Class Notes 1968

Arts Legacy Committee members David Peck and Mark Waterhouse wrote to let you know that to support more projects and honor our fellow committee member, the recently deceased Ron Weiss, a group of classmates has created a matching gift fund to encourage donations. Please consider sending a check to “Dartmouth Class of 1968” with a note directing the money to the “Arts Legacy Fund.” Mail it to Jim Lawrie, 1458 Popinjay Drive, Reno, NV, 89509-3984. A memorial service for the respected Mr. Weiss brought together Mark and partner Leslie Cosgrove, Peter Weston, Bob Ross, Cedric Kam, Ed Heald, Dave Gang and Roberta, and Gerry Bell and Jackie.

When he wasn’t recommending Robert Crais’ new novel, Gerry was conducting a survey of classmates about how we file taxes. Results: Four times as many people use a private preparer as do their own using tax software. Gerry himself clings to the paper-and-pencil struggle.

Jim L. recently attended an Alta, Utah, ski trip first organized about 25 years ago by Clark Wadlow and annually populated by Gerry B., Joe Grasso, Joe Lowry, the late Larry Griffith, and Dave Strohmeyer.It’scome to be known as the “Fabulous Utah Trip” (FUT) and now involves three generations of family members.

The American Bar Association Journal has posted an interview it conducted with Roger Witten about his book, Legal Briefs. Read the session by searching “ABA Journal podcast” and then Roger’s name or “recent.” Roger’s also seeking Give a Rouse award nominations from class members and changing some dates in the selection process and annual ceremony. The class website has details. Also on the site, Peter Hofman notes that reading about classmates who worked in nonmilitary national service organizations and the Peace Corps will generate community service project involvement. Click “CSP.”

Cinemaster W.D. Richter graciously sent me a gift subscription to the “courageous and important” blog, The Contrarian, and Sherwood Guernsey wrote to thank all classmates who donated a total of $3,400 to the L.A. fire victims relief fund, the World Central Kitchen.

Class of ’68s ’60s activism endures in ’25! Bravo!

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

The choking pop culture glut of today pales in contrast to the serious media and communication concerns that were prominent among us during our time in Hanover and the preceding years of growing up. (Remember Marshall McLuhan?) It’s not then surprising that numerous ’68s offered input about writers, visual artists, and political commentators in recent online messages and publications. Author Mark Nelson’s new book, Irrationals in Hope of the Impossible (available on Amazon), describes the early years of Synergia Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the founding of the Institute of Ecotechnics, and the development of cutting-edge projects around the world, including Biosphere 2. A variety of communicators features prominently on the lists of fantasy dinner guests sent by David Walden (Jake Sullivan, Bruce Springsteen, Barbara Kingsolver, Jake Tapper ’91, Liz Cheney), Roger A. Anderson (director of MI6 Sir Richard Moore, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, Nicola Maduro, Xi Jinping), and Gerry Bell and Jackie (Charles Barkley, Stephen King, Tom Brady, Jane Fonda, Barack Obama). (To receive such emails, attend a class committee meeting and get on the mailing list!) In connection with Banned Books Week, John Pfeiffer wrote (and Gary Horlick forwarded) that on September 20, The Washington Post book club newsletter noted: “In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower—a Republican—told graduating students at Dartmouth College, ‘Don’t join the book burners.’ ” Norm Silverman wrote to advise that “Jon Meacham’s biography of John Lewis, His Truth Is Marching On, is an enthralling read” and to offer copies to classmates. Also, recent Give a Rouse recipient John Hamer sent a summary of some of his latest, bimonthly Mercer Island Reporter columns. His positive works cover everything from an interview with a young Israeli woman who survived the October 7 attacks to a local couple’s nonprofit that aids women and children in Ukraine to Rotary Club leaf raking. Read his pro bono work at mi-reporter.com. In terms of visual communications, the dependable Ed Heald sent photo galleries of students returning to campus for the fall session and of the colorfully decked-out natural and structural Hanover environments. Join in!

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

After more than three years of fascinating presentations, the class webinar series has ended. Thanks to the 50th reunion special interest presenters who inspired the online follow-ups and to the class members and officers (Bell, Wonson, Waterhouse, Lawrie, and Peck) who fostered the program. Every stimulating session is on the class website.

A recent, non-webinar online gathering of classmates who were in the Peace Corps provided colleagues the opportunity to share experiences and current issues of interest. Participant Peter Hofman sent a list of attendees, many of whose names we haven’t seen here in quite some time and whose service we proudly acknowledge: Russell Andrews, Mark Battin, Tom Brewer, Charles Gay, David Goldenberg, Sherwood Guernsey, Jim Henle, Henry Homeyer, Ted Kloth, Jon Moody, and David Williams.

Another form of service continues to be provided by retired chaplain of the U.S. Navy, Rabbi Arnie Resnicoff, who let us know of his appointment to the advisory board of the National Museum of American Religion, which plans to open its first exhibit in Washington, D.C., next summer.

Clark Wadlow started a startling correspondence after viewing a Dartmouth vs. Columbia basketball poster I’d forwarded from a Paris Metro station. It seems he had been at another Metro stop in the 1980s and seen a photo of his father’s cousin, who was the tallest man who ever lived at 8-foot-10! (Clark is 5-foot-10, by the way.)

Attend the class meeting in early October (in Hanover or via Zoom) and get on the class committee email list. That way, you can participate in enjoyable and challenging online discussions, where topics recently included Federer, campus protests, and favorite Billy Joel tunes. (Most cited of the last: “It’s Still Rock’n’Roll to Me,” “Movin’ Out,” “Only the Good Die Young,” and “Piano Man.”)

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

My former WDCR colleague Allan Ackerman wrote to acknowledge and share “the health issues that seem to come for all of us in this chapter of the territory of life.” He highlighted two factors: paying for parking at Northwestern (Chicago medical facility) 110 times in one year and “making sure you retain the rest of your identity, not just the part that is a patient.” He thanks classmates Eric Lieberman, Don Becker, and Jon Agronsky for providing him and wife, Martha, generous support. Allan looks forward to being “out of the woods” by May and resuming international travel. Meanwhile, he spends time with his four grandchildren, helping the oldest with college applications in an environment he describes as “tough out there.”

Peter Wonson sent a recommendation for Roger Witten’s new book, Legal Briefs, a collection of 24 essays that includes five of Roger’s own and one each by Bill Kolasky and Warren Cooke. Many familiar, fascinating topics, such as the infamous “Saturday Night Massacre,” are addressed (in non-legalese!) with fresh, insider viewpoints. Buy it on Amazon starting in late April.

I solicited classmates’ thoughts about the recent class letter to President Beilock regarding reactions to the current Middle East conflict and learned from Peter Thompson that he had previously addressed the president individually with a similar expression of support for Dartmouth’s actions. Peter later elaborated in an email to us: “I am entirely against any statement that would designate anti-Zionist protests as anti-Semitic. I feel strongly that any further military aid to Israel must be contingent on serious plans for a two-state solution.” Peter recommends reading The 100 Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi and watching Seeing Through the Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel by Anne MacSoud.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

First, an update on a grand Dartmouth tradition from Ed Heald, who carried our ’68 banner as a class of one on a rainy Dartmouth Night: The bonfire is now surrounded by three sets of fences, and the freshmen, led by bagpipers, walk (not run) one circuit around the fire, after which they are led out of the circle. Enthusiasm still runs high.

Now some correspondence I received about travel activities by classmates.

Jim Frey and Iris went to Berlin for their daughter’s wedding celebration; then to Prague, which they rate a favorite; and Amsterdam, where they celebrated their 55th anniversary. They proudly convey that our age need not prevent self-guided tours.

David Peck and Diane traveled to Patagonia in October. The trip started in Buenos Aires and then went much farther south to Cape Horn, the Strait of Magellan, five glaciers, and the unbelievably sharp and steep mountains of the Torres Del Paine.

Norman Silverman and Deborah Wolney took a 12-day trip to Ireland, which started with a flock of birds knocking out their plane’s engines on a runway in Detroit! They eventually arrived to enjoy a custom tour of the southern half of the island, starting in Dublin, then proceeding to Cork and Galway. The “spectacular” trip served as “a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Deborah’s 45th birthday.”

Norm and Deborah then hit N.Y.C. with Roger Witten and Jill, Jon Newcomb and Debbie, and Mark Waterhouse and Leslie for dinner at Carmine’s and Some Like It Hot.

Read (and contribute!) more about travel in the “Have Gear, Will Travel” feature in The Transmission, where you’ll also find the latest on the community service project (CSP). Jim Lawrie, Peter Hofman, and Peter Temple are in need of your CSP updates as they expand the program to include students and others.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

Before considering some reunion reactions from your classmates, let’s welcome our new class committee officers: Ced Kam is our new president, succeeding David Peck, to whom we gave a standing rouse for his extensive accomplishments; David stays on as co-memorialist with the incoming Dave Gang; and Dave Stanley moves in as head agent, accepting the challenge of maintaining Parker Beverage’s impressive participation percentage and Dartmouth College Fund dollars raised. Other offices retain incumbents.

Reunion chair John Engelman’s retrospective focused on three speakers: President Sian Beilock, athletic director Mike Harrity, and dean Scott Brown, all relatively new in their positions. John was impressed with their presentations and believes, in the hope each stays with us for the next decade or so, that the College is in very capable hands. John is optimistic that alma mater’s best days lie ahead.

Speaking of the new administration, attendee Bill Rich mentioned a Valley News article called “Green Fading to Black?” and expressed hope that Beilock and Harrity, especially, would take note and aggressively address the Dartmouth athletics situation.

Jim Lawrie thanked Ed Heald and David Peck for reunion photos. Jim has posted photos and his videos on the class website. Michael Jacobs, who couldn’t attend due to a wedding, thanked Ed and David, too, and expressed his hope of attending our 60th.

Peter Hofman reminds us that attendees were given a book containing contact info, service titles, and overviews for community service project (CSP) participants and that this content is also on the website, where all may also view the reunion session that featured the director of the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact. Peter Temple has joined the CSP team too.

Roger A. Anderson, whose donations we viewed on a Hood Museum tour, emailed his thanks to everyone who attended for a “wonderful” reunion.

Bob Tannenwald mentioned “the sincerity, caring, awareness, intelligence, and thoughtfulness of my classmates; the beauty of the College and its surroundings; and the pride and loyalty of its alumni and students.”

Clark Wadlow, in communication with Clifford Groen, said “You were missed (at a) great reunion.”

John Pfeiffer said he and Bev had a wonderful time, complimented John Engelman and his team on great work, and noted that the highlight of past reunions was meeting old friends and making new ones. In that regard, “Our 55th more than lived up to my hopes.”

Personal thanks to Bob Ross for a stirring memorial service.

Mini-reunion chair Norm Silverman wishes to advise of an early October opportunity to get together. The weekend of October 6-8, which features a class meeting, tailgate, Yale football, and dinner at the Alpha Delta house will be preceded by a Moosilauke hike and stay October 4-6 with the class of 1969, also a discussion session, west end tour, and an October 8 morning Occom Pond circumambulation. Send questions to norman.silverman@yahoo.com.

Finally, give thoughts to the families and friends of classmates of whose passings we learned recently: John Lazarus, Randall Moring, Charles Woodhouse, and Stephen Engelman.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

Dave Loring leads this time, since he corresponded with me about his anticipation of the 55th reunion in June, and since this is the last of these columns that will appear before that event, I think we should take personal accounting of the unique joys a Dartmouth class reunion provides. Do that while I first clarify that our email exchange originated with Dave’s question about the passing of his former roommate, our respected and accomplished classmate Col. Burt Quist. I confirmed for Dave that the College had sent notice, whereas Dave’s sources had been another former roommate, James Henle, via Gary Horlick. Dave has been in touch with Burt’s widow and plans to make a donation to the College in the late Marine’s name.

John Engelman and crew (see last edition) continue their energetic work on reunion plans and schedules. Be sure to maintain frequent contact with the class website, where Jim Lawrie posts up-to-the-minute additions and changes. Also check for emails from class president David Peck and the reunion committee. As of this writing at the end of February, there are still speaker confirmations pending and we’re awaiting word on the availability of President Beilock for an appearance. A couple of things look quite likely: Our tent will be at the McLaughlin Cluster, as with the 50th, and we’ll tour the new west end buildings (with ’63s) on Monday afternoon. Bob Ross will lead a memorial service on Tuesday morning at the recently renovated Rollins Chapel. I’ll mention right now that we’ve also recently lost another ’68, Psi U brother and soccer team member Steven Franzeim. We’ll reverently recall and honor all our deceased classmates at the reunion, but, as I’m certain would’ve been their collective wish, we’ll also look forward and celebrate our continuing brotherhood as a very active and purposeful group of gents. We’ll do that with music: On Tuesday evening after dinner, class rockmeister Peter Wonson will lead the Better Days Band at the tent, and the next night the Aires will perform at our class dinner, which will also feature the presentation of this year’s Give a Rouse awards. Finally, with regard to reunion, the class committee has made discreet financial assistance available to facilitate attendance and be advised that there will be no solicitation of donations during our visit. Please see Parker Beverage’s recent correspondence about the class’s Dartmouth College Fund goal this year and the dedication of our gift in memory of a most admirable, recently deceased ’68.

Peter Hofman and Jim Lawrie report that the Community Service Project (CSP) is now positioned to help classmates and their families initiate community service, enhance current activities, or help those who are moving contribute to their new community. Through focused communications, opening “viewer” status in the CSP catalogue to anyone who’s interested and sharing content quickly, these revisions will encourage participation by classmates, partners, spouses, and children. At the class website homepage, find “Community Service Project” and select “request password.”

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

A major mini-reunion of classmates finally (one year later) celebrated our 75th birthdays at the grand Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, from September 18 through 20. Along with organizer Ed Heald—who had able, off-site assistance from Gerry Bell—attendees included Dan Bort, Warren Connelly and Carolyn Rand, Warren Cooke and Catherine, Larry Griffith and Julia, Gary Horlick and Kathryn, Ted Kuss and Pat, Toby Mathias and Laurie, Bill Rich and Sylvia, Norm Silverman and Deborah, Jerry Smith and Janice Braddy, Larry Smith and Mary Pritchard, Mark Waterhouse and Leslie Cosgrove, Peter Weston, and Roger Witten and Jill. Wick Walker joined for Monday dinner and a bunker tour. That tour was one of many unique events, including falconry, that were interspersed with social hours and dinners. Dartmouth history professor Bob Bonner gave a presentation based on the book Lincoln at Gettysburg, which was joined via Zoom by a number of non-attendees. Later Professor Bonner accompanied classmates at dinner on Tuesday. Planner Heald was profusely thanked by all for sparking warm camaraderie. One highlight mentioned by many was Warren Cooke’s ragtime piano playing; another was the Jill Witten-led rousing round of Dartmouth songs.

