Class Notes 1964

In this edition we spotlight three of our former class officers who have done a great job but are departing from the executive committee. First up is Jim Latham, who lives in Massachusetts, attended the reunion, and has been in the Alumni Council role for the last several years. At reunion he saw Jay Evans, John Whitmoyer, and Duncan Hughes and was enthused about all the sessions, particularly Dave Shipler’s presentation on the world order. Jim has done a great job as Alumni Council rep and we thank him for his efforts. His wife teaches writing for Boston University, and they will be going to Santa Fe, New Mexico, shortly to attend a writing workshop. They spend their summers in Massachusetts since they enjoy the ocean. Second to mention is Ray Neff, who completed his role as cosecretary last issue. Ray and I have been doing the DAM columns for the last several years after Jay Evans had this role. Hal Rabner comes on as cosecretary. We much appreciate Ray’s work on our behalf. Ray is busy with caring for his Great Pyrenees, a 120-pound white female who is 9 1/2 years old. Ray says he takes Annie (Little Orphan Annie) Hope (for good thoughts) for a walk four times a day about a mile each way, so it looks as though everybody gets good exercise. Ray is looking forward to three months in Florida and a month in Savannah, Georgia, in the winter driving down with the big dog on a hammock in the backseat. Sounds like a very special dog. Again, thanks, Ray, for your work. The last one to mention, but not the least, is Mike Parker, who has been memorialist for the class for the last 10 years. I did not want to ask him how many classmates have passed away during his tenure, but it is sizable (more than 100). He has been a busy man. Mike has done a great job of finding material on classmates who died, and these obits and tributes are located on our class website. Thank you, Mike, and we will see you at Zoom meetings and reunions.

—Robert Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C, 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com

As we write this, acceptance letters have just gone out for the class of 2028. Our class’ own acceptance letters went out some 64 years ago just about now—the College’s calendar has changed little through this span of years. The selectivity percentage of applicants being admitted to Dartmouth this year was 5.3 percent out of 31,657 applicants, yielding 1,685 admittees (606 applicants using early decision, 1,079 using regular decision) and about 20 percent for all admittees in our class in 1960. Do you wonder if you would have been accepted with the current cohort of applicants? The truth is that many of us would not have made the cut! The competition nowadays has become fierce. Dartmouth is now attracting thousands of well-prepared applicants from 68 other countries around the world. Our class had barely a handful of international students. Amazingly, the full cost of attending Dartmouth in 2024-25 is $87,768, with the average scholarship covering 79 percent of the cost. We have access to comparable stats from Harvard for this year’s admittees and they show a different pattern—while Dartmouth had an increase in applicants year over year of 10 percent, Harvard’s decreased by 5.1 percent, from 56,937 to 54,008, admitting 1,937 this year (692 early decision and 1,245 regular decision) and 1,966 last. That might make for some head scratching.

We want to recognize Phil Schaefer for his many contributions to Dartmouth’s track and field program as head official of the pole vault. This past spring Phil received a certificate of appreciation after more than 20 years as a volunteer. Phil has accumulated a remarkable track record in service to Dartmouth and our class, including his efforts for the track and field program, as class secretary, creating the book of essays by class veterans, the Vietnam project, and our efforts for Ukrainian refuges in Romania. Well done and thank you, Phil!

Regrettably, we have had a further loss in our numbers as the following deaths have been reported to the College: Keith W. Dupree, Dexter R. Rowell, Gary W. Zuke, Ray D. Peters, and Peter H. Benzian.

That’s all for now. Best regards.

—Ray Neff, 3685 Fairway Dr., Norton Shores, MI 49441-7016; (616) 551-8595; rkneff@gmail.com; Robert C. Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com

As we approach our class 60th reunion, some of us have been thinking about our class’ enduring legacy to the College. Dartmouth has been a beacon in producing leaders for a very long time in medicine, business, engineering, computer technology, foreign language instruction, and much, much more. Since our 10th and 25th reunions, our class-sponsored activities have been focused on leadership principles and practices. In our private lives many of us have accumulated substantial track records of leadership. So it seems entirely fitting and proper at this last official reunion to commit our class to establishing our legacy of leadership. As a critical component of this effort, your class leaders recognize the need to take steps to pass the baton forward so that our legacy of leadership continues onward. Fortuitously, we have worked up a solid relationship with the class of 2014. Bob Bartles and the class leadership committee have made a proposal as to how this legacy would be structured: resurrect our Class of 1964 Leadership Award by renaming it together with an announcement of the newest awardee at our 60th reunion June 10-13; expect to make awards more regularly with a formal, rules-based nomination process where potential awardees’ qualifications would be solicited and competitively evaluated; an awardee would receive a cash grant from an endowment fund yet to be established that would tie into student activities at the College; the final balance of funds in the class’s treasury account would be administered by the class of 2014, our connections class, to further the programs of the class of ’64 in perpetuity; and the steering committee for this award would include class officers and others from the class of 2014.

We had two outstanding Zoom-based presentations in the past few months. Fritz Corrigan spoke in November about his Army experiences post Dartmouth and how they prepared him for successful corporate leadership during a 40-year career. Five of our classmates spoke in early December on how their experiences in the Peace Corps changed the pathways of their lives.

Lastly, we remember our classmate Ellery McClintock, who passed away in 2023. Best regards.

—Ray Neff, 3685 Fairway Dr., Norton Shores, MI 49441-7016; (616) 551-8595; rkneff@gmail.com; Robert C. Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com

A feature of each of these bimonthly columns is the remembrance of classmates who have passed on. Ever wonder about our longevity and its multifactorial causes? Interestingly, the present-day geographical distribution of our class reveals an association with longevity with many of us having gravitated to the New England states with the highest values. A recent study on the state-by-state variability of longevity showed that Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire were among the top eight. Further, the study pointed out patterns of increased physical activity as well as greater adoption of healthy lifestyles among residents in these states relative to others. The states with the worst longevity were Alabama, Mississippi, and West Virginia, and their healthy lifestyle rankings were also at the bottom. The difference between the best and worst states was 7.9 years of life. So, if you need a friendly boost to be more active and think positively, maybe these jottings will help.

As we enjoy our octogenarian years, it may be worth remembering that when we were born (1942, plus or minus) the average life expectancy in the United States was about 67 years. Clearly many changes in healthcare have increased these stats; in New Hampshire and Massachusetts the figure is now 79 years, with Vermont at 78.8. Closer to our present circumstance, we checked the actuarial lifetables and found the life expectancy for an 81-year-old male is 7.3 additional years. We carry on!

Returning to where we started, we remember recent passings, including classmates William I. Martin of Grantham, New Hampshire; Terrence “Terry” McCoy of Kentucky; and Thomas A. Good of Hudson, Ohio. Best regards.

—Ray Neff, 3685 Fairway Dr., Norton Shores, MI 49441-7016; (616) 551-8595; rkneff@gmail.com; Robert C. Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com

It is a pleasure to kick off this bimonthly column with news of Barbara and Dick Couch’s gift of $2.5 million benefitting the Dartmouth Cancer Center. The focus of their gift is to support the recruitment and retention of up-and-coming cancer clinician-scientists from under-represented groups in medicine. Well done, Couches. Quite recently the process for making donations via the internet for our class project to provide funds for maintaining Ukrainian refugees in Romania has changed and been simplified. Henceforth donations can be made at www.romanianunitedfund.org/donate_to_rotary_piatra_neamt. Donations go to the Rotary Club of Piatra Neamt in Romania, where classmate Larry Laster, wife Maria, and son Andi, along with others in their town, continue this necessary work to feed, clothe, and otherwise provide for the welfare of some hundred or so refugees, including many children of this horrific war. The need remains real, and our class executives, together with the Laster family, gladly acknowledge the generous gifts from many of our classmates. This effort has recently been awarded the 2023 Charitable Award from the Alianta organization at its 2023 gala. Dan Dimancescu developed the relationship with Alianta that led to this award. Your class co-secretaries, together with our webmaster, held another Zoom-based session on March 29 with the theme being memorable travels. Twenty-three classmates participated to share their experiences. Some heavily edited highlights were Hugh Savage’s 2015 trip of return to Vietnam with professor Ed Miller as the tour guide (Hugh had been stationed there in the mid-1960s); Tim Brooks’ visit to Memphis, Graceland, and Sun Records Studios; Hunt Whitacre’s visit to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville; Don Mutterperl’s trip to Alaska; and Carlos Ballantyne’s hike along the Boynton Canyon Trail in Sedona, Arizona. Much further afield were John Schuler’s visit to Hadrian’s Wall in the United Kingdom; Bill Neukom’s climb up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania accomplished by Mike Parker; Ben Koehler’s New Zealand trip; Tom Bird’s touring of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temples; Dave Hope’s trips to Africa, Vietnam, and Cambodia; Les Buch’s touring of the Greek Islands, Turkey, and much earlier, Israel; and Don Warnecke’s travels to the vastness of Antarctica and other wilderness regions. Lastly, Rob Goodman related his 2022 trip to Botswana and Namibia.

Best regards.

—Ray Neff, 3685 Fairway Dr., Norton Shores, MI 49441-7016; (616) 551-8595; rkneff@gmail.com; Robert C. Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com

’Round the girdled earth they roam: Members of our class of 1964 have experienced a great many travels through the years. It has not been unusual for two or more of us to have been in the same place at the same time (discounting the Vietnam conflict). Some of these trips have had a purposeful rendezvous, but occasionally it has been a pure coincidence. Your co-secretaries have met a traveling classmate as far away as Cochin, India, and this column features a recent one: This past October, in the course of a shared meal at a safari camp in Botswana, Martha and Rob Goodman by chance struck up a conversation with Barry Pressman, M.D., and his wife, Sandy. The conversation turned to colleges, and Barry and Rob realized they were class of ’64 classmates. Barry is a radiologist specializing in imaging at world-renowned Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Rob is still practicing law in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Rob also reported on another encounter including dinner and drinks with a classmate—this one with Jay Evans and his wife, Hasty. As it turned out Jay and Hasty were nearby in Hampton Roads, Virginia, to pick up their boat before sailing down the intercoastal waterway to Florida for the season. Please write to tell us about your recent travels with or without a chance meeting with a classmate.We have with regret to report the passing of classmates Jay H. Meltzer, Edward Rubel, F. Lynn Bates,and Charles “Charlie” E. Greer.More information on these individuals will be found on the class website. Lastly, our class continues to contribute to the aid of Ukrainian refugees, including some 50 children, now in Piatra Neam, Romania. Those receiving our financial aid acknowledge with sincere appreciation these contributions. Our class also acknowledges contributions from members of the class of 1966 who have joined our initiative. The total receipts to date have reached more than $50,000, but the need remains and is real as this winter season progresses. The most efficient way to contribute is via www.paypal.com/paypalme/rccamena. Best wishes for 2023 to all.

—Ray Neff, 3685 Fairway Dr., Norton Shores, MI 49441-7016; (616) 551-8595; rkneff@gmail.com; Robert C. Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com

Our Zoom session of August 17 brought together some 23 stalwarts to talk about travels both in the past and upcoming. A surprisingly large number of classmates mentioned mountain climbing— from New England (Hunt Whitacre to name but one) to Africa and Asia (Tim Brooks who did a 20,000-foot climb in Nepal). Howard Soroos told us about the six solar eclipses he has observed on his travels, Lou Goodman about traveling in China. Chuck Marsh told us about his December 2018 trip to Antarctica (“Yes, it is cold, but the adventure is well worth it”). Don Mutterperl tied in his traveling with ski trips in the good old USA, where he unsurprisingly encountered other Dartmouth classmates. Ben Koehler mentioned traveling to New Zealand. Dave Hope talked about his one-way circumnavigation of the world on Delta Airlines as well as three trips to Vietnam during his service there. Steve Thompson told us about his three-month tour of Europe and that reminded others during this session of similar exploits after our Dartmouth careers, including Lee Chilcote, who briefly reprised his several travels in Europe through the decades. Hunt Whitacre added that trips to the various presidential libraries across the country are worth making. As to future travels, Gus Buchtel showed us some pictures of a 13,000-foot peak in the Wind River Mountain range in Wyoming that his father climbed in the early 1930s and that Gus is planning to climb later this year. (Good luck, Gus, and be safe!) No doubt most of us will be traveling in the future, health and physical limitations notwithstanding. Also see our classmates’ more detailed postings on our class of 1964 Facebook page, including a recording of the most recent 60-minute Zoom session conducted by your class secretaries. We also need to mention the latest newsletter from Tom Seymour that provides much more detail on activities of classmates that we only mention here. Lastly, let’s keep going with our project to aid Ukrainian refugees in Romania. Funds given to Maria, Andi, and Larry Laster total more than $30,000 as of this writing. The easy-to-use link for monetary contributions is www.paypal.com/paypalme/RCCAMENA. It is as simple as that, and our funds go securely via PayPal directly to the Rotary Club in Piatra Neamt. Best regards.

