reunion book - dartmouth class of 1960

Musings UnlimitedThe 50th Reunion Book of the Dartmouth College Class of 1960

Fifty years in the making

Editor: John M. Mitchell

©2010Reunion Book production byDavid L. Prentice ’69Publisher of Reunion Books for Dartmouth 1950, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1968, 1969,1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979,1980, 1981, 1982, and 1985

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Cover: Nathaniel Currier, 1813-1888. Title: Dartmouth College, Imprint New York (ca. 1835)Description: Lithograph (hand col.) 20.8 x 32.3 cm Note: Depicted are President Wheelock’s house, and Wentworth, Dartmouth, and Thornton Halls. President Wheelock’s house is pictured as north of Dartmouth Row instead of south.

Outside back cover photo by David L. Prentice ’69

50TH REUNION BOOK 2010 3 1960 MUSINGS UNLIMITED

Table of ContentsDedication 4Presentation of the Class 5The Still North Remembers Them 6-7The Class of 1960 8Then and Now, by Axel L. Grabowsky ’60 289Great Issues 3081960 Scholars: The Class of 1960 Makes a Difference 309Class of 1960 Officers and Historical Awards 321Geographical List of the Class of 1960 322Names of contributors to Musings Unlimited 330The Smoke Signal 331Photographs 332Dartmouth Undying 335

Dartmouth Row after Dartmouth Hall burned in 1904, with Middle Fayerweather in background

Dedication

For the thousands of military Dartmouth graduates

who served, fought, and died for our freedom.

Thank you.

1960 MUSINGS UNLIMITED 4 DARTMOUTH CLASS OF 1960


Presentation of the ClassIt is my pleasure and honor to present to you theClass of 1960, ripped from the pages of the 1960Green Book, annotated by several hundred surviv-ing members, inclusive of Green Book photos ofthose who didn’t live until the publication date,and overlooked by those who, for what ever reason,did not have the time or inclination to respond toThe Wolf Wind Wailing at the Door-ways.

Alas, this is likely our last effort to Muse about ourvaried life experiences and, goodness, they are var-ied. Yet no one who wrote an essay denied thathis Dartmouth experience did not affect himdeeply. We were lucky guys in the right place at theright time.

I especially want to thank David Prentice ’69 forhis firm but gentle guidance in preparing thisYearbook. Contributors also include Axel Grabowski,Bob Kenerson, Spencer Morgan, Dennis Goodmanand a host of other ’60s. I also want to thank PatCope of Dartmouth Photo records in Rauner, whoprovided nearly instant service in bolstering thepublisher’s supply of Dartmouth College photo-graphs; Dee Dee Roy-Deyo in Blunt, who gracious-ly provided databases that were the foundation forthis book; Joe Mehling ’69, Dartmouth CollegePhotographer, who provided some photos in thebook, and Tony Furnary ’80, for his classic beerpong photo.

In a book of this length, edited by an amateur,there are bound to be some errata; for which I amsolely responsible. If you find one, cherish it, butdon’t bother to tell me of it because as my platoonsergeant explained when something went wrong inBasic Training, “I could care less.” (Explaining tohim why this locution made no sense was futile.)

Here you will also find a wealth of informationabout our Dartmouth and today’s College. I thenoffer a glimpse of the good your money has doneto aid men and women, who could not otherwiseafford today’s tuition, through our Class’s scholar-ship program. A list of those who served the classloyally and diligently is included too. A gazetteershowing where, around the girdled Earth, we allreside rounds out the book.

Sadly, nearly as many of us have died in the last tenyears as had left us during the first forty years wewere away from Hanover. All of those are presentedhere with a black bar over their names to get yourattention. Some have obituaries when they couldbe found; others are memorialized only by a date.None are forgotten.

All of the Green Book photos are here, and regret-tably some, representing those who have chosennot to participate with us much any more, areunadorned.

Thanks for the memories.

John M. Mitchell

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES 6 DARTMOUTH CLASS OF 1958

The Still North Remembers ThemRobert M. Akin June 20, 1997 Martin F. Andie March 25, 2005 John W. Appleford October 6, 2009Richard M. Aronsohn July 31, 1996 Lyman C. Bacon September 13, 1986 Saul W. Baernstein May 11, 1972 Thomas C. Beadel August 29, 2004 Roger K. Bentley II May 16, 2007 Paul H. Boeker March 29, 2003Samuel W. Bowlby October 5, 2009

Conrad C. Born July 17, 2007 Richard A. Bossee 1985 Harry Bruckner, Jr. October 2, 1998 Alex Bruscino Jr. September 16, 2000 Simeon T. Cantril March 5, 2003 Francis A. Carmichael May 1, 1975 Dennis L. Cherlin February 2, 1968 Peter L. Chillag July 15, 2004 Daniel C. Cilo July 28, 1997 Robert D. Clark June 29, 2006

The Still North remembers them,The hill winds know their name,And the granite of New HampshireKeeps the record of their fame.

50TH REUNION BOOK 2008 7 THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

Craig R. Cornell August 28, 1963Samuel T. deCamp February 13, 2009Ronald B. deNeuf May 19, 1986 Harvey E. Duchin July 17, 2007 Peter A. Egan July 21, 2006 Jay O. Emery March 26, 2005 David A. Farfan November 29, 1993 Jessee E. Fate III April 11, 1980 Gregory R. Fellows October 30, 1992 Ellwood M. Fisher May 20, 2001Michael K. Fitzgerald May 6, 2009Bruce A. Flashner July 25, 1994 James W. French April 12, 2008 Samuel H. French June 26, 1994 Lawrence J. Gazley November 6, 2002 David L. Gosnell December 21, 2007 James V. Graham May 4, 2006 Thomas E. Green July 31, 2008 Neil J. Grey May 18, 2007Fernando M. Guerrero February 28, 2006Kevin C. Haggerty November 1, 1979 Edmund R. Hanauer August 10, 2006 William B. Harlow December 12, 1957 Barry N. Hawkins May 29, 1966 William A. Hibbs May 20, 1998 Robert L. Hill September 11, 2007 Charles N. Holkins June 1, 2000 Gordon C. Holterman August 13, 1985 Albert A. Holzscheiter July 11, 1973 Douglas A. Horsburgh September 13, 1962John R. Hoyne May 20, 1993 David S. Hull December 5, 1998 Mart H. Humphrey August 16, 1982 Roderick T. Isaacson March 3, 1974 Jerome R. Jackson March 30, 1982 Gregor Johnson December 7, 2009James D. Johnson November 30, 2000 James D. Jones August 27, 1995 Monte A. Kasuske March 8, 1958 Alexander C. Lampee March 4, 1970 Thomas L. Lanier Jr. August 20, 1983 David E. Lee November 8, 2000David B. Ligon April 4, 2008 Sheldon A. Lippe July 29, 1992 John C. Litchfield November 19, 1982 David J. Loomis October 2, 1995Martin A. Lower December 16, 2009Thomas J. Machura June 12, 2009Gordon G. MacVean March 16, 2008 Fred C. Marsh II November 10, 2004 George F. Mathews February 21, 1965

William J. Mattson June 25, 2001L. Herbert Maurer September 13, 2009Thomas R. McBurney March 31, 2009 Alex B. McGinnis October 26, 2002D. Christie McLellan July 22, 2009Robert H. McManus January 21, 2007 Michael G. Menaker December 10, 1967 Richard M. Mobley December 3, 1996 Seth R. Moger September 12, 1981 Roy F. Monson May 1, 1993 David S. Mosteller October 22, 2005 Reynolds E. Moulton Jr. March 5, 2006 Ned B. Nabers March 13, 1984 Andrew H. Nighswander August 10, 2009Errol K. Paine October 13, 1979 Ned G. Patrick November 17, 1964 Robert A. Peck July 27, 1992 Wilder G. Penfield April 1, 1976 Robert L. Posnak October 27, 1994 Robert I. Postel March 6, 1999 Andrew J. Purdy August 14, 1977 Peter W. Ralph October 24, 1983 Kenneth I. Reich June 30, 2008 Martin L. Reich January 5, 1987 Richard L. Reynolds June 24, 1986 Jon N. Richardson April 15, 2008 Peter Robohm February 28, 2008 C. Weston Roodhouse Jr. July 24, 2002 Edmund A. Rosenthal September 27, 1972Stephen D. Rubin October 31, 1991 Richard G. Rundle May 30, 2004 John E. Saterburg June 25, 1988 Alan H. Schnitzer January 31, 1962 Leonard W. Schmitz September 27, 1999 Joel L. Sewell September 12, 1989 Jay G. Sigmund March 31, 1999 Wilburn L. Sims October 24, 1989 A. James Sniderman June 5, 1997 George J. Stambolian December 22, 1991 Edmund P. Starzyk June 20, 1964 William W. Storm Jr. September 21, 1980 Bruce L. Thornton September 9, 1994 Thomas G. Troyer March 13, 1993 Marshall E. Tulloch October 16, 2000 Alden E. VanBuskirk December 11, 1961 Steven W. Vaughn April 7, 1960 Alexander C. von Summer July 4, 1997 William W. Watson March 27, 2004 Dudley J. Weider February 18, 2005 Henry W. Weiss November 3, 1991Donald M. Weitzman October 31, 2003

The Class of 1960


Arthur G. Aaronson Art

1 Marlborough Street, Suite 2, Boston, MA 02116, (617) 437-0530Spouse: Maria Aaronson

Fred A. Abbe PO Box 810, Cataumet, MA 02534, (508) 563-5935, «[email protected]» Spouse: Susan R. Abbe Occupation: Field of Work—Other

Marc Alan Abrahams

John R. Adams209 West Charlton Street, Savannah, GA 31401, (912) 234-8942,«[email protected]» Spouse: Anne Brown Adams Occupation: Consulting

William N. Adel

James R. AdlerJim

253 Main St. (POB 1653), Norwich, VT 05055, (802) 649-1008, «[email protected]»Career: Retired from Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising (1991)Wife: BrookeChildren: Josh (D ’89, Hoboken, N.J.; Ted, Wichita, Kansas

Life is good. It was good 50 years ago. It’s even better 50 years later.

Almost 30 years in international advertising waschallenging, mostly exhilarating, and often greatfun. But “retirement” for nearly 20 years now hasbeen even better, a chance to pursue a long list ofinterests, to “give something back,” to focus onfamily, friends, and life’s little pleasures.

There are a great many of those little pleasures tobe had here in the Upper Valley, where Brooke andI have lived since 1996. We divide our time betweenour “town” house, a 1780 brick Federal on Main

Street in Norwich, Vermont, and our “country”house on Canaan Lake (N.H.), just a 30-minutedrive away. The opportunities for cultural, commu-nity, and educational involvement are seeminglyendless. I still ski with semi-reckless enthusiasm ona great pair of new, store-bought knees. I’m realizingan old English major’s dream, teaching an AmericanContemporary Short Stories course for ILEAD, ourDartmouth-supported continuing ed. program.Serving as Volunteer Coordinator for the UpperValley Winter Special Olympic Games helps me

“Dad,” he said, “look around at these women– why would I ever have wanted to take a road trip?”

James R. Adler

keep whatever managerial skills I once had fromgoing to rust.

Family, leisure, and learning are all very importantto me, but I’ve always needed something more,something requiring a serious emotional and intel-lectual commitment; something to feed what I havecome to realize—with Brooke’s loving help—is asomewhat compulsive nature; something to satisfymy personal need for passionate involvement inan undertaking that truly matters. For me, first andforemost, that’s been Dartmouth.

Dartmouth was a wonderful college when we werehere in the late ’50s. It still is. In fact, I’m convincedthat the Dartmouth of today is, far and away, betterthan the Dartmouth we were privileged to attend.

Let’s start with co-education. At son Josh’s gradua-tion I asked him if he’d ever taken a road trip. Hegave me that look our kids give us when they’rewondering if we’re losing it, “Dad,” he said, “lookaround at these women—why would I ever havewanted to take a road trip?”

Then there’s the faculty. We had some great ones,but today’s faculty is stronger—deeper in talent,just as dedicated to teaching, and even more acces-sible to their students. It’s not an accident that U.S.

News and World Report ranked Dartmouth #1 in2010 for “best undergraduate teaching.”

So what about the kids? Well for one thing, they’resmart as hell. As the alumni advisor to Chi Gam(in our day, Kappa Sig), I can tell you they stillmake as many bonehead mistakes as we did, butthey squeeze more out of their four years thanmost of us ever did. Because they’re more diverse,they have more to learn from one another, some-thing that will make them better, more compas-sionate citizens in the years ahead and help themto achieve greater success in the wide, wide world.And, make no mistake, their passion for Dartmouthis every bit as great as ours ever was.

I’m grateful to Dartmouth for all it did to awakenmy own desire to learn way back when, and forproviding me the opportunity to give somethingback as an alumnus. I’m also grateful to the won-derful woman who’s put up with me—and myDartmouth compulsion—for 45 years and count-ing, and to all of you—for your friendship and forgiving me the opportunity to serve our great class.It’s been a pleasure. It’s been a privilege. Still is.

Robert M. Akin Robert M. Akin died on June20 1997.

Thomas L. AlaimoTom

6 Lighthouse Court, Daufuskie Island, SC 29915, (843) 842-8984,«[email protected]» Spouse: Jacqueline Alaimo Occupation: Manufacturing, Gare Inc., 165 Rosemont Street,Haverhill, MA 01832, (978) 373-9131


Jim Adler: There can be no greater pleasure in lifethan giving your 31⁄2-year-old granddaughter her veryown Zebco and taking her down to the dock to fishfor the first time. P.S. Fishing is fun, but since wigglybluegills are kinda scary, it’s good to have a Daddyto hide behind and a Grampy to take them off thehook and set them free.

Joel Alvord19 Hubbard Park Road,Cambridge, MA 02138,«[email protected]»

The last decade may not havebeen the best our country hasseen, but these have beendelightful years for me. I amvery fortunate to have sharedthis time with such a wonder-ful “up gal” as my wife Lisa. Ihave four grandchildren herein the northeast. I work on investments and privateequity deals two or three days a week at ShawmutCapital, spend time playing farmer in Westport,Mass., and enjoy living in the Republic of Cambridge.My politics have become more liberal. I have movedfrom the Republican Party, to independent, and now

I am proud to be a moderate Democrat—economi-cally conservative and socially liberal. I am troubledby the polarization of the two parties and the lackof political will at the policy level in Washington.If we lose U.S. hegemony in this century to Chinait likely will be because of our inability to governthis great country wisely.

Lisa and I continue to focus our energy and givingon education. We have a school in rural China wherewe educate 150 girls from very poor families in theProvince of Guangxi. We have started a tuition-free

middle school for inner-city girls in New Bedford,Mass. I have devoted a lot of energy toward sustain-ing this effort, as I believe improving education inour own backyard is one of the most importantchallenges facing this country. I am also on theboard of Loomis School, which has recently hireda dynamic new head from Dartmouth. This springI will join the Board of Overseers at the Hood, and Iam looking forward to helping them enhance theircollection of Chinese art.

I have become a convert to exercise. Stretching andwalking are part of my daily routine along with anumber of sporting activities including golf, ten-nis, fishing, and skiing (going to the Bugaboos thisMarch). I am looking forward to our 50th and wishfor my classmates healthy gray-matter neurons,vibrant and active lives, and happiness in the yearsthat lie before us. As Candide said, “We must culti-vate our garden.”

Cliff Anderson202 Chichester Place, #4, San Antonio, TX 78209, (210) 370-9461, «[email protected]»

My professional life has beenUSMC, FBI, and legal investi-gator, and as a retiree who isstill doing contract investiga-tive work for the FBI.

Nancy and I have been mar-ried 48 years, and besides enjoying each other, werelish our two children and three grandchildren,comprising our son (attorney in Boston with wifeand son) and daughter (psychology professor herein San Antonio with husband and two children).


Joel Alvord: “I have taken up a new sport: wing-walking. I urge my fellow classmates to join me!”

Cliff Anderson

If we lose U.S. hegemony in this century to China it likely will be because of ourinability to govern this great country wisely.

Joel Alvord


Nancy is retired from her tenure as history profes-sor at Loyola New Orleans but has continued toteach in a summer program in Innsbruck, Austria,since 1991. As her “administrative assistant,” natu-rally I’ve “had to” accompany her, and we’ve thor-oughly enjoyed these European working holidays(including Munich, Vienna, Venice, Zurich, Paris,and London).

Though we were very happy in New Orleans for 38years, Katrina convinced us that it was time tomove. Though we did not suffer any significant

damage (we lived in what was called the “sliver bythe river,” high on the edge of New Orleans’ bowl),nevertheless, after returning and repairing, wepacked up and moved to San Antonio. My firstyear’s FBI assignment was here in San Antonio in1967, so this was not an unknown for either of us.

Genealogy has been a continuing interest, especial-ly now that the Internet has greatly improved thatkind of research. Handball and racquetball are nownot so easy, given arthritis. But my most consum-ing, compelling, and controlling interest (my fami-ly echoes the word “obsession”) is numismatics orcoin collecting, particularly bimetallic pieces.

Attachment to Dartmouth is stronger now than inearlier years since reconnecting with classmates andAlpha Thetas.

The bottom line is happiness, contentment withfamily and self, and not reading about anyonefamiliar in the obituaries.

J. Eric Anderson37 Arch Street, Greenwich, CT 06830, (203) 869-0528, Fax (203) 869-0571

This feels somewhat like déjàvu all over again as I thinkback to my musings at thetime of our 25th. After a decadeor so in Connecticut, I am backin Vermont and loving it.

In looking back at the pasthalf century, perhaps themain constant, other than my children, has beenthe bonds I formed with our classmates. I havebeen blessed by my friendships with you andthank you for letting me share in joys, sorrows,weddings, divorces, triumphs and deaths.

Someone wiser than I says that life is simply aseries of short stories. True, perhaps, but the con-nective tissues in all of it are our memories andrelationships. Thank you, ’60s.

Martin F. AndicWord comes from his familyand the university where hetaught for many years of thedeath of our classmate, Dr.Martin F. Andic, a ProfessorEmeritus of Philosophy at theUniversity of Massachusetts,Boston.

A year into his retirement, hedied of pancreatic cancer onMarch 25, 2005, at a hospitalin St. Catharines, Ont., where he had gone to live.Dr. Andic, a fervent student all his life, was work-ing on a philosophic paper for a conference whenhe died.

He came to Dartmouth from Salem, Ore., but grewup in New York City and spent most of high schoolat Bronx Science. He was shy and younger thanmost of his classmates after skipping two grades. Aresident of Topliff, Martin often enjoyed long walksaround Occom Pond. At first, he thought of goingto medical school, but after he won a ReynoldsFellowship and spent a year’s study at St. JohnsCollege, Oxford, he enrolled in a philosophy grad-uate program at Princeton University and receivedhis PhD there in 1967.

He taught initially at Reed College in Portland, butsoon moved to UMass, Boston. In a statement, thePhilosophy Department there declared, “ProfessorAndic was much loved as a classroom teacher andrenowned for the range and breadth of his courses.

Eric Anderson and family

I am still doing contract investigative work for the FBI.

Cliff Anderson

While most faculty focus on one or two of the areasof ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporaryphilosophy, he taught all these areas in addition to19th century philosophy, the philosophy of mind,the philosophy of religion, mediphysics, and thephilosophy of science.

Dr. Andic’s published writings were equally unusual,ranging from works of Greek philosophy, medievalphilosophy and religion to the writing of particularthinkers, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Iris Murdoch,and the 20th Century French philosopher, activistand mystic Simone Weil. He had planned a retire-ment of scholarly projects, which he began by read-ing voraciously and ordering large numbers of books.Martin Andic is survived by his wife, Victoria, andtwo children from an earlier marriage to LorraineHope, Nicolas and Clarissa, Dartmouth 1994, nowa psychiatrist practicing in Los Angeles.

From Francis Dauer, his senior roommate:

Martin and I were fellow philosophy majors, andsince we talked philosophy (and other matters) end-lessly, we became roommates for the senior year.Martin’s delightful personality was clearly visible onhis cherubic visage and the slightly mischievoussparkle that often lighted his eyes. He was, of course,very smart, but I was always most impressed by hisimagination and his knack of finding relevance inthe obscure and the unexpected. His philosophicinterests tended to bridge the hardheaded Anglo-American analytic tradition and the more romantictradition associated with the European continent.In this way, he absorbed the entire spectrum of phi-losophy that was taught at Dartmouth in the late’50s. Upon graduation, Martin went to Princetonwith his bride and I to Harvard. We kept in fairlyclose contact till we got our PhDs and started ourjobs on the opposite sides of the country. The lasttime I met Martin was over a leisurely lunch duringat a philosophy conference in the early ’90s. Hetalked with pleasure of his children (one of whomhad gone to Dartmouth and the other who wasbeginning to apply himself) and of his then currentphilosophic interests (which were attuned to hisimaginative side). The years in between seemed tohave taken no toll on him whatsoever, and he wasexceptionally happy and excited—understandably,because he introduced me to his new wife, a philoso-pher, with whom he was starting a fresh life.

Tom Andrews1705 St. Mary’s Street, Raleigh, NC 27608, (919) 833-3757, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits (This decade):Dartmouth: Piedmont North CarolinaClub, Vice President, President, BookAward Chair, Dartmouth on Locationevent coordinator, applicant inter-viewer, various other club activities;Club Officers Association ExecutiveCommittee; class agent; annualdinners in Hanover with 2010s from local club area.MS work: Bike MS (MS 150) participant 13 years, planningteam for event, in kind contributions chair, #4 fundraiser outof 2000 riders in 2009.Church: elder; session; outreach, missions and Russia commit-tees; Stephen minister; Disciples classes; senior high Sundayschool teacher; adult advisor for youth mission trips toAppalachia, Russia and New Orleans; Theological Forum class.Bicycling, year round; yard work, year round; reading; spec-tator sports; travel Career: Retired, 2005; General Counsel, North CarolinaAdministrative Office of the Courts (1987-2005); Sole prac-titioner, Durham North Carolina (1982-1987); University ofNorth Carolina School of Law, assistant and then tenuredassociate professor of law (1970-1981); Hale and Dorr,Boston, Mass, associate attorney (1966-1970); Peace Corps,volunteer, Ethiopia (1964-1966)Family and Roots: Born and raised in Syracuse, New York;father attended Dartmouth one year and remained avidDartmouth man, pre-enrolled me on my 10th birthday.Wife: Norma Harrell, Deputy North Carolina AttorneyGeneral, special litigation division, avid sports fan, bestfriendChildren: John, 40, mechanical engineer, Montgomery,Texas, his wife, Julie, his children, Justin, 14, Jace, 7,Jordan, 2; Kate, 31, single, at home; Henry, 27, single, hip-hop musician, promoter, lyricist, performer, studio record-ing engineer, now returning to college to complete hiseducationMajor at Dartmouth: History; LLB (now JD), DukeUniversity School of Law, 1964Dartmouth Activities: DU fraternity, freshman football(ouch!), WDCR, various part time jobs, avid recreationalskier and skater

My Dartmouth education continues to be one ofthe most significant formative experiences of mylife, for which I am increasingly grateful. My manytrips back to campus this decade, and my otherincreased involvements with the College, have memore convinced than ever that Dartmouth is thefinest liberal arts college in the nation. We stillattract extraordinarily bright, talented, concerned,active, and involved high school students. We pro-vide them an increasingly varied and challengingset of course options, an involved and caring facultydedicated to teaching college students, opportunities


for community service, study abroad, and intern-ships that were unimaginable when we were there.As students they continue an amazing range ofexperiences and involvements in addition to tack-ling an increasingly demanding curriculum. Asgraduates they play significant roles in theircareers, communities, families and the world. Wecan remain proud of the College and all of its stu-dents, past, present and future.

John W. Appleford John W. Appleford died onOctober 6, 2009.

Robert A. ArgazziBob

100 Spicewood Lane, Kensington, CT 06037, (860) 828-5673 Spouse: Judith Argazzi

Robert G. Armknecht24 Widgeon Lane, Westport, MA 02790, (508) 636-6376,«[email protected]» Career: Retired from Bank ofAmerica Wife: MaryChildren: Susan L., Noank, CT;Robert G. Jr., Scottsdale, AZ Grandchildren: Robert G., III;Caroline H.

Following college, I attended Columbia School ofBusiness, marrying Mary halfway through, andjoining the U.S. Navy upon graduation in 1962.After three years in the navy, we settled in theBoston area where I began a career in investmentcounseling and investment management thatended with my retirement from Bank of Americain 2005.

Our married years focused on raising two children,and when that was done (or when we and theysaid, “We needed a break from parenting”), we dida great deal of traveling, usually connected in somefashion with the water. A Grand Canyon raftingtrip to mark our 25th anniversary comes to mind,as do river trips in Russia and China. For manyyears we owned our own boat, and we cruised theEast Coast from Maine to the Bahamas. Our last

big adventure was two years ago when we sailedfrom Greece to Thailand and then traveled inBurma, Thailand, and Cambodia. As a result of allthis travel, our Westport house is festooned withmemorabilia that serve as a constant reminder ofthe fun we had together. Sadly, illness has causedan end to our wanderings, and we have settled in awinter refuge in Arizona near the grandchildren,where I can satisfy my wanderlust in those desertspaces alongside green fairways in search of myelusive golf ball.

Over the years I have managed to accomplish manyof the goals I set out and have reconciled myselfon not achieving the others. Along the way, I havecome to realize some of those attained were notworth the effort and that the scars acquired alongthe way are worn without remorse. I find that thegreatest happiness has come from those thingspicked up quite by accident including: goodfriends, good family, good health, and good whisky.


Tom Andrews

I have come to realize some of those goals I attained were not worth the effort.

Robert G. Armknecht

When this is read, our class will be 50 years gonesince that day in front of Baker Library, and therewill be many fewer of us together as we gather tomark that 50-year milestone. So to those whosestruggles are behind them, ‘’Hale and farewell,’’and to those of us who labor on—“fair winds.”

Robert W. Armstrong

Richard F. Aronsohn Richard F. Aronsohn died onJuly 31, 1996.

Jose M. Asensio Jr.Pete

110 Fishing Brook Road,Westbrook, CT 06498, (860) 399-9846, «[email protected]» Spouse: Jean Asensio

Thomas M. Ashby Tom

21 Lone Oak Circle, Penfield, NY 14526, (585) 249-9427, «[email protected]» Spouse: Patricia Anne Ashby, RN Occupation: Health/Science

Steven B. AtwaterSteve

PO Box 788, Marshfield, MA 02050, (781) 834-4962, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sheila S. Atwater Occupation: Triboro Capital Inc.,PO Box 788, Marshfield, MA 02050, (781) 834-2968


Bob and Susan Armknecht

Hanover Inn, ca. 1955


Marc Alan Austen29 East 28th St., NYC 10016, (212) 532-7444, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Painting, acting, teachingCareer: Art teacher, middle school; film actingFamily and Roots: My great-grandfather came toManhattan in 1869.Wife: Never married Major at Dartmouth: English, Art minor Dartmouth Activities: Dartmouth players, 4 years,President Senior year

Carl W. Backus7221 North Lombardy Road,Milwaukee, WI 53217, (414) 352-6915 Spouse: Mary Backus

Lyman C. Bacon Lyman C. Bacon died onSeptember 13, 1986.

Saul W. Baernstein Saul W. Baernstein died onMay 11, 1972.

Carl R. Bahn102 Founders Walk Drive, Morrisville, NC 27560, (919) 447-0368, «[email protected]» Spouse: Margaret G. Bahn

John C. Baird Jack

PO Box 178, South Pomfret, VT 05067, (802) 457-3976, «[email protected]» Occupation: PsychologicalApplications LLC, PO Box 178,South Pomfret, VT 05067

Marc Alan Austen

Joel W. Baker Jay

12407 Rainier Drive, Burlington,WA 98233, (360) 757-6301 Spouse: Kathleen Ritz Occupation: Health/Science, 1023 Collins Road, Sedro Woolley, WA 98284, (360) 856-1326

Richard D. BaldwinPO Box 782, Wendell, MA 01379, (978) 544-2252 Spouse: Phyllis Baldwin Occupation: Arts/Entertainment

Arthur E. Balser Jr.Art

3 Dyer Court, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 774-8586 Spouse: Diane Balser Occupation: Manufacturing

John Barchilon2278 Calle Riscoso, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362Life’s Pursuits: Entertainment, lit-erature, music, running, medicine,sailing, businessCareer: father (proudest title),writer-producer, physician (surgeon,army captain, Yale Medical School)Family and Roots: Claudia Elaine(13), Michael Flynn (13); TwinCocker Spaniel pups, Leo andSkipperWife: Beverly Suzanne (a gorgeous redhead)

Major at Dartmouth: FrenchDartmouth Activities: Skiing, Jack-O-Lantern, DOC, gam-bling, cutting classes

Some of us seem late for everything, and I’m in thatcategory—but it can bring astonishing advantages.I married slightly late, divorced early, then finallymade the best choice of my life when I marriedBeverly Suzanne Hoss of Denver. Our twins, ClaudiaElaine and Michael Flynn, were born when was I was57, so we can say I had children late, or certainlylater than most. Luckily, though, youthful, athleticBeverly radiates her beauty brightly enough to keepthe twins slightly blinded to my wrinkles. Having13-year-old twins is a rush. They keep me young.How young? See below:

Michael, a superb surfer, started me surfing inHawaii two summers ago. It’s harder than it looksbut hilarious good fun, and it does wonders to keepone fit. Claudia, an outstanding basketball and trackathlete, challenged me to a race, the length ofwhich I could select. So several weeks ago I trained,

and trained, doing repeated 220-yard wind sprintsin our park, while carefully avoiding gopher holes.When I was about ready to race, Claudia I tried outthe 100-yard dash course I had laid out in the parkand, stopwatch in hand, took off. I was pumpingwell, accelerating fast, feeling great when suddenlymy left foot plowed into a fresh hole that Mr.Gopher had dug since yesterday, the left hamstringpopped, I went down like the Dow Jones, hit theground hard, and cracked my right 6th rib. But thelesson was not lost on me, observe:

A few days later at our medical staff meeting Iquizzed our new young doctors by asking the follow-ing question, “What would be the correct clinicalreferral for a doctor who trains to race a 13-year-oldtrack star, pops a hamstring, and fractures his right6th rib?”

“Orthopedic surgeon,” said our young doctor.

“Wrong answer,” I replied.

“Thoracic surgeon,” she tried a second time.

“Wrong answer,” I said. There was a pause. Theyoung docs were getting nervous. I looked at theother young doctor.

“Pulmonologist?” he ventured timidly.

“You people aren’t thinking clinically,” I offered inmy best professorial voice. “She’s a 13-year-old


Dartmouth, our wise and ever-loving mother,helps us to evolve while always looking forward with optimism.

John Barchilon


track star. He’s a doctor.” A big smile came overtheir faces.

“Psychiatrist!” they both exclaimed.

“Right answer.”

The advantages of late starts continue to accumu-late, because in addition to a certain, dare I say,wisdom, they bring optimism. Enough optimismfor me and my partners to go out, pitch venturecapitalists, and start an entirely new business. Italso brings a realistic adjustment to one’s politicalposture. At Dartmouth I was a radical, left-wingDemocrat. Now I’m a conservative Republican.Dartmouth, our wise and ever-loving mother, helpsus to evolve while always looking forward withoptimism. And now, since I majored in French, I’llclose with, “Mieux tard que jamais,” and “Laissez lesbon temps rouler.”

Robert B. BarkerPO Box 749, Anahola, HI 96703, (808) 821-2597 Spouse: Kathleen C. Bailey Occupation: Government/Military

Bruce A. Barnes Occupation: Education, University of Oregon, Dept. of Mathematics, Eugene, OR 97403, (541) 686-4711

Bryant P. BarnesBarney

3109 W. 69th Street, Mission Hills, KS 66208,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: After Dartmouth, I came back to Kansas City andwent to work in a family ownedbrokerage business (H.O. Peet &Company). I started an investmentadvisory firm in 1966, Chief Invest-ment Officer, 1987-2009. I sold in2002. Still work there, however. I’ve been on numerous boards and trusteeships, local prepschool, and a small college (Ottawa University, Ottawa,Kansas).I have two daughters—both attended The University ofKansas; they married Kansas grads. All live in the KansasCity area. I have five grandkids 11 to 20, 3 grandsons, 2granddaughters. All play basketball and golf, so we attendlots of basketball games, etc. Also attend most of the Uni-versity of Kansas basketball games. We’ve been to severalfinal fours with the Kansas team.I belonged to SAE, majored in History, and attended theUniversity of Kansas grad school for a year (law and busi-ness). I got married October 1961 to Mary Jane Young fromChicago—still married to the same lovely wife.I have played lots of golf over the years. Had some successas six-time club champion and semi-finalist at the KansasAmateur and qualified for: USGA—Amateur, USGA—Sr.Amateur, USGA—Sr. Open. I got inside the ropes but didn’tdo well once there.My wife also qualified for: USGA Mid. Amateur, USGA Sr.Amateur. Dartmouth was in the family (father 1926 and brother 1957).

I came to appreciate the Dartmouth experience sev-eral years out of school when I would read aboutsome of my classmates making the national head-lines (some good and some not so good). Peoplewould come up to me and say, “Didn’t you go toDartmouth? Read about some of your classmates.”

I also began to appreciate my classmates more afterattending reunion and birthday parties every fiveyears. Everyone has been very friendly to “Barneyfrom Kansas.” It has been a wonderful experienceattending these gatherings.

For most of us grads from the Midwest, Dartmouthis still the “small college in New Hampshire” thatwe all love, and I personally don’t get too uptighton the governance issues.

Like most, if not all colleges and universities, thereis the liberal bias that I sometimes disagree with,but life goes on.

“60 Out.”

Jerome B. Bart Jerry

107 South Shore Drive, Owls Head, ME 04854, (207) 594-2213,«[email protected]»

Joseph L. BatchelderJoe

1017 Ridge Street, Naples, FL 34103, (239) 821-9194, «[email protected]» Spouse: Barrie B. Batchelder Occupation: Heritage AlliancePhilanthropies, 626 Palm Circle West, Naples, FL 34102

William G. BattBill

115 Morningside Drive,Indianapolis, IN 46240, (317) 253-6682,«[email protected]»Batt Financial Services, (317) 253-8110Wife: Martha Sue; AB, Indiana University, 1965; MA, Boston University, 1969Career: Two years of active Navyduty at the U.S. Naval Research Lab Annex along ChesapeakeBay southeast of Washington, D.C. Great duty and greatfun. Four years with Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, doingmarket research and profitability studies for domestic phar-maceuticals. It was challenging work with a fast-growingorganization. Twenty-two years in all phases of banking ina modest-size community bank long ago sold and eventual-ly absorbed into what is now PNC Bank, retired as ExecutiveVice President and Trust Officer and a member of the Boardof Directors. It was a wonderful experience with many last-ing friendships. Last 22 years working independently inestate planning and as a trustee, executor, tax return pre-parer, and consultant.Family: Martha Sue, a wonderful partner for 43 years thisfall. Susan, our daughter, is a news producer and investigativejournalist for WRTV Channel 6, an ABC affiliate in Indianapolis.Bob, our son, studying for his PhD in Operations Management

at U Penn’s Wharton School and planning to teach at thegrad school level. He and his wife, Michelle, have a three-year-old daughter and a son due in May 2010.Major at Dartmouth: Engineering Science, with an MSfrom the Tuck-Thayer programDartmouth Activities: A variety highlighted by beingVarsity Football Manager, assistant in the Sports PublicityOffice, member of the Undergraduate Council, Green Key,Head Usher for 1959 Commencement, Editor of the 1963Freshman Handbook and member of Delta Upsilon.

My family and I have been truly blessed throughoutour life. I am thankful for parents who stretchedtheir finances to let me attend Dartmouth andwho were married over 70 years, each passing awayat age 97. I was raised in a close-knit family withstrong Christian values that continue to guide andchallenge all of our family.

Our children are our greatest joy. Susan, still singleand looking for the right man, lives nearby, so we

see her often for long walks, meals, and impromptuvisits. Bob met his wonderful wife, Michelle,Dartmouth ’99, Thayer MEM ’00, at the DartmouthNavigators Christian ministry. A ’99 grad of Wheaton(Ill.), Bob earned a Dartmouth Thayer BS in ’00, anMEM in ’01, and a Tuck MBA in ’05 before working


Bill Batt and his family

“Place loyalty,” a favorite phrase of President Dickey, is still compelling.

William G. Batt


as a Tuck Research Fellow. We loved our visits withthem in Hanover and believe it would be terrific ifhe returned to Tuck someday to teach. “Place loy-alty,” a favorite phrase of President Dickey, is stillcompelling.

Martha Sue and I serve the Media Ministry at ourchurch. She is a discussion leader and pianist forBible Study Fellowship and works with SAT-7 satel-lite TV for the Middle East and North Africa. Ienjoy Indianapolis Children’s Choir board work,business, golf, and woodworking. Through variousRotary positions, I am able to concentrate on theirlocal and international service projects, especiallythe continuing effort to eradicate polio.

I treasure the friendships that have grown and thatendure from Dartmouth days and look forwardwith the prayer that God “will hold us in the palmof His hand” as we share the joys and meet thechallenges that lie ahead.

Robert W. BauerBob

6197 Cowell Road, Brighton, MI 48116, (810) 231-1142, «[email protected]» Occupation: Bauer and Associates,210 East Huron St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, (734) 668-1303

William W. Baxley Jr. Bill

125 Hines Terrace, Macon, GA 31204, (478) 746-2128 Spouse: Charlene Baxley

Paul G. Baxter46 Scioto Lane, Pinehurst, NC 28374, (910) 295-2968, «[email protected]» Spouse: Marilyn Baxter

Donald E. Bayles Don

418 Laurel Hills Drive, Mount Juliet, TN 37122Spouse: Angeline Bayles Occupation: 216 South MorengoStreet, Florence, AL 35630, (256) 767-2671

Thomas C. Beadel Following a long battle withcancer, our classmate ThomasC. Beadel died August 29, 2004,in Syracuse, N.Y. His wife of 40years, Caryl, said he had takena great many books from theirhome in Santa Barbara totheir beloved vacation homein the Thousand Islands andmanaged to read them all beforehis condition grew critical.

Our classmate Jack Patterson said a splendid memo-rial service was held in Clayton, N.Y., at which Tom’shumor and other virtues were the subject of muchappreciation. It was attended by more than 150 per-sons, and among the classmates there were UrbanHirschey, Dick Foley, Don Sheffield, and Phil Kron.

“Tom was strongly a dreamer in some ways, butcertainly one who followed up on the dreams,”Jack recalled, telling how he began his career “atthe bottom,” as he liked to say it, repossessing carsin seedy sections of Los Angeles, then traveled alonearound the world before taking the reins of the fam-ily jewelry business, Keepsake Diamond Rings.

He built on his family’s success, and upon sellingout, he was able to move to California with what


he described as “a liquid million dollars.” Butfinancial reverses soon forced him back into thejewelry business, where he peddled pearls to mom-and-pop jewelers, building a second fortune. Ittook a great deal to throw him for a loop.

Often self-deprecating, Tom was prone to be verymodest about his own accomplishments. Writing inour class publication, “More Musings,” ten yearsago, he concluded memorably:

When I face my own imminent demise [to hissurprise, it was not so imminent], I naturallytake stock. Have I contributed? Have I leftthe world a better place? The answer in mycase is a resounding no! And once I realizedthat sad fact, all the things my mother taughtme, and all the nice liberal things DartmouthCollege tried to inculcate kind of fizzled.That’s a hell of a heavy load to have off ofmy shoulders—whew! I think I’m going toenjoy the rest of my life immensely.

But, his wife told me a story that shows that Tomdid leave the world a better place. A few years ago,she said, he told a jeweler who was a customer ofhis in Gastonia, N.C., and who suffered from alco-holism, that he would buy him out, and, then, ifhe quit drinking, he would sell him back his placefor half the price. When the customer succeeded inarighting himself, Tom quickly kept the bargain.

Dick Foley, like Jack Patterson, was much impressedby the memorial. “It was a beautiful day in allrespects, one that Tom would have enjoyed,” hewrote me. “As often repeated in the conversationsamongst his friends and family following the serv-ice, he was a prince of a guy, a wonderful friend,much loved, and sorely missed.”

Besides his wife, Tom is survived by his son, Robert,Dartmouth ’89.

David J. Beatty

Robert A. BeckerBob

PO Box 94, Merrimac, MA 01860, (978) 884-9939, «[email protected]» Spouse: Nannette P. Becker Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, The Provident Bank, PO Box 37, Amesbury, MA 01913, (978) 834-8500

Dwight A. Beebe1108 Bunker Hill Road, Ashtabula, OH 44004, (440) 998-2854, «[email protected]»

As I begin this article, I recallhaving someone stop by adorm room one night in Mayalmost 50 years ago. He askedif he could join our party andintroduced himself as an alum-nus who was on the commit-tee to plan for their 50th reunion the followingyear. It was a “wow” thought for us to consider a50-year time span for anything, and it turned intoa great evening.

This reunion’s musings for me started out with afew unorganized thoughts around current eventsand those occurring since the last publication, butcuriously without reference to any horizon or thefuture. I’ll leave the analysis of why that might beto someone else, but it does bring to mind some-thing I recall about St. Francis. When asked whathe would do if he were told with certainty that theworld would come to an end at a particular time,he responded that he would continue to plant hisgarden. Another thought on this same topic camefrom a friend of more advanced years than ourswho said that his time was short, but he didn’tthink about it too often because then it would beeven shorter than it was. He managed to enjoy anumber of additional years! These words of wis-dom are good enough for me and readily avoid theburden here of being too serious about the future.

Having dispensed with the future, this leaves thepast and the present. Before retirement, the pastincluded a number of jobs in a variety of industriesincluding the military, information systems, publicaccounting, retailing, banking, health care, andeducation. Most of these opportunities were inmanagement. I still reflect on them from time totime. A senior mentor from an early job advised

me that it was his practice to stay in a position atleast two years to assure others of his worth, butnever more than five years in order to move on.While this wasn’t a conscious plan since I violatedthe five-year rule more than once, it neverthelessseems to have averaged out. Without expanding onaccomplishments, I have to say that each of theseendeavors provided occasions of fulfillment. Thereare a few specific things of a working nature andone non-working that I might mention, however.The first is the wording on a gift pen set receivedfrom employees upon my promotion to seniormanagement. The inscribed complimentary wordswere: “Integrity, patience, sincerity . . . values towork by and live by.” The second came after myretirement from a position that had included lead-ing the institution’s negotiations with the bargain-ing unit. I was asked by both the bargaining unitand management to return and provide the official

written record of the upcoming contract negotia-tions. The non-employment special memory wasreceiving the John Paul II “pro ecclesia and pontif-ice” award in 2000.

In thinking about the past, the question has to occuras to whether one would change anything or wantto tread again the same steps. The answer of courseis not all, but taking the lessons of the past intoaccount, it’s been a good run. Mistakes of judgmentand missed opportunities are facts of human nature

and best used as an opportunity to move on. Loss ofparents, the early death of a grandson, and bypasssurgery are some of my other stories and momentsthat I’m sure are repeated for others as well.

Enough of the past, however, since the present isbusy in many good ways for me as I’m sure it is forothers. It is sometimes difficult to find a balancebetween things that I think need to be done versusthings that I want to get done. There is also thesatisfaction of being able to take whatever time isneeded to do something the way it should be donewithout having to press on to the next item in along list of things to be done. That “corporatesense of urgency” is thankfully gone, although ittook a while for it to disappear.

What are those things that account for being asbusy as ever? They are time with my wife, children,and grandchildren; volunteer work with the localmedical center and hospice patients; some travel;sailing on Lake Erie; and taking time to appreciatefriends. I also value the liberal arts education inmeeting the variety of challenges when the work-ing world was my workshop and now that it isnot. The need to continue learning has also beenpresent. In a job early in my career, IBM empha-sized the need to “think” and education theoristsstress learning by doing. However, I’ve found thatwe learn neither by thinking nor by doing, but bythinking about what we are doing. In 2005, I tooktime out to complete a Master’s program inPastoral Studies from Loyola University—no budg-ets, dollar signs, or spreadsheets involved!