The Greenbrier event served as a tantalizing prelude to our 55th reunion, coming up in just six months in June. Presiding organizer John Engelman invites your planning participation and content suggestions and head agent Parker Beverage finds it a special opportunity to amplify or perhaps even initiate your gift to the Dartmouth College Fund. See their recent correspondences, along with that of class president David Peck, and find details on the class website, dartmouth68.org, where you’ll also be able to view all our recent webinars.

Here’s another opportunity to be an active part of this generous and busy class. The class community service project has just celebrated its third anniversary, and coordinators Jim Lawrie, Peter Hofman, and Peter Wonson believe that recent events may have motivated you to start or increase your involvement with public assistance. They ask, “What is one unique, first-time tactic or initiative your nonprofit or volunteer activity tried in response to the pandemic that worked well and will be continued for the foreseeable future?” Jim’s address for your answer or project enrollment is on the class website.

Many of our classmates, as you may have noted in The Transmission, served in the military during and after the Vietnam conflict years. Please feel free to write to me with details of your own participation. Larry Eisenhauer, for one, sent word about his Air Force tenure, which began after his internship and residency at Yale. He served for two years at Luke Air Force Base in Phoenix (which eventually led to retirement from the service with the rank of major) and then entered private practice in La Jolla, California, where he spent 43 years. He is proud to have several Dartmouth graduates in his family. Larry has instrument and commercial pilot licenses and spends time with gardening, photography, and husbandry.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

As I write this, we’re almost exactly one year away from our 55th reunion, which will take place June 12-15, 2023, in Hanover. Please make your plans early to share in a joyous celebration.

In the meantime, I’ll remind you that your submissions to these columns allow us classmates a form of virtual reunion. Tom Ulen, for one, assures all that, while he wishes he had more opportunities for in-person meetings, he follows many of you here, and remains “thankful we knew each other, helped each other grow up, and sent each other out into the world to do our very best to be happy and spread happiness.” Tom studied at Oxford, earned an economics Ph.D. at Stanford, and then began a career as an academic economist at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where he and his wife of almost 50 years, Julia, still live. After three years there he was asked to teach in a new and eventually groundbreaking field called “the economic analysis of law” at the University of Illinois law school, and his innovative scholarship and mentorship of students, professors, judges, and others eventually took him around the world for 30 years until his retirement in 2010. Tom still writes professionally and gives talks internationally. Break time brings tai chi. He sends warm regards.

Cliff Groen isn’t as internationally famous as Bruce Willis, but he may have done even more than that actor to promote awareness of and research in the condition now widely known as aphasia. He’s international, too. Cliff grew up in Asia, came to Dartmouth from the Singapore American School, and later spent professional time in Seoul and Tokyo with his wife, Marti. He remembers happily his time as a lawyer with the International Finance Corp. from 1993 to 2009. In 2012 atrial fibrillation brought on a stroke, which in turn caused him to lose his ability to speak. He spent a month in the hospital, where he was visited by Peter Fahey, a classmate he didn’t even know in Hanover and whom Cliff credits with a special kindness that contributed greatly to his recovery. Cliff took speech lessons for two years. (He reminds us that aphasia is a condition of communication, not of intellect.) He has participated in modified repetition training in combination with noninvasive brain stimulation in order to help academics and medical personnel design effective treatments. Cliff mentioned two more classmates in his correspondence with me, Parker Beverage and Daniel Tom. Parker (our class head agent, by the way) also taught in Asia for a few years, as did Daniel (one of the associate organizers of the recent Hawaii mini-reunion), with whom Cliff shares an extensive history of competitive distance running. He sends best wishes from his home in Manhattan.

Please check the class website for information on involvement with a new undertaking, the arts legacy committee, as well as on virtual seminars and opportunities to reunite in person. Your class committee also offers volunteer service openings.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

While many of us have been honing our interest in reading during the pandemic, a number of our classmates have been writing. Abstract sculptor David Stromeyer’s Art Making on the Land provides a journey into his work and life on the 200 acres of northern Vermont farmland he purchased in 1970. Roger A. Anderson translated Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems and Eric Hatch provided photographs in the new work, The Voices. (Hatch’s photos come from his Faces of Addiction publication.) Also, Tony Abruzzo’s new The Wing Man features characters based on his experiences in Vietnam and his legal practice in Tucson, Arizona. Bill Zarchy hosted a Zoom audiobook launch for his high-concept novel, Finding George Washington, on the subject’s recent birthday.

That same indefatigable arts patron Mr. Anderson recently commissioned a composition titled The Vox Concerto, which will be premiered by the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra on March 19. Classmate Ron Weiss plays in the violin section.

Other creative activity you’ll find enjoyable includes Bob Thomas’ photography. If you use Facebook, perhaps as a member of the class of 1968 group, you’ll find his beautiful images there.

The class committee is delighted to announce that Woody Lee has accepted the position of Alumni Council representative. He will succeed the very able Tom Stonecipher, whose three-year term ends this spring. Woody will also be a major presence in our activities in Hanover during the lively class meeting weekend of May 14, when the Frederick Douglass bust will be dedicated and the 2022 Give a Rouse Award honorees will be feted at dinner. Also, the third Thursday class of 1968 luncheon at Jesse’s will be moved to May 12 to accommodate attendees of the celebrations. The first luncheon took place on February 17 with John Engelman, Ed Heald, Dan Hedges, Bill Vail, Linc and Susan Eldridge, and John and Linde MacNamara joining. John E. has let us know that he’s moving to Kendal at Hanover, a facility with a close relationship with the College, and he hopes other ’68s may someday follow.

A mini-reunion of sorts was held at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Vermont, on February 2. Skiers included Dave Dibelius, Gerry Bell, Dave Gang, Peter Emmel, and Sam Swisher. Gerry authoritatively informs me that, yes, one can ski again after knee replacement—as long as one does not fall down.

My wife’s love for Asheville, North Carolina, led me to contact Leckie Reves, who’s an agent in that area and whose photo appears with other alumni agents in the previous issue of this publication. Two changes apply, though: Leckie’s changed brokerage affiliations and he’s lost 85 pounds!

We’re actively looking for someone to work with the always busy Jim Lawrie in his responsibilities as class treasurer and webmaster. I’ll gladly pass your interest along to president David Peck.

Finally, a sad farewell to Bruce Senn, who passed recently and who served the College with volunteer work for a number of years as an alumnus.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

A busy, celebratory day of in-person gatherings took place in Hanover on Saturday, October 9, starting with a quarterly class meeting. Attendees included Parker Beverage, Jim Lawrie, David Weiss, Dick Olson, David Peck, Norm Silverman, Ed Heald, Peter Wonson, Mark Waterhouse, Roger Witten, Cedric Kam, Jim Frey, David Walden, Linc Eldridge, Joe Nathan Wright, Ron Weiss, and myself. Zoom participants were Roger Anderson, Tom Stonecipher, Gerry Bell, and Peter Hofman. (Linc, by the way, has just bought a house in Norwich, Vermont, and plans to split his time between there and Texas.) Next stop was the Alpha Delta house for a pre-Yale game tailgate lunch, where seasonal Vermont resident Tom Laughlin, whose third novel is in the works, joined us. In the evening we feted our first group of Give a Rouse Award winners at dinner at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Honorees in attendance included Jim Lawrie, George Spivey, Dick Olson, Sherwood Guernsey, Ron Weiss, Jim Frey, Andy Hotaling, and (in person this time) Gerry Bell. Absentees Mark Nelson and Michel Zaleski were also cited, as was John “Bear” Everett, whose posthumous award was accepted by his sister, Florrie. Please note that nominations are now open for the next annual round of awards to be presented in Hanover in May. Check the class website and The Transmission for details on what’s going to be a very full, rewarding, lively series of events in May.

Speaking of the above classmates, one of the wittiest and most versatile of them has written—ready?—a romance novel, a self-described “chick book” he proudly and no doubt deceptively claims is “formulaic, predictable fluff.” Discover Hiding Hutchinson by Adah Armstrong, a.k.a.—did you guess?—Gerry Bell at Amazon.

It was great to receive an update from Bill Mutterperl, who wrote in our 40th reunion book that “part-time living in southern California could be in our future.” Well, the future is now, and SoCal is full-time. Bill and Nancy recently left N.Y.C. permanently after spending much of the Covid period on the West Coast. They staged a large family reunion in Deer Valley, Utah, during the Fourth of July that featured a return to relaxing sports of their youth, including archery and bowling, as well as some less-than-relaxing horseback riding on steep mountain trails. Bill’s considering the Hawaii reunion in March. (Check the website for details and availability status of this and other reunions coming up this winter and next spring.)

A tribute was held in September at the Skiway in remembrance of our late classmate Monk Williams. Organizer Bill Rich was joined by Rusty Martin and Ed Heald, as well as some ’67s, ’69s, and other friends and fellow skiers.

We also have news of the passing of Richard Warnock, M.D., in North Andover, Massachusetts. Our deepest condolences go to his widow, Linda, daughter Samantha, and other relatives and friends.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

As we eagerly anticipate our first in-person meeting in almost two years in October, there have been several virtual gatherings in the meantime. Recent webinar topics have ranged from baseball history, conducted by Gerry Bell, to poetical musicology, conducted by Peter Wonson, to the very high-concept, fictional adventures of George Washington, based on Bill Zarchy’s new book. Attendees have included Clark Wadlow, Norm Silverman, David Peck, Steve Schwager, Peter Fahey, Mark Waterhouse, John Engelman, Bill Rich, Peter Zack, Wick Walker, Richard Parker, Rich du Moulin, Jim Lawrie, John Isaacson, Ron Weiss, Charles Karchmer, Dan Bort, Jamie Newton, and myself. The Zarchy book, Finding George Washington, is also a baseball saga as well as a time-travel thriller. Bill reports strong initial sales. Follow the class website for news of forthcoming seminars.

Dave Dibelius reports that what he calls the seasonal communal activity (a.k.a. ski week reunion) is a go for January 24-28, 2022. Rich Du Moulin, Dave Gang, Peter Emmel, Tom Enright, Allen Ott, and Gerry Bell are already signed up. Contact dave@davedibelius.me to join. As they say on late-night TV, “You need send no money now.”

Gerry Hills, Dan Tom, and Peter Diamond have fleshed out details on the Hawaii trip set to start on March 12. The three-night, Honolulu portion will be based at the Lotus Hotel, just outside Waikiki, followed by four nights on the big island of Hawaii, split between two venues. See specifics about this colorful journey in the forthcoming Transmission and at the website.

Next, it’s our delayed 75th birthday party at the Greenbrier September 18-21. Ed Heald, in addition to keeping us always very informed with first-person reports on Dartmouth and Hanover matters, will provide more details during the summer. Stay tuned.

Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff had the honor of delivering the prayer at the Memorial Day service at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The service was the first non-virtual ceremony at the memorial since Covid. Rabbi Resnicoff addressed a full complement of in-person attendees and a radio audience.

Speaking of radio, Larry Barnet was my other half on the general manager-assistant general manager team at WDCR in 1967-68. He became my employer when he hired me after my military service to help start WQBK-FM in Albany, New York. Larry wrote from Florida to send me an interview with one of our former staffers who recalled our radio work in the 1970s.

Cedric Kam offers photos of his classic MG on his Facebook page. He and the roadster attended MG2021 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, recently.

Woody Lee and John Pfeiffer reported on a generous donation to our Class of 1968 Historical Black Alumni Exhibit. Natalie Boll, a distant cousin of Remus Grant Robinson, class of 1897, is an actress, writer, and film producer living in Germany who has graciously pledged $10,000 to our project.

In conclusion, let us offer our condolences to Virginia Lannen, whose husband, classmate Richard M. Lannen, passed away on May 1.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

The class has begun additional activities pursuant to the donation of the Frederick Douglass bust, which is now in place at Rauner. John Pfeiffer and Woody Lee, who has done extensive research on the topic, met with College representatives to discuss possibilities for a special exhibit on Blacks at Dartmouth that could be ready by next spring. The exhibit’s proposed website would remain permanently accessible. In related correspondence, Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff reported on the reconstruction of the bridge named for Douglass in Washington, D.C. He says that if the district becomes a state, D.C. will officially be “Washington, Douglass Commonwealth.”

There are mini-reunion developments. Ed Heald reports that the Greenbrier Resort has accepted our new dates of September 18-21, 2022, for the postponed 75th birthday celebration. Mini-reunion chair Norm Silverman is working with classmates in Hawaii to plan a non-touristy get-together on Oahu and the Big Island during March 12-18, 2022, the week after the winter ski trip. There will be history, culture, and tour presentations, but also lots of free time. Follow Jim Lawrie’s posts on the class website and Mark Waterhouse’s Transmission for details.

Peter Hofman and Peter Wonson report an expansion of community service project access. In addition to classmates’ wives and partners, we now solicit entries from children and grandchildren, as well. Dan Bort’s wife, Diana, has an organization that produces media and events to promote the benefits of natural childbirth and homebirth. David Gang’s wife, Roberta, works with Link to Libraries in several roles, including board chair. They’ve donated more than a half-million books to more than 25,000 underserved kids in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Norm Silverman’s daughter, Jessica Silverman Bryan, distributes free Night Night Packages to homeless children to provide security and exposure to literacy materials. Please see the class website to report your service!

Dick Jones and I shared our love of music, and he told of his long involvement with the Frederick Chorale. After studies at Towson and Cal State, he returned to Maryland and joined the group, which has a very broad repertoire and an impressive history of performing locally, overseas, and at the White House. He fondly remembers sharing Glee Club days with “the fine tenor voice” of David Peck.

