Class Notes 1963

When using a phone, tablet, or personal computer, consider what we owe Steve Garland, Tony Knapp, and Robert Hargraves ’61, who, as undergraduates, developed Dartmouth ALGOL 30 on the College’s new LGP-30 computer before going onto remarkable careers in computing and mathematics. Their success with ALGOL 30 led professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz to create the Dartmouth Timesharing System and BASIC programming language. “Kurtz knew timesharing was the up-and-coming thing,” Steve Garland told The New York Times in an article on Dr. Kurtz, who died November 12 at age 96. “Now you call it cloud computing.” Steve earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1967 at University of California at Berkeley. That year he became professor of mathematics and computer science at Dartmouth, where with Dr. Kurtz he helped create a professional master’s program in computer and information in part through a grant from IBM. He also chaired the College Board Advanced Placement Computer Science Development Committee. In 1985 Steve became a principal research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for the next 20 years. After retiring Steve joined the Temple University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute as student, then as teacher and member of the institute’s advisory council. Wife Ardie, with whom he raised three daughters, died three years ago. Steve and his partner, Katherine Davies, live in Philadelphia near three of Steve’s eight grandchildren.

Doug and Olivia Floren are listed among first 18 founders of the Kirsten and Eugene F. “Buddy” Teevens ’79 Center for Peak Performance. Jeff Nothnagle recalled the week he and Taffy spent with Buddy and Kirsten on a Dartmouth cruise. Frank and Lisa Wohl divide time between New York, where Frank practices law, and northwestern Connecticut. Class treasurer Bill Russell now accepts dues via Zelle. Rick Braddock, who died September 16, was celebrated December 4 at the historic Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York. Attendees included Tom Beradino, John and Tatiana Kubacki, Art Williams, Bob Bysshe, and myself.

I regret to report the passing of Glen Gale, Dick Heimovics, and Larry Saperstein. Read obits by Tige Harris in the online edition of DAM.

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

Bob Silverman with Barbara Berlin and Mike and Jeanne Prince plan the 13th Florida mini-reunion March or April in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Last March’s reunion included Alan and Shelly Palmer, Roy and Betty Benson, Ed and Charlene Mazer, and Bill and Carol Hindle. Tom and Betsy Coghlin and Bud and Marcia Weinstein could not attend due to conflicts. “We missed regulars Howard and Janet Nannen because of illness and Ralph and Nancy Sanders, John and Missy Lehigh, and Bill and Petie Subin because of deaths of Ralph, John, and Petie,” said Bob. To register, email robertsilverman220@comcast.net, (404) 520-1102.

October’s Psi U reunion, organized by Chris and Anne Weidenmayer and Charlie and Claire Logan featured a tour of Chickamauga Battlefield, historic Civil War site in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and included Sam and Deamie Cabot, George “Sully” and Mary Sullivan, David and Michele Halsted, Pete Suttmeier, and Althea Hicks, widow of John Hicks. Sam and Deamie headed to Cork, Ireland, to visit a campus of Endicott College, headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, where Sam serves on the board. Incidentally, Pete Suttmeier, trustee chairman of North Country Community College, Saranac Lake, New York, lives in Keene Valley, New York, not Keene, New Hampshire, as reported.

Homecoming, November 1-3, sadly missed Diana Lewinstein, spouse of Steve Lewinstein and mother of Marc Lewinstein ’98. Diana passed away September 14 after a brave but mercifully brief struggle against ALS. Coverage of Homecoming in the next issue.

Remains of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, who perished in his 1924 climb on Mount Everest, were found by a National Geographic team in September, according to one-time climber, now Everest scholar, Tom Holzel. Charlie Parton spotlighted a unique way of giving offered by Dartmouth. He and Trudy established a two-life charitable gift annuity, which provides excellent returns and bequests balance to Dartmouth upon the passing of both annuity owners. For more info, contact class head agent Bob Bysshe, (914) 772-1781, rbysshe@aol.com.

We regret the passing of David Benson, Freeman Botnick, Gene Kersey, John L. Steele, Rick Braddock, Steve Jacobson, and Tom Richards. See obituaries by Tige Harris in the online DAM.

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

Lou Gerstner and John Merrow made news. Lou, retired chairman and CEO of IBM, published a Wall Street Journal op-ed on remote work which, he argued, is “highly detrimental [for] people who aspire to lead or manage others in an academic, nonprofit, governmental, or business institution.” Lou’s career, he wrote, was driven through in-office mentoring and supervisor examples. John, former Peabody and George Polk Award-winning education reporter for PBS, took on current public education issues in a DAM profile, including technology in classrooms, homeroom time, why we’re test crazy, unfair advantages for many students, charter schools, and need to recognize parents as primary teachers. John also spoke at North Country Community College in Saranac Lake, New York, alongside Pete Suttmeier, chairman of the board of trustees. A resident of Keene, New Hampshire, Pete was off to Norway, Scotland, and other countries on a Smithsonian cruise.

Retired attorney Bill King and wife Grace live in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they support First Union School, an early 20th-century landmark they purchased around 2008. It is one of many schools to aid Black students founded by Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck, and Booker T. Washington. Bill and Grace have 10 grandchildren. Bill caught up with Chuck Pfeifer, freshman football buddy who left Dartmouth to join the Army, graduated from West Point, and served in Vietnam, winning Silver and Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. Writer, producer, and actor (Wall Street and Born on the Fourth of July) Chuck and Lisa live in New York and Florida.

Dartmouth ranks high in Peace Corps volunteers, the College’s news site reported. Class of ’63s include Sam Cabot (Chile), John Chamberlain (Nigeria), Ash Hartwell (Ethiopia), Joel August (Ecuador), Len Levitt (Tanzania), and Dave Dawley (Honduras).

October 2 is the deadline for favorably priced rooms for Harvard Homecoming, November 1-2, at Hilton Garden Inn Hanover/Lebanon, says reunion cochair Jeff Nothnagle.

I regret to report the passing of Dave Collyer, Mike Losee, and Dave Smoyer. Newsletter editor Dave Schaefer reports 272 classmates have left us. Read obituaries by Tige Harris on the DAM website.

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

Andy and Diane Allen, Seabrook Island, South Carolina, volunteer, travel, and connect with their grandchildren. They visited Australia, Malaysia, and Saint Lucia. Andy retired at 60 as executive vice president, international operations, from ad agency Bozell. He volunteers in healthcare and community outreach. Both children and spouses graduated from Dartmouth. Andy and Diane also connected recently at Dartmouth with Bill and Maggie Lawliss of South Burlington, Vermont.

Frank Siwiec is webmaster for Bernardsville, New Jersey, Chamber of Commerce. Frank was system designer for AT&T Global Services for 24 years, retiring in 2003. He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Iowa and University of Pittsburgh, respectively. Frank and wife Nancy have a website with photos, including Frank’s trip to Poland with his mother in 1961 and Nancy’s exhibit of necklaces and lamp work creations at the Bernardsville Library in 2008. Victor Poleshuck continues to travel following the death last year of Joyce, his wife of more than 58 years. The couple visited all seven continents. Recently Victor traveled across Central Asia and in summer he is headed for Mongolia and Rwanda. Victor is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist and medical professor in Rochester, New York. He takes and teaches courses at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Frank deSerio is completing Insights of Savvy Artists. Michael Moriarty stars in Of Things Past, a 1985 film updated in 2022 and released in October 2023, according to Variety. Rick Wycoff shared a speech on Ukraine by fraternity brother Sen. Angus King ’66.

President Sam Cabot penned a warm note to President Beilock commending her participation in our 60th, her “leadership and courage” in managing the Israel-Hamas conflict on campus and again requiring applicants to submit SAT/ACT scores. Denis Eagle, Peter Morrison, Jeff Weaver, Allan March,and Sam Cabot were among the ’63s spotted at a Caring Class Zoom lecture on Covid and shingles. Topic in May: heart health. Peter Israelson zoomed for the class about Lewis and Clark prior to an April class cruise.

I regret to report the passing of Blake Franklin, David Morse, Joe Attonita, Tim Kraft, Phillip Taylor, and Stu Richards. Read obituaries by Tige Harris on the DAM website.

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

Classmates, spouses, and partners Sam and Deamie Cabot, Bill and Pat Russell, Lenore Bowne, Bill Wellstead and Judy Derasse, Ken Kvistad, Dick Swett, Jeff and Taffy Nothnagle, and Steve and Diana Lewinstein launched a rainy Homecoming Friday at Dunk’s Sports Grill, Hanover, and were joined Saturday for dinner at Ariana’s Restaurant, Lyme, New Hampshire, by Tom Kraig, Mike and Jeanne Prince, Norm Buchsbaum, John and Judith Currier,and Dick and Pam Booma.

Twenty-nine executive committee (EC) classmates in person and via Ed Mazer-produced Zoom on Saturday heard sponsored athletes McLane Gmelich ’27 (women’s swim team) and Tyson Grimm ’26 (football), class scholar Gemma Stowell ’27, and former Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS) participant Grace Bech ’26. DPCS chair Bruce Baggaley’s new mentors search drew interest from EC’s Mel Meyers.

Mini-reunion co-chair Jeff Nothnagle announced an upcoming April Northwest cruise. Lenore Bowne, widow of former EC president Marty Bowne, launched DartMates’ outreach to widows and widowers. Dave Schaefer celebrated 30th year as newsletter editor. Mike Prince presented the Soaring Pine Award to president Sam Cabot for his class leadership, career, and community service.

Stressed out? For a relaxing moment, check out YouTube for “Ted’s Hollywood Stand-Up” or “For the Love of Comedy. The Three Clubs in Los Angeles” to see stand-up comic Ted Morehouse. Retired from business, Ted and Claudia Rose live in Marina Del Rey, California, have four children, and three grandchildren, including a Dartmouth senior. Daughter Lindsay was tragically lost in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The Morehouses take classes and travel.

Retired intensive care specialist and anesthesiologist Mike Rie is working on a memoir, tentatively titled Physician of Conscience, about his work on end-of-life policies in the 1980s. Ken Lease is finishing as interim executive vice president at Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. Sharon is vice president for academics at a Christian university. Steve Macht spoke on national television at a Yom Kippur service from Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts.

I regret to report the passing of David Bowman, Frank Palmer, George Shanno, George Scott, Jonathan Bates, Sandy Duncan, and William Weber. Read obituaries by Tige Harris on the DAM website.

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

Toward the end of our 60th reunion banquet President Bielock dropped by Steve and Diana Lewinstein to thank them for committing the largest gift in the history of Dartmouth athletics—enabling investments in athletes’ health, wellness, and competitiveness—and commemorated by renaming Alumni Gym the Lewinstein Athletic Center. Earlier in the evening Bruce Baggaley, Mike Emerson, and Tom Jester received Soaring Pine awards for personal achievement and outstanding service to class and College.

Some 170 classmates and guests reconnected during June 12-15 with stimulating conversation and programs. President Bielock’s appearance at the banquet climaxed the memorable reunion featuring Paul Binder’s Amateur Hour cabaret on June 13, and on June 14 John Merrow’s panel of ’63s “Perspectives Gained and Lessons Learned” and “The Crossroads of Loss,” a Dartmates program for women produced by Lenore Bowne, wife of recently deceased Marty Bowne; Deamie Cabot, wife of Sam Cabot; and psychotherapist Judith List, wife of Dave Goodwillie.

President Bielock delivered our welcoming address Tuesday morning, her first as Dartmouth president to an alumni reunion class, and that evening accepted a check of more than $1 million for our 60th and another check for nearly $30 million donated by classmates during the College’s “Call to Lead” campaign. Wednesday morning class president Sam Cabot introduced officers and reunion leaders at our class meeting followed by class photo at Dartmouth Hall and memorial service led by Ken Kvistad with Bob Silverman, Bruce Baggaley, and class glee club conducted by Tim Ratner.

Reuning classmates included Scott Babcock, Boston descendant of a 17th-century Babcock captured and freed by Native Americans in Canada; Vin O’Neil of Washington, D.C., retired from government relations with wife Carol; Arnie Katz, retired M.D. turned poet with wife Honey; and Roger Parkinson, planning his 6:30 a.m. getaway for Thursday to make a Council on Foreign Relations meeting in New York.

My wife, Nicole, and I enjoyed lunch Wednesday under blue skies with Ed and Pam Boies, Dick and Caroline Swett, Tom Kraig, and Larry Bailey. Dinner Monday included Daryl and Joy Smith of Palm City, Florida; Frank Finsthwait and daughter Ashley of Atlanta; Tom and Betsy Coghlin of Saunderstown, Rhode Island; Ted Morehouse of Meriden, New Jersey; and Armand Villiger. We met up with many more throughout the week.

The last night featured 1960s and folk-rock songs with Pete Brown, Rick Kramer-Howe, Bill Lamb, and Bob Bysshe. Thank you, reunion chair Bill Subin and co-chair Ed Mazer. Petie would be proud.

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

If you haven’t registered for our spectacular 60th reunion in Hanover June 12-15, you can now by going to dartgo.org/reunions or our class website at 1963.dartmouth.org. Registration is possible up to start of event but there’s no guarantee of room availability in reserved McLaughlin Cluster dorms behind Baker-Berry Library. Options may include Hilton Garden Inn in Lebanon, New Hampshire, with a block on hold till May 13 or other accommodations. Chair Bill Subin has lined up football coach Buddy Teevens ’79 and other key speakers plus events such as the Paul Binder-produced cabaret and special “meaning of life” panel to include Dick Swett, John Merrow, Peter Israelson, Ernie Torres, Johannes von Trapp, Al Palmer, and Sam Cabot. Having difficulty registering? Call Dartmouth technical support at (603) 646-3202 or registration chair Mike Emerson at (206) 909-4526.

Steve Macht is interviewed with alumni from other classes in an insightful, lively podcast, Dartmouth and the Jews Who Loved It, part of the Gatecrashers series produced by Tablet Podcasts. Reached near home in Beverly Hills, California, Steve recounted with me his long, formidable acting career, including the 1977 TV film Raid on Entebbe and the more recent Suits TV legal drama featuring son Gabriel. Steve and Suzanne have four children and 10 grandchildren, “three of whom are bar mitzvahed.”

Well-deserved inclusion of Bill King (football), Denny Emerson (equestrian), and Gerry Ashworth (track and field) in this magazine’s “100 Greatest Athletes” issue prompted letters to the editor from Dave McCollum proposing addition of soccer All-American David Smoyer and from Bill Wellstead supporting football teammate Don McKinnon.

Coordinated by Jeff Nothnagle, our class became cosponsor of The Class of 1962 Caring Class Network Zoom series featuring experts in healthcare, law, and other issues affecting seniors. Watch for announcements.

I regret to report the passing of Bill Bonnell, William Messerly, Bruce Nichols, and John Willets. See obituaries by Tige Harris in the online DAM obits section. Tige returned from a well-deserved break in November visiting son John, a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officer normally stationed in Kiev, Ukraine, but now on temporary duty in Warsaw, Poland.

