Class Notes 1966

We have more 50-plus-year marriages and other updates below.

Five Pi Lams have at least two things in common—they all have been married 50 years or more and they all gathered at the Newton, Massachusetts, home of brother, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Donny Glazer in late August to wish him a happy 80th birthday. Judy and Richard Abraham, Joan and Ben Cohen, Hera and David Johnston, Myra and Hector Motroni, and Debbie and Alan Rottenberg were there, loyal friends all for nearly 60 years.

Rick Olsen, professor of pharmacology at the UCLA school of medicine working on the structure and function of GABA (you know, those receptor proteins in the brain) married Ann Palmer in 1967. Then Ann’s sister Beth married Rick’s Phi Kappa Psi frat brother Joe Furstenthal ’67, which has made them fraternity and brothers-in-law for half a century. Rick’s grandson James Hood is a ’23.

New York City-based pulmonologist Dr. Paul Chrzanowski and hematologist and oncologist Dr. Katherine Hawkins renewed their vows after 50 years of marriage at St. Patrick’s Cathedral this summer. They have two sons and three grandchildren. “It’s much easier,” Paul observes, “to be a grandparent than a parent.”

Painter Jeff Brown, whose works are now on display at Gallery House in Menlo Park, California, has been married to, and traveling the world with, Claudia, for 50 years.

Mark Budnitz, professor emeritus at Georgia State University in Atlanta who has specialized in consumer protection law, married Paula 57 years ago with Dartmouth professor and rabbi Jacob Neusner officiating. They have three children and four grandsons.

After a career in the high-tech world (Intel and start-ups) John Calhoun serves on a variety of local nonprofits in Portland, Oregon. His main focus is lobbying the state legislature to make the state’s tax policy more equitable. He and wife Diana (41 years) have two grandsons.

After a lifetime of work in legal research and teaching, Bill Cooper and wife Bonnie are volunteering with dementia patients near their home in Williamsburg, Virgina. Their combined families include 15 grandchildren and—wait for it—16 great-grands!

Have news or views? Please send ’em along.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

For this special book issue of DAM we have identified 34 published authors in the class of 1966. There are, undoubtedly, more.

Our author classmates are or have been doctors, lawyers, scientists, businessmen, bankers, investors, and civil servants as well as educators and journalists. Subjects covered in the hundreds of books classmates have written range from geology, ethics, computers, economics, history, art, and the brain to self-help, family medicine, biographies, travel, and skiing. There’s also plenty of fiction, essays, and poetry, plus translations into English of works originally in French, German, and Japanese.

Here are our class authors, in alphabetical order, with the name of one of their books: Tom Brady (History of the PET Bottle), Peter Cleaves (Bureaucratic Politics and Administration in Chile), Peter Dorsen (Men Over 60: Don’t Quit Now!), Bill Dowling (Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris), Chuck Forester (I Throw Like a Girl), Don Glazer (Uninvited Guests), Dave Godine (Godine at Fifty), Doug Greenwood (Settling in in Hanover), John Hargraves (The Executor: A Comedy of Errors), Stephen Hayes (The Dance Man), Chuck Horn (Lessons by the Hour), Saleh Jabarin (My Journey), Angus King (A Senator’s Eye), Chris Langley (Lone Pine in the Movies), Jim Lenfesty (A Marriage Book), Nelson Lichtenstein (A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism), Tom Lips (Most Valuable Player), Barry Machado (In Search of a Usable Past: The Marshall Plan and Postwar Reconstruction Today), Ken Meyercord (112 Ways to Alienate Most Everybody), Will Morgan (Monadnock Summer), Steve Nash (Picasso and the War Years), John Nevison (The Little Book of BASIC Style), Mead Over (Confronting AIDS), John Pappenheimer (Fast Hands), Peter Prichard (Killing Grace: A Vietnam War Mystery), William Rodarmor (Tamata and the Alliance), Bill Rose (How the Rock Connects Us), Allan Ryan (Yamashita’s Ghost), Ken Sharpe (Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing), Jeff Stein (Mediaevil), Howard Weiner (The Brain Under Siege), Jonathan Wiesel (Cross-Country Ski Vacations), Will Willkoff (Coping With a Picky Eater), and Bill Wilson (The Beginner’s Guide to Haiku).

For further information about each author and a more comprehensive review of their published works, including photos of many book covers, visit Dartmouth66.com. Gentlemen—thank you and keep writing!

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

How many marriages in the United States last 50 years? Wait for it. Six percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

But ’66ers are working hard to up that total, with dozens, perhaps scores, of couples who have enjoyed good health, displayed the patience, and, most importantly, hitched up with the right partner to reach their golden anniversaries and beyond.

Yolanda and Peter Broad celebrated No. 52 in December. After teaching college Spanish for 40 years, Peter was just reelected to his fifth two-year term on the Indiana, Pennsylvania, borough council, where he serves as president.

As of January it’s been 53 years of marriage for Rebecca and Mike Bromley, who met at the University of Virgina law school. Mike spent 35 years in his own civil law practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Now they spend time in Idaho and Palm Desert, California, where Mike volunteers for a bighorn sheep conservation group. Their most recent trip was a December Mississippi riverboat cruise from Natchez, Mississippi, to New Orleans.

When Dan Boyer was at the University of Munich after Dartmouth he met Ute Weber and, following U.S. Marine Reserve training, they married in 1969, 54 years ago. They both continue to work—Ute as a substitute teacher and Dan as branch manager and senior VP of financial advisory firm Boenning & Scattergood in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, with two children and four grands in nearby Philadelphia.

Barb and Bruce Berger began dating in our junior year at Dartmouth. Now, after 55 years of marriage, and retired after 43 years of dermatology practice in Princeton, New Jersey, they live full time in Naples, Florida. They’re looking forward to taking their four grandchildren (ages 18-21) to Kenya this July.

Need proof that blind dates work? Tom Brady was fixed up with Betsy Carson when he was a senior at Dartmouth. They married right after Betsy graduated from Smith, 55 years ago. Three children and 12 grandchildren (ages 5-23) have followed.

Sympathies to the family and friends of Steve Bryan, an Alabama neurologist who passed away in October 2022.

There’s still time to sign up for the class 80th birthday party in D.C. at the end of April.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Mary and Brad Stein, our tireless travel chairman, led a contingent of classmates on a magnifique weeklong Seine River cruise this spring. Betsy and Tom Brady, Penny and Jeff Gilbert, Judy and Tom Hoober, Mary and Mike McConnell, Laurel and Rick Miller, Linda and Bob Spence, Kathy O’Sullivan and Jack Young, and Sherrie and Neal Zimmerman visited the Normandy D-Day beaches, Monet’s gardens, Paris cafes, and more.

San Francisco-based Bob Page continues to provide consulting services to developing and transitioning societies to help them create sustainable government and justice systems. He and Grace are also consulting with their senior high school son about college. Even after a knee replacement, Bob was the oldest competitor to complete the Donner Lake Sprint Triathlon in July.

Many of us have been cleaning out our homes, but not quite like Dick Sheaff. “I’ve reached a time when it feels right to start getting rid of a lifetime accumulation of stuff,” Dick writes. So he donated his collection of 26,000 vintage ephemera to Letterform Archive. His 1,600-book library and a rocks and minerals collection will be next. As a practicing designer, Sheaff was directly inspired by his own collection, incorporating many items into the more than 500 stamps he art directed or designed during the decades for the U.S. Postal Service.

Tom Hoober—a realtor in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for decades—reports he is “keeping out of trouble” playing pickleball, hiking and biking; volunteering to match fellow Presbyterians and Rotarians with Zoe International, a child rescue organization; and planning cross-country skiing trips in Canada and ziplining in the Rockies.

The indefatigable Ken Meyercord has just published a book aptly titled 112 Ways to Alienate Most Everybody (on Amazon), a collection of 112 short essays he has published on his blog—kiaskblog.wordpress.com—during the past six years. Ken offers his well-researched iconoclastic views on key issues domestic, foreign and global. He’ll keep you thinking and wondering.

Belated sympathies to the family and friends of my soccer teammate and climate change educator George Ropes, who passed in July 2022.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Classmates traveled to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in early April to participate in a celebration of the life of our courageous friend, Pete Barber, who spent 54 years in a wheelchair after being severely wounded in Vietnam. Ted Amaral, Bill Duval, Albie MacDonald, and Barry Machado joined family and friends in recounting, with warmth and humor, Pete’s humility, tenacity, and enduring spirit. Neil Castaldo, Charlie Stuart, Gene Whitehorn, and your scribe also attended, along with Nan and John Carpenter ’64, Warren Cook ’67, and Bill Dix ’67.

Continuing an annual tradition, from Maine (Jan and Bob Baldwin, Cindy and Wally Buschmann, Angus King, Peter Titcomb, Marilyn and Will Wilkoff, Bill Williamson) to Florida (Anne and John Rollins, Mary and Brad Stein) nearly 100 classmates and their “Dartmates” got together at mini-reunions across the United States and beyond on or about March 7—the 66th night of the year.

The largest crowd assembled in retirement-friendly Hanover (Teresa and Robin Carpenter, Judy and Stan Colla, Margo and Paul Doscher, Jeff Gilbert, Heather and David Hightower, Jo and Al Keiller, Kathy and Wayne LoCurto, Margie and Chuck Sherman, Gus Southworth), with the Dominican Republic, where Rich Abraham, Dick Blacklow, Betsy and Tom Brady (the hardworking 66th night coordinator), Noel Fidel, Dick Friedman, and Rick Reiss gathered at Don Glazer’s house in Punta Cana, a close second.

News follows from three Bills. Bill Gibson met his wife, Becky, in the 1970s at the University of North Carolina (law degree for him, Ph.D. in English for her). Now they moved into “an old folks’ home” back in Chapel Hill for what Bill terms a “second prolonged adolescence.” Bill Rose earned his Ph.D. in ecology/earth science from Dartmouth in 1970 and has been researching and teaching about volcanoes at Michigan Tech University in Houghton ever since—53 years! Japanese translator and prolific author Bill Wilson just published his 26th and 27th books: The Beginner’s Guide to Haiku and The Bushido Code, the way of the Samurai warrior.

Sympathies to the family and friends of Arnold Lundwall and Chris Sanger, who passed away earlier this year. Happy and safe summer to all!

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Pete Barber died peacefully on December 22, 2022, at Boston’s Roxbury VA Hospital, his wife, Mary, and family at his side. It was nearly 54 years ago, in March 1969, that Pete was carrying his company’s radio equipment on a besieged hilltop near Con Thein, Vietnam, when a Viet Cong mortar shell exploded right behind him. It severed his spinal cord and altered the course of his life.

Pete, a three-year varsity soccer and baseball standout, won the 1966 Watson Trophy for best athlete in our class and was inducted into Wearers of the Green (2009). Throughout his long and productive life, Pete’s courage, determination, humor, honesty, and humility were an inspiration to his many Dartmouth friends across the classes and around the world. He will be missed by many. May Pete’s memory be a blessing.

“By far and away,” writes Jeff Futter. “I’m most happy and grateful for the health and happiness of all of us, recognizing that it can change in a split second.” Jeff had a busy 2022, chairing his 60th reunion from Port Washington (New York) High School and winning some 55-and-over tennis tournaments. He and Susie also kept busy traveling to visit just-graduated or graduating college daughters Jillian, Claire, and Allison.

Chuck Forester has a lot to be thankful for, and he chronicles many of his blessings in his newly published autobiography, I Throw Like a Girl, described on the Barnes & Noble site as “his life-changing journey from a lonely and suppressed gay boy in 1950s Wisconsin to his eye-popping 1971 arrival in San Francisco’s Castro, where he finds community and empowerment to live his life as a proud, out gay man for the first time.”

Filmmaker Charlie Stuart has produced dozens of timely and topical award-winning documentaries during the past 30 years. His latest, on immigration, was screened outside at Kennedy Center last August.

Can you top this? Lifelong Mainer Lance Tapley has been a prolific investigative journalist, reporter, and author for decades. Lance and Peggy have also produced four sons, all of whom have graduated from Dartmouth: Isaac ’92, Asa and Adam ’03s, and Elias ’09. Wow!

Our sympathies to the family and friends of Edgar Holley and Daniel Yocum who recently passed. Find obits on the DAM website.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Sadly, Terry Lowd passed away on July 29. “Terry was not only one of our finest class leaders,” wrote current class president John Rollins, “but also a good friend who was always available to lend a hand.” For 50 years Terry served on class committees or tackled important jobs, including class president and agent and Alumni Council rep. He will be sorely missed.

I continue to share responses from classmates about what they are most thankful for. Mark Budnitz, professor of law emeritus at Georgia State University, is thankful for his wife, Paula, “who will always be my high school sweetheart”; children Dan, Judy, and Jessica; his dad, a class of 1922 “who did not pressure me to go to Dartmouth”; his “rewarding jobs my entire legal career”; and “to be still in frequent contact with some of my best friends from Dartmouth.”

“I bet every one of us has come to appreciate the many blessings and good luck that we have enjoyed through the years,” writes Dr. Jeff Brown, a geriatric medicine specialist in Menlo Park, California. “As our Class Notes draw toward the beginning of the section month by month, remember, ‘Aging is fine, but it comes at such an inconvenient time.’ ” Jeff is also a talented and prolific artist. Check out his work at jeffcontemporaryoils.com.

“I’m most thankful for my family, my health, and my good fortune to have attended Dartmouth and been born in this great country,” writes 38-year and 13-country Foreign Service veteran Jim Cason from Coral Gables, Florida, where he recently served as a three-term mayor before “really retiring.” For Jim that means helping the American Flood Coalition educate municipalities about the threat of sea-level rise and spending more time with Carmen (50th anniversary this past September!) and his six grandchildren.

Read worthy classmate books: Bob Carter’s history of the world through Dartmouth eyes is available at TheWheelerDealers.com. Tom Brady used the Covid lockdown to write three books about his entrepreneurial engineering career, at BookBaby.com.

Our sympathies to the family and friends of Rich Morrissey, a renaissance man who passed away in Montana in June.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Class of ’66ers continue to share the one or two things they are most thankful for. Space restrictions require condensed versions here. Please see our class newsletter on our ’66 website for full and additional responses.

“Looking back now,” writes Dr. Tom Brady, founder and chairman emeritus of pioneering plastics packaging design company Plastic Technologies in Holland, Ohio, “I am increasingly thankful for growing up with parents, family, and friends and having educational, business, and social opportunities that probably fewer than 5 percent of the people on this planet had or will ever have.