—Ray Neff, 3685 Fairway Dr., Norton Shores, MI 49441-7016; (616) 551-8595; rkneff@gmail.com; Robert C. Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com

Our executive committee has determined that we, as a class, have an emergent issue: Funding aid for Ukrainian refugees. Watching the televised news has given us all an appreciation for the needs of these people. Last March our classmates Larry Laster and Phil Schaefer joined Dan Dimancescu to energize an effort to fund supplies, food, and related life-support equipment for refugees arriving in Romania. Larry is on the ground living there in Piatra Neamt (west of Odessa across neighboring Moldova) with his wife, Maria, and her son, Andi. They are working closely with local leaders to determine the most effective way to meet the needs of the refugee families. We all appreciate that there are many charities working toward similar ends. What Larry has stressed is that however well-intentioned these agencies are, their administrative costs are excessively high relative to the needs of the people. Dan has devised a method to streamline the funds transfer with almost no overhead. Those wishing to contribute can use the Internet via the link www.alianta.org/donate. It is as simple as that. Funds go via PayPal directly to the Rotary Club in Piatra Neamt. Larry, Maria, and Andi disperse the funds by buying only the supplies, food, etc., that are in immediate need according to local officials. Classmates have been urged to contribute; the decision is solely up to you. To date more than $20,000 has been transferred to Romania; much, much more is needed. In other news we note the passing of our classmates Art Ward, M.D., and Bob Burton. Their obituary notices will appear as usual online on the DAM website. On April 21 co-secretary Rob Goodman and yours truly hosted a Zoom meeting to reunite for a casual exchange of comings and goings among the 27 classmates joining us. Topics covered included Les Buch’s bicycle trips to his doctor over Brooklyn and Manhattan streets and an East River bridge, Duncan Hughes’ move out of a home he and his family occupied for more than 30 years, travels of other classmates around their respective regions, and much news of other retirement activities. All classmates spoke and we judged the trial balloon successful. Watch for more sessions in the future. In February Bob Cahners wowed us over Zoom with his story of success on the field of sport (hammer throw world champion) as well as the dance floor. He has kept himself in supreme physical condition—a model for us all to emulate. Lastly, we had a letter from Hop Potter about his travels and golfing with Lee Chilcote in South Carolina, similarly from Hauser Weiler, M.D. In addition, Amin El Wary sentus his point-of-view from Amman, Jordan, on issues in the Middle East. Stay safe everyone; Covid-19 is still lurking. Also see our more detailed postings on our Facebook class of 1964 website, which includes a recording of the 90-minute April Zoom sessions. Best regards.

—Ray Neff, 3685 Fairway Dr., Norton Shores, MI 49441-7016; (616) 551-8595; rkneff@gmail.com; Robert C. Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com

We are still shaking the tree (Lone Pine) to see what falls from the upper branches. The question is what is your strategy for overcoming the surprises of old age?

Hop Potter writes, “Brother Jay Evans has opened up about his timely move to a continuing care residential community (CCRC), thus leaving behind the world he once knew and taking on a new world, one resembling college life. I once made that point—college similarity—to a skeptical older friend who was struggling with a decision to move to a CCRC. He quipped, ‘Sure, I see the similarities. The graduation ceremony is a little different, though.’ ”

Hop goes on to say that “at our age we have to be pretty stubborn not to belly up to the reality that end of life is the defining issue for us. Marianne and I have an anchor to windward, to borrow Jay’s salty term, in the form of a placeholder at a CCRC near us in Asheville, North Carolina.” Hop notes that getting rid of stuff” in order to fit into a smaller place is a giant challenge.

Gib Myers writes that he is still “waiting for a sign from the universe as to where to go and what is next for” him. Several classmates have provided him with advice. Hunt Whitacre chipped in that “aging in place, hoping for the best is not going to work well.” He recommends getting on a CCRC waiting list if that seems right for you before health issues present larger challenges.

Such prescriptions are not for everyone. Numerous classmates have written that they have enjoyed being able to work right through their 70s and often alongside their spouses. Jim Hughes writes that he and his wife have “remained active but have no anchor to windward yet.” He’s “hoping for a continued stay on this planet or else a sudden exit.” Bruce Cross likewise is enjoying his professional life. Why is it that lawyers just keep on lawyering? Jim Shirley continues to practice law, but sanely balances this by running a dairy and organic vegetable farm.

For my part, health issues are catching up to me (a sign from the universe) and this must be my last column. Some of us are getting old: Would those who aren’t please write in!

—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; gjevans222@gmail.com

Pick up the pace, accelerate

Retire, take off with your first mate

Take flight, tempt fate, it’s not too late

Over the reefs don’t hesitate.

The above was written as I retired and headed south on our boat. We need challenges to keep our lives relevant. I asked classmates whether they were adopting a “sedimentary” pace or stepping on the gas as the clock ticked.

Duncan Hughes and his wife broke loose from their Covid bonds with a road trip around Lake Michigan visiting Ray Neff and others. Don Mutterperl writes that he and his wife, after surviving severe bouts of Covid, launched a somewhat sedentary trip to Maine and visited Jim Latham on their swing back home. John Lane and his wife have been busy meeting some great folks on travels to China, India, South America, and Alaska. Jerry Kolski writesthat he has also been doing some post-vaccination traveling.

Jim Stewart says for orthopedic reasons he has given up tennis, golf, and kayaking. He chose instead the low-impact sport of skydiving this year as a vet representing the 82nd Airborne. He has also taken up the challenge of painting, following the example of Vincent Van Gogh. Bob Reidy is “dealing with time and relevance” after a career in ophthalmology. He recently traveled from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Boston to visit Chip Noecker. Chip has been taking on the challenge of sponsoring young women from Middle Eastern countries to attend universities in North America.

Dan Dimancescu used his Covid timeout to catch up with his writing and film production, completing several short books on Romania and a children’s animation film. He recently caught up with Tom Seymour in Bostonto reminisce about their 1966 kayak expedition in Japan. Lou Goodman has likewise been busy teaching international relations full-time at American University. This necessitated a dozen trips abroad in 2019, including one to Wuhan, China in November. He says, “I got tested right away to make sure I was not patient No. 1.”

Steve Sherman has been sailing the coasts of England, Portugal, and Spain, while Steve Blecher has augmented his East Coast sailing with a trip to the San Juan Islands and Puget Sound. He notes that we are at risk of becoming sedentary well before our remains become sedimentary.

—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; gjevans222@gmail.com

Normally, I avoid lawyers. But I admit, they are an essential part of our complex world. When pushed I would admit that many people, including myself, have been helped by members of the profession. Classmates practicing law found they could apply their degrees to a broad range of activities. I asked what they enjoyed in their careers and where they felt they made meaningful contributions. In a sense, I asked them to give us their “closing arguments.”

Stafford Keegin modestly noted that he is “still practicing law and that the older he gets, the more practice he seems to need.” Whitney “Tooey” Miller writes that his “most satisfying and exciting work was in mergers and acquisitions. Dealing with high stakes and stringent deadlines, it required a broad understanding of corporate finance, securities law, and human nature.”

The intellectual challenge is often the appeal of the legal profession. Harvey Tettlebaum notes that “it is challenging to research, analyze, and then synthesize new information, to which the law is then applied to prevail or attempt to prevail over your opponent.” He has “argued and or briefed more than 125 appellate cases in state and federal courts all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.” On the other hand, Michael Moore achieved distinction in the field of municipal law. He particularly enjoyed his teaching at the University of Idaho and the seminars he held for “municipal attorneys and city and county officials all over Idaho.” He became quite the expert in municipal bond law, started his own firm in Boise, and argued cases before the Idaho Supreme Court. In retirement, Mike moved to an island on Puget Sound, Washington, and remains entangled in town government.

After 20 years working for Gulf Oil and Citgo, Pete Luitwieler has been spending much of his time helping veterans find services in the areas of housing, employment, education, and mental health. He is program director for a state-wide veterans’ services organization. His passion is “focused on reducing veteran suicides—which average about 20 a day.” A sad statistic, indeed!

Please write in, the subject of this column will continue in the next class column.

—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; gjevans222@gmail.com

Your classmates met the challenge when asked how concerned they should be with the soaring national debt. Not a one offered the canard that we owe it to ourselves. We have some thoughtful classmates, but no easy solutions.

Roger Nastou sensibly points out that debt for infrastructure should be less concerning than for consumption and that we have taken on debt recently in the battle against Covid.

Paul Hale notes that “modern monetary theory, which conveniently states that deficits don’t matter, rules the day.” Ivars Bemberis says that the “long-run impact of the high debt is lower growth, higher prices mostly offset by higher pay, savers will get screwed (that’s us), and economic inequality will increase.” Will Madden adds that U.S. debt is almost $80 trillion. Hard to fathom, it equates to $109 million a day since the common era began. He notes that politicians will let it increase “just to keep the handouts flowing. Our generation grew up knowing that if you borrow money, you have to pay it back. The latest generation now thinks that is outdated and unnecessary.”

Don Mutterperl comments that “someday the party might end and we’ll be left with a huge mortgage on our future as well as a reduced credit standing in the world. Leaving the problem either ignored or unsolved isn’t a reasonable legacy for our heirs.” Lance Keeler adds that we are fortunate to benefit from low-interest rates as the dollar is the preferred reserve currency for the world. It’s been easy to sell our debt, but, as he says, “this can change and lead to a weakening of the dollar, contribute to inflation, and put pressure on interest rates.” Tony Orr says, “Higher interest rates are likely and payment of interest on the debt will increase dramatically, causing hard political choices.” Increased payments on our debt may force our aging population to accept cuts in Social Security and Medicare. Steve Blecher says, “Don’t let anyone tell you it’s different this time!”

Meanwhile, an assertive China is pushing to substitute the yuan for the dollar. This major threat needs to be addressed. We can fight to support the dollar or shift the effort to promote a new, world currency, blocking China’s efforts. Send in your thoughts.

—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; gjevans222@gmail.com

Members of the class, particularly those with medical experience, were asked for their thoughts on Covid-19. Several said that the isolation, while challenging, had forced them to tackle tasks long overdue. With time to reflect, more than one undertook writing personal memoirs.

Barry Pressman, who has been practicing medicine at a 900-plus-bed facility in Los Angeles, noted the enormous behind-the-scenes administrative effort of teams formed to deal with the provision of personal protective equipment and ventilators, the cancellations of nonessential procedures, and the reassignment of staff to handle the pandemic. He notes, “It will take a long time for the nation’s hospitals to recover financially.”

Peter Wright has been “deeply engaged in leading a group at Dartmouth Hitchcock examining the immune responses to Covid-19.” He is pleased that his group is “now trying to morph to a vaccine trial.”

Wendell Smith addressed the broader, socioeconomic impact, stating “The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the pathologic cost of our endemic culture of white supremacy and privilege to communities of color in these United States.” He challenges the benevolent mythology of the founding of Dartmouth College and cites a different history in which Eleazar “financed his plan with wealth from the triangular trade of rum for slaves, slaves for molasses, and molasses for rum.”

Newell Grant brings things home withthe telling of his wife, Judy’s, final days. She spent the Christmas holidays enjoying hikes and tending horses in the “high desert air and clear skies of New Mexico” with their son, Will, and his partner, Claire. Her feet, however, began to hurt, and it turned out to be due to more than tight boots. They discovered her cancer and began her chemotherapy in February. “And the winter gave way to spring’s better weather and promise of sunny days to come. The bright daffodils between snows became a counterpoint to Judy’s declining health. And on June 15 Judy’s charming, lively, engaging spirit glided away—past unknown stars and through distant galaxies to the arms of God. So, somehow, Covid just hasn’t been that big of a deal to our dog Riley or me.”

—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; gjevans222@gmail.com

With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (now 2021?) so much in the news, I asked our own class Olympian, Ed Williams (1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics, in biathlon), to reflect on what enabled him to reach that platform and the effect it had on his life.

Ed writes that his dad started him skiing at the age of 5 and, coming from upstate New York, he early learned to hunt squirrels, pheasants, and grouse. At Dartmouth it was not long before he found himself at Holts Ledge trying out for the freshman alpine team. The stars (in order of finish) were Pat Terenzini, Jim Jacobson, Chris Palmer, and Bobby Hiller, followed by Charlie Stromeyer, Geoff Pitchford, Stephen Kelso, Ed Frost, Rick Isaacson, Gus Buchtel, and Tom Ilfeld. He says that he did not even merit mention on the results sheet and made himself as small as possible in the van back to campus.

Ed writes: “Coach Merrill had already identified Mike Parker, Frank Hannah, and Gene McGregor as strong candidates for the freshman cross-country relay team but needed a fourth runner. Recognizing my determination, he asked if I had ever thought of doing cross county. ‘I can teach you and I think you would be good,’ he said. Wow, that was exciting. It was the start of a relationship that changed my life. It led to hours of hard training as a cross-county skier and my decision, with the urging of Sam Baker ’62 and Jim Page ’63, to try out for the Olympics. Being a member of Dartmouth’s ski team and later the U.S. Olympic team were great honors. All those who helped push me along deserve my thanks. They were with me when I saw that skier from Estonia in the 20-kilometer individual race tear up his racing bib in an act of disgust at being passed by an American.”

I would note that Ed served on the board of the U.S. Olympic Committee for 12 years and has used his law practice to support the best interests of athletes. Our class boasts one other Olympian, Geoff Pitchford, who competed in the downhill and slalom for Great Britain. 

Our next column will focus on your experiences with and thoughts about Covid-19. Let’s hear from you!

—Jay Evans, 274 New Aldrich Road, Grantham, NH 03753; gjevans222@gmail.com

Bob Bartles contributes a Robert Frost thought, excerpted from one of his beautiful poems.