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

What more could Barry Sharpless accomplish after winning a Nobel in chemistry in 2001? Why win it again in 2022 and join five two-time Nobel winners, including Marie Curie and Linus Pauling. Two other Dartmouth alumni won the prize previously: geneticist George Snell, class of 1926, in 1980 and physicist Owen Chamberlain ’41 in 1959. Barry received this second Nobel for his pioneering work in “click chemistry,” a name that describes how “molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently” without producing excess byproducts. “This is a proud day for science and for Dartmouth as Barry Sharpless is recognized for work that is, among other things, transforming how researchers develop potentially lifesaving pharmaceuticals,” said President Hanlon.

John Bergman is, in his words, “90-percent retired.” John grew up in his New York family machine tool business and in the 1980s used that technology to help with the processing of natural stone, pioneering the use of computer controls. In 1985 John founded Bergman-Blair Machine Corp., working with a number of leading Italian and German machine builders. In 2005 he sold his firm to begin worldwide consulting, which continues to this day, “albeit at a reduced level.” John’s wife, Karen, is a professional artist and a world champion trap shooter. John shoots competitively and is on the board of directors of the Amateur Trapshooting Association. (In case you are wondering, Karen usually beats him.) The couple has six children and lives in Prescott, Arizona.

Our class lost a giant in September with the passing of Petie Subin, spouse of Bill Subin, whose tireless volunteer work set a high bar for all classmates and spouses. With Deamie Cabot, Petie created DartMates for spouses and widows. She helped lead trips to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Tuscany, Italy; performed in class cabarets; and co-chaired our 60th reunion.

Arnie Katz published On the Edge: Poems by a Surgeon (Vox Veritas). Chip Johnstone was academic vice president, not assistant vice president, of Western Governors University as stated in September-October.

I regret to report the passing of Pete Davis, Donald McKendry, and Bruce Coffey. Obituaries by Tige Harris appear online in this magazine.

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

Jerry Appelle will put away his tools and chair after a half-century of dentistry in Manhattan where he resides with wife Elaine Bernanke, cousin of former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke. Following studies at Tufts, Jerry served in the Mekong Delta, winning the Commendation Medal and Bronze Star. The Appelles are married 29 years and have a daughter. Retirement allows them to spend time in nearby Long Island’s East Hampton, where they often summer.

When Dick Swett shared New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s Harvard commencement speech on “the fragility of democracy,” Chip Johnstone couldn’t resist teasing, “It’s terrific, Dick. Do you have a habit of looking up Harvard commencement speeches?” Chip retired in 2006 from his own higher education career, most recently as founding assistant vice president and provost at Western Governors University, a nonprofit, online university in Utah. Chip earned his Ph.D. in English from University of Oregon. He and Peggy live in San Diego, California. Chip skis with sons Chris and Jonathan and hikes and fishes on the Green River, “one of the world’s great trout streams.”

Martin Luther King III addressed the College May 23, 60 years to the day when dad Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in 105 Dartmouth Hall. Share memories at Harvard Homecoming October 28-29 and at our 60th reunion June 12-15. Homecoming starts with dinner Friday at Dunk’s Sports Grill in Hanover; Saturday features the morning executive committee meeting, football in the stadium class section, and dinner at Lyme (New Hampshire) Inn. For our June 60th co-chairs Bill and Petie Subin organized committees and volunteers are welcome. Contact dwsubinlaw@comcast.net.

Biking stalwarts Mike Prince and John Merrow were at it again: Mike (his 37th) and wife Jeanne on behalf of the Dartmouth Cancer Center; John (his 12th) “Bike My Age,” this one for World Central Kitchen, depending on recovery from a tissue tear and bone spurs. Journalist Jack Smith lives in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, not Newton Square as reported here in May-June.

I regret to report the passing of Bob Goldberg. 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

Hawaiian-bred surfer Ash Hartwell credits teaching skiing to his career in education. He met wife Trish in the Peace Corps. Ash ran an Upward Bound program in Washington, D.C., while studying sociology and African American literature at Howard University. He earned his doctorate in international education from University of Massachusetts (UMass) and with Trish and three kids returned to Africa for 25 years in Uganda, Lesotho, Botswana, and Egypt. In Washington in 1992, Ash was full-time consultant for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), then moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1998 to teach education at UMass and consult. He retired in 2019 and advises Ph.D. students and consults on education and at USAID. Oh yes, Ash still teaches skiing.

Frank deSerio is finishing his first book, Insights of Successful Artists, about Avio Galleries Inc., an art consulting business he ran with Monica in Luray, Virginia. Two projects are “Joy Ideas,” essays on joy in daily lives, and an art installer app. Frank hasa Harvard master’s degree in architecture and served in Vietnam. After closing his business, he became a designer, architect, and consultant. The couple resides in Shenandoah, Virginia.

Jack Smith served in the Air Force before graduating in 1968. He moved from a public relations position to freelance writing, making his mark at The Robb Report, an iconic luxury lifestyle magazine where, in 1995, he launched the popular “Connoisseur at Large” column. Jack appeared regularly in The New York Times, Town & Country, Chicago Tribune, GQ, and M. Learn more at jackthewriter.net. Jack and wife Randy have two children. These days he writes for Inside Dunwoody, a retirement community publication in Newton Center, Pennsylvania.

Developer Dick Friedman completed a hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland. Jeff Nothnagle took a polar plunge to raise money for Special Olympics. Jim Page is among 155 past and present alumni Winter Olympics competitors. Mike Prince and Chuck Wessendorf plan the class mini-reunion October 28-29. I regret to report the passing of former class president Dick Berkowitz, class webmaster Terry Russell, Ted Cutler, and Mark Horwich. Obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition.

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

As Covid eased, planning for October 8-10 Homecoming mini-reunion cranked up in May. But by September concern over the Delta variant caused many class executive committee (EC) members and others to cancel. Undeterred, Sam Cabot, Ed Mazer, Mike Prince, and Chuck Wessendorf created a successful in-person and virtual fall mini, the first since 2019.

Friday night dinner split into two venues, Ariana’s at Lyme Inn in Lyme, New Hampshire, and Dunk’s Sports Grill in Hanover. Mike and Jeanne Prince, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Bob Silverman and Barbara Berlin, Bill and Carol Hindle and Steve and Diana Lewinstein gathered at Ariana’s; Sam and Deamie Cabot, Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan, George and Mary Jo Hellick, Gil and Debbie Knight, Tom and Betsy Coghlin, Bill and Petie Subin, and Bill “The Toe” Wellstead reunited at Dunk’s. Bill represented us in the parade. Chuck planned to attend his 101st consecutive Dartmouth football game, a streak beginning in 2009.

Next morning’s EC meeting was challenging. Ed Mazer and team worked with the College to book the spacious 1930 Room in Rockefeller Center and flawlessly link Zoom participants. By 8:40 a.m. president Sam Cabot was on the podium delivering his report and Ken Kvistad his prayer from Geneva, Switzerland, for deceased classmates, including recently departed EC members Marty Bowne and Bruce Coggeshall. Some 30-plus attendees enjoyed fascinating reports from football linebacker Joe Hefferman ’22, a class-sponsored athlete, and Ameena Razzaque ’21 and Alexander Kokoshinskiy ’22, sponsored community service interns. We launched planning of our 60th reunion, June 12-15, 2023. Our Dartmouth College Fund chair Bob Bysshe reported class contributions totaling $427,000 this year.

Dartmouth’s victory over Yale was celebrated at Dowd Country Inn in Lyme, New Hampshire, by Dick and Pam Booma, Sam and Deamie Cabot, Tom and Betsy Coghlin, Frank Finsthwait and daughter Elizabeth, George and Mary Jo Hellick, Bill and Carol Hindle, Gil and Debbie Knight, Steve and Diana Lewinstein, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Mike and Jeannie Prince, Bob Silverman and Barbara Berlin, Bill and Petie Subin, Dick Swett, Bill Wellstead, Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan, and Art and Sandra Williams.

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

Keeping Kennedy’s Promise: The Peace Corps: Unmet Hope of the New Frontier by Kevin Lowther and Payne Lucas (1978) was reissued in 2020 following Kevin’s The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: The Life and Times of a South Carolina Slave Who Returned to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland (2011), both inspired by Kevin’s Peace Corps and Africare service. Kevin also writes for Kelleher’s Stamp Collector’s Quarterly; Maynard Wheeler ’61 is included among his many readers.

Retired emergency room physician Steve Chase released his first novel, Forever Sunrise: A River to Immortality (Amazon), a science fiction tale of life, death, and the quest for immortality. Paul Binder is working on an audiobook version of Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion and Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus (2013) with a live forward by actress Glenn Close and narration by Max Samuels ’15, graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Paul resides in Sarasota, Florida, where he’s in contact with Fred Jarrett, general and vascular surgeon who lives in the area.

With the pandemic winding down, Fred and Barbara Schmucker prepared to travel from their home near the bay in Coupeville, Washington, to visit sons Fred Jr. and Eric, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Fred Sr. played hockey as a freshman and sophomore for coach Eddie Jeremiah, then joined the Navy and earned his degree at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Beginning with Ashland, he launched a sales career in heavy industrial chemicals before retiring with Barbara, a registered nurse.

Happy 80th birthday everyone. Dave Schaefer planted a fresh crop of tomatoes; John Merrow biked his age plus three. Celebrate yours at the ’63 Homecoming mini-reunion October 8-10. After-the-game cocktail party and dinner will be held at the Dowds’ Country Inn in Lyme, New Hampshire. Rooms there and at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lebanon, New Hampshire, may still be available. Check the class of ’63 website.

I regret to report the passing of Barry Elson and Guy Vicinelli.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

These three classmates balanced successful, satisfying careers with new adventures, accomplishments, and lifelong pursuits. Take Ken Lease, who retired in 2014 after more than two decades with the Oklahoma School of Sciences and Mathematics (OSSM), high school for gifted students in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ken, who has a master’s in math and doctorate in education from University of Oklahoma, soon after traveled to Singapore to teach a research class. These days he’s serving as mathematics head of the Oklahoma City branch of Oklahoma State University. Profiled in The Oklahoman, Pennsylvania-bred Ken joined the Peace Corps in Malaysia after Dartmouth, where he met Sharon, fellow volunteer and Oklahoma City University graduate. They married and taught in Guam for four years, where their first of two daughters was born, and then Iran, which they departed in early 1979 as the revolution got underway. Ken took a position as school principal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and then an opportunity in Alaska while Sharon tended the children and worked for state department in Oklahoma. Ken moved back to the state by 1986 and soon settled in at OSSM.

Ron Schecter was established in a 30-year career as commercial and real estate litigation attorney in New York and New Jersey when he and wife Peggy, an accomplished flutist and Julliard graduate, relocated to Maui, Hawaii, 18 years ago to devote themselves full-time to music, a longtime passion of Ron, who now performs with the Maui Pops Orchestra and the Maui Chamber Orchestra and arranges and performs works for unaccompanied cello, including a piece based on the “remarkable resonance” Ron heard “between T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Four Quartets’ and the unaccompanied cello suites of J.S. Bach.” The Schecters’ daughter, Nicole, and her husband, a Turner Broadcasting engineer, have two teen-aged violin playing children.

Jim Cogswell’s love of outdoors and family continues after his retirement as radiologist in Hood River and the Dalles in the scenic Columbia Gorge region of Oregon. A native of Tucson, Arizona, Jim developed his “everlasting appreciation” for wilderness during residency in Denver and has been a member of the Sierra Club since 1969. Jim and wife Leslie, a native Oregonian, now live in Bend, Oregon, where they walk at least six miles a day and climb, hike, and backpack with their children and grandchildren. Jim has two daughters, Carrie ’90 and Kat, and two stepdaughters, Olga and Brisa. He is planning a third European bike trip this summer after missing last year because of the pandemic.

Psi U’s New Year virtual cocktail party included David Halsted, Jim and M’Adele Irvin, Dick Friedman, Charlie and Claire Logan, Chris Wiedenmayer, Sam and Deamie Cabot, and Wick ’62 and Liz Warrick.

I regret to report the passing of Edward Smith of Santa Maria, California.Classmate obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition. We also note the death of David Prentice ’69, publisher of our 50th reunion book. “He was a pure joy to know and work with,” said Ed Mazer, the book’s editor.

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

Scott Babcock, Steve Brenner, Bob Chavey, George Hellick, Steve Lewinstein, and Gordon Weir were among 23 class executive committee (EC) members from around the country at our annual meeting, Saturday, October 3. Instead of the Treasure Room in Baker Library, we Zoomed from our own desks, kitchen tables, couches, chairs, or wherever comfortable. President Sam Cabot stressed the College’s need for help during this difficult year, praising our class’ success with virtual mini-reunions and philanthropic activities, including restricted gift initiates, “Friends” programs, Dartmouth College Fund, the Bartlett Tower Society, and dues payments.

At the meeting Frank Finsthwait reported on the four students in our sponsored athletes program, where we continue to lead all donors college-wide. Class scholars committee chair Marty Bowne identified Sri Sathvik Rayala ’24 of Plainsboro, New Jersey, as the newest among four undergraduates in that dynamic program. Bruce Baggaley, chair of our Dartmouth Partners in Community Service committee, was approved by the EC for a pilot project to recruit classmates in New England as mentors. EC members moved to offer honorary membership to Phyllis Coggeshall, wife of member Bruce Coggeshall, who died September 14 and whose obituary by Tige Harris will appear in the magazine online edition. Sixtieth reunion plans are on hold for at least a year, it was noted by committee chair Bill Subin.

So how are classmates coping with the pandemic? Retired radiologist Chris Harvey and wife Barbara are doing well in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, about 10 miles from Stone Harbor Beach. Chris is able to play golf twice a week, which he finds “far more difficult than football, baseball, and rugby.” Chris also follows Dartmouth basketball, “but we can’t compete till we get a couple of good big men over 6-feet-7,” he says. John Bell, who retired in 2018 as manager of a group ophthalmology practice in Wakefield, Massachusetts, “is hanging out” at home with wife Carol in Worcester, with family nearby and “being as careful as you can.” John also served as president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Administrators. Twin brother James J. Bell is living in Oneonta, New York. Jim, as he is better known, keeps fit by working out and walking daily. Bob Shanno, who retired in 2005 after 40 years teaching high school history in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, spends most of his time in or near home reading bestselling novelists such as James Patterson and watching TV programs that interest him. Bob traveled extensively in the past in the United States and Europe.

Charlie Parton and Bill Wellstead voiced support of Ken Kvistad’s written plea to the Alumni Council to restore lightweight crew and, rather than remove an historic weathervane from Baker Tower, to provide opportunities for Native Americans and inner-city applicants. “Dartmouth was always more than an academic institution with narrow objectives but rather about giving a chance to candidates of a full range of cultural and economic heritages,” Ken wrote, echoing earlier letters to the College from Dan Matyola and Bill Subin.