W.D. Richter candidly shared a word of advice to all in our “crumbling crowd” who are dealing with joint issues. (Corporeal, not herbaceous ones, mate.) From experience, he enthusiastically urges all considering hip replacement to investigate the anterior technique using a Hana table. He’s worked with a Dartmouth-affiliated osteopath who’s an early champion of the method.

An anonymous classmate who is also a large, regular Dartmouth College Fund donor has pledged to increase this year’s gift by 50 percent in acknowledgement of Dartmouth’s handling of the Covid crisis. Please consider following his example. Let’s help Parker Beverage exceed our fundraising goals in this pressing time.

Our world has been diminished by the passing of Porter Coggeshall in Vienna, Virginia, and Richard Stowell in Weld, Maine.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

I’ve always had incalculable pride in being a Dartmouth alumnus, but now after one year as your secretary I’ve learned that there’s even more in being a member of this particularly active, dedicated class of 1968. Each time I attend a class committee meeting or read committee correspondence, there’s additional evidence of our strength and purpose.

Most recently we learned that the Class Officers Association Executive Board (COAEB) and alumni relations each presented awards to our class at their 2020 virtual Volunteer Officer eXperience Conference. COAEB recognized us for our “Geezer Gifting Strategy” campaign encouraging IRA giving, and alumni relations gave us a VOX shout-out in recognition of our Frederick Douglass bust donation. We were the only class to receive multiple awards! Please see also the latest edition of editor Skip Waterhouse’sTransmission and president David Peck’s recent presidential message email for further proof of the singular accomplishments of our group!

Gary Hobin sent an update regarding his ambition to become a college professor. He got there in what he described as a roundabout way; he’s an assistant professor at the Army Command and General Staff College, where they’re teleworking from home, distancing, masking, and sanitizing for the new academic year. He enjoyed reading Philip Schaefer’s Dartmouth Veterans: Vietnam Perspectives and wondered whether our class might put together a similar perspective. I informed him of Ed Miller’s project, which has now been integrated into the College curriculum. Perhaps surprisingly, Gary has not yet been interviewed.

Richard Livingston provided a clarification regarding the credentials that appeared in the last notes. His collaboration with Catholic University actually ended seven years ago, and his main academic affiliation is with the University of Maryland. He’s been adjunct professor there since retiring from the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2007, and he’s also still a research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Covid-19 was not the only threat to affect our class this past year. We learned recently from Bill Adler and John Blair that Ed Schneider lost his Napa Valley home to one of the raging wildfires in California, the Class Fire. Ed, his family, and his beloved dog are all safe and taking refuge at another of their residences. Your class committee has written to them to express our regrets and support.

Let’s close with some enjoyable memories and a research assignment. The amazingly learned and versatile David Soren, whom you should check out in Dick Olson’s 40th reunion book and whose new volume on the history of American popular entertainment is just out, teaches a pop culture course at the University of Arizona. His special guest next semester will be Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes, who sang at a mixer at the Hop in 1965. Ronnie wanted David to ask if any of us might have photos of that event that we could share with her. She’d love to have some memory of Dartmouth. Write to soren@arizona.edu. (Extra credit: Who was the surf band on the same show?)

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

First, a mea culpa regarding the last issue’s column: I got the extended deadline wrong and posted late, so there was no room for what follows here, now slightly edited from the original, unpublished submission. Some of our classmates have worked hard to stand “as sister stands by brother” by continuing their Dartmouth community service activities, each of which, perhaps not surprisingly, involves education. George Spivey follows, as he has throughout his life as an educator, the guideline spoken at his mother’s funeral to “help somebody” in his mentoring and community service work; Richard Lappin works through his Providence Promise organization to promote financial awareness by and support for students in Rhode Island; and Jim Morrison’s work with the Learning Ally Audiobook Solution provides a multisensory accommodation for students with reading deficits.

Ric Gruder wrote to say that he hopes I’m “well and playing music all [I] can.” He’s still working full-time at his law practice, although things have slowed because his business clients have seen a drop in activity. Ric adds that he has “hunkered down to live a dull life filled with family” on Long Island. Frederic, you haven’t been dull for a moment since our days at Teaneck (New Jersey) High. As for me, I do play music on Saturday Night Jazz at www.wwno.org, 7 p.m. to CDT.

Another former Jerseyite, Richard Livingston, says that he’s involved in a couple of engineering projects that aren’t ready for public disclosure, but we do know that he continues his activities involving construction materials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research, as well as work connected with Catholic University.

My ROTC and 101st Airborne/Vietnam colleague Terry Lichty sent me a copy of the 1970 orders on which we were both promoted to captain. Terry retired from Raytheon to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 2011 and soon after bought a place on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, where he became friends with Gerry Hills. Terry and Susan are sequestered there, but “at an elevation that affords us great breezes and great views of the Caribbean.” They read. They sip. They commune with birds. They endure.

Andy Hotaling has just retired after a 35-year career as a pediatric otolaryngologist, the last 29 of which were spent at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. His wife, Ann, and son Jeff are also medical professionals, continuing to work on the front lines on the Covid-19 pandemic. Praise and thanks to all.

At this point, we’re hoping to know soon about how and where to plan our fall class committee meeting and possible attendant activities, including those involving the Frederick Douglass bust. In the meantime, please continue to stay smart and safe.

Now give a thought to Lucy Anich. Her husband of 44 years, Steven Golladay, died this past December 9.

See you on the radio.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

At Class Notes’ deadline, a number of us are headed to our next class committee meeting in Alexandria, Virginia. We’ll enjoy lunch and a couple of D.C. attractions afterward. (We’ll miss newsletter editor Mark Waterhouse. Good luck with the back surgery!) At the same time, the next mini-reunion, a ski event, will get underway at Mammoth Mountain in California. Class members planning to attend are Larry Griffith, Peter Fahey, Peter Emmel, Rick Pabst, Scott Reeves, Rich duMoulin, Dave Dibelius, Paul Fitzgerald, Steve Schwager, Jim Lawrie, Rusty Martin, Sandy Dunlap, Joe Lowry, and first-timer Paul Schweitzer. Happy trails to all.

I heard via phone and email from a couple of friends who send greetings to you and wish to report that things are most pleasant and busy in their circles. Jim Frey and wife of 51 years Iris returned to their native Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to retire among family members and new friends of diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds. Their travels have included visits to all 50 U.S. states. Iris helps chair the resident council of their community and Jim serves on the board of the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic and as a SCORE mentor for businesses.

John Hamer, whose goal to become a Navy SEAL after ROTC was frustrated by a horrific car crash on his way back to Hanover after winter break of senior year, has always nonetheless remained very active, even in retirement. He and wife Mariana kayak often on Lake Washington, near their home on Mercer Island, Washington. John is a Rotary member, tutors at a Seattle elementary school, and helps absent fathers re-engage with their children by volunteering with Divine Alternatives for Dads Services (DADS). The couple also enjoys watching Dartmouth football games with former Sen. Slade Gordon ’50, of whose international policy center Mariana was president.

Gerry Hills writes that he and Martha have recovered from their Pahoa, Hawaii, house being inundated with 30 feet of lava—this not long after leaving their previous residence of St. John ahead of extensive hurricane destruction—and have moved into a bamboo house, also in Pahoa. Gerry says he’s about a hundred yards from the ocean, at about 60 feet of altitude, and so theoretically safe from both global warming and another eruption, the latter of which isn’t due for 50-plus years.

Peter Hofman forwarded me some selected overviews of community service project volunteers’ activities: Peter Temple helped create a nonprofit that helps American college students study overseas, Sherwood Guernsey’s foundation operates computer learning centers in Panama, and Eric Hatch’s Faces of Addiction works in prevention and recovery. See more and fuller overviews, along with how to enlist in the project, at the class website.

Join us in Hanover on May 23 for the next class meeting!

Now, sadly, I must conclude with the news of the passings of Kirby Nickels and Bill Paschke.

Very best regards from the city that’s not quite yet under either lava or, more likely, water.

—Jack Hopke, 157 Joy St., River Ridge, LA 70123; (504) 388-2645; jackhopke@yahoo.com

This is my last column as I have resigned as class secretary. Deb and I want to focus our energy (outside of grandkids) on the 2020 election in Michigan. We’re working on preventing voter suppression and encouraging people to take advantage of major changes in Michigan election laws.

Not surprising that many mates from our great class remain active in trying to heal the world.

Hank Paulson, in a recent op-ed in The Financial Times, warned: “We are fast approaching the tipping point of irreversible loss to naturally functioning ecosystems that will cause catastrophic and frustratingly avoidable economic losses on an enormous global scale.” Hank recently coauthored with Timothy Geithner ’83 Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons.

Mark Nelson was one of eight people who for almost two years lived in Biosphere 2 in Arizona meant to be the second fully self-sufficient biosphere, after the earth itself. Mark reflects: “We said at Biosphere 2 we might be 50 years ahead: but it’s been 25 years and the world is starting to wake up.” Mark’s books include Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time and Pushing Our Limits: Insights from Biosphere 2. Mark is chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics and founder of Wastewater Gardens International. (Read more about him in the May-June 2018 DAM feature: dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/biosphere-2-what-really-happened.)

Bob Reich just wrote a tough-minded piece for Newsweek in October: “The most xenophobic and isolationist president in modern history has been selling America to foreign powers for his personal benefit.” Bob’s blog is at robertreich.org.

I had breakfast with Steve Atwood at the Blue Sparrow Cafe in Norwich, Vermont. Dr. Atwood had just returned from a retreat at Mount Moosilauke for Dartmouth’s global health fellows program. After years working for CARE and UNICEF in south Asia, including relief work during the tsunamis, he is passionate that healthcare is a right. He still flies to Thailand to teach at Thammaset University. In Vershire, Vermont, where he now lives, he’s the town health officer.

Bill Zarchy had his first photography exhibit at Beth El Social hall in Berkeley, California. See his terrific work at billzarchy.com/photoshop.

Bill Adler and Marcia found themselves in Santiago, Chile, during violent student demonstrations in October that brought tanks into the streets and left several people dead. Confined to their hotel at one point, Bill says they made it out on a flight to Atacama thanks to the heroic efforts of their tour leader, who jumped on the baggage check counter and flung their luggage at the conveyor.

Our next class meeting will be in February or March in Washington, D.C. Check our website at dartmouth68.org. We’ll meet again May 22-23 in Hanover, where we’ll participate in the dedication of a bust of Frederick Douglass, a class gift that was organized by Roger Arvid Anderson.

—Dick Olson, 1021 Nottingham Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230; rwolson68@gmail.com

The Dartmouth Alumni Council presented the Dartmouth Alumni Award to Ed Heald for his extraordinary service to Dartmouth and civic organizations in addition to career accomplishment. Ed’s contributions to our class have been endless: He organized three class reunions and many mini-reunions, annual ski trips and golf trips, and an annual men’s soccer alumni weekend. That’s in addition to working with the Dartmouth College Fund and the admissions interviewing program. Ed is the sixth ’68 class member to receive this honor.

The Vietnam War had a profound impact on our class. So at our May class meeting the class decided to contribute $10,000 to the Dartmouth Vietnam Project, which is taping and transcribing interviews with former students and community members who lived through the Vietnam War era. Several classmates—some veterans and some antiwar protestors—have already been interviewed: Bear Elliot, Jeffrey Hinman, Andrew Hotaling, Calvin Jones Jr., Michael Lenehan, Arnold Resnicoff, Richard Parker, David Stearns, and John Spritzler. Search online for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. There’s information on this website about how to become an interviewee. Peace Corps and Teacher Corps stories are welcome.

Upcoming mini-reunion in New York City November 8-10 will center around the Dartmouth-Princeton game at Yankee Stadium on November 9. Contact Roger Witten at rogermwitten@gmail.com if you’re coming.

The information booth on the Green has been a fixture for decades. After longstanding funding sources dried up, John Engelman helped save the booth by organizing alumni and friends to staff it. He also convinced Sphinx to make a grant through its foundation.

Our class is fully supportive of Dartmouth’s Call to Serve campaign, which aims for 250,000 volunteer hours. Hours spent on community garden projects and soup kitchens all count. An idea list is on the College website. The Rassias Center is supporting an education project in Mexico in November.

If you’d like to target a contribution to help low-income students or international students or to endow Dartmouth Hall or for any one of 100 special projects (outside the annual Dartmouth Alumni Fund), check out the Call to Lead on the Dartmouth website.

Dr. Roger Lenke showed up at our last class meeting in Hanover—classmates are always welcome. Roger and his wife, Joanne, moved to Hanover from Indiana a few years ago. They join a growing class presence in Hanover and environs. The class meeting was well-attended. Besides officers and regulars, Norm Silverman came from Michigan, Cedric Kam from Massachusetts, Roger Arvid Anderson from San Francisco, Jack Hopke from New Orleans, and Daniel Tom flew in from Hawaii.

David Prentice ’69, who produced our 40th reunion book, found extra copies in his garage in Canada. I’ve got a few extras too. If anyone wants a copy, let me know.

Our classmate Dr. Stephen F. Bauer died February 22 in Rochester, New York. An obituary for him appears online at www.dartmouthalumni magazine.com/obits and at our class website at www.dartmouth68.org.

—Dick Olson, 1021 Nottingham Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230; rwolson68@gmail.com

Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, retired U.S. Navy chaplain, offered the opening prayer February 6 before the U.S. House of Representatives.

A week after the government shutdown ended, Resnicoff prayed for a “more perfect union, less divided.” Standing before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Resnicoff said: “Let our nation never slumber. No closings, fits, and starts. No honest pay denied for honest work. No time out from efforts to improve our lives, achieve our dreams.” Resnicoff had also delivered the opening prayer on the floor of the House shortly after an anti-Semitic shooter killed 11 people in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Our next class mini-reunion is set for Saturday, May 25, in Hanover, and all classmates are invited. Besides an 11 a.m. class meeting in the Zimmerman Lounge at Blunt Alumni Center, we are touring the newly renovated Hood Museum, which has lots to offer, including a provocative collection of contemporary African art. And then, at 8 p.m., a cello concerto inspired by Dartmouth’s Orozco murals will premiere in Spaulding Auditorium.

The Orozco Concerto, which was composed by Noah Luna and will be performed by Gabriel Cabezos, was commissioned by Roger Anderson to honor the murals and the 250th anniversary of Dartmouth. NPR will broadcast this premiere on its program, From the Top. So if you can’t make it to Hanover, tune in.