“But false hopes are what winter sells

When March begins her lies

And that first day of sweet sunshine

Is not when Winter dies.”

A poet’s talent or creativity and leadership are equally important but measured on different scales.

Ron Schram, a former member of Palaeopitus, tells us, “Leadership does not come naturally. It requires a number of skills and, like throwing a football or playing a musical instrument, those skills can be learned and definitely should be taught.” 

Our class members of Palaeopitus all say they learned on the job from each other. Ron goes on to say, “We could have been so much more effective (as undergraduates and later in life) if we had been taught the leadership skills we needed: how to motivate a group, train teammates to be leaders themselves, compromise, organize a meeting, negotiate, network, communicate effectively in writing and orally, in small groups or before large gatherings.”

As Ron points out, “Dartmouth historically has not taught leadership skills. The College is academically committed to addressing the most complex problems facing society but recommended policies are not enough to solve these problems. We need a cadre of people who have the leadership skills to motivate a team to put these policies in action. Otherwise all we have is academic solutions and not real changes that make a difference in people’s lives.”

As chair of the Rockefeller Center’s board of visitors Ron led a process to develop a white paper on leadership that outlined a comprehensive four-year program of leadership training for all undergraduates.

Hunt Whitacre reminds us that our class has proudly led the effort to bring leadership instruction to Dartmouth through its funding efforts and the work of Ron Schram and Fritz Corrigan, among others.

Our next column will focus on innovation and creativity. Send in your thoughts and tell us about your original ideas and accomplishments.

—Jay Evans, 274 New Aldrich Road, Grantham, NH 03753; gjevans222@gmail.com

Tim Brooks writes, “Most of us—okay, all of us—remember WDCR, the campus radio station that in the 1960s woke us in the morning, blared out of dormitory windows after we crammed at night, relaxed us with Music ’Til Midnight. We first heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination of JFK over WDCR.” Broadcasting on campus remains strong today, despite many changes. First, WDCR-AM is no more. It’s become Internet station www.webdcr.com, and you should check it out. In 1976 companion station WFRD-FM (99.3) was launched and it is now an Upper Valley powerhouse. Tim reports, “Guy ‘Rock’ MacMillin, a top disc jockey on the afternoon Swinghouse and late-night Music ’Til Midnight shows, went on to teach at Vermont Academy and then became editorial page director for The Keene Sentinel. Guy passed away in 2017. Al McKee, the general manager, served in Vietnam, where he recruited me for a shift on Armed Forces Radio Saigon! Later, in the foreign service, he rose to the rank of ambassador. Dave Shipler, DCR’s program director, became an award-winning reporter for The New York Times and author of bestselling books on Russia and poverty in America. He has also served as a Dartmouth trustee. Bill Craig, the business manager, became an attorney specializing in real estate and environmental law, and Ted Gerbracht, the technical wizard, earned an M.B.A., two master’s degrees, and a Ph.D. and eventually became global security officer for an international banking organization. His second career has been in religious work.” Tim was the administrative director of WDCR and went into television, supervising audience research for the NBC, USA, and Lifetime networks, among others. He has written nine books on media history, including College Radio Days, about Dartmouth Broadcasting. He says, “It won’t sell as many copies as Dave’s books, but to paraphrase Daniel Webster, who never got to hear Dartmouth radio, ‘There are those who love it.’ ” Given our class initiative on teaching leadership, the next edition of notes will focus on the leadership insights and experiences of classmates who served as members of Palaeopitus.

—G. Jay Evans, 274 New Aldrich Road, Grantham, NH 03753; gjevans222@gmail.com

With the College’s 250th anniversary and our 55th reunion this year, we should also recognize the 123rd anniversary of the Dartmouth Educational Association (DEA). This organization is very much in keeping with the spirit of Dartmouth’s founding. The DEA is a Massachusetts not-for-profit organized by eight alumni “to provide a source of loans to students at Dartmouth, who for temporary lack of funds would otherwise be unable to complete their courses.” The loans are interest-free for undergraduate students. Association funds come from annual dues, life membership fees, specific gifts, interest earned on loans, investments, and savings accounts. Twenty-four of our classmates have contributed to the association; 22 of us are life members. I emailed those still with us to ask them why they contribute. Here are comments from those who replied.

Kenneth Sagat: “I contributed some time ago as a very modest but targeted way of giving back since I was fortunate enough to receive financial aid from the College—both direct scholarship and loans.”

Jim Harris: “I am a life member of the DEA. I did so because I believe in education; after all, that is why I went to Dartmouth to begin with. Contributing to the association seemed to be a way that I could contribute, to help Dartmouth accomplish her overarching raison d’etre, and to make me feel good about myself.”

Chris Palmer: “For me, my contribution is a habit. Dartmouth would not have been possible for me without scholarship money. I was grateful for the opportunity to attend Dartmouth then, and I am happy that I can help others receive that same wonderful opportunity today.”

Charles Fewell: “I became a lifetime member years ago because I firmly believe that Dartmouth transformed my life and in many ways opened the world to me. I firmly believe that every student who is capable of doing the work should have that opportunity.”

Ed Williams: “The DEA struck me as a firmly established and well-run volunteer organization worthy of support in its efforts to help students benefit from being able to attend Dartmouth, which did so much for me.”

Jim Wright: “Susan Wright and I are each life members of the DEA. We are pleased to be part of this important source of support for our students.”

Newell Grant: “The DEA has a longer history than the welter of College funding requests, and speaks to the tribulations that life can inflict on students. Without incessant emails or calls for support, its support of students already there who have unexpected needs is the heart of helping others.”

Bob Parkinson: “I went to Dartmouth on a near full scholarship made up of scholarship funds, loans, and required work in Thayer. It took several years to pay off the loan. To me it was the right thing for me to do, to provide what I could to those going to Dartmouth with financial need through the years.”

I encourage classmates to learn more about this worthy organization.

Errata: In my last article the information for the two “Eds” was reversed.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

This article features two classmates: one retired, Huntley Whitacre; one still working, Len Glass, M.D.

Hunt and wife Lynne live in Hanover and really enjoy nearby college friends and activities. His oldest, Kerry ’94, lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with two girls aged 13 and 11. Their other daughter, Kate, lives in Tucson, Arizona, with two boys aged 14 and 13. They all vacation every other year all over the world to educate and broaden their horizons, this year on their 50th anniversary. Hunt retired in 1999 after three careers, all finance related, starting on Wall Street with Kidder Peabody in security analysis, then Nabisco in corporate development, and finally RJR Nabisco as senior VP.Post-retirement has been productive and fun. He and Lynne travel in the United States (visited 13 presidential libraries) as well as overseas. For 17 years he has played a variety of trustee roles for Northern Stage Theater, a professional regional theater. It recently built a new theater, sparking a renewal of White River Junction, Vermont. He is on the investment committee of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and on the Ledyard Bank investment advisory committee. He has been a class officer for at least 16 years, and currently is vice president.

Len Glass, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, still practices in Newton, Massachusetts, and teaches at Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where he served as president. He and Peggy (Bennington ’68) celebrated their 50th anniversary last June. Peggy is a food writer who has published two cookbooks, taught cooking classes, and written a newspaper column. They have three children: Adam (Carnegie Mellon ’94), Rebecca (Harvard ’98), and Noah (Yale ’03) and five grandchildren. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s assertion notwithstanding, Len embarked upon a “second act” in his professional life these past two years. Alarmed by the statements and behavior of candidate Donald Trump, Len posted critical observations based on his training and experience that predicted impulsive actions, vengeful and chaotic outbursts, and an inability to collaborate with others or learn from divergent views should Trump’s campaign succeed. In a letter published in The New York Times, he and colleagues bemoaned that, among a plethora of speculation about the president’s mental state by pundits, there was a notable lack of commentary by psychiatrists, the experts in this field. They ascribed this to the Goldwater Rule, the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) prohibition against “diagnosis from afar.”

Unwilling to be “gagged,” Len unsuccessfully called on the APA to modify its ruling, so he resigned in protest after 41 years of membership and recognition as a Distinguished Life Fellow. Len continued his protest and articulated his perspectives on what he saw as Mr. Trump’s psychological unfitness in a peer-reviewed professional journal, then in several op-eds in The Boston Globe, Politico, and STAT and wrote a chapter for the book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, which appeared on The New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists. He also was interviewed on PBS, CNN, NPR, and other media, including some international networks.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

The 2018 Dartmouth College Fund drive ended June 30. Thank you to our 248 classmates who donated $481,232 to support Dartmouth primarily with what will be financial aid for students. If you missed contributing, the next Dartmouth College Fund drive has started and will end June 2019, the same year as our 55th reunion—June 10-13, 2019, in Hanover. Thanks also to the 38 classmates who served as volunteers for the Alumni Fund to help raise money from our classmates. The 38 for 2017-18 were Lynn Bates, Peter H. Benzoin, Steven D. Blecher, Bob Bucher II, Lee A. Chilcote, Fritz Corrigan, Sabin Danziger, Carl S. DuRei, Bob Engelman Jr., Brad Evans, Woody Flowers, Al Gruber, Bill Gunn, Paul E. Hale, Fran Hanlon, Stan Herr, Buck Kirch IV, Reed Langenbach Jr., Roy J. Lewicki, Bill Madden Jr., Sandy McGinnes, Bill McGregor Jr., Roger G. Nastou, Ray Neff, Chris Palmer, Ray Peters, Jay Regan, Robert W. Reidy II, Stan Roman Jr., Fred Rothenberg, Randy Stayin, Steve Stein, Jeff Swain, Harvey M. Tettlebaum, Hunt Whitacre, Ed Williams, Karl F. Winkler, and Alan S. Woodberry, our class head agent, who gets much of the credit for his leadership of the aforementioned team. As the College has a financial aid policy that is truly need blind for all American applicants, it is important for us to support that effort to allow it to admit students from financially challenged environments.

Because Bob Bartles is so shy and retiring that he would never mention it himself (well…), allow me to point out that his poem “The Almanac,” has been selected from among hundreds of other possible “Anecdotes & Pleasantries” for publication in the 2019 Old Farmer’s Almanac, which is available this fall. These days we seldom publish poetry at all, so this is a great accomplishment by and honor for Bob, whose work will now reach more than 3 million readers. I will be trying in future articles to feature other talents among our class members.

Throop Brown provided some interesting information that I would like to share with you. While we all have stories about how we got into Dartmouth, Throop has one of the more interesting ones. He says that when answering the question whether any relative had attended Dartmouth, he truthfully answered: “Yes, my seventh-generation grandfather went to Hanover with Reverend Wheelock and graduated in 1774! He planned to be a missionary to the Indians, but the best-laid plans get screwed up. In 1775 he found himself the chaplain of Knox’s artillery when they dragged the guns from Ticonderoga overland for the siege of Boston!” Throop’s daughter Sandy, a member of the city council of Santa Cruz, California, has a Ph.D. from Berkeley. Throop is retired, lives in Snow Camp, North Carolina, in a doublewide trailer with cows and deer as his nearest neighbors, and is happily married to his third wife, who is a glass artist and former librarian.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

This article features classmates who are Dartmouth faculty members: Dale F. Eickelman and William Fitzhugh.

Dale writes: “I re-joined Dartmouth in 1989. The move was good for my academic health. Adjustment to Dartmouth after New York was initially challenging, but I continued to receive external fellowships and brought high-enough-level international conferences to Dartmouth, enabling undergraduates to work with my academic interests. My wife, Christine, aided me in research, beat me in book publication on the Sultanate of Oman, and took the lead in raising our two children.

“Undergraduates today differ from the early 1960s. They now have distracting electronics, banned from my seminars and classes. As a result, attention to seminar presentations improved. One of my favorite courses was ‘Secrets and Lies: Why Deception is Necessary in Human Societies.’ Topics included deception within the family and marriage, the legal profession, universities and corporations, government and international relations, online gaming, poker playing, and scientific fraud.

“I became emeritus in June 2016 but remain fully engaged at Dartmouth. Since 2003 I’ve run the Dartmouth-American University of Kuwait Program, creating from the ground up Kuwait’s first private liberal arts university. I’m supported by a fulltime program manager and faculty and administrative consultants, including classmate Roy Lewicki. On April 23 Phil Hanlon and former Shaikha Dana Nasser Al Sabah renewed the agreement through 2023. The program also brought 35 Dartmouth students to Kuwait as interns. Dartmouth just approved a for-credit undergraduate academic exchange. I’m also president of the Tangier American Legation (www.legation.org), our diplomatic base in Morocco from 1821 through 1956, now the only U.S. national park outside the United States and its possessions. It is a museum and cultural and academic center representing the strong cooperation between the United States and Morocco.”

Bill writes: “Dartmouth’s in my blood. Dad was a ’35. I came from Deerfield and played in the Barbary Coast band with some of the same Deerfield gang. I left Dartmouth with an anthropology degree, never guessing I’d return as a professor. When my thesis describing 8,000 years of environmental and cultural history in Labrador was published, Dad thought he’d end up bailing me out. Teaching at Dartmouth was the last thing he thought I’d do.

“I went from Dartmouth into the Navy, ending up in the North Atlantic, then to the Smithsonian as curator of North American archaeology. In 1963 Dartmouth’s anthropology department had just been created; two of its professors were Arctic experts; the third was the Wilson Hall museologist. The department changed its focus to equatorial and temperate regions. I nagged about maintaining the Arctic legacy, which included the great Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, whose archives at Rauner are renowned as a center for Arctic studies. As the Arctic began to heat up, they hired me.