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

Lou Gerstner, former CEO of IBM and 2013 Dartmouth honorary degree recipient, donated $4.8 million in April to benefit high-achieving, low-income Dartmouth students with a demonstrated interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). “My path to Dartmouth led me to do something that reflects not only my passion about the problem of inequality, but also my own experience” as a first-generation college student from a family of modest economic means, Lou said.

In Richmond, Virginia, Ralph Hambrick, retired professor of public policy, published Transforming the James River in Richmond (The History Press), about how citizens, public-private partnerships, government leaders, advocates and volunteers brought about change.

On Martha’s Vineyard, south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, retired PBS broadcaster John Merrow biked his age—79 miles—on June 8 with donations earmarked for nonprofits in communities of color affected by coronavirus and protests over the murder of George Floyd. At home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Jeanne and Mike Prince anticipated their 39th annual ride, July 5 to raise money for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center. It would be virtual and include their three sons and granddaughter.

While all minis, including our 2021 80th birthday event, were canceled till further notice, two virtual Zoom events in May and June came off with great success.

The Psi U mini started with a toast and a lively song, according to Sam Cabot, a.k.a. “Cabbage.” Other partakers included Gerry and Mary Sullivan, Deamie Cabot, John and Althea Hicks, David and Michele Halsted, Dick Friedman,Wick ’62 and Liz Warrick, Charlie and Claire Logan, Pete Suttmeier, Jim and M’Adele Irvin, and Chris and Anne Wiedenmayer.

Thirteen classmates and spouses at the annual south Florida virtual mini in June celebrated the birth of Samuel Matthew Williams, grandchild of Art and Sandra Williams, among other classmate grandchildren, with Bob and Beth Bysshe, Dennis and Kay Eagle, John and Tatiana Kubacki, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Norris and Willie Siert, and Chuck Wessendorf.

In Los Altos Hills, California, retired heart surgeon Gary Silver and spouse MaryEllen enjoyed a visit in May from son Zachary and family. In Sandy Springs, Georgia, senior class president Jim Valentine strummed his 12-string guitar for wife Pam and friends. Writing in his daily journal in Middletown, Connecticut, Steve Bank recalled the birth of son Josh, June 7, 1968, one day following the murder of Robert Kennedy in that tumultuous year.

The death of George Floyd on Memorial Day, May 25, stirred Ed Mazer in Bradenton, Florida, to share feelings with classmates. In Chicago, Tom Jester recalled the police shooting of Laquan McDonald in 2014 while in Margate, New Jersey; former police defense attorney Bill Subin wrote “the Minneapolis incident should never have happened.” We would not know the reaction of Newsday police reporter Len Levitt, whose May 18 passing was recorded in a significant New York Times obituary.

I regret to report also the passing of Bob Burros of New York City on May 7. 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

When retirement beckoned, these classmates responded each in their own way.

Ed Wirth “retired” at least four times, first in 1995 from AT&T/Lucent, where he served 30 years in executive positions. Then came a second stint from 1997 to 2000 as chief business development officer at GVN Technologies, a telecom equipment startup, followed by a third gig from 2002 to 2006 as president and cofounder of Enersafe, manufacturer of remote battery monitoring systems, and most recently finishing up as adjunct professor at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. Ed still runs his own EDW Consulting in marketing and management and teaches online university courses. With Mary, a retired medical technologist, Ed has six children, plus grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

John Rose might still be working full-time were it not for politics. A Yale-trained lawyer, John served as assistant chief prosecutor in New Haven, Connecticut, then in private practice for 36 years in nearby Hartford, appointed Hartford Corp. counsel, back to private practice, and most recently back to New Haven as corporation counsel from 2015 to the end of 2019, when Democratic Mayor Toni Harp lost her bid for re-election, putting John out of a job. But John has plenty to keep him occupied, including daughter Anika, star in the 2006 Academy Award-winning film Dreamgirls, and son Khari, who owns a gymnasium in Taylor, Texas. John enjoys his grandchildren and at least two books a week, especially espionage thrillers by Ben Coes and the Jack Reacher adventure series by British author Lee Child.

Paul Howell writes novels in retirement, but his first book, Montreal Olympics: An Insider’s View of Organizing a Self-financing Games (McGill-Queens, 2009) derives in large part from his experience as technology consultant to the 1976 games, which helped launch him on a career in computers and communications—not what he expected when he enrolled at Columbia for graduate work in German literature. Paul studied in Munich, Germany, and when he, wife Betty, and son Matthias returned to New York, he took a job in computers at Prudential. The rest is history. The family moved for another computer assignment to Montreal, where Paul got recruited for the Olympics.

Michael Hirschenson, retired French arts professor and museum administrator, was reported in January as having recently bicycled 121 miles in the Pacific Northwest when the correct number was 191. This past winter he visited the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador.

Join classmates for “Tanglewood on Parade,” a ’63 mini-reunion July 27-28 featuring the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestras performing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with fireworks. Contact Steve Kurland, stkurland@aol.com, (508) 864-7979.

Polly Seymour penned a thank you and tribute to the class in memory of Dean Thad, who died last October, that appears in the March issue of the class of 63 newsletter, which you can read on the class website.

I regret to report the deaths of Dave Elders, Joe Connors, and Sherman Bendalin. Obituaries of classmates may be found in the magazine online edition, authored by class necrologist Tige Harris.

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

Homecoming Weekend 2019 bestowed its usual amazing effect, but there was something about this occasion that will be hard to forget. Maybe it was the perfect, sunny, 50- to 60-degree weather or the masterful 42-10 win over unbeaten Yale or the impeccably organized activities, including Friday dinner at Salt Hill Pub (note to foodies: the fish and chips is haddock), class executive committee meeting at Baker, dinner and drinks organized by Mike Prince at Jesse’s, and comfortable, modern suites booked for classmates at Holiday Inn Express in White River Junction, Vermont.

But most likely it was the camaraderie of some 40 classmates, family, and friends such as Pete Suttmeier, retired professor of government and political science at Hamilton College and University of Oregon, now in Keene Valley, New York; Steve Bank with wife Laney of Middletown, Connecticut, retired Wesleyan psychology professor and author of Hamlet: The Sequel, available on Amazon; Betsy and Tom Coghlin, retired ophthalmologist, North Kingstown, Rhode Island; Reg Jones of Bennington, Vermont, avid theater-goer and mentor to Dartmouth women’s basketball; Frank Finswaith, a.k.a. “The Vacuum Cleaner,” with daughter Liz, in his 52nd year teaching high school English and succeeding Bill Wellstead as chair of our class sponsored athletes program; retired ear-nose-and-throat surgeon Steve Kurland and wife Erika Goldberg of Framingham, Massachusetts; Gil and Debbie Knight up from West Falmouth, Massachusetts; and Steve and Diana Lewinstein of Newport, Rhode Island, joined by son Marc ’98.

Led by president Sam Cabot, our executive committee meeting heard from ’63 sponsored athletes, chaired by Bill Wellstead; ’63 class scholars, guided by Marty Bowne; and Dartmouth Partners in Community Service chair Bruce Baggaley, who introduced an intern serving in Bob Phillips’ San Francisco cohort group for nonprofits. Bob Bysshe reported our fundraising is in good shape, and Bill and Petie Subin looked ahead to our 60th reunion (need volunteers) and possible 80th birthday trip (need destination suggestions).

With us in spirit, if not in person at Homecoming, Michael Herschensohn, retired French arts professor and museum administrator, was home in Seattle, from where he recently biked 121 miles with son Zach, an attorney. “It was a glorious ride,” writes Michael, “interrupted by wind, rain, and one 600-foot hill, but rewarded by Chuckanut Drive’s narrow curving slopes and views to the Salish Sea and travels through the beautiful farmland of northern Washington and southwestern British Columbia.” Michael encourages contributions in honor of the ride to Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, ACT Theatre, or Northwest Folklife.

Pete Bostwick, retired U.S. senior intelligence officer for the U.S. Pacific Command, was no doubt himself busy at home in Corrales, New Mexico, where he is deeply involved with a large, invitation-only group of professionals and academics who write papers on a protected website. Pete’s particular interest is what he terms “threat from China,” based on his background in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, where he lived for two years.

I regret to report the deaths of Howard Neff, Al Mayer, and Mike Williams. Obituaries may be found in the magazine online edition.

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

Tige Harris of Portland, Oregon, has assumed the title of class necrologist, tasked with authoring class obituaries for this magazine. Tige succeeds Dan Muchinsky, who took on the post among many assignments in 2015. Tige, a relative newcomer to the class executive committee, has assumed his new assignment with skill and compassion. You can read Tige’s obits by going to the ’63 obituary section of the online magazine (www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits). Tige is a wealth manager by profession, which he continues to practice as a senior managing director at First Republic Bank. A Navy veteran and Stanford University M.B.A., Tige learned the financial ropes in New York and the United Kingdom before settling with Peggy and raising a family of four in the Northwest. I broached the idea of assuming the challenging assignment with Tige at our 55th reunion. Judging by his performance to date, we are in good hands. While Tige has certain requirements to satisfy before submitting each obit to the magazine, you are certainly free to reach out to him at lharris@firstrepublic.com or (503) 929-2030. The “L” stands for Lawrence, Tige’s given name. Welcome aboard, Tige.

Sam and Deamie Cabot, back from a week in Honduras, hosted a rousing mini at Boston’s Fenway Park June 12 for the last of the ninth Red Sox 4-3 victory over the Rangers. Classmates included Dave Goodwillie and Judith List, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Dick Booma, and David Halsted. GayleRichardson,widow of George “Sonny” Richardson, who lost his life in 2001 in a tragic skiing accident, attended with the Richardsons’ daughter, Susannah, and Susannah’s husband, Eric Lovejoy, who both live and work in Boston. Pre-game festivities began with drinks at the legendary Cask ’n Flagon, where Bruce Springsteen once performed, near the ballpark. The game was played earlier in the day, so ’63s and other Bosox fans could also watch the Boston Bruins take on the St. Louis Blues in the Stanley Cup final later in the day in a game that did not end well for the Bruins.

A few days earlier John Merrow took a break from what he calls “political madness” and his commentating therein. He and daughter Elsie took what can be termed a relatively solitary and satisfying ride of 78 miles beginning at the northern end of New York’s fabled Van Cortland Park across into Westchester County and continuing up the North County Trail into Putnam County. The goal was to bike John’s age, which he did for the ninth consecutive year with a few hundred extra feet to spare. John and Elsie saw a snapping turtle, a half dozen Canada geese, an adult deer, and “three or four times as many chipmunks as people.” John encourages you to donate $78 in honor of his ride to your preferred causes. John’s include the Network for Public Education, Coalition of Independent Public Charter Schools, and, of course, Dartmouth, among others.

I regret to report the deaths of Gordon Andrews, Cary Wyman, and Matt Wozniak.

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

Summer recalls youthful days of beaches, hiking, sports, travel, and communing with nature. For Pete Brown, such memories are filled with the many family members and friends who taught and nurtured him through an at times rugged journey from age 5 through adulthood. Pete’s nostalgic, moving memoir, Dedicated to S.O.B., is available on Amazon and Kindle. S.O.B. are the initials (and affectionate nickname) of Pete’s great-grandfather, S.O. Brown, a 19th-century Maine mill owner whose log cabin or camp provided welcome retreat during Pete’s childhood in Philadelphia and in various placees in the Midwest and West, including Denver. His father, a geologist, was killed in a plane crash when Pete was just 9. As a result, the Brown Camp in the Maine woods, founded by S.O.B., became all the more central to Pete’s life. The book—a collection of essays for the benefit of Pete’s children, grandchildren, classmates, friends, and other readers—includes Dartmouth adventures and descriptions of Pete’s work after college as high school math teacher and gymnastics coach, his 26 years as a professional in college admissions, including at Dartmouth from 1968 to 1975, and his 15 years as proprietor of sports card and memorabilia stores in Idaho and the state of Washington.

For ’63s, consider our own collective annual mini-reunion retreat in Hanover, October 11-12, featuring dinners Friday and Saturday night, the annual executive committee meeting (all ’63s invited) followed by Yale football on Saturday, and breakfast at the Hanover Inn on Sunday. The class has booked a block of 16 rooms at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in White River Junction, Vermont, that will be held till September 1. Call (802) 299-2700 to reserve. For further info, go to the Dartmouth ’63 website.

Thirty-four tickets were sold for the class block near the 50-yard line for Dartmouth vs. Princeton on Saturday, November 9, at Yankee Stadium in New York City. Although advance sales are closed, you can purchase tickets for general seating at DartmouthSports.com or by calling (603) 646-2466. Watch the class website for info about a possible get-together.

While you are on the site, check out the fact-filled summary and photos of the class trip last November to Cortona, the picturesque medieval hill town in the Tuscany region of central Italy known for its wine, scenery, and attractions. In addition, Claire S. “Deamie” Cabot, one of the organizers and author of articles and books, shared with me personal impressions traveling with class president and husband Sam Cabot from the Florence, Italy, airport. “As we traveled closer to Cortona, in the Arezzo province of Tuscany, we began to see large plantations of olive trees,” Deamie wrote. “People were gathering the harvest with large nets on the ground. The locals seemed to be coaxing the olives out of the trees with long rakes. We passed a magnificent church on our climb to the old city: Santa Maria delle Grazie al Calcinaio, a High Renaissance church built between 1485 and 1513 by Francesco di Giorgio Martini. It was perfectly square covered with an impressive dome.”

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

The Best Seat in the House is Dave Leighton’s first book about the naval aviation and airline worlds 1963-2001. In the author’s words, “What started as a whimsical little coffee table book for folks close to me, turned out to be a significant project and a bigger part of my life than I expected.” Writing on the book’s website, www.bestseat-leighton.com, Dave explains, “It is 250-plus pages of musings and mutterings, anecdotes and bantering, interesting facts, beautiful photos, and stories about the world as I saw it as a Navy fighter pilot and later as a 747 captain with Northwest Airlines.” Dave has written op-ed pieces for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune from his home in theLake Minnetonka area in Minnesota,where he resides with Mary, his wife of almost 50 years. Dave served as a naval aviator in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of North Vietnam. He joined Northwest in 1969. The Leightons raised three children. Dave can be reached at dleig1919@aol.com.

Charlie and Claire Logan organized a Psi U gathering in Roanoke, Virginia, that included Sam and Deamie Cabot, Chris and Anne Wiedenmayer, Gerry and Mary Sullivan, John and Althea Hicks, David and Michele Halstead, Pete Suttmeier,Wick ’62 and Liz Warrick and Skip ’61 and Patsy Kendall. The get-together included “wonderful tours and guides of the National D-Day Memorial, Thomas Jefferson’s second home in Poplar Forest, and the Natural Bridge, ” reports Sam Cabot.