“I like to say that I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time with the right training and that is indeed very true. My mission for this last chapter in My Journey (the name of my fourth book) is to do all that I can to help educate, train, and prepare others in my sphere of influence, including family, friends, and the children in our under-served communities to be able to take advantage when they find themselves in the right place at the right time.”

Mike Bromley, now living in Boise, Idaho, after running his own civil law practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for 30 years, reports, “I am most thankful for good health and the ability to enjoy it. Part of that is having friends and family; most especially my wonderful wife of 52 years, Rebecca, two terrific kids we enjoy spending time with, their spouses, and our 15-year-old granddaughter, who is well grounded for a fulfilling future.”

“I am most thankful to have been blessed with a long and rewarding life including family and friends,” writes Lee Beyer from New Hope, Pennsylvania. Lee built his Dartmouth engineering degree and experience with early College time-sharing into a career in information technology. “I am also thankful,” he adds, “to be able to give back by raising funds for Philadelphia’s Fox Chase Cancer Center on its board of associates. Speaking of thankful, when I was diagnosed with cancer Fox Chase Cancer Center immediately addressed it, and I am now cancer free.”

Dr. Bruce Berger estimates he participated in more than a quarter of a million patient visits during his 43-year dermatology practice in Princeton, New Jersey. Now Bruce and Barbara (married 54 years) spend six months in Naples, Florida, each year. “We are blessed,” Bruce reports, “with good health and a wonderful family and friends. As we all get older we have more time to review the wonderful four years we spent in Hanover. Life seemed so much simpler in the 1960s.”

Our sympathies to the families and friends of Tom Wilson, a farmer, and Richard Kornblum, an expert on manufacturing systems, who have both passed away.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Class of ’66ers continue to share what they are most thankful for. I’m thankful for that! Space restrictions require condensed versions here. See our class newsletter for full and additional responses.

Bob Serenbetz reports from Newton, Pennsylvania. “I’m most thankful for [wife] Karen’s health” since the pandemic had delayed her restorative surgery. “I’m thankful that none of my close friends or family have caught the virus. I’m also thankful that the past administration had the foresight to develop vaccines so quickly.”

“I am thankful for the family I have made along the way,” lawyer Dave Tucker reports from San Francisco, “my own family with Patricia, the love of my life for 57 years, plus three kids and two grandkids; also ‘family’ members of very different stripes, shapes, and backgrounds chaired at various dinner tables—more friends than I deserve around more dinner tables than I can recount. Lucky me.”

Jim Weiskopf writes from Beaufort, South Carolina, “My wife, Kamay, and I are most thankful for the outstanding care she has received at the Medical University of South Carolina since she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2017. We are blessed with three daughters and five grandchildren.”

Brunswick, Maine, pediatrician Will Wilkoff is thankful thathis family valued education and that he was “born with a positive outlook. My glass has always been slightly more than half full.”

“I’m thankful for still being alive at my age,” writes Steve Warhover from Vero Beach, Florida. “I’m also thankful for my wonderful Dartmouth friends and experiences, including meeting Anne, my wife of more than 54 years.”

George Trumbull is thankful that he and his family are healthy and have “weathered the storms” in good shape. He’s also thankful to be actively involved with four nonprofits in Connecticut and Kenya “that literally change the lives of many people.”

“There are three things I am most thankful for,” says Tim Urban from Des Moines, Iowa: “Family, [including] the love and companionship of my wife, Toni, and my children and grandchildren; friends with whom I can share things we all love; and my health, which allows me to enjoy the first and second things. If only we could come together again as a society for the common well-being of all of us, life would be good!”

“How can I not be thankful for the lovely woman who became my wife in June 1977?” writes lawyer Richard Tufaro from Fernandina Beach, Florida. “From Helen I have learned much about love, and faith, and family. We walk together, dance together, travel together, babysit together, and just enjoy each other’s company. What could be more special and magical.”

Our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Augustus “Buzz” Pratt, who passed away last November.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

With a tough year behind us and Thanksgiving on the horizon we asked some classmates what they were most thankful for.

Bill Ramos, agynecologist in Las Vegas, writes: “I am most thankful to God and fate for giving me the skills (heart, hands, brain) to pursue a long and successful medical career. I am also grateful to Dartmouth and my wife for the education and motivation. It’s been a wonderful life (not done yet).” 

Norm Shaffer, retired Goldman Sachs investment banker and part-time children’s story author, writes: “What I’m most thankful for now is that I can see family again and actually do things with my (three) children and (four) grandchildren.

Lance Roberts, founder and partner of retirement investment advisor CIFmarketplace, writes he is thankful for his “spouse and West Virginia.” Lance’s wife, Jackie, “is eight years younger and keeps me jumping both mentally and physically (saddlebred horseback riding),” and “Charleston, West Virginia, is charming.”

Chuck Sherman, retired National Institutes of Health administrator and proud resident of Strafford, Vermont, writes: “I’m thankful to live where I don’t need to lock my door (I probably have a key here, somewhere) or need air-conditioning and can fill my freezer with wild blueberries, ski half of the year, and surf the Internet on a beam of light through a thin fiber anytime.”

Susan and John Colby are thankful that Hurricane Henri in August eased up a bit and didn’t damage their North Kingston, Rhode Island, home, or that of friends Evelyn and Ed Long in nearby Jamestown.

Saleh Jabarin, professor emeritus at the University of Toledo College of Engineering who came to the United States from Palestine in 1962, is thankful that his book, My Journey: Finding Relevance Through the Pursuit of Learning, has been published. “This book tells the story of my experiences professionally, personally, and in community involvement.” Available at https://store.bookbaby.com/book/The-Journey5.

For a clear understanding of the administration’s new antimonopoly initiatives, check out Nelson Lichtenstein’s op-ed in the July 13 New York Times.

Our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Roc Cavino, an architect, painter, and active community participant who passed away in his adopted state of Maine in early July.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Graciela and Joff Keane put self-isolation to good use. Josh tackled long overdue projects around the house in Alexandria, Virginia, particularly gardening and a kitchen remodel, while wife Graciela finished writing a book, now available everywhere, titled Adoption: The Joys and Sorrows of Adoption.

Joff believes, “Sadly, our nation grossly mismanaged the pandemic.” For the next pandemic he says, “we cannot sacrifice our future on the altar of a misguided conception of ‘privacy,’ when the whole world already knows what we buy, what we read, where we go, and which doctors we see.”

Rear Admiral (Ret.) Bill Hayden had a truly distinguished 30-year career in the Navy that started in NROTC at Dartmouth, included 125 carrier-based combat missions during Vietnam, serving as the commissioning commanding officer on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and chief of naval air training.

But if you asked Bill what he is proudest of today, he would likely focus on the Starbase Victory STEM program he founded for fourth- to sixth-graders and has run as volunteer executive director in conjunction with the Portsmouth, Virginia school district. It’s helped about 15,000 kids in the past 20 years. “I don’t do the teaching,” Bill says, “but I do raise the money for Starbase to function. If you find any spare change in that couch you’ve been sitting in this year, I could use it (for the kids, of course!).”

It has not been easy being a president these last four or five years. Ask anyone. In fact, we asked outgoing ’66 class president Jim Lustander for his thoughts and received this frank appraisal: “A great pleasure of the job was connecting with classmates whom I haven’t seen or heard from in years. In that regard, I was grateful that Ben Day, Erv Burkholder, and Bob Cohn initiated the special, online Covid-19 editions of our newsletter so we could share our experiences with the pandemic. Working with the team to organize our 75th birthday party in Newport, Rhode Island, was another highlight, as was establishing the Seymour endowment to memorialize Thad and give students the opportunity to address hands-on some of the world’s problems.

“Beyond the public missteps (underutilized student ‘houses,’ sports team debacle, golf course closure, weathervane removal, biomass plant debacle, sexual harassment suits, etc.), I was disappointed in the administration’s belated recognition of Thad’s death and their takeover of the ’66 webcams without appropriate negotiation because we could have helped fix the problem.

“But on balance, pluses outweighed minuses. Being a local lets me interact frequently with students and faculty, and I can say that the College is in fine shape academically. And the students who have benefited from our class’s support are bright, eager to learn, and very grateful to be here.”

As John Rollins prepares to figuratively step into the ’66 oval office, Jim’s looking forward to travel. Many thanks to Jim and good luck to all our new class officers, and to all of you. Be well and stay safe.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

It’s two days after Christmas 2020. Covid-19 virus has been disrupting our lives for 10 months and, in many ways, the virus is worse than ever.

Thankfully, there are glimmers of hope—the vaccines are here (and we are old enough to be in an early cohort); Trump has less than one month more to pardon his lawbreaking allies and veto necessary bipartisan legislation, and the Outlander series has returned to Netflix, with Ozark not far behind.

Many classmates are using this virus-caused life interlude as a time for personal growth. Bill Ferris has been teaching at Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts, since 1980, most recently as a professor emeritus specializing in organizational management. For the last 18 months based in Fort Myers, Florida, Bill has become a passionate online bridge player. He went from zero points to “Life Master” in two years and national tournaments are on the horizon. Wife Cheryl has taken up golf. These activities, plus keeping in remote touch with daughters Cheryl and Laura and the four grandkids, prompt Bill to conclude, “In short, we’ve never been busier!”

After practicing utility law for nearly 50 years, Jeff Futter retired at the end of 2019 and started reading more and getting back in shape. And Jeff has become the key organizer of his high school 60th reunion coming up in 2022. Many of us might, in fact, have that event on our own long-range calendars. Contact Jeff for pointers. Covid or not, some classmates just can’t stop helping others. Ed Dailey, longtime litigator at Sunstein, a Boston intellectual property law firm, has been spending much of his time during the past few years teaching and mentoring boys in an inner-city Jesuit middle school. He’s guided three to Dartmouth. Ed also continues to race his sailboat at a competitive level.

After Dartmouth the Rev. Jack Donovan served as a Peace Corps teacher in Micronesia, a USAID refugee officer in Vietnam, a staff member of Boston’s Community Action Agency, and a consultant on federal social programs. Then, in the mid-1980s, Jack switched gears but not goals and entered the ministry. “I thought I had retired from ministry (Unitarian, Presbyterian, and hospice) and anti-poverty work seven years ago in favor of grandparenting duties in St. Petersburg [Florida],” Jack says, “but I’ve ended up serving a congregation (Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg). Not a career path I ever envisioned back in Hanover, but an endless growing experience. And I’m still happily grandparenting and encouraging Alisun, my artist-minister wife.” I thought we might all benefit from Jack’s late December message to his congregation: “At this season of International Migrants Day and winter solstice, my wish for you and our world is that trustworthiness will grow, tribalism will diminish, and contribution of each one’s best will be encouraged universally.” Amen.

Don’t miss Allan Ryan’s fascinating article on Amos Akerman, class of 1842, up front in this issue of DAM.

Our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Scott Cheyne, a Vietnam Navy vet and acclaimed advertising executive who passed away in November. More at dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

Right now 55th reunion plans are up in the air, but we are continuing to support the Class of 1966 Dean Thaddeus Seymour Endowment for the Dickey Center. Get in on the action. Visit dartmouth.66.org. Be well and stay safe.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Writing this on August 28, still masked and distanced, with schools preparing to open one way or another in the age of Covid-19, and the apocalyptic prophecies of the political conventions still ringing in our ears. We will all know more (but not quite everything or enough) when you read this in late October.

Thanks to classmates for sharing their pandemic-time news and views.

Judy and Joe Barker left Nashville and spent the summer on the St. George peninsula in Maine. “It’s a lot cooler and with lots less Covid here,” Joe explains, but “we also miss having our children and grandchildren with us in Maine. Our house is way too quiet.”

Joe is a devoted supporter of the Hood Museum and his hometown Tennessee State University. “We fear for our country and hope for the best,” Joe writes. “Between Covid-19 and bad politics all around, our country is suffering. All people matter, all people’s ideas need to be listened to, and all people need to be respected.”

Bill Wilson, widely considered today’s foremost translator of classic Samurai texts, has spent time during Covid-19 taking out the garbage, walking the dogs, and tending the bushes and trees in his backyard. (Sound familiar?) Bill has also stayed professionally busy, finishing a translation of the biography of Taneda Santoka, an eccentric haiku poet and Zen Buddhist priest. Publication date uncertain. “This, if nothing else,” Bill observes, “is a time for personal growth and reflection.”

Before becoming a Naples, Florida, resident last year, Dr. Bruce Berger had a solo dermatology practice in Princeton, New Jersey, for 43 years, handling more than 250,000 patient visits. He and Barb returned to Princeton when the New Jersey virus numbers declined. “These are very crazy and upsetting times for sure,” Bruce says. “We have two grandkids applying to college this year. Neither is interested in Dartmouth. Is it worth $75,000 to go to an Ivy virtually?”

Another ’66 doctor, Bill Ramos, announced this spring that he is officially retired from his gynecology and obstetrics practice in Las Vegas. “I was very near making that decision,” he writes, “but the virus kicked me in the ass and got me to take the leap.” Bill is not optimistic about the future—“I see no light at the end of the tunnel until an effective vaccine is developed. And yet recent polls revealed that more than one-third of Americans are planning to refuse the vaccine. Inconceivable (to quote Princess Bride). Please all, stay healthy, stay careful.”

Marya and Paul Klee had to cut short their photographic adventure in Africa in late February when pandemic alerts increased. After passing through Frankfurt and Boston on March 10, when no health checks were in place, they have been back in hometown Hanover, finding time for leisurely social-distanced walks with friends, including Elizabeth and Jim Lustenader.

The indomitable Pete Barber spent the spring and summer hooked up to a wound vacuum for 12 weeks recovering from two surgeries. Thankfully, he’s back home with Mary now in Santa Rosa, California (pbarber66@gmail.com).

And we’re happy to let John Rollins, co-chair of our 55th reunion next June 14-17 in Hanover, have the last upbeat word. “It’s definitely been a spring and summer of social distancing,” he writes. “Golf has been one of the more enjoyable respites. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Hanover for our 55th—less than a year away!”

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

It should be late June when you read this, but it’s late April, midway through the seventh week of the stay-at-home order in New York State, when I’m writing. How are you feeling? What’s going on? Are you still wearing masks? Are you still with the same partner? Are your basements and closets all cleaned out? Is everything (anything)—theaters, baseball, libraries, shoe stores—open? Can you hug your kids and grandkids and visit folks in senior centers?

And how have you been spending your time? We asked classmates this question back in early April and here’s a sample of what a few had to say.

Bill Wilson in Miami was working on a translation of a 17th-century Japanese Buddhist philosopher: “Keeps me busy if not my head clear.”