Shiraz Kotadia, in Connecticut to visit his son and two 10-year-old grandchildren, and Dolph Highmark, who lives near Granby, Connecticut, where our class meeting convened, joined the meeting.

Now retired from a career in information technology, Shiraz serves as president of the Almaden Valley Community Association in San Jose, California, and as vice president of a family charitable foundation.

Dolph, an attorney, is doing a lot of satisfying pro bono work helping elderly clients manage their finances and lives. He enjoys time with three grandchildren, ages 5, 4, and 1, teaching them to call in owls. Fishing is one of Dolph’s passions. He once hauled in a sting ray after a two-hour battle. And he’d love to see a mini-reunion that chartered a boat off New England. Any other anglers?

Bob Havens, who now lives in Oakland, California, is off visiting Bulgaria and Romania, two countries he’d never seen before though he has been to nearby Turkey 12 times. He managed to re-establish contact with a Turkish friend who had been an exchange student with his family in high school. In 2013 Bob visited Syria for a week. His travel plans were interrupted when his passport and visa were stolen, and he spent three days getting his visa renewed. But he lived to tell the story.

Class president Dave Peck wants to encourage classmates from around the country to join our class meetings, so he’s moving some of them out of Hanover. We’re thinking about San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and other cities.

—Dick Olson, 1021 Nottingham Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230; rwolson68@gmail.com

As products of the social ferment of 1968, it’s no surprise we have a strong social commitment with many challenging ideas. Here are some responses in our 50th reunion essays to the prompt, “How to Make the World a Better Place 50 Years From Now.” Ponder the full essays at www.dartmouth68.org/assets/68-reunion-essays.pdf.

Peter Temple: “Require American high school graduates to engage in two years of mandatory national service.”

Bob Tarr: “Fairly equal distribution of wealth and opportunities throughout the world.”

Bob Tharinger: “Swing thinking to appreciation of the common good. De-accentuate the short-term gain, favoring the long-term benefit to as many as possible.”

Russ Andrews: “Equality of opportunity: All citizens shall have access to basic but complete healthcare without significant charge.”

Rick Thorner: “For the next 50 years to be truly better than the past, everyone needs to have their hard drives erased so that biases around religion, race, or ethnicity are things of the past.”

Bob Bednarz: “A strong liberal-arts-based education for all.”

Wells Chandler: “Compassion, communication, and understanding among the people of planet Earth to better the common concerns of all.”

Bob Block: “For-profit healthcare is destroying the nation.”

Tom Stonecipher: “Intelligent, increased socialization of healthcare and breaking and radically reducing the for-profit aspects of medicine and pharmacy.”

Ted Bovill: “The two greatest problems confronting us are the explosion of worldwide populations and the current challenges to liberal democracy.”

Dave Dibelius: “Find a new planet for us to live on. Eventually our current planet will become too depleted, polluted, and over-populated and we will have to leave.”

Dow Stewart: “America’s most severe problem is its federal government. It is bloated, unresponsive to its citizenry, corrupt, and pernicious to the society it should be enriching.”

Pete Wonson: “Take better care of the planet. Place the health of Earth above the corporate profit motive.”

Kim Ritchey: “The last 50 years have been characterized by an increasing distance between the haves and the have-nots. We need to bring the disparate groups together.”

Sarr Blumson: “We need to enlarge our sense of community. Most of the world’s problems come from a sense of us vs. them.”

Woody Thompson: “Do away with the Electoral College.”

Noel Augustyn: “A reversal of many decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the First and Fourteenth Amendments might possibly reverse the decline in our civilization, but it is probably too late.”

Paul Smith: “Create a binding world government elected by the peoples of the world.”

Marshall Wolff: “It is inexcusable that we have the means to take a big bite out of hunger and poverty in this country, much less the world, and don’t make it a priority.”

Sad news: Paul Boymel died June 30, 2014; Dr. Peter Godfrey died July 24, 2018; and Don Clausing died September 12, 2018. Full obituaries are on the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine website.

—Dick Olson, 1021 Nottingham Road, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230; rwolson68@gmail.com

Just because you shouldn’t live in the past doesn’t mean its not a nice place to visit. An apt description for our 50th reunion this past June. We all had a great visit. Four hundred and two classmates and guests gathered for some or all of five days to renew or establish friendships and learn where life’s journeys have taken them. Day one, for some, included a Moosilauke hike, with a knee-challenging (complaining?) trip up and back that took nearly seven hours. For some reason the mountain has gotten taller since our freshman trips. The rest of our time was in Hanover, featuring days of glorious weather and interesting activities throughout. We had thought-provoking seminars prepared by classmates, a virtual art gallery, an address by President Hanlon, talks by adopted classmate professor Don Pease and about-to-be adopted professor Jennifer Sargent, and an honorary degree for outgoing class president Peter Fahey. Peter also announced that our Dartmouth College Fund contribution this year would be more than $2.8 million, our freshman trip fund gift totaled more than $1.7 million, and counting bequests and professional school gifts a total of $49.6 million will be provided to Dartmouth from the class. Dan Hedges welcomed us to a Sunday evening cookout at his house overlooking the Connecticut River. And the class tent was busy all weekend with classmates and guests catching up for the last five or last 50 years and planning for the future. Watch the class website and newsletter for all the details and photos from a superb reunion. Thank you reunion chair Gerry Bell, reunion treasurer Dave Walden, and the full outgoing executive committee for your work during the past five years. We also had an election to establish our new posse of class officers: David Peck, president (tag, you’re it); Roger Witten, vice president, Dick Olson, secretary; Mark Waterhouse, newsletter editor; Bill Rich, mini-reunion chair; Parker Beverage, head agent; and returning officers Jim Lawrie, treasurer and webmaster; Ed Heald, gift planning chair; and Hugh Boss, alumni councilor. Past executive committee officers will be invited to continue as at-large members. Our first meeting is planned for Homecoming Weekend, the morning of Saturday, October 27, and all classmates are welcome. Location of the meeting to be determined; check the class website. Later, tailgating at Alpha Delta, the Harvard game, and then a dinner that evening at Dowds’ Country Inn in Lyme, New Hampshire. Some other classmate news to share. Gary Horlick was honored with the 2018 Who’s Who Legal Lifetime Achievement Award. After Dartmouth and Yale Law School (1973) Gary worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce and in private practice, specializing in international trade law. He also received the Trade and Customs Lawyer of the Year award an unprecedented nine years in a row. Tom Laughlin has published his second novel, The Other Side of the Lake; his earlier book was Absence of Intent. Both are available from major e-book retailers. With those final words, I turn the column over to new secretary Dick Olson, rwolson68@gmail.com.

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com

Spring is here. As is our 50th reunion, only weeks away. As I write these notes, we have 250 classmates expected and 400 or more total attendance. It’s not too late to sign up. It’s also not too late to be part of the reunion’s virtual art gallery. Our deadline for digital image submission is May 15. Some of our future contributors have shared updated news. Roger Arvid Anderson wrote from San Francisco that he had taken more than 32,000 images for the year after 9/11, in a journey that took him from sea to shining sea—Provincetown, Massachusetts, to Santa Monica, California. The project is called Star-Spangled. Roger hopes these images will become part of the 9/11 Museum. He is also looking for sponsors to help support a limited-edition printing. In addition, Roger has an online book site, where he has several books. John Pilling plans to exhibit a few photos of his more photogenic building projects, as well as a mix of pastels and photos. John shared sad news as well: His wife, Francine Pennino, died in January after a six-year struggle with Alzheimer’s. Cathy and Warren Cooke just returned from Amazonia, where Warren had many photo opportunities with birds, monkeys and marmosets. Other recent bird shot journeys included northern Minnesota and Belize. He and Cathy welcomed their first grandson, to join three granddaughters. The grandson is named Warren, but after U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren. Sorry, Dad. Stephen Carley is another expected contributor. He noted, “During my years of recovery from and after practice of law, I have taken up visual art, primarily oil painting.” Steve attended the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating in 1975, and was in private practice in California and North Carolina for 35 years. Other digital images are expected from Jim Lawrie, Eric Hatch, Joe Sack, Alex Chisholm, David Rossman and David Peck. Two longer letters, near essays, of news arrived from Daniel Szakonyi, a sculptor who has lived in France for almost 50 years, and from John Melski. Both life essays will be added to our new class website, dartmouth68.org, and we hope many other classmates will consider similar submissions. Back to John: He had a liver transplant years ago and is doing very well. He and Linda are planning a jaunt to Paris to visit the Musee d’Orsay, and have loved musicals such as Wicked (which they have seen three times) and Hamilton.

Be sure to read in the class newsletter and on the class website Dave Dibelius’s write-up of the big East ski mini-reunion at Okemo in Vermont. We had 13 classmates, three spouses, one ’69 and one casualty—our first such incident during a skiing mini-reunion—when Burt Quist fell and fractured the upper end of his tibia.

Two recent deaths to mourn: Allan Johnson and Adele Hedges, wife of Dan Hedges.

Reminder: We have a new SurveyMonkey class survey that asks, What do you think about Dartmouth expanding its undergraduate enrollment? The survey can be found at www.survey monkey.com/r/7ZVD2CL.

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com

Holiday greetings and a happy new (reunion) year. As I write these notes in October, we have 237 classmates on board, and only a few months to go to June 7-11—anticipation is building! Be sure to participate in the Dartmouth 1968 “Who Are You” experience. The results of this should be fun and informative. Log on at www.D68WhoAreYou.org. Registration number is 1968. You have until March 31 to participate, and could save up to 20 percent in reunion fees. Another thing to keep in mind is legacy planning, both for Dartmouth and your own families; Ed Heald has put together a very nice outline of options to consider. It is available on our class website. In response to the Gerry Bell challenge to all of us about our favorite professors at Dartmouth, and why, my own favorite profs include Hugh Morrison, who introduced me to architecture (and my eventual career), and Matt Wienecke, who introduced me to archeology, my favorite avocation. And I credit Paul Zeller, Glee Club director, for my lifetime enjoyment of choral music. How about you guys? During Columbus Day our mini-reunion dinner at Dowds’ Country Inn gathered John Engelman, Bev and Jim Lawrie, Helen and Peter Fahey, Don Marcus, Dave Walden, Joe Nathan Wright, Marti and Cliff Groen, Barbara and Jack Hopke, Sylvia Griffiths and Bill Rich, Ed Heald, Joanne and Roger Lenke, as well as Barbara and Bob Grant ’79. Don’t forget upcoming mini-reunion opportunities between now and June: skiing at Vermont in January, executive committee meeting (everyone welcome) in February during Winter Carnival, more skiing in Colorado in March and a Danube River trip to Hungary in April. Interesting statistics: In 1968, when we graduated, an average house cost $14,950, an average wage was $7,850, a new car was $2,822 and gasoline cost 34 cents a gallon. And our peers, born in 1946, include Tommy Lee Jones, Jimmy Buffet, Cher, Dolly Parton, Stephen Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone…and Donald Trump. We and our generation certainly have been living through a period of enormous change! Other assorted news: Tom Couser has recently published Letter to My Father: A Memoir. One reviewer noted “the narrative reveals a son struggling to maintain respect, even love, amidst temptations to anger and disillusionment.” Ed Schneider did not lose his home in Santa Rosa, California, in the massive fires, but did come close. We did hear parts of the Silverado Resort, where we have had mini-reunions, were affected. Deb and Dick Olson took a “journey of reconciliation” to Vietnam this past fall. Mark Waterhouse was noted on Facebook as “croquet champion”—of what? News of two more classmate deaths recently arrived: Dirk de Roos died of apparently sudden onset pancreatic cancer on July 1 in Greenwood Village, Colorado. And we received very belated news of the death of Land Washburn, who passed away January 14, 2014. Obituaries will be included in a future class newsletter and will be on the magazine and class websites.

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com

Omigod: Our 50th reunion is only one year away. Keep your eyes out for the detailed event planning. I hope you can consider a donation to help with our planned reunion gift to endow the freshman trips. This will be a gift that can touch every incoming freshman, every year. And, of course, don’t forget the annual Dartmouth College Fund—as you read this in June our class will be in the home stretch of this year’s giving. The first (and perhaps last) annual Grand Canyon hike wrapped up in April. Eight classmates and six spouses gathered for the four-day mini-reunion, with great weather and rim-side lodging perfect for sightseeing. The group included Marsha and Bill Adler, Nancy and Dave Dibelius, Bev and Jim Lawrie, Stacey and Ted Levin, Deb and Dick Olson, Ginny and Scott Reeves, Allen Ott and Peter Emmel. Bill, Dave, Peter, Jim, Dick Allen and Scott actually made the hike down to spend the night at the Phantom Ranch and back the next day. Their declaration: The hike was a true bucket list event because it made them feel like they were about to kick the bucket. Our annual 19th Western ski trip was held in early March at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Attendees included Clark Wadlow, Steve Schwager, Tom Stonecipher and friend Lisa Albert, Susan and Hap Ridgeway, Scott Reeves, Rick Pabst, Rich duMoulin, Peter Emmel, Peter Fahey, Chris and John Blair, Gerry Bell and three friends from nearby Bethel, Larry Griffith’s sister Joann Chambers, Laurie and Jim Noyes, Bev and Jim Lawrie and daughter Dawn ’97 and family (Craig Allen ’97 and the real next-generation granddaughters Jessica ’28 and Katie ’31). Even more ’68s and friends had hoped to come, but medical or family issues intervened, as they do for all of us these days; those unable to attend included Julia and Larry Griffith, Rusty Martin, Bruce Senn, Cindy and Dave Stanley and John Manaras ’67. Watch for full reports and pictures on both mini-reunions in a future newsletter. The group is already planning for the 20th anniversary Western ski trip, now scheduled for March 3-10, 2018, and is circulating a survey on possible locations: Deer Valley, Northstar, Snowmass or Mammoth. Please contact Jim Lawrie if you are interested. Kathy and Paul Fitzgerald recently returned from a vacation in Panama, where they explored the canal and kayaked in the jungle.They noted, with a little schadenfreude, that a Trump hotel in Panama City was nearly empty, as Mexicans are boycotting it.Daughter Erin married Robert Furrow last August at a ceremony that overlooked Muir Woods, California; Erin teaches fourth grade while Rob is doing a post-doc at Stanford. Paul and Kathy also are greatly enjoying grandsons Kieran and Cade, children of son Brent and his wife, Mariko. And in February we lost another classmate, Malcolm Cross Jr. (a.k.a. Jeff Douglas). Watch for the obituary on the website and in the newsletter.