While memories of our 55th last June remain vivid, what particularly stands out are individual conversations with classmates whom I may have known in passing or might not have known at all in our undergraduate years. Two of these encounters occurred in front of Baker Library at dinner with Rich Edelson and wife Judy of Bethesda, Maryland, and Doug Bell and wife Michelle of Denver; both men are physicians, the former a neurologist and the latter an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat). Rich, who retired in 2003 after a successful recovery from a serious bike accident, took up piano, volunteers at a clinic, enjoys his grandchildren, and travels. Doug, who also recovered well from medical issues, teaches at the University of Colorado Medical School, bikes long distances, and indulges his grandchildren.

At the 55th I bumped into football vet Frank Finsthwait, who teaches English and coached in Atlanta for more than 40 years, and Vaughn Skinner, also a football standout and now an avid golfer who lives near Syracuse, New York, and is retired from finance. I recently spoke with Ellen Kardon of Weston, Massachusetts, wife of Steve Kardon, who died in 2014. A football fan, Ellen alerted me to Dartmouth’s victory over Yale and 4-0 record in early October. Ellen recounted her precious memories of meeting Steve on a bike trip in France and how later in their marriage they recreated their trip in the Loire Valley.

I regret to report the death of Larry Keyes.

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

How lucky can you get? Our 55th reunion theme took on more meaning, June 11-14, thanks to the nearly 200 attendees, including Ken and Milli Kvistad of Geneva, Switzerland; Tige and Peggy Harris of Portland, Oregon; and Mike and Jane Emerson of Seattle. Freeman Ford piloted his plane from Chico, California. Terry Russell, Bill Marshall, and Johannes and Lynne von Trapp, whose family-brewed lager enlivened proceedings, arrived from Vermont.

Sports and parties happened at Mount Moosilauke and Lake Morey, Vermont, but in Hanover the focus was on bonding, including a memorial service conducted by Ken Kvistad and Steve Macht with Paul Binder, Marty Bowne, Dave Goodwillie, Larry Bailey, and Sam Cabot.

At the Rocky courtyard Monday night Armand Villager, Steve and Sharon Brenner, and Roger Parkinson talked at table. Nearby John Chamberlin, Doug Bell, and Geoff Murphy recounted undergraduate Glee Club miscues.

At Tuesday’s BBQ Bill “Ollie” Purcell recalled that as young New York DA he convinced a court in 1973 that the porn film Deep Throat was obscene. Appropriately, we adjourned to Loew Auditorium to hear a lecture by Dr. Sam Smith ’58 titled “Intimacy Should be Fun: What Does Age Have to Do with It?” Nothing, said Smith, if you follow three tips: hold hands every chance you get, kiss passionately, and hug in public. And we thought reunions were only for drinking, back-slapping, and swapping of old tales. An informative lecture on global warming by professor Erich Osterberg was followed by dinner on Baker lawn, where Claudia Rose, former account manager at J. Walter Thompson and spouse of Ted Morehouse, former ad man and later Internet bank executive, remembered Madison Avenue’s glory days. We packed Moore Theater in Hopkins to see Paul Binder and Petie Subin (wife of Bill) recreate their New York cabaret, with pianist Steve Kurland performing Gershwin and contributions from John Chamberlin, Steve Macht and Joyce Ratner, whose husband, Tim,directed the ’63’s glee club.

Wednesday featured talks on diabetes by Drs. Gordon and Susan Weir and world politics by professor Jennifer Lind. During our class photo Sturgess Dorrance, a retired broadcasting exec, proudly described the house he and wife Pam built on the Columbia River in Washington State.

Outgoing president Larry Bailey thanked fellow officers, including 55th chair Ed Mazer and 50th chair Tom Jester, and introduced Sam Cabot, our new president, at the class meeting. The evening banquet featured Soaring Pine Awards to Bob Bysshe, Ed Mazer, Marty Bowne, Steve Lewinstein, Tom Perry, Steve Guthrie, Terry Russell, Larry Bailey, Bill Russell, and Harry Zlokower for their service to the class and College. Humorist and UConn professor Gina Barreca ’79 brought down the house with tales of early Dartmouth coed days, followed by dancing and clapping to a hot Motown band.

More news on 55th reunion attendees and other classmates to come in future columns, including Tom Washing’s new book about a company’s quest to conquer an infectious child-killing disease in India. Catch up October 26-28 at the Homecoming (Harvard) mini-reunion in Hanover, and, if a vacancy arises, consider the class Tuscany trip in November.

I regret to report the deaths of Mike Morell and Ted Graves.

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

As of February, some 130 classmates, wives and significant others were registered for our 55th reunion in Hanover on June 11-14, including many who will partake in the optional Moosilauke Ravine Lodge overnight stay June 9-10 and the two-day extension at the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont, June 15-16. In addition to tours, parties, sports and educational programs, the reunion will offer entertainment by cabaret performers Paul Binder and Petie Subin Tuesday evening and banquet keynote by acclaimed humorist Gina Barreca ’79 Wednesday night, followed by partying to a Motown band (“My Girl,” “All Night Long,” “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch” and more) at the class tent. There is still time to register at www.63reunion.com. For last-minute questions, contact reunion registration chair Mike Emerson at johnmichaelemerson@comcast.net; mobile, (206) 290-8036; or home, (206) 242-0992.

Conversation about the future of higher education in these tumultuous times is bound to come up at the reunion. Mike Rie, retired professor of anesthesiology at the University of Kentucky, was moved after reading a New York Times piece about a letter to parents from John Allman, head of the elite K-12 Trinity School in Manhattan. The letter discussed alienation among students at Trinity for which Allman blamed “consumerist families that treat teachers and the school in entirely instrumental ways, seeking to use us exclusively to advance their child’s narrow self-interest.” Mike commented “After seeing that, I became convinced that many people whose children are in the pre-college group are going off the rail. I was impressed that the head of Trinity School got it and wondered that as an alumni group do we at Dartmouth have thoughts about recruitment and the great demarcation we have in this country between the well-off and the not well-off?”

Steve Spahn, who will be at the reunion with wife Constance, believes college admissions officers are less interested today in SATs and transcripts. “They want students with critical-thinking abilities. It’s a game changer,” Steve says. He should know, as one who is marking his 50th year as chancellor of Dwight School, an international baccalaureate school headquartered in New York with branches in China, Korea, United Kingdom, Canada and most recently Dubai. “I believe we are in a new age of educational enlightenment,” Steve said. “If you want to survive, you better have a philosophy and an approach both as an educator and as a student. We are redesigning how you train teachers. How do you test for ideas? Everyone wants simple solutions, but we have to redefine what we want to develop in kids.” The Spahns’ sons have followed in dad’s footsteps. Blake, a Columbia grad, is vice chancellor of Dwight; Kirk ’99 founded Dwight’s online high school.

Frank Wohl, a lawyer specializing in complex civil litigation, regulatory enforcement and white-collar crime, was honored in March with the prestigious 2018 Norman S. Ostrow Award presented by the New York Council of Defense Lawyers. Celebrated defense lawyers Benjamin Brafman, Gerald Shargel and Barry Scheck and former SEC chair Mary Jo White are among previous winners.

Finally, I wish to mention that Ed and Charlene Mazer were also part of our group at Paul Binder and Petie Subin’s N.Y.C. cabaret covered in last issue’s column.

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

A record turnout of nearly 70 classmates, family and friends attended Homecoming Weekend October 6-7 featuring dinners and an executive committee meeting organized by Sam Cabot, plus parade, bonfire and a 28-27 come-from-behind football victory over unbeaten Yale, reminiscent of the rain-filled game in New Haven, Connecticut, our freshman year, October 31, 1959, when Dartmouth rallied to stop another undefeated Yale team 12-8.

The 2017 version began under similar rainy conditions, tapering off into drizzle and dry conditions while the ’63 class section—including Joe Shannon of North Haledon, New Jersey, and Gil Knight of West Falmouth, Massachusetts, retired respectively from finance and advertising—cheered on the Big Green. Festivities began Friday night as nearly 50—including Tom Kraig of Barrington, Rhode Island; Mike Emerson of Seattle; Jeff Nothnagle of Cohasset, Massachusetts; and Tom Coghlin, Jack Huber, Ted Suess and Dick Suett—dined at the Canoe Club on Main Street, concluding with a “Happy Birthday” serenade to Ernie Torres, retired federal judge from Wakefield, Rhode Island.

During the course of the weekend we had the opportunity to learn about George Hellick’s trip to Sitka, Alaska, where he was helped by Niki Bunting, a tour guide who turned out to be the daughter of the late Dave Bunting; Marty Bowne’s volunteer work with three generations of Guatemalans sponsored by his church; Dan Muchinsky’s new endeavor as a mystery writer; Dave Schaefer’s recovery from a debilitating heart attack; and retired architect John Lehigh’s new career at wife Missy’s adoption agency.

Nearly 30 classmates attended our annual executive committee meeting in the Treasure Room of Baker Library, where near the end of a packed agenda president Larry Bailey announced he would appoint a committee to nominate class officer candidates to carry us into a new term. Subsequently Larry named Dave Schaefer committee chair and Dick Berkowitz, Bob Bysshe and Marty Bowne as members. Chair Ed Mazer issued an update on the 55th reunion, June 11-14, and two-day extension till June 16. It will now include a two-day pre-extension (June 9-10) managed by Chuck Wessendorf at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge.

Saturday night we celebrated the victory at the beautiful center chimney, 18th-century colonial of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes in Plainfield, New Hampshire, where classmates included Bruce Baggaley, Dick Booma, Bill Breetz, Bruce Coggeshall, Freeman Ford, Dave Goodwillie, Tom Jester, Steve Lewinstein, Hank Rogers, Bill Subin and Gordon Weir.

In other news, Bob Greenwood, who has run theater-dance company Sun.Egos for 40 years far from Hanover in Calgary, Canada, recently created a series of paintings on the theme of reconciliation that can be viewed online at flickr.com/photos/sunergos/albums/72157682137371643. John Merrow was interviewed on PBS NewsHour in October about his new book, Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education.

I regret to report the deaths of Jim Knappenberger, Walter Kincaid and Bob Haubrich.

Peter Rollins, whose death was previously reported, was inducted posthumously October 21 into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame. Peter served as a Marine in Vietnam and was professor of English at Oklahoma State University.

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

Bob Reynolds, who celebrated his 76th birthday celebration with grandchildren in February, might very well have taken a spin in his 1929 Model A Ford Speedster or 1938 Ford Convertible Sedan, antique cars he has restored and drives on the beautiful park roads of hometown Morristown, New Jersey. The Sedan is one of the few from the 1930s with rollup windows rather than side curtains. Bob and Tibbie, who celebrated their 55th anniversary last December, are proud of their granddaughters, who live with them, one a senior at Morristown High School and the other a senior at Drew University, where she will graduate with honors in psychology.

Erroll Miller braved below-freezing weather in mid-March to make his weekly bridge game at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he once taught estate planning and “Questioning the Criminal Justice System.” Days later Erroll, a Harvard-trained lawyer, was on his way to a 24-day trip to Australia and New Zealand.

Arnie Katz, retired chief of otolaryngology at State University of New York at Stony Brook, now sees patients with post-traumatic stress disorder weekly on a volunteer basis at the Northport VA Medical Center on Long Island, teaches a course on his passion, “Classic Films and Modern Myths” at the Stony Brook OLLI chapter and is writing a book about his studies and career in medicine. Arnie still manages to find time to serve as commander of his local American Legion Post. He recently took time off for a trip to Manhattan with wife Honey to see Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly!

John Merrow, who shared news via email with dozens of friends about a “botched biopsy” of the prostate that landed him in the emergency room in a life-threatening situation, tweeted a month later that he is “feeling much better and very happy to be on the right side of the grass.” John, retired education correspondent at PBS, keeps his audiences aware of his strong views on everything from education to juvenile detention centers to the state of journalism in America on his blog, themerrowreport.com. John’s biopsy turned out to be negative. He advises patients in the same situation to insist on an MRI before undergoing a biopsy.

New York’s iconic Big Apple Circus, founded 40 years ago by Paul Binder, won a new lease on life in February after having to cancel (for the first time in its history) its 2016-17 season. Compass Partners, a Sarasota, Florida-based investment firm, announced it acquired the circus for $1.3 million and plans to reopen at Lincoln Center featuring high-wire artist Nik Wallenda, whose family, the Flying Wallendas, was a circus favorite. Paul retired from management and ringmaster duties a while back, serving as consultant and writing a popular book about the circus. These days he performs old favorites, show tunes with discourse at New York’s Metropolitan Room and other venues.

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

Though ’round the girdled earth he roamed, David Halsted settled in an 1814 Federal-style home an hour from Hanover after retiring from 32 years in the Foreign Service with stops in Uganda, Lesotho, Tanzania, South Africa, Burma and Washington, D.C., capped by a three-year stint as U.S. ambassador to Chad in Central Africa. David and wife Michele, also a Foreign Service veteran, took up residence in 2001 in their Bradford, New Hampshire, home decorated by Rufus Porter, a mid-19th-century muralist who worked on some 160 houses and inns throughout New England and as far south as Virginia. The lifestyle suits David, a Vermont native who is as comfortable working with moldings and making furniture as he is skiing and enjoying the outdoors. David keeps up with class activities, including the Santa Fe, New Mexico, birthday trip, ski trips and a Red Sox game last year. An international relations major, David attended officers candidate school after college, serving in Ethiopia and Boston. He earned a master’s at George Washington University before embarking on his long, productive Foreign Service career.

Travel in the service of our country is also a big theme for Bob Davis, who still practices law in the state of Washington, after a journey beginning freshman year as a member of the Marine Corps’ platoon leader class program that included summers in Quantico, Virginia. After Stanford Law School Bob went back to Marine Corps training and was assigned to the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam as lawyer with collateral duties, and remained in the reserves until 1990 with the rank of colonel and a Bronze Star. In 1970 Bob joined Lane Powell, a large Seattle-based law firm, where he remains associated. “I like to say my specialty in environmental and natural resources (paper and timber companies) and railroad law is the cutting edge of the 19th century,” he joked, “when considering the Northwest is obsessed with high tech and media these days.” Mostly though these days Bob enjoys volunteering for Employees Support for the (National) Guard and Reserve, an intermediary for national guardsmen and their employers. He also loves to swim at the Washington Athletic Club. He and Suzanne, whom he met when she was working for the United States in Vietnam, have two married daughters in California.

