Some people never change. Tom Hull, Kurt Somerville, Bill McNabb,and Ernie Parizeau were spotted in Boston preparing for their annual row in the Head of the Charles Regatta, racing for Dartmouth Rowing Club. All share fond memories of their first Head of the Charles as freshmen in 1975. After 49 years of racing together, they say the thrill never gets old and they have no plans to stop. This year’s trip down the 3-mile course was one of their best, they said, proving they’re aging to perfection. In between races in Boston they meet every July in Hanover to row and cycle in the Prouty Ultimate event benefitting Dartmouth Cancer Center, where they’re joined by a larger contingent of Dartmouth rowing teammates—“lest the old traditions fail!” All four will be at our class reunion June 19-22. We hope you will make a point to coming too. Although the reunion begins officially with dinner on Thursday, June 19, and ends after Sunday brunch, June 22, early arrivers may attend a stargazing hosted by Doug Arion at his home nearby on Wednesday evening, June 18. Reunion registration is opening. Check out alumni.dartmouth.edu/reunions or our class website at 1979.dartmouth.org for details.
Gail Frawley Patterson and Laura Powers-Swiggett are hard at work planning another ’79 art show for our upcoming reunion. Watch your class newsletters and reunion emails for more details!
I am looking forward to our reunion in June. Perhaps you will consider rounding up some classmates who were in your dormitory during our freshman year. I contacted Alan Berolzheimer, a historian residing in Norwich, Vermont, who says he would come over for a reunion of our Butterfield freshman dormmates. Dave Nelson, who has used his geology degree in the field as well as in his career as a lawyer, said that he will likely come because he likes to see some of his old friends. If you were in Butterfield, contact me. If you were in another dorm and would be interested in a reunion of your dorm, let me know.
Margot Schaaf Barker has already made her reservations to attend the reunion, where she will see friends, some of whom she has recently seen: “At the end of the summer I went on a trip to upstate New York to spend several glorious days in the Adirondacks on a beautiful lake at the summer home of Diana ‘Bug’ Lawrence with classmates Katy VanDusen, Polly Ingraham, Anna Burack Wilson, and Jacquie Shanberge McKenna (who attended Dartmouth for two semesters even though she really went to Wesleyan). We six had a fabulous time—hiking, boating, cooking, eating, drinking wine, catching up. I saw ‘Dibby’ Hatch Moder recently when she and her husband, Fred, were in Seattle visiting their youngest son, Daniel. It was so great to catch up with her!”
—Janie Simms Hamner, 7327 Centenary Ave., Dallas, TX 75225; jshandkids@aol.com