Jeff Futter had his three college daughters back bunking with him and Susie in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, where they were enjoying family dinners with wine.

Judy and Joe Barker were riding things out on their beef and grain farm just north of Nashville. “At our ages,” Joe counsels, “the best that we can do is to keep ourselves fit and stay out of the way.”

Kamay and Jim Weiskopf were “hunkered down” in Beaufort, South Carolina, facetiming with children and grandkids.

Roc Caivano and Helen live in the house architect Roc built on Mount Desert Island in Bar Harbor, Maine. He was spending time repairing and repainting things in his home and painting watercolors and oils on his canvases. Best yet, it’s a “blessing to have our daughters and granddaughter nearby (though at least 6 feet away these days).”

Tim Butterworth reported from Chesterfield, New Hampshire, that for him and Kay, “in our self-imposed quarantine our letter carrier and UPS drivers have become our best friends.”

David Stedman with Peggy in Haddonfield, New Jersey, “had time to work on articles for my Scottish clan Campbell and its publications and for the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia.”

Lin and Don Ries in Tucson were sorting slides from the last 53 years: “Lots of memories and amazing color quality of the slides despite the age. Wonder if electronic images will last that long?”

John Rollins and Anne Rollins in Washington, D.C., “have rediscovered our passion for jigsaw puzzles.”

In Canton, Connecticut, Rich Abraham and Judy “have been physically isolated but physically very active.” Rich “converted my semi-retired internal medicine practice to telemedicine.”

And Tom Louis, professor emeritus in biostatistics at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, holed up in St. Michaels on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with Germaine, was “helping a bit with the FDA’s standards for Covid-19 clinical trials.”

We note with sadness the passing of Ralph Crump, an adopted ’66, on March 17 at the age of 96. Ralph, a Renaissance man with a variety of talents and interests in science, business, and history, mentored and coached Dean Spatz and Chris Miller at Thayer School on their reverse osmosis water purification project. Ralph and Dean founded Osmonics in Dean’s garage in 1969. The company was acquired by GE in 2002 for about $250 million.

Our sympathies to the family and friends of three ’66s who passed away in the early part of 2020: Jim Beardsley, Tuck grad and business entrepreneur; Dr. Frank Leib, professor at Temple University’s intellectual heritage program; and Dr. Joseph Michalski, a rheumatology specialist in Mobile, Alabama. More about Ralph, Jim, Frank, and Joe can be found at https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/obits.

Stay safe and see you on the other side—at our 55th reunion next year!

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

During our four years at Dartmouth there was one constant—Dean Thaddeus Seymour. Thad sadly passed away, at 91, in late October. We asked classmates to send in recollections of Thad and the responses would fill five of these columns.

Here are two excerpts that capture the overall spirit of the responses.

“Thad was someone who looked beyond your grades and read you as a person. And he was always right on the money,” writes David R. Godine.

“Thad was bigger than life to each, and yet he was humble, friendly, never threatening, and someone who always remembered that in addition to job No. 1, learning, job No. 2 was to have some fun doing job No. 1. What I have found even more remarkable is that this giant person of so much authority and stature was only 34 years old when we were freshmen. A mere kid by today’s standards!” writes Rick Reiss.

To read the full personal recollections, both heartwarming and amusing, of more than a dozen ’66ers, please visit dartmouth66.org.

How are the classmates who shared recollections of Dean Seymour faring today?

David Godine has announced that he will be retiring from the small eponymously named Boston publishing house that he founded. “A good 50-year run,” David recalls, “some good books, a few great books, and two Nobel Prize winners.” 

Rick Reiss, closely tied to Dartmouth through a variety of philanthropic and leadership projects, recently hosted a Pi Lam mini-reunion in his New York apartment in honor of Don Glazer. Rich Abraham, Ben Cohen, Dave Johnston, Joel Sternman ’65, Hector Motroni, Alan Rottenberg, and Angus King attended.

After 45 years in a large 100-year-old house, Toni and Tim Urban have moved to a condo in Des Moines, Iowa, and he suspects “this is normal for most of my classmates.” Tim is scaling back his commercial real estate ventures “to simplify our lives” and, “with the turmoil facing our country, I am focusing on philanthropic opportunities that might change the world one life at a time.”

Dr. Gene Nattie, now retired, and Candy, based in Norwich, Vermont, just celebrated their 50th anniversary with two daughters, two sons-in-law, and five grandchildren. Gerry LaMontagne, in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, near Allentown, has reconnected with many classmates and fraternity brothers since retiring from his construction business about 10 years ago. “Am enjoying my kids and grandkids and retirement.” Howard Dobbs and partner Annwyl Williams are “alive and well” in Reading, England.

Scott Cheyne retired from ad agency Hill Holliday in 2006 but hasn’t lost all touch. His daughter, Christie, works in the Hill Holliday finance department and wife Vashti is still working as an advertising copywriter, strategist, and website developer. Scott is a board member of nonprofit Santa’s Magic, which gathers and delivers holiday gifts to patients at four Boston area hospitals every Christmas Day. “Because I am a Vietnam veteran, my venue of choice is the Soldiers’ Home, where I’ve gone every Christmas morning for about the past 10 years.” Scott stays in regular contact with classmates Dick Sheaff, Kevin Trainor, and Win Steubner.

Have personal memories of Dean Seymour? Send ’em in and we’ll add them to the collection.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

A couple of our classmates are affected by and have firm opinions about the current political situation.

Bob Page of San Francisco-based DPK Consulting reports that his international work focusing on the rule of law and government accountability is being affected by the administration’s foreign aid cutbacks. “Our projects in countries such as El Salvador are being slowed while our project in Palestine was actually closed down,” Bob says. “Still we move forward with work in many hot spots such as Afghanistan and Iraq, among others.”

Unlike many of us, Bob is still playing one-on-one basketball with his 12-year-old son, Nathaniel, a ball-boy at University of San Francisco games. “Still holding my own, but the injuries mount.” Bob and Grace spent a week at their family homestead in Vermont and hosted Barb and Bill Duval for a day “which we cherish.”

Dr. Bill Ramos is an obstetrician and gynecologist whose A to Z Women’s Center in Las Vegas has performed legal abortions for decades. He has watched the tide of anti-abortion legislation being passed by states across the country with alarm. “It seems inconceivable,” Bill writes, “that the states that are passing the most restrictive laws are doing so ‘in order to protect women and families,’ yet they provide the least prenatal and maternal support and have the highest maternal and neonatal death rates. Fortunately,” he adds, “I am still in Las Vegas, which is a much more progressive venue.” Bill sold his medical practice at the end of 2018 and is “trying to fully retire.” He’s down to working one day a week. A longtime pilot, Bill suffered a minor stoke this past June and has been indefinitely grounded by the FAA. So Bill and Judith, his wife of 35 years, will be visiting their seven kids located from California to Vermont and Florida to Montana by car or commercial flights.

Vanna and Terry Ruggles, married 52 years, have had their share of medical challenges and have even helped form the first Stroke Survivor/Support Group in the Greenfield, Massachusetts, area. But Terry seems busier than ever. As a member of the town library foundation board he’s helping raise $2 million toward a new library. He’s worked to save an historic dam and create a recreational area. He’s on the board of Greenfield’s community TV station and he helps liaison with Pioneer Valley Symphony donors. Terry and Vanna also spend considerable time with their two sons and six grandchildren. “Keeping busy is our secret for staying healthy,” Terry reports.

Ann and Peter Prichard will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this November. Peter spent the summer reading, swimming, and trying to learn how to fly fish. But don’t let that fool you. The former editor-in-chief of USA Today in the early 1990s, when it was the largest-circulation newspaper in America, remains fully engaged as the chairman of the wonderful Newseum in Washington, D.C.

It’s been a rough patch for our class. Our deepest sympathies are extended to the families and friends of classmates who recently passed—Steve Lynch, a dedicated jobs training coordinator; Chris Scott, a globe-trotting internal auditor; Dr. Walter Stern, an ophthalmologist, teacher, and researcher; and Jim Skiles, a respected Federal Trade Commission and association lawyer. Much more about each in the online Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

Be well.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

By unofficial count, about 114 members of our class have had children attend Dartmouth, about 15 percent of our class. Our latest Dartmouth parents are Rachael and Bruce Petrie, whose son, Charles, has come across the pond from Lincolnshire, England, to become a member of Class of 2022. A third-generation Big Greener (grandfather was James Petrie ’33), freshman Charles is already a stalwart on the Dartmouth golf team. The Petries have twice the incentive to visit the states—Charles’ twin, George, is a freshman at Rutgers.

Dr. Gene Nattie has been “fully retired income-wise” since November 2017 but continues to help teach at the Dartmouth Medical School (cardiovascular and respiratory physiology and physiology in the ICU) as well as do admissions interviews. “No more research, except as a consultant, so no grants, papers, committees,” Gene reports. Wife Candace continues as a school nurse at Hanover High School. Gene’s now into reading mysteries, golf, gym, walks, and their four (maybe five when you read this) grandchildren within a three-hour drive.

The popularity of the class’ 66th Night informal mini-reunions held on or about March 7 each year continues to grow. This year 121 classmates and more than 70 partners and guests convened at a record 26 locations in 21 states, D.C., and England. Largest gatherings were in Hanover and the San Francisco Bay Area, with three held in retirement-friendly Florida. Class treasurer Bob Serenbetz managed to attend two celebrations (South Carolina and Vero Beach, Florida) and the youngest participant was Ben Day’s 19-month-old grandson, Jonas, possibly class of 2038, in Princeton, New Jersey.

Tom Brady and Saleh Jabarin were among those who attended 66th Night in Toledo, Ohio. Their paths have been linked since graduation. Both earned Ph.D.s (Tom in materials science/polymers from Michigan and Saleh in polymer science from UMass) and both were hired by Owens-Illinois (O-I), sitting almost back-to-back in the plastics research and development (R&D) center.

It was the dawn of large-size soda plastic packaging. Saleh led the O-I materials development project and team, and Tom led the process and manufacturing team that developed the technology for making the first plastic 1- and 2-liter carbonated soft drink containers for Coke and Pepsi. When glassmaker O-I balked at fully committing to plastic packaging in the mid-80s, Tom left O-I to found Plastic Technologies Inc., which for 35 years has been one of the world’s leading plastic packaging developers, and Saleh left to found the Polymer Institute at the University of Toledo, which is now recognized as one of the leading plastics R&D institutes in the country.

The indefatigable Chuck Sherman, former class webmaster and president, has organized 66th Night for the past five years and is moving on. “Dartmouth alumni are bonded to their institution more than alumni of other colleges and universities,” Chuck observes, “and our class has developed a stronger bond than most other Dartmouth classes; 66th Night’s success has built on that strength. In our retirement years these friendships become even more important.”

Chuck also is concluding his two-year term as president of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley. “With time on my hands,” Chuck predicts, “I may just pick blueberries, be a granddaddy, or cross some destinations off my bucket list.”

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Sixty-sixers continue to receive accolades for their achievements and continue to contribute to their communities in a variety of meaningful ways.

The U.S. Navy Supply Corps Foundation has selected Bill Gruver as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Navy Supply Corps School at its November 2018 convention. Bill served as a supply officer on a nuclear submarine during the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972 and was responsible for millions of dollars of inventory. “The gravity of my military responsibilities,” Bill said in accepting the award, “made possible whatever I may have accomplished later in life.” And those accomplishments are many. Bill spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs, rising to chief administrative officer of its largest division—equities. Bill remains active in finance, as an arbitrator of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and through service on numerous boards. Today Bill occupies the Howard I. Scott Chair in Global Commerce, Strategy & Leadership at Bucknell University. He has also served three terms as mayor of Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania.

Bob Cowden has been selected for inclusion in the 2018 Massachusetts Super Lawyers rating. Bob, a partner at the Boston-based law firm of Casner & Edwards, was selected for his practice with nonprofit organizations, from social services organizations to grant-making foundations.

In 2005 Joff Keane says he “hung up [his] diplomatic spurs” after a 39-plus year career “that [he] would not trade for anything,” culminating in an ambassadorship to Paraguay. In an unprecedented coincidence, classmate Jim Cason succeeded Joff as ambassador in Paraguay. Joff worked to restore or maintain democracy and human rights throughout Latin America. “For my significant role in turning back a coup d’état in Guatemala when I was acting chief of mission (interim ambassador),” Joff recalls, he received a presidential letter of commendation. Joff has not stood still in retirement. He lectures about Latin America, averages 25 sailing races per year, and birdwatches (in 2018 he identified 570 distinct species in one month in Colombia). And Joff walks, really walks, covering 110 miles of the St. James Way in Spain in 2014 and 70 miles of the Portuguese St. James Way in 2018.

Also moving fast in retirement is David Johnston, who is “working happily at three part-time gigs” around Hartford, Connecticut—substitute teaching, recruiting and counseling adults to qualify for community college courses, and running the Center for Higher Education Retention Excellence, which just held its 22nd conference on college retention for challenged students. David and wife Hera, a practicing psychiatrist, are celebrating the birth of first grandchild Fiona in Oregon, whose mom, daughter Mariah, is a family practice doctor.

Peter Dorsen has written a personal look back on our 50th reunion. “There was indescribable joy reconnecting with men I had not seen for 50 years,” he writes. You can read his moving reflection, which may resonate with many, at www.dartmouth66.org/downloads/Men-0ver-60-dont-quit-now.pdf.

Signed up yet for our 75th birthday party in Newport, Rhode Island, this June? Details are on the class web page and in the newsletter.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

In September 1962 Hector Motroni moved into brand new Bissell Hall. That’s where he first encountered Dan Gulden. Safe to say they hit it off. Hector and Dan roomed in the same Bissell suite for the next four years, along with classmates Gary Rubloff, Greg Sharp, Paul Stockstad, and David Stout.

In April, a snappy 21,690 days after Hector and Dan first met, Hector and his wife, Myra, attended the wedding of Dan and Candice Gulden’s daughter, Gina, in Exuma, Bahamas. “The wedding on Jolly Hall beach was breathtaking,” Hector said. “It is hard to imagine that Dan and I were freshmen 56 years ago!” It is, indeed!