Bob Reynolds, also a Vietnam veteran with a Bronze Star, retired in 2000 after 36 years in the telecommunications industry serving companies including New Jersey Bell, AT&T and Lucent. Bob enjoyed a taco dinner February 25 with his family, including three granddaughters, to celebrate his 76th birthday. Political consultant and real estate developer Tim Kraft and wife Molly found themselves relocating to Albuquerque, New Mexico, from nearby Las Cruces in the middle of the class Santa Fe birthday reunion. While they could not make the festivities, the Krafts did take time out to have an “enjoyable lunch with Jim Page, Bob Kaplan and Gil Knight and their spouses.”

I regret to report the death of Skip Eichin in Cashiers, North Carolina.

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

Our class captured two prestigious prizes at the annual Dartmouth Class Officers Weekend in September: The Donald C. Smith ’53 Award in Recognition of an Outstanding Mini-Reunion Program and Treasurer of the Year, extolling the more than 30 years of service by Bill Russell on behalf of the class and College.

The Class Officers Association praised ’63s for setting “the standard” in mini-reunions, attracting more than 400 classmates and guests to 21 mini-reunions. Earlier, class president Larry Bailey singled out class mini-reunion chair Tom Perry for “a masterful job coordinating ’63 mini-reunions all across the country,” including football tailgates, golf outings, the Tanglewood Music Festival and “virtually every off-campus speaking engagement of President Hanlon.”

Tom’s mini-reunion work was on view at Tanglewood in early August, when nine ’63s with wives and guests enjoyed stellar hospitality at the home of Dick and Carol Berkowitz. They included Paul Binder and Shelley Doctors, Sam and Deamie Cabot, Richard and Ann Kline, George and Mary Hellick, Paul Kappel and wife Mary Reineman, Steve and Erika Kurland, Daryl and Joy Smith, Gordie and Susan Weir and Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan.

At Yankee Stadium the evening of September 27 nine ’63s with spouses, friends and offspring feasted on franks, fries and brew and watched the Yanks snap the Red Sox 11-game winning streak in one of David Ortiz’s last appearances. We caught up with Peter Slavin, a journalist whose recent Washington Post piece recounts how an unsung historian worked to uncover details of the early life of Harriet Tubman, a leader on the Underground Railroad. Peter traveled to New York from Oakton, Virginia, as guest of Dan Matyola and wife Lee, who organized the evening with Paul Binder of Manhattan. Bill and Petie Subin and Art and Sandra Williams also came up from Jersey. Arnie (originally from Boston-area) and Honey (ex-Brooklynite) Katz of Stony Brook, New York, renewed their ancient Yankee-Red Sox rivalry. Armand Villiger, also from Long Island, Barry and Jane Linsky from midtown Manhattan, and Harry and Nicole Zlokower rounded out the group. A few days earlier Dave Schaefer, Chuck Wessendorf, Tom Kraig, Chris Weidenmayer and Steve Bank met up in Worcester, Massachusetts, to watch Dartmouth beat Holy Cross in football, 35-10.

In winning the Treasurer of the Year Award, Bill Russell was lauded for his efforts in funding the many mini-reunions in addition to strong dues collections and enabling our class to invest significant money in Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, Dartmouth athletic sponsors and the Class of 1963 Scholarship Fund. “Bill has been the ideal financial person for the class, quickly calculating the impact of potential class projects on our finances and the financial trade-offs we have to make in deciding between project options,” said president Larry Bailey. Boston real estate developer Dick Friedman was awarded the Charles E. Rogerson Award for Community Service at a Boston event to benefit affordable housing for the elderly attended by Bruins president Cam Neely.

I regret to report the death of Dick Kiphart in Chicago.

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

Football may be the sport du jour in October, but for ’63s baseball in September is providing venues, starting Monday night, September 12, when Chip Bohlinger, Al Palmer and classmates see the Mets and Nationals at Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.

In New York Tuesday night, September 27, Adam Heyman (with son Douglas ’98 and grandchildren George and Sandy), Art and Sandra Williams, Arnie and Hermine Katz, Barry and Jane Linsky, Bill and Petie Subin, Armand Villager, Dan and Leonora Matyola (with son Gregory), Paul Binder and Shelly Docters, and Harry and Nicole Zlokower witness the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.

The Red Sox face the Blue Jays Friday night, September 30, at Fenway with Dave Goodwillie and Judith List, David and Michele Halsted, Sam and Deamie Cabot, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Gordon and Susan Weir, Gil and Deborah Knight, Paul Kappel and Mary Reinman, Bill and Roberta Whiting, Ash Hartwell and Scott Babcock on hand. A few hours later Pacific Time, at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Randy and Lin Reetz, Don and Constance Apostle (with son Greg and granddaughter Avery), Hoppy and Cheryl Neff, Jim Dial, John Farnsworth, John and JoAnne Richards, Bob and Susan Dresser, Arnold and Junko Low, Jim Bell and brother Dexter, and Bill Price and Joan Frost take in the Giants and Dodgers. Class mini-reunion chair Tom Perry put it all together.

Minis go through October with more than 100 classmates, spouses and partners at the 75th birthday bash in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Friday, October 14, through Tuesday, October 18, followed a few weeks later by our ’63 Homecoming reunion in Hanover, October 28-30. The event will include our annual dinner at the Canoe Club on Main Street and the parade Friday; class meeting, Harvard football, party at the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes on Saturday; and possibly breakfast at the Hanover Inn Sunday. Rooms for ’63s are set aside at the Fairfield Inn in White River Junction, Vermont. Don’t forget to buy football tickets in advance in the class section where the viewing and camaraderie are perfect.

John Dickey, who lives far from the Hanover scene today, expressed vivid memories in Quebradillas, his 2011 collection of poems of life and nature near his home in northeastern Puerto Rico with interludes of autobiographical verses of his earlier life in Hanover and Dartmouth. Now John is presenting the third edition of Quebradillas as an ebook that includes photographs and audio readings of the poems. The book can be experienced on an Apple iPad, iPhone or iPod for $4.99 by going to the Apple App Store and searching for Quebradillas. For a very brief preview go to YouTube and search for “Quebradillas John Dickey Poetry.”

I caught up with Daryl and Gina Erickson amidst a serious gardening project at home in Amherst, New Hampshire. Daryl retired in 2010 after 10 years as a medical missionary surgeon in the United Arab Emirates, nearly 20 years at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and three as president of MedSend, serving “spiritually and physically needy people around the world.”

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

Retirement is good for Rick Dickinson, Hampton, New Hampshire, and Bill Messerly, Atlanta.

Rick retired 10 years ago from GTE Sylvania in Salem, Massachusetts, where he commuted daily from Topsfield, Massachusetts. As financial analyst and internal auditor Rick managed shareholder services, 401(k)s, stock transfers and other benefits for thousands of employees. Now the University of Missouri M.B.A. occupies himself with reading, playing bridge and indulging in pickleball, which is played with paddles and whiffle balls on badminton-type courts. Rick and Margie, whom he met at Smith College, have two daughters, Sarah ’99 married to Patrick Deleon ’99, and Alice Louise, Stanford ’00, wed to a Stanford grad.

Bill retired 15 years ago but still keeps a hand in Courier Express, a multi-million-dollar regional business he launched in 1990 in Atlanta after 15 years as a home builder. Courier Express is now run by sons Jack and Jim, who between them have six children, including one at University of North Carolina and another at Auburn in Alabama. Bill met wife Linda in Philadelphia while attending Wharton School. The couple lives mostly in Atlanta, where Bill sees Jack Huber. The Messerlys winter at Bonita Springs, Florida, north of Naples, and recently bought a summer condo in Highlands, North Carolina. Avid croquet, bocce and pickleball players, Bill and Linda recently returned from a four-day fishing trip in Costa Rica, where their party of 21 caught 180 sailfish. Bill’s fondest memories of Dartmouth include working at the reserve desk with Pam Valentine, wife of Jim Valentine, meeting Robert Frost at a special tea in the librarian’s office and studying architectural history with professor Hugh Morrison.

Actor and ordained chaplain Steve Macht published a monograph, “Aristotle’s Tragic Reversal Illuminates Maimonides’ Concept of Teshuva” in April in The Journal of the Aspen Center for Social Values. Steve will lead a workshop in Aspen, Colorado, this summer on how his thesis applies to 50 years of thinking and working in television, movies and theater and his work as a chaplain. Maimonides was a great Jewish medieval philosopher who adapted Aristotelian thought to Biblical faith. Teshuva is Hebrew meaning “repentance.”

Since winning first prize on Chopped Junior on the Food Network, Dave Schaefer’s grandniece Elizabeth Oakes, 12, appeared on hometown radio in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and was honored by the town board. During a flight to Florida with her parents, Elizabeth was recognized twice by women in the airport. Class athlete-scholar chair Bill Wellstead reports Karen Chaw ’16, our sponsored athlete from California, is a preseason All-Ivy pick, having batted .317 and finished second in homeruns last year. Carol Bieneman, widow of Jim Bieneman, has been named honorary member of the class.

Coming up: Canadian fishing trip in July, Tanglewood in August, baseball games in September and Santa Fe, New Mexico, trip and Homecoming in October. Details on class website or from Tom Perry, thomas.perry@dartmouth.edu.

I am sorry to report the passing of Whit Kimball and Bob Oakes, bringing the number of classmates reported deceased to 160.

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

I parked down Maple Street to the west of Main on Homecoming Night, which was the best I could do. In return I got to climb a gentle slope lit by gracefully aging homes to the warm welcome of the Canoe Club, one of the best of eateries that have replaced the short-order Hanover we knew for four years.

There, amidst the crowded room at a table stretching nearly wall to wall, were 40 or so ’63s as hungry for the renewal of old times as for the Ahi tuna, vegetarian ravioli and sautéed Maine mussels. I sat with George and Mary Jo Heller, who divide retirement between Pennsylvania and Arizona; Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan, about to witness their 55th consecutive Dartmouth football game; and Sam and Deamie Cabot. Sam, with Dan Muchinsky, organized the weekend. Afterward we joined the parade of classes to Dartmouth Hall, till a sudden Dartmouth-style downpour caused us to scurry to our cars. Luckily I was able to catch a lift with Ken Kvistad of Berne, Switzerland.

Our exec committee convened Saturday morning in the stain-glassed Treasure Room of Baker Library. We heard from student scholar-athletes, introduced by Bill Wellstead, scholar-scholars, tended by Marty Bowne, and community service mentees, managed by Bruce Baggaley, all programs that have been funded by your generous dues and class contributions. We voted to continue our support of these programs and heard a report from Tom Perry on mini-reunions, which included Yankee Stadium in September attended by Dan and Lee Matyola, Paul Binder and ShelleyDoctors, George and Olga Badenock, John and Joan Merrow, and me. Reports were made by head class agent Bob Bysshe, Ed Mazer and Petie Subin (class birthday trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2016), outgoing Alumni Council rep Bruce Coggeshall (Bob Bysshe will replace), newsletter editor Dave Schaefer, treasurer Bill Russell, webmaster Terry Russell, gift planner Bob Chavey and this writer, who announced the appointment of Dan Muchinsky (dmuchinsky@earthlink.com) as class necrologist, responsible for obits in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

Sam and Deamie Cabot, Bill and Petie Subin, Dan Muchinsky and I had Reubens, lobster rolls and local beers on draught at Salt Hill Pub on Lebanon Street. Beautiful weather, front-row seats and victory for Dartmouth over Yale made time pass quickly in a four-hour game punctuated with TV timeouts. Gil and Deborah Knight, Dave and Judith Goodwillie, John and Melissa Lehigh, Chris and Barbara Harvey and Ernie and Jan Torres were among ’63s rooting through it all.

Dozens of ’63s packed Zimmerman Lounge at Blunt Alumni Center right on campus for our end-of-game party Saturday night, among them Bob and Sally Barnum of Lyme, New Hampshire; Dick and Carolyn Swett of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine; and Larry and Bobbie Chapman of Loudon, Tennessee.

We lost two standouts during this period: Roger Adelman, who was prosecutor of President Reagan’s would-be assassin John W. Hinckley in 1982, on September 12, and Tom Berger, the prominent Shakespearian writer and editor, on October 6.

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

A fighter pilot who transitioned to civilian airlines in 1969 and now retired 14 years, Dave Leighton maintains his calm with self-deprecating humor. Dave has penned serious and carefully reasoned op-ed pieces in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on weighty matters such as relations with North Korea and treatment of prisoners in the Iraq War as well as his very funny essay in our 50th reunion book, where he writes among other things, “To my credit I’ve paid all my bills, never been in jail, am genuinely liked by most dogs and rarely giggle or drool in public.” In our conversation he advised, “If you’re from Minnesota you learn to put up with cold winters and summer mosquitoes,” and “Mary and I live four miles from Lake Minnetonka, where I grew up, and yet our three kids can’t live far enough away.” John Newman, whom Dave knew at Dartmouth, lives nearby when John’s not in Naples, Florida. Dave and John met after college in the Navy flight program, then in Vietnam and then again when John joined Northwest Airlines a month after Dave did. John roomed at Dartmouth with Jack Phelan, Dave’s “hockey buddy.” Dave played hockey till he was 50 and coached the “Minneapolis cops.”

And speaking of the Star-Tribune, Roger Parkinson, former publisher and president, received the University of Minnesota board of regents’ Award of Distinction, one of the highest awards given to a non-alumnus. Roger, who lives in Toronto, Canada, is vice chairman of the dean’s advisory council for the university’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and former publisher of the Toronto Globe and Mail and Buffalo Courier-Express. Roger earned a Bronze Star in Vietnam and an M.B.A. from Harvard and an M.A. in international relations from University of Toronto.

John Merrow, author, documentary maker and longtime education correspondent for PBS, will in late October receive the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation Prize, which has gone to prominent professors and scholars Linda Darling-Hammond and Diane Ravitch. Dolores Kohl is a scholar and writer. John and Joan will travel to Chicago for the award, which includes $10,000, which “means I can afford to buy a drink for any classmates” in the area, he quipped.

Roger Adelman posed with former Pennsylvania governor and U.S. attorney general Dick Thornburgh, who presented him the Justice Potter Stewart Award by the Council for Court Excellence (CCE). Roger then went on to give “a riveting speech on the importance of jury trials in the 21st century,” the CCE report said.

Seventeen classmates, spouses, widows and friends enjoyed the first DartTravel ’63 trip, May 7-21, a cruise from Amsterdam to Vienna down the Rhine, Mein and Danube rivers organized by Petie Subin and Ed Mazer. Other classmates included Bill Wellstead, Sam Cabot, Gordon Weir, Mary Lord, widow of Dan Watts, Bill Subin, Jim Knappenberger and Dan Kellogg. Save October 12-16, 2016, for the 75th birthday celebration in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico.

I am sorry to report the deaths of Frank McGrath, Fred French, Jamie Weisman and Peter Rollins.