These are my musings (read ramblings) that pro-vide comfort and reflection. I look forward to our50th. At the same time, I will be missing class-mates and roommates who will not be with us.


The “corporate sense of urgency” is thankfully gone, although it took a while for it to disappear.

Dwight A. Beebe

Baseball on the Green, ca. 1885

Don Belcher PO Box 117, Pauma Valley, CA 92061, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Holding a job, rais-ing a family, traveling the world,flying helicopters, volunteering (BSAand World Vision), serving onboards (corporate and non-profit),maintaining friendships, and mow-ing the pasture (it sometimes feelslike a life pursuit!). Career: Three years U.S. Army airdefense–Germany; five years with Pillsbury Company (salesand marketing); two years as G/M—owner TroutdaleRanch (rainbow trout hatchery); 25 years (including 6 inEurope, 3 in Boston, and the rest in Pasadena) with AveryDennison (labels etc.) in various management roles world-wide, most recently Senior Group Vice-President; ten yearsas Chairman and CEO of Banta Corp., $1.5 billion publiccompany (printing and global supply chain management).Retired in 2004, but knowing I would flunk retirement, I’vekept busy on corporate and volunteer boards, and my real“job” (volunteer of course) has been to represent the BoyScouts of America as national commissioner. Very inspiringto be traveling and speaking on behalf of this great institu-tion, 100 years young in 2010, not me, the BSA. Family: Marie and I celebrate our 47th anniversary thisyear. We met in 1962 in Germany where she was teachingAmerican dependents on the same base where I was sta-tioned. I married her for her money. She earned $400/monthvs. my 2nd Lt. salary of $212. We have three great kids andfive wonderful grandkids (they’re all great, aren’t they?).

After 23 moves, we have decided our roots are not in geog-raphy but in the people we care about. Thus, lots of travelto stay in touch. Marie has extremely itchy feet. She leads our travel aroundthe world. We like “expedition travel” (translation, “Youmust be nuts to go there”). One hundred twenty countriesso far and still counting. Some destinations are a little offthe beaten track (just like us, I guess) ... Burkino Faso,Chad, Algeria, Papua New Guinea, North Pole, Antarctica,and Easter Island; you get the idea. Dartmouth Major: Geography; MBA, Stanford

I’ve always been more of a doer than a muser. (Isthat a word?) (Yes.—Ed.). But this exercise hasgiven me a chance to reflect a little bit about theDartmouth experience and the impact it has hadon my life. I came to Dartmouth as a 17-year-oldkid, fresh from an Ozark trout farm, with my skillsleaning toward the practical. Trapping and skinningmuskrats ($1.25 a skin!), shooting squirrels (squirrelgravy is still the best!), and gutting ten trout a

minute, etc. My high school prepared me forDartmouth with math that ended in plane geome-try, no physics, no chemistry, and English thatfocused on sentence structure and no more. I didplay a little basketball, so my grades were ok.

I came to Dartmouth early for the DOC experience,which convinced me I was in the right place. ThenI began the studies. The first year was survivaltime, but things got better. Joining Tri-Kap, work-ing at the Hanover Inn, ROTC, Flying Club (onlyone forced landing in a farmer’s back yard), GreatIssues, and it went on. I now fully realize the posi-tive influence Dartmouth has had on me, andwhile I have been disgruntled and discouragedwith many of the school’s left-leaning actions, aswe approach our 50th, it seems like a great time tosay thanks!!

Franklin E. BellFrank

4809 Sleepy Hollow Drive, Raleigh, NC 27612, (919) 787-7063, «[email protected]» Spouse: Maureen V. Bell Occupation: Consulting, Bell Associates International LLC,4809 Sleepy Hollow Drive, Raleigh, NC 27612, (919) 787-7063


Don Belcher

I married her for her money.

Don Belcher

Miller S. Bell 4700 Ocean Beach Blvd., Apt. 423,Cocoa Beach, FL 32931, (321) 613-2495 Occupation: Wadley Tower, Suite 753, 3600 Gaston Avenue,Dallas, TX 75246, (214) 827-6750

John A. Benjamin71 Westview Drive, Ghent, NY 12075, (518) 392-8223, «[email protected]» Spouse: Elizabeth E. Benjamin Occupation: Health/Science,Brookhaven National Lab, Tandem Van de Graaff Facility,Bldg. 901A, Upton, NY 11973,(631) 344-4581

Jack BensonPO Box 193, Huletts Landing, NY 12841, «[email protected]»Wife: Priscilla Benson, Smith ’62;PhD, MIT, 1983. Retired Professorof Astronomy, Wellesley CollegeFamily: Karen Lachance, Barnard’87, Asst, Director NIOST, Centersfor Women, Wellesley College andmarried to Jim Lachance; sonPatrick, 17. Jay Benson, D’90, Tuck’96. Vice President Development;Tom, Lebanon, NH, and married to Heather Benson, Mt.Holyoke ’97, Dartmouth PhD; two daughters, Isabelle, 5,and Laurel, 3.

We are now full-time residents of Huletts Landing,pop. 30 in the wintertime. Like many of our class-mates, at times I wonder how I got to live where Iwant, don’t work, and take some nice trips withmy favorite companion. Mostly luck, I suppose.

Having retired myself in 1997, I had the opportu-nity to visit my parents frequently during the lastyears of their lives. Somehow, the barriers to mean-ingful communication between parents and chil-dren were lowered, and we were able to be friends—something I’ll always treasure.

As to the grandson, he was 11 before our firstgranddaughter was born. He spent many vacations

with us. We also began taking him on a biannualtrip. Being with a grandchild without his parents isa terrific experience, and we hope to continue itwith our granddaughters.

Living here at Huletts Landing with Scilla is a treat.Our location is beautiful, and we have good friendshere and friends from our prior lives who come to

visit. We are more conscious of the environmentbecause we can see lots of it out the window. Wehave the Web to keep us in touch with the world,and both do pro bono work. If we are inside, weeach have our own workrooms, and most eveningswe read in companionable silence. The downsideof our remote location is an hour’s drive for med-ical care and half that for grocery shopping. Wehave been taking three or four trips a year includ-ing some Dartmouth ones. They provide a nicecontrast to our rustic life.

I will always be grateful for my experiences atDartmouth and Tuck. I am proud to be aDartmouth ’60. Scilla and I are looking forward toseeing many of you in Hanover next June.

Robert B. BentelBob

2900 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, (415) 566-9126, «[email protected]» Spouse: Alma Bentel Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

Roger K. Bentley IINotice has been received fromhis family that our classmate,Roger K. Bentley II, died onMay 16, 2007, at the Centra-State Medical Center inFreehold, N.J., of congestiveheart failure. He had also suf-fered from cancer.

Born in Trenton, N.J., on April2, 1938, Roger graduated from


We are more conscious of the environmentbecause we can see lots of it out the window.

Jack Benson

the Peddie School before being admitted toDartmouth. During his days in Hanover, he playedsoccer and was captain of the school’s golf team.He also was in Air Force ROTC in Hanover.

He had a leading role in the establishment, in hissophomore year, of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, forwhich he served as pledgemaster. His friend andfraternity brother Tom Judd ’61 remembered Rogerfor his infectious laugh and zest for life. Nicknamed“Roger the Lodger” from the tag line of a limerickpopular at the time, he became one of the mostpopular “Crows” during those early years of thefraternity.

His roommate, John Stephenson, remembers himas “one of the happier souls I knew” at the College,smiling, humorous, and devoted to weekend tripsto the women’s colleges of Smith and Mt. Holyokeat a time when Dartmouth was an isolated, all-maleschool. John says, as do his class friends HowardJelinek, Roger Hanlon, and Bruce Booth, that he was“eternally up,” as John put it, “and that is a gift.”

Roger was a government major at Dartmouth andlong debated with himself before deciding on law,rather than medicine, as a career. He went to lawschool at Cornell University. Characterized as a“country lawyer,” by his wife, Roger was a generalpractitioner in Hightstown, N.J., serving as a part-ner of Isadore I. Zlotkin from 1967 until Mr. Zlotkindied in 1990, and after that operating a one-manoffice. He also served as Attorney to several towns’Zoning and Planning Boards and was MunicipalAttorney for Washington Township during the 1980s.

He served two terms as President of his local LionsClub and as district Lions Parliamentarian. A lifelongavid golfer who customarily played in the low 70s,he was club champion at the Battleground CountryClub in 1976.

Roger is survived by his wife of nearly 45 years,Jane, his daughters Pamela Pezzullo, Patricia Hoke,and Meredith Bentley-Barlow, and six grandchildren,Lydia Pezzullo, Anthony Pezzullo, James Pezzullo,Simon Hoke, Joseph Hoke, and William Barlow.

The family asked that contributions in his memorybe made to Camp Quality, N.J., at PO Box 264.Adelphia, NJ 07710. Camp Quality serves childrenwith cancer. Also, to read the family’s obituary andsee a picture of Roger and the golf course he loved,go to http://www.netcentricnj.com/bentley/ on theInternet.

Sandy Berens 5 Benedictine Retreat, Savannah, GA 31411,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I have retired tocompetitive tennis (senior division)after 14 years away form it. I alsotravel abroad, especially cruising,and play with my grandchildren. Career: I’m still doing Radiology,but after 40 years of practice, I amdown to three days a week.Family and Roots: Between us,Marcia and I have six children and 15 grandchildren! What’smore, my Dad recently celebrated his 101st birthday. Wife: Marcia and I are going on 14 years of bliss.Major at Dartmouth: English and pre-med. Got the MD;my sub-specialties are mammography and nuclear medicine. Dartmouth Activities: The Daily Dartmouth, co-sportseditor

I may be the only Liberal in Georgia, or even thewhole South. I’m the vox clamantis in deserto in thisresort.

Ed Berkowitz3633 Ramona Circle, Palo Alto, CA 94306, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Wandering in theArctic and sub-Arctic; fly fishing;canoeing; backpacking; sailing;tennis; most of all, CarolCareer: U.S. Army, CE; Physics:nuclear structure and reactions,instrumentation, computer technol-ogy; Dept. of Physics, Notre DameUniv.; Intellectual Property Lawyer,Varian Associates Inc., Palo AltoWife: Carol Rovin (deceased)Majors: Physics at Dartmouth; PhD, Physics, University ofIowa; JD, Notre Dame University Dartmouth Activities: Freshman football, Cross Country,Track

Summing it up: Humility. Gratitude for everything.


President Dickey

Geoffrey E. Berne

Barry K. BettersPO Box 217, Hartford, VT 05047, (802) 295-7277, «[email protected]»

Don Betterton 42 Merion Place, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, (609) 896 1581, «[email protected]»Career: Naval Aviator. Worked atPrinceton U. in financial aid andadmissions. Currently running aone-person business namedBetterton College Planning LLCChildren: Connie, Princeton, 1988;Tom, Dartmouth, 1991; Ann,Duke, 1993Wife: Pamela Major at Dartmouth: History; MA, RutgersDartmouth Activities: Soccer, Zeta Psi, Navy ROTC

G. Gordon Biggar Jr.Biggs

5800 Woodway Drive, Apt. 434,Houston, TX 77057, (713) 266-5710 Spouse: Virginia F. Biggar Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, RB Investors LP, 5800 Woodway Room 434,Houston, TX 77057, (713) 266-5711

Donald P. Black 3383 Pacific Ave., San Francisco,CA 94118, (415) 994-3951, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I have lived mostof my adult life in the Bay area. Wesplit our time between a Sonomaranch and our home in SanFrancisco, while I enjoy tennis,squash, dancing, opera, softball,travel, and my wife of 30 years. Career: I spent over 25 years as aconsultant with A.D. Little and SRIInternational and 12 years as an environmental lawyer. Family and Roots: We have one son, a Dartmouth ‘88 Wife: Katherine Hellman BlackMajor at Dartmouth: Government followed by Law, JD;city planning, MCD; and public administration, MPA Dartmouth Activities: Sigma Chi, track, intramuralsports, International Relations Club, Newman Club

I have nothing profound to say; life has been verygood to us. Dartmouth was a great experience.While I have lived in the Bay area for 43 years, Iwish I could have yet another 43 years more here.


Don Black

Joel L. Black14 Palmer Road, Beverly, MA 01915, 978-922-6136,«[email protected]»Career: Practicing dentist, retired2007Wife: Nancy since 1962Children: Robin, married toMichael; Steven, married to Laura;Stephanie, married to JohnMajor at Dartmouth: GraduateSchool: Tufts Dental

It is hard to believe that is has been 50 years sincewe left Dartmouth and Hanover to seek our for-tunes. Some of us went into the service, some rightto work, and some, me included, went on to grad-uate school. I feel that I have been fortunate in mylife. To some, my years since graduating may seemboring. I have led a very quiet but rewarding life.

I have been married to the same loyal and wonder-ful wife since 1962. We have three grown marriedchildren and eight grandchildren, whom we affec-tionately refer to as “The Great 8.” There are fourboys and four girls. Needless to say, they are thejoys of our lives.

I had a successful dental practice in my hometownof Beverly, Mass., and retired from the practice in2007. Since then, I have been so busy that I do notknow how I found the time to work. My days andnights are filled with golf, duplicate bridge games,health club visits, working around the house, watch-ing the grandkids, and just enjoying life. I enjoygood health and look forward hopefully to manymore years of this.

Last Christmas vacation, Nancy and I took ourentire family (all 16 of us) on a Caribbean cruise. Wefelt that memories far outweighed a larger inheri-tance. It was truly for all—Nancy and me, our kids,their spouses, and our eight grandchildren—a mostmemorable and outstanding experience. No matter

what happens in the future, everyone will have thatmemory to look back upon.

My four years at Dartmouth set me upon the jour-ney of life for which I will be eternally grateful.Whatever the future has in store, I can only say“Life has been beautiful.”

James P. Blaisdell

Paul H. Boeker Paul H. Boeker died on March29, 2003.

Robert A. BolingbrokePO Box 8567, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067, (858) 756-9168


Joel Black’s 70th birthday bash

Robert B. Bomberg

David E. Bond 3507 Royal Gala Drive, Westbank, BC V4T 2M4, Canada,(250) 768-1365, «[email protected]» Spouse: Pearl Diane Bond

Richard E. BonzDick

25 Grey Shale, Plymouth, MA 02360, (508) 224-3322 Spouse: Marianne Bonz Occupation: Real Estate, Bonz/Rea Inc., 67 Batterymarch Street, Boston, MA 02110, (617) 478-2090

Jay W. BookerCalico Farm, 257 Messer Hill Road, New London, NH 03257, (603) 763-4831 Spouse: Janet Booker Occupation: Architecture/Construction

Roland C. Booma Jr.432 Humphrey Street, Apt. 15,Swampscott, MA 01907, (781) 592-8479

Bruce L. Booth1669 Warpath Road, West Chester, PA 19382, (610) 793-2473, «[email protected]» Spouse: Marge Booth Occupation: Information andTechnology, Optical InterLinks LLC,Walnut Corporate Center, 206 Gale Lane, Kennett Square, PA 19348, (610) 444-9469


David Bond

Conrad C. BornOur classmate Conrad C. Borndied on July 17, 2007, at hishome in Falmouth, Maine, ofleukemia first diagnosed onlytwo months before. He haddecided to suspend chemother-apy treatments because he feltthey were causing his conditionto become worse, not better.

Conrad came to Dartmouthfrom the Dublin School inNew Hampshire and majored in philosophy. Hebelonged to the Outing and Sailing clubs while inHanover and was an avid backpacker and an enthu-siast about automobiles. His roommate for threeyears, Mel Converse, recalls that he owned aVolkswagen “bug,” with a license plate that said,GULP. But one night the car was wrecked, andConrad was injured, when he was involved in ahead-on collision with someone who was drivingon the wrong side of the road near Claremont,N.H. It did not blunt his enthusiasm for motoring,and he soon owned another car.

Upon graduating from Dartmouth, Conrad joinedthe U.S. Coast Guard, went to Officer’s CandidateSchool, and later served on the island of Rhodes inGreece on a ship supporting the Voice of America.Later, returning to the U.S., he was assigned to thebuoy tender, Coast Guard Cutter “Spar,” and whenhe left active duty still served the Coast Guard asan instructor of boat safety courses.

Later, he pursued a career in computer program-ming and data processing, living in seacoast NewHampshire and southern Maine. He continued tobackpack and had a boat in which he and his fami-ly sailed the New England coast. He also traveledwidely with the family throughout the U.S. andmade several trips to the Caribbean. He had a life-long love of photography.

When he took ill, both Mel and another of ourclassmates who had lived down the hall in CutterHall at Dartmouth, Ken Gordon, paid him a lastvisit for what Ken described as “a wonderful two-hour conversation.”

Conrad is survived by his wife of 20 years, Patricia,two sons, Christian of South Berwick, Ga., andGeorge of Key West, Fla., his former wife, VirginiaSpencer, a step-daughter, Kathryn Mavity and herhusband, Michael, of Epsom, N.H., a step-son,Robert Jepson of Concord, N.H., five grandchildren,and a sister, Mary Born Jenkins of Westbank,British Columbia.

The family asked that contributions in his memorybe sent to the Hospice of Southern Maine, 180 U.S.Route 1, #1, Scarborough, ME 04074, theWestbrook Animal Refuge League, 449 StroudwaterSt., Westbrook, ME 04092, or to the Maine CoastHeritage Trust, 1 Bowdoin Mill Island, Suite 201,Topsham, ME 04086.

Richard A. Bossie Richard A. Bossie died in 1985.

Anthony Andrew Bottone MD11218 SE 64th St., Bellevue, WA 98006Work: Amen Clinic NW, 3315 S. 23rd Street, #102,Tacoma, WA 98405; (253) 779-4675,«[email protected]»

After graduating from Dart-mouth, I attended DartmouthMedical School, transferred tomy dad’s old medical school,S.U.N.Y., Downstate Medical College in Brooklyn,getting my MD in 1966.

Following my internship, I did a residency in pathol-ogy at the University of California, San Francisco.Concurrently I was a graduate student in the depart-ment of the History of Health Sciences at UCSF,where I studied student activist movements andmedical labor unions. San Francisco was a vibrantand dynamic city at that time, and I volunteered at


Anthony Andrew Bottone: My family, Christmas 2008


various free clinics, provided medical services onAlcatraz to American Indians over Thanksgiving,1969, and became the medical director of a freeclinic, Our Lady of Guadalupe Health Clinic.

My studies of labor movements in medicine led tomy becoming the Executive Director of theCommittee of Interns and Residents of New YorkCity (1972-1974), followed by a residency inPsychiatry at N.Y.U.–Bellevue (1974-1977). Duringthis time I was a Ginsberg Fellow at the Group forthe Advancement of Psychiatry (1974-1976) and onthe editorial board of the American Journal of PublicHealth (1972-1975). Subsequently I did an extern-ship and then a fellowship in Child Psychiatry atUniversity of Pennsylvania–Philadelphia ChildGuidance Clinic where I worked with SalvadorMinuchin in family therapy. I relocated to Seattle in1979 and practiced psychiatry until managed caremoved in and around 1991, began doing locumtenens (As a substitute.—Ed.) psychiatry. I very muchenjoyed my years in locum psychiatry as it gaveme an exceptionally diverse experience in manyregions, with different populations and many won-derful people. My experiences included working andteaching at Wellington Hospital in New Zealand,helping my old Dartmouth roommate, DavidViscott, set up his clinic in southern California, andfinally working in Saipan. I’m currently boarded inpsychiatry and child-adolescent psychiatry; myboards in geriatric psychiatry expired in 2006.

While teaching at the medical school in Hue,Vietnam, in 1995, I met an English professor withwhom I corresponded for three years, and we becameengaged. I took a position at the CommonwealthHealth Center in Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands(1998-2004), where Loan Hoang and I were marriedin 1998. Loan got her R.N. at the local college. Ourson, J.P., was born in 2002. Work in Saipan wasboth challenging and enriching, ranging from talk-ing down a suicide jumper with the police to homevisits on remote islands. While there I discovered anunrecognized suicide epidemic among Micronesianteenage boys and instituted a highly successful sui-cide prevention campaign, for which the NorthernMariana Islands Council for the Humanities award-ed me the Governor’s Humanities Award for theTeaching of Human Values in October 2003.

We relocated Stateside, and in 2006 I began work-ing for Daniel Amen at the Amen Clinic in Tacoma,doing neuroimaging combined with psychiatry.Being able to correlate functional brain scans andclinical psychiatry has profoundly altered my per-spective and practice of psychiatry, making it moreprecise, interesting, and exciting.

I’m still working, happily married, challenged byfatherhood at age 71, and have no plans to retire.Sometimes when we have snow around here, my

son and I walk in it with the silence of the night,and I talk about my days at Dartmouth.

John V. Bousum345 Maple St., Downingtown, PA 19335, «[email protected]»Career: Senior Account Executive,Folding Carton Division, Smurfit–Stone Container CorporationFamily: Sons: John V. Jr., 2 grand-sons; Steve, 1 granddaughter and1 grandson; Tim, 1 grandsonWife: Jeanne V. Bousum Major at Dartmouth: EconomicsDartmouth Activities: FreshmanFootball, Sigma Nu Fraternity

No complaints! After serving two years in Francewith the Army, a fulfilling career with ContainerCorporation of America (morphed into Smurfit-Stone Container), three great sons with five grand-children and a wonderful wife, I am enjoying the“quiet years” doing the things I enjoy the most.Jeanne and I love spending time with our grand-kids and traveling to the places we have alwayswanted to visit but just didn’t have the time. Mylove for hunting and fishing is also getting properattention. Other than a few nicks, bruises, and anew hip, my health is good.

John Bousum with Cooper

Samuel W. Bowlby Samuel W. Bowlby died onOctober 5, 2009.

Bob BoyePO Box 176, Pottersville, NJ 07979, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Tilting at windmills!Career: I dropped out of the corpo-rate world in 1982. That’s whenmy life started to improve.Wife: Nancy Huyler, who I met atdancing school (remember thewaltz and foxtrot?) in sixth grade.We didn’t start dating until our sen-ior year in high school; we haven’tstopped yet.Major at Dartmouth: English; MBA, Tuck School; MS,Taxation, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.Dartmouth Activities: I loved to play in football games; I disliked practice. As an undergrad, I selected courses to getgrades for admission to Tuck. I should have gone for quality.Course selection is one of my few regrets in life.

My life has been privileged, largely because myparents had the courage to break out of their JerseyCity ghetto. Just living in Short Hills, New Jersey,gave everyone a leg up. Three in my high schoolclass applied to Dartmouth; three were accepted.Things came easily and continued even to the pointwhere I was convinced I was entitled.

Then, a few days before my 30th birthday in 1967,I learned that Nancy’s brother had been killed in

Vietnam. That event changed my life. For the firsttime, I started thinking about others. And I gotserious about questioning the rights and wrongs ofthe world, the decisions made by elected leaders,appointed leaders, corporate execs, et al. Too fre-quently, they are wrong. What happened to the

dominoes of Southeast Asia? They didn’t fall, theyprospered and so did Vietnam. People forget tooeasily the price of war. I will never forget or forgivethe death of my brother-in-law or my drug-addicted,PTS-afflicted brother when he came back. I haveoften thought that those who decide to enter warsshould be the first ones into combat. Bring backthe days of David and Goliath!

We have become a country ruled by several extrememinorities, backed by powerful lobbyists with verydeep pockets. Congress is an abomination. Eisenhowerwas right about the threat of the military-industrialcomplex. Who prospers from our foolhardy involve-ment in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan?

I continue to serve as a volunteer on various not-for-profit boards. Recently, Nancy convinced me totake on an ESL student from Columbia.

So, when I’m not grumbling about national stupid-ity, we travel and I continue to dabble in naturephotography. In recent years, however, those pur-suits have been rudely interrupted by four life-threatening diseases. Fortunately, I have managedto outrun that guy in the black cloak, the one car-rying the scythe. Long live Boobus Americanus!

Jerry E. Boyle5442 North Entrada Catorce,Tucson, AZ 85718, (520) 888-8279, «[email protected]» Spouse: Kay A. Callon Boyle Occupation: Information andTechnology, IBM Corporation, 9000 South Rita Road, Tucson, AZ 85744, (520) 799-2018


We have become a country ruled by several extreme minorities, backed bypowerful lobbyists with very deep pockets.

Bob Boye

Bob Boye with Nancy and friends

Dale R. Boyse 3450 South River Road, Zanesville, OH 43701, (740) 452-4325, «[email protected]» Spouse: Carol D. Boyse Occupation: Health/Science

John L. Bracken3503 Senate Court, Valencia, PA 16059, (724) 625-0349 Spouse: Cynthia G. Bracken Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

James S. BrannenJim

4107 Saint Andrews Court, Saint Charles, IL 60174, (630) 587-0429, «[email protected]» Spouse: Martha Brannen

Carl E. Braun

Windham Bremer 1353 East 1000 North, La Porte, IN 46350, (219) 778-4790 Spouse: Debbie Bremer Occupation: Health/Science

Brian P. Brigham1107B Pen Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505, (505) 982-1777, «[email protected]» Occupation: Consumer Services,Pinon Fast Print, 1107B Pen Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505, (505) 982-1777

Peter E. BrightmanBox 127, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675,«[email protected]»Major at Dartmouth: English, arthistory minor; Master’s, English,Indiana University, 1965Career: Two years in the Army,Fort Gordon, Georgia. Taught highschool English, Tabor Academy andNeedham, Mass., High School, 20years. Worked building houses withbrother-in-law Dick Boardman ’61,in Princeton, Mass., four years.


Peter Brightman and Leslie Altman

Worked at maintenance at a convent for 15 years. Spent30 years trying to restore a 1789 Cape house, maintain asmall farm, and manage 30 acres of woodland.Wife: Been married three times—living in retirement withmy “current” wife, Leslie Altman, on Cape Cod. We have sixchildren and three grandchildren between us.

Two of the best parts of being retired are living by the ocean and traveling. Highlights includeLondon and Cambridge, England; the OuterHebrides of Scotland; Paris and Provence; andFlorence and Venice.

Tom Brock Fall, some of winter, and springdomicile: 8 Cordoba Ct., Palm Coast, FL 3217; 6 Upper Springs Rd., Stowe, VT 05672; «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Currently retiredfor the second time with time splitbetween Vermont and Florida, withtime out for visits to grandchildrenin Mass. and Ill.Career: A variety of careers, some as short as 3-4 years inthe Navy and at Eastman Kodak, respectively, and at otherslonger. These included paper manufacturing and sales, 11years; laser and electron beam fabricating, 13 years; andmy own metal fabricating company, 14 years. Family and Roots: Two boys, one, in Wellesley, Mass.; theother in Port Byron, Ill. They harbor seven grandchildrenbetween them and have informed me there is medicalassurance there will be no more. Wife: Dorla Stevens Brock, from Mt. Pleasant, Mich., mywife of 41 yearsMajor at Dartmouth: AB, Engineering Science; MS, Mechan-ical Engineering

Dartmouth Activities: Ski team until my knee was tornapart jumping in my junior year. That knee healed andworked until replaced last fall. I hope it is the last body partI have to replace!

Both Dorla and I enjoy skiing and golf, although Ihave given up the notion I will ever get better ateither one. Now we simply enjoy the outdoors inpursuit of these activities in various venues. Haveequipment, will travel!

Michael D. Bromer 6521 Creek Dr., Edina, MN 55439,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: 1) has been orches-tral music appreciation; 2) includesbiking, skiing, and SCUBA diving;3) addresses gardening, especiallyraising orchids; 4) encompassesbread baking through professionalclasses and at my home-based pro-fessional bakery; and 5) grooming,training, and handling dogs forshowing, competitive performance in agility, obedience, andfor conformation.Career: I earn my living as a neurologist Family and Roots: I have three children, comprising twophysicians and one nurse. They have, among them, my twograndsons. Wife: My wife of 47 years is Carol Bromer Major at Dartmouth: I was a pre-med and obtained myMD at the Downstate Medical Center of New York.Dartmouth Activities: I was a member of the BarbaryCoast Orchestra


Tom Brock Michael Bromer

Russell Brooks8 Soundview Drive North, Lloyd Harbor, NY 11743, (631) 271-5036, «[email protected]»

I have been a competitive sail-boat racer since age 9. I grewup and have remained in thetown of Huntington on thenorth shore of Long Island 40miles from New York City.Since 1958 I have raced a Starclass sailboat on Long Island Sound and at variousvenues as far north as Rockport, Mass., as far westas Chicago, and as far south as Oxford, Md. TheStar is a two-man 22-foot keel boat. The Star hasbeen an Olympic class competitor since the 1930s.Unfortunately, I have not reached the Olympiclevel, but I can still be found racing these challeng-ing boats every weekend on Long Island Sound.During high school, college, and law school Itaught sailing at various yacht clubs on the Sound—a boondoggle compared to real work.

I received an LLB from Columbia Law School in1963. I was a member of the faculty of the LawSchool from 1963 to 1965 and received an LLMfrom Columbia in 1965. I then joined the NewYork City law firm of Milbank, Tweed Hadley &McCloy in June 1965, concentrating in litigation. I became partner in 1973, later head of the litigationdepartment, and retired at the end of 2001. I had

responsibility for a number of complex lawsuits thatended in lengthy trials. Among my frequent clientswere the New York Stock Exchange, The Chase Man-hattan Bank, Exxon (under its prior name HumbleOil & Refining Company), and Amerada Hess.

Despite these major business litigations, my favoritetype of case was a will contest, because it evokedhuman passions. There is nothing more volatile thanchildren whose last-to-die parent has willed the fam-ily assets to the second wife or husband. I becamea veteran of these battles. Among my clients wasthe second wife of Charles Shipman Payson, at hisdeath the owner of the New York Mets and heir toa massive chunk of the Whitney fortune thoughhis deceased first wife, Joan Whitney Payson. ThePayson case was tried to a jury in Nassau CountySurrogates Court for three months. My client keptthe money! I also litigated the Will of William Black,

the founder of Chock Full O’ Nuts, who left his for-tune to his last wife, a well known singer namedPage Morton, to the consternation of his eldestdaughter from his first marriage, whom I represent-ed. We eventually settled. In 1990, I was elected afellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Pat Rodenrys and I met in Huntington High School.She went to Mt. Holyoke. We dated during collegeand my law school years. We married in 1963. Patthen went to Columbia Law School, graduated inthe Class of 1966, and started work at HughesHubbard & Reed as a tax lawyer. She later worked atWillkie Farr & Gallagher and Cole & Deitz, whereshe became a partner. Pat retired in 1989.

We have two children. Sarah graduated fromDartmouth in 1992 and received her PhD in arthistory from NYU’s Institute for Fine Arts. Sarah ison the faculty of James Madison University teach-ing art history. She married Erik Gunderson, also aDartmouth ’92. They live in Charlottesville, Va.,and have one child, Max, age five. Erik is a physi-cian on the faculty of the University of VirginiaMedical School.

Our son Sam decided that two Dartmouth alumsin the family were enough and went to Brown. Hegraduated in 1997, and in 2000 from Cardozo LawSchool. Sam is a partner and the inside counsel ina joint venture named Mobile Medical Media,which manufactures and licenses instructionalvideos for health care providers. Sam is unmarriedand lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

At Dartmouth I majored in history. I was a mem-ber of Phi Tau Fraternity. I was elected to Phi BetaKappa in 1959.


Russ Brooks

When I retired I worried that I would not be able to keep busy.

Russell Brooks

When I retired I worried that I would not be ableto keep busy. The opposite has turned out to be thecase. I have kept a small office at Milbank, Tweedand a portion of a secretary. I go there about oncea week to work on a few pro bono cases and keepup with the legal community. Another day eachweek (except in the summer) I go to school, usual-ly taking two history courses at nearby colleges,such as NYU, Queens College, and State Universityof New York at Stony Brook. I play tennis threedays a week and following tennis, duplicate bridge.I am about to become a life master. Summer Sundaymornings I race my Star sailboat on Long IslandSound. In spring, summer and fall, if the fish arerunning on the Sound, I chase them in my 19-footfishing boat. Pat and I have traveled with theSmithsonian Institution and the American Archae-ological society to Greece, Italy, Sicily, Turkey, England, France, Carthage, the Danube countriesand St. Petersburg.

We return to Dartmouth at least twice each year:in October for our mini-reunion, and for a confer-ence of the New England Classical Association theweek after Fourth of July.

Chuck Brower 236 Rossi Road, Torrington, CT 06790,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I have spent thelast 46 years trying civil cases in thestate and federal courts, primarily inConnecticut, while at the same timetrying to actively pursue a communi-ty service endeavor in order to givesomething back. To this end, I wasa scoutmaster for 20 years, activelyinvolved in the Civil Justice ExecutiveCommittee of the Connecticut Bar Association for ten years,and an EMT and crew chief on the Litchfield, Conn., volun-teer ambulance for 12 years. In 1999, a small group of usfrom Torrington decided to restore an old movie theatre andtransform it into a theatre for the performing arts. Tenyears and $17 million later we have The Warner, a thrivingcommunity theatre, cultural center, and school for the per-forming arts with its own 300-seat studio theatre. Ourmain stage theatre has 1,760 seats. Our school has had500 students, many of whom have gone on to careers inprofessional theatre. People come from all over NewEngland to visit us. I’m sure some of you have been there.Family: My wife Beth (Petersen from Carroll, Iowa) hasworked for me as a paralegal for 20 years. Between us wehave six children and two grandchildren.At Dartmouth: My major was Government, and my activ-ities included 150 lb. Crew, WDCR, and being an officer inSigma Chi, renamed TheTabard.

I am currently writing a tome for my children andgrandchildren entitled “Unbridled Passion,” which

explores the issue of why great men who lived dur-ing our lifetime like Churchill and King were ableto rise above the rest of their contemporaries anddo really great things in the face of severe opposi-tion, which truly changed the world. My thesis isthat if we can discover what it is that gave thesemen such awesome perspective and courage wecan somehow bottle it.

Before I launch into the philosophical B.S. for thekids, I give them a quick bio. A few excerpts mightbe of interest here:

After my junior year, since I was an officer of myhouse, I was delegated to go to the Sigma Chi con-vention in Kansas City, Mo. The main reason for ourgoing was to get the national fraternity to eliminatethe clause that limited membership to white males.We did not have any specific black males that wewanted to pledge, but we thought the “white clause”was wrong and we wanted to eliminate it. I alsothink we had been getting some pressure from theCollege to eliminate it. I remember walking ontothe stifling hot convention floor in Kansas Citywith Dan Daniels and Conner Moore and presentingthe proposal that the white clause be eliminated. Wewere hooted out of the house. There was no waythose good old boys were going to take black people.

We left the convention, checked out of our hotel,and drove to Miami, Florida, with the rest of ourconvention spending money, checked into the KeyBiscayne Hotel on Biscayne Bay, and had a goodtime before heading back to the northeast. While Iwas there I met a beautiful blonde named ArleneBlount, whom I kept in touch with during my sen-ior year and ended up inviting up for graduation.When we started the fall semester of our senioryear, we reported on the convention debacle to ourfraternity brothers. I then proposed that since our


Chuck Brower and Beth

We saw every seedy nightspot and bordelloalong the way.

Chuck Brower


brethren did not want to admit blacks, we simplyresign from Sigma Chi, use our national dues forsome more useful purpose (which I’m sure did nothappen), and “go local.” I looked in a book andfound the name of an old English tavern called “TheTabard.” I proposed that we become The Tabard. Soin the fall of 1959, Sigma Chi at Dartmouth becameThe Tabard.

After our graduation two of my fraternity brothers,Dick Harrison and John Adams, and I decided togo to Europe for the whole summer. I think we feltthat was going to be the last time in our lives wecould spend three months in Europe. We went toevery major European city and country. I conduct-ed cultural tours during the day by studying ourtour literature and dragging John and Dick toevery cathedral, art museum, and historic locationI could think of, and John conducted our tours ofdepravity and debauchery by night, so that we sawevery seedy nightspot and bordello along the way.The result of course was that we spent 84 dayswithout any sleep. At the beginning of the summerwe bought all our cigarettes for the whole tour. Wehad cigarettes packed into every crevice of the VWbeetle we drove all summer. We visited and studiedBelgium, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Sweden,Denmark, Holland, London, and Scotland.

Edwin H. Brown Ned

1003 Chuckanut Drive, Bellingham, WA 98229, (360) 734-4393 Occupation: Education, Western Washington University,Dept. of Geology, Bellingham, WA 98225, (360) 676-3645

Jonathan M. Brown 71 Battle Road, Princeton, NJ 08540, (609) 921-3834, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sandra Brown Occupation: Education, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th St., New York, NY 10075, (212) 772-5800

Bob Brown 1207 Sandhurst Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32312Life’s Pursuits: Intellectual satis-faction, travel, gardening, sailing,canoeing, antique cars, good food,good music, and theater.Career: 29 years in film manufac-turing and process development atEastman Kodak Co. in Rochester,N.Y.; since 1992, Registered U.S.Patent Agent, writing and prosecut-ing US and PTO patent applications.Wife: Nancy, Lynchburg BA ’60, Distinguished Alumna 2007Four Kids: Brad, Dartmouth BA ’82, Penn MEE and MBA ’86;Jennie, Wm. Smith BA ’85, Duke MS ’87, Lane CC RN ’09;Cindy, Cornell BA ’87 and DVM ’94; Gordon, SUNY BA ’03, UF Masters ’07 Major at Dartmouth: Geology; Chemistry minor Dartmouth Activities: DOC; Ledyard CC, President ’58-’59; Phi Kappa Psi

I know it’s a cliché, but where have the last 50 yearsgone? I remember clearly our own graduation, withthe members of the Class of 1910, including ProfessorAndy Scarlett, marching with us, and I thought atthe time that someday way in the future that wouldbe our class. So now it has come to pass!

I’m six years into my second marriage, this time toNan (née Howard) who was my high school sweet-heart and Carnival date our first two years. Don’tever doubt the effect that a late high school classreunion can have, especially when both people arelooking for a new relationship!

Laramie and I parted in 2001 after 42 years of mar-riage, but we remain good friends. Our four kidshave given us six wonderful grandchildren. Bradis a senior partner in N.Y. with McKinsey & Co.;Jennie has just finished a return to school for anursing degree in Eugene, Oregon; Cindy is inequine veterinary practice with her husband inZephyrhills, Fla.; and Gordon is in a PhD programat the University of Florida, married to a wonderfulBolivian lady who has completed her PhD at UF.

Bob Brown and Nancy

Life with Nan is very different and quite wonderful!We eat out regularly at very good restaurants inTallahassee, although Nan is also a great cook, andtry to catch a Friday afternoon movie matinee everyweek. The Big Bend area is oyster heaven! Andthere’s no Rochester snow to shovel! We attendconcerts and plays with friends regularly at FSU andthe Tallahassee Little Theater. We’ve also discoveredWeight Watchers, and I walk in the early morningseveral times a week.

Nan has two sons by her first marriage, Mike inTampa and Barry in Fredericksburg, Va. Mike ispresident of a medical supply business, and CPOBarry is about to deploy for his fourth tour in the

Mid-East on a swiftboat in the Straits of Hormuz.We hope that he will come back to us yet againsafe and sound. Barry has provided Nan with twograndchildren and two great-grandchildren, andMike and Wendy are in the midst of an adoption.

I left Kodak in 1992 after 29 years and since thenhave been writing and prosecuting U.S. and PCTpatent applications as a Registered U.S. Patent Agent.Still working hard, and still looking for business!The market has not been kind, but we are survivors.Nan has a private practice as a fund-raising specialistfor rural infrastructure projects in Florida, after acareer in Florida state government, and we are hope-ful that some of the Obama stimulus money willtrickle our way! So all in all, life is distinctly good!

Sailing was an important avocation in Rochester for30 years, in which my family and I raced in all thebig races on Lake Ontario many times. I’ve bare-boated in the Bahamas and the Windwards, sailedfrom Ft. Lauderdale to Cancun and from Canaveral

to Myrtle Beach, and raced in the Tampa Bay Sun-coast Race Week and from Clearwater to Key Westto Havana.

Unfortunately, my sailing career is temporarily onhold in Tallahassee, which is not on the ocean, soI’ve sublimated with a string of antique cars. Overthe years, I’ve owned three XK and XKE Jaguars, a’39 Ford convertible, a ’52 MG-TD, and twoMercedes 190SL. We currently drive a really pretty’39 Plymouth coupe convertible; the grandchildrenlove riding in the rumble seat, although the one timethat I did so I found it not at all pleasant! I wonderhow the rumble seat survived for so long? This wasthe last model year for it in Plymouth. We belong tothe Tallahassee Region of the Antique AutomobileClub of America and often drive to rallies and shows.

Nan and I have cruised to Alaska from Seattle andalso numerous times in the Caribbean. For ourhoneymoon in 2003, we took the American Queensternwheeler up the Mississippi from St. Louis toSt. Paul. Who knew that there are 27 dams and locksin that stretch of the river! On a driving vacation inNew England two years ago, Nan visited theDartmouth campus for the first time in 50 years!

We’re also rabid Florida State sports fans—a school,it will be noted, that still has an Indian mascot!We continue to plan for a retirement in which wewill do a lot of travel, especially by ship and espe-cially with good food and good shopping! We’relooking forward to seeing all of the Class at thereunion and discussing both old and new times,and I’m planning on climbing Moosilauke again.

Reed Browning219 Kendal Drive, Granville, OH 43023, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Basically I’m adabbler. I’ve always enjoyed music(the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms kind),and in recent years I’ve tried myhand at composing (songs aboutbaseball players and settings of lit-erary or liturgical texts). Then therehas always been reading, especiallymysteries, Dickens, Shakespeare, theBible, and works about science and philosophy. I’ve studiedbaseball history and written two books about it. I like totravel. I enjoy learning foreign languages. I spend a lot oftime writing (formerly, books about European history; recent-ly, unpublished mystery manuscripts). I like to play chess. I spent many years singing in choirs and envisioned a retire-ment filled with choral opportunities until I was warned offsinging by my otolaryngologist. Meanwhile, by default I’vebecome the family historian, and I find I very much enjoythe assignment. Finally, I’ve been working for years at nur-turing friendships I value and trying to restore friendships


My sailing career is temporarily on hold, so I’ve sublimated with antique cars.

Bob Brown

Glee Club, Dartmouth Hall steps, 1959

I neglected. It all adds up to being a bit of a nerd, I’d say.Career: I spent 40 years at Kenyon College, as professor ofhistory, provost, and (briefly) acting president.Family: I have lots of Dartmouth relatives: brother Simms(’62), cousin Bill (’60), father Arthur (’30), uncle Fritz (’32).Wife: I married Susan Lampley, a musician, in 1963. Wehave one son, Stephen, an attorney. In 2010 Susan and Icelebrate our 47th anniversary.Major: History; PhD, Yale, 1965Dartmouth Activities: Singing in the Glee Club

My perspective on life is that of a contented aca-demic. I found college teaching to be a very satis-fying job, with flexible schedules, interestingstudents, engaging colleagues, time for research andwriting, and a reasonable measure of respectabilityin the larger world. But—and here is the point I’dlike to emphasize—it is not a career that confersany special wisdom. Lots of professors like to pre-tend otherwise, but they’re fooling themselves.

The aspect of my career that may give peculiarsalience to observations about life in the academyis that it was my fortune—sometimes good, some-times bad—to live as a conservative in one of themost liberal professional communities in the coun-try, the social science professoriate being exceededin preponderance of people on the left (I wouldguess) only by the fellowship of social workers andthe Episcopal priesthood.