Scott Cheyne retired about a decade ago after 31 years helping build the Boston-based advertising firm of Hill Holiday into a national powerhouse. He reports that he’s still close to a number of allegedly retired classmates—Dick Sheaff, the renowned art director and graphic designer who worked on more than 500 published U.S. postage stamps and who still maintains the fascinating website www.sheaff-ephemera.com (check it out!) from his Bethel, Vermont, home; Dr. Win Steubner, who spent 30 years as a primary care doctor in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and has now immersed himself in volunteer leadership roles with a half dozen Berkshire County organizations, from the Visiting Nurses Association to the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation; and former Vietnam Marine fighter pilot Kevin Trainor, who stepped away from a 40-plus-year career as a lawyer in Twin Falls, Idaho, earlier this year and remains a licensed river guide, contract charter pilot, and devoted Harley rider.

A possible Netflix pilot? Utah high school student Steve Coles decides he wants to be a marine biologist, but is not sure what that means. It just so happens that Dartmouth offers its first course in marine biology in our junior year. Steve is one of six in the course. He goes on to earn a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Hawaii, where he meets Renuka from Fiji via New Zealand. They marry, settle in Hawaii forever, and raise two kids—Devi, who lives in Geneva, and Sean, now in L.A.—each of whom now has two adorable children.

“I’ve had the great opportunity to work in or observe coral reef environments throughout the world and, to my surprise,” Steve says, “am still involved in research after being retired nine years.” His latest research, on whether corals could have adapted to higher water temperatures during the last 50 years, is just out.

Other episodes can cover Steve and Renuka’s travel adventures and Indy, Steve’s amazing golden retriever pet therapy dog, which cheers 80 to 100 people each month.

On the last weekend in July Pete Barber, Bill Duval, Tim Barnard, and Warren Cook ’67 were in Princeton, New Jersey, to remember the life and legacy of Bill Smoyer ’67. Bill’s sister, Nancy Smoyer, traveled from Alaska to join Bill’s friends and teammates at the informal graveside ceremony 50 years after Bill’s tragic death in Vietnam. A lasting void. Vivid, warm memories.

Our deepest sympathies to the friends and families of two classmates who passed away earlier this year: Jim Tent, a dedicated college professor and historian, and Dick Wells, an early computer pioneer.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

“Kind of retired.” That’s how Tom Brady sums up his present circumstances. You be the judge.

Tom is still a 30-percent owner of Plastics Technologies Inc., the company he founded in 1985 that is recognized today as a worldwide leader in plastic package design, development, prototyping, and engineering. While having no operating responsibility, Tom remains “highly interested” in PTI’s various businesses and serves as a regular advisor and industry and community connector. Wife Betsy is PTI’s chairwoman.

But what Tom is spending most his time on now is reforming pre-K-to-12 and higher education. Why? “I am very focused on educating our urban kids because,” Tom explains, “if you had to pick the one thing that would begin to solve our economic development and social services problems in this country, that would be education.” Can’t disagree.

And one group of kids who get Tom and Betsy’s personal attention are their 11 (soon to become 12) grandchildren, in Toledo, Columbus, and D.C. Kind of retired.

“I’m pretty busy,” reports Skip Battle, “although on a glide path to lesser commitments over the next few years.” What a career flight it has been. After nearly 30 years in management and leadership consulting roles at Arthur Anderson, which morphed into Accenture, Skip has been chairman of IAC Search & Media (the Ask Jeeves people) and Fair Isaac Corp., now known as FICO, pioneers in big data software. He remains on the FICO board, as well as the boards of Netflix, Workday, and Expedia.

A dedicated Dartmouth supporter, Skip proudly returned to campus last October with his two children, Dan ’01 and Emily ’05, and their partners, for the dedication of the Lodge at Moosilauke. The Battle family had made the construction of the new facility possible through a $5 million challenge grant.

Even as a kid Wayne Hill loved taking pictures of the world around us. He learned 4x5 camera technique while working for the Dartmouth College photographer, spent time in California with legendary Ansel Adams, and built an award-winning art business. In April the Library of Congress created a permanent home for Wayne’s brilliant photographic work (more than 6,000 transparencies and negatives) for all the world to appreciate. The Wayne Hill Collection will now be enjoyed for generations to come. Sample Wayne’s work at www.hillart.com.

Our 50th wedding anniversary couple this column isDr. Bruce Berger and wife Barbara. Bruce retired recently from his 44-year solo practice of dermatology in Princeton, New Jersey. Bruce and Barbara have traveled the world together and plan to spend winters in Naples, Florida, summers in Princeton, and time with their kids and grandchildren.

Bruce will also continue to reunite with ’66 classmates, as he did in Florida in February with former Lord Hall freshman roommates Joe Barker and Angus King, and their wives, Judy and Mary. Gus will be running for reelection this fall as U.S. senator from Maine.

The 66th night quarterback, Chuck Sherman, reports that on and around March 7 a record 143 classmates participated in reunion activities, always involving a toast or two to the Old Pine, at 24 sites across 7,200 miles—from England (Howard Dobbs and Steve Hladky) to Hawaii (Marty Adler, Steve Coles, and Rock Ley).

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

David Tucker may represent our quintessential classmate. Dave enjoyed a successful career—30 years as an employee benefit legal expert at Cooper, White & Cooper in San Francisco. He’s an active volunteer, providing pro bono services to change the labor practices of the local Catholic archdiocese. He’s a budding author with an historical novel, a book on how to negotiate mortgages and a paean to his long-gone Westy all coming along. He has strong Dartmouth connections, including a 35-year friendship that started as soccer dads with classmate David Spring. And, most significantly of all, he has a wonderful family—three healthy kids, two healthy grandchildren and a 50-year marriage with Pat, whom he met in 1964 on Cape Cod, about 500 yards from the Tuckers’ Woods Hole vacation home on Cape Cod.

Another couple marking their 50th anniversary, Anne and Steve Warhover,celebrated with some friends on a safari in Tanzania (where else?) and have the Serengeti photos to prove it. The now-retired couple splits their time between Vero Beach, Florida, and Gloucester, Massachusetts, enjoying golf, bridge, pickleball, travel and “partying (still).”

Tom Vosteen is also celebrating a 50th—50 years of teaching French at Midwest colleges. For a while Tom led kind of a double life. After college he spent 25 years working intermittently as a French-English interpreter under contract with the U.S. Department of State, accompanying French-speaking official guests of the international visitor program of the State Department and interpreting for them in their official meetings and unofficially in everyday situations. At the same time Tom taught French at a number of schools—the universities of Iowa and South Dakota and Wartburg, Grinnell and Cornell college–until he finished his Ph.D. in 1990 and came to rest at Eastern Michigan University in 1991. Now retired as a professor after a quarter-century run at EMU, Tom and Michele live in Iowa City, Iowa, where they met during his Ph.D. studies.

Dr. William Viar reports that he is “still enjoying life” as a retired general surgeon, spending the summers with wife of 33 years, Barbara, in the North Carolina mountains and the fall and winter in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Bill is into hunting, fishing and the Crimson Tide, with a little golf and tennis mixed in, and is most proud of his five grandchildren, one of whom is Will Synnott ’21 (not a typo!).

Take a quick look back to 2017 to what certainly must be considered a once-in-a-lifetime class mini-reunion. Don Graves has reported that he joined a group of ’66s, including Steve Abram, Rob Cleary’s widow, Judy, Greg Eden, Josh Grindlay, Caleb Loring, Tony Muller, Kevin Trainer and Steve Zeller in Ketchum, Idaho, last August to revel in a full 64 seconds of total darkness during the solar eclipse.

Our sympathies are extended to the family and friends of Dr. Walter Harrison, a revered pediatrician in Lynn, Massachusetts, for 35 years, who passed away December 9, 2017.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

The awards just keep on coming for our classmates.

The Ivy Football Association honored Tom Clarke, captain of Dartmouth’s first Lambert Trophy team in 1965, for “meritorious lifetime service and achievement.” After football Tom enjoyed a highly respected career as an orthopedic surgeon in the U.S. Navy and, later, in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. “Football experience,” Tom explained, “helps you have the confidence to go ahead with something like saving lives and limbs and do it when the chips are down.” He and Donna have three children and five grandchildren.

Muskegon (Michigan) Community College (MCC) bestowed its highest accolade, the Distinguished Faculty Award, to Blair Morrissey. Now retired in Florida, Blair taught philosophy, created a computer simulation called Choices about the harm of immoral behavior and founded the college success course in his 40 years at MCC. Oh, yes, he also chaired the fine arts department. Distinguished indeed.

Bob Cowen, a partner at Casner & Edwards in Boston, was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2018. Bob’s practice focuses on nonprofit organizations and he is often called as an expert witness in matters involving charitable organizations.

We continue our salute to classmates, and their mates, on their 50th wedding anniversaries.

Jay and Andrea Vincent “happily celebrated our 50th anniversary on July 15” at an intimate dinner with family and friends. The wedding in 1967 may have been a bit more raucous with classmates Mike McConnell, Jeff Marks, Bruce Hamilton and Larry Robbins among those in attendance.

Jay spent nearly 40 years in the industrial chemical business, most notably as chairman and president of HallStar. Andrea, a fine artist, has a website worth a visit at andreavincent.com. Family? “After raising two sons,” Jay reports, “we now have three granddaughters—what a difference!”

Terry Ruggles fondly recalls proposing to Vanna in the basement of Alpha Delta. She accepted. The couple celebrated their 50th anniversary on September 2 and greatly enjoy their six grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 to 17. Terry “retired” from a career in media about eight years ago but remains active on numerous local boards and commissions in western Massachusetts, including Greenfield Community TV.

Terry and Vanna, who suffered and thankfully recovered from a stroke about two and a half years ago, started a stroke support group at the local hospital and participate actively. “Believe me,” Terry writes, “when you watch your wife awake, move, talk and see again after being out for one hour you have seen a miracle.”

We know Chuck Sherman has been Mr. Everything for the class for the better part of 20 years. But don’t think the rest of the time he’s just rockin’ in his hammock. Chuck serves on Dartmouth’s committee for the protection of human subjects that assures all research involving humans is ethical, voluntary, and fair to all. He volunteers at the information booth on the Green, helps Cabin & Trail build lodges and bunkhouses and he’s just become president of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley. And he’s on the board of nonprofit ValleyNet, which is stringing fiber-optic for Internet in 24 Vermont towns. The hammock will have to wait.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

“With age comes wisdom,” Bob Page recently declared, “and I seemed to have finally figured out the key to athletic success—keep competing longer than your peers.” As proof, Bob provided some recent race results: Tahoe Donner Triathon 2016 sprints (second out of a field of four) and Yosemite half marathon (third out of five). What keeps Bob and wife Grace so spry? It could be keeping up with 10-year-old son Nathaniel.

When he’s not swimming, riding or running Bob continues as director of Tetra Tech DPK, a San Francisco-based organization he founded that is now a unit of publicly traded Tetra Tech. DPK is dedicated to improving the rule of law and justice system management in far-flung locations with new projects underway in El Salvador, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Iraq.

On November 1 Dr. Gene Nattie will be retiring after 42 years as a faculty member at the Geisel School of Medicine. To put that into perspective, in 1975 Gene taught the year one cardiovascular and respiratory physiology course at what was then the Dartmouth Medical School. He’s been doing it every year since. “My research collaboration in trying to understand the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome has been rewarding as has teaching medical students in the classroom and undergraduates in my lab,” Gene recalls. “Overall, it has been an enjoyable run.”

Staying close to Hanover all these years has had another benefit—“I’ve had the privilege to watch close-hand as Dartmouth has grown and changed and, while it no longer may be the Dartmouth we knew, it remains a special place with strong students who continue to develop a strong affection for the College.”

What’s next? Gene and his wife of 48 years, Candace, will be able to spend more time with their four young grandchildren, “who bring unanticipated pleasure.”

Peter Prichard seconds the motion. “Watching grandchildren frolic through their frequent adventures is one of the great joys of old age,” Peter writes. He and wife Ann get to see his six frequently during the summer in Massachusetts. Peter is retired, but still pretty busy, serving on the boards of the fabulous Newseum and Freedom Forum. Peter also now finds more time for painting.

Art is also a passion of Gerry Paul’s wife, Sherri, an award-winning oil painter with a number of exhibits this summer. Check her charming work out at SherriPaul.com. When not in the studio, Sherri plans the couple’s trips, including one soon to Iceland with son Sandy and his family. Gerry’s also pleased that daughter Amy and family are now only 15 minutes from his home in Rye, New York.

Happy to add Rick Olsen to the list of ’66ers celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Rick and Ann marked the date with some 70 relatives and friends at a lunch party on June 16 at the UCLA faculty center in L.A. On hand was Rick’s Phi Psi brother and brother-in-law for 50 years, Joe Furstenthal ’67, who may be responsible for the whole thing!

Have a milestone coming up? Share the news.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

We thought that our 50th reunion was exceptional. And so did the College.

At Class Officers Weekend this past fall we were honored as Reunion Class of the Year. No small feat. The citation reads, in part, “Among many accomplishments, record numbers of classmates attended the reunion free of charge, a pilot reunion giving program was implemented and the Class of ’66 Bunkhouse at Moosilauke was dedicated.” Dozens of classmates, under the inspired direction of reunion co-chairs Jim Lustenauder and Bob Serenbetz, deserve credit for the reunion’s success.

Also recognized with his second Webmaster of the Year Award was Ben Day, rightly hailed as “the consummate team player, easy to work with and lacking in even a smidgeon of ego.” And Alan Rottenberg became the 40th alum to receive the Gift Planning Chair of the Year Award for “educating your peers about the importance of thoughtful estate planning...and gaining 17 Bartlett Tower Society members in the last fiscal year,” bringing our total to 45.

The lure of the North Country attracted more than 265 classmates and another 200 “Dartmates” to Hanover for the reunion last June, and brought about 50 members of the class family to Hanover for Homecoming this past October. So, not surprisingly, an increasing number of classmates have chosen to make the Hanover area their permanent home, and have made quite an impact.

Al and Jo Keiller have lived in Brownsville, Vermont, since 1999, when Al retired after 28 years at accounting firm Arthur Anderson. In addition to his many key roles with the class (the last five as outstanding president), Al served on the board of trustees of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and is now on the board of a small, local affiliate, Mount Ascutney Hospital, in Windsor, Vermont. “Similar issues but at a much smaller scale.” He also chairs the planning commission of West Windsor, Vermont, population 1,030, and Jo and Al are active in the Brownsville Community Church.