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com

As you read these notes, the Grand Canyon mini-reunion will be in a mix of celebration, exhilaration and recovery. Fifteen classmates and guests gathered at the rim, of whom eight hiked to the bottom and back. Diane and I did the same hike a couple years ago and when we arrived at the bottom, we were greeted with a small sign saying: “Down is optional; up is mandatory.” And it is a lot of up. I commend our stalwart classmates for their adventure. Other recent mini-reunion adventures have included skiing at Okemo, Vermont, which attracted 17; and the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, annual skiing event, which had 27 attend. We are a busy class! Marty Keller shared recent family news: He and Lainy spent a few weeks in Chicago and San Francisco meeting and helping out with their two latest grandchildren, Sadie and Ira (numbers 6 and 7). While in San Fran Marty visited with Bill Zarchy. Both plan to attend our 50th reunion. Marty retired in 2009 as chair of the psychiatry department, but still is in charge of academic strategic planning. He spends half the year in Florida, the other half in Westport, Massachusetts. Marty kayaks and plays golf, sometimes with Jim “Mix” McCormick during his time up north, and notes that his relatively frequent visits from and to his five children and their spouses and the grandchildren is at times more of a challenge than 18 consecutive good holes. Both sound pretty good to me! Dave Bergengren recently published a book, Hitler’s Assassin, a World War II and Cold War historical novel. I had a nice phone call with Jonathan Knowles out in Oregon. After Dartmouth he spent four years in the Navy on a guided missile destroyer. After a couple years in insurance in Los Angeles, he worked at a ski resort near Lake Tahoe, California, where he met his wife, Vida, who was a lift operator; they married in 1976. After travel to Canada, California and Washington State, Jon became general manager at a ski resort in Oregon for six years. Too little snow and too much rain closed that ski area, despite the addition of an alpine slide. He also worked as ski school director at historic Timberline Lodge, an historic Works Progress Administration project (1935 to 1937) on the slopes of Mount Hood. In 1987 Jon attended massage school and became a massage therapist, which he continues to this day. Wife Vida served as executive secretary at Timberline Lodge for 18 years, worked in public broadcasting and tutored French at Mount Hood Community College. Recent Facebook post from Dick Olson: The best car anti-theft device on the market today is manual transmission.

Keep the responses coming on our two class online surveys. The links are https://surveymonkey.com/r/2N2HH6H and https://surveymonkey.com/r/DMKLMLB

Thanks to everyone for responses so far!

In closing, a recent quote encountered in The Wall Street Journal: “What I like in life is to do, not having done.” I hope that describes us all.

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com

Happy holidays! Much news to share, most happy and some sad. On the happy side, your humble secretary David Peck and wife Diane enjoyed celebrating the wedding of their son, Sam Peck ’10, with Elise Lewyckyj ’10 in October in Pittsfield, Vermont. A glorious day, just past peak foliage and only one week before the first snows at Killington. A total of 17 Dartmouth graduates attended, including Elise’s brother, Jonathan ’14, mother Beth Shapiro Lewyckyj ’81 and grandfather Gil Shapiro ’53. On the sad side, John “Bear” Everett died of an apparent heart attack while hiking on the Camino di Santiago in Spain. John has been a mainstay of reunions and executive committee meetings for decades. We will miss him greatly. Watch for his and other classmate obituaries on the class website. Other classmate news: John Hamer is happily retired and living on Mercer Island, Washington, with a condo at Suncadia on the east side of the Cascades to escape from Seattle-area rains. Two stepsons and three grandchildren live nearby. John’s wife Mariana Parks was recently named president of the Slade Gorton International Policy Center. Tom Stonecipher plans to retire at the end of this year, from his full time practice of law in Bozeman, Montana. Farewell to “the work of shuffling papers and talking tough, sometimes making the argument of the weaker appear to be the argument of the stronger (in honor of Socrates), and bravely risking paper cuts daily.” He and partner Lisa Albert plan to walk the Way of St. Francis, Florence to Assisi to Rome, about 350 miles in 2017. They also plan to include time with Steve Elliott in Vermont this spring helping with sugaring and maple syrup production, “experiencing, once again, honest work.” Gary Kriss wrote from Cambridge, Massachusetts: Fifteen years ago, after a 10-year career as dean and president of Nashotah House, a seminary of the Episcopal Church, he took an early retirement. Since then he served as part-time vicar of a small rural parish where they restored the church building and its historic organ. He also is deeply into family genealogy (Swiss, not German), which has prompted a trip to Switzerland and trips to 49 out of 50 states, seeking out fascinating family connections. And most important of all, Gary shared a quote from St. Arnold of Metz: “From man’s sweat and God’s love, beer came into the world.” Insightful guy, that St. Arnold. Watch for a more detailed report of our class 70th birthday in Napa, California, this past September. Thirty-eight classmates and 34 guests and friends attended, a total of 72. A great event and a hint of better things to come, including our 50th reunion in June 2018. Still looking for responses on our two class online surveys. The links are https://surveymonkey.com/r/2N2HH6H and https://surveymonkey.com/r/DMKLMLB.

Watch for an update in a future column or on the class website. And of course, please use e- or snail mail—always thirsty for news. Thanks!

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com
 

Happy summer to all. Fall is just around the corner, which could (should!) include joining classmates in Hanover for the Homecoming mini-reunion during the weekend of October 29-30. Executive committee meets at 10 a.m. (all classmates and friends always welcome), followed by tailgating and the football game against Harvard (always fun). Saturday dinner details being developed; watch our class website.

Busy year for weddings for Cathy and Warren Cooke’s two youngest children, one in May and one in October. After decades in a large and beautiful Victorian house, Betty and Mike Lenahan are moving into a condo being constructed in the old Sacred Heart Church in Concord, New Hampshire. No retirement in sight for Larry Smith, whose company Charles River Recreation rents canoes, kayaks and paddle boards, and in the winter, skis—more than 600 rental items. However, retirement is in sight for Peter Baylor, who says he really means it this time as he (and most of us) hits age 70. He works as a lawyer with Nutter, McClennen and Fish in Boston. Wife Trish works as a guide in Newport, Rhode Island, and therefore now expects to see more of Peter. Not sure if that is a good thing (only kidding). Joe Leeper wrote to share news that last year he had been named Educator of the Year by the California Geographic Society. He was cited for four decades of service to the organization, numerous professional papers and accomplishments during his presidency of the group. Roger Gutner wrote both the newsletter (a longer version) and this column (the shorter version) with his updates: “in a word or two, 40 years of medicine, from which I retired last October, three children and two stepchildren and eight grandkids. Lots of growing and heartache (no pain, no gain) and plenty of coming together with realizations and family, which have made it all wonderfully worthwhile. In short, life is good.” Noel Augustyn also wrote both newsletter and column. He shared his happy recollections of being part of the 50th reunion, held last fall, of the undefeated 1965 football team, on which he and other ’68s were sophomores; he shared a table with Gene Ryzewicz, Steve Luxford, Sam Hawkens and Norm Davis. He also saw George Spivey, Greg Marshall and Bear Everett the same weekend. In hometown Washington Noel has also recently seen Andy Hotaling, when he was in town to receive an award from the American Association of Pediatric Surgeons, and John Pfeiffer, for his 70th birthday.We now have two online surveys: https://surveymonkey.com/r/2N2HH6H and https://surveymonkey.com/r/DMKLMLB. Responses continue light so far, but here is what we know so far: Of the few respondents, 71 percent have been married at least once and we average 1.5 children and 2.4 grandkids. All of these seem low, so please help us flesh out the responses. Suggestions for our 50th reunion will also be helpful. Plus, keep the news coming in every way possible.

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com

Spring has sprung. If you can, join the executive committee at their next meeting in Hanover on Green Key Weekend, Saturday, May 21. It’s a great time of year to be in Hanover (actually, any time of the year is a great time to be in Hanover!). The Big East ski trip 3.0 at Okemo Ski Resort in Vermont in late January was joined by Nancy and Dave Dibelius, Roberta and Dave Gang, Jackie and Gerry Bell, Cathy and Burt Quist, Bear Everett, Tom Enright, Peter Fahey, Steve Schwager, Rick Pabst, Bruce Seen, Allen Ott and Paul Rizzi. This is becoming a new tradition to match the western skiing mini-reunions. From my email box: Fred Gruder is still plugging away at practicing law (he notes that perhaps one day he’ll get it right and then retire). He also sees Dave Cooperberg (for whom he does some legal work), Roger Witten and Fred Price ’67 for lunch and occasionally with their wives. Roger, Fred ’68 and Fred ’67 are all still married to women they met and dated at Dartmouth. Steve Spitz has been practicing psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts since 1979. He plans to retire when the electronic medical record (EMR) hits the hospital, now scheduled for 2017. Interestingly, I’ve heard many physician friends of our generation and earlier say the same thing about EMRs. Steve married Cynthia Ingols in 1990. Cynthia is a professor at the Simmons School of Management. Vicki and Clark Wadlow spent three years designing, planning and building a new home on the Intracoastal Waterway near Wilmington, North Carolina. Son Ray ’95 is an oncologist in Fairfax, Virginia, with three kids. Son Tom has two kids, works for Amazon and lives in Portland, Oregon. Son Jeff ’98, who was head worker at our 30th reunion, has just finished directing The True Memoirs of an International Assassin, starring Kevin James, and is about to start a second movie, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, with Ryan Reynolds; both movies are due out late in 2016. And daughter Anne ’01 teaches Greek and Latin in high school and at Providence College. A very busy family! Dan Butterworth is working on an interesting project: a replica of HMS Victory, 10 feet long, that surrounds a wheelchair. It will be used in parades and theatrical productions.

We keep hearing continuing reminders of our mortality: James “Jock” Soper died in late December, plus we belatedly heard of the death of Bob Larson last year. Watch for the obituaries on the alumni magazine website. And as noted, I plan a series of quick online questionnaires about our class, who we are, our life experiences and to help in 50th reunion planning. I’ll share the results with all of you in this column and the class newsletter and, I hope, gather news to share. We now have two online surveys: surveymonkey.com/r/2N2HH6H and surveymonkey.com/r/DMKLMLB. Plus, keep the news coming in every way possible. No morsel of news too small!

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com

Winter is a’comin’ in. Happy holiday season to all as we head toward 2016. Which means Winter Carnival is nearing: February 12 through 14. That will also be the next executive committee meeting (Saturday morning) and mini-reunion in Hanover. Come join us! Homecoming Weekend during Columbus Day Weekend was a terrific success: Between the (damp) Friday night Homecoming parade, the Saturday morning executive committee meeting, tailgate at Alpha Delta (AD), satisfying football win over Yale, and dinner at Quechee, Vermont, at least 19 classmates, plus wives, friends and guests, gathered. Several came from afar. Barbara and Jack Hopke were up from New Orleans and shared stories about the city’s recovery from Katrina. Lael Kellett and wife Susan traveled from Florida. During the tailgate they had fun leading a small tour around the AD house, remembering events not too far removed from, and that in fact may have inspired, some of the iconic stories in Animal House. Mia and Tom Laughlin, also from Florida, were on campus for the weekend. Married for 41 years, they have two grown children. Daughter Laura is a lawyer, recently married and due to deliver grandchild No. 1 in several months; son Kiernan is a senior brand manager with Johnson & Johnson and plans to marry in July. Tom recently retired after a 40-year career in marketing and general management with several consumer healthcare companies, including Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Upjohn and Bayer. For many years he was on the board of directors for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, of which he served as chairman for two years. He and Mia split their time between Florida and a retreat in Vermont near Mount Snow, and enjoy golf and their energetic golden retriever. And Tom is an author! He e-published a novel, Absence of Intent, a fictitious romantic drama about a young Boston family, set in Boston, Tuscany and Rome in Italy and an Ivy League campus in New Hampshire. And our class has other authors with new books out or coming soon: Bob Reich with his Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few; Jeff Garten with From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives (due out March 2016) and Hank Paulson with Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower. The Paulson Institute co-hosted a conference of Chinese and United States CEOs in conjunction with the recent visit of the president of China. Woody Lee recently spoke at the Museum of African American History in Boston on “Dartmouth’s First 133 Black Students.” John Engelman noticed a clever reference to Gordie Rule in a recent Sports Illustrated. From Facebook: Tony Dambrava and wife Susan (Sam) celebrated their anniversary in October, either 51 years from when they first met at ages 18, or 12 years since they re-met and married at age 57. And from your secretary, a new house and new address, but same old (nearly 400 years) town. Come visit sometime!

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com

Everyone is welcome to come to a mini-reunion in Hanover during Columbus Day weekend: Be there! Andrew Winter was recognized by the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) for his many years of service to the association and the Foreign Service, both during his career and in retirement. He served eight years as chairman of the AFSA finance, audit and management committee, helping direct strategic investments; Andy also served on its scholarship committee. During his 30-year career in the Foreign Service Andy served as a deputy assistant secretary in three countries, traveled to more than 100 countries and was an ambassador to Gambia. He noted in our 40th reunion book that he survived two coups d’état and two death threats. Tom Couser and wife Barbara Zabel are happily enjoying life since retirement in 2011. Tom writes, reads work in his field (English and disability studies), referees journal articles and lectures. He’s given talks in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil as well as here in the United States. Barbara, who taught art history at Connecticut College, teaches courses at local museums in Old Lyme and New London, Connecticut, enjoying her enthusiastic older students and the fact that she doesn’t have to read papers and give grades. Tom is also an active member of New London Landmarks, a local nonprofit. One favorite activity on the nonprofit’s behalf: plaque research, searching out the histories of old houses and their owners for inclusion on plaques. He’s rediscovered the pleasures of hockey (“the new golf”). Both Barbara and Tom enjoy sea kayaking on Long Island Sound, the rivers of southeastern Connecticut and off the Maine coast. Susan and Terry Lichty were in Hanover in May, as part of the Connections Program, and celebrated the 50th anniversary of their meeting at a Choate Road dormitory on May 2, 1965. Three classmate books arrived in my mail recently. Jim Henle authored The Proof and the Pudding: What Mathematicians, Cooks and You Have in Common (Princeton University Press). One reviewer noted that the book explores “the natural connections between mathematics and cooking, and reveals how both can be creative, fun and memorable.” Jim teaches math and statistics at Smith College. Steven Reiss will be publishing The 16 Strivings for God: The New Psychology of Religious Experiences (University of Mercer Press). Steven reports the book puts forth the first, new comprehensive theory of religious experience since William James. Steven is an emeritus professor at Ohio State University. And Stephen Jenkins,who retired in 2011 from the University of Nevada, recently produced Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology, (Oxford University Press),in a way a companion piece and sequel to his 2004 book, How Science Works. Hank Paulson coauthored an article titled The Blame Trap, in a recent Atlantic magazine. And, unfortunately, two death notices arrived: John Hamer reported that Greg Fetler passed away in April of cancer, and Tom Russian passed away in May. For further details, check the alumni magazine and class website.