This circumstance gives a certain lopsidedness topolitical/intellectual discourse on campuses. Andthis imbalance in thinking in turn creates animbalance in adult comprehensions. Here’s what I mean. Academic conservatives understand liberalsvery well, for liberalism is the default position inthe academy—it’s the stuff of the intellectual airwe breathe—and we have to grasp the lingo andthe doctrine if we want to participate. Liberals, onthe other hand, being generally fortified with theirown convenient stereotypes of red-necked, homo-phobic, bible-thumping, flag-waving, gun-loving,

misanthropic troglodytes, rarely have campusopportunities to engage with authentic conservativechallenges to their beliefs. The fog of leftism thatlies upon the academy does not serve students well,for it affects lecture programs, public discussions,and institutional support for student activities.

But contrary to what critics sometimes assert, mostof what goes on in the narrower realm of the col-lege classroom is not ideologically tainted. Themajority of faculty members want to be fair-mindedprofessionals in their instructional lives, and theyunderstand the inappropriateness of using posi-tions of intellectual or grade-giving authority to tryto indoctrinate.

Still, there’s that unhappy impulse to censor othersthat cannot be ignored. Many in the academyproudly say they favor free speech—except for pro-ponents of (fill in someone’s favorite villainousidea). This just won’t work. And it’s especially dis-couraging that professors, of all people, allow them-selves to miss the point: free speech is essential toboth the democratic life and the life of authenticexploration. I stand with Salman Rushdie’s view

that unless an author has the right to offend thesensibilities of others, say with pornography orrace-baiting, that author doesn’t have freedom ofspeech. After all, if you don’t like what you’re read-ing, you can just put it down. Seems a simpleenough idea to grasp. But as with all sorts of othergroups in society, many in the professoriate want touse whatever power they might possess to check theexpression of opinions they find particularly repre-hensible. It is sad that professors don’t know better.

But I’ll end on a happier note. The great tide ofpostmodern epistemologies that washed throughthe academy in the 1980s and 1990s seems to bereceding. Those who did not live in academic com-munities in those days would have trouble believingsome of the nonsense that got professed in class-rooms, especially in literature and social sciencedepartments. By and large, the students didn’t buyinto it. And ultimately the professoriate didn’teither. It’s an emerging triumph of wisdom andcommon sense.


Free speech is essential to both the democraticlife and the life of authentic exploration.

Reed Browning

Reed Browning and Susan

William L. Browning III7099 Koldyke Drive, Fishers, IN 46038, (317) 577-5747 Spouse: Dixie B. Browning Occupation: Education, Park Tudor School, 7200 North College Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46240, (317) 415-2700

Harry Bruckner Jr. Harry Bruckner Jr. died onOctober 2, 1998.

George F. Bruder22 Meadow Drive, Cos Cob, CT 06807, (203) 661-1685, «[email protected]» Spouse: Jean Elizabeth Bruder Occupation: Law

Blackwell S. Bruner 4650 Links Village Drive, Unit C202, Ponce Inlet, FL 32127, (386) 760-8277, «[email protected]» Spouse: Barbara Bruner Occupation: 4910 MassachusettsAvenue NW, Washington, DC 20016, (202) 966-0999

Alex Bruscino Jr. Alex Bruscino Jr. died onSeptember 16, 2000.

Robert Brusic2134 Knapp St., St. Paul, MN 55108, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: My “musings”relate some of the more publiclyacceptable ones. Career: The same is true aboutwhat I’ve done. Family: Son, Adam; Son, Matthew,deceasedWife: Lucy Major at Dartmouth: Religion,History, Philosophy; Master ofDivinity degree from Harvard Divinity SchoolDartmouth Activities: Sang in the Glee Club; member ofGermania

Patterns and Periods, a Reflection, by Robert Brusic,Dartmouth ’60:One of the things (though not the only thing) Ilearned in history courses at Dartmouth is that it isboth possible and customary to view history as asuccession of periods. While some historians dis-agree with that approach, many texts still recounthow, in the west, the ancient world gave way tothe medieval, which in turn morphed into theRenaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic, theModern—even the post-Modern—periods. I thinkit was Professor Williams who cautioned us againststrict periodization, for the lines of history werenever clear or clean. No one, he averred, ever went tobed in the Middle Ages and woke up the next morn-ing in the Renaissance. Ideas and events, art andwarfare, poetry and literature, politics and quotidianexperience overlapped; and patterns of change anddevelopment evolved over a period of time, becom-ing apparent (only, if at all) over the long haul ofhistory. Distinct periods were recognized andnamed by historians looking back—not by partici-pants walking through the story.

To some extent the same can be said of an individ-ual’s life. We all live lives in which habits and pat-terns both perdure and change. But as we look back



we may be able to discern periods and patterns. Insome ways, I am the same person now as I was as apea-green freshman. At the same time, I am alsovery different. Between then and now, I perceiveseveral periods that have defined and refined mylife. Dartmouth taught me to think and connectone aspect of reality to another. Subsequent studiesat Harvard Divinity School opened doors into theenjoyable but intricate world of theological studies.That period of time prepared me for a vocation of Lutheran ministry, which I followed for overfour decades.

Along the way I spent periods of varying length inIthaca, N.Y., Philadelphia, Penn., and New Haven,Conn. During those sojourns of service, I met peoplewho added bounty and beauty to my life. I wroteand delivered sermons of varying quality and perti-nence, and I engaged in pastoral care, which filledmy cup to overflowing. There were also lots of art,music, and good conversation, which added depthand color to the journey.

Unlike the person who did not notice Day One ofthe Renaissance, however, I did wake up one day tofind myself no longer an easterner but a mid-west-erner. My last call at Luther Seminary in St. Paul,Minn., both broadened and deepened the conver-sation that began on the Hanover Plain. Even whileteaching I found myself learning; even while beingwho I thought I was, I found myself becomingsomething I had not expected to be. Minnesotawinters, for sure, played a role in that process!

A few years ago, I entered another period of life.Retirement is for me another kind of call, the nextperiod of life. I found the time (which had previ-ously never seemed to exist) to read lots of books,to refine my tennis game, to write a book, even toembark on a rigorous training program of learningand speaking at the Minneapolis Museum of Art.

Some pivotal people have been with me along theway: wife, sons, friends, and mentors, including afew folks who managed to get under my skin caus-ing me to scratch and stretch. I am grateful forthese people who helped shape the narrative flowof my life.

Doubtless the members of the class of 1960 willalso write about the periods of their lives, takingnote of growth, pain, hope, achievement, andstumbling, maybe even the acquisition of some

wisdom. While the process didn’t really begin atDartmouth, the College on the Hill provided avital period of time during which the yeast beganto rise. For me, the College played a significant, ifnot a seminal, role in helping me sing the tunesand hear the harmonies that have been coursingthrough my muscles and my brain ever since.“Dartmouth! There is no music for our singing, nowords to bear the burden of our praise.”

Jacques Lucien Bry

The College played a significant, if not aseminal, role in helping me sing the tunes andhear the harmonies that have been coursingthrough my muscles and my brain ever since.

Robert Brusic

The Old Pine

Douglas C. Bryant89 Pine Street, Chatham, NJ 07928, (973) 377-4586, Fax (973) 377-2895, «[email protected]»Career: 36 years with Exxon mainlyin international operations includ-ing living in Tokyo and London.Retired as International MarketingDivision ManagerWife: Helen of 42 yearsFamily: Two daughters: Deborah,Winchester, Mass., and Mallory, Madison, N.J.; three grand-daughters including four-year-old twinsMajor at Dartmouth: EconomicsDartmouth Activities: Glee Club, Flying Club

I looked back at my 40th reunion musing to jog mymemory on what has changed for me over the last10 years or so. Now 50 years out, there have been afew recent bumps along the way, but fortunatelyHelen and I continue to enjoy reasonably goodhealth and a very active lifestyle. The circle of life hascontinued for us—sadly we’ve now lost all our par-ents, and I’ve lost one brother and my other brother’swife. But we have been blessed with three beautifulgranddaughters, all still under the age of five.

Having been retired from Exxon for ten years, thehectic days of living and working overseas havebecome somewhat of a distant memory although afond one. And I am fully retired now—no consult-ing. My only remaining involvement is as a boardmember of our annuitant organization, which hasbeen a great way to perpetuate some old friend-ships. It also has been fun during our travels to re-visit some of my old overseas haunts, particularlyLondon where we lived for four years, and other

spots in Europe and in Asia. But other places frommy decade traveling to the Middle East like Iranand Iraq are best left for the future and probablythe distant future, a shame since these cradles ofcivilization contain some truly historic and memo-rable treasures.

One thing that has not changed these past tenyears is the enduring bond with Dartmouth andwith the friends made during those four years onthe Hanover plain. And I know I’m not alone. I’velost count of the number of classmates who haveretired and settled in New Hampshire or Vermontwithin a stone’s throw of the campus. We also havea New Hampshire address although it is a bit more

than a stone’s throw away from Dartmouth at abeautiful spot over on Lake Winnipesaukee. So farit is primarily a summer destination for us, but ithas provided a base to get together annually withour Dartmouth friends either at the lake or inWoodstock, Vermont. Also our older daughter, son-in law, and three granddaughters are less than twohours away just outside Boston. Needless to say,they are frequent visitors and a big plus. Now if Ican just get Helen to move out of New Jerseybefore the state implodes around us, maybe we canmake it more than a summer destination.

Martin L. BuddMarty

215 Ocean Drive West, Stamford, CT 06902, (203) 363-0535 Spouse: Aviva Budd Occupation: Law

Kurt H. Buerger 2907 Hemlock Dr., San Angelo, TX 76904, (325) 949-6364, «[email protected]» Occupation: Education, Angelo State University, Accounting, Economics & FinanceDept., San Angelo, TX 76909,(325) 942-2046


Doug Bryant and Helen

One thing that has not changed is the enduring bond with Dartmouth.

Douglas C. Bryant


Jed Bullen

John W. Bundy45 Rumstick Road, Barrington, RI 02806, (401) 245-2232 Spouse: Annalee J. Bundy

Harold R. Burdge Jr.312 Old Tote Road, Mountainside, NJ 07092, (908) 232-4373, «[email protected]»Career: School business adminis-trator (CFO) for a large regionalhigh school district in New Jerseyfrom 1961 until my early retire-ment in 1994. Then I became aseasonal tax consultant for H&RBlock for the last 15 years.Major at Dartmouth: Historymajor; MA, History, Wesleyan UniversityWife: Happily married for over 48 years to Sandra G. Burdge.Sandy graduated from the University of Vermont in 1960.

I highly recommend working only four months ayear.

Richard Burg MD12 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605, «[email protected]»

After college, I got an MS atRutgers and an MD at Tulane,then spent five years in surgerytraining at the University ofWisconsin, two years as a sur-geon in the Air Force, fouryears as a general surgeon inUtica, N.Y., and another yearin subspecialty training. In 1977, I started as the firstcolon and rectal surgeon in Westchester County,where I continue to practice.

Over the years, I’ve been active in various profes-sional organizations and have served as presidentof the N.Y. Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeonsand governor for the American College of Surgeons.

I have two sons from my first marriage, and havetwo granddaughters. My older son, Ed, is a dentistin N.J. and my younger son, Art, manages a restau-rant in Los Angeles. My second marriage has beenone of great happiness for me, and Sue and I cele-brated our 34th anniversary in December 2009.

My only serious hobby during the past 20 years orso has been playing banjo. I continue to take les-sons and practice (at least a little) almost daily. I’mpart of The Riverbank Banjo Band, which performs

Richard Burg

frequently around the lower Hudson Valley, donat-ing our profits to charity.

Although everyone knows Dartmouth is at the verytop as an undergraduate institution, I naively madeit my first choice because a hometown friendattended. Freshman year was difficult. I put in lotsof time studying but academically was marginallyprepared to function at the level expected of us.After first semester grades came out, my dad was soconcerned he called Dean Dickerson, wondering ifmy continuing might not be a mistake. The deanmet with me and then assured my dad Dartmouthchose me with every confidence and expectation Icould succeed.

As a sophomore, I joined TEP and made friendshipsI continue to cherish. I also decided to become anEnglish major even though I was premed. My teach-ers and advisors encouraged this, and although itleft me with few electives beyond science and liter-ature courses, it is a choice I always felt was a goodone. Ultimately I validated Dean Dickerson’s confi-dence in me and even managed to get an academiccitation (for a paper on Plato).

I’m proud to have gone to Dartmouth. It is verymuch a part of who I am. I wish my classmates goodluck and good health.

H. Russel Burgess Jr.1 Mallard Rd., Mystic, CT 06355, (860) 536-4324, «[email protected]»

Sophomore Year: I did so poor-ly academically I couldn’t gohome and face my father. Gota job as a swimming instructorup at Lake Morey. Met a veryattractive blonde named AnnWheeler. Fifty-two years, 5jobs, 5 homes, 3 children, 7 grandchildren latershe’s still very attractive. Thank you, Dartmouth.

Junior Year: Suspended by Dean MacDonald atChristmas until I passed the foreign languagerequirement. I moved off-campus. Roommate TomHickey joined me to help pay the rent. Sold skis atthe Dartmouth Coop. Was tutored at night. Ipassed the exam and was readmitted. Then I wentto NYU that summer to make up the credits. I gotengaged to Ann that fall. Was elected president ofDU our senior year and graduated with all of you.Thank you, Dartmouth. Thank you, DU’s. Thankyou, Hickey.

The Year 2001: Ann was diagnosed with a largetumor. I called another Dartmouth roommate. Annunderwent surgery at DHMC two weeks later. Was

told the results of the biopsy would take two weeks.This roommate managed to get a sample to a doc-tor friend in NYC. He called the next day. “The f—-ing thing is benign.” The only medical test I’veunderstood! Thank you, Dartmouth. Thank you,Dr. Maurer.

Herb is one of the brightest people I’ve ever known.He and the staff at DHMC all seem to have learned,“People don’t care how much you know until theyknow how much you care.” For that reason I drive300+ miles for a physical exam! Thank you,Dartmouth. Thank you, DHMC.

Happy 50th to you all. Love to your families.

John P. Burks95 Salada Avenue, Pacifica, CA 94044, (650) 355-7169 Occupation: Education, San Francisco State Univ.,Department of Journalism, 1600 Holloway, San Francisco, CA 94132, (415) 338-2094

Frank M. BurnapBurlap

PO Box 211, Thendara, NY 13472, (315) 369-6261 Spouse: Beverly Ann Burnap


H. Russel Burgess with Ann

James P. Burns III111 Ashley Cr., Hertford, NC 27944, (252) 426-9924, «[email protected]»Wife: Mary Ellen

Who would ever have believedwe would be 49 years, sixmonths and counting sincethe Editor’s Dad came downto the Hanover hoosegow tobail me out on Friday night ofour senior Green Key weekend after the Governor’sflying squad raided Webster Avenue. In 1960, the50-year class was 1910. No wonder I feel old somedays. In More Musings, our classmate (my friend andhigh school classmate) Tom Beadle characterized hiscontribution to the initial Musings as sophomoric,self-centered, pretentious, (and) naive—and gavehimself a C-. Tom doesn’t do himself justice.

Tom, Tom Andrews, John Halverson, and I all cameto Hanover from Syracuse’s Nottingham High. Fora public school, that’s pretty good matched in ourclass (I think) only by New Brunswick’s quartet ofDan Cilo, my roommate, Lee Horschman, John

Reimer, and Sandy Ingham. Although Beadle and I didn’t hang together, we had one outstandingfeature in common: great taste in women. Weshared a girlfriend in high school. No, not at thesame time, and topped that feat when we married—and managed somehow to stay married to—twobeautiful, smart, and personable women: Mary andCaryl. (For proof of such see More Musings, pp. 10and 26.) When Caryl and Tom lived in Syracuse,they had a party at their new house in the mostposh of Syracuse suburbs. I remember there wasn’ta stick of furniture in the living room, but what agreat party. About 11:00, my Mary managed to lockherself in the upstairs bathroom, which required avisit by the Rescue Squad to extricate her. Anothertime we were at a Hallowe’en Party at a ski resortsouth of Syracuse. Tom and Caryl entered as themasked Phantom and Christine and, as theirentrance, waltzed around the room to great applause.It was pretty spectacular.

Later in the evening my law partner—who’s prettydumb for a Princeton man—endeared himself for-ever to Mary Burns: “Gee Mary, except for CarylBeadel, you’re the best looking woman here.” Not

the best way to get on the good side of Mary. Greattimes, great memories.

I’m also lucky to be here; four of the six occupantsof 314 and 315 New Hampshire during our fresh-man year are not: Dan Cilo, Dick Mobley, CraigCornell, and Mike Carmichael. I think often aboutthem as well many others of our classmates. I alsothink about my NROTC buddies and the summerwe spent at Little Creek in Q-111, or our entry inthe Corpus Christie talent show when we intro-duced the Navy to Function Junction, words andmusic by our own Bill Danforth, plus running intoPaul Goldberg all over the world in the years fol-lowing graduation. Nowadays, we wouldn’t evenbe at Dartmouth. So, one beautiful wife, four greatkids, seven grandchildren, a sooner-than-expectedretirement, five years on a sailboat, and multi otheradventures later, including 140 miles on the south-west Virginia section of the Appalachian Trail thispast summer, plus recent completions of War andPeace, Crime and Punishment, A Tale of Two Cities,Great Expectations, and numerous histories, etc.,I’m doing good. I hope everyone else is as well. Seeyou all in June.

John F. Burr423 Coronado Drive, Ballwin, MO 63011, (636) 527-6295, «[email protected]» Spouse: Mary J. Burr Occupation: Manufacturing

Charles E. Butler Jr.Charlie

4513 East Barwick Drive, Cave Creek, AZ 85331, (480) 502-0970, «[email protected]» Spouse: Carol Butler Occupation: Consulting,Corporate Management Resources,4513 East Barwick Drive, Cave Creek, AZ 85331, (480) 585-1748


We shared a girlfriend in high school. No, not at the same time.

James P. Burns III

Allan W. Cameron 7805 Town Gate Place, Bethesda, MD 20817, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Curiosity, and areluctance to be locked finally intoalmost anything. Consequently, myprofessional life (as will be seenbelow) is a bit of a hodge-podge,and my personal life has echoedthat. Only in later years have I foundthe mental and emotional where-withal to “settle down.” But other-wise, reading voraciously, some writing (when I waspretending to be an academic), travel, politics, computers,music, gardening (when I had a back), single malt Scotch,and just plain poking around. Career: I’m not sure that one can say that I’ve had a career,because it’s mostly a series of jobs of one sort or another.Some people are admiring, some say, in effect, “Can’t youhold a steady job?” 1960-1963: Active duty, U.S. Navy (destroyer sailor); 1963-l965: Graduate Study, The Fletcher School of Law andDiplomacy, Tufts University; 1965-1968: Instructor in Gov-ernment, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (but the summersof l965 and l966 were spent in Vietnam as a civilian work-ing for the Institute of International Education); 1968-1969: Kent Fellowship, the Danforth Foundation (actually, itwent on longer than that, but I was multitasking); 1969-1970: Abt Associates Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts (Myfirst exposure to the consulting business); 1970-1978:Assistant, and then Associate, Dean, The Fletcher School ofLaw and Diplomacy, Tufts University; 1978-1979: AmericanEnterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington,D.C.; 1979-1981: Self-employed or unemployed: odd jobsand flailing around; 1981-1987: Executive Assistant, SenatorJeremiah Denton (R, AL). (Deep immersion in real politics) 1987-1989: Executive Director, Commission on MerchantMarine and Defense (a Congressionally-mandated, presiden-tially appointed, Commission); 1990-1993: Deputy AssistantSecretary of the Navy for International Policy; 1993-present:Senior National Security Policy Advisor, Program Manager,and whatever else comes along, Meridian Corporation,which was acquired by DynCorp, which was acquired byComputer Sciences Corporation, which is now CSC. Whew! Family and Roots: Hmm, what to say about this one.Because my father went into the “bomb business” in 1943,I grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and got a pretty goodprimary and secondary school education, which got me intoDartmouth as one of the limited number of Southerners inour class. But my roots were really Northern and beyond. Mygrandfather left Nova Scotia in the late 1800s to get edu-cated in the U.S. but then remained as pastor of a smallPresbyterian church in a small town in northern Pennsylvania,where my father and his brothers were born. His grandfa-ther, in turn, had left Scotland in the early part of the 19thcentury (date uncertain) because things were so bad there(I have his pocket watch). Ultimately I got to Scotland andwas struck both by the sheer beauty of the place and by thepoverty of the soil and of life in the Highlands, or at least

those parts of it from which my family sprang. It must havebeen pretty bad to make Nova Scotia look like paradise! On my mother’s side, it was really a parallel to the westernexpansion of the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries, thoughit ended in this case in Indiana (Nobelsville). My grand-mother (from Nobelsville) and my grandfather (from Cleve-land, I think) met while they were at Oberlin, married whenshe graduated (a year before he would have—she was ayear older), and went to Alaska where he was an Episcopallay missionary for several years. My mother was born there,in Anvik (which is pretty far northwest), a circumstance thatstill confuses people who tend to pry into such things. (I’vebeen told, “You don’t look Indian.” Because people assumethat if your mother was born in Alaska in 1908 she musthave been an Indian.) He died in his early 30s, after theyreturned to the U.S, leaving my grandmother a young widowwith young children in Cleveland, Ohio. . She worked as astore clerk, had my mother (who was 15) manage the houseon almost nothing, put herself through library school at CaseWestern Reserve, and became a librarian, which worked outvery well in the long term. During the Great Depression, shesaved her pennies and when she had enough she’d buy ashare of stock. All in all, she was pretty well fixed, ultimately.My mother and father met at Oberlin, again, in the mid-1920s. He went off to the University of Minnesota for hisPhD in inorganic chemistry, she transferred to the Universityof Indiana (where her mother worked). She chased himdown in Rochester, New York, where he was working forKodak on the development of Kodachrome, and they mar-ried in 1933. Wife: Margaret Haber (yes, we are married). Margaret is mysecond try, the first one having endowed me with a stepsonas well a pain and grief. My stepson is now a lawyer in NorthCarolina, but he and his wife refuse to produce grandchildren.Margaret and I are both past the stage of having children,but we seem to be making up for it by adopting pets fromanimal shelters. At the moment we have a middle-ageddeclawed cat and a mostly toothless older Chihuahua. Theydon’t get along yet, but at least neither of them is armed! Major at Dartmouth: International Relations. (I was furi-ous with the College when it both abolished the major and


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threw ROTC off campus—the Navy paid for me to go toSchool there, and it was a pretty good deal, actually. Andthe major was a great one; I subsequently, with some effort,played a role in getting a similar undergraduate major insti-tuted at Tufts University); Master of Arts in InternationalRelations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, TuftsUniversity, 1964; Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, TheFletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University1965; PhD, International Relations, The Fletcher School ofLaw and Diplomacy, 1979. (It took me a while to finish thethesis.) Dartmouth Activities: WDBS/WDCR, General Manager(only because the guys who were better qualified passed onthe job); Fencing Club, for a while until the radio thing gotin the way; College Bowl Team (Does that count as anactivity?)

I got one hell of a good education at Dartmouth,courtesy of the U.S. Navy, but in later years I real-ized that I probably would have been better ofsocially and perhaps personally at a co-ed schoolsomewhere. I was awfully young, inexperienced,and callow.

I regret that I did not marry young and have chil-dren and build the bond between two people that I see fulfilling the lives of friends and relations. I seethe joy that that long-term relationships bring toothers of more or less my age. I was too immature,too inexperienced, to understand what life means

and requires. Between Dartmouth and the Navy, Iwas 25 before I got into an environment that actu-ally included women on a daily basis, but I didn’tappreciate it (plus I tore up my right knee playingintramural touch football, which shaped my physi-cal life subsequently to this day). There were sever-al good opportunities, but I did not see them.

When we graduated from Dartmouth, I had alreadypassed the Foreign Service exam, both written andoral, and was set to join the Foreign Service when I finished with the Navy. Almost literally, however, Iwoke up one morning while at sea a couple of yearslater and realized that I had forgotten how to thinkand to reason in any really independent way. Ilooked at the Navy and at the Foreign Services as“careers” and thought that I did not want to spendmy life climbing up the preset rungs on the careerladder. I determined then (this was maybe late 1962)that I wanted to go to graduate school. The Navywould not send me to the Fletcher School, only toAmerican University, so I got out. Not that I didn’tenjoy the Navy—driving a ship is a real gas, as anumber of classmates will no doubt attest!

From that decision sprang my somewhat incoher-ent employment history. On the whole, though, ithas worked out all right. (At some point early on, I made the decision that money was not all thatimportant either, so I mostly stopped worryingabout shaping my life to make a lot of it). Oddlyenough, though, at age 71 I find myself in a situa-tion where I really don’t have any interest in retir-ing, which may differentiate me from others of ourgroup. I think I like the structure of employment,and the atmosphere of purpose it provides. (Thereis also the matter of a very nice house bought late inlife and, therefore, with what seems to be a humon-gous mortgage.)

Looking back on things now, I think that we, all ofour generation, have lived at a remarkable time.We have been able to live in a style of comfort andvariety unknown to most of humanity before us.We have enjoyed the ability to broaden our hori-zons both intellectually and physically to a degreeunparalleled before us. We in the United States, andmany in other parts of the world, have lived in asociety and political system unique in its freedomand openness. (Digression: When I was ExecutiveDirector of the Commission on Merchant Marineand Defense in 1987, we, the Commissioners andStaff, produced a report that was highly critical ofsome aspects of current national policy. By statute,the Commission’s reports were exempt from reviewby the Executive Branch, meaning mostly OMB. I went one day to the Government Printing Office,found the appropriate person, and said, in effect,“We want to print this report as an official docu-ment of the United States.” He replied, “Do you


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have a line of accounting?” I said that we did,meaning that the Commission had funds appropri-ated to it by Congress. He said, “OK.” So we did it,with the Great Seal on the cover. More than almostanything else, that experience drove home to methe recognition that our society is really a free one.)

Having said all that, I must qualify it. I cannotdrive through Northeast Washington, D.C., as I didthe other day, without being depressed by theprevalence of economic and social conditions thatare vastly out of step with the country that I havelived in. I have travelled enough to have been inmany places where the quality of life has beenalarmingly different from that we enjoy. I’ve beenshot at in Vietnam, searched and harassed goingfrom West Berlin to East Berlin before the Wall camedown, and picked up a batch of persistent amoebaesomewhere in South or Southeast Asia. All of thoseand many other things have reinforced to me howfortunate we in this country have been at this par-ticular time in history. At the same time, I fail tounderstand how a country as rich and generous aswe cannot ensure that everyone has access tohealth care, or how we can have an infant mortali-ty rate among the worst in the developed world.

We have benefitted from a marvelous economicboom fueled literally by plentiful, and probablyunderpriced, energy. Our physical horizons havebeen broadened by inexpensive and rapid trans-portation, at home and worldwide. Our intellectualhorizons have been broadened by wondrous masscommunications, from the latest in Internet andcable television to the quick availability of inexpen-sive books; our life horizons have been extended byremarkable medical care, nutrition, and publichealth—just look at how many members of ourclass have lived to the point of contributing to thispublication! And for all these many years, nobodyhas actually used “the bomb.” (Though those of usinvolved in the Cuban crisis in 1962 know that itwas a near thing.) Anybody else remember theKingston Trio’s “Merry Minuet”?

I fear it will not continue. Energy in the forms wehave used is not unlimited and, with all apologiesto my Green friends, is probably not replaceable,much less plentiful enough to satisfy the growingneeds of the rest of the planet (Can you say “nuclearpower?”) Political systems that have provided open-ness and a full range of freedoms will be increasing-ly challenged by those who dislike freedom and,more important, by the competition for resources.It is too much to expect that bitter enemies, or peo-ples whose very survival is threatened, will refrainfrom using the ultimate weapon.

Our children are doing pretty well now, but I worryabout their children and the generations yet tocome. How can they possibly have a life as good as

the one that we have led? Perhaps the current eco-nomic crisis, which may be reflective of an under-lying restructuring, is but a harbinger of worse yetto come (but my colleagues and friends skilled inthe black science of economics may speak moreeffectively than I).

One very meaningful observation: I graduated fromthe first high school in the United States to be inte-grated under Brown v. Board of Education. I sawthe violence that accompanied school integrationin neighboring towns. Then I went north to schoolat Dartmouth where, as I recall, we had one blackstudent in our entering class, and he for whateverreason did not graduate. For the early part of myDartmouth life I received some ribbing, mostly goodnatured, about my state of origin and my slightSouthern accent. But I had had a chance to see someof how life was in the North, where segregation wasevery bit as systemic and endemic as in the South,but far less recognized. The events of 1968, andother urban riots in the 1960s, underlined the point.

Since 1956, we as a country have made great stridesin matters of racial and social equality, though theeconomic and cultural disparities continue as asource of gloom to me. But I never thought that Iwould live to see a black man elected president ofthe United States, and event that literally broughtme to tears.

As a friend of mine says, “I’m just happy to be here.”I’m looking forward to our 50th Reunion. I’mlooking forward to continuing to be active at workand at play. I wish that age did not rob me of somany capabilities and capacities, and I would pre-fer that the process be less physically painful. Butwe must make do with what we have, so I look for-ward to continued explorations and the enjoymentsof life

Paul S. Cantor25 East 9th Street, NY, NY 10003,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: One often hearsthe cliché “I am retiring to spendmore time with my family.” Well,that is what I have been doing for50 years, family, and I am stilldoing it. It has been most gratify-ing. And yes, I am still not retiringfrom business.Helaine and I have been living inManhattan since graduation. We moved but once, 12 yearsago, to Greenwich Village. While raising our children in NYC(they live within minutes of us), we have delved pretty heavi-ly into the cultural life so readily available here.While we do not have an abundance of possessions, we didcollect art until the walls were filled and books until thelibrary overflowed. Our experiences with theater, opera,


dance, and music continue to occupy many of our evenings.Of course, Manhattan has its limitations, choices had to bemade, and some things fell by the wayside. My golf gamebecame extinct, my jump shot disappeared, and my claimsof being a “jock” are now limited to riding an indoor bicy-cle. And sadly, our alma mater has not been providing muchvicarious satisfaction in the sporting arena.I have been fortunate enough to be able to help in co-found-ing a number of varied organizations, producing and sup-porting culture (theater, film, and art), advancing women’scauses, and improving and increasing opportunities for

minorities. In my mind, one’s “net worth” is the number ofpeople one has helped.Career: After five years of practicing law, I started my ownfirm in the asset-management business and continue to bethe majority shareholder. I have changed the name on thedoor three times and remain independent and resilient tothe extreme changes in the brokerage industry. It is still achallenging and rewarding ride.The firm is now named Beech Hill Securities, and our mainoffice is located in Manhattan. We are predominantly a reg-istered investment advisor but we also manage one mutualfund, three limited partnerships, and provide research as well

as institutional services to domestic and foreign clientele.Family and Roots: We have two children, three grand-daughters, and a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law who areterrific and who tolerate, for the most part, my idiosyncrasies.Wife/Partner: Helaine Carlin: Helaine and I were married in1962. Helaine is a professional success twice over. First, shewas with Ford Model Agency for 17 years. Second, after 12years of school, NYU, MSW 1991, and psychoanalytictraining, Helaine has a full time private practice as a psy-choanalyst/psychotherapist. Major at Dartmouth: Philosophy and ComparativeLiterature; LLB, Columbia Law School, 1963; NYU GraduateSchool of Law, TaxationDartmouth Activities: Alumni Interview Leader, 1970-1985; Class of 1960, Dorm Art Project; Board of Overseers,Hopkins Center, 2000-2008

Well, you gotta laugh, and this cartoon strikes meas appropriate. I wrote my senior thesis on AlbertCamus and as it was just about completed ProfessorTSK Scott Craig informed me that Camus had diedin a driving accident on January 4, 1960.

Anyway, I like to think that that I have been pushingthat Sisyphean rock up a pretty gentle slope for thepast 50 years. You guys have been a great help withthe push—friends, business partners, professionaladvisors, clients, and confidants. Good guys. Thanks.

Our experience at Dartmouth was unique. I won-der if the current Dartmouth students will developthe bonds of camaraderie and closeness that wehave. Probably not and perhaps the change is notdisappointing. The addition of women, people ofcolor and increased cultural facilities (all of which Ihave encouraged and supported) is a big improve-ment. Dartmouth cannot and should not go back,but of course, what we had and continue to have,as we age together, is quite wonderful and unique.

So classmates, whatever part of the slopes we areon, let’s keep pushing. Embrace joy.


Paul Cantor and Helaine

In my mind, one’s “net worth” is the number of people one has helped.

Paul Cantor

Simeon T. Cantril Simeon T. Cantril died onMarch 5, 2003.

Donald L. Caress Don

19421 SW 30th Street, Miramar, FL 33029, (954) 322-1510, «[email protected]» Spouse: Amy Caress

Lyndell M. Carlin Jr.18 Heritage Drive, Orleans, MA 02653, «[email protected]»After graduation fromDartmouth, I married CarolynHoebbel (Smith ’61) inSeptember, and we went toThe Law School at theUniversity of Virginia. Ourfirst child was delivered in themiddle of second-year exams.I earned my degree in 1963 and clerked at a film inNewark, New Jersey. In March 1964, I went onactive duty as a 1st Lieutenant at the ArmorOfficers School at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Soon aftercompletion of the Officers Basic Course, thinkingwe would perhaps be stationed overseas, I insteadproceeded all the way across the post to the BasicTraining Center, where I took command of a basictraining company in my second week. I signed forfive barracks, a mess hall, supply room, and all theequipment with little or no idea of what I wasdoing. With no officers, 110 vehicles, and onlyfour NCOs for five platoons of basic trainees, Ilearned a lot in a hurry and stayed in great physi-cal shape. Terrific satisfaction seeing young boystransform into proud young men as they passed

in review at the end of their eight weeks. Soon Iworked my way up to Battalion and then BrigadeAdjutant, where my primary job was to keep mycolonel out of trouble with the commanding gener-al. I left the Army as a Captain with the Vietnamconflict in full swing, a second child in tow, notknowing what the future might have in store forus, but anxious to get on with my chosen career.

I went back to the law firm in N. J. for a few yearsand then left that security to form a partnership inmy home town of Basking Ridge, a leap of faiththat, after a few rocky years and child number three,grew into a very successful general practice, whichthen evolved into a strong real estate, zoning, andplanning practice. In the ’80s and early ’90s, I seizedan opportunity to represent several N. J. S&L’s whosereal estate investments were, to say the least, in astate of disarray. I traveled around the country

engaging in workouts from campground member-ship schemes in Arkansas and ill-advised timeshareprojects in California and Florida to “see-through”office buildings in Houston and neglected, aban-doned, and sometimes condemned apartments inDallas. This continued quite successfully with majorrecoveries for the clients until the federal govern-ment’s Resolution Trust Company stepped in andthought they could do it better. This was provedimmediately inaccurate and—well, that’s the sub-ject of a much longer and pointed dissertation! Ireturned to my law practice in Basking Ridge, thistime on my own, and stayed in the land use fielduntil “semi”-retiring to Cape Cod in 2005.Wanting to stay busy, I hooked up with a small realestate firm, obtained my sales agent’s license, andcontinue to dabble, although we go to Naples,Florida, for a few months in the winter.

We are fortunate that two of our three children andtheir families are here on the Cape. Our youngestwas in Connecticut until recently and now is inMaryland. With seven grandsons and one grand-daughter, spanning first grade to college graduate,we keep busy; lots of sporting events, schoolactivities, etc.

I look back at my time at Dartmouth and reflectupon how that experience changed me in so manyways. I actually came to Hanover as a place to bewhile waiting to enter the U.S. Military Academy inthe summer of 1957, having received my Congress-man’s appointment for that year. Along with amediocre year on the freshman football team, I hadan academic semester in which I learned the terrible


The magic that is Dartmouth was real to meand always will be.

Lyndell M. Carlin Jr.

lesson that this wasn’t high school anymore. Youhad to work hard to survive; I decided to make themost of the short time I had left. I had a good win-ter track season running the hurdles, discoveredthere was much to learn in pursuing the liberalarts if you were willing to immerse yourself in theexperience. Slowly my transformation began. I wascoming to the realization that my dream to go toWest Point was nothing more than that. What real-ly appealed to me was right in front of me, includ-ing ROTC if the military should continue to be ofinterest. It was, however, a spring of some torment,a lot of guilt, and much soul-searching. I was stillon the fence when I went home in June and wasactually AWOL on the day I was supposed to reportto the Academy, and I called my Congressman toadvise him, apologetically, that Dartmouth waswhere I needed to be. Sophomore year I pledged SAE,ran varsity winter and spring track, and worked myway back up the grade point scale. I declared Phi-losophy as my major and jumped vigorously intomy Junior and Senior years.

I didn’t graduate magna or summa, but the magicthat is Dartmouth was real to me and always willbe. I often wonder where the other path would haveled. I can’t believe that the blessings of my life—mywife, my family, my health, my education, and myachievements could have been any more rewardingor satisfying. So, there you have it. No gripes, noattacks, no political diatribes. Life is good on CapeCod. Come on down (or up). We’ll let the air outof the tires and hit the outer beach where musingis easy.

Francis A. Carmichael Francis A. Carmichael died onMay 1, 1975.

Elliott G. Carr46 Old Run Hill Road, Brewster, MA 02631, (508) 896-6696, «[email protected]» Spouse: Susan W. Carr

J. Stephen CarrollSteve, aka Waldo

4501 Country Club View, Baytown, TX 77521, (281) 424 3911, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I spent the early’60s in the Marine Corps and thenreturned to college. At Dartmouth Ibegan as a science major, but thatprogram proved more dauntingthan I could handle, so I switchedmajors. Post-USMC, I was ready for another go at scienceand this time was able to overcome the challenge.Career: My career was with Exxon Corporation where myassignments were in the engineering and management fields.Family and Roots: A 5th-generation Texan, I was born andraised in Gainesville, a small town near the Red River. Thefollowing occurrences are part of my family history. Duringthe Civil War years my great-great-grandfather, an oppo-nent of secession, went out one day to plow a field andnever returned; he most likely was done in by the vigilanteswho prowled the border counties in those times (read up onthe Great Gainesville Hanging for related accounts). One ofhis sons, a great-grandfather, was Sheriff of the county atthe turn of the 19th century and was an honorary TexasRanger. Mid-19th century, another great-grandfather emi-grated from Ireland and established a gristmill north ofDallas. The community that sprang up alongside took thename of Carrollton. In the ’30s and ’40s, my maternalgrandmother was Warden of the State School for Girls (acorrectional institution) located outside Gainesville. In 1901,my paternal grandfather opened a funeral parlor in town.After my father joined the business, the name became Geo.J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home. Though my family has hadno ownership interest in it for over 30 years, the firm doesbusiness under that name to this day.Ask me, and I’ll tell you a riveting tale about my grandfa-ther and the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. It’s too lengthyto include here.My daughter, Elizabeth Schwartz, BA U of H, teaches highschool English at St. Thomas Episcopal School in Houston. Sheand her husband Matt, an editor at the Houston Chronicle,have three young daughters (Dartmouth 202? perhaps).My son David, BS MIT 1991, MA Cal Berkeley, is a manager


with the California Association of Food Banks. He lives andworks in Oakland with his partner, Stan Yogi. My son, EricBarker, USN, whom I adopted, lives in Florida with his wifeJade and their seven-year-old daughter.Wife: Martha Davies Mayo is my life partner and is anauthentic Memphis belle. She came to Texas courtesy ofExxon in the company of her late husband, Tom Mayo.Martha has three children. Molly Tampke is a DevelopmentVP with the University of North Texas and lives in Dentonwith her husband, Dale, a dean in student affairs at UNT.Sally Daverse is a personal chef and lives in Austin with herhusband Chris, a consultant in the microchip industry.Thomas Mayo is an attorney and lives in Beaumont with hisschoolteacher wife, Amy. Additionally, there are two moregranddaughters in this branch of our blended family, a col-lege student and an eight-year-old. Major at Dartmouth: I matriculated as an EleazarWheelock Scholar aspiring to earn a degree in Physics. Ourfirst semester I enrolled in Calculus for Science Majors andcalculus-based Introductory Physics, unaware that I wasgetting in way over my head. The material I was expectedto master proved largely incomprehensible, and I flounderedmiserably. How I received passing marks in those coursesremains a mystery. That experience coupled with a goodgrade in my European History course plus a complimentaryremark from the professor, John Gazley, sealed my decision.I switched to History. That was a good move for me, and I continue to benefit from having taken more courses in thehumanities than I would have otherwise. Several years laterI re-entered the technical arena, and by then subjects thathad seemed incomprehensible earlier now made goodsense. I earned a BS in CE from UT Austin, was inductedinto Chi Epsilon, the honorary civil engineering fraternity,and completed two years of graduate studies in PhysicalGeodesy at Texas A&M. Dartmouth Activities: Psi Upsilon, Dragon, Rugby,Freshman Football, Intramural Hockey (skated with theJapanese Sukkahs, Psi U reserve squad), winner of Best-Dressed Award: 1958 Beta-Psi U Bike Race

Along toward the end, my father would at timestell me I’d someday understand, if I didn’t die first,how little there is to like about getting old. At thosemoments, Dad no doubt had in mind the frailties

and other age-related indignities he was dealingwith. As time passes, I am understanding more andmore clearly what he was talking about, but I havenot yet adopted quite so dismal a view.

However, I have begun to experience a renewedconnection with my first automobile, a ’36 Buick.It took lots of tinkering and parts replacement tokeep that car running, and the same thing is nowhappening with me. I hope this maintenance strat-egy works for me as well as it did for that old Buick.

Life is good most of the time except when I worry.I worry that my grandchildren’s opportunity toenjoy a good life may be spoiled. I worry about thedamage our species is wreaking on this planet (I con-fess I am not blameless). I hope there is yet time toremediate our irresponsible conduct. The momen-tum I see building to restore a sustainable balanceis encouraging. Green is a fine color from morethan one perspective.

When I am not worrying and am living in themoment, I find considerably more about life torejoice in than to rage against. I have much to begrateful for. I am in reasonably good health andhave at this writing 18 years of sobriety under mybelt. My occasional infirmities are fairly mild, andthere are still rewarding things for me to do in

whatever time there is left. I sorely miss old friendsnow departed, yet memories they left behind glad-den my heart. Their passing is a solemn reminderthat life here is transitory and for our cohort, mostlyspent. What then? After earthly days are done whoreally knows what happens? Are unfathomablemysteries out there? Maybe there’s more awaitingus than we can discern. I hope so.

Until then, life’s journey continues and as it does Iwant to navigate the course as well as I can possiblymanage. I believe that to do so I must strive to walkin love, address my obligations cheerfully, mind myspiritual condition, and, above all, never take myselftoo seriously. I hope I make a decent showing.

Best wishes to us all as we marshal resources forour 50th. It represents an exceptional milestone,and for better or for worse, I am looking forward toall it entails.


Steve Carroll and family

I hope this maintenance strategy works for meas well as it did for that old Buick.

J. Stephen Carroll

Michael J. CarrollMike

601 Van Ness Avenue, Apt. #845,San Francisco, CA 94102, (415) 441-0345 Spouse: Shirley J. Carroll

Robert S. CaryBob

20 Fuller Avenue, Swampscott, MA 01907, (781) 599-4116, «[email protected]» Spouse: Janet Nussmann Occupation: Robert S. Cary CPA PC,20 Fuller Avenue, Swampscott, MA 01907, (781) 599-4116

Bob Caulfield 832 Diamond Street, San Francisco, CA 94114,«[email protected]»Career: Read on.Family and Roots: Grew up inBoston. Always glad I did, too. Myolder daughter, Nancy, lives in theBoston area. My younger daughter,Jennifer, lives right next door to usin San Francisco, which is reallygreat. Also, a stepdaughter, Vanessa,and a stepson, James, are both inSF. I have to be sure to mention our seven grandkids.Wife: Margaret. The true delight of my life, she makes myimpending dotage almost pleasant to look forward to. Athorough Brit, she loves anything English; tea every after-noon around 4 (which I have really come to enjoy).Major at Dartmouth: German; MBA from HarvardDartmouth Activities: I was very active with theDartmouth Players.