Paul Klee left the world of documentary filmmaking at the United Nations and moved to Lyme, New Hampshire, some years ago. Paul’s love of the outdoors, his “raison d’être for choosing Dartmouth in the first place, has meshed perfectly with choosing Lyme as my later-life hometown.” In addition to hiking, skiing and snowshoeing, Paul’s interest and skill in photography have led to volunteer work for a regional land trust organization. He also presents travel-related photo programs before groups in Lyme, at a regional science center and to Appalachian Mountain Club audiences. Most rewarding is his interviewing older Lyme residents for an oral history book project. “I don’t think I could ever have imagined,” Paul says, “in my undergraduate years that this corner of the planet would become my home, but it has and I’m grateful for it!”

Looking for some fun reading? Try Lessons by the Hour published by Chuck Horn about his experiences as a clinical psychologist with real patient dialogues. You’ll find it on Amazon under the name Charles Henry.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

As we write this in late August the glow of our class of 1966 50th reunion in June is still warm and bright and three events, not mentioned in our previous column, all with long-term impact on the College, merit special note.

The first reunion impact event was the trustee lunch at which the class officially presented our $9,268,000 reunion gift, derived from 58-percent class participation, to the College. Representing the class were Joe Hafner, a strong supporter of Dartmouth College Fund; George Trumbull, Tim Urban and Rick Reiss, all of whom have funded generous endowed scholarships; and George Battle, whose $5 million gift is supporting the construction of a new lodge at Moosilauke. Also recognized was classmate George Berry, who made significant reunion gifts before his untimely passing in 2014.

The second impact event, the dedication of the Class of 1966 Bunkhouse at Moosilauke, took place, fittingly, on a cold and blustery afternoon. One hundred sixty-two classmates and widows of classmates donated $519,000 to fund this beautiful timber-framed, four-bedroom, four-season bunkhouse, built with the aid of 4,000 hours of volunteer labor. Bunkhouse advisory committee members Doug Hill, Jim Lustenader and Al Keiller cut the ribbon and, later during reunion, Tom Lipps and Ken Taylor, representing all donors, presented President Hanlon with the ceremonial “key” to the bunkhouse.

The third impact event may be benefiting the Dartmouth football team right now. With captain Tom Clarke, Ed Long, Roger Pezzuti and other members of our record-setting football team looking on, gridiron coach Buddy Teevens and some student tech wizzes demonstrated the latest version of the Dartmouth-invented automated tackling dummy. It’s a patented, full-sized big brother of R2D2 that is the only powered tackling device that simulates a real football player in size, weight and agility. So there’s no man-on-man tackling in practice, which cuts down on injuries while it upgrades skill and technique. Impact, without impact.

Positive reviews for the reunion continue to pour in. Diane and Dr. Harry Greenberg traveled from Stanford, California, where he is senior associate dean for research. “It was great to connect with that many people who I hung with 50 years ago and have basically not seen since,” said Harry. “And even better: Everybody seemed quite together, interesting and,” in an appropriate observation for a medical man, “more or less in good health.”

Jeff Futter, who specializes in natural gas legal matters for Con Edison in New York City and is busy following the sports careers of his three high school daughters, said the reunion was “great—I talked to guys that I really had not spent much time talking to ever before and thoroughly enjoyed it!”

Dr. John Erkklia, a retired orthopedic surgeon from Corvallis, Oregon, now passionate about finding ways to help the homeless, and Ellie “had a wonderful time at the reunion. Even the weather did not dampen or cool our experience. I spent more time with some of my classmates during this reunion than I did in four years at Dartmouth. Our participation in graduation was heartwarming. Seeing those grads always gives me hope for the future.”

Sadly, Jim Hazard, a lawyer from Walnut Creek, California, stricken with Parkinson’s, had hoped to attend our reunion, but the disease kept him at home and took Jim from us on August 19. Our deepest sympathies to Gigi, his wife of 49 years, and his extended family and friends.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

We are caught in a space-time dilemma. As you read this you may still be unpacking from our fabulous 50th reunion that brought 250 or so ’66ers back to campus in early June. And you rightfully expect to be treated here to a vivid account of what went down and who did what. Unfortunately, no can do. Full disclosure: The exigencies of the alumni magazine printing schedule require submission of this column five weeks before reunion. So it’s still April, don’t you know!

Undaunted, we’ll start off with another unique and successful class get-together event—the 66th night of the year. That fell on March 6, but being a flexible and creative lot, celebrations actually occurred from late February to early April. Who’s counting?

Eighty-seven classmates (more than 10 percent of our class) gathered in 17 locations around the country—from hockey-playing Jim Yarmon in Anchorage, Alaska, to Lee Sandler, Jeff Tew, Bill Wilson and Mayor Jim Cason in Coral Gables, Florida. One of the largest contingents was in San Francisco, where Bob Dowrie, Clarke Gentry, Steve Givant, Fred Hoffman, Walt Knoepfel, Bill Ramos, Dave Spring and Hal Stoddard held forth. Best wardrobe? The “1966” letter sweater that Mike Diracles wore at the Minnesota gathering with Peter Dorsen, John LeFevre and Jim Lenfestey.

Budge Gere and wife Anne joined with classmates Tom Brady and Frank Opashar and spouses and Saleh Jabarin in Toledo on 66th night. After more than 40 years serving as a pastor of Presbyterian churches in Michigan, Seattle, St. Louis, Missouri, and then back to Michigan, Budge reports that he has “found something called weekends.” Retirement has given him a chance to be more involved in Dartmouth activities and reconnect with classmates. To wit, Budge is our class representative on the Alumni Council.

Greg Eden has plenty to celebrate—the arrival of his third grandchild, Lucas, and the upcoming weddings this fall of daughters Carlyle and Mariah. Greg continues to be involved in public-private partnerships. He has been selected by Texas A&M to structure and finance a $366-million, 3,400-bed series of student housing facilities on 50 acres next to the Bush library. Go Aggies!

George Emlen was honored in late April in Boston for his 32 years as music director of Revels, a performing arts organization best known for its annual productions of The Christmas Revels. A highlight of the evening was a performance of “Before a Common Soil,” a work for chorus and brass ensemble he composed for the occasion. As George wraps us his tenure with Revels he looks forward to devoting more time to his composing work.

It’s no surprise that Tom Behling’s career has been a well-kept secret. Tom (our sources tell us) has spent 40 years in intelligence work with the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office (which builds and flies our nation’s spy satellites). He also served four years as deputy under-secretary of defense for intelligence (preparation and warning). Now, as executive director of Centra Technologies, Tom reportedly consults with the U.S. Defense Department, the National Defense University and other government entities. Just don’t tell anybody.

Look for reunion news in the class newsletter and right here next time. Enjoy the summer.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Our last column was devoted to classmates who are giving back—and the beat continues.

Scott Cheyne spent Christmas Day as Santa, delivering gifts to 2,500 patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He’s a board member of Santa’s Magic and this was his eighth straight Christmas bringing smiles and presents to patients and veterans at Boston area hospitals.

Scott admits it’s a hardship for his family, but says that they are “totally supportive and the joy we bring (and literally see) to the patients and veterans is well worth the investment.” When the former Hill, Holliday ad exec isn’t impersonating St. Nick, he’s active with committees at the Salem (Massachusetts) Country Club and spends quality time with 8-year-old grandson Jonathan.

Ed Grew has given back by establishing an endowment and a professorship at the school of earth and climate sciences at the University of Maine to continue his legacy of advancement in the field of mineralogy and petrology. Ed, a research scientist, educator and mentor at UMaine since 1984, has done fieldwork throughout the United States, Antarctica, Australia, Germany, India, Tajikistan and Siberia.

In recognition of his outstanding achievements the prominent mineralogical journal The Canadian Mineralogist celebrated Ed’s 70th birthday by dedicating the entire March 2015 issue to his extensive career in mineralogy and petrology. The cover of the journal depicts the crystal structure of the recently discovered mineral edgrewite, named in his honor. (If you are like me, you celebrated your 70th at a fun family buffet.)

One of our class Renaissance men is Dr. Jeff Brown. The Los Gatos, California, geriatric medicine specialist (a good guy for us to know) has been practicing for about 40 years and is currently medical director of a large retirement community. He’s also been a professional artist for 30 years (see jeffcontemporaryoils.com) and the author of a weekly financial column, “Take as Needed,” for 15 years in Physiciansmoneydigest.com.

Mike Bromley, a respected Colorado Springs, Colorado, lawyer, is stepping away, going on inactive status with both the Colorado and Idaho bars. That doesn’t mean Mike will be slowing down, however. He plans to keep skiing, hiking, hunting and spending time with family at his homes in Boise, Breckenridge and Palm Desert. And he and Rebecca, an attorney still engaged in arbitration and mediation, are planning to head East for our 50th.

You know that cliché that things were better in the good old days? Well, when it comes to Dartmouth football, happily back on top now, the good old days were better. Back in 1965 Dartmouth was the undefeated Ivy League champion and Lambert Trophy winner. Remember? To celebrate, a few of the 1966 stalwarts on the record-setting team—Tom Clarke, Jon Colby, Ed Long and George Trumbull—organized a series of events during Homecoming for teammates from the classes of 1966, 1967 and 1968.

Undoubtedly the celebration will continue during our 50th reunion, or, as the Latin scholars might put it, “Reconciliatio L,” now only about three months away. Ibi te pervideat.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

We may be three score and 10 (or 11 or 12), but the class of 1966 creative juices are still flowing.

Japanese historian and translator Bill Wilson’s 18th book (no typo), Walking the Kiso Road, about a 60-mile solo hike on a Japanese road first opened around 700 AD, has just been published. He’s got two more in the pipeline.

Bill has been recognized by the American Literary Translator’s Association as “today’s foremost translator of classic Samurai texts,” and has been called the world’s foremost expert on the warrior’s philosophy of Bushido. The foreign ministry of Japan has honored Bill for spreading knowledge of Japanese culture throughout the world (his books have been translated into 21 languages).

What gives Bill the greatest satisfaction now is watching his 11-year-old middle school son, Henry, master kendo, judo and the cello. “He’s a good kid,” Bill reports.

Bill Schaill has just published his seventh thriller, MacHugh and the Faithless Prince, a 17th-century swashbuckler that Bill says provides “an interesting view of business practices in 17th-century colonial America.”

Lewes, Delaware, resident Steve Hayes, a proud member of the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild, has published his second novel, Missing Letters, a story of addiction and its impact on family members. His first novel, Light on Dark Water, was published three years ago.

Another man of letters, Chuck Faerber, had his fifth play, Zulu Time, based on his two years as a Navy carrier pilot during Vietnam, run for five weeks with wide acclaim at the Hudson Backstage Theater in Los Angeles this past summer.

Our class newsletter co-editor, Bob Cohn, senior consumer marketing director at Bonnier Corp. (Popular Science, Field & Stream, Boating, et. al.), was awarded a prestigious 2015 Silver Apple Award from the Direct Marketing Club of New York for outstanding contributions to the growth and practice of direct, digital and data-driven marketing during a career spanning at least 25 years.

Gerry Paul retired at the end of 2014 from the New York law firm at which he had been a partner after a 43-year career practicing complex business and commercial litigation in New York. Wife Sherri still has paintings accepted for important shows in Manhattan. Now the Pauls can spend more time traveling, and with their family to boot. Witness a recent “wonderful” Alaskan cruise with son Sandy ’95, wife Leslie and their two children and daughter Amy (Penn ’99), husband Jonathan and their son.

“Nearly two years ago,” Gerry confesses, “with encouragement from classmate and former law partner Brad Stein, I joined the planning group for our 50th reunion. I have been tremendously impressed by the superb leadership and tireless efforts of Bob Serenbetz, Al Keiller, Jim Lustenader, Ben Day and others in planning what should be a memorable weekend.”

Gerry, as usual, has it right. And that memorable week is now less than eight months away. Hit the gym and start brushing up on your best Lindy moves.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com

Allan Ryan has a problem. How is he going to fit all of his biographical information into the online fact sheet we have all been asked to fill out before September for the 50th reunion commemorative book? You see, Allan wears many hats.


He has been a lawyer at Harvard for 30 years, the last 15 as director of intellectual property and in-house counsel at Harvard Business School Publishing. He also teaches journalism and government courses at Harvard’s extension and summer schools and a law of war course at Boston College. 


That’s led to his authoring two books, one published in 2012 called Yamashita’s Ghost about a Japanese general convicted of war crimes after WW II (which filmmaker Allan is developing into a PBS documentary soon—stay tuned) and a new tome about U.S. Supreme Court decisions about post-9/11 Guantanamo detainees.


Not to mention that Allan and Nancy have lived in the same house in Norwell, Massachusetts, for 30 years, their two grown children live nearby and that every year he and Nancy go to New Orleans, where Allan had his first post-Dartmouth teaching job. 


Allan’s next job, he says, is “dutifully filling out the exhaustive survey Bob Serenbetz is inflicting on us” and supporting the Class of ’66 Bunkhouse at Moosilauke.


Norm Shaffer earned his M.B.A. from Tuck and went into investment banking, spending the “next 40 years helping companies raise money through private placements of securities to institutional investors” with Goldman Sachs and Bank of Montreal. He retired seven years ago and now Norm and Arline, a practicing psychologist and his wife of 43 years, follow the exploits of daughter Lauren’s two girls; daughter Holly ’03, beginning a postdoc in art history at Dartmouth this fall; and son Chip ’09, an associate at a major New York law firm. He has one other passion; Norm write’s children’s stories, for his grandchildren, of course.


Terry and Vanna Ruggles have been married 48 years, but their Dartmouth ties go back much further than that. Three of Vanna’s Cuddeback relatives, including her dad, a ’28, wore the green. And Terry traces ancestors in Hanover back to the class of 1826. 


Now ostensibly retired for six years, Terry is busy on the board of a community-based TV station in his hometown of Greenfield, Massachusetts, serves on the local historical commission, is passionately fighting to save an historic dam and raising funds for a museum at nearby Deerfield Academy. Real focus, Terry reports, is exercise at the Y and his six grandchildren.


Three Dartmouth couples got a taste of the South Pacific in February. Steve and Barbara Hayes, from Alexandria, Virginia, Jim and Nancy Dorr, and Tim and Toni Urban spent seven glorious days on the Paul Gauguin cruise liner in the Society Islands roundtrip from Tahiti. From the vivid description Tim has provided, which can be found in our class newsletter, it was clear to all three classmates that they were not in Hanover anymore.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


Nine years ago Barry Macado retired from the history faculty at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Since “retiring” as a professor of modern U.S. history, Barry has published a highly regarded book, In Search of a Usable Past: The Marshall Plan and Postwar Reconstruction Today, and lectured at the Washington & Lee Alumni College, including a series on Vietnam.


