Class Note 1966
Toni and Tim Urban celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary in December. “How did time fly by so quickly?” he wonders. (Don’t we all?) They celebrated at 50th high school reunions—Tim’s from Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, and Toni’s in Atlanta, followed by a road trip that included Chapel Hill, North Carolina (where they met), Washington, D.C. (where they visited children and grandchildren), and, of course, Hanover.
Back home in Des Moines Tim is busy as board chair of a factory process software company, manages real estate investments and serves on the boards of the Blank Park Zoo, Homes of Oakridge and Iowa Capital Investment Corp. Toni runs a gift and stationery store, just completed six years as chair of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission and is moving on to the Des Moines Art Center board of trustees.
The Urbans also took part in the second annual class of 1966 golf mini-reunion in Tucson, Arizona, in early February along with golfers Jeff Gilbert, Al Keiller, Rick MacMillian, Bob Serenbetz, Steve Smith and Ken Zuhr. In addition to two highly competitive rounds, the group enjoyed a congenial evening at Mary and Rich Daley’s home and some cardio hiking led by Anne and Noel Fidel.
Two of our classmates now have children teaching at Dartmouth. Mark Blanchard’s daughter Emily, an expert on trade policy, joined Tuck as an assistant professor last fall after winning an All-University Teaching Award during her seven years at the University of Virginia. George Trumbull’s son George R. Trumbull IV has been an associate professor of history at the College since 2008 focusing on politics and religion in North Africa.
Wayne LoCurto maybe our first classmate with a Dartmouth grandson. Patrick will be a member of the class of, ready for this, 2018. How can that be? Wayne’s son Brendan is the class of 1989 and his daughter Susan and son-in-law Geoffrey Willison, are ’95s. Is Wayne happy? “I am over the moon!”
“I can’t imagine retiring,” confesses Bill Wilson, “because I’m lucky enough to be doing what I love best: translating Japanese and classical Chinese literature and playing around with traditional Oriental culture.” Bill’s 15th book, The One Taste of Truth, which he described as “a little book on tea and Zen,” came out in January. This fall he’s hiking 60 miles through the Japanese Central Alps for a travelogue on backcountry Japan. Four of his earlier works are being made into graphic novels. And Bill’s 9-year-old son Henry is now in third grade and is, not surprisingly, a practitioner of kendo, Japanese fencing, and is steadily moving up the ranks.
Bill Ramos has been selected wing commander of the Southern Nevada Wing of Angel Flight West, which provides air transportation to needy patients, family members and wounded/returning vets and blood products and organs for transplant to medical facilities. He has served as a volunteer pilot since 2003 and has completed 64 missions. Bill has even flown a couple of missions with retired Navy pilot and classmate Nick Steffen.
What’s your latest adventure?
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com