This is my first submission to Musings. I wrote some-thing for one of the earlier editions but never sentit in. It struck me as too self-absorbed. I raised thisconcern at a recent ’60 Left Coast lunch. A class-mate pointed out that Musings is intended to give usthe opportunity “to wallow in self-awareness.” So,pull up your wading boots and get ready for a littlebit of wallowing.

The performing arts have played a major role inmy life. For one thing, they are how I made a livingfor over 25 years. They continue to be important tome although these days mostly for pleasure. Operais my favorite art form; my wife is more inclinedtowards the symphony and ballet. We both lovetheater and probably spend far too much timewatching movies, new and old. She thinks I havean encyclopedic knowledge of films. I don’t, but Ilike that she thinks I do. At Dartmouth, I was veryactive with the Players, acting in at least two playseach year. I was pretty serious about acting in thosedays, even spending one summer with a stock the-ater company in Dorset, Vermont. That was greatfun and hard work: Eight different plays in eightweeks. I was fortunate to get that job through afaculty member connected with the Players. I neverdid work in the professional theater, but I havealways been thankful for some of the skills I learnedfrom my experiences with the Players: good dictionfor one, and how to appear comfortable in front ofan audience (especially when you aren’t) foranother. I did work for many years in the classicalmusic business, managing two symphony orches-tras, an opera company, and a classical music radiostation, which I partly owned. (My introduction toradio also came at Dartmouth where I was a“trainee” at WDCR.)

Prior to working in the classical music business, I wasaffiliated during the ’60s and early ’70s with GroupW and CBS Television in New York, the periodsome people now regard as “the Golden Age ofTelevision.” The most “golden” thing about it in mymemory was how much money everyone made.Almost anyone connected with television in thatera did well financially and lived a very fast life.Too fast, perhaps, in retrospect.

Managing any performing arts organization is chal-lenging, frustrating, satisfying, demanding, andsometimes, even fun. In addition to directing thework of an entire staff, performing arts managersspend a lot of time and energy mollifying highly


Bob Caulfield and Margaret in Alaska

strung artists. If I had one bête noire during thisperiod, it was working with the AF of M, the musi-cians’ union. I always found it hard to reconcilemyself to the ugly transformation that occurredwhen talented artists, as many orchestral musiciansare, bunched together under the banner of the AFof M. They seemed to transmogrify into teamsters,pure and simple. But there were many rewards: get-ting to know some extraordinarily gifted conduc-tors and artistic directors; and, of course, meetingand working with some of the legendary classicalmusicians of our time: Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman,Isaac Stern, Aaron Copland, Rudolf Serkin, NathanMilstein, Leonard Bernstein (an Honorary DegreeRecipient at our Commencement), just to name-drop a few. And, countless other truly accomplishedsoloists, who were not household names but formedthe backbone of the American orchestral scene atthe time. I noticed early on that the bigger the tal-ent, the more generous the personality. Well, mostof the time; there were exceptions. In retrospect, Iwish I followed more closely the behavioral exam-ples of the generous ones instead of emulating, as Idid too often, those of the exceptions.

Another great reward was working with Boardmembers. All performing arts companies depend onthe dedicated, accomplished men and women serv-ing selflessly on their boards. I am sure many of

you have served as Board members and assisted,and perhaps still are helping, some performing artscompanies in your communities. I salute you. Youare helping to keep the arts alive and well.

I still work in the performing arts on a part-timebasis. I have been affiliated with Playbill in a salesposition for a number of years and recently becamethe business manager for a unique, small operacompany here in the San Francisco area. PeninsulaTeen Opera focuses exclusively on working withteenage voice students, eager to learn more aboutthe difficult, demanding task of performing on theopera stage. It’s incredibly hard work for our kidsand our faculty, but it is truly amazing to see andhear what these teens are capable of.

And for me, it’s a wonderful opportunity to keepactive doing something I really enjoy while help-ing, in a small way, a new generation of perform-ing artists.

Frederick W. Celce Jr.Fred

203 Prince George Street, Annapolis, MD 21401, (410) 268-1225, «[email protected]» Occupation: Government/Military

Richard H. Chase Jr.PO Box 238, Elkins, NH 03233,«[email protected]»

Much of my time has beenspent helping to raise our largefamily; spending time with ourfive boys as they grew up andcontinuing to stay close withthem, their wives, and theirchildren. We now have 14grandchildren with the possi-bility of one or two more in thefuture. We are very blessed and I have loved thetime with them all through the years. The diversecareers of our sons (marine biologist, forester, airlinepilot, art gallery owner, construction manager) con-tinue to add a richness to our lives. Their wives arein various stages of balancing careers and children.

Other activities I have enjoyed are 17 years of fly-ing (including several solo flights across the coun-try), sailing (including a 3,200-mile trans-Atlanticcrossing two years ago on a 54ʹ sloop), kayaking,golf, fishing, skiing, and traveling. I’ve alsoenjoyed being on a number of business and non-profit boards.

As far as work is concerned, I had my own realestate development firm. We restored historicproperties and did real estate workouts across thecountry for banks and insurance companies. Wehad a good run, weathered some difficult times,and ended up in a good place.

My wife of nearly 40 years, Sage, has been a greatpartner in our life’s journey. A wonderful motherand grandmother and friend to many, she alsoshares many of the same interests that I do, partic-ularly kayaking and traveling. Her voracious read-ing habits (6 books a week) put me to shame. Sheretired from a 15-year career as a marriage and fam-ily counselor when we moved to N.H. and is nowon the board of our local hospital. Sage has a longDartmouth history as well. Her father, killed inWWII, was Dartmouth Class of ’42. Her stepfather


I noticed early on that the bigger the talent,the more generous the personality.

Bob Caulfield


was Dartmouth ’37, and her twin brother (deceased)was Dartmouth ’66.

I majored in Economics at Dartmouth and graduatedfrom Tuck in 1965, majoring in Finance. Activitiesat Dartmouth included lacrosse (captain), DragonSenior Society (president), Beta Theta Pi, rugby(while at Tuck School).

We moved to the New London, N.H., area nineyears ago, built a house on a mountainside withgreat views, and are thoroughly enjoying this inter-esting college community 40 minutes southeast ofDartmouth. A number of Dartmouth graduates haveretired to the New London area, including oldfriends and classmates Gundy and Hiley. Sage andI enjoy the beauty of this place, the large numberof interesting people who have settled here, and welike the ability to take courses both in New Londonand at Dartmouth. Many of my closest friends arefrom my Dartmouth years, and I look forward toseeing many of them at our 50th Reunion.

Dennis L. Cherlin Dennis L. Cherlin died onFebruary 2, 1968.

Charles W. CherryChuck

5704 Fairwood Drive, Acworth, GA 30101, (770) 499-9355, «[email protected]»

David C. ChevrierPO Box 313, Saxtons River, VT 05154, Spouse: Eloise E. Chevrier Occupation: Religion, WellingtonAve. United Church of Christ, 615 West Wellington, Chicago, IL 60657, (773) 935-0642

Peter L. Chillag From the San Francisco BayArea comes the news that ourclassmate, Peter L. Chillag,died at the Stanford Hospitalin Palo Alto of pancreatic can-cer on July 15, 2004.

Chillag was an opthalmologistworking at the time of hisdeath for a private companyin the East Bay. Earlier, he wasself-employed as an eye sur-geon. He is the fourth medical doctor in the classto die in the last three years, the others beingDudley J. Weider, Simeon T. Cantril, and Alex R.McGinness.

Neighbors said that Chillag, who was unmarriedand left no relative closer than a cousin, had toldthem he was descended from victims of theHolocaust in World War II. A Jewish service wasperformed by a Palo Alto rabbi. He had led a sim-ple, rather lonely life, according to the neighbors,residing in a cottage behind two opulent homes inMenlo Park and spending some of his spare time asa volunteer usher for the San Francisco Opera.

He came to Hanover from Long Island High Schoolin New York, where he had been editor of the

Richard H. Chase Jr. and Sage

yearbook. In Hanover, he majored in psychologyand pre-med, was active in the Glee Club, theDrama Club, and the Handel Society, and workedas a research assistant in the PsychologyDepartment. He received his medical degree in1969 from Wayne State University in Detroit.

Chillag lived in Santa Cruz and Capitola, Calif.,before moving to Menlo Park.

I am grateful to his neighbor, Mark J. Larson, forassisting me with obtaining what limited informa-tion was available for this notice.

Robert G. ChristopherBob

4042 Saddleback Road, Park City, UT 84098, (435) 649-0325, «[email protected]»

Jim Chubb 940 Leeward Court, York, PA 17403, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: Forty years in inter-national businessCareer: Final Positions, COO andCFO of Continental Barum in Prague,Czech RepublicFamily and Roots: Inge, deceasedin 1995Wife: Susan Chubb Major at Dartmouth: Philosophy,and an MBA at ColumbiaDartmouth Activities: Crew, Dartmouth Players, SAE

We graduated from an all-male milieu into universalmilitary service, and among the lesser milestoneshave now arrived at the age of coed roommates! I would be completely dishonest in not admittingto a deep sense of envy at having had to sufferthrough John Milton on very cold nights with amuch different perspective on “Paradise Lost.”

After graduation with no idea as to what I wouldlike to do and with Uncle Sam looming large inthe background, I decided on OCS, and I joined theNavy to see the world. I never got over it.

My service in the Navy turned me into a lifelongvagabond. I loved the experience of different portsof call and sort of legitimized my Marco Polo cre-dentials with a Columbia MBA in international

business. Then, six months after graduation, I wasoff to what proved to be a 40-year stint in Europe.

We as a family had a great deal of fun and seemedto be almost constantly on vacation except for thelong hours and usual disappointing political strug-gles in getting ahead. Started out in London by wayof Edinburgh and moved on to Achen, Germany,as marketing and budget manager for the Uniroyalgroup in European countries. I moved to Liege,Belgium. Switched to finance and was responsiblefor Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Denmark, and Zaire.(Where it cost you $25 to exit the country andhave the little man with a gun stamp your yellowshot card as OK to exit. The fee would have beenmore, but after bribing the clerk at check-in to val-idate my reservation, passport control, and curren-cy control credentials, $25 was all I had left; I feltlucky to escape.)

My longest stint in any one location was a 15-yearsojourn in Italy. My eldest daughter Christina grewup in Como by the lake She became and married aveterinarian and they are now living and practicingin Verona. My youngest, Caroline, found her wayto Dartmouth (’97) and the U. Chicago Business

School. After a couple years consulting, she jumpedoff the train and into the excitement and that mostdifficult of jobs, motherhood.

Lake Como, Italy, is also where my German wife,Inge, went insane. I know that mental problemscome in all sorts of packages, but dealing with full-blown schizophrenia is crushing and frightening.The neighboring light sending evil messages into


My service in the Navy turned me into a lifelong vagabond.

Jim Chubb

Jim Chubb and Susan


the room, voices on the telephone, knocking overthe bottle of wine and storming out of the restau-rant screaming to escape the plotters at the nexttable; those were heavy years. The psychologist’sreassurances that she was not dangerous were flimsyand unbelievable against her stated plan to kill usin order to protect us against the evil man operat-ing the light. Sleeping in another room with thedoor locked and chair braced against the doorknobwas tragic.

Breast cancer intervened, and after four years ofstruggling on two fronts, Inge passed away leavingall family members to wrestle with their feelings,and we’re still wrestling.

Out of the dumps and back into the light, I took aposition as finance director and COO of the Conti-nental Tire Company’s operations in Eastern Europe.This was just after the Velvet Revolution, and thetransformation of the country in the seven years I was there was so startling and remarkable that noamount of scandal and skullduggery can shake mein my faith in free-market capitalism.

More importantly, the annual ball we held in Praguerequired I have a date. I scratched around and heardof an old family friend (widowed and quite cute)who liked white-water rafting and (I was told) wasthinking of trying parachuting before the book wasclosed. I thought, this is a girl, woman, lass, person(?) who just might be adventurous enough to fly toPrague for a dance. She was, and the rest is history.

This is the part where they lived happily ever after.

Kuk-Soo Chung 203 Brewster Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583, (914) 472-3620 Spouse: Heeja H. Chung Occupation: Education

Malcolm ChurchillMal

4715 47th Street NW, Washington, DC 20016, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: The highways andbyways of life. “Not all who wanderare lost.”Career: Foreign Service for 27years. Stock market newsletter asretirement avocation.Family and Roots: Son Paul ’87 isnow in Munich with Red Bull. He and his wife Elisabeth havetwo sons. Daughter Cristina is in San Francisco. Our childrenhave always lived in wonderful places to visit, and we all gettogether once or twice a year.Wife: Bernardita “Nita” ChurchillMajor at Dartmouth: International Relations

Dartmouth Activities: What seems important after 50years is not a list of what was joined but memories of whatwas done.

In the past year or two it has suddenly struck homethat if one lives to be 100, one loses all one’s friendsalong the way.

In rowing, I am also realizing this year for the firsttime that I seem not to be able to equal my ergome-ter (rowing machine) pace of prior years no matterhow hard I train. On the other hand, doing the samething a million times makes one proficient, and onthe water I have gone from being just one of therowers to being the stroke that everyone looks tofor wisdom, steadiness, and guidance. I guess it’s afair trade-off, though one imbued with misgivings.

I seem to get less done as time passes, but I still havethe same interests and pursuits and value the samethings that are dear to me, starting with my wifeand family. And as we approach our 50th, knowingthat we must look as old to today’s students as the50-year class did to us, it’s strange that most of usprobably don’t feel that old, and that we still seethe faces of Green Book freshmen as we look atclassmates and peel away the years. At the sametime, we can look back on 50 years of pleasure inthe Dartmouth fellowship, knowing now fromlived experience that there is indeed no parting.

Daniel C. Cilo Daniel C. Cilo died on July28, 1997.

Mal Churchill and Nita

Bruce M. Clark35 Alan Road, Danbury, CT 06810, (203) 207-0037, «[email protected]»

Ten years ago I mused at lengthabout being and staying strongand about listening to one’sfriends and how those twothings had changed my life.And while those two powerfulinfluences on me have con-tinued to bear fruit another influence on me hasbecome an essential part of my life.

But before I delve into this latter force let me layout some of the things that have happened to mesince Y2K.

1. I have just completed my 10th Colorado moun-tain cycling tour and 2nd National Senior Gamescompetition. Doing cycling time trials againstother guys my age is exhilarating.

2. Carol and I were married six years ago after check-ing each other out for the previous 10.

3. My daughter struggled with and recovered fromalcoholism and has now been sober for 4½ years.And I have finally gotten to know her for the firsttime. She was remarried about a month ago andwas stunning in body and mind.

My son, who I had not seen or talked to since 1988,died last December, and only then did I get toknow what a responsible and valued person he hadbecome. He had courageously recovered from hisaddictions by himself and had built a solid careerin the telecommunications business.

So now back to this new force in my life and whatI have learned. The new force is a 12-step programcalled Al-Anon, which is designed to help familiesand friends of alcoholics. Through this program Ihave learned how my mother’s alcoholism and myfather’s attempts to control her affected so manyaspects of my and my family’s lives.

I now understand why I have so few memories of mymother and why I had so little compassion for her dif-ficulties. I now understand why my father, my hero,was so frustrated and angry. My compassion for bothof my parents’ struggles now exists, and I am dedicatedto being there for other people who struggle similarly.

I also understand how my upbringing and ambi-tion to financially succeed led me to being a cold,intimidating, SOB consultant, and how damagingthose same character traits were when I appliedthem to my family. I work through my men’s groupto inspire other, younger, fathers to examine theirfamily dynamics and ameliorate the damage.

I also understand why I allowed the indifferenceand anger of my business partner to profoundlyupset me for nearly six years. It motivated me todo both good as well as bad things to other people.And how the experience and learning in my origi-nal family were the cause.

And finally, I have come to understand why myfirst marriage was initiated so easily and became sodifficult and why it took me 33 years before I rec-ognized my pain and moved on. Again, the emo-tional burdens of my original family’s alcoholismwere so powerful.

During the last 6½ years the layers of my deceptionsand my guilt have been peeled away and given mea way to be spiritually, as well as physically, strong.And, also a way to help other people who sufferfrom similar effects.

Jason D. ClarkOccupation: Education, St. Leo’s College Virika, PO Box 24, Fort Portal, Uganda


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Philip A. ClarkPhil

903 Noah Winfield Terrace, #201, Annapolis, MD 21409, (410) 757-8827, «[email protected]»

Robert D. Clark Robert D. Clark died on June29, 2006.

Craig W. Clarke77030 Nellie Lane, Cottage Grove, OR 97424, (541) 942-5857 Spouse: Patricia Clarke Occupation: Environment

George A. Clay 1060 Woodbine Lane, Northbrook, IL 60062, (847) 205-0364, «[email protected]» Spouse: Hollie H. Clay

Arthur R. Coburn3751 East Columbia Street, Seattle, WA 98122, (206) 322-8842, «[email protected]» Occupation: Arts/Entertainment, 3751 East Columbia Street, Seattle, WA 98122, (206) 322-8842

Jonathan L. CohenJon

1130 Park Avenue, Apt. 11-2, New York, NY 10128, (212) 876-3203Business: Advisory Director, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., New York, NY, (212) 902-5705 (Employed there since 1969)Spouse: Allison MorrowChildren: Gregory, born 1968,lighting designer; Suzanne, born1971, primary school educatorGrandchildren: Elisabeth, born 2000 and Cynthia, born2003 (Gregory’s); Emmet, born 2008 (Suzanne’s)Dartmouth Major: Government; MBA, Tuck, 1961Dartmouth Activities: Current: Chairman, Hood Museum ofArt Board of Overseers; Member, President’s Leadership Council.Former: Chairman, Tuck School Board of Overseers; DartmouthAlumni Council; Chairman, Tuck Annual Giving; Chairman,Tuck Capital Campaign; Class Agent, Tuck and DartmouthPrior Work: US Navy, 1961-1963, Lieutenant; Irving TrustCompany, 1963-1968, Assistant Vice PresidentOther Philanthropic Activities: Current: Trustee, WildlifeConservation Society (NY); Trustee, Pennsylvania Academyof the Fine Arts (Philadelphia); Trustee, Florence GriswoldMuseum (Old Lyme, CT); Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY),Bryant Fellow. Former: Trustee, Oberlin College (OH); Trustee,Friends Seminary (NY); Trustee and President, First Presbyte-rian Church in the City of New YorkOther Interests: Collecting American Art, 1885-1925; tennis, swimming, travel

Fiftieth Reunion—how can it be ours? It alwaysseemed like a concept so far in the future as to notbe relevant to our lives. Yet, here it is, and here weare. Wow! I haven’t been to a Dartmouth gradua-tion since June 12, 1960. I recall the Class of 1910walking between our two inward facing lines acrossthe Green. I remember thinking how young themen of 1910 looked and what a good traditionDartmouth had, to link our class with theirs, and50 years later, ours with 2010. One hundred yearsout of Dartmouth’s 241!


We have seen one hell of a half century, haven’twe? JFK, civil rights, Vietnam, the moon landing,Watergate, the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s; 9/11, theInternet, the first black president. Nearly unbeliev-able given the quiet years of the second Eisenhoweradministration when we were at Dartmouth. I retainfaith in our system of government and the resilienceof the United States to continue to set a standardfor the world.

Except for two years as a naval officer, I have livedmy adult life in Manhattan, my birthplace. A greatplace to reside and work and raise children, I think.I get respite from the pace of the city at my homein Bellport, Long Island. My son lives in Westchesterand my daughter is in Greenwich Village, so I seethem and their children a fair amount. Grandchil-dren are great things, and I learn a lot from them.

Allison and I have been married since 1998 andenjoy a great life together. She follows the financialmarkets religiously and uses her knowledge to helpthe organizations on whose boards she sits. Tennisand skiing are her passions, and we enjoy traveland collecting art together.

In 2009, I marked 40 years at Goldman Sachs. That’sa long time at any company, but especially one onWall Street. I have watched it change from a totallyU.S.-oriented private partnership to a financialinstitution. I still work part-time and travel to ouroffices around the world. It has been, and remains,a very satisfying career.

I have been active at Dartmouth most of my life.From the early 1980s, until the early 2000s, at Tuckand since 2001, at the Hood Museum of Art, bothof which are jewels in Dartmouth’s crown. Thesetwo involvements, and others, convince me thatDartmouth is an outstanding place that has shapedmy life, and is worthy of our support. It is differentfrom our time but even better than it was then.

It will be great to see old friends in Hanover in June.Even though I go there four or five times a year, itis not the same as being there with the great Classof 1960.

Robert S. Cohen1360 Bluebird Canyon Drive, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, (949) 497-2938 Spouse: Lorna Cohen Occupation: Education, Univ of California — Irvine, Drama Department, Irvine, CA 92697

Charles W. Cole Jr.Charlie

PO Box 1085, Basalt, CO 81621, (970) 927-2493 Spouse: Kathleen Cole Occupation: Real Estate

James Washington Cole Jim

917 North Lake Avenue, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147, «[email protected]» Spouse: Nancy V. Cole Occupation: Consulting

Charles F. Collins Chuck

1525 Elsdon Circle, Carmichael, CA 95608, (916) 482-6752 Spouse: Joan Collins


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William A. Colton Jr.5 Serra Drive, Unionville, CT 06085, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: It took me a whileafter graduation, but I finallylearned that family and self weremore important than chasing therainbow in the corporate world. Career: After completing lawschool, I was married and broke. Ajob at Allstate insurance was next,and that led me into what was then called Personnel. Aftercompleting a tour of 15 years ending up as the PersonnelDirector of their New England Region, I then entered the pub-lic sector, ending up as Human Resources Director for theCapital Region Education Council.Family and Roots: Married Teresa Tranberg in 1964. Wehave two children, William A. III and Tammie Elizabeth.Tammie had two children, Nicole Elizabeth Colton andMatthew DeRamo; more on them in the essay. Right now,Matthew is a junior at Farmington High School, and Nicoleis an entering first-year student at the Rochester Institute ofTechnology. Both Matthew and Nicole were raised frombirth by my wife and me. Bill, our son, just added a newbaby girl to our family, Taylor Elizabeth Colton. As I writethis she is visiting us and is a real pleasure in our lives. Wife: Teresa has been my wife for 45 years. She attendedSt. John’s University in New York. Her education was inter-rupted as she helped put me through law school. After wemoved to Connecticut in 1973, she became a real estatemortgage underwriter and in 1982 was elected Tax Collec-tor in our local town, Farmington. In that capacity, she andher staff are responsible for collecting over $80 million oftax revenue each year. Major at Dartmouth: History; JD, Brooklyn Law School,1965Dartmouth Activities: I graduated.

On our graduation, that sunny Sunday morning, Ihave a distinct recollection of noticing the 50-yearclass and making up my mind that I wanted to bethere to march with our class at its 50th reunion.At this point it looks like I will make it. From thevantage point of almost 50 years, I now know that,at that time, I had no idea what my life was goingto be like. We have moved, grown in our jobs, raisedchildren and grandchildren, and had a successfulbusiness career, and now we are happily retired.Nicole, 18, and Matthew, 17, are our grandchildren,and we have raised them all of their lives. Nicole isabout to become a first-year student at the RochesterInstitute of Technology. She had a successful highschool athletic career as a coxswain and plans tocox on the RIT crew. Matthew is a rower on thesame team, and his plans after high school will bein place by the time you read this. They are bothour pride and joy, as is Taylor Elizabeth Colton, ournewest grandchild. She lives in Myrtle Beach withour son, William, and Debbie Gorman. In light of

the fact that she lives so far distant, her parentssent her up for a three-week visit that is ending asI write this. It has been a great visit. She is noweight months old, and we have seen her go frombarely crawling to pulling herself up as all babies do.

Bill and Debbie have been very generous allowingher to come to visit. Bill has a successful start to apool and landscape management firm in MyrtleBeach; it is in its first year. We are also very proudof both him and Debbie for the good care they giveto our grandchild.

Thank you to all of my family who have supportedme through my life and who have been very for-giving of my shortcomings, few though they maybe. (Spell check tells me this is a fragment andshould be revised. I decline to be dictated to by aspell checker.) After leaving Hanover on that clearSunday afternoon, I went back to selling tickets onthe Long Island Rail Road, a job I had held for sev-eral summers prior. Having no idea what to do with

this great educational experience just completed, I did this for several more years and then decided togo to law school. After graduating from law schooland joining Allstate Insurance, the corporate merry-go-round captured me, a period of life where thecorporate climb became more important thanenjoying life. After finally landing in Connecticut,we settled down, got off the corporate whirlwind,and have had a great life since. Serving initially asthe Personnel Director for the New England Region,I remained in that position for about seven years.Although that was an interesting job, we werefaced with the prospect of moving in the next year


Bill Colton and his granddaughter

I met some of the best people I have knownin my whole life at Dartmouth.

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or two, and at that point, I jumped off the merry-go-round. I landed as Human Resource Director forthe Capital Region Education Council, a public edu-cational cooperative in north central Connecticut.Remaining in that position for almost 17 years, Iwas heavily involved in all aspects of labor negoti-ations and enjoyed it tremendously. In that capacity,I became a consultant to many of our member pub-lic school districts. However, I was very happy toretire a few years ago.

One of life’s greatest pleasures has been to shareexperiences with my wife of 45 years, 46 by reuniontime. I am just as proud of her accomplishments asI am of those of our kids and grandkids. She hasbeen the Tax Collector in our town for over 25years. She has served as President of the statewideConnecticut Tax Collectors’ Association and hasbeen in that position while bringing her departmentfrom written records into the computer age. Sheregularly collects over 99.5% of receivables, one ofthe tops in the state.

My life has also been blessed by being part of awonderful family, a great, loyal, and loving brother,fantastic parents and a tremendous extended family.We had a mini family reunion for my 70th birth-day; included were several of my relatives who hadgraduated from Dartmouth. Needless to say wereminisced about old times including Dartmouth.

No Musing would be complete unless I commentedon the great experience and education I received inthose four years a long time ago. Although time anddistance have separated many of us, I met some ofthe best people I have known in my whole lifeduring that period of time. As I heard many of myclassmates comment during the 2010 matriculation,I wish I had taken advantage of more of the oppor-tunities. On the other hand, I believe Dartmouthprepared me for the life that I have lived for thepast 50 years. For this, I will be forever grateful. Wehave lived a good life, and I am proud to be a mem-ber of the Class of 1960. Thanks to you, Dartmouthand the Class of 1960.

Robert J. ColyerBob

59 Madison Street, Newton, NJ 07860, (973) 579-6674, «[email protected]» Spouse: Allyn Colyer

William D. Comings Jr.Bill

PO Box 643, Block Island, RI 02807, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Our life has beenquite different since I retired at theend of 2004. We live at our formersummer house on Block Island andare enjoying the freedom that retire-ment affords. We travel quite exten-sively. Margie and I had startedcruising on vacations years ago as a compromise betweenher desire to travel and my desire to take a break from con-stant checking in and out of hotels. We began retirement inJanuary 2005, by going on a round-the-world cruise on theQueen Elizabeth 2. That 90-day-plus trip was a great tran-sition point and a wonderful experience taking us to placesin Asia and India that we had never seen before. We madegreat new friends and visited unforgettable places like theTaj Mahal. In 2006, we followed with a trip around SouthAmerica on the Queen Mary 2 with close friends and partic-ularly enjoyed getting to see more of Chile. The followingyear we were again on the QE2 from Singapore aroundAfrica and back to New York, with a spectacular side trip tothe Singita game preserve in South Africa. In 2008, we againsailed round the world, this time on the new Queen Victoria,and particularly enjoyed spending more time in India—Delhi,Calcutta, Jaipur and Mumbai—and getting to see unspoiledBhutan. Closer to home, we sailed around the British Isleson the QE2’s farewell cruise. While we travel a great deal, we do find time to enjoy thesummer and particularly the off-seasons on Block Island.Living in a very small and somewhat isolated town (year-round population about 900) is a totally new experience forus, and we enjoy it. Margie continues the civic work shepursued in Maryland for 30 years, as Chair of the Island’sPlanning Board, and I follow up on my real estate interestsby serving on the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals.Career: Immediately following graduation, I served in theNavy for 2½ years. I had been in ROTC at Dartmouth, and I served on a small Mr. Roberts-like ship in the Atlantic with


Bill Comings and Margie

time divided between Guantanamo Bay, the west coast ofAfrica, and the Mediterranean. Margie and I got married in December 1962 and settled inMaryland near Washington, D.C., where we lived for about40 years. I started with the DC Redevelopment Land Agencyfollowed by many years with The National Housing Partner-ship. I was involved from the inception of NHP and led itsefforts to acquire or develop low- and moderate-incomeapartments across the United States. I shifted gears in 1988,going from housing development to finance. I joined ThePatrician Mortgage Company in Washington and Bethesda,Maryland, as its Executive Vice- President and was involvedin the growth, expansion, and diversification of that firm,and its sister company, The Patrician Financial Company.These firms specialized in the financing and refinancing ofapartment properties nationwide. When the business wassold in early 1997, I stayed on and rapidly became involvedin helping to run the larger Boston-based Berkshire MortgageFinance. Initially, this work was from Maryland, but later Ispent significant time in Irvine, California, and Boston. Byhappy coincidence, my long-planned (and frequentlydelayed) retirement coincided with the sale of the combinedcompany to Deutsche Bank. By even happier coincidence,my retirement preceded the crash of real estate finance andfinance generally.Family and Roots: Our granddaughters are now the fifthgeneration of the Comings family to summer on Block Island,and much of our small extended family considers the Islandto be home. My family had been coming to Block Island forsummers beginning when I was an infant, and I had intro-duced Margie to the Island long before we were married.Margie and I bought land in the mid-1960s, while we werestill apartment-dwellers in Maryland, and built a small sum-mer cottage in the early 1970s. Over the last 15 years, weexpanded, renovated, and winterized it with the intent ofmaking it our retirement residence. Our two sons vacationed here as children and worked heresummers as teenagers. Those experiences directly affectedtheir futures. Scott decided while still in his teens that hewanted to live on Block Island. His education and training asa field biologist, combined with his love of the Island, led toa career in land conservation, stewardship, and teaching.Doug’s many summers working in restaurants and bars hereled, by a roundabout route, to a career in restaurant man-agement. Dartmouth was not the right choice for either son.Scott graduated from Earlham College and Doug from Den-nison, with an MBA from Georgia State.Today, our immediate family is split between the Island andAtlanta. Scott is Director of the Block Island Program for TheNature Conservancy and built a house a few hundred feetfrom ours. Doug lives outside of Atlanta with his wifeStephanie and daughters Aly (6) and Jessie (4). Doug is anArea Manager for Chili’s Restaurants. The Atlanta familyspends several weeks here each summer enjoying the beachand the small organic farm that Scott and his fiancé main-tain on land adjacent to the houses. The kids are formingfriendships that, based on our experience, are likely to belifelong. We still have friends here dating back to the 1950s. Wife: Margaret (Margie) Bunting Comings. We married inDecember 1962, right after I got out of the Navy. Initially,Margie taught school for several years. While staying home

with the kids, she became involved with PTAs, homeownersassociations, and local politics leading in due course to sev-eral terms as President of the Montgomery Village (MD)Foundation Board of Directors. Major at Dartmouth: Economics (Graduated with Honorsin Economics)Dartmouth Activities: Sigma Phi Epsilon, Naval ROTC

Robert B. ConklinBob

2635 SW Montgomery Dr.,Portland, OR 97201, (503) 223-2111 Spouse: Janet Conklin

Melville B. Converse203 Cornwall St. NW, Leesburg, VA 20176, (703) 777-2749, «[email protected]»Children: Mary T. Converse Schulz,T ‘97, Wellesley, Mass.Grandchildren: 2 (1 each)Wife: Mary (Molly)

So here I am, nine-plus yearsfrom my last Musings, lookingback at a stage in life that began on a cold, rainy,and miserable Sunday morning the January before


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our 40th when Molly and I looked at each otherand asked if the other could come up with a singlereason why we both shouldn’t be retired by the endof June. The questions were followed by six minutesof total silence. Resignations were tendered the nextmorning. Both were voluntary and early.

When I look back over the years since, there are theusual joys we are “taught” to expect—grandchildren,travel, celebrating a 45th wedding anniversary cruis-ing down the Seine, sailing on an empty oceanunder a full moon, Health, Love, Money, and timeto enjoy them. These we have had in good measure.In each, there can be much to learn and comparewith how we live and how others see us. In parts

of Eastern Europe, farmhouses are grouped in vil-lages. In them, people drive horse-drawn wagons.An SUV is a wagon with two horses. Yet houses nowhave electricity and each has a Dish. The people,particularly the younger generations, are remarkablyindustrious and determined to bring themselvesinto the modern world. In some areas they surpassus. One of the clearest cell phone calls I have everhad was from a ship on the Danube to Richmond,Va., by connecting to a tower in Bulgaria using mynormal everyday cell phone. They learn from us,we can learn from them.

There are also jolts we don’t think about in advance.Such as the sudden realization that you have livedlonger than your father, wondering why yourDartmouth roommate died of leukemia and you’restill walking around, or facing what appears to beyour imminent demise (either by circumstances notof your making or by your own stupidity) fromwhich your escape can only be explained by Divineintervention. That last one will get one’s attention.Why am I still here?

Most of us are who we are (not what we are) bybenefit of relatives, mentors, a good education, etc.that support our own interests, drive, and determi-nation. That is a continuing process. What we nowhave is the time to pass on what we have and whatwe are still learning. There is great satisfaction inso doing. This, in a way, gets us back to the joy weexpected in the first place and a greater reward thanwe could have imagined. Yet our time is limited andis not to be wasted.

Joe C. Conyers1106 North Howeth Street,Gainesville, TX 76240, (940) 665-7646

Robert S. CooperPO Box 1740, Bridgeport, CT 06601, (203) 333-9441 Occupation: Law, Zeldes Needle & Cooper PC, PO Box 1740, Bridgeport, CT 06601, (203) 333-9441

Craig R. Cornell Craig R. Cornell died onAugust 28, 1963.

We asked ourselves why we both shouldn’t beretired by the end of June. The questions were followed by six minutes of total silence.Resignations were tendered the next morning.

Melville B. Converse

Rollins Chapel


Jules Coté� PO Box 670, Shelburne, VT 05482Life’s Pursuits: Past InternationalDirector of Lions Clubs International;I enjoy traveling, computing, andreadingCareer: Education and rehabilita-tion, first as teaching, then as For-eign Language department head,followed by 29 years in admin-istration Family and Roots: We have twochildren and four grandchildren whom we see as often aswe can, as they live only a day’s drive away Wife: JacquelineMajor at Dartmouth: Romance Languages with a minorin Economics Dartmouth Activities: French Club and wrestling

Now we enjoy the retired life, coupled with LionsClub activities!

Richard M. CowanDick

21932 Westchester Road, Cleveland, OH 44122, (216) 561-5556 Spouse: Marcia Cowan Occupation: Automotive, Miracle Shield, 7603 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44129, (216) 749-6717

Dennis P. Coyle2455 Snook Trail, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410,(561) 626-2246 Spouse: Emily P. Coyle

Howard R. Craig 421 9th St. NW, Hickory, NC 28601, (828) 327-0902 Spouse: Beverly Lane Craig

Joe CramerCrystal Lake, IL 60014,«[email protected]»

When I think back to mydeparting in September 1956for Hanover on a train fromChicago, via Springfield, Mass.,then White River, I can’t quitebelieve what a journey thishas been.

On that departure day, thecountry and the world I recollect were, it seems tome, so much simpler, so much more straightforward,and information seemed to have so much less spin.

I didn’t know then I’d make friendships that wouldlast a lifetime, and that I’d come back to theMidwest for most of the years since, which is a verygood thing for family and affinity reasons. I likemid-western values, but at a sacrifice because I get tosee best friends so rarely, though we stay in touch.

I was so inexperienced then, I didn’t know what I didn’t know, and of course that condition is per-manent. I had a lot of growing to do. Maybe I’vedone some of it, but clearly not all I could have.

The special friendships stick with me more thanthe campus and academic experiences, althoughthey were clearly first-rate. I continue to be awed

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by the downright goodness of close friends, and of somany in our class that I don’t know so well. This to

me is far more important than resumes or wealthaccumulated or bragging rights about places seen.

It took me a while to find my bride, but I’m stilllearning how special she is.

I wish we could replicate attending “Great Issues”today; I’d get so much more out of it.

I fondly hope that we, as a Dartmouth class, whohave done so well by our college, can also, both asindividuals and somehow, collectively, find ways tohelp our country and our world.

In the time remaining to us, we can do some morefor our kids and theirs.

And I look forward to seeing you all again inHanover in June. I might even imbibe too much atsome of the events. Some things never get old.

Jay Crane894 No. Shore Dr., Hickory, NC 28601, «[email protected]»Wife: Mary Ann

Throughout my life, I generallyhave been a listener, an audi-tor, an editor, and an “inac-tivist.” However, as I near theend of the first year of myseptuagenarian (hard to pro-nounce, more difficult tospell) decade, I find myself becoming proactive con-cerning one issue, Hispanic immigration. Havingbeen involved in a local Latino help center for almostten years, including teaching English as a SecondLanguage, I have seen first-hand the problems thatour current federal and state (North Carolina) lawshave inflicted on the “undocumented.”

There are both “push” and “pull” reasons for His-panics (not just Mexicans, but individuals andfamilies from throughout Central and South Amer-ica) to be here in the United States. Overcomingthe life-threatening hardships to get into this coun-try has demonstrated that the incentives to comeare strong. The “push” reason is the extreme povertyin these countries, with no hope for improvement.The “pull” force is the availability (and in somecases, recruitment for) jobs in this country. Althoughtheir wages and living conditions in this country arelow by our standards, they are significantly better

than in their home countries. There are purportedly12 to 14 million undocumented immigrants spreadthroughout this country, and the Hispanic percent-age of the population will continue to grow. Theyhave a reputation of being hardworking, dependable,and honest. Two non-fiction references to helpunderstand better the plight of these immigrantson a personal level are Enrique’s Journey, by SoniaNazario, and A Home on the Field, by Paul Cuadros(the latter frequently mentions a young assistantcoach, named Matt, a former keeper on the Dart-mouth soccer team).

Unfortunately, vocal, bigoted, anti-immigration,and white-supremacist groups and individuals havesucceeded in convincing politicians (who are moreinterested in votes than in “doing the right thing”)to pass laws that punish the immigrants, includingthe innocent children brought here by their par-ents. The federal immigration quotas prevent allbut a very small number to even hope to gain citi-zenship, even though our economy still requiresthese workers. Federal and state laws, under theguise of increased homeland security, are makingdaily life increasingly more difficult for these per-sons. Although the children of these undocument-ed aliens are required to be educated through 12thgrade, they are not allowed to attend communitycolleges. They can go to state-sponsored universitiesbut must pay out-of-state tuition, thereby puttingthis possibility out of financial reach of most. Whatincentive do the ambitious, hardworking studentshave to do well in high school, knowing that thereis no chance for higher education? I am familiarwith one intelligent young Hispanic woman whodesired to be a doctor. Although she had taken and“Ace’d” appropriate AP courses in high school, she


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I continue to be awed by the downright goodness of close friends.

Joe Cramer


found herself unable to attend any college becauseof either the high costs of out-of-state tuition orlaws prohibiting attending even the local commu-nity college. When asked what she was going todo, she responded, “Stay at home and sleep a lot.”What a waste!!

In addition, undocumented persons cannot obtaindrivers’ licenses. This restriction results in eitherable-bodied individuals staying home and not work-ing (public transportation is almost non-existent)or untrained, unlicensed drivers with no insuranceon our highways.

What alternatives are open to these individuals?Most will not go back to their home countries. Wewill be creating a new lower class in our population,many of whom will depend on crime and gangs tosurvive. How can the lawmakers look in the mirrorin the morning knowing that this is the likelyresult of their actions, or inactions?

Immigration reform must not include walls, whichnever work in the long term (“Mr. Gorbachev, teardown this wall!”). There must be a path to earnedcitizenship available to those who are willing tolearn English, have jobs, and have been law abiding(this is not amnesty). The self-defeating restrictionson education, driving, and professional licensesmust be removed. We must help our neighboringcountries to improve their economies. These actionswill not only demonstrate our humanity and theprinciples upon which our nation was founded butare also in our nation’s best interests, both short-and long-term. So write your politicians!!

Thus muses this belated activist.

Thomas K. Creal IIITony

2855 Jackson Run Road, Warren, PA 16365, (814) 723-3866 Spouse: Anne Creal Occupation: Architecture/Construction, Creal Hyde & LarsonArchitects, 217 Liberty Street, Warren, PA 16365, (814) 723-1322

Walter L. Cressler Jr. Lew

126 Highland Circle, Palmyra, PA 17078, (717) 469-1008 Spouse: Anita Cressler

John J. CrouthamelJake

385 Elliott Road, Centerville, MA 02632, (508) 775-5317, «[email protected]» Spouse: Carol Crouthamel

Peter Crumbine3 Copper Beech Road, Greenwich, CT 06830, «[email protected]»,«[email protected]»Wife: Bea, married in 1964Children: Dennis, Forest Hills, NY;Wendy, Weston, CT (Dartmouth,’92); David, Houston, TXGrandchildren: Olivia (10),Phoebe (9), Tyler (8)Education: Dartmouth (Tuck-Thayer); Stanford (MBA and MSEE)

During our 14 years overseas with Mobil Oil, Beaand I moved to a new country every 4 years or so.How things have changed (or rather have notchanged). Compared to the previous Musings tenyears ago, we are at the same address, our threechildren are living in the same cities, and I am stillworking for the same company (or should I simplysay “still working”).

On the other hand, we (or rather our children)increased our grandchildren from one to three. LastDecember, I ended my 18 years in elective office, thelast 10 of which as Selectman (or Deputy Mayor) ofGreenwich, Conn. And in January, I began to easeinto retirement by cutting back my hours with RBSSempra Commodities.

While I might have done one or two things differ-ently, I have few complaints. In particular, I havebeen married for 45 years to a great wife, a fantas-tic mother, and a spectacular grandmother—all in

one small package. That is one thing I definitelygot right.

For the future, we expect to stay in Greenwich, atleast while the grandkids are nearby. I hope to keep atoe in town government and the energy business,while having more leisure time to spend with thefamily. And though no longer competing in Masters,I will keep swimming for fitness, or at least for what-ever fitness is left. As with other septuagenarians, Iam in a constant battle with my eyesight, hair, teeth,skin, waistline, prostate, and balance. As Bette Davisonce famously said, “Old age is no place for sissies.”

Jim Culver459 Bentleyville Road, Moreland Hills, OH 44022, «[email protected]»

It has been ten years since Iretired from the ClevelandClinic, where I did hand sur-gery in the Orthopaedic Sur-gery Department for 25 years.I thoroughly enjoyed my sur-gical practice at the clinic, butit was time to move on. There

is life after medicine. And it is wonderful. I havedone nothing medical, nor do I read journals.

Looking back, I think the most important retirementplanning I did was to hire a financial planning firmto handle all my investments, etc. I did this onlyabout five years before I retired. My only regret isthat I didn’t do it sooner. I find poring over corpo-ration profiles and prospectuses, reading the finan-cial pages in the newspaper, and watching CNBCto be the most boring of activities. Thus, I am free todo whatever else comes along. In addition, I havefared much better financially in the present reces-sion than most of my friends.

