Class Notes
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.
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.
Dartmouth mission: “Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.” So how does the College
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.
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.
A 50th reunion cannot be evaluated by the participants, who have no basis for comparison. However, if the yardstick is money raised for the College, then ’64s moved the bar up substantially to almost $15 million.
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.