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

Pete Cornish, whose career as creative director at mega ad firms Young & Rubicam and J. Walter Thompson qualifies him for Mad Men, likes to cite classmates with whom he has had unique memories or with whom he has just been in touch. He also has the ad man’s gift of gab. There was Pete’s early showbiz phase as drummer in the Lancers, a campus rock band led by guitarist, singer and class president Jim Valentine, and Pete’s post-college avocation as quiz show contestant, recruited by Paul Binder, then a producer at Jeopardy. Pete moved on to To Tell the Truth, where he played an impostor. Pete and Jill, a retired teacher, relocated from Philadelphia to Asheville, North Carolina, during 50th reunion week, and Jill “was kind enough” to do the packing to enable Pete to drive up to Hanover with Gamma Delt brother Bill Manbeck, a construction executive from Mifflintown, Pennsylvania. “We pulled up to our dorm, opened the car door,” recounted Pete, “and somebody says, ‘Pete.’ A guy comes up and says he remembers me, but I don’t know him at all. Turns out he’s Pete Petersen, a Sig Ep, and we were in the Choate Road dorms. When I saw his nametag said Henderson, North Carolina, I realized we were moving right near there that very week and that we were going to be neighbors again. So we got to know each other at reunion and now it’s Jill and Judy, who is Pete’s wife, and Pete and Pete,” a retired manufacturing executive for American Cyanamid in New Jersey. “It’s been nice to get to know a ’63 I didn’t know,” says Pete Cornish, who also stays in touch with Bob Kaplan, a lawyer in Santa Monica, California.


And if that is not a great story, how about Bob Greenwood, a thespian’s thespian, who returned earlier this year after a three-week tour of teaching and performing in Iran? Bob’s Sun.Ergos, a theater and dance company he founded in Alberta, Canada, with partner Dana Luebke, taught acting and movement, performed Shakespeare at the City Theater Hall in Tehran and did research at several of the city’s important museums. They also worked in the Iranian cities of Lahijan and Isfahan and stopped in Istanbul, Turkey, for two days of research. A Dartmouth Players stalwart, Bob earned a master’s at Yale School of Drama and taught at universities before creating Sun.Ergos in 1977. He has taught and performed in 20 countries, including in the 1990s in war-torn Croatia, for which Bob and Dana received the highest Croatian cultural prize. 


Mark your calendars for October 9-11, when we have our annual Homecoming mini-reunion at peak foliage, featuring Yale-Dartmouth football, dinner, party, class board meeting and Hanover Inn breakfast. Limited number of rooms are reserved at Comfort Inn in White River Junction, Vermont, or you can stay elsewhere, but make your reservations early.


I am sorry to report the deaths of Peter Gina, Don McKinnon, Greg Knight, Robert Neuman and Gordon Fowler.


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


Homecoming mini-reunions ignite memories, this one in a short ride from White River Junction, Vermont, in a taxi (“Sit up front, I won’t bite,” said the elderly female driver) as we crossed the bridge onto Route 5 to the Hanover Inn for a get-away breakfast with Bob Bysshe, John Lehigh, Sam Cabot, Ed Mazer, Larry Bailey and Dick Suett. With glimpses of 4 Aces Diner near the bridge and Baker Tower rising dramatically from the southern foot of Main Street, I thought of my first visit to Dartmouth while a high school student in the fall of 1958. Little has changed. The hill is still there, the majestic tower slowly coming into view, and the excitement that is engendered. Welcome home! 


As mini-reunions go this one was a winner with a record attendance of 60 classmates, wives, friends and family, 42 of whom made it to the Canoe Club for dinner Friday night and proudly marched behind the ’63 banner carried by David Warr of Wareham, Massachusetts. There was Steve Guthrie, a stockbroker from Scarborough, Maine; Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan of Wilton, Connecticut, looking forward to their (count’em) 43rd straight Dartmouth football game; Tom Craig and Peggy Thorpe of Barrington, Rhode Island, both lawyers; co-mini-reunion chair Sam and Claire “Deamie” Cabot of Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, she, author of A Short History of Ingredients (Xlibris); and Reg Jones of Bennington, Vermont, who in two days managed to attend lectures on health and climate change, two volleyball matches, a women’s basketball practice, the football game and concerts by the Glee Club and Gospel Choir. 


Saturday morning’s meeting was a full house and an agenda lasting three hours, punctuated with grateful testimonials from student athletes and scholars and a rousing talk from Steve Spaulding, assistant athletic director for leadership. President Larry Bailey of Lopez Island, Washington, announced Charlie Parton of Rumson, New Jersey, and Petie Subin (Bill), of Margate, New Jersey, as members of the executive committee, and Ed Mazer of Long Meadow, Massachusetts, to be 55th reunion chair. Webmaster Terry Russell reported 889 hits on the website, including 219 unique visitors. The board voted to recruit a communications officer to manage the proliferation of media. Rain was in the forecast but it remained dry through three quarters of a hard-fought game against Holy Cross in which Dartmouth prevailed 24-21.


Soon it was time to party at what has become a traditional venue, the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes in Plainfield, New Hampshire. The following joined the crowd of 40-plus to take a photo and sing “Happy Birthday”: Scott Babcock of Norwell, Massachusetts, retired computer systems designer, and wife Marcia; Dave Goodwillie and Judith List of Potomac, Maryland; Bruce Baggaley of Shelton, Connecticut, who returned to his passion, coaching rowing, at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, and wife Patti; Steve and Diana Lewinstein of Newport, Rhode Island; and Ted Suess of Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania (Anne was at her high school reunion). 


Sorely missed are four classmates whose deaths were announced recently: Robin Carlson, Marty McMullen, Robert Neuman and Floyd Peterson.


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


Golf will make its debut at our annual Homecoming reunion this year. If you can make it to Hanover by 10:30 a.m. Friday, October 17, and golf is your thing, contact Tom Perry at (603) 298-6034 and you may still be able to join the fun. The sport has gained a foothold in class activities, with three off-campus reunions last year and more planned for 2015. As a would-be golfer, I contacted a few ’63 participants for some commiseration and tips. 


Doug Cooper, who played at the Palm Desert, California, mini, advises patience on the course above all. He credits Vin Di Figlia of San Diego for getting him to make the trip from Rocky River, Ohio. Doug is retired from a career as commercial real estate lawyer with a local law firm and a developer. He currently serves on the board of revisions, which reviews challenges to the tax valuation of real estate in his community. Doug’s son Bryan ’89 recently celebrated his 25th reunion. 


“Watch golf swings, practice on the range and above all maintain realistic expectations,” counseled Norris Siert, who traveled with wife Willie six hours from their south Florida home to the Sarasota golf mini-reunion that included friends Ed Wirth and Jay Olin and other classmates. Sarasota is also home of the Circus Ring of Fame, where Paul Binder was inducted in January with Bill Wellstead and Bruce Coggeshall in the audience.


Norris, who once had a four handicap, said he started learning golf by chance in Omaha, Nebraska, when his parents saw an ad in the newspaper for a children’s golf clinic. He ended up in Florida after graduation when the energy company in Omaha that employed him transferred him there and he has lived in south Florida ever since, eventually working for another company and then doing consulting. A Barbary Coast saxophonist as a student, Norris was president of the Greater Miami Symphonic Band from 1993 to 2012. Daughter Debra ’93 is a lawyer. Norris says he now has a handicap of 20 and plays golf once a week. His goal is to play some of the great courses, including Pebble Beach.


Daryl and Joy Smith divide their time between Florham Park, New Jersey, where they work and Palm City, Florida, home of Harbor Ridge, a community originally developed by a Dartmouth alumnus and whose current residents number “four or five from our class.” Harbor Ridge has two courses, one designed by the well-known course designer Pete Dye and the other, a links course where this year’s Palm City golf mini-reunion was held. “Golf tips? I’m the last one to give advice,” said Daryl modestly. He is chairman and CEO of Troy Corp., a chemical company in Florham Park, and on the board of Theater for New Audience in Brooklyn, New York. Doug served on the board of regents at Seton Hall University.


I regretfully must report the deaths of Jeff Rosen, Jim vonGal, Gregory Gates, James Wendell, Chuck Racine and Thomas Martin.


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


After Dartmouth valiantly rallied to beat Yale, team members stood shoulder to shoulder on the 50-yard line to serenade the exiting fans with “Men of Dartmouth.” It was a brief, defining moment amidst a whirlwind of October mini-reunion and Homecoming activity during which our class set an attendance record and Dartmouth honored the Stephen Lewinstein family for its generous gift of a state-of-the-art, high-definition video scoreboard.
The 16-by-23-foot-wide LED display illuminated an overcast but otherwise balmy afternoon. Sixty-threes who jammed the class section joined 10,000 fans in admiring the instant replays, colorful animations and game statistics that enhance the experience at Memorial Field. It appeared the football team got the message too.
Classmates attended a reception on behalf of the Lewinsteins, Steve, Diane and Marc ’98, keynoted by President Hanlon ’77 at the Floren Varsity House, the magnificent venue gifted by Doug Floren. Coach Buddy Teevens ’79 and athletic director Harry Sheehy addressed the guests. Classmates posed for a photo with the Lewinsteins in front of the scoreboard.
A class record 40 reservations for dinner Friday mandated two restaurants: the Canoe Club and Salt Hill Pub, where I met recently wedded John and Missy Lehigh of Cumming, Georgia, north of Atlanta. John is a retired architect and Missy owns an adoption agency. I chatted with retired physician Bob Oakes, a leukemia/bone marrow transplant survivor.
Saturday morning I drove through mist on I-91 to 108 Dartmouth. We sat quietly in tightly arranged desk-chairs as “professor” and president Larry Bailey ran our executive committee meeting from the podium.
We welcomed new committee members Scott Babcock, George Hellick, Tom Kraig and Gordy Weir. Bill Wellstead introduced four ’63-sponsored athletes, and 11 wives were elected honorary class members. Treasurer Bill Russell reported a healthy bank account, prompting the executive committee to fund a fourth class of ’63 scholar. Fiftieth reunion chair Tom Jester cited college record attendance and thanked all volunteers. Mini-reunion co-chair Tom Perry discussed expanding mini-reunion locations; head agent Bob Bysshe announced $4.2 million raised from the 50th reunion and 65.9-percent participation, both class records. He also noted a strong class activity metrics score from the College of 92 out of 100. Bruce Baggaley talked on four class projects; Ed Mazer and Petie Subin are exploring two class trips; Dave Schaefer, Terry Russell and I updated on communications and website.
Dave Goodwillie and Judith List, Chuck and Judy Wessendorf, Dick Booma, Bob Chavey, Hank Rogers and Bill Subin—launching his new book, Closing the Gap: The Trial of Trooper Robert Higbee—were among 50 revelers dining on cranberry-stuffed chicken, braised beef and maple-soaked bread pudding at the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes. Fourteen of us, including Ted and Anne Suess, made it for breakfast at Pine Restaurant on Main Street. Kudos to Sam Cabot for organizing the amazing weekend.
I am sorry to report the death of Burt Albert. An obituary will appear 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



Harris Aaronson runs a busy law firm in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, but his second passion is collecting antique cameras. Currently he is refurbishing an 1880 piece. While the Berkshires, including theater and dance, have not escaped the economic downturn, Harris is seeing a lot of real estate activity from investors looking for safer bets and second home and retiree buyers. Doris and Harris have two children, Jack, who heads the Aaronson Group, a New York internet marketing firm, and Tracey, mother of a 5-year-old, who lives near Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Harris has bumped into John Moscartolo, an artist and gallery owner who has worked in the Berkshires. 


Keel Jones retired from corporate finance at Aetna and is now treasurer of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, which has its own set of challenges. He and Penny live in Villanova. Laura, Karen (she’s in London) and Susan all have families and five children between them. 


Tom MacCary, one of our two known Shakespeare experts (Tom Berger is the other), is working on a book exploring Shakespeare’s use of Aristotle in his works. “It is difficult to prove,” says Cambridge-trained Tom MacCary because there is no certainty Shakespeare had access to a great library and he did not have much knowledge of Greek or Latin, which Tom has. However, there is a theory Shakespeare had family connections in the English midlands and that he went there to do his reading. An English professor and teacher at Hofstra University on Long Island since 1964, Tom is particularly interested in Shakespeare’s use of classical sources. Tom’s last book on Hamlet argues the question whether that play is truly a tragedy or really theological and about eternal damnation, since Shakespeare was raised a Catholic. Tom lives in Manhattan and is currently single with two children and four grandchildren. Margaret followed in dad’s footsteps and runs a Shakespearian theatrical company in SoHo called the Clubbed Thumb. Toby is a lawyer in Los Angeles. 


Rick Braddock, chairman and CEO, has led a turnaround at FreshDirect, the New York online food delivery service whose core customers number around 35,000, according to Crain’s New York Business. Rick focused on building customer loyalty and has reduced the number of complaints by one half, Crain’s reported. He also instituted a “favorites” program to encourage more spending and a new customer communications program. If this keeps up, Fresh Direct may try out Boston or Philadelphia before the year is out, Rick told Crain’s.


More from the Big Apple: Brooklynite Frank Wohl made it to Broadway to see God of Carnage. Diamond merchant Adam Heyman stopped in to a farewell reception for outgoing President Wright at the Roosevelt Hotel. Adam Berkowitz ’93, son of Dick Berkowitz, was named managing editor for the Internet at the New York Daily News.


If you can, try to make the ’63 mini-reunion October 23-25 in Hanover. It is going to be a great one. Contact Sam Cabot at scabot@cabotfamily.com or (978) 927 2333 for information on schedules, lodging and activities. 


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


You might call it the “revenge of the sportscasters.” Bill Subin and Ed McCabe, who kept us apprised of athletic achievements during college, have done some achieving of their own.


Bill Subin, a DCR sportscaster and crew coxswain, appeared on ABC’s Primetime and Court TV after winning a two-year trial of a New Jersey state trooper charged with vehicular homicide. Trooper Robert Higbee was chasing a speeder in Cape May County’s Upper Township September 27, 2006, when he ran a stop sign and crashed into a minivan carrying sisters Jacqueline Becker, 17, and Christina Becker, 19. Both died at the scene. Bill argued that Higbee did not act recklessly and was performing his duty according to state police policy. The trial was closely watched by law enforcement leaders around the country. Maria Caiafa, the girls’ mother, said she respected the jury’s decision but hoped state police would work to change their policy for pursuing a vehicle in a residential neighborhood. In May 2008 the state paid $2 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed by Caiafa. 


Ed McCabe called it quits after 40 years as commercial litigator in Boston to become an Internet entrepreneur. He paid his dues with www.everyman.com, a blog he started five years ago. Now he’s launching the QOR Club, one of the first no-advertising, paid-admission-only sites that will offer the best of the Web—mostly fresh journalism (including sports), literature, music, art and video a la The New Yorker in its early years. The site is edited by former New York Times sports editor Neil Amdur and Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist and blogger James Lileks. Contributors include Robert Lipsyte, food writer Molly O’Neill and film director William Tannen (Flashpoint). To become a charter member e-mail Ed at emccabe@theqor.com.