—David Peck, 54 Spooner St., Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com

I hope your snow has melted by the time you read this. As I write this in February Plymouth, Massachusetts, has had more than eight feet of snow (and counting) since late January and most of it is still around! Diane and I visited San Francisco recently and met Kathy and Paul Fitzgerald for lunch in Sausalito, California. Paul is still working at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School (UCSF), but finding more time for family, travel and new hobbies (rock climbing!). Among much good conversation we learned about how he long ago lobbied for his fellowship at UCSF by coincidently riding on the same plane with the head of the endocrine department, who would be deciding on Paul’s acceptance. The lobbying worked, and Paul has been in California ever since. They live very near Muir Woods, a destination I highly recommend. He and Kathy recently celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary. Bill Beers is still working full time, teaching “business English” one on one at a large Japanese company in Kobe, Japan. And Bill still studies Japanese, although he passed level one of Japanese proficiency in 1989. He finds the language, people and culture quite fascinating. In his free time Bill enjoys reading both fiction and nonfiction (in English, he clarifies!). Current recommendation: Ken Follett’s Edge of Eternity. This March he and wife Tamae will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. Lots of travel fit into his full-time career, including nearby Asian countries, Bali, and Hawaii. Rich Miller served as coauthor of the third edition of Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation, providing the latest guidance concerning the use of drugs for specific health conditions during pregnancy and lactation. Not exactly bedside reading, but an important contribution! Saw some awesome Facebook postings recently: Pete Emmel’s monster icicles (thank you, winter); Bob Thomas from St. Augustine, Florida (not missing winter!); and Bill Adler’s visually rich images of Argentina (now there is a traveling guy!). Our class remains active in the connections program. During Winter Carnival professor Jere Daniell ’55 spoke to 40 or 50 class of 2018s about the history of the carnival, followed by some personal reflections from John Engelman, Bill Rich and Jim Cruickshank. After the program some of the usual suspect ’68s mingled with the freshmen, including Peter Fahey, Wells Chandler, Dave Walden, Ed Heald and John Everett. In our ongoing mini-reunion saga, Big East skiing version 2.0 at Okemo Mountain, Vermont, in January, drew 17 skiers, including 14 classmates. So successful that there will be a 3.0! Watch for details in a coming newsletter. And as you read this the annual Virgin Islands green armada is about to sail, May 6-16, with Gerry Hills as admiral of the ocean seas. There might still be time to be a walk (the plank) on. Check the class website for flotilla details and other ideas in planning, including a trip to Budapest and rafting on the Arkansas River in Colorado.


—David Peck, 54 Spooner St., Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com


Gatherings and travel fill our class news. The Class Connections program, connecting us to the incoming class of 2018, had two parts. At the College Grant, during the freshmen trips, Lynn and Bill Clark, Chris Mayer, Bear Everett, Jack Noon, Peter Fahey and John Pfeiffer served food and good cheer as the traveling freshmen passed through. And at the Class of 1953 Dining Commons (in our experience, Thayer Hall), Mary and Chris Mayer, Martha and Gerry Hills, Dave Walden, Dan Bort, Bill Rich and friend Sylvia Griffiths, Bear Everett, Peter Fahey, John Engelman and David Peck handed out Dartmouth ’18 pins. Gerry has also donated his two ’68 sweaters to the class of 2018, both for Connections and because they don’t fit anymore. The ’68 turns ’68 New York City theater weekend drew a crowd of classmates and guests, including Warren Connelly and Carolyn Rand, Michele and David Cooperberg, the ubiquitous Peter Fahey, Roberta and Dave Gang, Ed Heald, Steve Schwager, Sandy and Larry Smith, Leslie Cosgrove and Mark Waterhouse, Janet and Ron Weiss, Sarah and Jim Snyder, Michel Zaleski and John Engelman. Pencil in ’68 turns 70 for a return to Napa Valley, California, in 2016. The annual Bandon Dunes, Oregon, golf trip happened in early November. Future class trips and mini-reunions include a second annual big east ski trip at Okemo Ski Area in Vermont this coming January; the now legendary March ski trip in the West in Sun Valley, Idaho, in March; and a late April-early May trip to Key West, Florida, “in the footsteps of Truman and Hemingway.” And of course the becoming legendary green flotilla in the Virgin Islands in later May. Watch for full info on the class website, in email or in future newsletters. From Facebook we learn of classmates traveling to exotic locations: Sally and Peter Emmel toured France on canal boats and spent time in Paris. Bill Rich and Sylvia Griffiths traveled to Budapest. Kathryn and Paul Fitzgerald went to East Africa. Marsha and Bill Adler toured Japan. And Diane and David Peck spent two weeks in Turkey, getting as close as (and glad to be no closer than) six miles to Syria. Bill Jaeger wrote, noting that he and Charlotte are enjoying retirement and dividing time between Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Wintergreen, Virginia. Bart Palmer, a professor at Clemson University, has been named editor of the South Atlantic Review, the official journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Since 1995 Bart has been at Clemson, where he has also served two terms chairing the English department. He is both a medievalist and a film scholar and has served as author, editor or general editor of close to 50 books. And finally, our class has donated to the Alumni Memorial Book Fund, which supports library acquisitions in memory of recently departed classmates. During 2014 we remembered Jonathan Doll, Lew Sayers Jr, Jannik VonRosenvinge, Gerald Parkinson and Sherman Fredrickson.


—David Peck, 54 Spooner St., Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com


We remain a class with many classmate gatherings, both past and future. The second annual Return of the Green cruise and mini-reunion splashed around the Virgin Islands last May. Classmate crew included Adm. Gerry Hills and able seamen Norm Silverman, Jack Hopke, Jim Lawrie, Gerry Bell and Larry Griffith, plus Kevin Swenson ’71, Wayne LoCurto ’66, Tom Zurich ’81, Dave Boyle ’69, Bill Ernst ’65 and Tom Webster ’65 honorary. The group enthusiastically created the Dartmouth Alumni Club of the Virgin Islands, recently recognized by the College as the newest alumni club. They are planning a third annual cruise May 10 through 19, 2015—all classes welcome. Late August and early September will see the Class Connections events in the College Grant and on September 10 in Hanover. And later in September at least 14 classmates plus their guests will gather in New York City for the “’68s Turn 68” theater weekend, for a show called Kinky Boots on September 19. Deadline has passed for ordering tickets through Ed Heald (unless you get them on your own), but more classmates are welcome for other events during the weekend. And further into the fall: Hanover mini-reunion during the weekend of October 4, with a home football game against the University of Pennsylvania. Executive Committee will meet that Saturday morning (everyone welcome!) and plan for the usual pregame tailgate party and a class dinner that evening. November will see the annual golf event at Bandon Dunes, Oregon, November 2 through 6. Check the class website for details on any and all of our planned events.


Mary and Chris Mayer attended youngest son Luke’s college graduation in May, after which Chris and two friends motorcycled around the Southwest for eight days. Chris prayed that “all parts stay in place and functional (my parts, not the BMW’s).” And this August oldest son Zach ’10 will be marrying Lindsay Dean in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Steve Small, who has been a widower twice, married last fall to Judy Herman and lives just outside Philadelphia. Both Judy and Steve are retired and take great pleasure in visiting their blended family of children and grandchildren, plus considerable traveling. Steve also spends time volunteering, playing tennis and taking classes he never had the time or was afraid to take at Dartmouth. Jim Snyder still works full time as an in-house attorney for Edwards Vacuum, which generously allows him to work two days a week remotely from home in Parsippany, New Jersey, in the winter and from Barnegat Light, New Jersey, in the summer. He and wife Sarah (Mount Holyoke ’71) have been married for 44 years. Both are very active, with Sarah running half marathons and Jim biking. And they have become serious mountain hikers, with the Swiss and Austrian Alps and the Dolomites on their resumes and Pyrenees planned.


Sad news for the obituary files: George Moore and Bill Kendall both passed away earlier this year. Watch the class newsletter and the alumni magazine website for details.


—David Peck, 54 Spooner St., Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com


A happy holiday season to all. We had a great Homecoming Weekend mini-reunion in Hanover during Columbus Day weekend, with a Friday evening parade and bonfire and a full Saturday including executive committee meeting, tailgating at Alpha Delta, football victory over Yale and dinner at Murphy’s Farm in Quechee, Vermont. Classmates and guests joining in some or all of the activities included Adele and Dan Hedges, Sandy and Larry Smith, Pat and Dennis Donohue, Peggy and Allen Ott, Peter Baylor, Mike Lenahan, Helen and Peter Fahey, Diane and David Peck, Ed Heald, Dave Walden, Gerry Bell, John Everett, John Engelman and Bill Rich. The next executive committee meeting, which as always will double as a mini-reunion, will be on Winter Carnival Weekend, February 7 through 9. All are welcome! On to classmate email news. From Rich Farrand, an update: He and wife Karen were married one week after graduation. Three years in the military, including one year in Vietnam, were followed by an M.B.A. from Tuck. At mid-career, after 20 years in business, he and Karen felt called to go to Nigeria as Bible-teaching missionaries. The experience reinforced a sense of calling and he obtained a master’s of divinity, since which Rich has served for 10 years as pastor in Sunset Beach, North Carolina. He and Karen enjoy their two children, seven grandchildren and extensive traveling, including on three transatlantic cruises and trips to Portugal, Spain, Italy, Israel, Jordan and all around the United States. Whew! Jim Cruikshank stays connected to Dartmouth by serving on the hockey alumni advisory board and helps with fundraising for Friends of Dartmouth Hockey. He retired in 2007 and spends as much time as possible from May to October at his cottage on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada. He and wife Patricia celebrated their 40th anniversary this past summer. Rick Pabst, writing from Washington State, has his 30-foot sloop Liberty ashore in Ketchikan, Alaska, winterized and awaiting May to start cruising around southeast Alaska. Anyone interested in joining, let him know.
Rick’s Blue Ribbon Farm breeds racehorses, and for the past several years has been the leading Washington-bred breeder in money won. He also notifies his band geek friends: “I’m delighted to be trying to play my trombone in three groups. When with the Dartmouth Marching Band, I really thought B was always flatted. Whoa!” Alas, other recent notices included two classmate deaths: Jon Doll, who was Robbie Peacock’s freshman roommate, died in Asia in August 2010 (we received belated notice) and Michael Sprando died August 21, 2013, in the Portland, Oregon, area. Both Jon and Michael left Dartmouth before graduating, but were still part of our class family. In addition, I learned that Rick Shepard ’67 who graduated with our class has also recently died. Further information is available on the alumni magazine website. And hey, guys, try our class of 1968 group on Facebook. Great way to share news, among each other and with this news-thirsty secretary.
—David Peck, 54 Spooner St., Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com



A fine, if very wet, Homecoming Weekend and mini-reunion in Hanover over weekend of October 24-25. Parade and bonfire (exceedingly sparky) on Friday and a productive executive committee meeting on Saturday, with 12 classmates on hand. We heard from guest Dan Nelson ’75, director of outdoor programs, who provided great detail on the freshman trips, which we wish to endow as our 50th reunion gift. One of the 12, Steve Schwager, was a welcome new attendee at the executive committee meeting. He’s on a sabbatical year from Cornell, spending the year at Yale, making Hanover a relatively easy trip compared to traveling from upstate New York. A biostatistician, he is pondering what to do when he grows up and where to do it…as we all are! Back to our weekend: Tailgate party (indoors) at AD, with even more classmates and significant others, and a post-game reception at the Drake Room at the Hanover Inn. A fine mini-reunion. Of which we are having many. During a week in early November 10 classmates plus one ’68 friend played golf at Bandon Dunes in Oregon, a mini-reunion idea hatched by Ed Heald, with effort coordinated by John Blair and Jim Noyes. Watch for a full report in a future newsletter. Speaking of golf, Gerry Hills, who missed the golf trip, reported he has been in St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands for the past nine years, allowing his golf game to deteriorate. The prior 19 years had been in Hawaii, where perfect year-round weather and cheap golf courses allowed his handicap to drop to 12 with no lessons. Now nearest golf course is an island and car barge trip away, greens fees expensive and the courses hard-packed. He does plan to get his game together by the time of the 50th reunion. Buddy Noel also wrote his regrets on golf, citing a conflict since his son was getting married that same weekend at Palm Desert, California. What kind of excuse is that? Congrats, Buddy and family. Looking ahead through our mini-reunion glasses, plenty of time to join the skiing mini-reunion planned for the North Lake Tahoe, California, area over the period February 27 through March 6; it already has more than 30 classmates and friends signed up. Other news: Burt Quist wrote that he and Cathy have returned to Rhode Island for the third and final time. Burt had spent the last six years as director of international marketing for a small company in Virginia and spent a lot of time traveling in Europe, North Africa and the Mideast. They are very happy to be back in New England. They have two sons, Erik and Carl, both in the Marine Corps and both have been or will be in harm’s way. Burt and Cathy are proud, but understandably worried. Let’s all wish them well. And let me wish everyone well in this holiday season, and a happy New Year.