“I’ve taught circumpolar environments and archeology during winter term for the past four years. The students are unbelievable. Some join me for Labrador fieldwork. I struggle to deliver a few C’s for the deans who are always nagging the faculty about grade-creep.”

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

Surprisingly, we have only two members of our class living in Oklahoma. They are John Fishel and Pete Luitwieler. John lives with his wife, Kimbra, outside Norman (home of the University of Oklahoma) and Pete with his wife, Jane, in Tulsa. After graduating from Dartmouth John obtained his doctorate in political science from Indiana University. Pete entered Tuck after his third year at Dartmouth and was graduated with his M.B.A. Both John and Pete served in the Army. John had a notable career in the Army, active and reserve, and in academia. Prior to ending his career, he worked at the National Defense University Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. Pete worked in the petroleum industry, first with Gulf Oil and then with Citgo. John is “retired,” although he continues to teach three courses each year at the University of Oklahoma, while Kimbra participates in piano and photographic competitions and teaches (online) international relations at American Military University. Pete retired in 2000 and has been active in many areas of giving back to his community with Habitat for Humanity and SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors. Even though Pete was a Vietnam combat veteran, he was for many years unaware of the help that veterans needed. However, since 2015 his focus has been on helping veterans in eastern Oklahoma. He was a delegate to the Governor’s Symposium on Veterans Service in 2016 and 2017. In his spare time Pete plays golf, and he and Jane are very involved in their church. John and Kimbra have a daughter who is a freshman at the University of Oklahoma, and Pete and Jane between them have five children and 10 grandchildren. Although John had a heart attack and six bypasses, he is involved with competitive race walking and has participated in the National Senior Games. Pete and Jane have found themselves spending more time with our 1964 classmates. John serves as president and as a vice president of the local and state chapters of the Military Officers Association of America, respectively. Pete and John have recently agreed to collaborate on giving a six-week, 12-hour class on the Vietnam War at the Oklahoma State University campus in Tulsa. John has taught such a class on the Vietnam War on a regular basis for four years at the University of Oklahoma.

Speaking of Vietnam, Phil Schaefer asked me to tell our class that the Vietnam vets panel discussion of October 23, 2017, during professor Ed Miller’s course, has made it to YouTube (youtube/aK63hJ46Tto). We hope that you’ll have both the interest and the time (about two hours) to view this recording. It is particularly significant because for the first time there is a woman on the panel. Jane Griffith has significant Dartmouth connections and a fascinating experience in Vietnam during the war.

We have led interesting lives. I encourage you to share your recent experiences with your classmates.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

So, what do you have to do to become an ambassador to a major European country? You have to work very hard to gain a reputation sufficient to support such an appointment. This is exactly what our classmate Lew Eisenberg did for the past 50 years. For those who saw Lew’s confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 27 on C-Span, he held the committee members spellbound as he described his experience as chairman of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey on 9/11/01. On August 3 Lew was confirmed by the full Senate as the next ambassador to the Italian Republic and the Republic of San Marino. But let’s get back to the beginning. After graduating from Cornell Business School in 1966, he had a successful career in investments for nearly 50 years. He served as general partner and cohead of Goldman Sachs’ equity division, cofounder and cochairman of Granite Capital International Group, cofounder and board member of Granum Communications and senior advisor of Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts. His civic life includes having led the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey as its chairman from 1994 until 2002 and being a founding board member of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. (LMDC) following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Lew chaired both the victims’ families and transportation advisory councils for LMDC until April 2003. He also served as cochairman of the 2004 New York City host committee, responsible for raising the funds needed to showcase New York City as it welcomed the Republican National Convention. He has been a longtime participant in politics, having held key leadership positions in numerous campaigns and his political efforts as a fundraiser. For example, Lew took another turn as Republican National Committee (RNC) finance chairman for 2015-2016, combining with the Trump organization to chair the RNC/Trump victory committee in 2016. Lew and his wife, Judy, are also engaged members of the philanthropic community. Lew received the prestigious Herbert Lehman Humanitarian Award and has been recognized by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark (New Jersey), Monmouth University, the National Conference for Community and Justice in New Jersey and the New Jersey Alliance for Action for his service to others. He served on the boards of the St. Barnabas Health Care System, Monmouth Medical Center Foundation and New York Service for the Handicapped. He is an emeritus member of the advisory council of the Samuel Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Lew and Judy have three daughters and 10 grandchildren (eight grandsons and two granddaughters), one of whom, Henry Goodwyn, is a sophomore at Dartmouth. Lew and Judy are greatly honored to be asked by our president to serve their country. Fortunately, the president chose Italy, a place with great history and beauty. Judy is a former trustee of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Italy certainly provides her an opportunity to pursue those interests. We wish them both well.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

What alternatives are available when retirement arrives? One of our classmates decided to use his time to support a humanitarian cause.

Ray Peters retired in 2012 from his teaching job as professor of psychology at Queens University, Ontario, Canada, where he started teaching in 1973. Although born and reared in Pennsylvania, after he was graduated from Dartmouth, Ray found himself in Canada for graduate school. Canadian policy on refugees is different from the United States. While Canada has sponsored refugees from Syria, there are organizations that work with private citizens to sponsor refugees. Ray and his wife, Ellen, first got the idea of sponsoring a Syrian refugee family when they saw the startling photo of the refugee boy on the beach. So in 2016 they looked around and found an organization in Kingston, Ontario, that sponsors refugee families. Ray and Ellen were joined by a group of friends from their church and several other churches to sponsor a Syrian refugee family–a husband, wife and their five young children. The family had left Syria in 2012 under threats of death, spent two weeks in a refugee camp and then moved to Amman, Jordan, where they stayed with relatives in one room for two years. In Jordan they could not work and the children could not go to school. In June of 2016 they finally were allowed to come to Canada under the sponsorship of the Lutheran Refugee Fellowship, the organization Ray and Ellen had founded. The vetting process took a year and a half. Ray, Ellen and the other families formed a support group to assist them. As Ray determined, in order to sponsor a refugee family it was necessary to have both the financial as well as social and other resources to assist the family to get them housing, to assimilate, to learn English, to get their children into school, to get the husband a job and to teach his wife to drive, something she could not do in Syria or Jordan. Ray notes that this effort required a year’s worth of financial support as well as a sufficient number of volunteers to assist the family to get settled and acclimate to their new country. To garner these resources Ray and Ellen organized a fundraising effort to get the necessary financial resources and enlisted a team of 20 volunteers so that there were always persons available to assist the family when help was needed. “They formed a wonderful team,” according to Ray, “to spread the labor and commitment.” Ray indicated to me that although both he and Ellen are Christians, the motivation for this effort was not religious, but rather humanitarian. They found that others got involved for the same reason. Ray and Ellen feel that they have benefitted as much from the process and experience as the refugee family has. Because of that, they are thinking about sponsoring another family. If you want more information from Ray, you can contact him at ray.peters@queensu.ca.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

Despite the wet weather, many members of our class were in attendance at one or more of the Homecoming events. John and Karen Sanders, Ray and Ellen Peters, Hunt and Lynn Whitacre, Phil and Mary Lou Schaefer, and Steve and Victoria Ward attended the Friday pizza party at the Top of the Hop with the classes of ’66 and ’67. Dave and Kate Hewitt, along with the class of ’65, hosted a Saturday tailgate party. Attendees included Fran Hanlon, Bill and Mary Ann Lewis, Tom Spangenberg, Jay and Hasty Evans, Chris and Susanne Palmer, Tom and Donna Parkinson as well as the Whitacres, Peters and Wards. We had 10 seats near the 35-yard line. We gathered again for Saturday dinner at Pierce’s in Etna, New Hampshire. Even though we lost to Harvard, the weekend was a lot of fun and the fall colors were excellent.

The class also held its annual meeting on Saturday, October 29. In attendance were Ray Peters, Hunt Whitacre, Dave Hewitt, Bill Lewis, and Phil Schaefer. Also present were Andrew Samwick, Ed Miller, Angela Stafford from alumni relations and students Kiana Outen ’18, Ben Weinstock ’17 and Emily Smith ’18. We learned about several projects of special interest to our class.

Kiana Outen reported on projects of the center for environmental leadership training at Dartmouth. One project involves working with outside companies to develop a video game, the arctic survival challenge, for middle and high school students. Participants in the Native energy program work with tribes to bring clean energy to Indian lands and hope to obtain a $1.5-million grant to further this work. A third program looks at protecting the power grid against terrorism.

Professor Andrew Samwick updated the class on the leadership program. Our class supports three Rocky interns out of a total of 40 to 50, and it remains a very successful program. The policy research shop manages health, education and environment projects in Montpelier, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire, for the state legislatures. Twenty-three students have developed papers for policymakers. The dean of residential clusters is looking at engaging the leadership model for all freshmen through the residential clusters.

Professor Miller and two of his students discussed the oral history project and the students’ experiences. Students are trained during Sophomore Summer and junior year for one term to do three or more interviews of alumni who are veterans of the Vietnam War. The interviews last several hours and are then professionally transcribed and deposited in the Rauner permanent collection. The goal is to get the transcriptions on a digital screen so that people can access the transcripts. The students who do this work are presidential scholars. There have been some 90 interviews, 14 of which are with ’64s. Funding sources are the Dartmouth center for the advancement of learning, individuals and the history department. About one half of the interviews have been transcribed.

Our class can be especially proud of its support of and involvement in these diverse but fantastic projects.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

Almost five years ago a number of classmates gathered in San Francisco to engage in a collective celebration of our 70th birthday. Next year most classmates will turn 75. To commemorate that occasion the class will be holding its 75th birthday celebration in Scottsdale, Arizona, March 13-16, 2017. An email from Ray Peters and Hunt Whitacre informed most classmates of the event, but some of you either do not receive or choose not to read email. Therefore, I am alerting you to this event in these class notes.

The location was chosen by consensus from those who returned a survey emailed to classmates. In Scottsdale March weather is wonderful, Major League Baseball spring training is in full “swing” and top golf is available. The planning committee for this mini-reunion is Newell Grant (chair), Bob Engelman (finance), Fritz Corrigan, Jerry Dorros, Steve Sherman, Bill Hamm and class officers. Other classmates planning to attend are Ray Peters, Neal Stanley, Ken Lapine, Pete Koenig, Ed Gingras, Hauser Weiler, Sabin Danzinger, Hunt Whitacre, Larry Williams and Harvey Tettlebaum.

We have a contract with the Scottsdale Marriott at McDowell Mountains (480-502-3836) for $259 plus taxes per room per night. This rate applies for reservations made between now and mid-January 2017, as long as rooms are available. The committee has planned a variety of daytime activities from which to choose, but we will all gather together in the evenings. Our celebration includes dinner at the Marriott on Monday, March 13, a sundowner at the home of Jerry and Myra Dorros on Tuesday evening (dinner on your own) and, on Wednesday evening, cocktails and dinner at the home of Fritz and Glenda Corrigan. It is not too late to RSVP by sending an email to Bob Engelman at lvbrse@aol.com. Let Bob know which of the following daytime activities interest you.

March 14: Major League Baseball spring training at Talking Stick Stadium, golf scramble at a top course, Heard Museum, Museum of the West, guided birding tour, Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin West home and studio, Musical Instrument Museum.

March 15: hike and lunch (included) at Desert Mountain led by Bob Engelman and his wife, Lynn Van Buren, guided tour of Phoenix Botanical Garden put together by Judy Grant, golf tee times, Heard Museum, Taliesin West, Museum of the West, Musical Instrument Museum.

Tentative costs, not including hotel: $360 per person (includes two dinners, cocktails, breakfasts at hotel, event transportation).

Not to be maudlin, but for some of us this may be the best opportunity to enjoy the company of our classmates. Our next full reunion is not until 2019. Most of us by then will be 77 years old. I have found that the difference between how I felt at 70 and how I feel close to my 75th birthday (I am a December baby) is amazingly different and less enjoyable. So, while we are still able to move about under our own power or with appropriate assistive devices, Scottsdale in March is delightful.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

While today we watch the unrest occurring on many campuses across the country, John Topping, David Shipler and John T. Fishel recall the protest when Gov. George Wallace came to campus.

“I remember during the 1964 campaign when George Wallace spoke,” recalls Topping, “a number of us who were members of the Upper Valley chapter of the NAACP (I was then also president of the Dartmouth Young Republicans) paraded outside Leverone Field House singing ‘We Shall Overcome,’ then went inside to hear Wallace’s speech while quietly sitting on our hands. We focused our efforts on promoting passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by gathering signatures from residents of nearby Lebanon and urging U.S. Sen. Norris Cotton, a Lebanon resident, to vote for cloture.”

Shipler adds to this account: “Yes, we were very noble and principled in defending his right to speak while exercising ours to protest. However, as I recall, we demonstrators were very few in number and most of the small crowd came from the hills of Vermont. (I’m exaggerating for effect.) Afterward, if memory serves, Bernie Siegel of the sociology department thought we should form an apathy committee to address that ill on campus. At the first (and only) meeting, hardly anyone showed up. Four years later I watched from afar the news reports that Wallace’s appearance in Hanover was marred by mobs of students rocking his car, to the point where he had to be rescued by state troopers. I guess an apathy committee was no longer needed.”