My biggest activity has been returning to the class-room. In Ohio, anyone over 60 can audit classes atany of the state universities for free. I am in my20th semester at Cleveland State University, takingtwo classes each semester. At first, I took only historyclasses but then branched out into English, philos-ophy, religion, political science, and studio art. Thecourses are all part of the regular undergraduatecurriculum. The experience is challenging, stimu-lating, and eye-opening. Mingling with the under-graduates is fun. During one spring break I wentwith my WWI class to the Western Front to see thebattlefields and monuments and with another classto India for five weeks over the Christmas break. Itis amazing what I missed at Dartmouth by takingso much science as a pre-med. Not that the sciencewasn’t interesting at the time and it did serve itspurpose.

I’m a regular on the Wednesday work crew for thelocal Habitat for Humanity affiliate. Most of the crewhas a lot of building experience and skills. I am

amazed by how much I have learned. If I screw-upsawing a piece of wood, I just throw it away andget another piece.

I belong to three men’s groups, which meet weeklyto read and discuss various topics but seldom sportsor politics. I’m the only physician in these groups.

Early on my wife and I traveled a lot but haveslowed down some. We have four kids and fivegrandchildren living in Portland, Oregon, a daugh-ter with two kids in D.C., and a son in Montana.Visiting them keeps us busy.

I am pessimistic that Congress’s health care plan isnot going to go far enough, but I think we shouldtake what we can get.


Peter Crumbine and Bea

I am in a constant battle with my eyesight, hair,teeth, skin, waistline, prostate, and balance.

Peter Crumbine

Mingling with the undergraduates is fun.

Jim Culver


Franklin C. Curren 6833 Sugar Maple Way, Citrus Heights, CA 95610

Robert G. Cushing 1801 Lavaca Street, Apt. 6L, Austin, TX 78701, (512) 480-9829 Spouse: Frances Scott Cushing Occupation: Education

Mike Daley93 Highland Road, Bridgton, ME 04009, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: To love and serve my fellow man unselfishly. To have my family well and able to seek their desires that I hope will be based on the lessons in the bible. Career: Life and health insurance agent and financial adviser all the way from ’60 to retirement. This included being the professional Broker of Record of the largest group health insurance plansin Maine for many years.Family and Roots: Both parents, both sisters, and bothbrothers-in-law are University of Maine graduates. In familyfun on my first trip home as a D’60 freshman, I had to singthe Maine Stein song from beginning to end before thescreen door was unlocked. (Mother was jokingly requestingthat I “sing it loud and clear so all the neighbors could hearit and would know there wasn’t a stranger in the neighbor-hood.”) If that ain’t Maine “roots,” I’ll simply say, “I’mfrom he’a. Nuff said?”I married a lovely widow 15 years ago with my two sons asmy “best men.” When they first met Faye they had said,“Dad, you’ve found another winner. Go for it!” (Their momhad lost a long battle with cancer at the young age of 43.)Wife: Faye Daley RN, born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., moved toMaine all of 40 years ago so she’s still a “new-cumma” in

the eyes of many “Maina’s.”Both children, and both stepchildren, all six grandchildren,and all six step-grandchildren are healthy and happy.Major at Dartmouth: Economics, Chartered Life UnderwriterDartmouth Activities: Ski Team, DOC, Beta Theta Pi,DCU; Dartmouth Alumni Club of Maine, President; AlumniFund Class Agent

I had a great summer job traveling across the USAwhile working for a Madison Ave. N.Y. corporationin the 1950s. From that experience I made thejudgments that follow:

If I could live in Maine,If I could have my own successful business, and If I could work with clients I’d enjoy,I’d have what a vast majority of our populationworks 50 weeks each year to get. (So they couldhave my setting for their great two-weeks vaca-tion.) I decided to live here fulltime. It was the rightchoice for me.

I humbly believe it has been: “Mission accom-plished.” Sure, there have been many curves andbumps, awards and rewards in the road but look-ing back and focusing on the joys brought to meby my family, I feel in my heart I’ve been one for-tunate guy.

Sharing our Maine setting with others has been areal reward too. Good health has been a blessing formy kids, and grandchildren who are spread fromMaine to Florida, but who love to come back tofish, to sail, to ski, and to say, “Goodbye to stress”while they are here.

Faye and I are continuing to enjoy traveling, andmany classmates from Maine to Hawaii have beengreat hosts and hostesses just as we have tried ourbest to be for you.

The door is “always open” to Dartmouth ’60s whenthey vacation in Maine. It is the state where I decid-ed it was best for me to live permanently from thebeginning to the end.

Mike Daley and Faye


Dartmouth has given me great opportunities toappreciate what sharing is all about. My final“muse”: Enjoy my poems, and let others too.

We’re looking forward to our 50th reunion, and wehope that you are all well and happy.

William L. DanforthBill

399 North Dos Caminos Avenue, Ventura, CA 93003, (805) 653-2745, «[email protected]» Spouse: Joanne Danforth

Walter E. Daniels 2802 Deer Street, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547, (914) 245-1250, «[email protected]» Spouse: Jane Daniels

Wheeler T. Daniels Dan

10000 East Yale Avenue, Apt. 2, Denver, CO 80231, (720) 535-4775 Spouse: Marilyn Daniels Occupation: Health/Science

Alan Danson3005A Booth Falls Rd., Vail, CO 81657, «[email protected]»

Skiing has shaped my life:

I was born in Manhattan in1939. My father, who was nei-ther an outdoorsman nor askier, took me to Central Parkand put me on skis wheneverit snowed. Trips to Bear Moun-tain followed. When we movedto Larchmont in 1953, I attended Mamaroneck HighSchool and joined its ski club. We went on trips toStowe, and when it came time to choose betweenWilliams and Dartmouth (Harvard did not acceptme), I chose Dartmouth because it was closer toStowe. I joined the Dartmouth Ski Patrol and, inmy senior year, got a job on the Mount MansfieldSki Patrol. I served as a weekend patrolman inStowe for the next 10 years, through law school atHarvard and while working on Wall Street, first asa lawyer and then as an investment banker. At thelaw firm, Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts,

I was put in charge of organizing the firm’s annualski weekend, where I met Jerry Kohlberg, a law firmclient. Jerry invited me to join the corporate financedepartment that he ran at Bear Stearns. At BearStearns, again because of my skiing interest, I wasasked to meet with Bob Beattie, the coach of theU.S. Ski Team, who wanted to do a public offeringfor a ski equipment company he owned. I left BearStearns to help take the company public, but themarket downturn of 1969 put an end to that effort.

I moved to Mexico in 1972 and soon started takingski vacations to Aspen. I married my wonderfulwife, Silvia, in 1976 and took her to Aspen for herfirst experience with snow and skiing that same

Ski Jump

Skiing has shaped my life.

Alan Danson


year. Fortunately, she loved skiing and the moun-tains. Thus, it was no stretch for us to move toColorado when the Mexican economy collapsed in1982. On the advice of Bruce Ducker, we settled inBoulder. Our skiing weekends continued from there,and we soon discovered Vail and fell in love withthe mountain and the community. When our son,Rob, graduated from high school in 1998, we movedfull time to Vail, where we have been enjoying thegood life for the last 11 years. With any luck, we’llbe able to call this home for the next 50 years—skiing all the way home!

Family: My wife, Silvia, was born and raised inMexico City. She is my constant companion andthe love of my life. She is smart, beautiful, cheerfuland supportive. What more could a guy ask for?

My son, Rob (Roberto), was 30 on October 9, 2009,the same day that Silvia and I celebrated our 33rdwedding anniversary. Rob is a musician—guitar play-er, singer, and songwriter—who lives in the Echo Parksection of Los Angeles. Check out his band at «www.deathtoanders.com». We are very proud of him.

Dartmouth: I was a Philosophy/Comp Lit Major. I was president of both the Dartmouth Club ofHarvard, while at law school, and of Mexico City.I’m active in our local club—The Dartmouth Clubof the Vail region and regularly see our classmatesand fellow club members Gerry Huttrer, JoeMcHugh, and Richard Pomboy, along with BruceDucker, who lives in Denver.

Charles P. DarrowChuck

7207 East Genesee Street, Fayetteville, NY 13066, Spouse: Jacqueline Darrow Occupation: Financial Services, The Lexington Financial Group, 7207 East Genesee Street, Fayetteville, NY 13066, (315) 637-7207

Francis W. Dauer3013 Lomita Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, (805) 687-6397, «[email protected]» Spouse: Teruko Motoo

Edward W. DaumitEd

250 Beach Road, Apt. 501, Jupiter, FL 33469, (561) 745-2054 Spouse: Beth Blackburn Daumit Occupation: Financial Services, CIBC World Markets, 7701 Forsyth Boulevard, Suite 500,Saint Louis, MO 63105, (800) 782-6217

Dick Davidson7132 Francisco Bend Drive, Delray Beach, FL 33446, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Quite by accident,I entered the computer industryafter graduation. At IBM, I taughtnew employees how to write com-puter programs, left to join a firm(whose name is long forgotten) atthe birth of the software industry todevelop and sell banking systems,and was recruited by a customer (State Street Bank) where,for 17 years, I used what I had created. After many years, Ichucked the big corporate life for the independence grantedthe owner of a consulting firm. Today I have returned to myfirst love–teaching others, primarily my friends and neigh-bors, to use their computers.Career: IBM, Software Development and Sales, State StreetBank, Banking Industry ConsultingFamily and Roots: Jody ’82, Rebecca Davidson Wolf ’10,Leah Davidson Wolf; Robin, BU ’87, Adam Powell, JasonPowell; Andrew, Syracuse ’89, Matthew Davidson, MichaelDavidsonWife: ArleneMajor at Dartmouth: SociologyDartmouth Activities: JCRC, WDCR

Dick Davidson and family

Given my medical history (in 1987 I was told Imight have only six months to live, in 2001, thatthere was only a 20% probability that I would sur-vive five years), I am delighted to be in a positionto respond to the request for an entry to MusingsUnlimited. In this year, the year preceding our 50threunion, Arlene and I celebrated our 50th weddinganniversary. One would think it couldn’t get anybetter than that. Well, it does. On June 13, 2010, aswe lead the Class of 2010 to Commencement, it willinclude Rebecca Diane Davidson Wolf, the grand-child who was in utero in 1987 when I was told I might not live another six months. Arlene and Ilook forward to seeing all in Hanover this June.

William M. Davidson Bill

4062 Painted Quail Drive, Tucson, AZ 85750, (410) 591-2955, «[email protected]» Spouse: Joan P. Davidson Occupation: Education, Univ of Maryland Dental School,666 West Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21201, (410) 706-7908

Samuel T. DeCamp Samuel T. DeCamp died on February 13, 2009.

Ronald B. deNeuf Ronald B. deNeuf died on May 19, 1986.

Robert M. Derderian179 Winding River Road, Wellesley, MA 02482, (781) 237-1959, «[email protected]»Career: Waltham Lime & CementCo., 71 Massasoit Street, Waltham,MA 02454, (781) 894-4430Family: Children: John, Wellesley,MA; Richard, Thousand Oaks, CA;Laura, Pinehurst, NC.Grandchildren: sevenWife: Gail Major at Dartmouth: Economics

As I reviewed my writing for the last Musings, I real-ized that the past ten years have not provided theanswers to some of the questions on my mind atthat time. I thought I might find the answer to“retirement or not” at our 40th, but I guess I didnot. I continue to work in the building material busi-ness as I have since 1962. I spend less time on thejob now, but the challenges are probably greaterthan before. We opened a second location threeyears ago, and I find that involvement to be chal-lenging and stimulating. It has probably served toextend my career (for better or for worse). I am nowdetermined to see our companies out of this reces-sion. Let’s hope it doesn’t take too long.

Thanks to our three children and their spouses, wenow have seven wonderful grandchildren to keepup with. Our son Rick has returned to the U.S. fromSingapore, but while he was there, Gail and I wereinspired to make two “around the world” trips in vis-iting him and his family. My daughter Laura andfamily continue to live in Pinehurst, N.C., so I getto combine playing great golf courses with visitingthere (see her daughter Cate in the photo). My old-est son, John, has remained in the Boston area withhis family and is the mainstay of our business.


Robert Derderian and granddaughter Cate

I cannot persuade Gail to move to Cape Cod orspend more than six weeks in Florida during thewinter months. She continues to enjoy her associa-tion with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston andother activities in the Wellesley area. I guess I amnot destined to be a snowbird. I do still love myweekends on Cape Cod and really enjoy the greatfishing and golf that are available there.

I have been fortunate to be able to stay in touch withmany of my friends from the Class of 1960 overthe years. We see many of our Dartmouth friendson Cape Cod and even in Florida. Our reunions,homecoming weekends, and birthday parties haveprovided a wonderful opportunity to renew oldacquaintances and in all honesty make new ones.

Our 50th reunion will come at a particularly chal-lenging time for our country and all of us. We havehad our share of bad news in the past months. I amconfident, however, that the “spirit” that we tookwith us from Dartmouth many years ago is stillalive and well in our country. It may just need tobe dusted off and shined up a little. I guess we stillhave work to do.

Robert E. Destino26702 Via Alcala, Mission Viejo, CA 92691, (949) 583-0607 Spouse: Barbara Destino

Gordon DeWittGordie

16 Fountain Way, West Lebanon, NH 03784, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I was an EarthSciences major. My undergraduateactivities centered on the D.O.C.with Cabin & Trail and skiing. Fly-fishing still makes many of my dayscomplete.After a short time in graduateschool (I dropped out) and military service (six monthsactive duty, five years in the National Guard), I returned towork at Dartmouth for over 39 years, first as an assistant,and then as director for 25 years, of the Facilities PlanningOffice at the College. I enjoyed being responsible for 105major campus construction projects comprising 56 major

renovation projects and 49 new buildings totaling morethan two million square feet. During that time, I also man-aged the completion of three campus master plans. All ofthis was only possible because of superb support from col-leagues within the administration and faculty.Another aspect of my job was representing the College with-in the towns of Hanover and Lebanon as approvals wereneeded for our projects and as a new zoning ordinance wascreated for Hanover.During the past 25 years of my second marriage I have beenblessed to have Ina Mae as my soulmate. Only she has madeit all worthwhile for me.I retired at the end of 2000.

Thoughts About Dartmouth’s SuccessDartmouth has been successful because of her suc-cession of great presidents. I am always pleased, inparticular, to think back on the merits of JohnDickey, John Kemeny, and Jim Wright.

Dartmouth trustees, over the years, have kept usdirected and financially sound. Dartmouth has beenblessed by having such caring men and womenguide us. I know first-hand how much time theyhave spent for her.

Raymond D. Dilworth Ray

5014 86th Avenue, NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335, (253) 389-2973 Spouse: Nancy Louise Dilworth Occupation: Health/Science,Primary Care Northwest, 1812 South J Street, Suite 102, Tacoma, WA 98405, (253) 553-4900


Gordie DeWitt and a friend

John A. Dimling Jr.9 Bertha Place, Irvington, NY 10533, (914) 693-2191, «[email protected]» Spouse: Marilyn Dimling

Larry Dingman670 Massasoit Road, Eastham, MA 02641, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits and Career: Thesummer after freshman year, I droveto Fairbanks, Alaska, and back withclassmates Marsh Morgan andCraig Jameson. We had an adven-turous summer working in a gold-mining operation, fighting forestfires, and making good money. Asa Geology major, I was close to Prof. Andy McNair and gotto spend the summers of ’59 and ’60 doing fieldwork underhis direction in the Canadian Arctic. This was a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. We worked out of small planes in areasnever seen before, except perhaps by occasional Inuit hunters.(Gordie DeWitt was a part of this in ’60, too.) So I developed an interest in the Arctic, and after grad school(6/60–6/63) I went to work as a research hydrologist atthe U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab(USA CRREL), which had just been established in Hanover. I established the first research watershed in Alaska and didwork on thermal pollution of rivers, which was the outgrowthof some interesting classified work for the Defense IntelligenceAgency, spying on the USSR. While at CRREL, I also beganteaching a course in Hydrology at the College. Meanwhile, I married Barbara Buckmaster in ‘61 (we were introduced byMike Wood during senior year); we lived in Norwich andthen Lyme, and our daughter Sarah was born in ’62 andson Chris in ’64.Eventually I became very unhappy with the Viet Nam warand no longer wanted to work for the Army. I left CRREL in1969 and tried to make a go of environmental consulting. I also got a non-tenured position at the College that involvedteaching Hydrology and Meteorology. But my marriage dete-riorated about the time I left CRREL, and we separated andthen divorced in 1972. I continued to live in Lyme andbecame involved in Connecticut River environmental issues.As a result of that, I met Jane Van Zandt, also an environ-mental activist, at a meeting in Hopkins Center. Eventuallyshe and her two children, Andrew and Tamsin, came to livewith me in Lyme. We married in ’74. Meanwhile, I took aposition as Senior Resource Planner with the New EnglandRiver Basins Commission, also in Hanover (but now, alas,

defunct). My work there combined policy and science, andit was stimulating: I received an award for my work thatrevealed major problems with the Corps of Engineers analy-sis of flood issues on the Connecticut River.In 1975, I learned that UNH was looking for a third profes-sor in its small but unique Hydrology program. The work atCRREL, NERBC, and teaching at Dartmouth stood me ingood stead, I got the position, and we moved to Durham inSeptember of that year. I taught in that program for 30years, did research on New England hydrology, and on riverhydraulics. I was principal advisor to 45 grad students overthat period and served as department chair for seven years.I also wrote two textbooks, one of which is the most widelyused hydrology text in the U.S. It was a great career for me!Over the years, Jane and I did a lot of traveling by car aroundthe US and Canada and took a number of trips to England.We had a great sabbatical year in ’82-’83 near Oxford. Inaddition to seeing much of England, we took a month anddrove to Venice and back, seeing many sights in between.After the last child left home in ’84, we moved to an 1830-vintage house in Barrington, N.H. Jane and I also had along-standing affection for Outer Cape Cod, and we vaca-tioned there many summers with kids and grandkids. Onone of those trips, we spotted and eventually bought (’97)an old (ca. 1800) house in Eastham. Over the years, we’vedone some improvements and we moved here when I retiredin 2005. We do a lot of gardening and just enjoy the environmenthere. We took two grandchildren to re-visit old haunts inEngland in ’02, crossing over and back on the QE2. We’vealso taken some great Dartmouth trips, one to Greece withthree teenage grandchildren, and one to Tuscany. Jane andI had a great road trip to California and back in April ’09 tovisit my kids and grandkids. I took up the trombone (myhigh-school instrument) again while we were in Durham andnow play in a concert band, a community orchestra, and,most fun of all, a swing band we organized a couple of yearsago. Since retirement I have also written three scientificpapers and another text, which came out in Feb. ’09. I’malso doing volunteer work for the Center for Coastal Studies.Family and Roots: I come from a large family on myfather’s side and grew up in one place (Sharon, Mass.), butfor a number of reasons I feel rather rootless. My two kidsand two grand-kids are in northern California, and thoughwe are in contact fairly often, I feel closer to my stepdaughter


Larry Dingman and Jane


and stepgrandchildren, who live in N.H. and who we see a lot more of, and to my stepson, who is also a scientist/professor (now in Tenn.). I like to think that I left a legacy atUNH, but I my real roots are wherever Jane and I live.Wife: Jane (Van Zandt) has been my wife and partner, lov-ing companion, friend, and constructive critic (personal andprofessional) for over 35 years. It’s hard to express howmuch that has meant in so many ways! Major at Dartmouth: My Dartmouth experience and edu-cation have had a major influence on my life. As a fresh-man I hooked up with the DOC, and fellow chubbersintroduced me to Geology, a subject I didn’t know existedwhen I arrived in Hanover in September 1956! That was aunique department; we were on a first-name basis with ourprofs and established lifetime friendships with many ofthem. The 30 majors in our class were a close-knit group,and most of the ‘60 friends I’ve kept up with were GeologyMajors. I went on to get a MSc in ‘61 and a PhD in ‘70from Harvard. I wouldn’t have completed the PhD withoutgoading from Prof. Dick Stoiber, and that made possible mycareer at UNH!Dartmouth Activities: I served as a Class Agent for sever-al years and participate the Cape Cod Dartmouth Club. Ikeep in touch with some classmates, mostly fellow Phi Psis.I attended the 15th and 25th Reunions and plan to be atthe 50th.

Although there have been some serious stumblesalong the way (not detailed above!), I’ve beenextremely fortunate in life. I give myself some cred-it for that but recognize that much of it has beendue to pure luck being born at the right time, atthe right place, and to the right parents. Before weget too carried away congratulating ourselves forbeing extraordinary human beings who always madewise choices in life, we should remember that we

were born ahead of the boomers, had fewer peopleto compete with, and grew up when the country wascoming out of war and depression, when there wasgreat economic expansion and opportunity for us.

Politically, I am a (flaming) liberal (or “progressive”these days). When I left Dartmouth I was, for reasonsI can’t remember, very conservative. I opposed thebuilding of Hopkins Center and the idea of theCollege becoming coed. I watched the Nixon-Kennedy debates on TV at Harvard, and my room-mate and I were the only people who supportedNixon. By the time Kennedy was killed, I hadchanged 180 degrees: though obviously there is aneed for a “common defense,” I have only becomemore convinced that the main purpose of govern-ment is to “promote the general welfare.” I simplydo not understand conservative and Republicanrantings that seem to replace basic philosophicaland political principles with win-at-all-costs politi-cal and personal greed, and the violence thatdestroys any possibility that reality and reason willprevail. Those attitudes are anti-American and anti-Christian and make the U.S. ungovernable.

Speaking of religion, I value the spiritual sides oflife immensely but am a scientist and a “functionalatheist.” I obviously don’t know how the universebegan or why it exists at all, I but believe the onlysensible way to act is as if there is not a benevolentor omnipotent god operating in the world. I believe(with Jefferson) that Christ was not divine but wasa great man whose ideas of compassion and peaceshould play a larger role in American and worldlife. Human beings have a great capacity for goodand for evil, and I think the more we delude our-selves with religious fantasies rather than objectiveobservation and reasoning, the less chance there isthat the good will prevail and that we will actuallysolve the problems of climate change, terrorism,overpopulation, and environmental despoliation—and, incidentally, they are all related.

Jane and I are in a motel in Pioneer, California, onour April ’09 road trip to see the USA and visit mykids and grandkids.

Bernard W. DoeBernie

9719 Biggers Road, Burke, VA 22015, (703) 455-9075 Spouse: Tokiko Doe

Dartmouth Hall, any December

Robert E. Dohrenwend Bob

17258 Cemetery Road, Pelkie, MI 49958, (906) 334-2685 Occupation: Consulting, 17258 Cemetery Road, Pelkie, MI 49958, (906) 334-2685

James H. Donaldson

Owen Dow, MD, FACS6 Wedgewood Drive, Grantham, NH 03753; 4791 SW Parkgate Blvd., Palm City, FL 34990.«[email protected]»Family: Three children: Kristen DowMelne, Todd Owen Dow, and JodiDow Bonewald. Four grandsons:Nathan Melne, Matthew Melne,Louis Dow, Eric BonewaldWife: Deborah (Debi) Dow, since1989 (retired R.N.)Major at Dartmouth: BiologyDartmouth Activities: Glee Club, Sigma Phi Epsilon

A little more about what I’ve been doing since grad-uation from Dartmouth. I graduated Tufts Univer-sity School of Medicine in 1964. Had my internshipand General Surgical Residency at Maine MedicalCenter 1964-1969.

I entered surgical practice in 1969. Affiliated withSouth County Hospital, South Kingstown, RhodeIsland. Then returned to Maine in 1971 where Ipracticed general surgery for next 30 years. Affiliat-ed with Southern Maine Medical Center, Biddeford,Maine. Positions held included the following: Chiefof Surgery (SMMC), Board of Directors (SMMC),President, York County Medical Society, Executive

Committee, Maine Medical Association Diplomate,American Board of Surgery, and Fellow, AmericanCollege of Surgery.

I retired from practice 2001 and divide time betweenboth our homes My retirement activities includefollowing my four grandsons’ baseball, soccer, andlacrosse “careers”; golf, reading, writing, workingout, jogging, Granite State Senior Games, volunteerwork (Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center), andgardening.

Robert E. Driscoll

Harvey E. Duchin Word comes from his wife, Joan, of the death of our classmate, Harvey E. Duchin, MD, of uveal melanoma on July 19,2007. In a sad milestone, Harvey’s passing is the 100th to date of members of our class.

Harvey notably delivered 8,000babies in his career as anobstetrician and gynecologist,invented a device used to treatwomen for incontinence, had medical practices fortwo years in the U.S. Army including service inViet Nam, for 23 years in Philadelphia and, finally,


Owen Dow


for 16 years in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and taught in twomedical schools, the University of Pennsylvaniaand Jefferson University.

Eulogizing him, at services at Temple Beth Israel inPlattsburgh, his wife said, in part, “All of you heretoday are aware of the kind, generous, and warmperson Harvey was. The warmth you saw carriedinto his personal life as well as his professional. Oneof our first dates was the movie, Born on the Fourthof July. I noticed him weeping during the emotionalscenes. This told me a lot about him. I knew thenthat I wanted to spend the rest of my life with thissensitive person. His compassion was evidentthroughout the years we spent together.”

Harvey came to Dartmouth from his high schoolin West Orange, N.J. His roommate during two ofhis years in Hanover, Joe Mandel, remembers himas “a big, man, perhaps 6 ft., 2 in.” With powerfulforearms and upper body, he threw the hammeron the Dartmouth track team and was a memberof the TEP fraternity.

After graduation, he attended the New Jersey Collegeof Medicine and Dentistry, served his internship atPennsylvania Hospital and did his residency atTemple University.

He was a founder of the American UrogynecologySociety, and a trustee of Mountain Lake PBS, theRichard Murphy M.D. Foundation, the ClintonCounty Historical Assn., and his temple. He enjoyedsailing, travel, and automobiles.

Harvey is survived by a son, Marc, three daughters,Lisa Dunlop, Gina Rickert, and Alita Desso andtheir husbands, six grandchildren, his brother, Joel,and his father-in-law, Bernard Amell. Charitabledonations in his memory may be made to MountainLake PBS, the Clinton County Historical Assn. orTemple Beth Israel.

Bruce Ducker200 High Street, Denver, CO 80218, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Have I been pursu-ing something all this time? If so,it’s slipped my mind. I spend a gooddeal of time idling about—nothinglike flyfishing to do just that. Onthe path to indolence, I became aninstrument-rated pilot, flying a turboAztec, and I still pound the piano(both efforts done with an aban-don that makes passengers and audience gleeful when thedestination is reached).Career: I have had three careers, careers that, like the threebears, have prospered, foundered, and bumbled along, some-times in tandem, sometimes separately. I have been a lawyer

(too long), a businessman (too dull), and a writer (just right).Lately, I have devoted myself to a shot at putting togetherwords to beguile the heart, a shot that alas may have fallenshort and wide.Family: Children: Foster Ducker and Pam Brasher, Kauai,Hawaii; Nell and David London, Denver; John and MollyDucker, Walpole, Mass. Grandchildren: Sarah and JackLondon; Logan and Rowan DuckerWife: Jaren Jones DuckerMajor at Dartmouth: Philosophy and ComparativeLiterature. Advanced degrees: MA, Comparative Literature,LLB, both from Columbia.

I had intended to answer this entire questionnairewith the single and breezy statement that NothingBeats Dumb Luck. While I attribute much of mygood fortune to chance, Jaren and I have beenmarried for 47 years, and none of it would havecome about without her.

During my years at Dartmouth I was distressed bythe disdain and torpor that greeted intellectual pur-suit, and I’ve since regretted my complicity. Regrets,of course, have no progeny, but there they are.Clearly the fault lies with neither the college northe students, but with me.

Since Dartmouth, and in some measure because ofthe coincidental education that befell me there,much as one stubs his toe in the dark, I have foundgreat satisfaction in pursuits of the mind. I recentlyreread The Education of Henry Adams, and foundthe author facing the same perplexity. Perhaps wewere both slow learners.

That said, my regrets stop there. The friendships I made and the merry times I enjoyed overshadowmy own balminess. Live and learn—two good ideas.

Bruce Ducker

Malcolm A. Duffy520 Waterford Towers, Edgewater, NJ 07020Life’s Pursuits: Travel, concerts,opera, and museum-going havebeen lifelong major interests. Inaddition, over the years, I haveremained in contact with JoelPotash ’58 and Ray Keating ’60. I also remained for many years intouch with my Freshman advisorJerry Lathrop and his wife Dot.Career: During theperiod from 1961until 2005, I wasan English teacher,play director, guid-ance counselor, andyearbook advisor at the EnglewoodSchool for Boys inEnglewood, N.J. In 1973, the schoolmerged to becomethe Dwight-Englewood School,where I worked forthe next three yearson a part-time basis for the magazine D-E Today. Dartmouth Major: EnglishDartmouth Activities: The Dartmouth Film Society (Presi-dent, junior year)

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755 Elmwood Drive, Davis, CA 95616, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Currently, family,travel, and service on nonprofitboardsCareer: Aside from two years head-ing the staff for a State of Californiablue ribbon commission, it was alllaw teaching (four years at HaileSelassie University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; over 30 yearsat the University of California at Davis; a semester at theUniversity of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and a couple of sum-mers in France).Family and Roots: My father’s ancestor, Theophilus Dunning,emigrated from Devon, England, to Salem, Massachusetts,in 1642, and I have a genealogical chart showing my familytree from that date on. An analysis of my DNA a few yearsago showed a large amount of “southeastern European.” I presume that came from individuals in the Roman Legion,which occupied southern England for about four hundredyears. The analysis also showed small amounts of NativeAmerican, South Asian, and Middle Eastern ancestry. I know

my mother’s ancestry was Irish, but I don’t know preciselywho came from Ireland to the U.S. or when they came. Myimpression is that they came during or just after the famineof the 1840s.Partner: Carolyn C. GeigerMajor at Dartmouth: GovernmentAdvanced Degree: LLB, Harvard University, 1964Dartmouth Activities: Debate (freshman year only), Ger-mania (freshman year only), SOC, newspaper, Undergradu-ate Council committee, member of Delta Tau Delta/BonesGate, member of Casque & Gauntlet

Memories are one thing that most of those of us inour 70s have many more of than do younger people.I enjoy sifting through my own memories—oftenwith pride and nostalgia, sometimes with regret.

As indicated above, currently the three centers ofmy life are family, travel, and nonprofit service. I have always been extraordinarily pleased with mytwo children, and that remains true today as theyapproach middle age. My daughter, Ashley, fortu-nately lives only an hour-plus drive from my homein Davis, and I visit there often. She and her hus-band, Ken Sorey, have a wonderful home in theMontclair district of Oakland, California, and theyhave two lively boys: Case or “Casey” (3) (my mid-dle name is Case) and Jay (1). Once a week I pickCasey up from his preschool, spend some time withhim, then have dinner and spend the night with thefamily. I treasure those visits, and I hope to do thesame later on with Jay. Ashley leads a very busylife, for she works as a litigation partner in a largelaw firm in San Francisco and has an active sociallife. Her specialty in law is public employee pensionlaw, which includes a lot on conflict of interestproblems. Ken works for a nonprofit dealing withthe improvement of public education, and he is thecook of the household.

My son, Thad, earned a couple of master’s degrees(Latin American Studies, Economics) and a PhD inPolitical Science. His dissertation, now a book calledCrude Democracy, deals with the relationship betweennatural resource wealth and governmental regimetypes. He teaches political science at Yale. Thad isalso a very serious student of “capoeira,” a form ofBrazilian dance and martial arts.

I went on there about my kids’ credentials etc., butthe greatest thing about them is their generousand loving nature. Neither has ever caused me anydifficulty, and both have brought me a lot of joy.

I lived abroad for seven years as a young man, and Ihave always loved foreign travel. In the past nineyears, I have gone overseas 18 times, all but oncewith my beloved partner, Carolyn, and we havealso visited Canada several times in the same timeperiod. We’ve gone all over the place, but usuallyfor only two or three weeks at a time. One of ourfavorite trips was to Bhutan with Heather and Rory


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Mullett ’60. Some of the trips have been ski trips toEurope with the Far West Ski Association. I hadone disastrous ski outing when we were students atDartmouth and did not learn to ski in California

until my late 30s, but since then I have enjoyed thesport mightily. I hope to continue until my knees(or something else) give out.

During my law-teaching career, which ended in2001, I did a lot on natural resources law, particu-larly water law. Currently I serve on the boards offour nonprofits, all of which deal with either wateror minerals and water. Beyond that in common,each is very different from the others in terms ofsize, style and financial resources. Aside from myown service, I believe very strongly in the benefitof nonprofits. They are a way fundamentally pub-lic tasks can be performed by volunteers on theboard and by paid staff in a decentralized andeffective manner.

Dartmouth has been an important part of my lifesince I was a kid. My Dad was in the Class of 1930,and when I grew up in suburban Philadelphia, we

always went to cheer the Dartmouth football teamwhen it was in town to play Penn. My Dad used tojoke that I could go to college where I wanted, butthat he would pay for Dartmouth. To test whetherthat was really a joke or not, I told my parents andmy high school principal that I was going to go toPrinceton. But that did not last, and I have neverregretted my choice of college.

I do regret, though, that two of my sophomore yearroommates in 207 Hitchcock Hall, Dennis Cherlinand Andy Purdy, never made it to 40 years of age.And more recently, I have felt deeply the loss ofclassmates who were very good friends, particularlyAlex McGinnis, Tom Beadel, and Ken Reich.

Bruce W. Eaken Jr.316 West 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, (212) 595-7640, «[email protected]» Spouse: Wilhelmina Eaken Occupation: Energy, 316 West 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, (212) 595-7640

Dartmouth has been an important part of my life since I was a kid.

Harrison C. Dunning

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Peter Easter2679 Free Union Rd., Charlottesville, VA22901, (434) 984-1212, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: For the last 20years I have gained great pleasurefrom training and hunting Englishsetter bird dogs. Career: A lobbyist for 34 years(semi-retired) and owner/operatorof an Angus cattle farm for 47yearsFamily: Three wonderful children and four super grandchil-dren Wife: Carol Easter – We have just celebrated our 50thanniversaryMajor at Dartmouth: BA, Economics Dartmouth Activities: Dragon Senior Society

Life for me is great, but I am fearful for the futuregenerations. I have been a lobbyist for the last 34years, and though Virginia is blessed with verygood quality government from both our electedand civil service officials, I am extremely con-cerned about two aspects of our national, state,and local political systems.

Partisanship is immobilizing our legislative systemand deterring many good Americans from runningfor office.

Both of our political parties are focused onextremes, leaving a large portion of our populationwithout the representation they desire.

I am further concerned that Washington and cor-porate business are undermining our free enter-prise system.

Peter A. Egan Word comes from his classmateBill Colton and his family thatour classmate, Peter A. Egan,died at home in Farmington,Connecticut, on July 21, 2006,of pancreatic cancer.

Peter lived a romantic life, andin many respects the highpoint of it came on Feb. 21,1963, the day he met his wife,the former Fausta Romiti, anItalian citizen, while working for the Daily Americannewspaper in Rome. On Oct. 20, 1963, Peter andFausta began 42 years of marriage. Always veryclose to his family and friends, his wife describedhim as the “love of my life.”

Repeatedly, after taking a job with Newsday, the LongIsland newspaper, Peter and Fausta returned to Italyon vacation, and when Peter left Newsday, he took ajob as director of public relations for the airline, TWA,stationed in Rome, where he and his young family,now including two daughters, lived for several years.

When Peter was told by his doctor he had pancreat-ic cancer, he took chemotherapy for several weeks,but his doctor finally advised him that it wasn’tworking and he only had a short time to live. Faustasaid that she and Peter immediately decided to payone last visit to Italy. They spent a week in theItalian lake country in the north and a week inRome to celebrate their happy marriage and theirlove of Italy. Then, they returned home. In its obit-uary, the Hartford Courant remarked that Egan had“a passion for Italy” that never languished.

Peter entered Dartmouth from Malverne High Schoolin Malverne, N.Y. In Hanover, he majored in English,played two years of football and a year of rugby,skied a great deal, belonged to the Newman Club,and was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

Graduating from Dartmouth, he first served in themilitary and then took his first journalistic job withthe Knickerbocker News in Albany, N.Y. After his TWAjob, Peter moved to Farmington, where he worked asdirector of advertising for the Heublein Companyand later Home Insurance and Prudential Realty. Hewas a Proclaimer at the Church of St. Patrick andserved on the board of Tunxis Village, the neighbor-hood where he lived. He continued to golf and ski.

Peter is survived by his wife, two daughters and sons-in-law, Rita E. and Eugene F. Mockler of Fairfield,Conn., and Monica E. and Brian J. McGrath of Fair-field, his sister, Virginia Egan of Denver, and eightgrandchildren in whom he took great pride. Theoldest was 13.


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Michael G. Ehrlich 112 Sudbury Road, Concord, MA 01742, (978) 369-8072, «[email protected]» Spouse: Nancy B. Ehrlich Occupation: Health/Science, Rhode Island Hospital, Dept. of Orthopaedics, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903

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Emil R. EisenhardtRoy

2872 Green Street, San Francisco, CA 94123, (415) 929-9048, «[email protected]» Spouse: Elizabeth Eisenhardt

Clifton L. ElliottClif

1415 Second Avenue #1602, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 621-0246, «[email protected]» Spouse: Marjorie Ann Elliott Occupation: Law, Davis Wright & Tremaine LLP, Suite 2200, 1201 Third Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 622-3150

Jay O. Emery His doctors gave Jay Emery six months to live withhis metastasizing cancer. But our popular classmateand longtime class treasurer lived two years, andmuch of the extra time seems to have been devotedto pleasant pursuits. He was able to out-ski some ofhis classmates and enjoy his beloved family duringhis gallant fight against the disease. We miss himterribly, but we can be thankful for that.

Jay, a Vietnam War hero and winner of the Distin-guished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with OakLeaf Clusters, died at his home in Hanover onMarch 26, 2005.

At a memorial service April 2 at the DartmouthSkiway attended by 250 friends, including a dozenclassmates, a farewell message composed by Jaywas read.

“I want all my family and friends to know I feel I had a wonderful life full of fun and adventureand good friends,” he wrote in part. “It was a greatride. I’m leaving it a little sooner than I had hoped,but I don’t have any regrets. I have a great familywith Wendy and Eric providing more love and sup-port than one could hope for. RT and Patrick werealso great to have around until they left home.

“I did a lot in my life, smoke jumping, sport para-chuting, flying fighters, scuba diving, skiing, andtraveling all over the world. I had a very full lifeand the best part of it has been the last 20 yearshere in Hanover. It is a wonderful town to bringkids up in and at the same time it offers adultseverything they could want. Just save up enough toget out of town in November and March.”

Class President Rick Roesch said of Jay: “He was atruly wonderful person, good in the grandest senseof that word. He was good to other people, and theytruly loved and cared for him in return. In this lastyear, no matter where we went in town, folks of allsorts always asked how Jay was doing. It made onefeel special to be known as his friend.”

Jay served several terms as class treasurer, and at ourhomecoming dinner last October, all of the 1960class presidents issued a special proclamation thatconcluded, “Because of his incredible loyalty, gen-erosity, with this true and long service to hisclassmates, with deep appreciation, the Class of1960 recognizes Jay Emery for his extraordinaryachievements.”

The Class certainly knew that for many years Jay wasthe person to call for official information aboutwhat was going on in Hanover, to make arrange-ments for attending our homecomings andreunions. But most classmates did not know thatJay had had such a distinguished military career

before coming back to Hanover to work 20 yearsfor Dartmouth College as a development officer.

Jay O. Emery grew up in Ridgewood, N.J. He wasan Eagle Scout, spending several summers at thePhilmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico as both acamper and staff member. He attended college inUtah his freshman year before transferring toDartmouth, where he was a member of the OutingClub, competed on the ski team, and was in AirForce ROTC. Summers were spent as a U.S. ForestService smoke jumper in Idaho.

In all, he completed three jump schools in the ForestService, the Parachute Club of America and the AirForce, accumulating 400 parachute jumps in all.

Mitchell P. EngleMitch

1404 Panther Creek Road, Mount Vernon, TX 75457, (903) 860-7299, «[email protected]» Spouse: Rebecca Engle Occupation: Hospitality/Travel

Elmer G. Erdman Jr.269 Bornt Hill Road, Endicott, NY 13760, (607) 748-3984

Peter L. Erwin6837 Saint Regis Boulevard,Hudson, OH 44236, (330) 472-0213, «[email protected]» Occupation: Consumer Goods, Vaughan Furniture Co., PO Box 1489, Galax, VA 24333, (276) 236-6111

Thomas C. EttingerTom

PO Box 129, Londonderry, VT 05148, (802) 824-5984, «[email protected]»

William R. Evans Bill

125 Elm Ave., Hackensack, NJ 07601Life’s Pursuits: I enjoy seeingShakespeare’s plays, reading poet-ry, listening to classical music, andtraveling.Career: A college English professorat Kean University in Union, N.J.Partner: Robert RussellMajor at Dartmouth: English;PhD, Columbia U., English literatureDartmouth Activities: I painted about 40 oil paintings!

I received a wonderful education at Dartmouth. Mywork was my hobby. I published a book on RobertFrost (University Press of New England, 1981) andI taught Shakespeare, William Blake, Keats andFrost to young people.


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Maxwell F. EvelethMax

1 Atlantic Circle, Kennebunk, ME 04043, (207) 967-4847,«[email protected]» Spouse: Carol Eveleth Occupation: Information andTechnology, The Metanoic Group, 1 Atlantic Circle, Kennebunk, ME 04043, (207) 967-2834

Robert L. Fairbank 18 Fairwood Dr., Miamisburg, OH 45342, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I’m into business,private enterprise, the NRA, and alicense to carry a concealed weapon.I’m addicted to Amazon, DVD’s, andkaraoke. My hero is Clint Eastwood. Career: I kept throwing it upagainst the wall to see if it wouldstick. I never gave up, was in andout of work, and am now the prin-cipal in my own business with no plans to retire.Family and Roots: I’m your basic German, Scots, andEnglish Anglo-Saxon “WASP”!Wife: Leta Clark Fairbank Dartmouth Major: Economics, I got my MBA at WhartonDartmouth Activities: Basketball. I was honored at theCollege in 2009 as a member of the last Dartmouth IvyLeague champs, 50 years ago. Thank you, Dartmouth.

I don’t intend to attack anyone, but I have an opin-ion on just about everything. Just ask my wife, Leta.Politically, I bat from the right side of the plate andkeep hoping Socialism does not intrude much more.The Government does not produce anything—including jobs.

David A. Farfan David A. Farfan died onNovember 29, 1993.

Bob Farmer10205 Collins Ave., PH 6, Bal Harbour, FL 33154Life’s Pursuits: JD, Harvard LawSchool I started a publishing company in1965 while at Harvard Law Schooland retired in 1983 when it wassold. Then I flunked retirement sixtimes, with six new careers as follows.Career: Served on the MassachusettsState Board of Education in the mid-’80s. Served as president of theJohn F Kennedy Library foundation during the mid-80s. In1989-91, served as Vice Chair of Cassidy Associates, a lobby-ing firm in Washington. In 1991-92, served as Vice Chair ofInternational Data Group an information technology pub-lishing company. In 1993-94, served as Chairman of GEC-Alsthom, attempting to bring high-speed rail to the US. In1994, President Clinton appointed me as the United StatesConsul General to Bermuda, a hardship post, but someonehad to do it. I served until 1999. I currently serve on the following boards of directors: Inter-national Data Group, Dale Carnegie Associates, Charles-bridge Publishing, Sober Steering Sensors, Demeter Systems,Haute Living Inc., and Seaview Capital Advisors. I am alsoinvolved in fund-raising for private equity deals.Politically, I held the following positions: Treasurer, John Glennfor President, 1984; Treasurer, Mike Dukakis for President,1988; Treasurer, Bill Clinton for President, 1992; Treasurer,John Kerry for President, 2004; Treasurer of the DemocraticGovernors Association, 1986-1993; Treasurer of the Demo-cratic National Committee, 1989-1991; Finance Chair ofFlorida Red & Blue 2007-8, to fight the anti-gay marriageamendment (we lost); Finance Chair for Mike Capuano2009, candidate for US Senate in Massachusetts.Partner: My life partner is Tom Winston. We’ve been togeth-er for ten years. He’s 40 and emigrated from Dublin, Ireland.