Now, after 40 years of teaching fourth through sixth grades, Barry’s wife, Anice, has retired, too. The couple celebrated with a trip to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, visiting with Pete and Mary Barber on Cape Cod, classmate Ted Amaral and Bill Engster ’67. They fondly swapped tales about two of the larger-than-life coaches at Dartmouth during our tenure: Doggie Julian and Tony Lupien. The couple then set off on a two-week tour of historical sites (naturally) to Spain and Portugal, where, as New Bedford, Massachusetts-bred Barry says, “the name ‘Machado’ is not unknown by the locals.”


There was an extra measure of green in “colorful Colorado” last May when Rick and Bonnie Reiss proudly watched as their son, Michael ’06, and Elizabeth Right ’04 were married in the Denver Art Museum. Candy and Gene Nattie made the trip from their home in the Green Mountain State to be on hand. “For me,” Rick reports, “being surrounded by a large number of Dartmouth groomsmen and bridesmaids was one of the highlights.”


John Pappenheimer’s new young adult novel, Fast Hands, published by Epicenter Press Inc., the premier publishers of books on Alaska subjects, is now available on Amazon and elsewhere. It’s a coming-of-age tale set in the rough and tumble fishing culture of southeast Alaska. John knows that world well, having spent time working on a fishing boat in Ketchikan.


Congratulations to my class communications compadres Erv Burkholder and Bob Cohn for winning the Dartmouth Class Newsletter Editors of the Year Award for classes 26 years out and older (we certainly qualify!). They have teamed to publish highly polished, information-rich, entertaining newsletters that have helped to build and sustain strong bonds of friendship.


Both started their active participation in the life of the College at Hanover. Erv played football and lacrosse and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Casque & Gauntlet. Bob wrote for the Jacko and worked tirelessly at WDRC. They both received M.B.A.s (Stanford for Erv, Tuck for Bob) and built successful business careers. Erv recently retired as chief financial officer at StreamCenter Inc. Bob is senior consumer marketing director for publisher Bonnier Corp.


As the award citation states: “Your celebration of the class of ’66 community sets the standard for what a class newsletter can do both for any class and for Dartmouth.”


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


Inyo County, California, is larger than the State of New Hampshire and is home to 17,000 people, the highest point in the lower 48 states (Mount Whitney), the lowest point in the United States (Death Valley) and Chris Langley, the county film commissioner, executive director of the Lone Pine Film History Museum, author, filmmaker and president of the Inyo County board of education. That’s all.


Chris has recently been involved with such major productions as Iron Man, Transformers 2 and Disney’s The Lone Ranger and has or is writing books on Mount Whitney and the history of filmmaking in Death Valley and Lone Pine, his home with wife Sandy for the last 41 years. He works closely with his entrepreneurial superintendent of schools to supervise the five local public schools in the county, each of which is unique and reflects its community, as well as 23 small charter high schools the district runs in Los Angeles. “So,” observes Chris, “I don’t have too much time for the links, the beach or the latest thriller quite yet.”


Also still hard at it in California is Nelson Lichtenstein, who remains “happily and fully at work” teaching American history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as occupant of the MacArthur Foundation Chair in History. There he directs the center for the study of work, labor and democracy, which hosts speakers and holds conferences designed to animate the scholarship of a new generation of graduate students and young faculty. 


Nelson’s latest book has already become a must-read in the field. One reviewer said “A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor shows Lichtenstein to be a major public intellectual. Anyone wanting to understand the fate of trade unionism, globalization, worker rights and more will find this book illuminating and necessary.” When not writing, researching or teaching Nelson continues to climb, hike, and play tennis, sports first developed at Dartmouth.


Class Connections chair Chuck Sherman organized a very successful dinner in July with about 80 members of the class of 2016, our 50-year class soulmates, on the theme of “Personal Skills for Professional Success.” The featured speaker was none other than Peter Post, grandson of Emily Post, who gave a spirited presentation on what to do and not do during critical business and social encounters, from dining to interviewing for a job. In addition to the ’16s, the dinner was attended by “mentors” Al Keiller, Paul Klee, Jim Lustenader, John Chapin ’66A and Jennifer Casey ’66A and their spouses.


Remember how you encouraged your kids to study abroad or someplace far away—just so you could go visit them? Wayne and Kathy LoCurto remember. This fall they are spending time visiting their five grandchildren who are now in college, starting with Patrick Lesch, who is a member of the class of ’18 at Dartmouth (is that really possible?). They will then swing by Union, Penn State and Notre Dame. And with seven more grandkids still in high school, there’s no telling where the LoCurtos will end up in the years ahead.


There’s no telling where you are or what you are up to, unless you tell. Pass along the good news and happy upcoming holidays. 


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


After Dartmouth Jeff Tew headed south. At the University of Miami School of Law he was on the law review, graduated cum laude in 1969 and has been a trial lawyer in Florida ever since. For more than 40 years Jeff has been representing clients in securities, corporate governance, white-collar criminal, business and trademark litigation. Much of his career was at Tew Cardenas, and when that firm closed its doors Jeff moved as a partner to Rennert Vogel Mandler & Rodriguez on April 1. 


Jeff lectures frequently on litigation topics and is a member of the American Bar Association Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities and Subcommittee on Civil Litigation and SEC Enforcement Matters. He is also chairman of the Miami Rescue Mission, an $18-million nonprofit that provides housing and educational services to homeless men, women and children. One of their most important and popular facilities: the Jeffrey A. Tew Education Center.


March 7 this year was the class of 1966’s own special holiday—’66 Dartmouth Nights—somewhat akin to Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts and Maine, San Jacinto Day in Texas and King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii. It was the, you guessed it, 66th day of the year and classmates gathered to celebrate.


In the homeland, Hanover, Paul Klee, Margo and Paul Doscher, Chuck Sherman, Linda and Bob Spence, Teresa and Robin Carpenter, Susan and Gus Southworth, Susan and Lewis Greenstein, Judy and Stan Colla, Petie and Dick Birnie, Jo and Al Keiller, Ann and Ted Thompson, and Michael and Jennifer Casey ’66a gathered for drinks and dinner at the Canoe Club, hosted by owner by John Chapin ’66a. (Which raises the question—does half the class still actually live on campus?)


At Zelda’s Café in Newport, Rhode Island, Cynthia and John Pearson, Ed Long and Evelyn Rhodes and Sue and Jon Colby got together while Myra and Hector Motroni, Kathy and Wayne La Curto, and Isabel and Halsey Bullen broke bread in Westport, Connecticut. 


They almost had a minyan at Liberty Tavern in Arlington, Virginia, with Jack Bennett, Doug Greenwood, Steve Hayes, Wayne Hill, Geoff Keane, Ken Meyercord, John Rollins and Jim Weiskopf, even counting the call in from Ben Day. 


Down in much milder Vero Beach, Florida, Jane and Bill Higgins, Jaren and Bob Serenbetz, and Ann and Steve Warhover marked the historic occasion together for the second straight year. Bill reports that his two children have produced six grandkids, two in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Bill and Jane have always lived, and four in Rye, New York. To keep fit, Bill still plays some competitive bridge “to try to keep my mind in a semblance of working order, and it seems to have done the trick so far.”


It is with sadness that we report the passing of Jim Carroll last year in his hometown of Ithaca, New York, where he practiced law for more than 35 years. Our sympathies to Jim’s brother Tim and his family and friends. A more complete obituary can be found in the online version of this magazine.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


Jack Stebe thinks that Type A personalities can actually enjoy a retirement that is “full and eventful, but not chaotic—not competitive…by design.” The secret may be to “Learn to be Still,” per the Eagles. “Tough job,” Jack admits, “but I’m working on it.”


How? Well Jack and Nancy are moving from Tucson, Arizona, to the Boston area, making the eastern trek by meandering on the blue line roads through the great American middle in an RV. The couple will still make frequent visits to their four sons and three grandkids spread out from New Mexico to New England. Jack is also doing Rotary volunteer work, flying sailplanes and traveling to “bucket list” spots such as Disney and Hawaii with the family. Sounds like a plan!


In Scottsdale, Arizona, where his wife is a hospital executive, Dick Sheaff has another take on retirement, which he “officially” committed to last year after a productive career in graphic and publication design. How productive? Dick designed or art-directed more than 500 U.S. postage stamps. So what’s retirement like? Dick set up a non-commercial Web site—www.sheaff-ephemera.com—“a place for show-and-tell, wondering aloud and wandering the trails of curiosity.” It’s kept retired Dick busy, as have his interests in rocks and minerals, lapidary and silversmithing.


Bob Spence, our hardworking head agent, retired eight years ago. He was having a new septic tank installed at the time and, quite poetically, we think, likened retirement to being “flushed out of the house into a holding tank pending final disposition.” As we can see from reports by classmates, Bob observes now, “It’s amazing how busy holding tanks can become!” 


For Bob it’s been taking care of parents, helping manage his church, working with the United Way of New Canaan, Connecticut, the senior men’s club and, of course, Dartmouth. Plus there’s visiting family on both coasts. Any spare time? “Doing what my wife, Linda, tells me.” Our head agent is an honest man!


So Steve Shipps now knows what to expect when he retires in three years from his post as associate professor at Emerson College, where he has taught about “art in various ways and from various vantages” since 1971. Along the way Steve has won fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, published a popular book titled (Re)Thinking ‘Art’ and has served as chair of the education committee of the College Art Association. Just wait till Steve retires and has more time to do more!


After 23 years Steve Warhover has retired as president and CEO of Gorton’s, the leading frozen seafood brand. Love those fried shrimp, huh. Did you know they also supply McDonalds with the Filet-O-Fish. Not bad. Steve will continue on the board of directors of Gorton’s and other companies they own. “Mixed feelings but it was time,” Steve says. Now he can spend more time with grandkids, including Sawyer, born in April.


Got something to do? Give it to a busy guy. Tom Brady, who runs Plastic Technologies Inc., just accepted an offer to become interim dean for the college of education at the University of Toledo. UT, by the way, is the third largest university in Ohio. Here’s a coincidence: Tom’s grandfather, Dr. Jesse Ward, actually founded the college of cducation at UT in the 1920s. Tom is characteristically enthusiastic. “This will be a new experience and a big change from running a business, but I am excited about it. And I thought I was going to able to spend more time restoring classic cars this summer!”


For Tom and many classmates, retirement can wait a bit longer.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; lgeiger@aol.com


The class celebrated our, wait for it, 65th birthday in grand style in the great Southwest in late May. Jim Lustenader and his posse, also known as the Birthday Party Committee consisting of Roger Brett, Mike Bromley, Ben Day, Jeff Futter and John Rollins, planned an action-packed smooth-running three-day affair in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that attracted 34 classmates and an equal number of family members. 


There were spectacular hikes at Bandelier National Monument, challenging golf, culture from Georgia O’Keeffe to Los Alamos and ample opportunity to raise a toast to warm memories and bright futures. Word is 67 bottles of wine contributed to the success of the actual b-day party itself at Rio Chama Steakhouse. 


Among many highlights—Wally Buschmann leading the singing of the alma mater, Joff Keane’s moving tribute to our friends and classmates who sacrificed during the Vietnam War and a visit by Eric Treisman’s son Zack. Eric, a local resident and a major planner of the event, died suddenly in early May. For a full report and photos check out Bob Serenbetz’s terrific August 2008 newsletter on our class Web site, www.dartmouth.org/classes/66.


Many classmates are still hard at it. 


Dave Coughlin lives and practices civil law in Baker City, a small town of about 10,000 in northeast Oregon. Dave’s wife, Lisa, has retired after 29 years teaching in local public schools and daughter Jennifer is in the family business, practicing law in Bend, Oregon. Dave remains active, or super active, what with rowing the Grand Canyon, heli-skiing in Canada and Alaska and riding and racing bicycles. 


David Johnston is in his eighth year at Casey Family Services in New Haven, Connecticut, working with foster youth throughout New England. Daughter Rebekah teaches second grade in the Bronx, daughter Mariah is heading to med school, son Isaac is a junior at Guilford College and wife Hera conducts a part-time psychiatric practice.


“I have lived a smorgasbord of a life.” Leave it to writer Jeff Stein to sum things up so succinctly, so well. After graduate work at Stanford and a stint “ski-bumming,” Jeff spent 20 years in Hollywood and 20-plus more in Tennessee writing, lecturing and teaching as an adjunct at Tennessee State, Watkins College of Art and Design Film School and Vanderbilt. Last June he taught directing for the screen to seniors at Governor’s School for the Arts.


“It just all seems surreal,” Jeff confesses at the swift passage of time. His grandest achievement? Twenty-two years of marriage to Brenda, a wood-turning artist, and raising his two daughters, one of whom is a Dartmouth ’11 and will graduate during our 45th reunion.


Okay. Howie Weiner is a ’66 and darn proud of it. An article in this prestigious magazine earlier this year had his class wrong, but everything else right. Dr. Weiner is a physician specializing in chronic neurologic disease, is Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, does direct the Partners MS Center at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and is director and producer of a documentary What Is Life? The Movie. Now that’s settled.


A group of Phi Delts were in Boston in May to cheer on their brother and friend Pete Barber when he was inducted into Wearers of the Green. Jane and Albie Macdonald hosted a gathering at their home in Winchester, Massachusetts, where Pete and wife Mary and son Chris, Neil Castaldo and wife Molly, Charlie Stuart, Barry Machado and Ted Amaral had time to reminisce.


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—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; lgeiger@aol.com


There’s so much news. We live such busy lives. It’s so easy to quickly forget that the headline of the moment often has consequences for months and years to come.


Remember the Haitian earthquake? Bob Page will never forget it. As the co-founder of San Francisco-based DPK Consulting, which helps build judicial systems in developing countries, he and two colleagues were in a meeting with local lawyers in Port-au-Prince on January 12. Just before 5 p.m., Bob recalled, there was shaking and roar “like a train coming right through your living room.” The building they were in miraculously remained standing. Those on either side did not.


Bob’s group made their way through a huge cloud of dust past the chaos of the destroyed city to their hotel, the Montana, which was a pile of concrete slabs. They spent a sleepless night on a lawn near the hotel and, next morning Bob grabbed an ax and in best tradition of a Vermont-bred woodsman began chopping fallen trees in his suit and tie. Later he would help relief workers haul the injured from the hotel rubble on makeshift stretchers made out of hotel doors.


Bob and his team left Haiti when they could by driving to Santo Domingo. “We were not relief workers,” Bob explains. “We didn’t have the tools or the means to help.” 