According to Fishel, “Our junior and senior years were a time of high political drama in the country—the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, military advisers in Laos and Vietnam, the coup and murder of Vietnamese president Diem. During the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King was bent on making America live up to its ideals. We had Alabama Gov. George Wallace standing in the door to stop the integration of the University of Alabama, confronted by Bobby Kennedy’s Justice Department. George Wallace made a run for the Democratic nomination against the newly sworn in President Johnson. Wallace, the epitome of segregationist populism, came to Hanover to speak at the field house. A number of us, both Republicans and Democrats, gathered that night outside the venue to protest what Wallace stood for. We had signs and, as Topping reminded, we sang ‘We Shall Overcome.’ Then, having ‘peaceably assembled’ and petitioned ‘the government for redress of grievances,’ we put down our signs and trooped in to hear what the man had to say, continuing our protest in silence, sitting on our hands. A far cry from the violent street riots of 1968 from the assassination of Martin Luther King and the Vietnam War. Later in our senior year some of us carried our protests to the U.S. Senate to lobby for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Success came from King’s non-violence and making the Constitution and political system work.”

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

Consistent with the theme of this month’s Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, I asked several classmates the reasons they love Dartmouth. The following responses are edited to fit the 500-word limit for this column.

Hunt Whitacre: “The reasons to love Dartmouth are very vivid because we live in Hanover and soak in the Big Green. Interesting people, beautiful sites, and challenging academics are all right here.”

Len Glass: “It was the first institution that treated me with respect and assumed I was a gentleman; and it helped me come to feel I deserved that.”

Lou Goodman: “It is wonderful to see what my classmates have done. It is very exciting to see close-up how a great educational institution (our alma mater) is grappling with the constant need to change with the times (and is doing it so well).”

Bob Cahners: “The perfect environment to establish lifelong friendships—there are no men I’d rather be with.”

Chris Palmer: “It was at that small college that I met my fraternity brothers and most of my other lifelong friends, including my best friend who was then working at Dick’s House—the girl who has been my wife for 51 years! You go to Dartmouth for the rest of your life.”

Pete Luitwieler: “Dartmouth was where I wanted to go from the age of 12—beautiful campus, solid education and rich in tradition. So many wonderful friendships still exist and seem to get stronger as the years pass by.”

Fritz Corrigan: “There are great classmates who are among my best friends, and being part of a community that is known nationally for really good people and great loyalty. Example: I bumped into Pete Levangie ’91. Hadn’t seen him in 10 years, but we picked up right where we left off. He overlapped with our daughters at Dartmouth and we hired him at Cargill. The Dartmouth bond is at the core of our friendship.”

Gus Buchtel: “The school had a unique collection of students, teachers and traditions that changed my view of the world, from my Colorado, western self to New England, global self. Dartmouth gave me a much broader view of life and our role on the planet and I will always value and be grateful for the education that Dartmouth gave me.”

John Fishel: “Gliding down the hill at the Skiway, the intellectual challenge in Kal Silvert’s classes, appreciation of ‘Math 1’ and ‘Science 8,’ horseback riding at a ’65’s farm, international relations study trip to Ottawa and Montreal, classmates and lifelong friendships.”

Alan Woodberry: “Classmates, professors and administration and the education—new subjects, new ways of thinking and raising questions without a right or wrong answer.”

Ray Peters: “I was taught by great professors, with great mentors, footballers who formed a major source of social relationships at Dartmouth. Academically, there was Rogers Elliott, who influenced many of us to pursue a career in psychology. Artistically, there was Paul Zellar. I still sing in a men’s chorus.”

Tom Seymour: “Friends who remain friends, the immensity of knowledge, current diversity of students and staff, the natural beauty of the campus and the surrounding area.”

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

As promised in an earlier article describing John Topping’s brush with a deadly disease, this article discusses his efforts running a valuable not-for-profit organization supported by our class. In 2010 a few stalwarts of the class of 1964—Bob Bartles, Loren McGean, Tom Spangenberg and John Topping—started the Center for Environmental Leadership Training (CELT). CELT has evolved beyond an initial Dartmouth core of 40 students and recent alums to include more than 100 others in 20 nations. CELT is the educational arm of the Washington, D.C.-based Climate Institute, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity founded in 1986 by John Topping. CELT’s problem-solving, collaborative research now moves across both institutional and international boundaries. The Hanover contingent meets in person, while others meet online via Skype. With the generosity of our class and an infusion of Dartmouth talent to its Washington office, CELT recently made an imprint in five widely varying places: Dubai; the Arctic; America’s Indian country, where it jumpstarted the tribal sustainability partnership initiative; and farmlands in northeast Brazil and Alabama. In Alabama it developed clean energy and agricultural sustainability plans for a minority-owned firm building a U.S. biojet fuel refinery and clean-fuel airport.

Gifts from the class treasury ($5,000) and classmates Mark Roseman, Bill Craig, Jim Bell, Dave Shipler, Steve Sharfstein, Harvey Tettlebaum, Hal Rabner, Curt Little, Howard Soroos and John Fishel have also boosted CELT. Bert Kerstetter, Princeton 1966 and fullback on its undefeated 1964 football team, recognized some of CELT’s founders as worthy adversaries on the gridiron and provided a gift of $6,600, thereby enabling CELT students to have an online fundraising platform at www.climate.org.

Dartmouth’s current students are an integral part of CELT. Jeeihn Lee ’17 from Korea and Bryan Robinson ’16 from Florida, both government majors, wrote scripts for earth science gallery docents describing climate and environmental issues for United Arab Emirates youth now able to visit the Middle East’s first climate theater—roughly analogous to a planetarium and recently built by the Climate Institute for Children’s City in Dubai. Jeeihn Lee edited the summer 2015 issue of Climate Alert, exploring how methanotrophs, methane-consuming bacteria, might safely and naturally slow Arctic warming from methane released as permafrost thaws. A CELT team spanning five nationalities has also developed a prototype Arctic survival challenge simulation game highlighting how reduction of soot emissions may slow Arctic melting. Macy Ferguson ’16, from North Carolina of Cherokee ancestry, serves as CELT coordinator and liaison to its Arctic protection and tribal sustainability partnership initiatives. Daniel Bornstein ’14 served this summer as a Climate Institute research fellow exploring how drip irrigation methods used to turn the Negev Desert into productive farmland can be adapted for use on American Navajo lands. Daniel also led another CELT team working on replenishing degraded lands in northeast Brazil to produce biofuel. With our class’ support, CELT is establishing a worldwide reach.

To others, please let me know of your not-for-profit efforts so I can share them with others.

—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com

This is the second installment on the story of the Class of 1964 Leadership Initiative.


Last month’s Class Notes covered the events that initiated and developed the leadership initiative. This is the rest of the story.


The effort to establish and more fully fund the leadership initiative culminated in a meeting held April 29, 2013, in New York, where six classmates mentioned in the prior article—Ron Schram, Bob Bartles, Fritz Corrigan, Sabin Danizger, Brad Evans and Sandy McGinnes—joined Dave Hewitt, Roy Lewicki, Ed Williams, Hop Potter, Dick Couch, Tom Seymour, Burt Alimansky, Steve Blecher, Pete Benzian, Lou Goodman, Roger Hull, Wilson Madden and Harvey Tettlebaum and gathered with Drew Galbraith, Harry Sheehy and Andrew Samwick to discuss what by then was the class legacy project. As mentioned in the first installment, the Rockefeller Center and the department of athletics agreed to take up the leadership initiative within their respective programs. 


At the New York meeting the implementation and experience of both programs were explained to demonstrate the immediate benefit the leadership initiative was having on the students and the College. We learned that through Dartmouth Peak Performance, the athletic department was teaching leadership utilizing Sophomore Summer, where students on a voluntary basis go through the “Drive” program, half in class and half in the field. It teaches students to go from teammate to upper-class leader. The next phase, “Thrive,” when fully funded would allow 1,000 students to be trained in the program. 


The Rocky Center has developed four different courses focusing on the theory and practice of leadership. It also offers training through its management and leadership development program and skill practice through the Policy Research Shop and global policy seminar. Special programs are available for first-year students (Create Your Own Path) and seniors (Rocky leadership fellows). It is most impressive that although participation in the leadership initiative in both programs is entirely voluntary, a substantial percentage of the student body has chosen voluntarily to participate. This speaks not only to the character of today’s Dartmouth undergraduate, but to the unmet need the leadership initiative is filling at the College. 


With the extreme generosity of Fritz and Glenda Corrigan and gifts from 75 other class members, the initiative is off to a great start. President Hanlon supports it as part of Moving Dartmouth Forward and, as stated, we have seen students flock to the program even though it is voluntary and carries no college credit. We hope that classmates’ future planned giving to the College will include the leadership initiative.


This program will benefit the college, the students, the alumni and ultimately the world from the training and experience each participating Dartmouth graduate receives. While other 50th reunion classes have endowed legacies in different forms (buildings, rooms, collections, scholarships) the 1964s have chosen as their legacy a program with an exportable element, allowing the participants to create their own legacies to the College and their communities upon graduation and beyond. 


—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com


Those who attended Commencement this past June probably noticed the dramatic demographic differences between our class and the class of 2014 not only in gender (zero women in 1964; 561 in 2014), but also in race and nationality. Our class had relatively few racial or ethnic minorities and had 17 foreign students from 13 different countries. In contrast, minorities constitute 37 percent of the 2014 class, which includes 90 international students from 43 countries. 


Illustrating this diversity and demonstrating how small our world has become are the experiences of Howard Soroos, who, as part of our class project to connect with the class of 2014 organized by Huntley Whitacre, interviewed Oladipupo “Dipo” Fasawe (Nigeria), Miriam Kilimo (Kenya) and Kwame Ohene-Adu (Ghana). 


Recently, Howard provided an update: “Since I had taught in a Nigerian secondary school as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years after graduation, I could easily relate to these students’ educational experiences when I talked with them for the first time by phone while they were still in Africa. Then, at the beginning of their senior year, I asked how they had adapted from the British style of education in Africa to the American style at Dartmouth. All three liked Dartmouth because here they have had the freedom to explore various fields of study and then ‘follow their passion’ when settling on a major.


“Last March my wife and I met professor Ayo Coly from the African studies department on a Dartmouth alumni travel trip to southern Africa. She was very surprised when I asked if she knew Miriam, Dipo and Kwame. She said that Miriam and Dipo were among her best students, but she hadn’t met Kwame.


“During our 50th reunion my wife and I lunched with Kwame and Dipo, but Miriam was busy. We learned Kwame was staying in Hanover to work in a startup company with a Thayer School professor, Dipo was going to take a job with a company in South Africa and Miriam, a Rhodes Scholar, will study in England for two years. All three have done very well.


“My Dartmouth-African connections expanded even further at Commencement. As our class marched toward the Green we passed the Ph.D. candidates. First in line was a young woman, Marie Onakomaiya, with an African stole over her robe. I shouted over to her and learned she was from Nigeria. After the ceremony I went over to introduce myself. Her parents, particularly her mother, who had come all the way from Nigeria, were amazed that a perfect stranger from the Dartmouth community would greet them in Yoruba. Marie and I were able to reconnect here in Washington, D.C., when I took her to visit Mount Vernon.


“Ephriam Aniebona, the lone African in the class of 1964, had originally encouraged me to accept my Peace Corps assignment to Nigeria. Now, 50 years later, I was privileged to be able, in turn, to welcome these students from Africa.”


—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com


Phil Schaefer has retired as class secretary after five stunning years of excellent service and wonderful articles. His shoes are impossible to fill. My thanks for patiently helping me transition as your new class secretary. You elected new officers at our 50th reunion. Here are their names and a bit of information about them. 


Our 11th class president is Ray Peters, emeritus professor of psychology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he lives with Ellen, his wife of 40 years, and enjoys their four children and nine grandchildren. Vice president is Hunt Whitacre, retired in Hanover with his wife, Lynne. They have two daughters (one a ’94) living in Arizona, plus four grandchildren. Chip Noecker is the new treasurer. A retired president and CEO of a telecommunications company, he and his wife, Carlee, spend summer and fall in Massachusetts, winter and spring in Florida. They have two daughters, one of whom is class of 1997 co-president. 


We created a new class officer position of memorialist to handle the sensitive and important task of communicating information about members of our class who are no longer with us. Mike Parker fills that position. When you learn of the passing of a classmate, please share that information and any memories of the classmate with Mike (mikarolyn@gmail.com). Mike is married to Carolyn, who was a student nurse at Mary Hitchcock during our undergraduate years.


Alan Woodberry is new head class agent. Alan, a retired CPA, lives with his wife, Molly, in Orinda, California. The newsletter editor continues to be Tom Seymour. He is retired from American company subsidiaries in Tokyo. Send him information at tseymour4@gmail.com. Our class webmaster, Gus Buchtel, is a neuropsychologist at the VA hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Pete Luitwieler continues as gift planning chair. He encourages you to provide a gift to Dartmouth in your estate plan. His goal is 50 Bartlett Tower Society members by year-end. 