My 50th birthday was on September 20, 1988, justsix weeks before the presidential election. Mike andKitty Dukakis threw a party for me, and it was blacktie at one of the Boston hotels. Over 300 of our topfundraisers from around the country were invited. Ispoke to my Mother, and she suggested that I invite


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my 12 cousins and their spouses. I said, “Mother,this is a political party, and besides I haven’t seen mycousins in years.” She called me the next day andsaid, “I woke up last night and decided that you’reright. You don’t need to invite your cousins; but inthat case your Father and I won’t be able to attend.”Of course, all the cousins got invited and attended.That was 21 years ago. I don’t know hardly anyonewho attended from around the country. But the olderI get, the more involved I am with family. The moralis that at the end of the day you only have a fewclose friends and family.

People have asked me what it takes to be a success-ful fundraiser. During one of the presidential cam-paigns, I had a meeting at the Waldorf Towers inNYC in a fancy suite. The purpose of the meetingwas for me to get a $100,000 contribution from theguy I was meeting with. He knew why he was there,and I knew why he was there. I made the pitch. Helistened and then reached in his breast pocket andpulled out a check already made out. He put it on

the coffee table. He said, “Mr. Farmer, I have onequestion.” I didn’t want to appear too anxious, butI did have my eye on the check. “Go ahead,” I said.He then asked the best question I’ve ever heardasked in political fundraising. “Is this hello or good-bye?” What he was really saying was, “Is this thebeginning or the end of the relationship when Igive you the check?” It’s not just the sale. It’s thefollow-up that makes for success.

The best thing I ever did was to sponsor twoVietnamese brothers who were refugees to the US.The older one had been an officer in the SouthVietnamese army. The younger one was 16 whenthey arrived. They lived in my home for ten yearsand got educated. After ten years, I adopted theyounger brother, whom I had sent to BrooklineHigh School and Boston College, where he earneda masters in mathematics from B.C. Whenever I goto Boston, I stay at his home in West Roxbury. It’s

the only place I can stay where the three childrencall me “Grandpa.” Thieu is now 46, and his broth-er is 58. They’ve both been successful in business.For me, learning something of the Vietnamese cul-ture and helping them has been returned manytimes over in my relationship with them.

Growing up in the ’50s, knowing you are gay, andgoing to a macho school like Dartmouth was achallenge. What a difference a generation or twocan make. Today, most young people couldn’t careless about a person’s sexual orientation, even in theworkplace. I was very uptight about it until I saw apsychiatrist in the early ’80s, and then I came outto my friends and family. I discovered that it’s notthat big a deal. In 1993, I met with President Clintonin the Oval Office and told him that I didn’t wantto join the administration. Even if I could getconfirmed, it would cost him a lot of political capi-tal and wouldn’t be fun for me or my family. A yearlater, he sent me to Bermuda, which required Senateconfirmation but not as much scrutiny. Today, one’ssexual orientation would not be a handicap at all.In just 16 years; what a sea-change.

My biggest challenge today is to lose about 70pounds. I stopped smoking ten months ago, but Isneak one occasionally. I try to walk two miles eachday. My problem is that I like my two Dewars andwater and a couple of glasses of wine with dinner.(I know I’m not an alcoholic because I don’tattend meetings.)

One of the fun things about politics is that you getto see your name in print or occasionally to appearon TV. At a senior staff meeting, during a presiden-tial campaign, my assistant came in and said, “Bob,it’s the NY Times on the phone for you.” I puffedout my chest and said, “I’ll take it.” I picked up thephone, and a voice at the other end said, “Is thisRobert Farmer.” “Yes,” I replied. The voice said,“Would you be interested in a 60-day trial subscrip-tion to the New York Times?”

Dartmouth was a great experience and laid thefoundation for us. I’m proud to be a member ofthe Class of 1960.

David L. FarnsworthDave

110 Southwick Court, Fletcher, NC 28732, (828) 654-0218, «[email protected]» Spouse: Mary C. Farnsworth


My problem is that I like my two Dewars and water and a couple of glasses of wine with dinner. (I know I’m not an alcoholic because I don’t attend meetings.)

Bob Farmer


Peter Farquhar1695 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, (415) 346-5205, «[email protected]», «http://web.mac.com/ubique/Travel», «http://web.mac.com/ubique/TomboMedia»

A [Very] Short PersonalHistory With MuseI was born in San Franciscoand grew up in Berkeley, which may—or may not—explain a lot. At six, I began to ski, backpack, andclimb in the Sierra. In high school, I became expertin Gymkhana and packing a mule. Then in the fallof 1956, this western boy headed east to expand hishorizons at Dartmouth. I enjoyed most of my class-es, but my two passions were the MountaineeringClub and the Ski Patrol. Although I was certainly noscholar, some fine classes and close contact withseveral excellent teachers gave me a solid academicbase upon which to build. However, beyond theintellectual stimulus of the Hanover Plain, I foundthe New England landscape and its culture muchtoo confining.

Leaving Dartmouth with majors in both Geologyand Geography, I headed back west, and in 1962received my Masters in Geography from the Univer-sity of Colorado. Then, from 1962 to 1964, I servedin the first Peace Corps group in Nepal, traveling inrural India and trekking into secluded tribal districtsin Pakistan. Those two years, living at the village

level, speaking and thinking in a non-western lan-guage, completely changed my perception andunderstanding of the world and my place in it.Since then, I have traveled extensively with moun-taineering and scientific expeditions to remoteareas, leading student tours to Asia and the Ameri-can Southwest, and exploring lands near and far—often with my wife, family, or friends.

After returning from the Peace Corps and furthergraduate work at U.C. Berkeley, I taught Historyand Geography for 20 years at Cabrillo College inSanta Cruz. There I restored an old Victorian farm-house (converted into a bed and breakfast inn once

the kids had left the nest), participated in localpolitics (county chairman for RFK in 1968), plant-ed a vineyard, and made fine wine. In 1986 I gotan offer I couldn’t refuse on the bed and breakfast,resigned my position at the college, departed SantaCruz for new adventures (leaving behind twodivorces and a bit of wreckage), moved to San Fran-cisco, and joined the digital revolution.

In the 1990s, I developed recommendations for thedigital archiving of historical materials in associationwith the Oral History Office in The Bancroft Libraryat Berkeley. In 1993, I started my own consultingand family history business, Tombo Media, namedafter our cat. In addition to consulting and conduct-ing workshops on the recording and digital archiv-ing of personal and family history, I have recorded,written, edited, designed, printed, and produced avariety of life stories and family histories. In 2006,I completed and published Edward E. Eyre, CaliforniaPioneer, a prize-winning biography of that Forty-niner, the Lt. Colonel of the First California Cavalryin the Civil War, and a San Francisco financier. Mynew career in personal history has been both funand a most rewarding challenge. I find it a verycreative profession with tangible, and much appre-ciated, results. It’s nice to save lives.

I have thoroughly enjoyed living in San Franciscosince 1988, in a nicely restored Victorian in Japan-town, with my wife Mary, a teacher of German andSpanish for 33 years in San Francisco high schools.Mary was born and grew up in the Philippines, whereher parents had fled from Vienna in 1939. Wedelight in our common intellectual and politicaloutlook and the rich cultural heritage of this cos-mopolitan city, especially its creative arts, music,literature, and love of history. Good views, too.

I have three grandchildren: Sierra Rose (16) in SantaCruz with my cabinetmaker son David and hisarcheologist wife Jen; and Rowan (7) and Colin (5)in Jackson Hole with my schoolteacher daughterKatrina and her architect husband Rich. At homewe now have a cat named Dante. I love them all.

Peter Farquhar and Mary

Living at the village level, speaking andthinking in a non-western language, completely changed my perception and understanding of the world and my place in it.

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I am on the Council of the Save-the-RedwoodsLeague and the Board of The Association of PersonalHistorians. It is a pleasure to serve these organizations.

So, what does all this mean? I’ve certainly had a veryinteresting and rewarding life so far; and althoughI’ve experienced my full share of life’s joys and sor-rows, I’m not done with it yet. Most of the variousturning points in my life, both those of choice(Dartmouth for example) and those of chance (theoffer on my bed and breakfast), have turned out tobe good ones. For that I am very grateful.

A major turning point came a little over 20 yearsago when I finally had to admit I was an alcoholicand joined the AA fellowship. This has given my lifea new freedom and a new happiness—and often—times of serenity and peace. Philosophically, I havelong been more at ease with secular humanism andthe thinking of Spinoza, Darwin, Feynman, andDawkins than with any of the faith-based religions.For me, spirituality is found in the wonder and theworkings of the natural world—and in the humanexperience of beauty, truth, friendship, and love.All things considered, I really have been blessed.

Jessee E. Fate III Jessee E. Fate III died on April11, 1980.

Quentin P. Faulkner179 West Brookline Street, Boston, MA 02118, (617) 266-5535, «[email protected]» Spouse: Jean G. Faulkner

E. Pierson Felch IIIPierce

1401 Jefferson Forest Lane,Blacksburg, VA 24060, (540) 552-7732, «[email protected]» Spouse: Nancy Jahier Felch

Morris FeldmanMoe

5618 South Mason Avenue,Chicago, IL 60638, (773) 581-1540 Spouse: Nancy Helen Feldman Occupation: Education, De La Cruz Math, Sci., TechAcademy, 2317 West 23rd Place,Chicago, IL 60608, (773) 535-4585

Gregory R. Fellows Gregory R. Fellows died onOctober 30, 1992.

Jeffrey I. FineJeff

60 Wilder’s Pass, Canton, CT 06019, (860) 693-2352, «[email protected]» Spouse: Carol Fine Occupation: Communications, Insight Casino Research LLC, Valley Business Park, 60 Wilder’s Pass, Canton, CT 06019, (860) 693-2362



Richard Fishbein130 East End Avenue, New York, NY 10028, (212) 734-2221, «[email protected]»Wife: Estelle Bender, MDFamily: Daughter Melissa Bender,MD, married to Ryan Goodman,and their daughter is Ella Kate Bender Goodman Career: King Broadcasting Co.,Seattle, Washington, 1963-1965;Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Partner, Invest-ment Banking, 1965-1978; Bear Steams & Co., Partner,Investment Banking, 1978-1987; Cortec Group, Inc., Partner,Private Equity (leveraged buyouts), 1987-2007; Current Activities: Board of Trustees, Polytechnic Instituteof New York University; Board of Governors, National Acad-emy Museum & School of Fine Arts Board of Directors,Japanese Art Society of America Major at Dartmouth: Davis High School, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.,1956; AB, Philosophy, Dartmouth College, 1960 (Junioryear in France); Diploma, Johns Hopkins School of Interna-tional Relations, Bologna, Italy, 1961; MBA, Harvard Busi-ness School, 1963

Baker Library was enormously important. It wasthere that I acquired an enduring passion for thelife of the mind. It was there too that I bought intothe idea of life as a journey to be pursued with“vigor,” a word left over from the Kennedy era. Andthat’s what I’ve tried to do, through family, friends,career, and personal activities and interests.

There has been much joy and satisfaction but, ofcourse, also disappointment and regret. As is so oftenthe case, I regret more the things I did not do thanthe things I did do. A friend once said to us, “Mostpeople get some of the things they want in life butnot all of them.” Fifty years out of college, I thinkthat’s a good way to look at it.

Ellwood M. Fisher Ellwood M. Fisher died onMay 20, 2001.

Michael K. Fitzgerald Michael K. Fitzgerald died onMay 6, 2009.

Bruce A. Flashner Bruce A. Flashner MD died onJuly 25, 1994.

Charles J. Flickinger 2009 Meadowbrook Road,Charlottesville, VA 22903, (434) 293-4555, «[email protected]» Spouse: Agnes E. Flickinger Occupation: Education, University of Virginia Medical School,Department of Cell Biology, PO Box 800732, Charlottesville, VA 22908, (434) 924-1916

Richard Fishbein and family

James D. Foch Jr. Jim

1966 Tice Valley Boulevard, #430, Walnut Creek, CA 94595, (510) 517-1080

Richard J. FoleyDick

75 Hillbrook Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028, (650) 851-0987, «[email protected]» Spouse: Massy Safai-Foley, MD Occupation: Retail/Wholesale,Ewing-Foley Inc., 10061 Bubb Rd. Suite A,Cupertino, CA 95014, (408) 342-2410

Jonathan T. Ford Sr.Jack

250 Courtney Lane, Estes Park, CO 80517, (970) 586-5790, «[email protected]» Spouse: Elaine T. Ford

David L. Frankel Dave

c/o Rubin, 38 Jeanne Court, Stamford, CT 06903, (203) 329-2331

Howard Frankel115 Westview Rd., Short Hills, NJ 07078, (973) 467-9450PO Box 2, Norwich, VT 05055, (802) 785-4089«[email protected]»

Then and NowThe past 50 years have seenmany changes, evolutions (Itry to work that word in everychance I get), advances, and some setbacks. Googlebeats the card catalog for ease and speed of info-seeking. Cell phones trump pay phones. Spell-checkis better than a red check and loss of a grade on yourterm paper. But political discourse now is so polarized.

Speaking of polarized—In medicine, my primary discipline, cardiac careand renal care, for instance, are dramatically betterthan that which was then. There are dozens of valu-able additions to the pharmacopoeia. The under-standing of cancer is advancing even if the treatmenthasn’t seen broad improvement for common tumors.Imaging techniques and ’oscopies have simplifieddiagnosis and therapy. When I was an intern in1965, a myocardial infarction, heart attack, wastreated with six weeks of complete bed rest in thehospital, and then with a gradual return to ambu-lation. Try to get approval for that length-of-staynow. Are all the early discharges better medicine orbetter cost control? I loved doing medicine andwatching the evolution (there it is again) of thescience. I hated dealing with claim-forms, adminis-trators, and bureaucrats.

Unfortunately, for-profit medicine has generallyworsened medical care delivery and the relationshipbetween physician and patient. Do you want yourdoc more concerned about saving the HMO’s moneyor about your care? HMO and insurance companybehavior can be distinctly self-serving and uncivil.The number of uninsured Americans is a nationaldisgrace. I’m happy with Medicare, and I think asingle-payer system would work best nationally.Cost saving can be effected with electronic recordsto eliminate duplication of services and therapeuticincompatibilities; sensible resolution of malpracticeclaims, perhaps by panels of experts and advocates,to reduce the expenses of “defensive medicine” byphysicians; use of generic drugs; reduction of unnec-essary procedures; and reasonable end-of-life care.

I consulted countless times on elderly patients inICU’s who had been in nursing homes and hadn’tknown who they were for years. Typically, theywere admitted to the hospital for, say, a fever andended up with multiple consultations and more


and more testing and treatment before ultimately,and mercifully, dying. Naïve families say, “Doeverything to save Grammy.” The doc is happy tocomply rather than bother to explain the futility ofthe situation and risk losing the case. There is plentyof over-diagnosis, over-consultation and over-treat-ment, partly because of “defensive medicine” andpartly because the system rewards procedures andinterventions. If I suggested doing nothing, it wassometimes a relief to the families and docs, butsometimes they insisted on doing “everything.”

Were it I in that bed, I would want a quiet, darkroom, morphine, and ice cream.

The default setting for hospital care is “do every-thing,” and resuscitation is automatic unless youinstruct otherwise. Do an advanced directive soyou don’t end up on dialysis when you’re 96. FYI:DNR means, “do not resuscitate,” and DNH means,“do not hospitalize.”

Here’s a recent rant from my blog: «www.gar-dendaily.blogspot.com»

For anyone who thinks that their healthcareorganization or health insurance companyhas any interest in them, their health, wel-fare, survival, medical care, or anythingother than their premiums, read NicholasKristof’s column in the NYT on 8/27/09.

My experience, when still in medical practice,was like this: small claims were paid quickly,but they did anything possible to avoid pay-ing large claims. Typically, when we submit-ted a claim for a lengthy hospitalization witha lot of dialysis treatments, there would be noresponse. After a month or so, we would call.They would say, “We never got that claim.”This happened repeatedly. We would re-sendthe claim, as we anticipated and always hadcopies. They delayed again and when calledsaid they needed to see the hospital record. I would get the record copied by the hospital,circle our notes and signatures, re-copy it, andsend it in. They would, of course, never get it

until we sent a second, registered copy. If wepersisted and insisted, we would ultimatelyget paid, but six or eight months later.

The concept here is to keep discouragingclaims. Some people will forget or get distract-ed and not complete the process. Even if theydo ultimately pay, they have been collectinginterest on your money the whole time.Medicare, by contrast, always paid within afew weeks.

Understand insurance companies. They wantyour money and only want to keep it forthemselves. Why do people want to keep thiskind of system going?

OK, I feel better now.

My current discipline, Geology, gave me the oppor-tunity to take classes at Dartmouth after retirement.I took eight courses for credit and audited othersover the six years from 1999 to 2005. I met andworked with many of the students. They are reallysmart and generally as nice as can be. Their relation-ship with the professors is often on a first-namebasis. I had no problems working with the kids,even being older then the professors, if not theoldest person in the building. The kids are closer inage to my grandkids than my children, and, did

I mention, there are women in class, very smartwomen not afraid to let you know it.

Grading is quite different, A’s are common, and B’sor even A-’s are course averages. No attendance istaken. Some exams are take-home and open-bookwith a time limit on the Honor Code. Assignments,outlines, and class materials are all circulated byemail or posted on the course website. In Geology,there is a lot of homework, field trips, and labwork that make up a big part of the grade for agiven course. Evening labs sometimes come withpizza, the prof’s treat. Everything about the coursesI took was much more ‘hands on’ than the courses Itook in the ’50s. I remember a lot of courses in the’50s being only lectures and being graded only onthe basis of a mid-term and final exam and, maybe,a paper.

My experience, comparing then to now, is that nowthere is much more involvement and interactionwith the students on the part of the faculty thanthere was then. Classroom interaction betweenprofessor and student is common, desired, desirable,and necessary to deliver a lesson. Questions are fre-quent during a lecture, and I just do not remember


Were it I in that bed, I would want a quiet, dark room, morphine, and ice cream.

Howard Frankel

Dick’s House

much of that interaction happening in the ’50s.Much faculty-student interaction now is electronic.

I am working on a project with one of my geologyprofessors to describe and explain the local UpperValley geology through a series of common hikessuch as Velvet Rocks, the Skiway, Gile Mountain,Mt. Ascutney, etc. I hope to see it online soon.

John T. Franklin

Robert G. FreedmanBob

76 Phillips Beach Avenue,Swampscott, MA 01907, (781) 599-2098, «[email protected]» Spouse: Debra Ankeles

Walter Freedman2150 N Cleveland Ave., Chicago, IL 60614, (773) 525-0111, Cell (773) 405-2150, «[email protected]»

“It seems like yesterday. Wheredid all the years go?” Familiarexpressions, of course, but trueenough for each of us. It is nothard to remember our gradua-tion from the College andthose old guys from the class of 1910 who attended.

Well, here we are 50 years later with much to bethankful for. Karen and I just celebrated our 25thwedding anniversary. I often muse at how much sheand I share, not only in experiences, but also invalues. We love our times in Chicago, in Michigan,and in Colorado. I continue to work on multiplebusiness projects. Dad died three years ago, but we

are lucky to have Mother who is still well and livingindependently at 94. Family issues that Dad tookcare of now enrich my life. Karen continues hergood works, particularly with Chicago Children’sMuseum and Facing History and Ourselves.

We still bike, hike, ski, and exercise to stay in shape.Luckily, our kids and grandkids all love physicalactivity as well.

Our family grows and matures with the years anddeals with issues that have the familiarity of ourlife experiences happening to them. Some are happyoccasions, some are challenges; there are decisions

to be made. While involved, we have the perspec-tive to know that these choices lead to others andto a system that we hope becomes, on balance, aproductive, happy life.

That means doing things with vigor, with enthusi-asm, with fairness, with loyalty, and with commit-ment. I hope and believe that our four children,their spouses, and our 16 grandchildren have thesame instincts.

Looking back over the 50 years, I believe Dartmouthtaught these values. The College emphasized goodcitizenship, commitment, fair play, and competi-tiveness. It stressed the importance of being activeboth mentally and physically.

For that I am grateful to Dartmouth.

Fifty years—where did the time go? I don’t know,but it has been a great ride! We look forward to thefuture and to next June, when the great Class of1960 marches with the great class of 2010, whowill be wondering, “Who are all these old guys?”

Richard E. Freeman Rich

6532 Spring Brook Road, Apt. 305,Rockford, IL 61114, (815) 633-2773 Occupation: Health/Science, Superior Neurosurgery Ltd., 3500 Tower Avenue, Superior, WI 54880


Where did the time go? I don’t know, but it has been a great ride!

Walter Freedman


James W. French Word comes from family andfriends that our classmateJames W. French MD died onApril 12, 2008, in Bellevue,Wash., from complications ofParkinson’s disease.

French, who was born in Battle Creek, Mich., was oneof the foremost practitioners ofmedicine in our class, servingas a longtime professor of med-icine at both Stanford University and the Universityof Washington, and personally caring for infantsand children with heart disease for more than 30years, before retiring in 2004.

After attending Dartmouth, he received his medicaldegree in 1963 from the University of MichiganMedical School, where he met Marcia, who surviveshim as his wife of 44 years. Dr. French did a resi-dency in Pediatrics at the University of MichiganHospital, and then served as a Captain in the AirForce from 1966-1968. He completed a PediatricCardiology Fellowship at the University of Washing-ton Hospital in 1971. He then immediately becamea professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University, PaloAlto, Calif., where he served from 1971 to 1983.

He and his family moved from Palo Alto to Wash-ington State in 1983 when he became a Professorof Pediatrics at the University of Washington andpracticed Pediatric Cardiology at Children’s Hospi-tal from 1983 until his retirement. He also was amember of many professional organizations includ-ing the American Academy of Cardiology and theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics.

He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Jenniferand Amy, their spouses, Brandon and Derek, andtwo grandchildren, Otto and Sadie Lynn.

Samuel H. French Jr. Samuel H. French Jr. died onJune 26, 1994.

Paul J. Freud3113 Cloverly Drive, Furlong, PA 18925, (215) 348-5238, «[email protected]» Spouse: Janet Freud Occupation: Engineering, Microtrac Inc., 148 Keystone Drive,Montgomeryville, PA 18936

John A. FriedeOne Shore Road, Rye, NY 10580, (914) 698-2015 Spouse: Marcia A. Friede Occupation: Manufacturing

Alan Friedman252 West 85 Street #4A, NYC, NY10024, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Eating, reading,loving my family, chasing my grand-sons, and rooting for the MetsCareer: Attorney in private practiceand with JCPenney to 1991, andowner-operator of a nanny agency,A Choice Nanny, in Manhattanfrom 1991 to date.Family: Wife, son, daughter-in-law,and two grandsons, Lucian and Julian, ages 3 and 1Wife: Joan Mofenson FriedmanMajor at Dartmouth: English; LLB, NYU School of Law

The essay I wrote for our 25th Reunion dealt most-ly with growing up. Well I grew up. Along the wayI learned a thing or two and become a real person.I have the same wife I had then, and we’ve had agood, happy life together. We have a son we loveand who loves us, and two young grandsons whomostly amaze us and make us laugh. Maybe that’sbecause we are grandparents and not parents. Wejust wouldn’t have the energy to keep up with themfull time, but it is great to watch them discover theworld and themselves. It is our strong intention tocontinue working, thinking, communicating, andwatching the Mets win a World Series somedaybefore we return to Hanover for our 60th.

Stanton R. FriedmanOccupation: Stanton R. FriedmanDDS Inc., 33400 Cedar Road,Pepper Pike, OH 44124

Harry W. Fritz 2070 Cooper Street, #231,Missoula, MT 59808, Office (406) 243-2993, Cell (406) 203-4314,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I came to Dartmouthfrom Missoula, Montana, and I stilllive there. On the surface, not veryexciting, but that’s not how I inter-pret my life. I majored in Chemistryat Dartmouth but didn’t like it.After graduation, I became interestedin history. I’ve served in the Montana Legislature, in boththe House and the Senate.Family: Nancy and I raised two exceptional children. SonDan (USMA ’91) is an IT engineer, living in Germany andworking in Switzerland. Daughter Stacey (UM ’93) is anenvironmentalist in Fairbanks, Alaska. They don’t get homeoften, but they’re nice to visit.Wife: In 1966, I was married to Nancy, and I got a jobMajor at Dartmouth: The choice, in December 1960, wasthe U.S. Army or graduate school. I chose school. I receivedan M.A. in History from the University of Montana in 1962and a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, in 1971.Go, Cardinals!

Here at Montana I’ve taught courses over the sweepof American history, from 1492 to Baghdad andbeyond. I’ve concentrated on early American history,Montana history, and American military history. Weteachers solve mid-life crises by changing the sub-ject. I’ve had temporary stints at U.C. Santa Barbara,the University of Houston, and University CollegeNorthampton in England. I offer popular subjects tostudents as electives, reaching as many as possible.History is too important to be left to the pedants.

Two dramatic happenings in 2007 ended one eraand began another. I retired after 40 years on thejob, although I still teach part time. And I wasdivorced after 41years. It just didn’t work out. Wesingle retirees live alone, sleep late, drink wine, readbooks, grill steaks, and travel. My brother andniece live in Colombia; I visit them at Christmas.

I celebrate Thanksgiving and a grandson’s birthdayin Germany. I’ve been part of a UM program inChile for three years. And I’ll travel across the coun-try in 2010 to attend my 50th Dartmouth Reunion.

Haley J. Fromholz1435 Afton St., Pasadena, CA 91103, (626) 304-0745, «[email protected]»

I have been married to AnitaBridgman Fromholz since 1965.She serves on the Santa MonicaMountains Conservancy Advi-sory Commission and formerlyserved on the Pasadena Parksand Recreation Commission.She was also a member of the School Board whenwe lived in Piedmont.

We have two children, Ann Fromholz Walsh, a laborand employment lawyer with Conoco-Phillips inHouston. She had our first grandchild, Alden HaleyWalsh, on November 2, 2009. Our younger daugh-ter, Julia Marie Fromholz, is also a lawyer, andworks for an international human rights organiza-tion, Human Rights First, in Washington, D.C.

In 2008 I began my fourth career, as a mediator andarbitrator with JAMS in Los Angeles. Prior to that I

was a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge for 13 years;practiced law with Morrison and Foerster for 27years, 13 of which were in San Francisco and 14 inLos Angeles; and worked for four years as a systemsengineer for IBM in New York City.

Anita and I enjoy traveling and skiing. I play tennisand read nonfiction as well. Though I read news-papers every day, I remain optimistic.

Richard A. GaleDick

20 Manor Road, Kentfield, CA 94904, (415) 925-1693, «[email protected]» Spouse: Luisiana Gale


Though I read newspapers every day, I remain optimistic.

Haley J. Fromholz

Jim Gallagher3313 Ferncliff Rd., Charlotte, NC 28211,«[email protected]»

“What Ever Happened to BabyJames?”

“As the years go tearing by” (toparaphrase again, this time anold Dartmouth song), it causesone to reflect on what he hasdone, is doing, and where thejourney will take him.

Born into a family of teacher parents and double-digit older brothers, two, and a sister, this productof The Heartland experienced the usual events in ayoung boy’s life: i.e., school, sports, church, andscouts, etc. Like most young boys I had my wishes.

The first wish was that my brothers (Bob—NavalAir Corps, Bill—Regular Navy) would come homesafely from WWII. The wish came true. After a suc-cessful high school career my second wish cametrue as well. I was accepted at a fine liberal arts col-lege in New Hampshire. With a friend from thearea, George Tolford, I headed to football practice atDartmouth College in mid August 1956. No longerwould I be “watching the bread rise on a Saturdaynight in Toledo” with John Denver.

While at Dartmouth, George majored in theater. Atthe Nugget, that is. He was gone at the end of thefirst quarter. Reflecting on this I decided to major ineconomics. Room 412 Hitchcock Hall became homewith two other roommates, Pete Scott and GeorgeBruder. I felt that we got along well with each otherand our neighbors, but the food at Thayer Hall wasnot Mom’s home cooking. Although we were fromdifferent geographic areas and walks of life, Pete(Mainline), George (Beltway), and Jim (Heartland),we complemented and learned from each other. Inmy junior year, I changed roommates. Mary Annand I were married, and Sachem Village becamehome. In my senior year, I again had two roommates

when our daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was born. Onceagain I had great neighbors, the Kaufmans and theMacLeans.

I enjoyed all that Dartmouth had to offer inside theclassroom and out; e.g., the stimulating coursestaught by world-class professors, Great Issues, foot-ball (until I broke my ankle), Green Key, Casque andGauntlet, and fraternity life (Go Fijis—Phi Gamma

Delta, for those who forgot what a Fiji is), and St.Thomas Church. The friendships made were thehighlights of my Dartmouth experience, however.

After graduation I took the advice from the movieThe Graduate and “got into plastics” on the manufac-turing side. Three years were spent with US Rubber,whereas the rest of my career was with OwensIllinois until I retired in 1993. During this time, Iworked in South Bend, Jersey City, Kansas City, andCincinnati as a Shift Supervisor, ManufacturingEngineer, Plant Engineer, and Production Manager.Starting in my mid-30s I ran the operations for OwensIllinois in Chicago, St. Louis, and finally Charlotte.

While in Chicago tragedy struck. Mary Ann passedaway at the age of 37. Our five children and I wentthrough a difficult period for over a year. ThenMarilyn, who I had worked with in Cincinnati, andI started to date. We were married in April 1978.Never having been married (nor having children),she got to raise my five through their teenage years.(Sound of Music movie?) Her reward for survivingthrough this was having our sixth child, Paul. Allshe has ever asked is that the inscription on hertombstone read, “She Was a Trouper.”


Jim Gallagher and Marilyn

“Sweet Baby James”

The food at Thayer Hall was not Mom’s home cooking.

Jim Gallagher

We are a very close family. Marilyn is not only themother of all six, but is also the favorite of all our12 grandchildren. One of the grandchildren isnamed after her, which is an honor I have yet toexperience. She retired from Pepsi-Cola Charlottein 2005 after being a vice-president and companyofficer for 25 years. We currently are certified babyand adult sitters. Business is good. We have a lakehouse 45 minutes from Charlotte, which all thefamily enjoys, as well as our friends. The health ofall is good and happiness reigns.

Where the journey takes us from here is unknown.I have faith in our form of government and oureconomic system. The rule of law and freedom ofspeech are alive and well in our country and willcontinue to be so. Given this, I have confidence inhaving a bright future. My final wish, however, isthat there be more tolerance and understanding ofother individuals’ opinions and viewpoints. Likemy other wishes, I hope this one comes true as well.I guess this is what Dartmouth really taught me.

I’m certain that when we get together in June, witha beer in hand, under a tent, someone will have allthe answers about where the journey will take us.Until then, peace and brotherly love.

Francis P. GallettiFrank

2509 Lawnside Road, Timonium, MD 21093, (410) 252-6568, «[email protected]» Spouse: Barbara D. Galletti Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

Conrad E. Gardner5095 Pine Ridge Dr., Golden, CO 80403, (303) 279-5135, «[email protected]» Spouse: Ingrid Gardner Occupation: Law, Conrad E. Gardner PC, 805 13th Street, Golden, CO 80401, (303) 278-0900

Lawrence J. Gazley Lawrence J. Gazley died onNovember 6, 2002.

Stephen N. GellSteve

2242 Military Road, Arlington, VA 22207, (703) 522-1226, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I have enjoyed myinvolvement in community relationswork outside my day job. I think ithas served as a stress-reducer andkept me sane. Over the years I gotinvolved in a variety of communityrelations and social justice organizations like B’nai B’rith, theJewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington,The Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, theNational Conference of Christians and Jews (WashingtonChapter), and, currently, the American Jewish CommitteeWashington Regional Office, and the United Nations Associ-ation of the National Capital Area. Beginning in 1970, I took courses and taught child-rearingas a volunteer for a variety of private and public organiza-tions. I have taught for the better part of 35 years, and I amscheduled to lead a course in January for parents of teenagers,sponsored by Arlington County. Career: Every stage of my legal career has been fulfilling,challenging, and enjoyable. I began as a lawyer for HUD(and its predecessor) for seven years, specializing in theareas of urban redevelopment and public housing. I workedfor the District of Columbia government for the next 19 yearsas a redevelopment attorney with responsibility for land useand zoning, real estate development, and home rehabilita-tion programs. In 1989, I took advantage of an opportunityto retire with a reduced pension at the age of 50. I joinedJones, Day, Reavis, and Pogue, then the largest law firm inthe world, as a zoning specialist. My timing could have beenbetter, perhaps. This was the beginning of the real estateslowdown of the early ’90s when big development turnedsouth economically, I started a sole practice (with a briefforay back into group practice), which I maintained for thenext 20 years until my retirement in October 2009. Wife/Partner/Family: Luck was with me when I met SheilaGinsburg in 1963, shortly after arriving in Washington. Wehave been together since then with two wonderful childrenand five grandchildren. They say that you are a successful


parent if your kids are not in jail, not on drugs, not living athome, and not asking for money. We did OK on that score.In addition, our kids call once and a while and even claimto be happy to see us when we visit. Major at Dartmouth: I was a history major until my sen-ior year when I decided to take advantage of the Tuck 3/2program, which combined my senior year with the first-yearMBA program. I then went on to law school rather than com-plete the MBA since my ultimate aim was law, and I couldn’ttrust myself not to be lured by the high salaries being offeredby large corporations. However, I found the first-year MBAcurriculum invaluable in understanding the needs and goalsof my business clients. I earned an LLB at the University ofPennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia in 1963. After start-ing my government job in Washington, I enrolled in theevening program at George Washington Law School andreceived an LLM in Public Law in 1966. Dartmouth Activities: It seems a dim memory now but I think I put a lot of time into the Dartmouth Glee Club andthe Debate Club. In my junior year, I undertook to address aproblem I found in the Hanover schools. There was a sharpdivision between the children of Dartmouth professors and

children of non-academics, maintenance people, etc. Ithought a Junior Hi-Y club similar to the one I had beeninvolved with in my hometown of Brockton, Mass., wouldbe the answer. I recruited a Dartmouth sophomore and afreshman to work with me, and we formed a successful clubwith regular activities for the youngsters. Retirement: My transition from working to retirement hasbeen seamless because I have always had many non-workactivities that I could expand, once freed from the problemof earning a living. I can devote more time to communityboards and participate in three book clubs, two philosophydiscussion groups, and daily workouts at the local gym. I have lunches with friends and former colleagues and evenfound time (and the energy) to hike five miles of the Appalachi-an Trail (no, really!!) with the DOC in October. Washingtonis a wonderful place to retire since there are scores of schoolsand organizations offering courses, lectures, free concerts,and volunteer opportunities. Add to that a large and activetheater scene and some of the best museums in the world,and boredom is not an option.

Long before I retired I gave thought to the transitionand what I would lose by not working. I decidedthat there are three basic things, all of which wouldhave to be recreated in retirement. First is humancontact. We often don’t appreciate the extent towhich our company, office, or work contacts com-prise a social group. We share ideas, laugh at car-toons, grumble over lost football games, participatein pools and birthday parties, and share pictures ofour families.

Second is the opportunity to contribute to the workgroup, that is, the company, office, client, or insti-tution that we serve in our working lives. Work, inmany ways, gives meaning to life. Work makes youpart of a team striving toward a goal. At the core isthe sense of being needed.

Third, working life presents challenges—tests ofyour abilities. You are elated when you reach thegoal if the challenge is a meaningful one, whetheror not others recognize it. But in retirement youhave to work hard creating those challenges andthe satisfaction of a job well done.

You can restore the human contact in book clubs,bridge clubs, sports clubs, etc. You can restore thesense of being needed through volunteer activities,babysitting your grandkids, and helping your kids,neighbors, and others. The most difficult of all,facing the challenge, also needs to be addressed.Whether it occurs through taking on physical con-tests (improving your golf or tennis game, or evensurviving a disease), or intellectual pursuits liketeaching, consulting, writing, taking a college course,completing difficult books, etc. it can provide theself-esteem we all crave.

Here’s hoping that all our classmates succeed inretirement as they did in their working lives.

Edward J. Geraghty225 West Summit Road, La Verne, CA 91750, (909) 593-7965, «[email protected]» Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices


Stephen N. Gell and friend on the AT

I even found time (and the energy) to hike five miles of the Appalachian Trail(no, really!!) with the DOC.

Stephen N. Gell

Sheldon M. GisserShelly

3121 Kersdale Road, Pepper Pike, OH 44124, «[email protected]»Career: Lawyer in private practice’63-’90; involved in businessesrelated to coin- and currency-oper-ated vending and amusementdevices, game rooms in amusementparks and real estateFamily and Roots: My sister,Eileen, married to Ron Gold ’54; daughter Marilyn ’85 (MA,Rutgers, and MA, U of Michigan) lives in Olympia, Washington,with husband Jeffrey Even and two daughters; son Daniel’87, (PhD, U of Wisconsin, and MBA, U of Rochester) livesin Solon, Ohio, with wife Kathleen and daughter.Wife: Nan (Schwab) Gisser, born in Binghamton, NY, BA,Mather College of Western Reserve University (now CaseWestern Reserve U), 1960; MA, John Carroll UniversityMajor at Dartmouth: Economics; JD, U of Chicago, 1963

How I got into Freshman Glee Club remains a mys-tery, but it was an experience I really enjoyed. I oftenwondered what I was doing there and figured thatsomehow Paul Zeller never realized that I couldn’tsing, or maybe he felt that I didn’t generate enoughsound to disrupt the overall quality. Getting intothe real Dartmouth Glee Club was my aim. To makethe leap required passing a sight-reading tryout. Mytryout was a disaster. It wasn’t nearly good enough,and thus my Dartmouth singing career came to acrashing halt. My son can sing well and sight-read,too, so he sang with the Glee Club throughout hisDartmouth career. I lived my Glee Club singingvicariously through him.

While I abhor the fighting over the control of theCollege, my feeling is that the College belongs, pri-marily, to the current students and to a lesserextent, the faculty and administration. I don’t feelthat I (whose credentials consist mostly of greenblood, canceled checks, former applicant-interviewerand Alumni Fund arm-twister) should control it, nordo I feel that it should be returned to how it wasin the late ’50s but that it should grow and changewith the times. As my children were leaving Hanoverafter their graduations 25 and 23 years ago, I sug-gested to them that they remember the College as itwas as they left; it would never be that way again.That is still my feeling. Many of our generation areunwilling to recognize that John Sloan Dickey is nolonger the president and that none of his successorshave been, nor will be, his reincarnation. (I wonderhow they’ll react in 20 or 30 years when Dartmouthgets its first female president.)

Re-reading More Musings while looking for ideas forthis one, I was impressed by the number of ’60swho mentioned the comfort they receive from their

religions. That’s in contrast to my continued rela-tionship with religion, which is little more thancustoms, ceremonies, tradition (Marx’s “opiate ofthe people”?), DNA, and part of my heritage, whichI exhibit by attending services a few times a year,but with no relation to a Super Being.

I will have enjoyed the luxury of living with my bestfriend for 50 years about ten days after our reunion.Nan and I married two weeks after graduation. We’veknown each other 55 years. We met in a high schoolmath class. It helps that we like to do a lot of thesame things and like doing them together.

On the other hand (I learned to say “On the otherhand .. .” as an economics major), there’s such athing as too much togetherness. When, about 15years ago, I moved my office to a building 15 min-utes from home, Nan’s instruction was, “Don’t expectto come home for lunch.” To which I responded,“Don’t drop in at my office and expect me to takeyou to lunch.” I also recognized this when I retiredlast year and kept my office in order to be able tobe out of the house and not underfoot. My kids (intheir 40s, are they kids?), their spouses, and childrenare great. Dan and Kathy left Kodak and Rochesterabout three years ago and, with their darling, now8-year-old daughter, moved to a Cleveland suburbabout 20 minutes from us, so we see them often.Dan is now with Eaton Corp., and Kathy is withSherwin-Williams. Marilyn is with the Washingtonstate government, and Jeff is an assistant attorneygeneral. They live in Olympia with their two terrificdaughters, who are 10 and 8. Visiting them three orfour times a year has made me more familiar withInterstate 5 between SeaTac and Olympia than Icare for, but it has also been the springboard for


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lots of interesting and beautiful trips from CraterLake and Ashland, Oregon, to Victoria and Whistler,B.C., and places in between.

Five years ago, after 50 years of constant and pleas-urable pipe-smoking, I abruptly quit. Since then myintake of tobacco smoke has been limited to second-hand smoke. For the first two or three of thoseyears I missed smoking and occasionally dreamedabout it. What impelled me to quit was that myteeth were discolored and I wanted to bleach themand wouldn’t start that until I was convinced I hadreally quit. I became convinced and now my teethare white. Occasionally, I still feel like grabbing apipe but I don’t.

I retired at the end of 2008. Over five or ten yearsthe enjoyment I had previously found practicing lawdiminished. What had been a collegial and courte-ous relationship among adversaries morphed into a

“win at any cost” attitude where you couldn’t relyon anything from your opponent unless it was inwriting and signed. What had been a “learned pro-fession” in 1963 had evolved into a business withthe same attitudes and ethics that led to Enronand the more recent economic meltdown. Quittingwasn’t difficult.

They say that success has many fathers, while failureis an orphan. The economic crisis is no orphan.There are plenty of fathers; principal blame is onthe wave of deregulation that was authored bypoor politicians and poorer economists. Repealing alaw passed during the depression of the 1930s andallowing banks to be brokers, insurance agents, andanything else while ignoring conflicts of interestthat occurred was the shot from the starter’s pistoland grew into an artificially inflated real estatemarket with no-money-down financing, the pack-aging of bad loans, and selling portions of theinvestment-grade (Ha!) portfolio, and on and on. Itwas only a question of time till the bubble burst.

Granted, Democrats aren’t angels either, but theyare better than an organization dominated by ultra-conservative columnists and talking heads, alongwith fundamentalists who still won’t accept thefact of evolution. Government has gotten too bigand the larger it gets, more tax money pays foradministration and the greater the chances for graft.Sometime I’d really like to see a presidential racewhere it will be hard to choose between two really

good candidates. To date I haven’t seen such anelection, and there have only been two or threesince I first voted where I liked either candidate.

A difficult part of retirement is keeping track of thedays of the week. My compulsiveness helps mearound this problem. There are certain activities thatalways occur on the same day of the week so I ori-ent myself that way. Shortly after I retired, a friendand I were trying to schedule dinner with ourwives. I told him that I knew we had plans for theweekend. His response taught me a lesson; he saidthat when you’re retired, every night is Saturdaynight. We went to dinner on a Tuesday.

Retirement is an adventure. Before I stopped work-ing, it didn’t seem that filling the time would be aproblem, and it isn’t. I volunteer for several organi-zations, travel, and do the research, and planning,as well as sorting photos, which is enjoyable. We’vehad many great trips and have on the to-do list.Luck has been my companion, too. Things havemostly gone our way for Nan and the kids. Thereare things I might have done differently, but over-all, I’m satisfied and I have a clear conscience. I getup each morning looking forward to the day that’sbeginning, expecting to enjoy it and I usually do. I hope to continue this way and anticipate futurereunions and birthday parties with guys who madean impact on my life long ago and who, thoughthe contacts are not as frequent as I would like,still have their affect and still bring a lot of enjoy-ment when I get together with them.