But DPK is back in Haiti now. “We are working hard,” Bob reports, “to try to help our counterparts in the courts and the ministry of justice get back on their feet through short-term recovery (tents, containers, supplies) and longer-term strategies for the justice system. We shall see, as it was a huge challenge before the earthquake. Now it is almost overwhelming.” (To help Haiti, click on the Haiti button on the Dartmouth College homepage.)


Retirement used to mean not doing much of anything. Now it more likely refers to switching what we’re doing, maybe making less money and maybe having more fun.


Take Bill Hayden. After 30 years in the Navy—“I can’t believe they actually paid me to fly fighter jets off aircraft carriers”—he retired in 1996 as a one-star admiral in charge of all aviation training for the Navy, Marine and Coast Guard. What a job! Bill stayed with what he knew and loved, spending the next 12 years teaching systems, tactics and survival in F-14 and F/A-18 simulators at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia.


To encourage more American kids to get into engineering Bill founded a nonprofit to fund a science program called STARBASE for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders in a local school system, so they can get an up-close and personal look at science. The program won a statewide award in Virginia.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; lgeiger@aol.com


Joe Barker is the very model of a modern 21st-century gentleman. He’s built a successful real estate business in Nashville, Tennessee. Very mid-19th-century you might say. And he’s founded a software company and is taking it public. Very late 20th-century. But the kicker is, while Joe and wife Judy went off this spring on a seven-week trip that started in Bangkok and wound its way through Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Southern China and Vietnam, he was in constant touch with his business interests and partners around the world. Very 21st-century, 10 years in. “My office is wherever I am,” Joe explains. “My computer is my Blackberry and my window to the world beyond my immediate environment.” 


Another classmate still on the cutting edge is Dean Anderson, who co-founded a venture in 2004 that is now SunLink Corp., the leader in designing systems for placing solar electricity arrays on flat roofs and flat ground. (How did he know?) Dean is director of market development. “As long as I have enough energy I will want to stay involved.” Dean reports. Dean is also continuing to recover from a leg injury received while kiteboarding in 2003, and after 10 operations and a self-designed rehabilitation program he’s well enough to race his 14-foot trimaran sailboat on San Francisco Bay most weekends.


Bob Watson spent three years in the Army before graduating with the class of 1969. He went on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. in geography at Penn State where he met and married his wife, Mary, a New Zealander, in 1972. They moved to Wellington, New Zealand, for two years and they’ve been there ever since. Bob worked in the auditing and computer systems areas for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Housing Corp. of New Zealand and the Bank of New Zealand. Now retired, he’s working with small nonprofits and hiking in New Zealand and Australia.


Parker Smith is still practicing trial law in state and federal courts in Florida, “now for 40-plus years, trying to get it right.” Parker and Gayle have been raising their 6-year-old granddaughter Jordyn for almost four years. “A challenge,” Parker admits, “especially at my age.” (Parker doesn’t seem old to the rest of us, does he?)


Peter Dorsen, still an avid cross-country skier, is about to begin teaching two courses at the Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Pete is enjoying life with Dinah, his Kenyan wife, and two of her children. (There’s a sitcom plot somewhere in there!)


New grandfathers: Class president Chuck Sherman welcomed Freya Grace Webb in April, born to daughter Emily and husband Vince in Virginia. Of course Chuck made the trip from Vermont into a mini-reunion opportunity, visiting Jim Weiskopf, John Rollins, Ben Day and ’67 Bob Burka, who graduated in 66, along the way. Stan Colla’s new grandson Blake, also born in April, may have already matriculated with the class of 1932. Blake’s dad, Geoffrey, is an ’04, mom Carrie an ’01, both granddads are graduates, as are four more aunts and uncles. And, oh yes, his great-grandfather was in the class of 1932.


Dates to save: fall mini-reunion October 29-31 in Hanover and 45th reunion (not a typo) October 14-17, 2011, while classes are in session in Hanover. More on the info-packed class website.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; lgeiger@aol.com


Peter Dorsen kindly reminded me that he will turn 70 this year in May. And he’s not the only one! Just about all of us are, or will be, three score and ten before the next Rose Bowl Game.


Seventy—that used to sound pretty old, but from the way many classmates are carrying on, 70 could be the new 50. I offer three examples.


Take Steve Coles. Yes, after overseas positions at universities in Saudi Arabia and Oman and 15 years as a marine biologist at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii he claims to be “semi-retired.” You decide: He’s still managing or participating in biological surveys in O’ahu and Guam and currently he’s assessing the impact of a recent spill of 240,000 gallons of molasses in Honolulu Harbor.


“This is quite a challenge physically,” Steve reports, “requiring up to six hours of diving daily in very turbid water, but I’m happy to say that that this near septuagenarian has been able to keep up with the 30-year-olds in our crew!” For a change of pace Steve heads east to the Rockies for Tim Urban’s ski mini-reunions in Winter Park, Colorado. He and Renuka, married 42 years, have two children and three young grandkids.


Then there’s Harry Greenberg, who has been a faculty member at Stanford University School of Medicine for the past 31 years and by his own admission “continues to lead a full-time, pretty busy academic life.” Harry is a researcher and the senior associate dean of research at the medical school. Harry and Diane, a trust and estates attorney, have been married for 46 years and, when they can get away, it’s not for a week on the beach. In recent years they have trekked in the Himalayas, Andes and Sierras and have adventures planned at Denali, the Atacama Desert and the Altiplano in northern Chile. They also have two grown daughters who live nearby and have the joy of their first grandchild, born in February. 


And now for Peter Dorsen. Pete coaches a local Minneapolis ski team and competes with great success in his age group at the North American Birkebeiner ski races. He’s looking for a part-time job as a chemical dependency counselor, but if nothing comes up he will celebrate his 70th birthday by hiking the 273-mile Superior Hiking Trail from Canada to Duluth, Minnesota. The best part is that he’ll invite us, all his 70-year-old friends, to join him for part or all of the jaunt.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


Dr. Jeff Brown, a board-certified family practitioner, has been writing about some flaws in medical training for years in his column in physiciansmoneydigest.com. So it’s no surprise that he was asked to lead a consulting team from Stanford Business School that is analyzing and proposing a restructuring of the Stanford Medical School.


Jeff also has been on the board of the Silicon Valley Dartmouth Alumni Club, which ran 181 events (no typo) last year to win the College’s Large Club of the Year Award (for the third time!).


Scott Cheyne, who spent 32 years at the respected Boston ad agency Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, now lends his expertise to the board of governors of Salem Country Club in Peabody, Massachusetts, and spends time with 6-year-old grandson Jonathan, presumably working on his short game.


During Memorial Day Jim Cason participated in the second Paraguayan Talent Show in Miami. He sang three songs in Guarani, the Indian language spoken by most Paraguayans. One, “Campo Jurado,” he wrote himself. You can listen to it on iTunes, with the proceeds going to teach English to poor but high-achieving Paraguayan kids. 


Bob Cohn, senior consumer marketing director for Bonnier Corp. and ace co-class newsletter editor with Erv Burkholder, won the 2013 Lee C. Williams Award from the Fulfillment Management Association. The award is for “outstanding contribution to the periodical publishing circulation field through a long-time, recognizable career.” For the past six years Bob, who has been in the magazine circulation business for nearly 40 years, directs all marketing functions for Popular Science, Popular Photography and Field & Stream, among other brands.


Longevity? Alan Rottenberg has been with the Boston law firm of Goulston & Storrs for 44 years. And he’s still got what it takes, having been named to the 2013 list of “America’s Leading Business Lawyers” by Chambers USA—for the 10th time.


Alan also hosted a mini-reunion lunch in May, organized by class president Al Keiller, for 25 ’66s in a conference room overlooking Boston Harbor. Attendees, coming from as close as around the corner and as far as California, included Ted Amaral, Pete Barber, Mark Blanchard, Bob Cowden, David Cross, Paul Doscher, Jim Everett, Jeff Gilbert, Don Glazer, David Godine, Larry Goss, David Johnston, Gary Jefferson, Terry Lowd, Albie MacDonald, Greg McGregor, Mike McConnell, Pat Norton, Ken Reiber, Barry Ripley, Allan Ryan, Chuck Sherman and Bill Todd.


Also on hand was David Johnston, who traveled from Hartford, Connecticut. David retired from the Casey Foundation in 2011, where he helped foster youth advance their “life skills learning.” Of course, he finds himself busier than ever working now to help challenged youth stay in school as director of the Center for Higher Education Retention, which aims to reduce the dropout rate and help more kids benefit from higher education. David’s wife of 44 years, Hera, is a practicing psychiatrist, and their four kids, scattered from med school at UConn to the Amazon basin, are doing fine.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


Jeremy Reitman is justifiably proud of his children. Daughter Alexandra ’98 is a city planner in the mayor’s office in London and son Daniel is a screenwriter in Montreal. Jeremy modestly reports that he is “still working in the ladies apparel retail business.” That’s true. Jeremy is chairman and CEO of Reitman’s, Canada’s leading specialty retailer with 925 stores and more than $1 billion in sales each year.


Steve Hayes has published his first novel, Light on Dark Water, a story about coming to terms with the interplay of loss and grace that is the essence of life itself. “The book is clearly a work of fiction,” says Hayes, “but the story is drawn heavily from my time in Vietnam and my days sailing on the Chesapeake and the Atlantic.” Steve grew up sailing and served in Vietnam as a naval officer for two years. The book is published by iUniverse Inc. and can be purchased through iUniverse.com and at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.


Philosophy major Tripp Miller has had a storybook business career—Swiss pharmas, McKinsey, venture capital, McGraw Hill. Now he and his wife, Jeanette, are running the oldest and largest rug/textile collecting society in the United States (Hajji Baba) as volunteers. A recent photo shows Tripp in front of an early 19th-century textile woven in Bukhara (Uzbekistan) that, he explains, represents a Silk Road convergence of 17th-century Mughal India designs and Chinese silk embroidery techniques. “That is a lot of history in a single work of art.”


Here’s the latest (as of June 28) on the search for the next Dartmouth president, as reported by our own Jeff Futter, who was one of about 35 alumni who shared their views with, and heard from, the presidential search committee in New York City this morning. There’s already a list of 300 to 400 candidates. The committee will interview about 20 candidates. Target date: end of this year but no later than July 1, 2013. Alumni felt that whoever’s selected needs a vision for Dartmouth but need not be a Dartmouth grad or a teacher. (President Kim worked out pretty well). Other qualities: leadership, judgment and experience in managing large institutions. My addition? Humility and a good sense of humor.


We’re lucky that Jeff could make the meeting. In early January 2011 he was involved in a terrible car crash when he skidded on black ice into a tree. It’s only in the last three months that he has rounded back to his old energetic and athletic self. Which is great to see. Jeff’s still lawyering full time for Con Edison and playing plenty of tennis. And he and wife Susie are always on the go with three daughters (13 and 11-year-old twins) involved with multiple sports around their Long Island home.


Jeff also mentioned that he’ll be attending his 50th high school reunion this fall in Port Washington, New York. Rick Reiss and I will reunite with our Harrison (New York) High classmates. Chances are many of us will be raising a glass with old friends and old flames. And dancing to some great rock and roll. Enjoy.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


It’s our time for 50th high school reunions, a good warm-up for the big 66th 50th in 2016.


Fifteen ’66ers came to Hanover 50 years ago from Deerfield (Massachusetts) Academy and five of them—Bill Duval, Ed Larner, Barry Ripley, Terry Ruggles and Bob Serenbetz—joined about 35 other Deerfield ’62s for their reunion in June. 


Terry, who was the bedrock of WDRC back in the day, stayed in the media business—radio, advertising, print—one way or another for 45 years. He was an ad agency account man for a spell and was in print sales with a variety of firms. He retired three years ago and like many ’66ers finds himself busier than ever in his hometown of Greenfield, Massachusetts. He’s on two boards of directors, one town commission, is active at the local Y and volunteers at the local library. 


Chuck Sherman, not surprisingly, organized his 50th high school reunion at Washburn High School in Minneapolis and enjoyed the three-day gathering along with Arne Rovick, who either volunteered or lost a bet and is his high school class’s president-for-life. My freshman year roommate, Fred Rosenblatt, was also a member of that Washburn graduating class.


Break out your aches and pains. Here are two items on orthopedic surgeons! After practicing as an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years, Dr. Russ Sabrin retired in early 2011. He keeps his hand in though, quite literally, as a part-time surgical assistant for his partners averaging two to three joint replacements a week. Russ and Carole, his wife of 38 years, have found time to travel, visiting as many national parks as possible. Hanover for our 50th is also on their itinerary.


Small world department: Bob Serenbetz and wife Karen were on a cruise going through the Panama Canal last winter. They were joined at dinner by another couple and a single guy. After a few minutes of chat—age, college, etc.—Bob realized he knew this fellow. “Are you Rick Worland?” he asked. He was, indeed. The same Rick Worland, now a retired orthopedic surgeon and knee replacement specialist, who performed two surgeries on our co-newsletter editor Erv Burkholder and who has held clinics around the world.


It is with deep regret that we report that Bill Rutledge passed away on June 30 in Boca Raton, Florida. He is survived by his loving and courageous wife of 42 years, Frankie, daughter Dr. Anne Michele Rutledge ’95 and grandsons Gray and Knox. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to Bill’s family and friends.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


Toni and Tim Urban celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary in December. “How did time fly by so quickly?” he wonders. (Don’t we all?) They celebrated at 50th high school reunions—Tim’s from Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, and Toni’s in Atlanta, followed by a road trip that included Chapel Hill, North Carolina (where they met), Washington, D.C. (where they visited children and grandchildren), and, of course, Hanover.


Back home in Des Moines Tim is busy as board chair of a factory process software company, manages real estate investments and serves on the boards of the Blank Park Zoo, Homes of Oakridge and Iowa Capital Investment Corp. Toni runs a gift and stationery store, just completed six years as chair of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission and is moving on to the Des Moines Art Center board of trustees.


The Urbans also took part in the second annual class of 1966 golf mini-reunion in Tucson, Arizona, in early February along with golfers Jeff Gilbert, Al Keiller, Rick MacMillian, Bob Serenbetz, Steve Smith and Ken Zuhr. In addition to two highly competitive rounds, the group enjoyed a congenial evening at Mary and Rich Daley’s home and some cardio hiking led by Anne and Noel Fidel. 


Two of our classmates now have children teaching at Dartmouth. Mark Blanchard’s daughter Emily, an expert on trade policy, joined Tuck as an assistant professor last fall after winning an All-University Teaching Award during her seven years at the University of Virginia. George Trumbull’s son George R. Trumbull IV has been an associate professor of history at the College since 2008 focusing on politics and religion in North Africa.