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu


Two days before the magazine’s deadline I arrived back from 10 days in Texas for a nephew’s wedding and travel around San Antonio and the Hill Country. And no waiting news. So I tried for the first time our class listserv, and lo, heard from 17 classmates, with overflowing news that will nourish more than one column or be forwarded off to the newsletter editor, who has fewer word limitations. More of you guys should join up to the listserv! Bart Palmer shared poignant news: This past July a group ’68 Tau Epsilon Phi brothers met on Webster Avenue to dedicate a tree and plaque to departed brothers Dave Sobel and Dave Sigelman. In attendance along with Bart: the Rev. Richard Farrand, Jim Frey, Dave Effron, Dick Wiebusch, Dave Irwin, Rick Richter, Jack Hopke and Bob Tannenwald. Tony Dambrava wrote from Redmond, Washington, where he and Susan Miller have a horse farm called the Up and Up Farm. Not too far from Rick Pabst’s horse farm in Buckley—they see each other from time to time. Tony is doing some community theater and is planning voice lessons to warm up the pipes to get back into singing. He invites classmates to drop in at the farm. Allen Ackerman reported that during this past year he has climbed Half Dome in Yosemite, with his son Sam, done a triathlon in Chicago, had two delightful dinners with Eric Lieberman in New York City and built a snowfort with his grandson in Newport, Rhode Island. And is in training for a half marathon in Austin. Allen is keeping the travel agents (or Internet sites) busy. Eric Jones wrote, “What blizzards? What snow?” In 75-degree sunny California life is comfortable, except for his continuing need to do his three-days-a-week dialysis. Eric Hatch reported a year with some financial stress, as the refinancing crisis affected the studio building he owns and he had to sublet his studio to others. He still does photo refinishing and other artistic endeavors, including a recent paid gig to Maui. This summer he had a chance to see Greg Marshall, Cedric Kam and Dennis Donohue and shared a favorite picture “Dennis Takes a Bath,” in which a properly outfitted fisherman Dennis took an unintended dip. Cliff Groen did indeed retire, as rumored earlier, after 16 years with the International Finance Corp. He and his wife, Marti, sold their first home in Arlington, Virginia, in only 10 days and are in their second home in Quechee, Vermont, with three cats, while they look for a replacement first home/apartment in New York City. They plan to split their time between the Big City and the Hill Country. More to come in future columns; hope this column finds everyone well this mid-winter.


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@childrens.harvard.edu


We have a new class newsletter editor: Dave Gang has succeeded Greg Marshall. Let’s thank Greg and welcome Dave and send lots of news his way—but save some for me! More listserv news: Dirk Hartogs, in addition to his usual intellectual property and patent litigation work and grandchildren, has been working for the 2010 census locating and counting homeless people in Silicon Valley. Even in a location of prosperity, achievement and wealth there are a surprising number of such “outdoor people” who may well be undercounted in the census. John Pierce reported in on his Vancouver Olympic experiences. He was a volunteer on the timing team for cross-country and Nordic combined events and was in charge of putting transponders on the ankles of the racers and GPS units on their bibs. He noted there was a Dartmouth reception in Vancouver, where he met Gordon Campbell ’70, the premier of British Columbia. John did note that only time will tell if the lavish expenditures by the province and country to host the Olympics will be a net benefit in the long run. But Canadian patriotism definitely got a boost! Jeff Garten and his wife, Ina, the “Barefoot Contessa,” spent their 41st wedding anniversary in Paris. She is finishing up her seventh cookbook, for which he is chief taster. Jeff remains in teaching at the Yale School of Management, with classes on Wall Street and China, both timely and continuing topics of relevance. He also finds time to chair a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm called Garten Rothkopf. John Miksic wrote from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he and wife Heimun were visiting daughter Vonya, son-in-law Nate Eisinger, a 2-year-old granddaughter and son Ezra, who was visiting from San Diego. Both Vonya and Ezra have multiple degrees and both in biotechnology. John hopes to see Don Middleton on one of these future Pittsburgh trips, since John’s home is in Singapore. He teaches in the Southeast Asia studies program at the National University of Singapore, where he is involved in archeological projects at Angkor, Cambodia, Bagan, Myanmar, Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, as well as Singapore. He welcomes any Dartmouth classmate to come visit! Bill Escovitz was a recent traveler as well; he and Sari went from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to New York City to visit their sons Dan and Dave. Dave, 27, works in video post-production; Dan, 30, is in first year of an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago after six years of consulting. Howard Hoffman wrote to report he is a fulltime Hasidic rabbi and psychotherapist in Denver. Learn more at www.rabbihenochdov.com.


Have a great summer, all, and send news now to both of us Davids.


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@childrens.harvard.edu


After the last column musing about graduation 2010, back to news, some new, some old. Watch for a re-release of a book called Take Ivy, a Japanese book/photo album from 1965. A photographer visited all of the Ivies to record, in candid photos, the collegiate style of dress, and it became an influential fashion hit in Japan. Now translated to English, editors are looking to see if some of the then stylish undergrads can be identified. I found Ed Heald right away, but there may be many more of us in those pictures. Or not, since we were pretty pea green at the time and at the bottom of the food chain in 1965. The book is available on Amazon. Joe Leeper wrote that he retired in May of 2009 after 38 years at Humboldt State University, where he was in the geography department. He served as chair for 26 of his years there. He misses the students, most of the faculty, but not the constant downer of California budget crises. He says he is still waiting for a call from Tony Abruzzo, and looks forward to seeing Chuck Woodworth and Mike Lenehan at this fall’s second annual golf outing at Bandon Dunes in Oregon. Still time to sign up, for any late walk-ons, by the way. Clark Wadlow is another recent retiree (I sense a trend here). But if anything he sounds busier then when employed: travel with Vicki (biking in Italy, travel to Alaska) and handfuls of grandchildren. Roger Lenke wrote, prompted by his senior in high school son Michael’s visit to Dartmouth. Roger is not quite sure how to fill in the application, as he (Roger) didn’t actually get a degree from Dartmouth—he left in year three to go right to medical school in New York. After Columbia and the Air Force he entered academic medicine, at assorted spots sprinkled across the country, and is now semi-retired (or semi-unemployed in wife Joanne’s words). I told Roger: Once a ’68, always a ’68, and his son is therefore a legacy. Good luck, Michael! Roger Witten sees Alan Thorndike from time to time, as they serve on a nonprofit board in Stowe, Vermont. In the past Roger has seen Ric Gruder, Dave Cooperberg and Bill Kolasky over lunch (not all at once), and Bill Adler and his wife dropped in for a visit. Daughter Wendy ’96 and her husband, Andrew Tannenbaum ’97, have two kids and daughter Kate (Emory ’00) was expecting her first child when Roger’s letter was written. Later this October Joe Nathan Wright, Bill Rich, Dan Hedges and Bear Everett are organizing a mini-reunion in Houston, Texas, for a dinner with a focus on building momentum for our 50th reunion gift to support the freshman trips. Hope your fall is off to a good start, and would love to hear from you.


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu


Midwinter and the days are getting longer, heading toward what will be the 50th high school reunion year for most of us. Wow—a reminder that our own 50th isn’t far away. Miscellaneous news from our last mini-reunion in October: Sandy and Larry Smith have added paddleboards to their kayak and canoe rental business in Newton, Massachusetts. They’ve noticed people doing yoga on their boards and paddling around with their dogs. Pat and Dennis Donahue first met on Match.com. Sue and Ed Heald had a memorable rafting trip on the Zambezi River in Africa. And speaking of mini-reunions, the recent sad note of the passing of Michael Sprando triggered a wave of communication between past Tau Epsilon Phi brothers to create their own mini-reunion for ’68, ’69 and ’70 brothers, currently planned in Hanover in October. And speaking of mini-reunions, don’t forget the Gerry Hills-organized Flotilla II: “Return of the Green,” a cruise around the Virgin Islands in May. Contact Gerry at stjohncaptain@aol.com. On to our email news: Almost completely retired from a 40-year career in textiles and furniture, Larry Himes is down to one day of consulting a week. “The less I do the more I resent it and am quite ready for full-time retirement.” Larry and wife Sara recently spent four weeks in Europe, including London, where son and family (including two grandchildren) live, Lisbon to Barcelona cruise and 10 days in the Spanish interior. They also did Alaska, Canadian Rockies and Inland Passage in 2010. Larry still plays competitive U.S. Tennis Association tennis and dotes on his four grandchildren. His motto is “Find out what they want and give it to them,” which occasionally irks the parents. However, sounds like a good grandparent motto! Bob Tannenwald is also “semi-retired—ha!” after 28 years at the Boston Federal Bank. His “ha” life includes teaching at the Heller School at Brandeis University, dealing with public finance and budgeting and writing a column for State Tax Notes, a weekly publication for state and local tax professionals. He and Leslie are also snowbirds, spending several months a year in Boca Raton, Florida, where they have a small apartment. Richard Parker is also still teaching, for the last 20 years at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and reports he is looking forward to exiting the paid workforce once his younger son Tom heads off to college and starting a new chapter of his life with wife Robin. Older son Sam is a junior at Colby and starting goalie on their hockey team. Linc Eldredge is also still “body snatching” in his executive search firm Brigham Hill, and wife Susan still does psychotherapy. They take great pleasure from their first grandchild Olivia, now 1. Sad news to share: Gary Lee Brooks died last October of prostate cancer. Gary had served as general counsel at the National Archives for nearly 30 years. And Jim Morrison’s wife, Marilyn, is facing terminal cancer, prompting a wave of sympathy from friends and classmates.


—David Peck, 54 Spooner St., Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com


A glorious reunion in Hanover, with friendships made or renewed, rich with conversations of marriages old and new, of children and grandchildren arrived or hoped for, and of retirement embraced or avoided. Ninety-eight classmates attended at least part of the weekend, and counting our guests more than 169 were part of the reunion.


Highlights of the weekend are nearly too many to mention: luncheon at Helen and Peter Fahey’s house, where we met our new president, Phil Hanlon; the memorial service at Rollins Chapel led by John Isaacson and David Peck; our joint reception and dinner with the class of 1969; the Flagrant Neglect concert in Collis (see below); a broad menu of topical lectures and discussion groups, including a medical issues seminar co-led by Kevin O’Donnell; our final class dinner in Alumni Hall with guest athletic director Harry Sheehey. We did have a class meeting, and selected officers for the next five years, with Peter Fahey as president, John Isaacson as vice president and many others reelected to continue their service. Check out the class meeting details on the website. Special thanks to John Engelman and Dave Walden for their hard work in organizing and managing the reunion. So many great stories throughout the reunion, of which I heard a few from my own corner of the tent. They included David Williams and Fred Martin’s visit to Mount Holyoke long ago, announcing themselves over the dorm intercom as representatives of the Dartmouth Coeducation Committee, and having more than 100 Holyoke women come down to greet them. One of the greatest pickup lines I’ve ever heard. Patti and Steve Calvert’s first date included driving around in an old hearse (belonging to Steve’s band, the Night Watchmen). Tony Dambrava celebrated his birthday during the reunion, and recalled how he abruptly “retired” from the Army in Vietnam, thanks to a single shot to the neck (fortunately it didn’t affect his singing voice!). Rick Pabst breeds horses in Washington State, and is considering breeding marijuana, which is now legal in the state. We all listened and danced to the Flagrant Neglect, a band of ’68s and ’69s gathered for the reunion and organized by our own class Peter Pan (the boy who never grew up), Peter Wonson, and including Steve Calverton guitar, with John Maxfield on keyboard, Peter Christianson on trumpet and David Williams on sax and synthesizer. Gene Mackles and Rich Olin also contributed. Doo-wop vocals provided by Greg Marshall and David Peck. And we heard from classmates about their own Flagrant Neglects (flags) earned through their academic underachievement, now fondly remembered (but certainly not then!). Greg, David and Dan Tom also sang with a ’69 doo-wop group later in the weekend. Watch for more detail in a future class newsletter. And don’t forget upcoming mini-reunions, the first (of many) the weekend of October 12 in Hanover, for the Yale game. In closing, sad news to share: Larry Hall and John Jewett have both passed away recently. Details in the obituary section of the alumni magazine website.


—David Peck, 54 Spooner St., Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com


Our class was proudly represented in Hanover at graduation time. Kevin McGregor, son of Jane and Sandy McGregor, received his undergraduate degree. Thayer graduated three ’68 legacies: Dan Olson ’04 received his Ph.D. in engineering; he is the son of Deborah and Dick Olson. Dick wondered if son Dan breaks some kind of record for having not left Hanover for 11 years (this is his third Thayer degree). Chris Bustard ’10 received his bachelor of engineering (B.E.); he is the son of Elaine and Dave Bustard. Likewise, Sam Peck ’10 also received his B.E. Sam is the son of Diane and David Peck (yours truly). Peter Fahey, a trustee at Thayer, was part of the investiture event, a Saturday event for just the Thayer graduates. Check out the Commencement address by Conan O’Brien, on either the College website or YouTube. Both funny and wise at the same time. And looking ahead, two legacies are incoming in the class of 2015: Mackenzie Boss, daughter of Kelly and Hugh Boss, and Michael Lenke, son of Joanne and Roger Lenke. Jon Newcomb has been in the news, when he was recently announced as chairman of the board of SWETS, the world’s leading information services company for academic, corporate, government and medical institutions. Jon had previously been chairman and chief executive officer for Simon & Schuster. Jeff Hinman was among a group of veterans profiled inthe Hanover region’s Valley News; they were participating in a discussion group about coming home after war, using Homer’s Odyssey as a catalyst to prompt discussion. Jeff was a photographer and correspondent with the 25th Infantry Division. He noted that his war was “a million dollar experience you wouldn’t give ten cents for.” On his helmet he had inscribed the famous ode: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (Sweet and right it is to die for one’s country), to which he appended: “But Not Here.” Frank Couper is still very much in our minds: After Frank passed his son Scott found a trove of Dartmouth memorabilia, which he provided the class. We propose to auction the items off to classmates (and any other interested Dartmouth alum) with the proceeds going to our 50th reunion gift, endowing the first-year trips. Check out the class website! Pete Wonson shared a humorous birthday card he received, mentioning more age-appropriate (for us) musical groups: the Grateful We’re Not Dead; the Earth, Wind and Fiber; the Boobie Brothers; and Crosby, Stills, Nash and not-so-Young. Don’t forget Pete’s book kickoff in White River Junction, Vermont, on August 27, 2 to 6 p.m. at the Tupelo Music Hall. Final call for our 65th birthday party/mini-reunion to be held in Williamsburg, Virginia, during the weekend of September 15 through 18. Still time to make it. And if you want to do Hanover and not Virginia, September 30 and October 1 will be a mini-reunion, including a Friday evening class dinner. At Quechee, Vermont. Watch for more details. And as always, how about some news?