Wayne Givens1717 Cottonwood Point Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80524, (970) 407-0246, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Most of my life’spursuits have involved my family—my wife Betty and children Jennyand Jeff. My own pursuits havebeen that I love to read; mysteries,history, and historical fiction arefavorites. Wherever we have lived,we have always been regular atten-dees of local symphonies. In Colorado, the summer outdoorconcerts at Vail have been wonderful to hear. We are avidsports fans: Rockies baseball, CSU football, and basketball. I play golf (not very well) but enjoy the sport and getting outon different courses; in the past, skiing, but I had to stop dueto knee replacements and more recently a hip replacement.As a family and with friends, we have traveled extensivelythroughout the U.S. and on a number of European trips.One particular highlight was to travel and play on a numberof British Open golf courses in Scotland with my son (who isa good golfer—Captain of the Dartmouth golf team in 1991–1992). There was quite a disparity of scores!! We recentlycompleted a two-week riverboat cruise from Amsterdam to

What had been a “learned profession” in 1963 had evolved into a business with the same attitudes and ethics that led to Enronand the more recent economic meltdown.

Sheldon M. Gisser

Budapest with friends and had a great time. I have beenclosely involved with the Fort Collins Public Library systemfor the past ten years and helped to establish a foundationor trust (President from 1999–2009), which has raisedendowment money and formed a Library District to securea solid financial future for the library system in this area.Career: After spending two years in the Navy at Great Lakes,Illinois, via a NROTC commission after graduation, I joinedthe Eastman Kodak Company in 1963 and moved toRochester, N.Y. I retired from Kodak in 1995 in Rochester buthad been assigned to a new plant in Colorado from 1971-1977. After retirement from Kodak, I joined Manpower inColorado as an account manager, and they moved Bettyand me to Fort Collins, Colo. I left Manpower in 1998, butwe continue to live in Fort Collins and are currently makingplans to move to Northern Virginia to live near our daugh-ter, Jenny, who lives in Reston, Va.Family: Married to Betty, originally from Elmira, N.Y., in1963. Have two children; Jenny (born 1967) now marriedliving in Reston, Va., and Jeff (born 1969) also married liv-ing in Carlsbad, Cal. We have two grandchildren, Ellyse andEmily in California.Wife: Betty Givens: we met in Chicago while I was in theNavy and she was a stewardess with Delta Airlines. We cel-ebrated our 46th wedding anniversary in 2009.Major at Dartmouth: Engineering Science. I received aMS degree from the Tuck–Thayer program in 1961.Dartmouth Activities: Member of Beta Theta Pi (Treasurer,senior year). Freshman basketball along with intramuralsports. Four years of NROTC.

Wow, has 50 years gone by quickly. Thinking aboutmy Dartmouth experience, I realize now it taught meto understand that life truly is a learning process. Myfamily, career, and other pursuits all have been part ofthis experience through the highs and lows. Living indifferent parts of the country has helped to broadenmy learning and gain many friendships that we treas-ure so much. Staying in touch with Dartmouth overthe years has been very important to me but living inthe West has made it more difficult to physically visitas often as I would like. I very much look forwardto our 50th Reunion and the opportunity to “catchup” with many of our classmates.

Burton E. GlazovBurt

555 Longwood Avenue, Glencoe, IL 60022, (847) 835-5550 Occupation: Consulting, 707 Skokie Boulevard, Suite 400,Northbrook, IL 60062, (847) 559-0910

Allan Glick10 Old Jackson Ave., Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706;875 Fifth Avenue, Apartment 15G,New York, NY 10065Wife: Marilyn, retired teacher(Syracuse, 1960; MA, ManhattanCollege) Family: Madeleine Glick (Tufts ‘84),Cherise Bransfield (Dartmouth ‘88)Grandchildren: Three

It seems like but a fleetingmoment when I was composing the musings forour 25th reunion. There is no doubt that the build-ing stage of my life is a thing of the past, yet I writethese words with a spirit of optimism and hope.Hope as Marilyn and I approach our senior years,that God is kind to us and blesses us and our lovedones with good health.

I have followed a consistent path in life focused onfour areas. These are family, business, “tikun olam”(repairing the world), and self-improvement. Marilynand I met right after our sophomore year; we weremarried in August 1960. With the grace of God, wewill celebrate 50 years soon after our reunion.Along the way we were blessed with two daughtersand now three grandchildren. It is a privilege forus to share their lives. I only wish all my judgmentsin life were as good as the one that drew Marilynand me together over 50 years ago.

As I write these musings, I remain active at FirstManhattan Co., an investment advisory firm foundedin 1964. I realize that my public persona has beenshaped in large part by my position at the firm andthe 40 years of building a business. When I think ofall the great and not-so-great Wall Street firms thathave disappeared over the past 40 years, I know that Iwas more than fortunate to land at First Manhattan in1968. We have many fine young people who are con-tinuing to build the business and serve our clientele.

I have devoted a considerable portion of my leisuretime to what we of the Jewish faith refer to as Tikun


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Olam. My main focus has been and continues tobe UJA Federation of Greater New York, one of thegreat social service organizations in the world. I wasprivileged to serve as Chair of Jewish CommunalNetwork Commission, which maintains an inter-connected network of more than 100 beneficiary

agencies that are focused on virtually every dimen-sion of human need. With hundreds of profession-als and thousands of volunteers engaged in thisgreat human endeavor, I was inspired by incredi-ble, selfless devotion to the less fortunate. It was agreat honor to lead the effort for Metropolitan NewYork City.

I have devoted several hours a week for the past 15years in the study of Torah with a brilliant scholarand professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University. Nomatter how many times I read and reread the sameportion of the Torah, I find that scholars who livedmany centuries ago and studied precisely the sametext provide insights that are as relevant today asthey were in the past. It is fun using a differentpart of my brain when I read these commentaries,which today are thankfully have been translatedfrom the Hebrew, French, German, etc.

The arts have always been an important part of mylife. Oh, how I wish we had the Hopkins Centerwhen we were undergraduates. My music participa-tion at Dartmouth helped change my life. Today Isit on the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Centeralong with many alumni and alumnae from differ-ent classes and an outstanding professional staff.We are preparing for the Hop’s 50th birthday, and I am having a terrific time and hope making asmall contribution to the Hop’s success. About 30years ago I served as President of the DartmouthClub of Westchester. That was fun and provided mewith an opportunity to make new friends in Hanoverwho remain in touch.

Marilyn and I have traveled to India twice andChina once, but those are the only unusual places

we have visited. Fortunately for us, we have greatfriends in France and family in Denmark, Sweden,and Israel, so we try not to let too much grass accu-mulate under our feet.

We love New York and take advantage of the Met-ropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonicalong with the great museums. Many weekends arespent at our home in the upper Hudson Valley,which we purchased over 25 years ago. We havethe better part of 100 acres, a ranch house, a guest-house, and a few barns along with a great pond forswimming and fishing. The house was built byAnna Roosevelt, the only daughter of FDR andEleanor, and although it is not pretentious it israther special.

I am looking forward to the 50th and what I hopewill be a leisurely pace allowing for lots of talk.Because no one has a monopoly on good ideas, I amhoping to pick up more than a few tips from mywise and learned classmates and of course mostimportantly renewing old acquaintances. I havelooked back many times at the Dartmouth profes-sors who made a difference in my life. Dean JoeMacDonald, who supported my accomplishments,Thad Seymour, who taught me how to write, ArthurWilson who helped me master the fine art of inde-pendent study, and Paul Zeller, our great musicdirector and friend. We were so fortunate to haveexperienced Dartmouth during rather gentle times.

Paul H. Godwin 654 Grafton Park Drive, Chico, CA 95926, (530) 894-6646

Paul M. Goldberg2215 Harcourt Dr., Cleveland, OH 44106, (216) 231-0572, «[email protected]» Spouse: Margie A. Goldberg Occupation: Real Estate, Flagship Properties Inc., 55 Erieview Plaza, Cleveland, OH 44114, (216) 861-1155

We were so fortunate to have experiencedDartmouth during rather gentle times.

Allan Glick

Sidney Goldman 97 Bay Drive, Key West, FL 33040, (305) 745-3645, cell (305) 849-0475,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Harmony with theworld and all it containsCareer: Retired orthopaedic surgeon,part-time taxi driverFamily and Roots: Born in Detroit.Now living in Key West with wifeDeborah. Son David married toPatricia and living in San Francisco, Daughter Marjorie mar-ried to Josh, living in Michigan with three grandsons; Joey,Adam, and Ari.Major at Dartmouth: Economics Dartmouth Activities: Sailing Team and Commodore ofthe Dartmouth Corinthian Yacht Club 1960

Mortality has become reality. Not such a bad thingat all. Each passing day counts for more. Eachevening allows for thanks and words of love betweenDeborah and me.

How lucky to have traveled this far both chrono-logically and spiritually. Son David’s marriage at 39brought new perspective to my span. We wish himas much happiness and success as has been our lot.It was at 39 that Deborah and I met. We’re in our20th year of marriage. Our bonds have only strength-ened and matured as has our affection and respect.

Daughter Margie, now grown and mother of three,is taking her place of responsibility in her commu-nity and profession. She is the center of a lovingfamily that she nurtures and inspires.

Deborah is a gift to all whom she befriends; beauti-ful in act and deed with compassion and sensitivi-ty beyond her years; and beloved partner for life.

Never did I dream while a kid in Detroit these 70years would hold such adventure. Dartmouth, med-ical school, internship, Air Force, residency, raisinga family, private practice of orthopaedic surgery,active sports life with squash and tennis, travel,orphaned, remarriage, grandchildren, retirement,and life in the Florida Keys. Opportunities and roadstaken and explored.

And now? Deborah and I live in a very sharing com-munity with friendships comprising all ages,incomes, and walks of life. A comfortable feeling ofbelonging and acceptance pervades our day-to-dayexperience. Any given week can include involve-ment with friends, service groups, art and music,ocean, synagogue, excursions, charity, laughter,sadness, celebrations, and memories. New friend-ships established and old ones renewed. Each seasonmarks our passage. Each year documents life, lifethat continues to be very good indeed.

Dennis Goodman472 Hanover Center Rd., Etna, NH 03750, (603) 643-9763, «[email protected]»Career: After six months of activeduty with the Army (1960-61) andfour years in a family business, Iheaded for grad school in interna-tional relations, followed by 23 inter-esting years in the Foreign Service,with assignments in Jamaica,Australia, Iceland, Spain, Guyana, the U.N., and the StateDepartment. After all that, I spent several years mucking aboutin inner-city education in Washington, an environment asdiscouraging as the world at large today. In 1997, we sawthe light and headed north to the good life in rural Hanover. Family and Roots: My father was an honest and hard-working businessman, my mother a much-published poet. Hedied suddenly at 59, just months after we graduated. Shedied at 97, in early 2009. That averages out to 78. Whatam I to conclude?Wife and Children: I met Laura-Beth on a blind date in1963, and we were married less than a year later, after allof a dozen visits between Boston and Cleveland. The part-nership grows ever stronger 45 years later. A daughter, Kim,born in Jamaica, a son, Greg, born in Reykjavik; both hap-pily married to smart, wonderful spouses, Scott and Theresa;three healthy young granddaughters, Sarah, Katie, andMackenzie, who live too far from Hanover, but whom wemanage to see just barely enough. We are blessed. Major at Dartmouth: Technically I majored in business atDartmouth, but I have such depressing memories of TuckSchool that I prefer to say I was an English major, which I was through junior year. Graduate school was at the JohnsHopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) inD.C. “Graduate studies” continue daily through the press,the Internet, stacks of unfinished books, and all the folks


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around here who for some reason never quite see the worldas I do.Dartmouth Activities: When daughter Kim ’91 left homefor Dartmouth, I urged her to do three things: get to knowher professors, learn to ski, and take advantage of the out-of-doors. I’d done none of those and wished I had. I did spenda lot of time at rugby, which leaves good memories. So doessenior year living at C&G. And while I can say that I neverskipped a class or had a drink while at Dartmouth, no one I know seems to think either did me any noticeable good.

I have been burdening classmates for some 15 yearsnow with the “1960 Newsletter,” trying to poke alittle fun at the rest of you, as if you were still 21,passing along life’s tales from those of you goodenough to send me Green Cards or emails, and nodoubt failing badly to conceal some of my own off-the-wall thinking. If the Newsletter is only half as

much fun for you to read as it is for me to assem-ble, I will consider it time well spent.

What, I wonder, did the Class of 1910 think look-ing back on life at their 50th Reunion? They wereshortly after graduation to encounter the Great Warand, later, the Depression, WWII, Korea, and theCold War. By comparison, we have been extraordi-narily fortunate. If the generation before us was the“greatest,” we are surely the luckiest. We have, forthe most part, missed war and depression, thoughwe coped with the Cold War for the better part ofour lives and witnessed the tragic effects on our soci-ety of the Viet Nam War. We complain a lot—well,I do, anyhow—but, as Americans in this great coun-try, we have more to be grateful for than we canever say.

But since 9/11, we face a different world, one thatis perhaps a more serious threat to our freedom andway of life than anything that has gone before. I worry that we lack the leadership we need to dealwith radical Islam. Any movement that can producean endless supply of people willing to commit sui-cide to kill others they have been misled to believeare their enemy is something neither we nor ourpredecessors in the Class of 1910 had to cope with,though the Japanese provided a brief preview dur-ing WWII. I can only hope that time will prove mewrong, as it has most of my previous “Musings”predictions. But a troubled economy, years of grossfiscal mismanagement, and a world with too manycountries led by genuinely evil characters is hardlywhat we would want for our children and grand-children, and for ourselves as we head into ourconcluding years. Still, how lucky we have beenuntil now, and with a little more luck the Class of2010 may look back in 50 years and consider itselfas fortunate as we have been. One can only hope.

John C. Goodman35 Bayview Road, Marblehead, MA 01945, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Sailing, familycamping, music, photography, andknowledgeCareer: I spent 38 years at PolaroidCorporation with a little time outfor the service from 1962 to 1966.I worked in Research and in ProductDesign Engineering at Polaroid. Myservice time was spent in The U.S. Coast Guard as a watchofficer on their oceanographic vessel and then as an


Dennis Goodman and Laura-Beth

“Graduate studies” continue daily throughthe press, the Internet, stacks of unfinishedbooks, and all the folks around here who forsome reason never quite see the world as I do.

Dennis Goodman

John Goodman

instructor in the Physics Department at the Coast GuardAcademy. I retired from Polaroid in 1998 and then worked asa consultant in imaging and printing technology for a num-ber of years.Family: Two boys who are off on their own and gainfullyemployedWife: Virginia S. Jordan Major at Dartmouth: PhysicsDartmouth Activities: The Aegis

50 years from graduation—still learning, discover-ing, and growing up.

Lewis M. GoodmanLew

384 Blossom Lane, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022, (216) 952-2575, «[email protected]» Spouse: Marsha Goodman Occupation: Financial Services,Skoda, Minotti & Company, 6685 Beta Drive, Cleveland, OH 44143, (440) 605-7238

Richard A. GoodmanDick

215 Uranus Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611, (510) 547-2170, «[email protected]» Occupation: Arts/Entertainment

Dan Gordon Daniel

7895 Saddle Ridge Drive, Atlanta, GA 30350, (770) 512-7870, «[email protected]»

Kenneth Gordon Ken

PO Box 368, Windham, ME 04062, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Besides my career,and family (4 children and 3 grand-children, some scattered around thecountry),I have had a lifelongenjoyment of the outdoors: skiing(X-C), hiking (especially in NewHampshire’s White Mountains wherewe have a second home in Glen) are favorite activities. Westill climb and hope to do Moosilauke at reunion. In thesummer, we have swimming and boating at our home onLake Sebago. I volunteer for the Appalachian Mountain Club,and for Camp Sunshine—a wonderful place for children withlife-threatening diseases (and their families) — to find respite.I collect old books on the White Mountains as a hobby. I alsointerview applicants for admission to Dartmouth. Career: I have worked as a professional economist sincegraduate school. Initially, I pursued an academic career, whereI developed a strong interest in the potential for introducingcompetition into monopolized markets and deregulatingwhere possible. I then went to the FCC for eight years dur-ing the introduction of competition in the long-distancetelephone market and the approval of cellular. That was aperfect place to be, and it led to my becoming the Chairmanof two public utility commissions (Maine and Massachusetts,in succession). The timing there was good too; pro-competi-tion policies were advancing in the energy utilities as well ascommunications, and of course are still evolving. From thereI joined a national economic consulting firm and continuedto address the same themes as an expert witness. I am nowalmost fully retired (billed only five hours in 2009) but stillfollow the issues. Family and Roots: I grew up in Rhode Island. My father wasa doctor, and I have one sister. Was sent to summer camp onLake Winnipesauke where I met others who sparked my inter-est in Dartmouth, as well as New Hampshire’s mountains. Wife: Nancy R. Gordon (Mt. Holyoke, 1968), a chemist whohad an academic career, first at American University, thenat the University of Southern Maine, where she became thefirst woman in the sciences to become a full professor. Herwillingness to move her career to Maine, so that I couldtake the regulatory position I had been offered, was criticalto my life and subsequent career. We were married in 1985,two months after our 25th, where she finished first amongthe women in the class race. Major at Dartmouth: Economics, followed by graduateschool and a PhD in economics at the University of Chicago Dartmouth Activities: Sigma Phi Epsilon, DOC

Much that I have to say is outlined above already. I am struck by how much of my life and career werethe result of serendipitous events rather than aclear plan. The influence one or two people, whomI admired, led me to choose to attend Dartmouth.The encouragement of one or two professors (espe-cially Colin Campbell, who many will remember)



led me to my Doctorate at Chicago, where he hadgone. Volunteering to help form a Washington chap-ter of the AMC led to my meeting Nancy, which,partially as a result of her later teaching me how towhite-water canoe, changed my life. And the will-ingness to act on the slenderest of reeds brought myname to the attention of Maine’s then governor andin mid-life launched my career in a wholly newdirection. The luck of encountering two governorswho were willing to make a non-political appoint-ment to a senior position (I had no political connec-tions) was obviously of critical importance as well.

I am sure some classmates have had a similar expe-rience, while others have followed a clearly laidout life plan. As for me, looking back, I wouldn’ttrade places.

Nathaniel M. GortonNat

21 Hillside Rd., Wellesley, MA 02481, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: United StatesDistrict Judge for the District of Mass.(Central Division: Worcester, 1992-2004; Boston, 2004-present)Career: Civil business litigationattorney: Nutter, McClennen &Fish, 1966-70; Powers & Hall PC,1970-92Family: My two brothers are Slade Gorton, D ’49, the for-mer U.S. Senator from Washington; and Mike Gorton, D ’55,Tuck ’56, CEO family seafood business.Wife: Joan Linnell (Jodi) GrotonMajor at Dartmouth: History; LLB, Columbia Univ., 1966Dartmouth Activities: Phi Gamma Delta, NROTC,Freshman baseball

As I contemplate what to say to my classmates inanticipation of our 50th reunion, I do so with mixedemotions and feelings of accomplishment, satisfac-tion, and deep concern about the future.

I have been fortunate in my professional career to bein the right place at the right time. After a successful25 years as a trial lawyer in Boston I was appointeda U. S. District judge by Pres. G.H.W. Bush probablyas I was the only Republican lawyer left in EasternMass. I was in the right place. I had to relocate toWorcester though until I achieved enough seniori-ty to move back to Boston where I still sit.

Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed me to the F.I.S.A.Court for seven years hearing Intelligence matters withfrequent trips to D.C. These were serious and conse-quential matters that along with the work of countless

other dedicated public servants have made a differ-ence that cannot be fully described or appreciated.

My family life over the past 50 years has givenme great personal satisfaction. I married Jodi (my wonderful wife of 43 years) when I returned toBoston from the sea and from law school. My threechildren, Kerry an art teacher with three of herown children, Craig (D ’94), an I.T. designer in thehealthcare field, and Nan, a personal trainer andtri-athlete who has a company that trains more tri-athletes. All live and struggle in the Boston area,albeit successfully.

But our abiding joy now flows from our six grand-children, all of whom are under four years old andwhose personalities emerge before our eyes to makeus laugh and cry and bring unmitigated joy.

Now comes the deep concern as I feel it for ourrepublic and our College. While we are becoming asociety dependent on the government for every-thing from daycare to healthcare even unto limita-tions on political speech, I see “The Granite ofNew Hampshire in their muscles and their brains”of the “Live Free or Die” state crumbling. And ourproud college that dwells there, that taught us thegreat democratic principles to live by, has recently

railroaded through the most undemocratic methodof constituting its Board of Trustees imaginable.Indeed, it was a shameful left-wing power grab thatmust have John Slone Dickey spinning in his grave.Perhaps, and I hope it transpires, the new Kimadministration will wisely reconsider the way theBoard is arranged.

(Finally, albeit parenthetically, Bob Blackman mustbe spinning as well now that the College has droppedUNH for Sacred Heart on the football field. It’s anutter disgrace.)

David L. Gosnell David L. Gosnell died onDecember 21, 2007.

I have been fortunate in my career to be in the right place at the right time.

Nathaniel M. Gorton

Bill Gould35 Town Farm Rd., New Boston,NH 03070, (508) 776-2557, «[email protected]»

I am happily married to MarieStanger and am living near myancestral roots in New Boston,N.H. In my semi-retirement,during the winter, I am a N.H.Supervisor administering aNational Assessment test to 4th,8th, and 12th graders in read-ing, writing, and math called NAEP. At other timesI provide consulting services in board development,strategic and business planning, and fund-raising tonon-profits in New Hampshire. Of course, I am keep-ing active in our Class-sponsored SEAD project.

All this comes after a 40-year career as an Executivein computer engineering and software development.This career culminated in my being a Principal in aMassachusetts-based software services and consult-ing company, financed by my college roommate’s(Rick Yocum) venture capital company in Michigan.

I have two wonderful children and six wonderfulgrandchildren living in Massachusetts and Maryland.I don’t have near enough time to spend with them.

I am healthy and life is good, although the granitein my muscles and brain seems to be increasing.

John R. Gowell

John GoyettePO Box 455, New Durham, NH 03855, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: The arts, moun-tains, sports, adventure, and theenvironmentCareer: Arts management andproduction Family and Roots: Mother: theBoston Platt family; father: theMontreal Goyettes

Wife: Divorced from Stephanie; Partnered with Margie Long Major at Dartmouth: History Dartmouth Activities: Class President, Judiciary Committee,Undergraduate Council, Green Key, SAE, Football, LacrosseRay Smith Award.

It’s wonderful to take time this summer by our laketo reflect on a path that led to Dartmouth Collegeand beyond. My sweet parents gave me this cottagewhen they passed along. Mom and dad lovedDartmouth and every ’60 they ever met. But I’mgetting ahead of myself.

Growing up in New Hampshire, we had a big fieldwith a hill behind our house. There, amongst theapple trees, I would lie on my back, look up at thesky, and dream about what might be someday.Back then, there were so many unanswered ques-tions. One by one some have been answered, somestill remain.

When I was six years old, WWII was in full flame.For a child living close to the Atlantic coastline, itwas frightening. I remember almost weekly air-raidalerts when the town’s siren would sound and allthe lights would go off. Our neighbor, Mr. Nelson,was the designated air raid warden. If he saw a lighton in your house he would tap on your door withhis nightstick and order you to turn it off. Thenthere were the atrocities. The newspapers carriedheadlines and images of grisly, unspeakable mis-treatments of humans by other humans in Europeand the Pacific. It all ended with the Big Bomb thatwas dropped on Japan. Was life going to be alwaysso scary?

“Wake up, Johnny, it’s time to go to school.” Thosewere the words I heard my mom say each morningfor 12 years. The first six years were in a little two-room schoolhouse about half a mile from home.Mrs. Smith taught grades 1-3, Mrs. Follansbee grades4-6. In grade school, you learn a lot from your peers.Can you read well, do math, act in a play, run fast?Are you a leader? One by one the answers come


John Goyette and friend Margie


until when you are about to finish high school yourdad says, “Why don’t you apply to Dartmouth?”“Well, gee dad, I always thought I was going toUNH,” although Williams was giving me a hard sellon their football team.

Hanover was an island in New Hampshire back in1956, and it is today. Unless you are an alum livingin N.H., Hanover might as well be in a foreign coun-try. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is knownand used by N.H. residents, but it’s in Lebanon.

I matriculated at Dartmouth thinking I was going tobe a lawyer. After four years serving on the JudiciaryCommittee I changed my mind. (I’m sure somewho served with me feel that’s a good thing.)

In 1966, the trail led back to Dartmouth. A little manwith a huge heart asked me to return to Hanover.

Warner Bentley invited me to be his “right-handman” and help him manage Hopkins Center. At thetime, Payne-Webber on Wall Street offered me$35,000 per year (plus bonuses), and Dartmouthoffered $8,000. From 1966-1975, Dartmouth imbuedme with a “calling” for the arts and artists and anew social awareness forged in the crucible of theturbulent ’60s.

Compared with my classmates’ successes I can’tbelieve how little money I’ve made working withnon-profits for the past 40 years. But the only timeI have a smidgeon of regret is when a philanthrop-ic heart wants to do more. I’ve loved my life in thearts. Days and weeks have gone by too quickly. Theyears not long enough. When you work with artiststhere is always a solution—no box canyons, nodead-end streets.

Hanover was a great place for Stephanie and me toraise a family. Daughter Tracey graduated Class of1990 and is my vicarious lawyer. Tracey’s olderbrother, Bob, is one of the top wealth managers inthe country as listed in Bloomberg’s report.Stephanie and I divorced after 36 years of marriage.She went back to Baltimore and married her highschool sweetheart, Pat. Together, we now havethree grandchildren, Katie, Emmy, and Evan. I’vesince met Margie, who I love very deeply. We’vediscovered that our paths were never far apart, andnow they are together.

I miss our classmates who have gone ahead to pre-pare the way for us to join them someday. Until wemeet again, we here can love life, enjoy new adven-tures, and then lie on our backs, look up at the bluesky and contemplate those still unanswered questions.

Axel L. Grabowsky17 Hardwick Rd., Natick, MA 01760,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: The creation, togeth-er with wife Mary, of an extraordinar-ily wonderful family (I unabashedlyplead prejudice) including daughterTara ’92, son-in-law Kevin (NavalAcademy ’87), grandson Christian(just about 5 by the time you readthis), granddaughter Helen (justabout 3), and another brother forthem (just about brand new). I’ve had two life-long fascinations, fifth century AD historyseen through the eyes of the Germanic Vandals, and pale-oanthropology, particularly hominoid evolution. Both wereinterrupted regularly by detours into 20th century art, lin-guistics, and writing, the latter primarily on aspects of man-agement and about history. I’ve also maintained an abidinginterest in participatory sports (I’m not much of a watcher),only somewhat hampered by a fellow ‘60’s overly enthusias-tic blocking on the football field (or my clumsiness, I’m notsure which) more than 50 years ago, international affairs,and U.S. politics. Finally, but most importantly, at least atthis moment, I am teaching Christian and Helen to swim.Career: My business career was split about evenly betweenmultinational corporations and serial entrepreneurship. Ittook us to live in Europe, Mexico, and half a dozen places inthe United States. It had me travel wherever I could market(and sometimes manufacture) printed circuit boards, diapers,atomic absorption spectrophotometers, cheesecloth, elec-trophoresis equipment, software, cathodic protection prod-ucts, and a few other disparate things. Family and Roots: For the basics see “Life’s Pursuits”above. As to roots, mine are German which you still canhear as I speak after nearly 60 years (with some interrup-tions) in this country. But after having rummaged about the5th century (and much of the rest of history) for a lifetime, I wouldn’t bet on the “German” being unhyphenated. Notbeing an ethnic mixture if your roots are in Europe (or inany other but the more remote places on this globe) wouldbe a highly unusual accident.

A little man with a huge heart asked me to return to Hanover.

John Goyette

Axel L. Grabowsky

Wife: Mary Ford-Grabowsky. She has a PhD in theology andspirituality from Princeton Theological Seminary, has pub-lished eight books and numerous articles in her field, hasbeen a professor and an academic dean, handles five mod-ern and three ancient languages and now is totally andhappily absorbed in being a “Nana.”Major at Dartmouth: International Relations, with a briefexcursion into German to be able to attend the University ofFreiburg in Germany under the then, very new, DartmouthForeign Study Plan. Activities at Dartmouth: Freshman football, Dick’s Houseorthopedic ward (four fall seasons), Green Key (in charge ofnot only building the “biggest ever” Winter Carnival icesculpture, but also finding the material for it), Sigma Nu (com-mander), Ledyard Canoe Club (president), The Dartmouth,and Corey Ford’s Boxing Club. After graduation: AlumniFund, interviewing for the Admissions Office, clubs, andAlumni Council.

What is it about Dartmouth, I asked myself, thathas been most important to me over the last 50years? What comes to mind immediately is the factthat the majority of my friends went to school onthe Hanover Plain. Somebody once told me thatthe older we get, the more difficult it becomes toacquire new friends. He was right on. Why that is,I leave to psychologists and sociologists to ponderand simply assert that my Dartmouth friendshipshave been enormously important and influentialin my life. No matter where I have ended up, geo-graphically, philosophically, spiritually, or political-ly, I found a Dartmouth friend to either support meor to be a foil, but in any case, to be there. It is alsofascinating to contemplate that my non-Dartmouthfriends (and there are some) are pretty much clus-tered around my own interests and outlooks. Notso are my Dartmouth friends: they are happily andnoisily all over the lot. Few if any have hesitationsabout letting me know where they stand. How veryun-PC of them and how very liberating and exciting.

Also, heavily daubed with green, is my curiosity,my love for learning. I suppose I had some of thatin my genes originally, but it was really brought tolife and to consciousness in the lecture halls andclassrooms and, yes, the basements of Webster,Baker, and Sigma Nu. As a result, I have never beenbored. And it isn’t only that I am fascinated bylumpers and splitters or the exploits of Gaiseric, I still find a never-ending parade of thoughts, facts,questions, and opinions out there that turn me on.

Finally, from a very practical point of view, I quick-ly learned about and always highly appreciatedDartmouth’s great and instant cachet in the profes-sional world. Among the educated of the world (andamong the smart and successful ones that wouldhave liked to be) our alma mater stands for practicalexcellence and a healthy marriage between a “can-do” and “will-do” attitude, academic sophistica-tion, and professional know-how.

Dartmouth unquestionably has been an importantpart of my life. But there have been a few thingshigher up or on par with it. My family of Mary, Tara,Kevin, Christian, Helen, and C&H’s brother, as wellas my sister Karin and her family, are very much ontop of the totem pole. Friends, both of Dartmouthand non-Dartmouth origin, are somewhere upthere, too. The natural gifts with which I was bornI am very grateful for and, while I would like tothank my parents and their forebears for handingon good and compatible genes, I am also verymuch aware of the luck and randomness that wereinvolved here. And while I am patting myself on theback for the education of which I availed myselfassiduously, empathy and compassion that I learnedto develop, the persistence that I practiced, particu-larly when intelligence and knowledge failed, andthe health, physical and mental, that I managed to

more or less maintain, in spite of a few hairymoments along the way, I always gave a lot of cred-it to plain old luck.

And that brings me to today. What do I still wantto accomplish? Foremost, I want to continue myhappy and contented married life with Mary. I wantto contribute to the happiness of Tara and Kevin,however they define “contribution” and “happi-ness.” Helping our three grandchildren grow up sothey fit into their society while they take a verystrong hand in forming that society is very high onmy wish list. I also intend to complete a book proj-ect about the 5th century AD Vandals around theMediterranean and maybe a follow-up; revisit afew selected spots around the world that hold par-ticularly fond memories for Mary and/or me; andgo on a big game safari in Africa. Finally, I have allintentions of retaining enough mental acuity toenjoy and debate vigorously the sometime fabu-lous and sometimes ludicrous world about us andto postpone the probably inevitable physical dete-rioration as far as possible.


I have all intentions of retaining enoughmental acuity to enjoy and debate vigorouslythe sometime fabulous and sometimes ludicrous world about us.

Axel L. Grabowsky


James D. Graham 119 North Helen St., Rochester, MI 48307

An “Aha!” Moment: My LatestFall: Upon returning from mylatest Piqua pilgrimage, I wassporting a bloodied, infectedleg and a badly swollen ankle.Kristine confronted me with abevy of questions and conclu-sions—most of which (as aFacebook friend independent-ly wrote) focused on “How did you fall, this time?”and “You are really old!” Not that I disagree withthe latter, but I do remain speculative about whythis accident occurred.

During my elderly ruminations since retirement(2003), I’ve come to recognize that the deepestfamily and environmental influences on my child-hood (1938-1956) grew out of our annual summervacations in and around Piqua, Ohio. Fortunately,I’m now blessed with enough health and where-withal to “return to the source” or Place (if not allthe uncertainties) of those formative years to betterunderstand how, as Black Elk famously wrote, “Thelife of man is a circle from childhood to childhood...” and, like the seasons, “We always come backagain” to where we were. It was in pursuit of thisquest, to revisit some of Piqua’s uniquely powerfullandmarks (in light of my current perspectives) that,as a still-sanguine septuagenarian, I convinced mylong-time fellow travelers to join me in exploringPiqua’s ancient heritage.

Driving in new car down what is now the I-75“corridor,” we turned west into Wapakoneta (alongthe southern bend of the northbound AuglaizeRiver), headed further west toward Lake St. Mary’s(Ohio’s biggest internal lake), then southward acrossthe Divide on State Rte. 66, past Lake Loramie,toward the Piqua Bend of the southbound GreatMiami River. This part of our road-trip allowed meto survey ‘‘the lay of the land” across the southernrim of our Great Lakes Watershed (between LakeErie and the Ohio River)—accounting for Piqua’scentral Place in river-based travel and trade systemsfrom early prehistoric times onward.

In Piqua’s City Square, we disembarked beside acivic memorial honoring the famous Mills BrothersQuartet (1920s-1970s), before entering the newlyrenovated classic (Richardsonian) Plaza Hotel. There,Piqua’s Public Historian welcomed us into the fresh-ly redecorated building, ushered us through the newsite of Piqua’s Public Library, Archives; Museum andCommunity Center, and answered some of ourquestions about sources and history. The followingmorning we toured the 174-acre Piqua Historical

Area (PHA), where I paid singular attention to anancient circular enclosure mound that bore struc-tural similarities to one of our favorite ancientearthworks (the Great Mound near Anderson, Ind.,some 75 miles due west). Like the Anderson Mound,which the Indiana DNR describes as a circular “outerembankment that surrounds a shallow ditch,”inside of which is an elevated “central platform,”this PHA Enclosure Mound is also bridged by “afilled-in portion of the ditch [that] allowed one toenter and exit the central platform area by way ofa ‘gateway.’” Both earthworks have been classifiedas ancient Adena-Hopewell structures (from about2100 years ago), sited on terraces just above thefloodplains of well-traveled rivers.

While archaeologist William C. Mills located sometwo dozen ancient earthworks around Piqua in hisArcheological Atlas of Ohio (1892), the only onedepicted in the original edition of Squier and Davis’sclassic work on Ancient Monuments of the MississippiValley (1848) was Plate No. 3 (inexplicably deletedfrom the 1998 reprint). It was described as a “pre-historic stone wall” enclosing “an oval-shaped areaof about 18 acres ... generally along the brow ofthe hill, in one place descending a short distance,so as to include a spring ...” and, in another, “a

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mound five feet high ... surrounded by a ditch.”Ira and I found our way from the present-day SwiftRun Dam to a roadside boat ramp, then to a nearbysection of highway easement with the trace of asteep path—which I scrambled up (huffing, puff-ing, slipping, and sliding) until I reached the third-level terrace of that hill, that glacial kame.

“Aha!” It was there that I first laid my eyes on (whatseemed to be) a section of the prehistoric stone wallwe had been pursuing. Rushing over to “meet” thoseage-old glacial rocks and survey the two sections ofwall which had enclosed part of the rolling hilltopgrasslands, I felt deeply moved by the silent splen-dor of that ancient Place. Breathing deeply, Istepped backward (forgetting about the steep slopebehind me) and AA W! The forces of gravity twist-ed my ankle and pulled me down the sloping hill-side. That was how it happened, how I absorbedthis lingering infection (from glacial-age debris, noless!). Using my Killarney Shillelagh to hoist mytrim limbs and oversized belly up to an erect posi-tion, I stood still for a few minutes—regaining mybalance while reflecting on why this had happenedto me. After all, there was no use taking such asudden fall unless I could learn something from it.I’ve seldom been satisfied by attributing personal“accidents” to mere “coincidence.” During suchtimes (including a few previous “falls”), I’m moreapt to defer to an old adage like “pride goethbefore the fall” [Ed. Note: actually it’s Proverbs xvi.18, “Pride goeth before destruction, and anhaughty spirit before a fall,” but if you’ve gottenthis far it doesn’t matter] and to suspect that thekarma of rushing up that glacial kame so fast, and sosuddenly to intrude on that ancient sacred space,was all wrong! On the other hand, such impulsive-ness led me “to rush in where angels fear to tread,”to frontally collide with the entrenched remains ofa prehistoric stone wall, to fall to my knees, and toexperience the penetrating physicality of a glacialkame’s ancient presence.

A wide-eyed Ira shouted “Jim,” and I responded,“I’m all right.” After which we respectfully passedthrough a gateway (between two sections of theold wall) into the hallowed hilltop meadow thathad hosted innumerable ancient ceremonies. Wesnapped a few photos, studied McBride’s 1846drawing, and speculated as to the where the for-mer mound and spring bed may have been locat-ed. Meanwhile, we paid our sincerest homage tothe enduring mysteries and silence of that Place.Ultimately, last week’s essay by New York Times nat-uralist Verlyn Klinkenborg most generally expressed“what I really believe—that I value the land for itssilence, its freedom from language ... .”

James Verner Graham II James Verner Graham II diedMay 4, 2006, at his home inNorth Chittenden, Vermont.He was owner of several busi-nesses in the Rutland area. AtDartmouth he as a member ofCasque & Gauntlet, theUndergraduate Council, andPhi Delta Alpha, and he was a player for four years on theDartmouth football team. Hestarted at right guard his senior year. Followinggraduation from the Tuck Business School, heserved on Dartmouth’s Alumni Council, was secre-tary and president of one of Dartmouth’s regionalalumni clubs, a job development career advisor, andan interviewer of applicants for Dartmouth admis-sion. He worked for years in the insurance industry.He is survived by his wife, Marilyn Selbee Graham,Debbie Graham, Jill Kamedy and Scott Graham,Pneey Heusmann, and six grandchildren.

A. Duncan GrayPO Box 22066, Houston, TX 77227, «[email protected]» Spouse: Nina Gray Occupation: Law, London,England

Frederick T. GraybealFred

37 Wynwood Road, Chatham, NJ 07928, (973) 635-8262 Spouse: Carol Graybeal


Thomas E. Green Thomas E. Green died on July31, 2008.

Allan M. Greenberg MDL’Hermitage II, 3200 North OceanBoulevard #1510, Fort Lauderdale,FL 33308, (954) 375-5338, Fax 375-5339,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: In June 1998, Iretired from my Ophthalmologypractice, and when asked, “Whatdo you do with yourself in retire-ment?” I answer that “I just have agreat time” with extensive traveling,playing duplicate bridge (at localclubs and traveling to tournaments), and enjoying our fivegrandchildren and six children (our three sons and their threewives)—all with my wife of 46 years. Two of our childrenand three of our grandchildren live nearby in Fort Lauderdale,and we frequently visit with our “California Kids.” In March2009, we visited them on our 42-Day “Bangkok to BeijingAdventure” with visits to Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea,Taipei, Japan, and China. We just returned from a visit toParis—always romantic and wonderful—and a cruise fromAthens to Santorini, Rhodes, Israel, Egypt, Corfu, Dubrovnik,and disembarking to spend a few days in Venice. In January2010, The Greenberg Clan will spend a week on a cruise inthe Caribbean and, I trust, we will all get along and enjoythe family time together as we did on our Alaskan Cruise inJuly 2008. In essence, it’s a big, wide, wonderful world andis so very exciting and educational. We hope to do it all—including a trip on the space shuttle to ...Career: 1960-1964: Medical Student at SUNY-DownstateMedical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y; 1964-1965: Medical Intern,Duke University, Durham, N.C.; 1965-1967: Captain, U.S.Army Medical Corps, Philadelphia, Pa; 1968-1971: Ophthal-mology Resident, Thomas Jefferson Univ. Hospital, Philadel-phia, Pa.; 1971-1973: Associated with OphthalmologyGroup in Cherry Hill, N.J., and started to make a living;1973-1998: Senior Partner in Greenberg and Silbert MDs PA,Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgery private practice inFlorida for 25 years; 1998-present: Retirement and notmaking a living, but having fun and enjoying life and, mostimportantly, enjoying relatively good health!Family and Roots: I was born, raised, and educated inBrooklyn until I left for Dartmouth to become part of the

Class of 1960. However, despite the road(s) I have traveled,I am still a Brooklyn Boy—always have been, always will be.I am proud of that.Wife/Partner: Hazel Taub Greenberg for 46-plus years.She is also my love, friend, confidante, travel partner, bridgepartner (much of the time), amongst other roles.Major at Dartmouth: AB, cum laude, Dartmouth, 1960;MD, summa cum laude, State University of New York,Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, 1964; MBA and Certificate in Health Care Administration, Universi-ty of Miami, Miami, Florida, Executive MBA Program, 1989Dartmouth Activities: Freshman Basketball Team; GreenBook, Managing Editor; Tau Epsilon Phi, Treasurer

The Human Venture in Sex, Love and Marriage is thetitle of a book written by Professor Peter A. Bertocciand published in 1949. It was also the title of Pro-fessor Bertocci’s lecture to our Class of 1960 as partof our mandatory freshman year course entitled“The Individual and the College.” As I was animpressionable 18-year-old freshman, his talk hada profound influence on me. I purchased his bookas I was embarking upon my Dartmouth Experience

and The Human Venture… . He inscribed the book,“With pleasant memories of Dartmouth, 1956—Peter A. Bertocci.” I still possess and treasure mycopy of Professor Bertocci’s book and occasionallyrefer to it even now some 50+ years later. However,be forewarned that I am working on the sequel tobe entitled: The Human Venture in Sex, Love, Marriage,Parenthood, and Grandparenthood. The latter is thebest of all as can be seen from the photo. Lastly, over50 years later, I still have the most pleasant memo-ries of Dartmouth College and my Classmates towhom I send my best wishes and want them all to know that, in various degrees, they have played


The Greenberg Family at 70th Birthday Celebration

Despite the road(s) I have traveled, I am still a Brooklyn Boy.

Allan M. Greenberg

a most significant part in my life and for that Iremain forever grateful. We are very much lookingforward to seeing many of you at our 50th Reunion.When we graduated from Dartmouth in 1960, the50-year alumni class that led us into Commence-ment that day seemed so old and a bit infirm; infact, they seemed ancient. Obviously, in our dis-torted mirrors and minds, we have fared much bet-ter than the Class of 1910. Hmph! The truth is thetruth! How rapidly the 50 years have passed!

David Greenstein 120 W. 97th St. #13B, New York, NY 10025, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: In personal mat-ters, I try to follow the advice oftenascribed to Satchel Paige as follows:

Work like you don’t need the money.Love like you’ve never been hurt.Dance like no one is watching.

In the public sphere, I try to followSamuel Becket’s injunction:

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.Career: For the past eight years, I have been Director ofContinuing Education and Public Programs at The CooperUnion for the Advancement of Science and Art, a great jobat a wonderful institution. Previously, as a teacher andadministrator, I have worked at Middlebury College, theSorbonne, NYU, and high schools in Uganda, Tanganyika (asit then was), and Australia. I have also worked as a consult-ant in environmental areas and served as a museum admin-istrator. For about a dozen years, I ran a small business. Inthe interstices of my career, I have been a longshoreman, ajournalist, a surveyor’s assistant, a trash man, a ghostwriter,and a penny-a-line translator. I’ve only had one boring joband that lasted less than a year.Wife: I have been married for 30 years to Ann Prival, thelove of my life and the cross-ventilation of my mind. LastOctober, we joyfully celebrated the marriage of our daugh-ter, Bibi, to Conrad Wells.Major at Dartmouth: I was a philosophy major, and Ireceived an MA and PhD from Columbia in English and Com-parative Literature. I also received a Diploma in Educationfrom Makerere College in Uganda.