Wayne LoCurto maybe our first classmate with a Dartmouth grandson. Patrick will be a member of the class of, ready for this, 2018. How can that be? Wayne’s son Brendan is the class of 1989 and his daughter Susan and son-in-law Geoffrey Willison, are ’95s. Is Wayne happy? “I am over the moon!” 


“I can’t imagine retiring,” confesses Bill Wilson, “because I’m lucky enough to be doing what I love best: translating Japanese and classical Chinese literature and playing around with traditional Oriental culture.” Bill’s 15th book, The One Taste of Truth, which he described as “a little book on tea and Zen,” came out in January. This fall he’s hiking 60 miles through the Japanese Central Alps for a travelogue on backcountry Japan. Four of his earlier works are being made into graphic novels. And Bill’s 9-year-old son Henry is now in third grade and is, not surprisingly, a practitioner of kendo, Japanese fencing, and is steadily moving up the ranks.


Bill Ramos has been selected wing commander of the Southern Nevada Wing of Angel Flight West, which provides air transportation to needy patients, family members and wounded/returning vets and blood products and organs for transplant to medical facilities. He has served as a volunteer pilot since 2003 and has completed 64 missions. Bill has even flown a couple of missions with retired Navy pilot and classmate Nick Steffen.


What’s your latest adventure?


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


There are a number of power couples around—Bill and Hillary, Brad and Angelina, Kermit and Miss Piggy. But out in Wyoming the dynamic duo is Hank and Leslie. 


Hank Phibbs, a native of Casper, took his Hastings College of Law degree from San Francisco back to Teton County in 1972 and has been there ever since. With a civil law practice representing small businesses, ranchers, homeowners associations and the Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust, Hank’s been up to his boot tops in community growth and conservation issues. Right now he’s in his second term as an elected county commissioner. 


Hank’s wife, Leslie Peterson, served as a county commissioner herself in the 1980s and has been a member of the Wyoming Water Development Commission and served on numerous environmental groups. In early 2009 Leslie was elected chair of the Wyoming Democratic Party, stepping down a year later to run for governor. She got caught in the strong Republican tide last November.


Married for 35 years, Hank and Leslie have two sons, Travis, who lives in Jackson with wife Kristi, and Monte, over the mountains in Colorado. They have also been something of a magnet for other ’66s. Ken Taylor and his wife, Caroline, have been out “in the valley” since the early 1990s, spending winters and summers skiing, fly-fishing and golfing with family and friends.


Jeff and Penny Gilbert, still based on the New Hampshire seacoast, also spend about three months a year in the Jackson Hole area “hiking, biking and chasing trout.” Back in the Granite State Jeff, who already has had successful careers as a business lawyer and an investment banker, is a principle in W.J.P. Development, which owns and manages community shopping centers. He also served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives for five years and is currently treasurer of the port advisory council, a member of the housing and conservation planning advisory board and the state park system advisory council. 


What else? Well, Jeff is president of the board of trustees of the Housing Partnership, a local organization providing affordable and workforce housing in the seacoast region; treasurer of the board of trustees of Strawbery Banke Museum; and a member of the board of the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance and a trustee of New Hampshire Public Television. No wonder he needs to get away once in a while!


Also out west, Alan Anderson hosted his 66th birthday party at San Francisco’s Bohemian Club last October. He invited the immortal Fred Parris of the Five Satins. Freddy didn’t make it, but classmates and Chi Phi brothers Wally Buschmann, Dick Sheaff, Kevin Trainor and Bob Wilson reportedly offered their own crowd-pleasing rendition of “In the Still of the Night.”


If you haven’t yet voted in our 1966 Alumni Council election for either Jon Colby or John Rollins, who have graciously tossed their hats in the ring, you may still have time. Polls close May 1. You can vote online at the class website: www.dartmouth.org/classes/66. That’s also where you can learn all about our fabulous 45th reunion, October 13 thru 17, at the College, during the school year, when the foliage should be gorgeous!


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


The Census Bureau classifies Lone Pine, California, as a “frontier” area. Really. The hamlet, with about 2,500 people, sits in the shadow of towering Mount Whitney in Inyo County. At 10,000-plus square miles, Inyo is bigger than the State of New Hampshire with fewer folks than live in the Upper Valley around Dartmouth. Frontier it is. 


So you could say that Chris and Sandy Langley have been modern pioneers. They raised their two sons and taught in Lone Pine for 29 years. They prepped for that experience with a post-college Peace Corps tour teaching English to Baluchi kids in Iran, and followed that up with three years in a two-room school in New Idria Mining Camp in coastal California mountains. On today’s frontier.


Chris taught history using primary sources from UCLA and the Library of Congress, then was a Fulbright fellow in Japan. Since he “retired” 10 years ago he has been executive director of the Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film History, serving as film historian and creating the exhibits that tell the film history of Lone Pine, Death Valley and the Eastern Sierras. Chris is also county film commissioner, no small task since the unique and grand landscape is a mecca for moviemakers, with Iron Man, G.I. Joe and Transformers 2 just a few of the recent features shot in Inyo. Most recently Chris has been working with Quentin Tarantino on his latest film, Django Unchained. Watch for it. 


Sandy and Chris recently finished a cross-country trip. Their two sons are well, as are their three granddaughters. “Life is good,” Chris says, “and retirement is a blast!”


Another classmate always out on the frontiers of technology and public service is Tom Brady. Tom, one of our class’ most successful entrepreneurs, was recently cited in Dartmouth Engineer, the Thayer School of Engineering alumni magazine, for his professional success, community leadership and philanthropy. 


He founded Plastic Technologies Inc. (PTI) in 1985 in Toledo, Ohio, when he was VP and director of technology for Owens-Illinois Inc. PTI was started to develop innovative soft drink packaging for Coca-Cola bottlers, and it did. Today it is recognized as one of the leading technological development companies for the soft drink and plastic industries. Tom still serves as CEO and chairman of PTI, which has nearly 200 employees worldwide with offices and labs in Ohio and Geneva. 


Tom has also been a leader in northwest Ohio. Most recently, he helped manage the merger of the University of Toledo (UT) College of Education with the College of Health Science and Human Service to create a new Judith Herb College of Education, Health Science and Human Service. He sits on the Ohio governor’s third frontier advisory board, and serves on the boards of the Regional Growth Partnership, the Toledo Symphony and UT’s Innovation Enterprise Corp., among many others.


Our sympathy to the friends and families of Charles Reichart and Tom Wargo, who passed away in the second half of 2011.


May 2012 find all ’66ers and their loved ones in good health and fine spirits.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


The class of 1966 has no shortage of noteworthy accomplishments and unique adventures. Read on.


Have you had a new mineral named after you? Ed Grew has had two—edgrewite and hydroxyledgrewite. Russian mineralogists named them after their friend and collaborator, a research professor at the University of Maine’s School of Earth and Climate Sciences. It’s “a lifelong dream come true,” says Grew, whose research focuses on rare minerals containing boron and beryllium and who has been involved in the discovery and characterization of 13 new minerals. 


Ever climb Maine’s mile-high Mount Katahdin in winter? Lance Tapley has. After an unsuccessful attempt in 2012 Lance and three buddies made it to the top in February this year. “Summiting Katahdin depends on the weather,” Lance explains. “It was so nice we were back in the bunkhouse by 1 p.m. for lunch.”


Do you run a city? Jim Cason does. He was recently re-elected mayor of Coral Gables, Florida, with 71 percent of the vote. “We won,” Mayor Cason says, “by walking to more than 23,000 homes in a very grassroots campaign.” His successful first term, skills and experiences gained during his U.S. Foreign Service career, most recently as ambassador to Paraguay, and Jim’s affability and dedication may also have helped. 


How much art have you donated to the Hood Museum? There are nearly 100 pieces in “The Women of Shin Hanga: The Judith and Joseph Barker Collection of Japanese Prints” at the Hood that showcases two centuries of Japanese print designers’ engagement with female subjects. The exhibition will focus primarily on depictions of women that were created by the leading artists of the shin hanga (new print) movement of the early 20th century. The gift from the Barkers represents the single largest contribution to the Hood’s Japanese art holdings. 


Joe’s interest in shin hanga prints was inspired in part by his early discovery of Japanese printmaking traditions while at Dartmouth. “Judy and I hope that visitors to the Hood will discover in these works the same meticulous artistry and breathtaking beauty that has captivated us for so many years,” he says.


Been to Cuba lately? Marty Adler has. He spent two weeks there last November and came away “with enormous admiration for the Cuban people for retaining their humanity and a modicum of humor and joy after 54 years of sailing on a police-run ship of state.” He summarized his visit this way: “Hopeless state-run agencies with no interest in customer service, precariously balanced by the humanity and generosity of individual Cubanos who would warmly respond to an inquiry, a joke or a request.”


Studied in Italy recently? Jan and Bob Baldwin have. They spent six months living and taking history and literature courses, based first at Acitrezza between Taormina and Catania in Sicily and then at Urbino in east central Italy. Sharon and Larry Goss dropped by to view Mount Etna and visit some of the classic Greek architecture and Roman mosaics.


And you?


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


Back East, Ladd Jeffers, who retired from institutional stock trading in 2003 at Neuberger Berman in New York City, has two passions—singing and not smoking. “I do a lot of singing (baritone) mostly classical and sacred,” reports the Long Island Choral Society board member. “It’s a joy, especially now that I’m 10 years free of smoking, thanks to a terrific, little-known 12-step group called Nicotine Anonymous.” Another joy: Ladd’s “fabulous” daughter and two grandsons.


Tom Vosteen credits fellow French linguist Peter Cleaves with getting him interested in interpreting for the U.S. State Department, something Tom did under contract on and off for 25 years. “I finally came to my senses,” Tom confesses, “and got tenured and promoted to full professor of French at Eastern Michigan University. Retirement?” Tom adds. “Not yet.”


Steve Smith places himself and wife Jean in the semi-retired category since both are founding board members of a land trust they established in 1999 to preserve open space and natural areas in southwest Michigan. Steve now serves as president and a board colleague told him, “You didn’t retire, you just work for no pay.”


George Trumbull retired (“for the third time and I think the last time”) last November when Goldman Sachs Private Equity Fund bought the company George ran as CEO. He now has more time to travel, especially to Hanover, where George’s son is a professor of history, a faculty rep on the athletic council and the Beta house advisor.


This item about Don Reis points to globalization of, well, of our class! Don spent the last year teaching seventh- and eighth-grade science at the International School of the Gothenburg Region in Sweden, where wife Lin worked with students with special learning needs. They got the job through friends from their days in Bucharest, Romania. Don is even more excited about his daughter Ai, who married Ivan Collazo, an American man she met working in Japan, and they now have twin boys with the very classic names of Julius and Gaius. Don and Lin now have four grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. “Scary,” he says.


Dozens of classmates gathered in 66th Night activities in and around March 7. Jon Colby and Wayne LoCurto met on top of Vermont’s Okemo Mountain. Eighteen members of the Upper Valley gang, including Dick Birnie, Richard Blacklow, Robin Carpenter, Neil Castaldo, Paul Doscher, Bill Malcolm, Bill Risso and our ubiquitous class president Chuck Sherman, broke bread at the Canoe Club in Hanover. Bob Cohn, Andy Seidman and your correspondent slipped out for lunch in Murray Hill, N.Y.C. Two separate events in Washington, D.C., attracted Jack Bennett, Joff Keane, Ken Meyercord and Jim Weiskopf. And in California Pete Barber and 66th coordinator Roger Brett guaranteed future success at the No Fail Café in Emeryville.


All this is prelude to our 45th reunion this October 14-17. We’ll have President Kim, our own Dean Thaddeus Seymour and fall in Hanover with classes in session. Sign up now. More on the info packed class website—www.dartmouth.org/classes/66.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com


One hundred thirty-one classmates and 101 spouses and guests attended the class of 1966 45th reunion in Hanover on October 13-16. It was a weekend packed with old friends, fond memories and good times, leavened with the excitement of seeing revitalized Dartmouth, in session, and moving smartly ahead.


Selected highlights (food first): Chow and overnight at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. Official reunion dinner at Dowd’s Country Inn in Lyme, New Hampshire. Buffet barbeque at the Dartmouth Skiway. A hike and lunch at the new, but already legendary, Class of 1966 Lodge.


Honored guest dean Thad Seymour, back on campus with wife Peggy, discussing student life with undergraduate leaders and pounding the gavel at a live auction that raised $10,000 for the class scholarship fund. 


Classmate Howard Weiner’s movie, What is Life?


The Revs. Budge Gere and Brad Laycock leading a stirring memorial service for our 79 deceased classmates at Rollins Chapel.


Our retiring and award-winning class president Chuck Sherman presenting a check for our collective past-year individual contributions to the Dartmouth College Fund which totaled, wait for it, $535,000 (!) to, wait again, the Dartmouth Moose (a student in the moose mascot costume). Chuck was in heaven! “One of the highlights of my presidency.”


Class officers elected for five-year terms (until our 50th in 2016): Al Keiller, president; Jim Lustenader, vice president; Jim Weiskopf, treasurer; Larry Geiger, secretary.


Who’s responsible: reunion chairman Lustenader, ably and tirelessly assisted by Roger Brett, Ben Day, Doug Hill, Bill Malcolm, John Rollins, Bob Serenbetz, Chuck Sherman and Jim Weiskopf. A terrific effort all around!


Our 45th made history. Here’s an update on two classmates who have been teaching it.


“My politics are still more or less the same as they were in 1974 when I finished UC Berkeley,” reports Nelson Lichtenstein, the MacArthur Foundation Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. “I stand on the left and try to help it flourish, in the academy and without.” Nelson taught at Catholic University and the University of Virginia before joining the “admittedly left-coast UC system.”


Nelson’s latest book is The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business. He is also the director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. Wife Eileen Boris is chair of feminist studies at UC Santa Barbara. Nelson, who still enjoys hiking the High Sierras, says, “Neither of us plans to retire anytime soon.”


After 35 years of teaching U.S. history at Washington & Lee University, Barry Machado retired in June 2005. “No regrets. I’ve managed to publish more books and articles as an emeritus than I did when I was a professor.” In addition to teaching at W&L Barry coached the first women’s basketball team there for two years before serving as the assistant men’s basketball coach for six more. “There was not much free time during that stretch, but mind and body did achieve equilibrium.”


Barry and Anice, an eighth-grade teacher in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where they now live, have been married for 41 years. “She remains both the finest person and teacher I have known.” They enjoy their two grown children and four grandkids.


Best wishes for a healthy and happy 2012 to all!


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com