One thing I have learned about Dartmouth alumni is that they keep in constant contact with each other through travel, gatherings, and mini-reunions! In 2024 classmates have traveled far and wide.
Time to get out your 2024 calendars and start highlighting dates. A regional class get-together lunch is scheduled for Boston on May 15 at the Winchester Golf Club.
Before anything else, I want to extend a special ’71 welcome to Dartmouth’s new president, Sian Leah Beilock, who will be inaugurated on September 22. It is very exciting to have a woman at the helm and we look forward to meeting her.
In 2020 our class created a Zoom reading group, which has taken up a variety of fiction and nonfiction. This year the theme has been “Re-viewing the Culture of Our Youth” with Zooms about Hermann Hesse, movies, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Willis Newton reports that Zoom is still a valuable tool for classmates to communicate. His weekly Zooms on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. ET have a regular following of about 30, with 12 to 15 attending weekly.
We are still reveling in the joy of our 50-plus-one reunion: 220 classmates, spouses, and guests together in Hanover. We all have such spectacular memories of that time.