Karl Winkler continues as Alumni Council member. He and his wife of 48 years live in Rockford, Illinois, where he practices law. Their twin boys live in Texas and California. Leadership giving chair is Fritz Corrigan. He has been married to Glenda for 45 years. They have a total of 15 children and grandchildren. Participation chair is Lynn Bates, a retired CPA. He and his wife of 44 years, Paulette, live in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. They have two daughters and four granddaughters. Chair of fall homecomings/mini-reunions is Dave Hewitt. Retired from Dartmouth Printing Co., he lives with his wife in Lyme, New Hampshire. As for me and my wife, Ann, of 43 years, we have two children and one granddaughter. I practice law in Jefferson City, Missouri. 


President Peters will be filling other executive committee positions in the future. I will write about those persons when appointed. Please send me ideas for future Class Notes. I encourage you to be self-serving and immodest in your suggestions. 


—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; damsec#64@gmail.com


Identifying class veterans has been a challenge. Nowhere does Dartmouth keep a record of veterans, but Rauner Library’s great staff found the ROTC-commissioned ’64s. That doesn’t include draftees or volunteers. Inevitably I missed some veterans, which I regret. 


Case in point: Roy Minich, a “local” classmate from Saxtons River, Vermont. He attended Vermont Academy as a day student and graduated at the top of his class. Headmaster Laurence G. Leavitt ’25 encouraged Roy to attend Dartmouth. Jess Kilgore, also from Vermont Academy, was Roy’s freshman roommate. Bob Newman roomed with Jess and Roy during sophomore year. Roy majored in English and was a brother at Phi Tau, where he roomed with Larry Cabell. After graduation Roy volunteered for the draft with a guarantee of attending officer candidate school at Fort Sill. In May 1966 Lt. Minich arrived with the 2/35th Artillery Battalion at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. During his year in-country he worked as a forward observer and liaison officer with the Australian Expeditionary Force, with various Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) units, including the ARVN 5th Marine Battalion during Operation Junction City. For his service he was awarded a bronze star. On returning home he started a career in secondary school education, then moved into business training and development, ultimately heading up the human resource development function for Arco Products Co. (now part of BP) in Los Angeles. He has five children and nine grandchildren and resides with his wife, Patricia, in Brighton, Colorado. 


We became lifetime members of the class when we matriculated. Some graduated and didn’t look back, some didn’t yet still maintain strong connections to Dartmouth. One example is Bill Streitz, who came to Dartmouth with high school friend Dave Hanson from Waseca, Minnesota. Bill roomed with Taylor Washburn freshman year. After first term sophomore year Bill transferred to the University of Minnesota because he missed his family, felt a lack of direction and was uncomfortable with the lack of social opportunities at an isolated, all-male school. He paid for college and medical school by working for the Northern Pacific Railroad. He graduated with an M.D. in 1968, just as he would have if he had continued at Dartmouth. When it came to selecting a residency he was undecided. That left him in a particularly vulnerable position when he was completing his internship at the University of California, Irvine—exposed to the draft. So Bill volunteered for the Navy, which trained him briefly and sent him to Vietnam. He was attached to a Marine battalion his full tour because the Marines thought so highly of him. He provided care for Marines and for Vietnamese as part of the program to win the “hearts and minds” of the inhabitants. After his tour he returned to pursue orthopedics. Upon completing residency he accepted a position in Roseburg, Oregon, and never left. Besides his practice he was team doctor for the high school football team for more than 30 years. Bill has traveled widely, still bikes and hunts. He has a daughter and a son. Bill attended our 25th and 50th reunions.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


Happy 45th reunion to the class, and particularly to the 86 alumni and 58 spouses and guests who were able to make the June 15-18 event in Hanover. We lucked out with the weather with the middle two days of the reunion blessed with blue skies and 70-degree weather. Our thanks to the reunion committee chaired by Tom Spangenburg and which included Bill Lewis as treasurer (and golf-meister); Dave Hewitt as liquids chair (unlike our 40th reunion, we had quite a bit of wine to return—are we slowing down?); myself as foods guy; Fran Hanlon as entertainment czar; Rick Isaacson as souvenir man; Fred Rothenburg, tennis; Mike Parker, Moosilauke assault guide; and Gus Buchtel, Webmaster and outreach guru. Those returning had a choice of many great activities, including lectures put on by the Dartmouth Alumni College. These lectures by great Dartmouth professors were on a variety of subjects from Iran to Evita, global warming, the economy and 3D archaeology. These lectures are available for replay at www.dartmouth.edu. Look for “ACE on Audio.” The food catered by the Hanover Inn was tasty and well served. Bob MacArthur and Pete Luitwieler prepared a very moving memorial service, where we remembered the 71 classmates who have died since matriculation. Tuesday evening of reunion we shared with the classes of 1969 and 1974 the sounds of the Flash Cadillac group, one of the best bands of 1960s music.” A rave. A class panel discussion put on by Brad Evans, Bill Neukom and Ron Schram on events at the College was particularly interesting given the retirement of President Jim Wright, A’64, and the election of Jim Yong Kim as the 17th president of the College. The final dinner, set outside at Haldeman Hall, featured an auction of Dartmouth memorabilia assembled primarily by Bob Bartles. Through his efforts more than $8,000 was raised to support our class project, interns participating in off-campus programs through the Rockefeller Center. The class meeting saw the retirement of Ed Williams as class president and the election of Ron Schram as his successor. Please see our class Web site for a complete list of new officers. We gave Ed our best congratulation for a job well done and for keeping us “in a class by itself.” Sabin Danziger and his great fundraising team made up of Steve Stein, Alan Woodberry, Roy Lewicki and Pete Luitwieler announced we had broken the 45th reunion giving record with $1,764,000. Great job. And last but not least, Ron Schram announced that Fritz Corrigan, Glenda and family had made a major million-dollar gift to Dartmouth to enhance undergraduate leadership initiatives led by the Rockefeller Center. Thanks, Fritz and Glenda. Truly generous. As a final note, Phil Schaefer is now your new secretary (e-mail philschaefer42@gmail.com). Many thanks to all of you who have so generously given me time and information to put together these class columns. Keep it coming for Phil. 


—Hunt Whitacre, 115 East Wheelock St., Hanover, NH 03755; hrwhit@aol.com


On the heels of a very enjoyable 45th added thanks go out to Hunt Whitacre, who was outgoing class secretary and was heavily involved with planning the reunion. Hunt, Tom Spangenberg, Bill Lewis, Dave Hewitt, Fran Hanlon, Ed Williams, Bob Bartles, Bob MacArthur and Rick Isaacson deserve kudos from everyone. Participants gave stunningly good grades for the reunion, which you can see at www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/64 under “Results of Reunion Survey.”


We heard from Bennett Eisenberg, Ph.D. (MIT, mathematics), who continues to enjoy teaching math at Lehigh University. His interest has been in probability and statistical theory. A recent collaboration over the Internet with an Italian professor brought him an invitation to teach a course in Turin next summer. Back a few years Bennett and Jeanine road-tripped to New Mexico, where they shared time with Joe Cardillo and his wife, Anne, an acquaintance made not in Hanover but in Albuquerque when Bennett taught at University of New Mexico. They also vacationed for a week with Harry Bartel and his wife, Scotti, in Taos. Bennett and Jeanine have one son and two grandchildren.


Dartmouth has always been well represented in D.C. so it should be no surprise that we have a scientist there. After teaching at University of South Florida for 20 years Doug Raber, Ph.D. (Michigan, chemistry), has been in D.C. 20 years, 15 of which were at the National Academy of Sciences, where he directed their chemistry operations (antiterrorism). Lately he has had a science-policy consulting business for universities and nonprofits. He must have been enjoying writing, consultants do that a lot, because he and his wife, Linda, a professional writer, are writing novels together for fun and profit—focus, of course, is terrorism. We’re reserving space for a review when they hit the market. Doug has two daughters and three grandchildren.


In 2007 Larry Williams ran into Fred Rothenberg on Glacier Park’s Iceberg Trail. Both were wearing 40th Dartmouth reunion hats. Larry’s plans to attend the 45th reunion were interrupted by a mild stroke, from which he has substantially recovered. Larry has had several careers—ranger at Glacier Park, music educator and superintendent of schools in Great Falls, Montana, and Sioux City, Iowa, and now executive director of the Sioux City Symphony. He and Becky split their time between Iowa and Montana, where she was a career ranger at Glacier Park and now volunteers. They will call Columbia Falls, Montana, home when Larry really retires.


Dave Hewitt is busy preparing a super ’64 Homecoming (October 23-25). General activities are at www.alumni.dartmouth.edu, under “Homecoming.” Class activities (www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/64, “Mini-reunion Schedule”) include a leadership panel with classmates, students and Professor Samwick on Friday afternoon. On Saturday there will be a class meeting at 8 a.m. in 102 Reed followed by two presentations in Alumni Hall, Buddy Teevens’ Chalk Talk at 9 a.m. and professor Chris Jernstedt’s talk about the brain at 10 a.m. Jernstedt gave a very stimulating presentation at the 45th so don’t miss him. We’re invited to the Friends of Football tent before and after the football game. Please send me your news.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


The homing instinct is strong for our classmates from Idaho. Mike Moore was the first in his family to attend college. A church friend made a derisory remark that Mike had a chance at Dartmouth. We don’t know what happened to his friend, but Mike became Boise’s city attorney and was involved with municipal bonds. Now in private practice he works the bonding maze for area governments. He just completed an M.A. (history), which will help his writing about Pacific Northwest political history. Mike has two sons and his wife, Lynn, has two married daughters and a grandchild due in June. They took the 2005 alumni travel Danube tour, where he and Dave Hess reminisced about leading Dartmouth Young Democrats and Young Republicans, respectively. 


Mike and Park Price met at Idaho Boys’ State in 1959. Park returned to Pocatello in 1979 to run Park Place Motor and, of course, to ski. Park had great intuition selling the automobile business in 2003. To help a business friend he became a bank president in 2003 on an interim basis—a position he still holds. He works with the local Dartmouth club, which has recruited successfully. He and Sharon, president of the Idaho Falls Symphony, travel often and took the alumni travel “Lewis & Clark” trip. They have two married children, son Park IV and daughter Cindy, and three granddaughters, all in Boise. 


Rich Fields was Park’s high school classmate in Pocatello. Rich says he made a mistake leaving Dartmouth after sophomore year to join the Army, where he worked in electronic surveillance. Later he worked in the auto industry in Detroit and completed his education at the University of Michigan (M.A. in resource ecology). He retired to Portland, Oregon.


Dennis Stevens, Ph.D., M.D., attended Dartmouth for one year, but has good memories of the freshman basketball team and being a photographer for The D. Since 1979 he has been seeing patients and directing a research program at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Boise. He discovered the flesh-eating bacterium that causes streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. He edited and contributed to Streptococcal Infections: Clinical Aspects, Microbiology and Molecular Pathogenesis (2000). He received the Infectious Disease Society of America Citation in 2000 for infectious disease research accomplishments. His married daughter Marisa has three sons and lives in Boise. Wife Amy is also a microbiologist.


Two ’64s actually moved to Idaho, including Tom Campion, Ph.D. (Sun Valley), a retired lawyer. He works with charitable foundations, skis and cycles. He also found a second calling, teaching law and literature at the University of Colorado. He has two daughters, Ashley ’94 and Berit ’96, and three grandchildren. His wife, Ellen, is an interior designer and world-class cyclist.


Steve Sherman, M.D., was a radiologist in Pocatello, where he moved after residency. He and Gale, a librarian, retired to Tuscon, Arizona, but retain a fondness for Idaho. They have two children, Alex (Middlebury) and Ashley (Skidmore). Steve and Gale attended three reunions and recently visited Bill Riggs in Washington, D.C. 


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


Last month’s religiously destined classmates pursued graduate religious education. That doesn’t apply to chemistry major Jim Hall, M.D., Ph.D., who fulfilled his military obligation at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in infectious disease. While in Washington, D.C., he connected with the Church of the Saviour, its inner city missions and he co-founded a medical clinic ministry for the indigent. For 22 years he split his time between the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he also mentored George Washington Medical School residents, and the mission, as a family practitioner for low-income people. At the church retreat farm he reignited his concern for earth. He left medicine in 2000 and lives at the retreat farm in an earth-friendly house that he and his wife, Cheryl, built. She’s a writer, editor and poet with experience in early childhood education. Jim is now an earth minister, taking the church’s youth group on monthly nature hikes and teaching about the relation between faith and ecology. Jim and Cheryl have two children and two grandchildren. He credits his outdoor experience at Dartmouth for developing his interest in natural science.


Will Cook also took a less-traveled road via a German major and an M.B.A. at Northwestern before a 30-plus-year diversion as owner of an automobile dealership in Sheridan, Wyoming. Along the way he married Sally, who taught English and won marathons. They have two daughters, Courtney ’93 and Alison ’95, a granddaughter and a grandson who’s in the first year at the U.S. Naval Academy! Having sold the automobile business before the top, just as Park Price did, he and Sally moved to Massachusetts’ North Shore, where his calling found him. Will now utilizes his organizational and persuasive skills as Northeast director of Alpha USA, an ecumenical Christian educational outreach group that focuses on the “un-churched.” Will was a successful Dartmouth recruiter in Wyoming.


