and his stepdaughter Hannah celebrated Hannah’s graduation from Mary Washington College with a trip to the Cayman Islands.


Next issue: News from our 50th.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@ zlokower.com


John Dickey has published a new edition of Quebradillas (Little Streams), poems named for his small town in northeastern Puerto Rico. Like its progenitor, Quebradillas consists of short metered poems in alphabetical order that express wonderment and bewilderment at the nature and activity around him. But unlike its 2008 companion, Quebradillas 2011 devotes more attention to broad introspective themes: autobiography, youth, regret, age and death. Classmates will relate to “Duckboards,” “Rope Tow,” “Tiger Hike” and “Skating” and be fascinated by the candor of “Stroke of Fate” and the self-deprecating “Class Reunion.” But most moving is John’s coming to grips with aging and death. “We grow a little lonely as we age/ Old friends and family members disappear,” begins “Aging,” ending on a positive note: “Upon this cheerful thought I’ve just begun/to act. I think I’ll telephone my son.” You can purchase Quebradillas, second edition, online.


In 1990, recently divorced and disappointed with the bad economy, Maine lawyer Jim Palmer lit off for a few days of respite in Idaho. While there he took a job offer in Twin Falls, and not long after moved to Vale, Oregon, an expansive, thinly populated area in the high desert region of eastern Oregon, about an hour from Boise, Idaho. He assumed the job of county juvenile director, responsible for juvenile delinquency, child abuse and other child-related matters. He resigned six years later in 2004 to pursue his self-taught passion of horse training. “I trained bird dogs in Maine,” Jim said. “It’s like coaching; you’re trying to get a certain performance.” Jim has two children by his first marriage, Allyson in the San Francisco Bay area and Gilbert ’86, who was born at Mary Hitchcock, living in New Hampshire.


Tom Holzel’s Everest expedition to discover the whereabouts and remains of Andrew Irvine was moved to this fall to give the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) time to organize the financing of their part and to find a presenter to accompany the climbers. “It is colder in fall, but the mountain is more clear of snow,” said Tom who worried that “interlopers” might get a jump on the search. Tom will not be doing the actual climb.


Fiftieth reunion chair Tom Jester waxed nostalgic to references to long-gone Main Street stores mentioned in this column. “I paid $1 for a six-pack and $2.50 for a carton of Winston’s,” he recalls. “My grandfather, class of 1917, took Bill Lamb, Al Palmer, John Patterson and me to a steak dinner at Green ‘Latrine.’ My grandmother gave me an annual $100 charge account at Campion’s.” But the Beefeater invokes most poignant memories. “Where Mrs. Robinson, long before The Graduate, was my on-campus mother figure. Waited table briefly at he ‘Barfeater’ and spent two wonderful years on the grill. If the class ate it, I probably cooked it. Thanks for the memories.” 


I regret to report the deaths of George Richardson, David Templeton and Lloyd Cymrot. Find obituaries at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obituaries.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com


Dennis Kratz may be a medievalist but his heart and mind are very much in the 21st century. Last fall Dennis, dean of the school of arts and humanities, and David Daniel, president of the University of Texas at Dallas, broke ground for a new $60-million, 155,000-square-foot facility to house programs in visual arts, emerging media technology and multimedia communications and a 1,200-seat auditorium. Dennis has been dean for 15 years and has devoted much of his tenure to building a program to revitalize humanities and make arts and humanities more in sync with science and technology with help of $5 million from anonymous donors.


Arts and humanities, the fastest growing school at the university, has a center for arts and humanities, a Confucius institute that partners with China and an Asian center. Dennis has been at UT at Dallas for 33 years, starting as a professor of classics. He earned a Ph.D. at Harvard. He was one of three students majoring in classics at Dartmouth, which included Latin and Greek studies. Wife Abby is associate provost at UT at Dallas; son Matthew also works with the university. Abby, who has a doctorate from Texas A&M, is head of the arts commission in Richardson, Texas, where the campus is located and where the Kratzes live. Dennis ran into Blair Wood of Dillon, Colorado, and Jim vonGal of Quechee, Vermont, at a Dartmouth Alumni College program on the American Indian in Hanover.


Quechee, incidentally, was one of the areas in the Northeast battered by Hurricane Irene. This was evident in photos shared by Terry Russell, class webmaster, who is a resident and a trustee of the landowners association. “We were hit really hard—roads, bridges and highways shut down, water was cut off, some lost electricity and stores and homes were flooded,” Terry said. “Diane and I were fortunate. We had a slight leak that damaged some ceiling tiles in the basement but no real problems.”


Wine aficionados, oenophiles and iPad owners you are in luck. Steve Yafa, author (Big Cotton, Penguin, 2006), screenwriter (Three in the Attic with Christopher Jones and Summertree with Michael Douglas) and wine writer and vintner (www.seguecellars.com), has launched “Uncorked,” coverage of the world of wine for occasional sippers to experts and available as a weekly download from the Apple app store. Steve also runs Segue Cellars, a winery on the Russian River of West Sonoma, California, which makes only pinot noir that is served at many fine restaurants in the region. Steve lives in Mill Valley, California, with Bonnie, his wife of 30 years. Their three children from two marriages live in the area and have made them proud grandparents. Steve relaxes writing and playing blues and alternate country on guitar, and jogs and mountain bikes on Mount Tamalpais, a.k.a. Mt. Tam.


Veteran Orlando, Florida, lawyer Randolph Fields has joined GrayRobinson, which has more than 250 lawyers throughout the state. He previously was a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig and partner with Baker & Hosteler.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com