Len Levitt has written NYPD Confidential (St. Martin’s Press, 2009), an inside look at the New York police department based on Len’s years as police columnist for now-defunct New York Newsday. The book recaps scandals that beset NYPD during Len’s tenure and attempts to explain what Len calls “the culture of silence” at the highest levels of the department. To learn more go to www.nypdconfidential.com.


Chambers USA, one of several well-regarded lawyer rankings, cites Jerry Uram and his firm, Davis & Gilbert, for its real estate prowess. Jack Stobo has been elected to the board of directors of the California Healthcare Institute, a nonprofit public policy research organization. Dan Muchinsky is chairing the ’63 Class Connections program which is bonding us with the class of 2013, whose graduation coincides with our 50th reunion. Why We Fought, a book about films on war by Peter Rollins, is being offered by the History Book Club. Mike and Jeanne Prince rode in the 28th Annual Prouty Century Bike Ride and Fitness Walk to raise money for cancer research at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.


I regret to report the deaths of Jerry Kochansky, Bob Finney and Tom Brownell. Details will follow in the obituaries of this or a future issue.


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


After 40 years of research and writing about mountain climbing Tom Holzel believes that maybe—just maybe—he and his colleagues are on the brink of discovering the whereabouts of the remains of Andrew Irvine and with that the key to the mystery of whether or not Irvine and George Mallory were actually the first to conquer Everest. Mallory and Irvine began the last part of their ascent on June 8, 1924. They were never to be heard from again. In 1953 Everest was finally conquered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Tom began his quest for Mallory and Irvine in 1971 and concluded that Irvine’s body lay on a snow terrace at 27,000 feet on Everest’s north face. In 1979 a Chinese climber reported discovering the body of an “English dead,” which reinforced Tom’s belief. Tom organized a search expedition in 1986, but after 67 days on the mountain, including 10 days at 21,000 feet, the group had to turn back because of heavy snow and high winds. Mallory’s body was found in 1999 but the mystery remains as to whether or not he made it to the top. Many believe a vest-pocket Kodak camera believed to be carried by Irvine may hold the answer. Tom put together an Andrew Irvine Search Committee, which analyzed photos, including a high resolution 1984 aerial shot with a powerful microscope, digital camera and special software. According to ScientificAmerican.com, in January the group reported their photos revealed an anomaly on the terrain roughly 1.8 meters long consistent with the description relayed by the Chinese climber in 1979. Now the group seeks to raise $125,000 to go to the spot where they believe Irvine is. They have recruited Thom Pollard and Jake Norton, says Tom, “both of whom helped search Mallory’s body when he was found in 1999.” 


Dan Muchinsky, our Class Connections chair and long-time mini-reunion host, broke his hip skiing and had a partial hip replacement. To wish him well, contact mary.b.barnes@dartmouth.edu. Earlier Dan and Terry Russell hosted some 30 members from the class of 2013 to answer questions about our undergraduate days. Imagine two phones for a whole dorm. Amazing but true. Bill Subin, who won a landmark case for a New Jersey trooper charged with vehicular homicide in a car chase, was interviewed on truTV, formerly CourtTV, about a similar case involving a Tennessee sheriff in an unmarked patrol car. John Merrow and wife Joan Lonergan will move to New York this summer when Joan, director of a California girls’ school, assumes the headship at Hewitt, a K-12 girls’ school in Manhattan. New Yorker Barry Linsky escaped the severe weather to ski at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Anika Noni Rose, daughter of John Rose, co-hosted the 41st NAACP Image Awards live on Fox TV with actor Hill Harper.


Tom Jester, chair of our 50th reunion, June 7-9, 2013, and Ed Mazer, yearbook chair, issued their first reports on what looks to be our most exciting event yet.


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


Colorado has been a special place to two ’63s, each in a How To Get An Ex Bf Back Who Has A Gf different way.


For Jim Palmer it has provided the opportunity to “follow his passion” for 40 years as professor of English, humanities, comparative literature and film studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Jim at one point chaired the film studies department and served as vice chancellor for student affairs, and for the past 12 years directed the university’s annual one week Conference on World Affairs in April, www.colorado.edu/cwa, which has attracted more than 100 participants such as film critic Roger Ebert, journalists Charles Krauthammer and Molly Ivins and former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel. Jim teaches a course on “Carl Jung and Film” (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a case in point). He has also co-authored a book, The Films of Joseph Losey, about the prominent theater and film director, Dartmouth ’29, who was blacklisted and spent much of his career in England. Jim earned his doctorate in English at Claremont Graduate School in California. He and Sue, his wife of 45 years, have daughters Sydney and Sarah, both living in Seattle.


For John Fischer Colorado has provided the outlet for his love of the outdoors, bow-and-arrow hunting and skiing. John, who still practices radiology part-time in Anchorage, Alaska—“flunked retirement,” he says—built a log house in Gunnison on the western slope of Crested Butte, where he skis in the winter and hunts elk in the fall. A native of Minot, North Dakota, John studied medicine at Harvard and practiced in Reno, Nevada, for 19 years before moving to Alaska in 1992 also for its outdoor sports opportunities. “There are lots of Dartmouth alumni in Alaska, but surprisingly no Dartmouth club,” says John, “not even a cocktail party.” John has been in contact with Beta brother Ron Fraboni.


Jeanne and Mike Prince rode in the 29th annual Prouty Bike Ride to raise money for Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Below C Level: How American Education Encourages Mediocrity and What We Can Do About It, the new book by John Merrow, was the subject of a lengthy review on the Daily Kos, a political site. The book is available on Amazon. Jerry Uram, chair of real estate at New York law firm Davis & Gilbert, was cited by Chambers, the prestigious legal ranking directory, for his commercial leasing acumen.


Haven’t made up your mind yet about our ’63 Hanover mini-reunion, October 29-31? There’s still time. A great football game and a good time are to be had. Lest old traditions fail, contact mini chair Sam Cabot at scabot@cabotfamily.com, (978) 927 2333 or just come right on over. Hope to see you all there. Dinner will be at the Canoe Club on Main Street before the parade. Class meeting first thing Saturday in the Treasure Room of Baker, and gathering at Dan Muchinsky’s home in Plainfield, New Hampshire, Saturday night.


I regret to report the death of William Seth Green in New York City. 


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


On September 28, 2006, Bill Subin received a call that would dominate his life for the next three years and make him a folk hero among law enforcement departments. A former Atlantic City, New Jersey, prosecutor, Bill was offered a high-profile case so emotion-laded that it would draw the attention of ABC TV’s 20/20 prior to its even being tried. Now Bill has written a book that details his methods, anguish, and successful verdict for his client, New Jersey trooper Robert Higbee, on trial for vehicular homicide while chasing a speeder in Cape May County’s Upper Township. The book, whose title Closing the Gap refers to the protocol officers must use in activating lights and siren, can be purchased on Amazon or by contacting Bill at dwsubinlaw@comcast.com. It is a compelling narrative that delves into the character and motives of the various players in the case and how Bill used expert witnesses and testimony from his client to persuade the jury of Higbee’s innocence. 


Gerry Mark has had an amazing professional life, and he is still at it but in a less stressful way. “I get agitated when I have to spend four hours on a golf course,” Gerry says. He runs a construction consulting business with architects, engineers and general contractors throughout the state of Florida. Earlier Gerry was vice president of the international division of A.M. Kinney architecture and engineering in New York City. He and his colleagues were locked in a hotel in Lagos, Nigeria, when the prime minister was assassinated and stranded during a hurricane in Central America. Gerry went local when his kids—he’s got six children and nine grandchildren—started calling him “uncle.” He and Barbara have been married 22 years. 


Larry Chapman cannot get enough of golf, which he plays year round in the temperate climate of Loudon, Tennessee, “an unrealized jewel” where he and Bobbie Wolverton retired. Larry flew all over the world as an Air Force captain and radar navigator on B-52 aircraft for seven years. He subsequently lived all over the country as sales manager for Procter & Gamble, Clorox and Nestle. Prior to retirement Larry ran a small private company that managed product stock on shelves of large retailers like Walmart and Target for companies such as Procter & Gamble, SmithKline Beecham and Abbott Laboratories. The field is called drug store and mass merchandizing. 


Hunter Hicks loves to recall his fun times at the College and, as he says, “trying to stay out of trouble and in school.” After serving in Navy intelligence for two years he made the base golf team and still enjoys the game nearly year round in retirement in Bluffton, South Carolina, a short drive from Hilton Head. A native of Evanston, Illinois, Hunter worked in institutional sales and trading for William Blair and Blyth & Co. in Chicago. He travels a lot with Psi U brothers in the United States and overseas. He and Althea have three children and two grandchildren all ensconced in Denver, Colorado.


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


Five years of planning, promotion and fundraising suddenly became glorious reality the night of June 7, during a lingering rainstorm, in a field house we never knew, on a campus we never really left.


Our 50th reunion officially opened at Leverone and time stopped, if only for a few days, for the record 298 classmates and 258 guests, their presence aided by tireless efforts of reunion chair Tom Jester, volunteer chair Tom Perry and their committees. 


Time stopped for Jim Friedman, who shot a 71 days before; for Arnie Katz with Honey and twins Jason and Jenn; for Steve and Joan Swirsky; for Hank Rogers, with an eye on the Bruins; for Delta Kappa Epsilon brother and retired physiatrist Mike Jarvis; for Jim Dial from San Francisco; for Dick and Annie Hauptmann of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Paris, France; for Howard Culver from La Quinta, California; and for Jamie Weisman, architect from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, whose personal story at our class meeting made us reflect on our own lives.


From the moment reunion book editor Ed Mazer reached the top of Moosilauke with classmates on Thursday to the final days of sports, tours, seminars and fun on Monday and Tuesday, we all became exhilarated time travelers.


In between we held the class meeting where head agent Bob Bysshe announced $3.1 million raised for the 50th, and treasurer Bill Russell and secretary Harry Zlokower were recognized by president Larry Bailey for their long tenure; a moving memorial service led by the Rev. Richard Morgan and Ken Kvistad; class and family photos in front of Dartmouth Hall; lunch keynoted by Ken Novack; seminars on aging; dinner with awards; speeches and dancing to a 1960s retro band; and a unified presence at Commencement ceremonies, where Lou Gerstner and Bill King received honorary degrees 


Some of us graduated at different times but all shared the bond of having convened as freshman, recalled John Rose, who was seated with me in one of our first class meetings in fall 1959. Many of those same classmates were together again Saturday night along the river, where Bruce Baggaley and Bill Subin led the dedication of the Phil Fisher shell in memory of deceased ’63 oarsmen with contributions from dozens of ’63s.


Soaring Pine committee members Sam Cabot, Dave Schaefer, Mike Prince and Harry Zlokower presented awards for Bruce Berman, Tom McInerny, Jim Page, Geoff Northnagle and Bill Subin.


Emcee Paul Binder provided snippets of the early 1960s while Steve Macht and others did memorable introductions of Dean Thad Seymour, who brought the house down with witty, well-documented stories of the good old days.


Our cultural achievements did not go unnoticed. Bill Lamb mounted an amazing show of art by ’63s and spouses that ran continuously on a big screen in Brace Commons, class authors sold and signed books and the Dartmouth Glee Club performed, inviting ’63 ex-glee clubbers to join in for a grand finale. 


The party ended but memories continue, sustained by online chatter, photos, memorabilia and our monumental book, Her Spell on Us Remains.


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


Counting down to our 50th reunion, classmates convene at the annual Homecoming mini-reunion October 21-23 for the Columbia game. Festivities begin Friday night at the Canoe Club followed by the parade and bonfire. Class meets Saturday morning in the Treasure Room at Baker, and everyone is invited. Tom Perry, chair of our volunteer contact program, reports on his quest to break reunion attendance records. Cocktails and dinner are Saturday night at the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes and breakfast Saturday at the Hanover Inn. Sign up from your September newsletter or contact mini-reunion chair Sam Cabot at scabot@cabotfamily.com or (978) 927 2333 or just show up. Twelve non-smoking rooms are reserved in the class name through September 15 at the Comfort Inn in White River Junction, Vermont (802-295-3051). 


A bunch of classmates led by Bob Silverman and Barbara Berlin of Atlanta got a jump with their second annual mini-reunion in St. Augustine/Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, They included Howard and Janet Nannen, Harpswell, Maine; Ralph and Nancy Sanders, St. Augustine Beach; Mike and Jeanne Prince, Lyme, New Hampshire; and Bud and Marci Weinstein, Dallas. Bud played piano while the group discussed organic vegetable production, astrophysics, energy policy formation, workforce housing and environmental conservation. 


Thomas McInerny spent the summer campaigning to be president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which will be decided this fall. Thomas is associate chair for clinical affairs in pediatrics at the University of Rochester and editor of the American Academy Textbook of Pediatric Care. He has been married to Beverly, former gallery owner, now landscape artist, for 46 years, and has four children and five grandchildren. 


Twenty-five years ago John Black left the rat race. After earning a Stanford M.B.A. he worked in commercial banking for Citibank and then in investment banking for Salomon Brothers in New York. When new SEC rules made business more cutthroat, John cut out for Boston and the Cape, where he and Jane raised two children, Sam and Jessica. Jane tragically died from an infection in 2005. A few years later John met Margie Leof, a personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman in New York, remarried and moved to Westport, Connecticut. Now John pursues his passions of music and sports cars. He drives a Corvette VO 6 and a BMW M3, a high-performance version of the BMW 3 Series. John collects 12-inch LPs including jazz, folk and R&B. When Margie retires he expects to move to Florida or somewhere in the South. 


If you get to Atlanta this fall, visit the High Museum, where Jack and wife Russell Huber are exhibiting their collection of American impressionist and realist paintings, September 24 through November 27. The collection, titled “Embracing Elegance, 1885-1920: American Art from the Huber Family Collection,” is 30 years in the making. It recently finished a run at the Hood Museum in Hanover on September 4. John Merrow, PBS correspondent, and Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, discussed their new books together at a public event in New York.


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


Stories for a Hurricane Irene watch.


Tom Perry, world traveler who has visited 40 countries in the last 10 years, spearheaed a successful effort to raise money from generous classmates, making the 50th reunion yearbook free of charge to all classmates and widows.


Frank Jerabek and wife Pat were inducted into the Silver Horizons Senior Hall of Fame in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in recognition of their dedication to community service and promoting social justice. Pat and Frank, an information technology and systems specialist, moved to New Mexico in 1994 when his employer was acquired by Sun Healthcare Group. He retired in 2003 and is now an AARP volunteer tax consultant in several Sandoval County locations including four Native-American pueblos. Pat, who taught at University of Massachusetts, has served on the local diversity leadership council. Both are members of Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in New Mexico, for which Frank has edited the newsletter and handled public relations.