Russian studies major Bill Teska credits Ed MacBurney ’49, Episcopal chaplain at St. Thomas (Hanover) with directing him toward Berkeley Divinity School, where he attended with Bob MacArthur and the late Jere Smith. Post-graduation he toured Eastern Europe with a Russian language chorus. As Vietnam was getting serious Bill returned to hometown Minneapolis as hippie priest at the University of Minnesota. He served the West Bank campus, where Garrison Keillor and Bob Dylan honed their skills and where Bill started the Riverside Café, a worker-owned community center, a gathering place to share music, thoughts and vegetarian food. When developers threatened to level the area, he started Cedar Riverside Environmental Defense Fund to protect the neighborhood, a project assisted by newly minted lawyer Pete Benzian. Bill stymied developers then started a community development organization that completed a $100 million rehabilitation and replacement project, which ultimately sold units to residents. Bill also ministered to the community’s medical needs by creating a co-op clinic. Ten years ago he became chaplain for the nuns at the Tuller School in Tuscon, Arizona. He’s back in Minneapolis teaching ethics online for Argosy University, maybe the first profit-oriented organization in Bill’s career. 


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


Our 50th reunion is a few weeks away (June 6-10). It will be filled with reestablishing friendships, making friends, giving toasts, telling stories (some of them true) and celebrating joyous experiences. We’ll be updated about the College and its plans and impressed by the changes made in only half a century. We should be thankful for our families, experiences and successes, but mindful that some classmates have been less blessed. Indeed, some are in situations that prevent them from joining the reunion. 


At Bemidji (Minnesota) High School Joel Deweese was a member of the basketball, tennis and golf teams. He came to Dartmouth at the urging of his grandmother, who recalled proudly the high praise given Dartmouth by her uncle, Solon R. Towne, class of 1872, DMS1875. Joel tried out unsuccessfully for the ski and tennis teams. He remembers the mates with whom he rowed lightweight crew: Bob Reigert, Gene Laka, Bowie Duncan, Kent Stockton, Will Cook, Read Langenbach, Bob Dilg and Dave Putnam, as well as his senior roommate Tony Kaufman. Joel majored in biology after almost completing a chemistry major. He went to the University of Minnesota Medical School, did an internship in Colorado, then returned to Bemidji, where he was a general practitioner. Eight years later Joel was involved in an automobile accident—driving too fast for the conditions on a snow-covered road. He has since been confined to a wheelchair in Santa Barbara, California, where he lives with his wife, Mary. For about a decade he practiced there and taught EMT courses. He’s a voracious reader, enjoys good wine and the delightful climate. He’s looking forward to receiving a copy of Dartmouth Veterans: Vietnam Perspectives, hearing some stories about the reunion and maybe reconnecting by phone or email with the friends from his Dartmouth days. 


In comparison Kurt Schloth has had a much more difficult time. He went to Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, where he was in the National Honor Society and graduated cum laude. He had intended to major in engineering at Dartmouth and says he regrets that he changed to cultural anthropology. Kurt was president of the film society as a senior. He remembers his friends Gus Buchtel and Ed Fowler. He graduated without great career focus and was not lucky finding a satisfying occupation. He was a research assistant in a dental school, then “dropped out” in the San Francisco scene and became addicted. In 1983, when he was again “clean,” Kurt met Sue, a clinical social worker. They had a good marriage and enjoyed working together. He studied and became a self-taught, certified network consultant. They lived in Nevada, where Kurt worked for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and then moved to Boise, Idaho, where he became a computer consultant. Kurt returned to his addictions and their marriage failed. He now has a court-appointed custodian and is living in a semi-supervised home. His goal is to return to Portland. 


Consider doing a good deed for one less fortunate than yourself. You’ll be glad you did.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


The class of 1964 is publishing a book containing 55 classmate-written essays about the Vietnam War, which continues to affect our lives and society. This project required input from essay writers and four coeditors, who clarified, corrected and improved their classmates’ work. The focus of Dartmouth Veterans: Vietnam Perspectives is how Vietnam changed our lives. Here we highlight the coeditors, Dave deCalesta, Fred Gray, Jim Stewart and Bob Woodruff, who worked diligently with me to make sure that every essay is a source of ’64 pride. 


Bob Blackman recruited Dave deCalesta to Dartmouth, where, with encouragement from Bob Cahners, he competed in weight throws for the track team. That’s a full schedule for a premed, Tabard house manager and psychology major. He took a post-bac year at the University of Rochester, where he worked in a hospital and met Kathryn, a nurse who became his wife. After Vietnam Dave went to grad school and earned a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology. He’s taught at North Carolina State and Oregon State, worked for the U.S. Forest Service and consulted for forest landowners. He’s retired, but keeping busy writing. His first novel, Reunited, was published in June. He and Kathryn have son Daran, an optometrist; daughter Kerry, a math teacher, coach and marathoner; and twin grandsons. 


Jim Stewart liked skiing and hockey, was impressed with Dartmouth interviewers, so with neighbor Bill Dubocq came to Hanover. He belonged to Zeta Psi, the Dartmouth Ski Patrol and ROTC. Back from Vietnam he worked for Kidder Peabody until 1974. Then he traveled to Colorado, California, Mexico, Central America and Europe. In Spain he joined in the running of the bulls in Pamplona. He reentered the workforce as a distributor for Johnson & Johnson in Florida, where he still lives. He enjoys golf and kayaking. He supports a local soup kitchen for immigrants and dedicates himself to the VFW, where he’s been commander. His daughter is a nurse. His wife, Jane, manages a hospital information technology department.


From St. Andrew’s School (Delaware) Woody Woodruff came to Dartmouth, following his father, Bob ’37. He majored in English, favoring medieval literature and managed the editorial page of The D. He continued with medieval literature at Columbia University until drafted by the Army. On return he apprenticed as a carpenter, then ran a chain of eight weekly newspapers in St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida, with his father. After they sold the newspapers Woody was a journalist in Washington, D.C., earned an M.A. in journalism at the University of Maryland and then taught and practiced journalism simultaneously. Now retired, he’s in a doctoral program at the University of Maryland journalism school. He and wife Lucy Duff met at a political rally. Their son Jesse is a conservation biologist.


Fred Gray worked as a writer, editor and director of technical operations for AP and Reuters for 35 years (see DAM Mar-April 2012) and may have thought he was done editing. He and Phil Schaefer are the only non-veteran editors. Dartmouth Veterans: Vietnam Perspectives is expected to be available in February 2014.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


Of the 80-plus of our classmates who are physicians, 10 percent served in the military and 10 percent served in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), including Stuart Brown, who did both. Stu was a member of the wrestling team, Alpha Theta and Sphinx. After medical school and internal medicine residency Stu joined the Army and was assigned to Bangkok, an R&R destination for Vietnam combatants. Stu treated many cases of sexually transmitted diseases, in which he became expert. Post military Stu joined the Centers for Disease Control and USPHS, where he expanded his experience in public health and served assignments in Seattle, Geneva (on loan to the WHO) and Atlanta, where he ran the county HIV clinic and later became the health director for Georgia. He also worked with Department of Defense on the destruction of chemical warfare agents. Stu and Charlotte have two sons and three grandsons.


Kevin O’Brien went to Tufts Medical School after his junior year. After internship he was assigned as commanding officer for the USPHS clinic in Portland, Maine. He cared for active duty Coast Guard as well as many retired military. During this time he was deployed on a Coast Guard cutter off the coast of Greenland, where he gave medical care to commercial seamen as well as running the ship’s amateur radio station. After military service Kevin did an ophthalmology residency in New York. He and Madeleine moved to Rhode Island and he opened a practice in Fall River, Massachusetts. They have three daughters and 10 grandchildren. Kevin is still in practice, but no longer does major surgery.


Gene Levin left Hanover after three years for Jefferson Medical College. Having majored in philosophy at Dartmouth, he had to work a little harder at first to catch up with science major classmates. Enlisting in the USPHS after internship, he requested assignment to an Indian reservation for the experience and to give back. His good intentions were not unpunished, as he was assigned instead to Washington, D.C., where he worked in federal employee health clinics and participated in a study of the cost benefit value of routine health screening tests. After residency Gene practiced orthopedic surgery in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, retiring last year. As a volunteer he worked to improve medical care for Native Americans in the Southwest. He and Ellen have a son, two daughters and three grandchildren.


Len Glass was active in the Interdormitory Council and Palaeopitus at Dartmouth. After graduation from Tufts Medical School he struggled to combine his interest in social causes with being a physician. Following an internship he got a master’s in public health at Harvard and joined the USPHS, advising Medicare administrators in D.C. Those two years of bureaucracy led him back to clinical medicine, as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Through leadership positions at his teaching hospital and in professional organizations, he found the engagement he sought beyond his private practice, which he continues in Newton, Massachusetts. Len’s been an avid organic gardener and youth soccer coach as well. He’s been happily married to Peggy (Bennington ’68) for 44 years. They have a daughter, two sons and three grandchildren.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


Jeff Bert, psychology major and member of Chi Phi, attended Dartmouth Medical School and completed his medical education and internship at the University of Colorado. On joining the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), Jeff was assigned to the Makah Indian reservation for his two years of service. Jeff and his wife took a horse to Neah Bay, Washington, so he could reach his patients. In addition to the 2,500 Makahs and their animals, Jeff also cared for nearby Coast Guard and radar station staff. After residency in orthopedics at Mayo Clinic, Jeff settled in Coos Bay, Oregon, where he and his wife, Diane, live. They have six children, including Michael ’91.


Peter Wright came to Dartmouth from St. Paul’s School following his father, Myron Wright ’37. He was on the freshman soccer team and joined the Glee Club for two years. Thereafter premed courses fully occupied him. He transitioned to Dartmouth Medical School after his junior year. After Harvard Medical School he joined the USPHS and worked in the laboratory of infectious diseases at National Institutes of Health for three years. He’s still working on prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in young children. He is now back at Dartmouth Medical School in the pediatrics department. He works for the World Health Organization eradicating polio and in Haiti five to six weeks a year. He and Penelope have sons Tim ’89, Justin and Ben ’98 and four grandchildren.


Larry Muroff was attracted to Dartmouth by its 3/2 plan for medical school. He was a Phi Gam and served on the undergraduate council. He received his M.D. from Harvard. After internship at Boston City Hospital he joined the USPHS Bureau of Radiological Health, where he did cancer research for two years and met his wife, Carol. Larry did a radiology residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and then joined the staff. He practiced radiology in Tampa, Florida, for 20 years and taught at two medical schools in Florida. For the past 18 years he has been a consultant to hospitals and radiology practices. Larry has published widely, lectured extensively and been a leader in several national radiology and nuclear medicine societies. He and Carol have a son and a daughter.


Steve Sherman majored in chemistry and continued at Dartmouth and Harvard Medical School. After his internship in San Francisco and one year of internal medicine residency at Mary Hitchcock, he joined the USPHS, assigned to the epidemiology intelligence service division of the Centers for Disease Control. He spent a year in Alaska studying cold viruses among Eskimo children with the goal of vaccine development. His next assignment for USPHS was Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was liaison to the state health department. During that time he went to Bangladesh to do a postwar nutritional epidemiological survey in coordination with the UN. Overwhelmed by the bureaucracy of government, he did a residency in radiology. He has retired from his Idaho-based practice to Arizona. He and Gale have children Alexander and Ashley and three grandchildren.


Watch for a new book by Tim Brooks that recounts the history of WDCR.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


Sixty-fours are well represented in the arts: writers Roger Simon, Nevin Schreiner; sculptor Jay Wholley; visual artist Sandy Wurmfeld; performing artist Dana Kelly; art publisher Anthony Kaufmann; filmmaker Dan Dimancescu; musicians/producers Tim Brooks, Larry Williams. If you think that’s the extent of our creativity, keep reading. 


Editorial writer extraordinaire and columnist Guy MacMillin had a passion for French and rock and roll. As a disc jockey on WDCR he satisfied his musical desires, under his longtime nickname “Rock” MacMillin. After graduation he married in France and waited while his wife, une Française, sorted out visa issues. There he wrote a bit for L’Express. On returning he taught high school French for 14 years and coauthored a French textbook. Simultaneously he began writing a column for regional newspapers that earned him editorial page responsibility for The Keene Sentinel, a position he held for 10,000 editorials. He says he hopes he influenced community opinion in the process. Guy, who has also been an overseer for WDCR, has a son, a daughter and five grandchildren. He is retired with his wife, Cynthia, in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.


Curator, art historian, author and entrepreneur Ulrich Hiesinger showed his keen eye for art in high school when for 25 cents he purchased an ancient Italian bowl at a Salvation Army store. During his junior year at Dartmouth he went to the University of Vienna for the full year, which was virtually unheard of at the time when study abroad was usually for a term. Graduate school in art history at Harvard took him and art historian wife Kathryn to Italy in pursuit of thesis material. He has taught at Harvard, Delaware, Texas and the University of Pennsylvania. He has curated many exhibitions, including of works by Antonio Mancini and Childe Hassam in New York and Philadelphia, for which his catalogues and books are highly regarded. Ulrich and Kathryn have two children, Margaret, a graduate of Berkeley and MIT, and William ’02, who is completing his surgical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.


