Class Note 1953

An annual rite of spring is perpetuated as admissions has issued its long-awaited decisions for the class of 2015. It reminded me that 167 of our classmates have produced 236 children who attended Dartmouth. With that in mind I decided to check on the next generation of 1953 legacies who will carry our lineage and continue our traditions to the end of this century. Not including the incoming members of class of 2015, 21 of us have produced 27 grandchildren who have joined classes 2005 through 2014.Those are amazing numbers. We have classmates whose fathers and grandfathers attended Dartmouth, so for some their family relationship to Dartmouth will stretch for two centuries or more. The grandchildren and grandfathers are Kelly C. Bloomer ’14, Bloomer; Ross Collins ’14 and Katelyn Parizeau ’10, Collins; Dylan Conn ’09, Conn; John Gehret ’11 and Robert Henley’09, Donovan; Mark Bigor Jr. ’12, Franz; Eugene Gabianelli ’14, Gabianelli; James Kordahl ’10 and John Kordahl ’12, Jacobus; Alexander Kettering ’12, Kettering; Ada Graham ’08 and Rachel Lambert ’08, Lambert; Daniel Dittrick ’08, Lawrence; William McCarthy ’09, McCarthy; John Morris ’11 and Lucy Morris ’14, Morris; David Okun ’09, Okun; Eugene Clement ’10, Pierson; Eric Robinson ’05, E. Robinson; Edward Reed ’13, Rockwell; Lauren Sarner ’14, Sarner; Elise Lewyckyi ’10 and Jonathan Lewyckyi ’14, Shapiro; Elizabeth Sigler ’08, Sigler; Matthew Stoff ’07, Smoller; Daniel Weisman ’08 and Leah Weisman ’10, Sudikoff.


Chuck Reilly has asked, “If you have not yet contributed to the Dartmouth College Fund, we need you to do so now. Remember, we have two goals this year—raising $250,000 and high participation. So far, our results are about average, but we are not an average class! So participate generously. We could have a great year—as the great class of 1953 should. Be there!”


Sadly I must acknowledge the deaths of classmates James D. Decker and Robert G. Newsom. I offer the condolences of our Class to their families.


—Mark H. Smoller, 4 Schuyler Drive, Jericho, NY 11753; (516) 938-3616; dartmark@gmail.com