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@childrens.harvard.edu


A happy fall to all. As your read this both our class 65th birthday in Williamsburg, Virginia, and mini-reunion in Hanover will be history. Watch for full coverage in the class newsletter. The e-mailbox has been pretty full since the last column: Frank Molloy shared news that he had run across an original Eleazar Wheelock letter at an auction. He bought it, had it authenticated by the College’s Special Collections and then donated the letter to the College. Nice going, Frank! Bob Haslach has authored a new black-and-white illustrated children’s book called Rowley’s Very Fine Day. He performed quality control by testing it on granddaughter Emilia Humphery (age 18 months) and his standard poodle, Rowley. Both approved the book for general readers. Phil Freedman spends part of his year at Copper Mountain in Colorado, doing emergency medicine at a clinic he helped found in 1979. During the last 12 years he has also been working on cruise ships as a physician. He prefers the smaller ships, and currently works with Lindblad/National Geographic; this coming winter he’ll be with them in Costa Rica and Panama. Check out expeditions.com. Noel Augustyn wrote with assorted reminiscences. He was last in Hanover in October 2010, when he was joined by Norm Davis, Skip Small and Bob Thomas, representing the class at a reunion of the undefeated 1965 Ivy League champion and Lambert Trophy winner. During the same weekend visit he saw Greg Marshall, with whom he roomed at Stanford in 1969, along with Tom Okarma.Their rent back then was $60 per month each. Noel also noted that he and wife Ann see Bev and John Pfeiffer from time to time in Washington, D.C. No retirement yet for Noel, as three more years of tuition payments to Boston College for daughter Catherine still lie ahead. Son Matt went to Notre Dame and is now in law school at Catholic University in Washington; daughter Monica recently graduated from Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. Bob Block wrote to share a glimpse of life’s passages. Both of his parents passed away in the past year, one at age 90, the other at 91. At the other end of the spectrum is grandson Micah, age 14 months, an irrepressible walker, runner and talker. Micah is the son of Bob’s elder daughter, Alexandra. And grandson Skyler, 3 months old, is the son of Jessa Block Barnard ’02 and Justin Barnard ’02. Bob has just relinquished his on-call beeper after 37 years of emergency room availability and anxiety, although he does plan to work a few more years. Wife Lora continues in her career as a college admissions consultant. For some interactive activity, check out the class website for the auction of Frank Couper’s memorabilia. And finally, belated, sad news from Denver: John Mitchell Weigel passed away last October from pancreatic cancer. Watch for the obituary on the alumni magazine website. And as always, how about some more news?


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu


Assorted news arriving by electron or snail. Dan Hedges recently bought a fully electric Nissan Leaf, charged solely from the solar array on his roof. No electric bill for his fuel cost, and it handles and accelerates well to boot!


Francine and John Pilling wrote about a recent neighborhood tasting event at the Red Lantern on Stanhope Street in Boston. It was a trip down memory lane, as the same location was remembered as the Red Coach Grill, Satch’s and one of the first Bertucci’s. Time marches on. John remains active at the Boston Architectural College, leading studios on Spanish and American colonial architecture in Puerto Rico and Cuba, among other places. He might run into John Isaacson’s wife, Consuelo, who is running a small foundation serving Caritas Cubana, who travels to Cuba periodically as well. John and Consuelo’s two kids are both in Brooklyn, amazing their parents by somehow making a living in the film world. 


John Miksic wrote from Singapore, where he just added the position of head of the archeology unit of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Center at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies to his regular duties as a professor at the National University of Singapore. John helped cut the ribbon along with the president of Singapore. 


Sally and Peter Emmel enthusiastically wrote to praise a Dartmouth alumni travel trip they recently took, called the “Waterways of Russia.” Two days in Moscow, five days on the Volga-Baltic waterway on the MS Volga Dream and two days in St. Petersburg. His report was rich with observations, with particular commendation for the superb condition of the churches, the “Europeanness” of St. Petersburg and the high level of exquisite food, service and professionalism of the entire trip.


Frequent correspondent David “Howie” Soren reported that he will be directing and producing a new film about the ancient Etruscans and Romans, assisted by John Stephens as the computer graphics designers for the forum reconstructions. John and Howie were roommates way back when, and remain good friends despite the distance between Arizona and Vermont.


Class rock music guru Pete Wonson, author of the book Old Times, Good Times: A Rock and Roll Story, alerted us that there will be a reunion of sorts of several bands in Vermont on August 3-4. Watch for more details in a future issues or on the class website. And yours truly, your class secretary, has joined the growing ranks of the retired (sort of), but like many of us was persuaded to stay at Children’s Hospital Boston part time through June to assist in the transitions within the planning office.


Berry-Baker Library shared with the class that four books were recently purchased in memory of deceased classmates James Lewis, Gary Blaich, Frank Couper and John Weigel. And yet another deceased classmate: Eric Jones passed away in December after a long illness. Watch for the obituary on the magazine’s website. Keep the news coming.


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu


Midwinter greetings to all. Light news lately…perhaps everyone is saving it up for in-person communications at the reunion later this year! June 13 through 16—mark it down! Henry Homeyer was profiled in two North Country newspapers about his new book Wobar and the Quest for the Magic Calumet. The story took shape in 1966 when Henry had a sophomore year summer job running a children’s recreation program in Saxtons River, Vermont. He had time remaining on one day’s program and lots of kids to entertain, so began to make up the story on the spot. Wobar, a boy with a mustache who can communicate with animals, and Roxie, a cougar, search for a long lost calumet, or peace pipe, that has been missing for 200 years. Henry, who has already written four gardening books, tried unsuccessfully to sell the Wobar story in 1982, when he returned from travel and work in Africa. The manuscript ended up in a drawer until 2005, when friend and columnist Nardi Campion loved it and restarted its travel to publishing. Arnie Resnicoff has been busy in recent months. In November he was a guest in Hanover at a Veteran’s Day remembrance breakfast and later addressed the student body on the topic of “Faith and Force: Religion and the Military.” He also penned an article for Veteran’s Day in the Washington Post. In addition he has been working on the February commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the event behind the Four Chaplains Day, the day when two Protestant, one Catholic and one Jewish chaplain gave up their lives to save others when the U.S. Army transport ship Dorchester was torpedoed by the Germans during World War II. John Melski is recovering nicely from liver transplant surgery and aiming his rapid improvement in part to attendance at the upcoming reunion. Professor Don Pease, our honorary class member, won the 2012 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. Don has taught at Dartmouth for 40 years. Some interesting classmate activity noticed in Facebook: Gerry Bell solicited online votes, and got at least a few, in a mileage competition on LifeFitness equipment. I don’t know how he finished: He was in competition with someone who had lost 100 pounds. Dick Olson, lifetime United Auto Workers advocate, was proudly among the large crowds in Michigan opposing the Right to Work law. Marsha and Bill Adler shared pictures and a sense of awe about their recent visit to the Galapagos Islands and Quito, Ecuador. Their trip home included a flyover of an active volcano in Guatemala. Dave Walden moved from Georgia back to Hanover earlier this past year, giving him even more opportunities to work on class of 1968 activities. Jim Morrison praised the quality of the art in the Honolulu Museum of Art, particularly the Georgia O’Keeffe pieces. Thank you, Facebook. Incidentally, we now have 20 classmates on LinkedIn, another social media outlet. How about some more news, in any form!


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; davidbpeck@aol.com


I write in the midst of the post-Christmas blizzard hitting the East Coast. Wild and wooly outside, branches down, power out (thank God for MacBooks with batteries!). I hope this column arrives as winter is winding down for us all. The snow reminds me: There is still time for last-minute walk-ons (slalom-ons?) for the annual ski trip: March 5 through 12 at Big Mountain in Montana. And we are in countdown mode for our 65th birthday party/mini-reunion for to be held in Williamsburg, Virginia, during the weekend of September 15 through 18. Plan ahead, and hope you can make it. My own coming 65th birthday prompts the next chapter in my life: my turn for retirement. With the last college tuition payment behind me (or perhaps until grandchildren come up to bat, a considerable way off for us), Diane’s own retirement from her job as a midwife in the Uphams Corner Health Center and two more grandchildren on the way (for a total of three) it is time for new adventures and plenty of travel. Most of this month’s classmate news comes from Facebook and LinkedIn (more classmates should try those social networks): Hugh Boss wrote that his daughter (not granddaughter) Mackenzie Loretta Boss had been accepted early decision to the class of 2015. First legacy in the incoming class, but I hope not the last. Sandy McGregor shared news of another legacy, nearing the end of his Dartmouth time: Kevin McGregor ’11, planning to go on to his B.E. at Thayer. Kathy and Paul Fitzgerald celebrated two life events: their son Brent married Mariko Maki on September 24, 2010, in Mill Valley, California, and Paul’s mother, Jessica, turned 100 on July 24, 2010. Pete Wonson is working on Old Times, Good Times: A Rock and Roll Story, a book about great New England bands, great characters, great stories from the 1960s. The book is due out in the summer of 2011 in time for book signings in Williamsburg (see above)! Dick Jones and wife Martha spent two weeks in Italy with many friends from the Frederick Chorale. Dick, a master of many instruments, is now singing (who knew?). Bob Thomas is working at Bucknell, from which he received his master’s in 1975 in counseling and education. Invitation is out for anyone visiting central Pennsylvania. On a sadder note, James “Blackie” Davis passed away October 9, 2010, in Charlestown, West Virginia. More information at the DAM online obituary section, dartmouthalumnimagazine.com.


Keep the news coming, snail, electrons or social networks welcome!


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu


One year away and counting: Our 45th reunion will be June 13 to 16, 2013, in Hanover. Save the date, which will include the musical efforts of a special occasion band of 1968 and 1969 hits now being assembled, tentatively called the Flagrent Neglect(s). Pete Wonson is coordinating. Be there, to play, sing, dance or listen. Another date to save next year: Larry Griffith shared the plans for the class ski trip March 2 through 9 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Thirty have already signed up. A little closer in time, 40 years of sculpture by David Strohmeyer will be exhibited in the Burlington, Vermont, City Arts Center from June 29 through September 8, with exterior pieces exhibited in City Hall Park through the end of September. His pieces are in private and public collections around the country, including the 3,284-pound yellow fin in the Los Angeles Omni Hotel lobby, to Tool de Force, a 13-by-17-by-18-foot painted steel work now in the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. He and Sarah plan a trip to the Amalfi coast in Italy this summer with dear friends Karen and Andy Epstein. David lives and works on a 190-acre farm in Enosburg Falls, Vermont. Gene Mackles won the 2012 Mensa Select Mind Game competition with his new game Iota. It joins the ranks of past winning games including Set, Scattergories, Trivial Pursuit and Taboo. Congratulations, Gene! Dave Berengren visited Hanover recently, with an eye to visiting new construction projects. Stops included the recently renovated Class of 1953 Commons (old Thayer Hall), the new snack bar at the front of Baker Library, the new Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center and the new softball field. He capped off his visit with breakfast at Lou’s. And didn’t yet see the newly renovated Hanover Inn or the new arts center, still in construction. Hey, guys, all good reasons to come to our reunion next year! Michael Ryan wrote, from his iPhone (!) from Morocco, where he is on a Dartmouth study tour led by professor Ron Green. He heartily recommends these, as a congenial group from multiple classes, sharing lots of Dartmouth memories. His wife, Phyllis, has been in assisted living with Alzheimer’s, and the last few years have been tough. This Morocco trip has been his first solo trip, and a wonderful pick-me-up. George Bruns retired from full-time commercial banking in 2007 but still does banking training on a part-time basis for the Risk Management Association. He and Karen enjoy their 259-year-old house on the Saco River in Saco, Maine, but spend four months a year in Kauai, Hawaii. Does that make them pineapple birds instead of snow birds? They have two grown children and five grandchildren, all in nearby Massachusetts. Keep the news coming.


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu


Happy holidays to all. Six months to our 45th reunion, which will be in combination with the class of 1969. We hope you can make it: June 13 through 16. And an update to last month’s column: If you are interested in the May Virgin Island cruising, contact Norm Silverman at norman.silverman46@gmail.com. His other account got hacked. Now the recent mail: Pete Stevens wrote (for the first time in 44 years, he pointed out). He is currently professor of orthopedics at the University of Utah, specializing in pediatric deformity correction. He developed a means of correcting limb deformities (an eight-plate), which in addition to his teaching has created opportunities for international travel, lecturing and medical charity work in Bolivia, Bhutan and Sierra Leone. He met his wife, Gayle Maroney, at a Gamma Delt mixer in 1966, and they were married for 38 happy years until she tragically died in an automobile accident in 2008. They had two children: Colin, an inventor and musician, and Caitlin, an artist and designer, both of whom live nearby in Salt Lake City. No grandchildren yet, Pete noted. New happiness in hand: He married Susan Dolan this past September; she has an M.F.A. from University of Utah and is a screen and stage actor and director. Pete and Susan are downsizing into a LEED-certified home, now in construction in the high foothills overlooking Salt Lake City. Not quite ready for retirement, he reports, as he anticipates another five years or so of teaching, travel and practicing orthopedics. Dick Patrick was honored with the 2012 Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to hockey in the United States. After Dartmouth, where he played hockey, he got his law degree at American University. He has been president of the Washington Capitals hockey team since 1982, and spearheaded the construction of the Kettler Capitals Iceplex, the Capitals’ training facility and home to many youth hockey programs. Note: The Lester Patrick Trophy was named for Dick’s grandfather, but I’m sure that had nothing to do with the award. Dick’s accomplishments speak for themselves. Eric Hatch has released a new book: Explorations in Photography. According to the press release, the book is intended for advanced amateur photographers, covering topics from buying equipment to editing photographs, from taking people pictures outdoors to handling nasty lighting situations. It is available on Amazon. Bill Adler was yanked from retirement in California, and from improving his golf game, with a one-year fellowship at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. in international communications and information policy. He’ll work on global telecommunications satellite matters and cybersecurity. He and Marsha will use his son’s Dupont Circle digs, as coincidentally, his son is off to Boston for an executive M.B.A. at MIT at the same time. Marsha will look for some consulting work and reconnect with old friends left behind when they moved to California in 1996.


News always welcome, don’t be embarrassed to write even if it has been 44 years! And don’t forget next June.


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; davidbpeck@aol.com