Arriving at Dartmouth from the American School of Paris, Bruce Michel was undecided about a field of study. He was a skilled skier, member of the cross-country team and then ski instructor at the Skiway. Bruce was passionate about riding and repairing motorcycles. It was his curiosity in understanding how motors work that piqued his interest with the printing presses used by graphic artist and professor of art Ray Nash. Bruce pursued his newly uncovered fascination with graphic art. Professor Nash became his long-term mentor and guide. Nash arranged a one-year position at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, then guided Bruce to the school of graphic design at Yale, where he earned an B.F.A. and M.F.A. He has taught and worked as a graphic artist and entrepreneur. He and his partners were actively involved with production of the Time-Life Series of books. Currently he owns Michel Design Works, which produces gift items. His wife, Deborah, is his partner in life and business.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


Bud “Francis” McGrath, Ph.D., accepted a regular Army commission in the artillery after completing ROTC. After tours in Germany and Arizona he spent 1967-68 at Bear Cat near Saigon. While proud of his service (he received a Bronze Star and an Army Commendation Medal), Bud found war necessarily dehumanizing and after leaving the military he joined antiwar activities at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. in English.


Since then he has taught at Penn, Rutgers and the University of Southern Maine, where he is currently a professor of English. Bud and his wife, Gena, also own a horse boarding and riding instruction facility and are visited often by a daughter, stepson and two grandchildren.


A high school recruiter persuaded Charles Williams to consider Dartmouth. He attended with full NROTC scholarship. Post graduation he and Ned Miller attended flight training school as Marines, where he became an F-4 Phantom pilot. He flew 125 bombing missions over North Vietnam, which required challenging nighttime mid-air refueling. Several months into his tour he was injured by a rocket while holed up in a bunker at Chu Lai. Half of his buddies were killed and he suffered serious injuries. He recovered, received an M.B.A. and had three successful business careers. Retired since 1994, he has two sons and a daughter. He’s a skilled duplicate bridge player and recently relocated to La Quinta, California, with his wife, Jerrilynn.


Jim Laughlin finished law school before entering the Army to complete his ROTC commitment. For three months through the Tet offensive he interrogated prisoners in Bien Hoa, which he felt produced little valuable information. Transferred to Can Tho, he was responsible for planning, implementing and executing aerial reconnaissance in the Mekong Delta—he participated in 77 missions.


On return he developed a private law practice in business, real estate and tax planning. He’s quite proud of a low-income senior citizen housing project he developed with some partners. His wife, Pam, is a retired teacher. They have sons James ’94, Andrew and Mark and three grandchildren. He’s active in the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida and has taken two Dartmouth tours.


As an immigrant Ivars Bemberis expressed his patriotism by joining the Army ROTC program, completing degrees in environmental and chemical engineering, then ultimately serving in Vietnam in a civil affairs unit trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals. He saw no progress during eight months of “protecting” nomadic Montanards by interning them in “Tin City.” On another assignment he found that the local government wanted soldiers to do everything, but did nothing itself. Ivars successfully established bridges with immigrant Chinese and Indians.


He didn’t expect a ticker-tape parade on return, but remembers that it took 40 years before anyone said thank you. His wife, Jeannette, a retired science teacher, noted that it took eight years for Ivars to recover. They have son Scott and daughter Kimberly ’91. 


To all who served, a belated thank you.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


Half of the Injunaires are still singing, including Jim Cornehlsen and Dave Plavin, who performed in January with the University Glee Club of New York City and the Dartmouth Aires in Alice Tully Hall. Art Simington sings with the Keene Chamber Singers and previously performed with the Keene Chorale. 


Nick Rowe thinks he was wearing a “Class of 1964” shirt at age 2. Both his father Harry ’32 and uncle went to Dartmouth, and his brother Garrett is a ’68. His father introduced Nick to the Injunaires during his freshman year in high school, thus setting Nick’s goal. He remembers performing with the Injunaires at the Waldorf Astoria as a surprise to Nelson Rockefeller ’30, who was speaking at the 40th anniversary of Time magazine. Nick majored in English and taught high school English, except for a period when he sold real estate. Nick and Allison have six children between them, including a Dartmouth grad and a grandson member of the class of 2012.


Fred Gray, having just been cut from the freshman hockey team, heard tryouts for the Injunaires while walking back to his dorm. He tried out and was accepted. Fred credits his mother, a musical genius, with his appreciation of music. He also wrote for and played trombone with Barbary Coast. His Russian civilization major paved the way for a group to tour the Soviet Union. On the way back he worked for Radio Liberty in Munich, where he became interested in writing. He worked for AP and Reuters for 35 years in New York City. Fred has a daughter Natalie ’91 and a son Ryan. Fred recently published That’s Outrageous, a collection of his newspaper columns.


Steve Ward continues a long-time family affiliation with Dartmouth, including his grandfather Roy Ward, class of 1900, uncle Carlton Ward ’32, father Arthur ’34 and brother Al ’61. He had visited his cousins in Hanover who owned Ward’s Department Store. Steve met his wife, Victoria, at a multi-college singing competition during sophomore year. Two weeks after he graduated with an English major, they were married and many Injunaires sang at the reception. Steve earned an M.B.A. from Columbia, then worked in corporate finance for several companies, including Philip Morris. He and Victoria have a son, a daughter and four grandchildren, who visit them at their lake house near Dartmouth. He serves on the town planning board.


Art Simington applied to Dartmouth with strong encouragement from a family friend. Visiting the campus closed the deal. He was a premed and a biology major. Art competed in many sports in high school and had time for music, too. He joined the Dartmouth Glee Club, which was then a necessity for membership in the Injunaires. After medical school and two years in the Navy, Art and Lynn looked for an attractive New England setting and found Keene, New Hampshire, where he joined a pediatrics group. They have son Benjamin and daughter Jennifer and two grandchildren. Lynn has been on the library board for 25 years and Art is president of the county historical society. 


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


Event planning requires leadership, commitment, time, creativity and participation. Our 50th reunion committee is already working to exceed your expectations. Meet some of the members who are working for you.


Roy Lewicki found Dartmouth through a family friend and College employee. Roy was photographer for the Aegis, president of the DOC, a Phi Psi and a psychology major with interest in political science. Roy earned a Ph.D. (psychology) from Columbia. He taught management at several business schools and is semi-retired from Ohio State. Roy still teaches negotiation skills (he co-wrote the leading textbook), leading with integrity. Roy and Debbie have two sons and four grandchildren. He chairs the participation committee to fire up classmates about attending the 50th! Watch for a subtle psychological approach in his communications. “You want to attend.”


At Dartmouth Hunt Whitacre majored in history, was marketing manager for The D and, as a senior, started the Stock Market Club. He went to Wharton Graduate School, became a security analyst at Kidder Peabody, earned a C.F.A., then worked in mergers and acquisitions for Standard Brands and became chief spokesperson for Nabisco and RJR Nabisco. His focus for the 50th is connecting the ’64s with the ’14s. He assures us that there will be a great BBQ where we will meet ’14s and reconnect with long-lost buddies. Hunt and Lynne retired to Hanover, where he is on the board of Northern Stage. They have daughters Kerry ’94 and Kate and four grandchildren. “Seize the opportunity: Attend the 50th.” 


Resident of the Upper Valley since 1946 and former class president, Bob Bartles was a regular at Baker Library even during high school. He was on the Dartmouth football team for two years, the baseball team one year. He still loves his transplanted, hometown Brooklyn Dodgers and now the Red Sox. He was a history major and active at Beta. He ultimately joined his family’s book and magazine distribution business. He has three children and two grandchildren. Bob has led selection of a gift for the 2014s. When you see it, you’ll want one, too! He’s also planning for us a private Green Mountain Railroad excursion along the Connecticut River Sunday (June 8) afternoon, including a stop for a special dinner. “Stay for the extended reunion until Tuesday.”


Dave Hewitt returned to the Upper Valley in 1970 after the Army and earning an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He spent 36 of the next 43 years as co-owner with Mike Smith ’57 of Dartmouth Printing Co. He and Kate have two daughters and three grandchildren. Having retired in 2006, and not having enough to do, Dave is chairing our 50th reunion. Using the extraordinary San Francisco reunion as a model, Dave promises a very special experience in June 2014. Call someone you want to see again and both sign up for our 50th! Remember the goal—360 returnees and a new College record. Be the motto, “In a Class by Itself.”


Volunteer for the reunion committee by e-mail to class.of.1964@alum.dartmouth.org.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


William “Woody” Flowers, Army ROTC, completed law school and practiced almost a year before being called to active duty. After an assignment in counterintelligence stateside, Woody started his tour in Dalat gathering intelligence. Not unlike other classmates in Vietnam, he faced problems of intelligence sources working for both sides and internal conflicts between Vietnamese and Montagnards. Once he countermanded a Vietnamese officer giving coordinates of a Montagnard village to U.S. artillery support. Though Woody doesn’t often talk about Vietnam, he credits his experience with teaching him how to remain calm and retain equilibrium under pressure, which served him well. He and Mary Kay, a retired college professor of political science, have two sons, Michael and Matthew. He’s attended several class reunions and helps Sabin Danziger with fundraising.


David Kruger joined Army ROTC following his father’s advice. He joined a special intelligence group, that assembled information and prepared briefings for the secretary of defense and the president. After two years he volunteered for Vietnam and was an intelligence officer on the 1st Cavalry Division general’s staff. Sounds safe enough, but he was in four helicopters and one airplane that crashed. Dave perceived a beautiful country and likable people. He ultimately managed the Eastern Hemisphere operations for a bank. He and Jean travel extensively and have been back to Vietnam five times. In retirement he gives his time to nonprofits, including Wentworth Institute of Technology, where he is chairman of the board. They have daughter Kristen, son Scott and two grandchildren.


Hugh Savage also was influenced by his WW II veteran father to join Army ROTC. An engineering major, he joined the Army Corps of Engineers but skipped officers’ basic training, a mistake in hindsight. In Vietnam he was initially headquarters company executive officer in An Khe. Midtour he accepted leadership of a platoon building lookout towers and bridges. He improved the group’s low morale by keeping the soldiers’ needs foremost. After his service (1964-66) he earned civil engineering degrees from Tufts University and the University of Washington. Hugh married Caroline Russell (Skidmore ’66) while at Tufts. They have three daughters and two sons—all in technical fields—and four grandsons. Recently he turned over his engineering business to a son and sold his home inspection business.


James Stewart joined ROTC at Dartmouth and has high regard for the program and its instructors. He chose to enter military intelligence and was sent to Vietnam. He arrived just in time to attend the Bob Hope Christmas show in Saigon, where he stood next to General Westmoreland, from whom he later received a commendation. Jim was responsible for daily reports detailing enemy troop strength and location for all of Vietnam. While there he attended a meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Saigon. Jim lives near Palm Beach, Florida, is commander of the county VFW, attends Dartmouth club meetings and has been an interviewer. His wife, Jane, is director of information technology for a major hospital. Their daughter Kristen is a paramedic.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com


We had only three classmates from Tennessee, all on the freshman football team: Bob Stepp, Dave Lawson and John Lane,who was recruited from Columbia, Tennessee, by Bob Blackman. John was in ROTC and commissioned after graduating with an economics major. His high school experience in a hospital helped his entry into the medical service corps and he served at a hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. After earning an M.B.A. he started a 30-year career with J.P. Morgan, which included six years in Singapore and Indonesia. Since “retiring” he’s been on many public policy committees, including the executive committee of the N.Y. Health Foundation. He and Betsy have two sons, four granddaughters and a grandson. They ski with their whole family regularly. 


Dave Lawson was on the football team, joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon and majored in government. He and Cindy were married shortly after graduation. Dave intended to go to law school, but enjoyed business and never looked back. He worked for American Hospital Supply in sales and marketing. By 1981 they worked their way back to Dave’s hometown, Knoxville, Tennessee, where he started a successful advertising company, which he continues. He is involved with HonorAir, a national organization that provides transportation to veterans to visit Washington, D.C., to see their memorials. Always involved with youth sports, Dave coached his sons’ teams in three sports, and Cindy helped their two daughters. They have five grandchildren. 


In the class of 2015 from just one city, Nashville, 10 applicants were accepted for the class of 2015, according to classmate Jim Harris, who’s been interviewing in Music City for more than 20 years. Born in Arkansas and coming to Dartmouth from California, Jim’s been an attorney in Nashville for even longer, representing the creative side of music and copyright law. Jim parlayed his English major into Vanderbilt Law School and never left, except for a few years in the Navy as a JAG officer. He’s been on the “key board” of the music school at Vanderbilt for many years and is currently chairman. He has two daughters and five granddaughters. Jim and his wife, Leslie Boone, attended the 45th reunion. 


Even though Alan Nadel, M.D., first saw Dartmouth in duck-board season, he was impressed. He was a fixture on the swim team, a member of Pi Lam and a sociology major. Alan went to medical school in Pittsburgh, where he met his wife, Zoe, an artist (galleryzoe.com). He was in the Navy, one year in Okinawa and one in Boston, where he worked with budding neurologists who encouraged him to pursue neurology at Duke. The Nadels live in Memphis, where he is a neurologist. Alan is currently chairman of the Memphis Mankind Project and he and Zoe are active with the local Humane Society. Their son Craig ’92 has an M.B.A. from SMU. Alan hopes to catch up with roommate Al Campbell and swim team member Bill Lewis at our 50th reunion, which John Lane, Dave Lawson, Jim Harris and their spouses also plan to attend.


—Phil Schaefer, Box 1278, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-1178; philschaefer42@gmail.com