Bob Wagstaff, after 35 years of law practice in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2003 moved to Oxford, England, where he earned a master’s and a doctor of philosophy in law degree. His thesis, “The Specter of Lord Atkin in the Aftermath of 9/11: The Rule of Law and Terror Detentions in the United States and the United Kingdom,” takes aim at the Bush and Blair policies of detainment of suspected terrorists.


Denny Emerson, former Olympic equestrian and survivor of two hip replacements, maintains his full schedule of riding, teaching and training on his farms in Vermont and North Carolina. He just published How Good Riders Get Good, which prescribes lessons that reach beyond success with horses. Denny has accomplished much in his career and is most proud of having recently completed his 50th consecutive year of eventing, a rigorous equestrian competition, at the prelim level or higher. 


Daryl Erickson, retired New Hampshire surgeon, attended the dedication of the new Dr. Daryl Erickson Surgical Center at Oasis Hospital, a Christian mission hospital in the United Arab Emirates, where he served from 1976 to 1985 and was known, according to wife Virginia, as “the happy doctor.” Mike Prince rode his 26th consecutive Prouty Century Bike Ride—that’s century as in 100 miles—to raise money for cancer research at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.


Mike and Gloria Rie celebrated their 20th with a barge tour on a Burgundy canal. Class president Larry Bailey also did some boating around the San Juan Islands in the far northwest corner of the state of Washington, 10 miles east of Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He has a home on Lopez Island, one of the larger of the San Juans.


Peter Rollins has created www.susanrollins. net in memory of his recently departed wife, featuring photos and one of Susan’s favorite songs, “What I Did for Love” from A Chorus Line. I regret to report the deaths of Tim Dodd, Ed Lieff, Dave Bunting, Rick Arendt and Bob Burgess. Obituaries will appear on http:// dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obituaries and in the class newsletter.


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


The class will break from tradition this fall and hold our Hanover mini-reunion September 28-30, when weather is likely to be warmer, foliage in bloom and the campus less congested. The September dates were selected by our executive committee (EC) upon learning that the College had scheduled the October 27 Homecoming game at night, conflicting with our most popular mini event, cocktails and dinner at the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes. As newsletter editor Dave Schaefer put it, “We can meet at the Canoe Club Friday night under more leisurely conditions and travel after the Penn game Saturday to Dan and Mary’s.” Our EC will meet Saturday morning to discuss our 2013 50th reunion celebration. All classmates are invited. Look for the mini-reunion sign-up form in the July newsletter or contact mini chair Sam Cabot, scabot@cabotfamily.com, (978) 927-2333. Sam reserved 12 rooms for ’63s at the Comfort Inn in White River Junction, Vermont, (802) 295-3051. 


Povl Jorgensen of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has launched Devonwood Associates, a turnaround and restructuring practice. Povl began his career in Dearborn, Michigan, as one of 17 Tuck recruits of Bill Benton, who figured prominently in the development of the Mustang and naming of the Lincoln Town Car. Povl (pronounced Paul) moved to the headquarters of National Steel in Pittsburgh, which he has since called home. He ran a subsidiary for National Aluminum and spent eight years with Huron Consulting Group before going on his own. Povl and Barbara have two children, who live in Detroit and Philadelphia, and six grandchildren. He is working on his golf game.


Jim Ferguson retired from bond research at AIG and ” is now learning about Social Security and Medicare and traveling a lot.” Jim visited Uruguay for a Tabard reunion hosted by Randy Fields; Canyon De Chelly in northeastern Arizona, where the Navahos live; and Point Reyes in northern California, site of Spanish explorations. Ferg and Susan live in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. 


Bill Burtis, a popular endocrinologist who treats diabetes, thyroid disease and osteoporosis in Concord, Massachusetts, was named 2011 Community Clinician of the Year by the Middlesex Central District Medical Society. “I love my patients,” says Bill, a sole practitioner, “but I’m not very happy with the medical system we have to work in these days.” It has been an interesting journey for the Long Island native and Thayer School grad, who earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford and spent a summer studying naturally occurring radio waves at Byrd station in Antarctica. While at Stanford Bill became interested in biological sciences and, encouraged by his now wife Mary, a nurse, enrolled at Cornell Medical School, graduating in 1979. Bill engaged in medical research and teaching at Yale from 1984 through 1995, which included a fellowship in Florence, Italy. The experience inspired Bill to take up Italian. He recently performed in the chorus of a community production of La Bohème.


I regret to report the deaths of Jon Moscartolo, Dave Butler and Bill Slaymaker.


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


Meeting up with long-lost buddies, often unexpectedly, is an enduring personal experience in landmark reunions, but what about the collective experience of reconnecting with faculty and deans, our role models, authority figures and mentors? Class president Larry Bailey scored for us by recruiting Thaddeus Seymour, affectionately known as Thad, to join us June 7-9 for our 50th reunion. Larry spotted our genial dean at a Dartmouth football game and made his pitch. Thad, who will be 85 in June, responded in a November e-mail, “Polly and I are delighted to accept with pleasure. We have many special friends in the class and it will be fun to be with you, now that you’re all ‘grown up.’ ” Details on when and where Thad will be with us will follow. But you can be sure he will say a few words to us en masse.


The way things are going, there will be a lot en masse for Thad to address. Participation/attendance chair Tom Perry projects a record 568 classmates and still counting. Expected among them is Bruce Berman, professor emeritus of political studies and history at Queens University, Ontario and an authority on Africa, who will be inducted Saturday, June 8, into Dartmouth’s Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. One alum is chosen for this honor each year. 


You should have received your schedule of events beginning with an early-bird arrival June 6 and ending, for those who can stay, on June 11. Among some exciting activities added to the Saturday program are an architectural walking tour of the campus, led by Marlene Heck, senior lecturer in art history and history, a student-guided bus tour of the campus and the Hanover area, a “Dartmates” baking class at King Arthur Flour and a John Merrow-moderated panel on “Why You Definitely Should Plan on Attending our 75th Reunion.”


The law firm Lankler, Siffert & Wohl recently represented Peter Madoff, who was sentenced for 10 years in his brother’s Ponzi scheme. White-collar crime is nothing new to this 27-lawyer New York City firm, one of whose partners is Frank Wohl, formerly a federal prosecutor and head of the city’s civilian review complaint board, a watchdog on the NYPD. A graduate of University of Chicago Law School, Frank was deputy chief of the criminal division and then chief of the civil division for the Southern District of New York. The firm was formed in 1984 and handles civil, regulatory and criminal matters, defending charges of insider trading, market manipulation, antitrust violations, bank fraud, money laundering and other charges on behalf of hundreds of clients. Despite the stress of his practice, Frank is known for his courteous and professional manner, his personality comparable, wrote The New York Times, with Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper. He and Lisa, a writer, have two daughters. 


I regret to report the deaths of Willy Pacheco, Charles Sullivan and Timothy Bissell. Obituary articles will follow in the online edition of this magazine.


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


Tanzi’s, Putnam’s, the Green Lantern, Campion’s men’s store, the Beefeater (you remember the Beefeater) are gone but Main Street still casts a magic spell on this brisk autumn night as I casually climb through time on Allen Street to the Canoe Club, a beautiful restaurant, a latecomer to us, but nonetheless a mainstay pre-parade dinner destination for Homecoming mini-reunion ’63s. 


There are about a dozen of us. Dave and Carolyn Schaefer and Bill and Pat Russell save a spot near Bob Haubrich, Bruce and Patty Baggaley, Bob and Beth Bysshe, Sam and Deamie Cabot (author of the new psychological mystery Write Is Wrong, published by Xlibris, available on Amazon), Tom and Pat Jester, Tom Kraig and Peggy Northrop, Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes, Terry and Diane Russell, Ted and Anne Suess, Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan and Jim Clouser with memories of his beloved Heidi, who made so many trips here with him. We march resolutely in the parade and are joined by Dave Dawley on the Green. 


Most diners are members of the class executive committee who gather Saturday morning in the Treasure Room of Baker Library with Dick Berkowitz, Steve Guthrie and others to determine the course of our next three and a half years up to the glorious 50th reunion. Dave Schaefer presides for Larry Bailey, who is home in Seattle, Washington, with the flu. “Many people are surprised we have started so early,” observes mini-reunion chair Tom Jester. “We are ahead of most classes.” Fiftieth reunion book chair Ed Mazer is in Italy but has submitted a report proposing a budget and requesting a firm commitment to the project. The executive committee votes to have a book, approves the designer and authorizes Tom Perry to seek funding options. Head agent Bob Bysshe reports $472,000 raised for the College in 2009-10 “in a very difficult year for philanthropy. We need to ramp up for the 50th,” says Bob, who proposes a resolution “to fully support the goals of the ’63 Dartmouth College Fund this year and each year throughout 50th reunion in 2013.”


Bob Haubrich, Marty Bowne and I enjoy a lunch at Lou’s before heading down to join Jerry Ashworth and other ’63s for football against Harvard. (Dartmouth lost.) After the game Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes graciously open their home, as they often have, for drinks, dinner and fellowship. I run into Hank Rodgers; Dick and Pam Booma, who live in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where Dick runs Hanover Transfer & Storage, a North American Van Line agency; Cheryl and Bill Breetz, a Hartford, Connecticut, lawyer; Larry Stifler and Mary McFadden of Boston with Molly ’14; Susan and Jim Higgins, a Manchester, New Hampshire, lawyer; Gayle and George Richardson, a Lynfield, Massachusetts, lawyer; George and Mary Jo Hellick, who were married their senior year at Dartmouth; Bob Chavey and Kerry Nix; Bruce and Phyllis Coggeshall; Steve and Ellen Kardon; Steve and Diana Lewinstein; Mike and Jeanne Prince; Bill and Sue Spencer; and Dick and Anne Swett. 


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


Are you ready for the big one? Bigger than the Super Bowl? The granddaddy of them all? Our 50th reunion is happening June 7-9, 2013, and if you procrastinate, like me, the time to start planning is now! Here are a few simple tips to get you focused and on your way to enjoying one of the most exciting events of your life.


First, clear your schedule. It may seem like a long way from now, but it is really less than a year. And while our 50th reunion technically runs the weekend of June 7-9, there is the prospect of a Moosilauke overnight or early bird dinner Thursday, June 6, and an extended stay with sports and special programs Monday and Tuesday, June 10-11.


Second, reserve a place to stay that fits your budget and taste. Go to www.dartmouth.org/classes/63 and click on “Reunion Lodging” for a dizzying array of choices, ranging from East Wheelock dorm rooms to the Hanover Inn and Six South Main, also in Hanover, and lots of nearby motels, hotels and B&Bs. Keep in mind this is also commencement weekend, so rooms tend to fill up fast.


Third, while you are on the class website, you still may be able to complete your 50th reunion book survey and submit an essay and photos. Don’t be left out. It is a great exercise and a way to bond with the event and classmates. Read David Brooks’ Times article on class essays, which is posted on the ’63 website.


Fourth, don’t pack too much, especially if you are flying. But be prepared. While June is usually great weather, it does rain in Hanover and evenings can be cool. Shorts and slacks are normal, but you have the option to dress up for Saturday night dinner and 2013 commencement ceremonies Sunday morning. Jocks, bring your tennis racquets, running shoes and fishing gear. Hanover Country Club usually can loan clubs, if needed.


Finally, look for ways to participate and volunteer. Paul Binder has agreed to emcee our class dinner, John Merrow will moderate a major class panel discussion, Steve Lewinstein secured some rockin’ live music and Petey Subin (Bill) formed DartMates, which will run programs of interest for spouses and widows. Petey’s committee, which includesCookie Williams (Art), Sanna Purcell (Bill)and Patty Russell (Bill), has already enlisted music professor Steve Swayne for a program and is planning another on the healthcare crisis. Contact Petey at wsubin@comcast.net.


Bruce Coggeshall (bcoggeshall@pierceatwood.com), our new Alumni Council representative, seeks your input for the next council meeting taking place in December. Bruce succeeds Marty Bowne. Our class president, Larry Bailey, is the proud grandfather of Iris Opal Pierce, his seventh grandchild and second granddaughter. Steve Lewinstein, a Boston Celtics owner, provided courtside seats to winning bidders at a Dartmouth fundraiser. Don’t forget our Hanover mini-reunion September 18-20. It is a great warm-up for the 50th.


I regret to report the deaths of Rick Friend and Phil Fisher.


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


In what resembled a minimalist stage set, where the stately Hanover Inn dining room once stood, Bob Bysshe, Ted Suess, Sam Cabot, Frank Palmer, Dave Schaefer, Ed Mazer, Steve Lewinstein, Bill Russell and I consumed eggs and pancakes while wives and partners congregated at the only other table in the room and discussed—well—whatever Dartmouth wives and partners discuss. It may have been how the Hanover Inn has undergone renovation to bring it, for better or for worse, into the 21st century. The room we sat in has become event space, while the dining space, as it were, has moved to the interior and has an aura of what my son would call cool. It was a fitting climax to a wonderful mini-reunion, which coincided with Class Officers Weekend and a chance for president Larry Bailey to convene with ’63 officers at dinner at Leede Arena.


Saturday morning we got down to business at the executive committee meeting, even Bob Chavey, who found a parking spot for his yellow 2000 Corvette with only 18,000 miles on the odometer, and Bruce Coggeshall, our representative to the Alumni Council. This was our last executive committee meeting before June 7, when we come together for our 50th reunion in Hanover. 


A highlight of the meeting was news that 50th reunion chair Tom Jester has recruited his college roommate Bill Lamb, a retired human resources software consultant in Ashland, Oregon, to coordinate a highly anticipated exhibit of art works by ’63s and spouses. The exhibit will be displayed in a continuous slide show on a large screen at our hospitality center, location to be announced. To participate send digital photos of your work with titles and artist’s name to billlamb01@gmail.com or, if you prefer, mail a CD to Bill Lamb, 785 West Pebble Beach Drive, Ashland, OR 97520; (651) 757-5026. As a woodworking hobbyist Bill has always been interested in art. He and Marcia, an amateur photographer, have three children, including Melissa ’86, a geologist, and seven grandchildren.


Registration for the 50th is expected to begin in February. Registration will be online but classmates will have the option to sign up by mail. For questions on registration contact Mike Emerson, johnmichaelemerson@comcast.net, (206) 242-0992. Room signup will be a separate transaction. Dorm registration will go out separately in March but if you do not wish to stay in a dorm, then seek lodging as soon as possible. Check the class of ’63 website, which can be found at www.dartmouth.edu, by clicking on alumni and classes. You should be getting e-mail updates by now, but you should also check the website.


After the meeting we adjourned to the early starting Penn football game with Marty Bowne and Bill Wellstead, among others, and then onto the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes for a great dinner and party with Bill Hindle, Chuck Wessendorf, Bruce Baggaley, Dick Booma, David Goodwillie, George Hellick, Tom Perry, Pete Rotch, Terry Russell, Bob Haubrich and Gordon Weir leading the charge. 


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