With vaccinations progressing and relief from sequestration in sight, your class is planning numerous opportunities later this year and much of next finally to get together again.
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.
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deadline wrong and posted late, so there was no room for what follows here, now slightly edited from the original, unpublished submission.
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.
As your recently appointed class secretary, I thank the class committee for the members’ and officers’ endorsements and confidence. I am supremely proud of our school.
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.
Richard Parker, who has been teaching at the Kennedy School of Government for the last 27 years, has been encouraging students to get hands-on political experience.