Dartmouth Activities: I was on the Debate Team and theHuman Rights Society. I have fond memories of ProfessorsJames Dow McCallum, T.S.K. Scott-Craig, Bancroft Hunting-ton Brown, Ramon Guthrie, John Stearns, John Finch, and ofthe Modern Novel course in Comp. Lit. I enjoyed the excite-ment and companionship of living for three years at 8 SchoolStreet and the pleasure of reading atop Bartlett Tower ingood weather.

As a philosophy major, I benefited from an earlyinoculation against metaphysics, so my musings arebrief and infrequent. I’ve had an easy ride so far, butI remember what Solon is supposed to have said toCroesus, “I call no man happy until he is dead.”

Hank Greer3630 Loggerhead Ct., Seabrook Island, SC 29455, (843) 768-2353, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Staying healthy andalive, enjoying family and friends,and “giving back” to less fortunatepeople, promoting animal welfare;stopping spousal and child abuseCareer: Business: Corporate gener-al management, venture capitalFamily and Roots: Cleveland Heights High School (Ohio),sons Jon (42), Chris (40), six grandchildrenWife: LaurelMajor at Dartmouth: EconomicsDartmouth Activities: Rugby, Wrestling, Dragon SeniorSociety

Here we all are into our 70s! Good heavens, I don’teven remember knowing a 70-year-old when I grad-uated from Dartmouth. Not a one! Okay, so I’m 70+!Do I really see a difference in the way I can move,in my strength, in my flexibility?? Well, hell, yes Ido! (You all better say you do, as well, or I won’twant to talk with you at the reunion!)

On the other hand, and on the bright side of theledger, there are a whole bunch of positive thingsthat have happened to me. Number one, I’m stillhere. Also, my family is great a wonderful wife,Laurel, and two great sons, Jon and Chris, who havegiven me six super grandkids and two lovely daugh-ters-in-law. Nor can I forget the friends I’ve madeover the years long ago and fairly recently. I’ve beenblessed, so far, with remarkably good health, plusthe ability to do what I want to do, when I want todo it. No need to get a Wal-Mart greeter’s job as yet,although I’m not so sure that kind of requirementmight not be in a number of our futures if we don’tget this economy turned around! Unfortunately,each month, it seems, I get word that I’ve lost a rel-ative, an old classmate, a teammate, or former work-mate. I guess the frequency of those very unhappyoccurrences will only increase as time moves on.


David Greenstein and Ann Prival

Bottom line, it’s been a good run, and I hope itkeeps going for a while longer. I feel that there’s awhole lot I need to do to “give back” to those peo-ple and creatures who haven’t been as fortunate asI have. I’m sure many of you feel the same way. Ifyou do, the time to do it is now—time’s a-wasting—and there’s much to be done.

I hope to make it to the reunion and to see youthere.

Neil J. Grey MD Our classmate, Neil J. Grey MD,died May 18, 2007, at theHartford Hospital in Hartford,Connecticut, of meningitis.

A diabetic himself for the last20 years of his life, Neil was adoctor for diabetics sorenowned for his meticulouscare and empathy with hispatients that 90 of the patients,fellow doctors, and other med-ical personnel at the Hartford Hospital, where hepracticed, sent messages to the Hartford Courantnewspaper, paying tribute to him on his death.

They told of a doctor who worked from daybreakto well into the night, took time with his patients,assured them he was always available on the tele-phone, had a phenomenal memory for the person-al details of their lives, and had a smile and a jokefor all those he met.

Our classmate, Neil Koreman, another doctor whoattended the State University of New York MedicalSchool in Brooklyn with Neil and several otherclassmates, declared of him, “He was ethical, moral,and dedicated to medicine. At medical school andbeyond, he was one of the most conscientious doc-tors I’ve ever known.”

Neil himself, writing in our class book, More Musings,40 years after graduation, expressed his regard for Dartmouth, saying, “I suspect my college years

contributed substantially to a philosophy that canbe summed in three phrases: Try to make a differ-ence, don’t take yourself too seriously, and get paidfor your work until you no longer need to.”

He did his Internship and Residency at the OhioState Medical School and had a Fellowship at Wash-ington University of St. Louis, before serving as anArmy major during the Vietnam War. At HartfordHospital, Neil was founder and the Director of Dia-betes Lifecare, and from 1983 on was a director of theImpaired Physicians Committee, spending count-less hours working with physicians who neededhelp in getting and staying well. He further servedas chair of the Committee on Physician Health forthe Connecticut State Medical Society.

Neil also taught medicine as Assistant ClinicalProfessor at the University of Connecticut MedicalSchool, authored many articles on diabetes inmedical journals, and, in 1994, was awarded theHartford County Medical Association’s highest honor,the Distinguished Service Medal.

A member of Congregation Beth Israel in WestHartford, where an overflow crowd attended hismemorial service, Neil is survived by his lovingwife, Joan, children Jonathan E. Grey, Elizabeth A.Burke, and Nancy R. Grey, two grandchildren, andtwo siblings.

The family asked that donations in his memory bemade to Diabetes Lifecare, c/o Fund DevelopmentOffice, Hartford Hospital, 80 Seymour St., PO Box5037, Hartford, CT 06101, or to the Hebrew Home andHospital, 1 Abrahams Blvd., West Hartford, CT 06117.

We are, I think, highly privileged to have had Neilas a member of our Class. In so many lives, he did“make a difference.”

Gary F. Griffin27 Red Oak Hill, Willington, CT 06279, (860) 429-0480, «[email protected]» Spouse: Eileen Griffin, M.S.W.,L.C.S.W.


Hank Greer and Laurel

Richard C. Griggs909 Wyandotte Trail, Westfield, NJ 07090, (908) 233-6290, «[email protected]»Career: Benefit Service Company(co-founder in1964 and still active)—Life, Disability and Health Insur-ance, Individual and Group, 133Prospect St., Westfield, NJ 07090Children: Debi and Alison Grandchildren: Sam and JakeWife: Lois

There are probably fewer than a dozen in our classwho can say, as I do, that they have not moved morethan a mile in 70 years. Of course, it is impossible tosay that I would not have had the same blessings ifI had been less stationary. But, I would probably nothave had 50 years of a great marriage to the girl Ifell in love with in seventh grade. It would be lesslikely that both of our daughters and their familieswould live nearby or that I could take one of my

grandsons into the woods I explored as a kid tomake a slingshot from scratch.

The slow nurturing of a deep Christian faith througha local church family could have been vulnerableto all the tensions and distractions of new homes.And, I don’t think I could have had the meaning-ful involvement in the institutions of a communityleaving behind fingerprints that will remain longafter I check out.

I am not as content with my Dartmouth experience.I cruised into it, through it, and out of it, a four-year vacation. Despite my lack of contribution and

effort as a student, I did receive at least two lastinggifts from the College. Like for most of us, there isan excitement as I drive across the bridge and upthe hill into Hanover. It is the anticipation of recon-necting with friendships established during thosefour years, and, equally as important, the friendshipswith men in our Class now I didn’t even knowthen. I refer to it as the Dartmouth mafia. Strong,“I won’t let you down” relationships.

The other influence has been a curiosity, maybeborn of what I know I passed up at Dartmouth, anappreciation of nature, great literature, and music.I would probably not get any better grades than Idid then, but I’d find great satisfaction in the effort.

Tom Grow 7306 58th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98115, (206) 524-1313, «[email protected]» Spouse: Lynn Grow Occupation: Health/Science

Fernando M. Guerrero Fernando M. Guerrero died onFebruary 28, 2006.

Richard A. GuilfordRick

9651 Kent Street, Portland, MI 48875, (517) 647-4656, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sue Guilford Occupation: Law, Richard A. Guilford PC, 9651 Kent Street, Portland, MI 48875, (517) 647-4656


Richard C. Griggs and Lois

There is an excitement as I drive across the bridge and up the hill into Hanover.

Richard C. Griggs

Peter D. Gump615 Culler Mews, Newmarket, ON L3X 1V8, Canada,(905) 954-1315, «[email protected]» Spouse: Madeleine Gump Occupation: Consulting, Profile Reports Inc., 615 Culler Mews, Newmarket, ON L3X 1V8, Canada, (905) 954-0255

William E. GundyPO Box 2394, 618 Main Street, New London, NH 03257, (603) 526-6614, Fax 526-6402, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I retired in Septem-ber 2000 and began a new formatof family attention, volunteer work,choral activity, golf, tennis, andother outdoor activities. Trustee atColby-Sawyer College, Trustee atMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Treasurer of Southwinds-at-the-Moorings (condo association in Vero Beach, FL).Enjoyed travel to such spots as: Jackson Hole, Keystone, BigSky, Alaska, Tuscany, Danube, Scotland and the Greek Islands.Our years currently involve eight months in New Londonand four months in Vero Beach, giving us a full enjoymentof fall and a little winter, followed by the warmth of Floridain the harder winter months.Career: The first 22 years were in the computer and com-puter service industry, starting with IBM and ending withDatacrown in sales, marketing, and general management.The next 18 years were in the financial services industry withdivisional, area and executive management responsibilitiesat State Street Bank followed by consulting work at Price-WaterhouseCoopers. My primary focus was on serving theinstitutional investment community, pension fund, mutualfund, and other institutional investment firms.Family and Roots: Born in Rye, N.Y., to a pediatrician anda nurse, with three brothers—Jack ’58, Dave ’62, and Ted’69, who all went to Dartmouth. Married 28 years to Jane(three children—Susan, Scott, and Jim). After her death in1985, I remarried in 1988 to Malora, who had two chil-dren (Jonathan and Melissa). Now we are blessed with 14grandchildren.Wife: Malora Patrick Gundy, for 22 years, who is a devotedmother and grandmother to all our children and grandchildren.A licensed social worker who continues her care-giving with aboard position on the regional VNA, through hospice work,and with some as-needed counseling within our large family.Major at Dartmouth: EconomicsDartmouth Activities: Judiciary Council, Sphinx, BetaTheta Pi, Football. Mentoring to freshman football players forthe past five years.

Each stage of life brings different issues into focus.Since retiring nine years ago, I have transitionedthrough a period of missing the rush, demands,and camaraderie of work to this new mode, whichstill finds me quite, busy but with a different set ofpriorities. It’s about family, friends, trying generallyto give back, and help others. I have found it veryrewarding to dive into things that I had little or notime for earlier in life, such as singing in some verygood church choral groups both in N.H. and inFlorida. At the same time, we have found ourselvesdodging bullets that seem to be appearing withincreasing frequency aimed at our physical health.We have dealt with double knee replacement, shoul-der surgery, and two incidents of cancer in ourmarriage. These do have a way of encouraging youto value and treasure each day and reminding youthat things can change, with little or no notice, ina big way. A major priority is working hard to main-tain good health and to keep exercising the mind.

Special family reunion events, such as we had inAugust 2008 in Bar Harbor celebrating my 70thbirthday, provide an ideal setting to pass some ofwhat I’ve managed to learn on to children andgrandchildren. They also can begin to signal thepassing of the baton to the next generations, as wesee them taking on those roles we used to exercise.As I look at the latest crop of undergrads at Dart-mouth, I am easily persuaded that I wouldn’t havea prayer of gaining admission today. These kids areawesome in almost all respects, but I do thinkmost take too much for granted and don’t seem toappreciate all this country offers them. It’s hard forthem to fathom that we grew up with no TV until


William E. Gundy and Malora

We have found ourselves dodging bullets that seem to be appearing with increasing frequency aimed at our physical health.

William E. Gundy


junior high, no computers, no cell phones, and allthe electronic gadgetry we are immersed in today.

Thoughts about life:

When one door closes, another will open, solong as we are paying attention.

Must be in touch with myself but must alsofocus outside of myself for real happiness.

Choices we make are key.

Holtz was right about our outcomes—10% isdependent on what happens to us, 90% isdependent on how we respond.

The most important work we do is within thewalls of our own house.

Each day is a gift.

Jerome E. Gurst Jerry

903 Panferio Drive, Pensacola Beach, FL 32561, (850) 934-3320, «[email protected]»

John T. Guy5 Lexington, Dover, NH 03820, (603) 742-5212,«[email protected]» Spouse: Virginia Guy Occupation: Financial Services,Guy Financial Group, PO Box 215, Dover, NH 03821, (603) 742-0061

Robert HackettBob

3616 E. Denton Lane, Paradise Valley, AZ 85253, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I made a break withthe East, moved West after lawschool, and for 46 years have prac-ticed law with some really talentedfolks. I have been lucky to experi-ence the excitement and challengeof a number of relatively high

profile federal and state court business lawsuits. My pursuitof a law career, such as it has been, has always been over-shadowed by love of family. I continue to plug away, albeitat an ever-lessening pace, and am only recently asking theinevitable “what do I do with the rest of my life” questionthat has faced, or will face, all of us.The best decision I made in life was to marry the mother ofour four sons. Our life continues to revolve around children,grandchildren, and family activities. Some of our best timeshave been spent on ski trips from the time the boys wereyoung. All of our sons are far better in the bumps than theirpudgy father.Career: Presently a senior member in the Phoenix office ofDenver-based law firm Sherman & Howard LLCFamily and Roots: I grew up in Chappaqua, New York, andgraduated from Horace Greeley High School before Dartmouth,followed by the University of Michigan Law School. Sherrie and I have four sons, ages 39, 38, 34, and 33, allof whom are happily married. We have five grandchildrenas of this writing.Wife: Sherrie A. HackettMajor at Dartmouth: English. LLB, University of MichiganLaw School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1963Dartmouth Activities: Crew; Kappa Sigma (if a fraternityis considered an “activity”)

Like many of us, I am concerned about whether wewill leave our loved ones with the same opportunitiesthat were made available to us at an early age. Will ourgrandchildren and their generation be able to growand prosper? Will hard work, individual accountability,pursuit of excellence and motivation remain as criteriafor success in the fields of their choice? Will the indi-vidual spirit be restricted and stifled by more and morelaws, rules, regulations, directives, and bulletins froman ever growing bureaucracy that, in a well-meaningattempt to provide all people with all things, takesaway the individual initiative upon which this countryhas prospered? Will the problems of a disgraceful pub-lic school system and entrenched and grinding povertybe solved? Is the enormous public and private debtproblem solvable, or are our grandchildren destinedto live in a country that limps along, unable to makeany meaningful reduction in the massive borrow-ings of earlier generations?

Remarkable events have occurred in our lifetimes, thedefeat of a social and political system bent on destroy-ing our freedoms, the acceptance of persons for whomthey are, not the color of their skin or where theyworship, medical discoveries that have eradicated orcontrolled killer diseases, men on the moon, and theInternet, to name just a few. Unfortunately, break-throughs in science give scary weapons and chemicalsto those who would destroy our way of life. We can-not lower our vigilance, and to protect our way of life,I believe we must continue to follow the “trust butverify” advice of Ronald Reagan. I hope our childrenand grandchildren will be able to solve problemsas they arise and experience the peace and prosper-ity that it was our fortune to enjoy.

Roger W. Hackley II 29 Biscayne Court, San Rafael, CA 94901, (415) 456-1012, «[email protected]»

William C. HadleyBill

557 Haven Point Drive, Treasure Island, FL 33706, (727) 360-6300, «[email protected]» Spouse: Paulette Hadley Occupation: Consumer Services

Robert Hager2004 Grassy Lane, Woodstock, VT 05091, (802) 457-3737, «[email protected]» Career: NBC News Correspondent:Vietnam, Berlin, Moscow, N.Y.,WashingtonWife: HonoreMajor at Dartmouth: History Dartmouth Activities: WDCR:Football, basketball, hockey play-by-play, and News Director withdaily newscast; Alpha Chi Rho

No more hurricanes, aviation accidents, terroristattacks, wars, or other calamities—at least not forme. Instead, my wife Honey and I are retired inour native Vermont, and the only crises now arethe weeds in the vegetable garden, the limbs thathave fallen over our woodland trails, and the edgesof my skis that need sharpening.

We’re having a wonderful time back in Woodstockwhere I was reared and where it’s great to be near somany classmates and their spouses who have alsoretired in the Upper Valley and its environs. It’s alsogood to be close to our old campus for concerts,lectures, football games (well, football’s been a littleproblem of late), and evenings at the Nugget, wherethe film audiences are no longer as rowdy as wewere in our day.

What a magnificent sweep of history we’ve all seenin the 50 years since graduation. The gains of thecivil rights movement, the crumbling of the Sovietempire, the advent of the jet age, the developmentof computers, and more. Sure, there are still plenty ofproblems but, on balance, what a time to have lived!

Back to the personal side, one thing more to say. Inthe evening, as the dinner hour approaches, I nolonger need to worry about what shots I select fromthe day’s video tape. The only shots I need to choosefrom are labeled Jack Daniel’s or Jose Cuervo. (I did,after all, go to Dartmouth.)

Kevin C. Haggerty Kevin C. Haggerty died onNovember 1, 1979.

David Clinton Haight7511 S. 73rd East Ave., Tulsa, OK 74133Career: Forty years in the invest-ment business. I spent most of those years underwriting and trad-ing municipal bonds.Wife: Paula Haight, retired elemen-tary school teacherFamily and Roots: My Dad, RedHaight, graduated from the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania and its Wharton


Robert Hager and Honore

School, was a Sigma Chi, and spent 45 years on Wall St.Together, we have six grown children, three of mine andthree of Paula’s, and a total of eight grandchildren.Major at Dartmouth: HistoryDartmouth Activities: Sigma Chi Fraternity, Dragon Society

It cannot be 50 years! Remember when we used towin football games and Ivy League championships?It is nice to see Dartmouth women have developeda winning tradition in many sports.

With the passing of so many years, we have all lostgood friends and classmates. My grandson, NicolasHaight, is named for his great uncle, Nick Fate, whopassed away in 1980.

Paula and I both retired in 2003 and have stayedpretty close to home, except for an occasional tripto New Jersey to visit relatives.

We have not made it to Flat Rock, N.C. I rememberreading in the class newsletter that Spence Morgankidnaps those who visit him and holds them untilthey buy a house there.

2009 was a bad year for me heath-wise, but I hopeto be at 100% for the reunion in June.

Donald W. Hall Don

7684 East Ponte Bella Drive,Scottsdale, AZ 85266, (480) 595-8783,«[email protected]» Spouse: Sonja Rae Hall Occupation: Donald W. Hall PhD, 7684 E Pontebella Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85266, (480) 213-6697

Jon N. HalversonPO Box 881695, Steamboat Springs, CO 80488, (970) 879-6497, «[email protected]» Spouse: Anne Halverson Occupation: Law

David P. HambletonDave

2234 Avalon Haven Drive, North Haven, CT 06473, (203) 891-5555 Spouse: Moira Hambleton Occupation: Manufacturing,Virginia Industries Inc., 1022 Elm Street, Rocky Hill, CT 06067, (860) 571-3611

Douglas B. HamiltonSpike

988 Park Laughton Road, E. Dummerston, VT 05346, (802) 254-6885, «[email protected]» Spouse: Susan M. Hamilton

Edmund R. (Ned) Hanauer Our classmate, Edmund R.(Ned) Hanauer of Framingham,Mass., died in a Boston hospi-tal on August 10, 2006, ofpancreatic cancer. For 34 years,he championed Palestinianrights in an organization hefounded and headed,“SEARCH for Justice andEquality in Palestine/Israel.”Easily, he was the most publiclyoutspoken member of our class on Middle Easternissues. For him, it became almost a fulltime occu-pation.

Ned’s questioning of Israeli and American policieswent back to his grandfather, Elias Kaufman of LakeCharles, La., who served on the Board of Directorsof the American Council for Judaism, an anti-Zionistorganization that believes that Judaism is a religion,not a nationality. Ned’s own prescription for a reso-lution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as explained in a2004 class note after I interviewed him, was “a two-state settlement,” with the Israeli settlements in theWest Bank gone, a sharing of Jerusalem and an optionfor Palestinians to live in Israel, the Palestinian state,the Arab World or elsewhere.



In our Class book Musings, in 1985, Ned acknowl-edged, “Although I am Jewish, my position did notgo down well with much of the Jewish communi-ty. ... Sorry to say, SEARCH remained a voice inthe wilderness and has not received the support wehad hoped for. Arab-Americans thought it was too‘balanced,’ and Jews saw it as anti-Israel.” But henever dropped his strong advocacy, writing a newslet-ter, visiting newspaper editorial boards, speaking atuniversities, world affairs forums, churches, andsynagogues. In a Boston Globe interview in 2004, hedeclared that the United States “should drop itsblanket, one-sided, knee-jerk support of Israel.”

Ned, who came to Dartmouth from Newton, Mass.,and majored in history later received Master’s anddoctoral degrees in political science at the AmericanUniversity in Washington, D.C., where he wrotehis doctoral thesis on “An Analysis of ConflictingJewish Positions Regarding the Nature and PoliticalRole of American Jews, With Particular Emphasison Political Zionism.” He then taught political sci-ence in Germany at the overseas division of theUniversity of Maryland and at Babson College inWellesley, Mass. In the 1980s, he returned toGermany for seven years and again taught and didfree-lance journalism.

He wrote in Musings, “Looking back at Hanover,1956-60, I regret not having made the enduringfriendships reflected in the pages of the 1960Newsletter. It was probably not possible, though, asI was not much of a ‘Dartmouth type,’ too reservedand into books. ... Four years at Dartmouth, and Idid not take up either skiing or beer. But I enjoyedDartmouth, and only in retrospect did I decidethat I might have been better off at a small, co-ed,more ‘intellectually’ oriented college.”

Nonetheless, Ned added, a course he took atDartmouth on “Imperialism, Colonialism andNationalism,” taught by a Mr. McCormack, aretired Foreign Service officer, “gave me a life-longopposition to all imperialisms, including the U.S.brand.”

An obituary provided by the Hanauer family andgiven to me by his brother, Peter Hanauer of Berke-ley, Calif., described Ned in its opening sentence as“a life-long peace and human rights activist.”

Peter also passed along a compilation of tributes tohis work and his organization. There is not spacefor all of them here, but Joseph C. Harsch, formerforeign affairs columnist of the Christian ScienceMonitor, declared, “For reliable, honest, and objec-tive information about the Arab-Israeli conflict inthe Middle East, I recommend the publications ofSEARCH.” Noam Chomsky, professor at MIT, said,“For years, SEARCH has been working constructive-ly to advance (its) goals, a task of great import forthe people of the region,” and David Riesman, pro-fessor emeritus of social sciences at Harvard,“SEARCH is a responsible and reliable source ofinformation and ideas not generally available inthe United States.”

In his spare time, Ned enjoyed gardening, hiking,and bird watching.

He is survived by his German-born wife of 40 years,the former Renate Lehmann, whom he met in aFrankfurt train station, his brother, who is a mem-ber of the Dartmouth Class of 1961, his niece, Elly,his nephew, Andy, Class of 2004, and his father,Edmund M. Hanauer, Class of 1931, of RanchoSanta Fe, Calif.

George G. Hand II660 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02118, (617) 593-6645, «[email protected]» Occupation: Information andTechnology

Roger Hanlon15 Rillbank Terrace, West Hartford,CT 06107, (860) 521-5687; PO Box 235, Thetford Center, VT 05075, (802) 785-2798«[email protected]»

On a hot August day Ann andI took a short walk from ourhome in Thetford Center,Vermont, to the east branchof the Ompompanoosuc River.We took a little-used paththrough tall grass and climbed down through theovergrown ruins of an old mill to the river. After ashort wade through rushing water we reached arock outcropping in the middle of the tumblinggreat falls of the river. We explored, we read, andthen we sat soaking in the beautiful view up thefalls to the old covered bridge framed by a deepblue sky, trees reaching in from each side and thesun-sparkling water.

What a beautiful, almost hypnotic, view; timeseemed to stand still. When the afternoon shadowsroused us, we went for a swim in a pool below thefalls and started back home. “What a great time oflife,” Ann said, “We can do anything we want.”

“And we do it together,” I added. “That’s the bestpart,” she said. And she’s right—both times. Ofcourse, we’re lucky to have good health, but that,in part, may be a benefit of staying active, bothphysically and mentally. We hike, ski, canoe, swim,snowshoe, read, learn new things, and take care ofboth our home in Thetford and the one we’ve keptin West Hartford, Connecticut; we stay sociallyactive with book clubs and other groups.

When I retired from practicing law in Hartfordabout seven years ago, I had some plans and goals.One was to stay a bit active with my firm, nowknown as Day Pitney LLP. I am of counsel to thefirm and do a modest amount of work for payingclients and quite a lot of pro bono work for non-profits, but I only do what interests me. A secondwas to finish climbing the 115 mountains in thenortheast that are over 4,000 feet high. That we didtogether and we had a great time. Two granddaugh-ters (a now 3-year-old grandson has been added),our daughter, and her husband joined us for thelast climb. We popped champagne at the top.

The love of the mountains led me to become anadopter for maintenance of a trail in the WhiteMountains and to become a trustee of the UpperValley Land Trust. The third, which prompted myretirement, was to experience some of the manythings I hadn’t tried. The hope was that I wouldfind I could do some of them reasonably well butthe goal was just to experience the effort andunderstand the problems. For example, how doesan artist create the illusion of a three dimensionalscene on two-dimensional canvas, or how does awriter tell a story in a book you can’t put down? I’vetried them both and lots more. As a reward I’velearned about interests and talents I have that havelong sat dormant while life was happening andabout many I don’t have. If life is a game, I thinkthat experiencing as much of this life and thisworld as you can is winning.

J. Thomas HannanTom

1894 Hwy 50 East, Suite 4-332,Carson City, NV 89701, «[email protected]» Spouse: Kathleen Merrill Hannan Occupation: Law, Lovitt & Hannan Inc., 900 Front Street Suite #300, San Francisco, CA 94111, (415) 362-8769


If life is a game, I think that experiencing as much of this life and this world as you canis winning.

Roger Hanlon


John C. HannonJC

143 Alger Brook Rd., South Strafford, VT 05070,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Work, family, work,welding, work, sculpture, work, fly-ing, work, landscaping, work, read-ing, work, post-professional study.Play, lots of play.Career: Carrier-based Naval Avia-tion with Air Intelligence, SERE specialties; College Administration (Dartmouth: Deputy toDirector of Admissions); Diplomacy (State Dept. Assignmentsas Economic Officer, Consular Officer, or Political Officer inEmbassies in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, London, Brussels, Oslo,and Moscow);Espionage: under cover in the Clandestine Service of theOperations Directorate of the CIA (see above embassy resi-dential cover assignments, four of which as Chief of CIAStation or Deputy Chief of Station) plus external TDYassignments in Eastern Europe, Central America, Near, Mid-dle and Far East. And extended assignment as OperationalDirector of special unit doing surreptitious entry for technicaloperations—into “inaccessible” priority targets in hostile,denied areas, worldwide. Coordination and joint operations in Espionage, Counter-Espi-onage, Counter-Terrorism and Counter- Narcotics in liaisonwith counterpart services of Great Britain, The Netherlands,Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium,Switzerland, Canada, Costa Rica, Luxembourg, and Franceas well as individual Military Intelligence and counterpartservice members in Kenya, Tanzania, Israel, Egypt, Hungary,and Afghanistan.Family and Roots: Son (Navy SEAL Cdr. w/3 Bronze Starsfrom Iraq and Afghanistan); Daughter (Tall Ship Captainand Management Consultant); Daughter (died at 24 inaccident while directing search and rescue operation for lostchild in Northern Virginia)Wife/Partner: Gretchen is both. (Note: Significant advan-tage, saving time and avoiding complications by havingmarried trophy wife first.)Major at Dartmouth: Economics/Psychology. Law, Stanford;(Area Studies/Language: USSR/ Russian; E. Africa/Swahili;N. Europe/ French, Spanish, Norwegian at State Dept. For-eign Service Institute). U.S. Embassy Rep at InternationalInstitute for Strategic Studies (London), Royal Institute ofInternational Affairs (Chatham House), London, Royal Inter-national Affairs Institute (Brussels): Charter member: Intelli-gence Fellows Conferences, Washington, D.C.Dartmouth Activities: (See Aegis)

Now, near the end of the middle stretch of roadWhat have I learned? Some earthly wiles. An art.That often I cannot tell good fortune from bad,That once seemed so easy to tell apart.

Those thoughtful, subtle, and insightful lines begina poem, “Jersey Rain” by Robert Pinsky, alluding toboth the nourishing and the destructive potential

of rain, brooks, and rivers, revealing the equivalentdestructive potential in most things good and con-structive potential in most bad things. Those arethe sorts of “musings” that I would sometimesshare with my kids (once I had nailed their shoesto the floor in front of me).

Alas, my own musings always have come sponta-neously, dictated sometimes by circumstance—wait-ing for the aircraft carrier to turn into the wind fortake-off; or waiting for darkness to cover egress froma manhole along a buried communications linkbetween research establishments and the Sovietequivalent of the Pentagon in the forests outside ofMoscow, having entered before dawn to install asatellite tap; or just on otherwise numbing cross-ocean flights that are inescapable when workingmostly abroad.

The challenge to capture thoughtful, insightful, orilluminating meditations over the past month or soto record here, has resulted in a dozen or so scratch-pad or back-of-envelope half-packets of wisdomthat seem on second reading to be such dense andcomplex pensations that even I can’t quickly enoughgrasp them to allow the useful and necessary acces-sibility for sharing.

Nowadays, being an unreconstructed ADD/ADHD,bi-polar, introverted, pressure-prompted, over-com-mitted buzzhead, the only time I seem to get (take)to do any reflection is when I’m driving somewhere(West Lebanon for tractor parts, Enfield for welding

JC Hannon with Gretchen and their son

equipment, or Hanover for ILEAD classes to teachor attend)—slowed down to just a few mph abovethe speed limit to avoid my fourth serial ticket for“enthusiastic velocity.”

And, because we’re no longer allowed to cell-phoneor text while driving, and because Vermont doesn’teven allow the distraction of roadside billboards,it’s mainly bumper stickers that are the distractingelement from (and for) my current “musings.”

Since bumper stickers often seem as relevant as thephilosophical taffy I’d have mailed to ProfessorMitchell to red-line (or redact!), I’ll share some ofmy favorite recently observed ones (several obvi-ously with relevance to our upcoming reunion):

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to beNever have a heart attack while playing charadesI’m looking forward to regretting thisShhh … that’s the sound of nobody caring whatyou thinkI don’t know what your problem is, but I bet it’shard to pronounceMake new mistakes

Surely that’s not your actual opinionA poor memory is not the same as a clear con-scienceI may have Alzheimer’s, but thank goodness I don’thave Alzheimer’s (ouch!)Fear is temporary; regret is foreverI’ll always cherish my misconceptions of youDon’t postpone yourselfIf at first you don’t succeed, redefine successI wanted to be somebody when I grew up (I shouldhave been more specific)How we spend our days is how we spend our lives I wish I was where I was when I was wishing I werehereShut up while you’re still credibleA waist is a terrible thing to mindActually, you make the dress look fat (careful!)Rehab is for quittersEver stop to think, and forget to start again?(Ouch, again!)

An all-purpose one for D’60 at our 50th: “Used to” sucks

And, around campus:Never let school interfere with your educationThose who ignore history are doomed to repeat itSame for the other classicsI’d like to verb your nounI have not yet begun to procrastinate

I’m leaving my body to science fictionWhat if the Hokey Pokey is what it’s all about?The early bird gets the worm—but the secondmouse gets the cheeseNo pressure—no diamondsIf all else fails, stop doing all elseGene Police: You! Out of the pool!I need someone really bad. Are you really bad?Reality is a crutch for people who can’t handle drugsJob available in Psych Dept. studying telepathy. Youknow where to apply

Final favorites: Eschew Obfuscation Just because you have one doesn’t mean you haveto act like one

And, finally:Don’t believe everything you think

John D. Hansen747 Alpine Drive, Rutland, VT 05701, (802) 775-5629 Spouse: Judith Hansen

Robert E. Hansen4 Duffers Drive, #C, Laconia, NH 03246, (603) 524-2809


The only time I seem to get (take) to do any reflection is when I’m driving somewhere.

JC Hannon


William B. Harlow William B. Harlow died onDecember 12, 1957.

Bob Harrach 255 Kottinger Dr., Pleasanton, CA 94566, (925) 846-9155, «[email protected]»Nuclear family: Sons, Dave (Liver-more, CA) and Ben (Pleasanton, CA);Daughter-in-law, Rebecca (Dave’swife); Grandchildren, Luke (born8/23/03) and Julia (born 4/1/05)Education and Career: I majoredin physics at Dartmouth; loved theplace. After graduation, I returnedto my home state to pursue advanced degrees in physics atColorado University, Boulder. I received an MS in ‘62 and

PhD in ‘65. My PhD thesis research was carried out at theNational Bureau of Standards (NBS, now NIST) in Boulder,studying effects that limit the incredible accuracy and preci-sion of atomic clocks. A post-doctoral year was spent doingresearch at NBS (it’s not easy to say goodbye to Boulder). I accepted a physics research position with Lawrence Liver-more National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, Calif., in thefall of ‘66, working in its laser-driven fusion program. Mywork concentrated on laser-related science projects during26 years in LLNL’s physics directorate. I took advantage ofopportunities to teach, mainly at U. Cal. Davis–Livermore,outside my regular job responsibilities. A highlight of myteaching experience, both for me and the family, was a sab-batical year at Dartmouth during ‘78-’79, teaching in thePhysics Department (mentioned in earlier Musings). In the‘90s, I shifted my work focus at LLNL from physics to envi-ronmental science, evaluating and reporting on the environ-mental and human health impacts of LLNL’s activities. I retired in July ‘04, then returned to work part time duringall of ‘05, and really quit salaried work in January 2006. Retirement: I’ve enjoyed retirement, so far. Unstructureddays open up a lot of possibilities, of course, to just followone’s nose, or engage in more purposeful pursuits. Such asgetting some body repair work done: “Hope you enjoy yournew set of matched hips,” said a note from my orthopedicsurgeon last November. I certainly do; she did a beautifuljob, replacing the right one in March and the left eightmonths later. Other pursuits have included upgrades to myhome, a little travel, renewal of friendships with classmatesfrom high school through reunions, resolution of a few keyissues in my personal life, and immersion in my favoriteavocation, photography. Close Family: High on the list of best things that ever hap-pened to me, and now adding greatly to my pleasure inretirement, was the marriage in 1998 of my first son Daveand Rebecca Carter. In August of ‘03, in the last month ofpregnancy with their first child Luke, they moved to theirpresent home in Livermore, just 15 minutes from my door.Daughter Julia came along about 19 months later. Theirproximity and my intimate involvement in their lives, plusthe good company of my younger son Ben in Pleasanton,enrich my life every day.

Jim Harrington50720 Cypress Point Drive, La Quinta, CA 92253, (760) 564-3668

Bob Harrach

Harold Harris Hal

18 South Sycamore Knolls, South Hadley, MA 01075Summer: 160 East Chop Drive, Box 2650, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: The Pursuit ofHappiness pretty much sums it up,with multiple venues to happinessof family, skiing, golf, taking collegecourses (we live in a five-collegearea), travel, and rehabbing an old Victorian style house onMartha’s Vineyard. I have been retired 10 years and enjoyedevery minute of it. No withdrawals. Since I am a victim (thusa true American) of my liberal arts education, I have had notrouble finding stimulation. A few health limitations havemessed up skiing and golf. Career: I was an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throatsurgeon) in practice in Holyoke and Springfield, Mass., for30 years. I retired in 1999. Family: Three wonderful children (girls) who all turned outgreat. They all went on to graduate schools, and all havecareers (MBA, education, architecture), 3 grandchildren. Wife: June and I have been married 47 years. We got marriedwhen I was in medical school and she was an undergraduateat Northwestern University. She remains my stabilizer. Major at Dartmouth: Zoology Graduate Degrees: MD, Northwestern University, 1964; Specialty ResidencyTraining, Cleveland Clinic, 1964 to 1969 (was with DudWeider for three years); Diplomate, American Board ofOtolaryngology, 1970

Certainly Dartmouth was a great, great force in syn-thesizing a liberal arts appreciation of all knowl-edge, both good and bad. To me, Great Issues was

the best course I ever had, and that was in theopening year! The fact that the College eliminatedit, apparently because the faculty could not controlits content, continues to amaze me. The fact that thefaculty devalued the overall Dartmouth curriculumand its requirements was a major reason Dartmouthentered its 25 years of the Dark Ages. Thankfully,this new president, a scientist, already appears tobe leading it out of its self-inflicted funk. I thinkthree non-scientist presidents in a row led topoliticization and polarization. They were used toonly outbound criticism, and when heavy inboundcriticism occurred, they could not and knew nothow to handle it: Dark Times. I have pondered andreflected whether our nation has worsened orimproved over the 50 years since 1960. Our finan-cial system, our political and legal systems, ourhealthcare system, and our educational system areall in trouble. They share many common reasons forsuch a dilemma and actually share common solu-tions. However, I believe in simple explanations forall things (How about E=mc2!). I think H.L. Menckensaid it best: “When they say it is not about themoney, it is about the money.”

David HarrisonPO Box 2534, Hailey, ID 83333,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: hike, bike, run,paddle, ski, motorcycling, photog-raphy, church, lawn mowingCareer: 18 years of banking, 15years magazine editingFamily and Roots: Father, HuntHarrison ‘36Wife: Judy Coffin HarrisonDartmouth Major: Sociology (I think)Dartmouth Activities: The Animal House. Married junioryear.

Judy and I were married at St. Thomas EpiscopalChurch in Hanover, at the beginning of my junioryear. We celebrated our 50th year at St. ThomasEpiscopal Church in Ketchum, Idaho, last October,followed by a month of recreation and relaxationon the Big Island of Hawaii. Despite the stock market crash, which basically coincided with ourat-home 50th party, we have to count our life anexciting and satisfying one. Even, lucky.

We have lived the American dream of having ourown business, publishing Canoe & Kayak magazine(now in its 40th year), selling it to launch ourretirement, and watching our three great kids makeexciting lives for themselves. All three were world-class cycling, triathlon, running, and skiing athletes,competing as professionals—paid in energy barsinstead of money. Our two daughters are married


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with two grandkids each, and we have had the hugesatisfaction of watching their athletic successes as well.

Obviously, my life-long passion has been paddling,and I have been fortunate to have Judy as my adven-turing companion for many of those miles. Lastyear, on two separate coasts, our daughters eachorganized paddling vacations for Judy and me: acanoe trip on the St. Croix River in Maine and a sea

kayak trip in Desolation Sound, British Columbia;yes, each set of grandkids paddled with us, endur-ing mosquitoes, rain and Gaga’s (that would be me)war stories.

Our son, Dave Jr., lives nearby, runs a bike shop inthe summer and the Soldier Mountain ski andrental shop in the winter and works for the ForestService in the local ranger district. He helps main-tain both me and my bikes, coaching me to verysatisfying iron-man half-distance triathlon twosummers ago.

Speaking of professional athletes. Judy arrived homeyesterday and thrust $72 into my hand; her winningsat a team sorting event (that would be cows), pilot-ing her beautiful Equinox to a superior performance.

And “beautiful” would not be too grand an adjectiveto attach to our life and its gifts.

Richard C. HarrisonDick

PO Box 1128, Marblehead, MA 01945, (781) 631-1667 Spouse: Sarah Lincoln-Harrison

Robert B. HarveyPO Box 1165, Dennis, MA 02638, (508) 385-9472 Spouse: Nancy P. Harvey Occupation: Automotive

Bruce Hasenkamp2435 Skyfarm Dr., Hillsborough, CA 94010, (650) 343-6829, «[email protected]»

I grew up in a small New Jer-sey town, 20 or so miles fromManhattan, which, in cars ofthe time and on roads of thetime, made that a long andinfrequent round trip: Christ-mas to see the decorations,and once more to Radio City Music Hall usuallydid it.

My family and I had never heard of Dartmouth, nor,as far as I could tell, had the high school guidancecounselor. My father owned a laundry and dry clean-er near our home. My mother, a former secretaryto the controller of AT&T, ran the house. Neitherhad gone to college.

The son of my father’s lawyer had gone to Dart-mouth, and when we planned a car tour of colleges,he persuaded my father to add Dartmouth to those we planned to visit. My parents liked this guy, so we went.

We arrived from Vermont crossing the LedyardBridge and drove through the woods to TuckDrive. A sign directed us that way. I am glad we

I have been fortunate to have Judy as my adventuring companion for many of those miles.

Dave Harrison

Dave Harrison and Judy celebrate their 50th anniver-sary at home, October 1, 2008

did not just go up the hill to town, because, as oneemerged from those woods, Dartmouth poppedinto view.

I was mesmerized. Unlike Harvard, Princeton, Yale,Rutgers, and Columbia, this place looked like whatI thought a college should. The phrase, “Love atfirst sight,” came to mind.

My parents, happily, were similarly enraptured. Evenmore happily, the improbably named F. Gardner F.Bridge signed the desired admissions letter, and offI went to Hanover.

At sea with a band of Left Coast Sixties in Alaska’sInside Passage is a good place to look back on thegrand adventure of the ensuing 50+ years.

But for Dartmouth I wouldn’t know these guys ortheir wives or their kids. But for Dartmouth, I would-n’t be on a ship in Alaska surrounded by snow-capped peaks and alert for whales. But for Dartmouth,I wouldn’t appreciate these surroundings as I do.

But for Dartmouth, much that has filled andenriched life would not have happened or would, atthe very least, have been qualitatively different.

What I did to earn the family bread—lawyer on WallStreet in Thad Seymour’s father’s firm, assistant deanof the Stanford Law School, director of the WhiteHouse Fellowship program in Washington duringthe Ford administration, and corporate executiveand consultant in San Francisco—was consistentlysatisfying and peopled with colleagues I liked,

respected, and generally stayed in touch with everafter. I called upon things I learned at Dartmouthall the time.

What I did to give back, to do as John Dickey hadcalled upon us to do, was not-for-profit and associ-ation boards and state and federal governmentappointments. This was and is consistently satisfy-ing and is largely populated by people of high pur-pose, intelligence, and commitment. Because ofwhat I learned at Dartmouth, I could keep pace withor lead the best of them.

My continuing associations with our Class and withDartmouth by working on local and Class reunionsand activities and leaning on all of you for moneyare and have been rewarding opportunities to dothings I regard as worthwhile and to do those thingsin league with others whose company I enjoy andwhose judgment I trust. Lifelong friends, some dat-ing to the start of freshman year, are a specialDartmouth reward.

Central to everything is Inta, a wife I have loved formore than a third of a century, and a son, Peter,who consistently makes me proud, makes mesmile, and makes me realize how good this life canbe and to be optimistic for the future. On top ofwhich, he chose to go to Dartmouth and even livedhis freshman year in the same room in Smith Hall.(Dartmouth makes those sorts of not-quite-coinci-dental arrangements.)

The things I especially enjoy including exploring dif-ferent cultures, travel in general (just under 100countries so far), reading, art, and music all flow fromDartmouth experiences and Dartmouth teachers.

My approach to life owes much to Don Wendlandt,who found delight in every experience, and to HerbWest, whose irreverence for all things pretentious(except himself) provided a framework for viewingthe world and those around me. This was particu-larly valuable when working in the White House.

Classical music, and especially opera, is an impor-tant part of my everyday life, interests that wereawakened in Music 1, which I would never havetaken had Dartmouth not required certain aca-demic distributions.

Likewise, art; likewise, geology; likewise, astrono-my; likewise, sociology; and likewise, hundreds ofbooks I am unlikely otherwise to have picked up.

Arthur Dewing taught me how to write effectivelyand straightforwardly. I owe much of my careersuccess to that skill. John Dickey provided my modelfor public service, leadership, for memorable andeffective expression (much as we joked about it atthe time), and for the visionary shaping of institu-tions that one is called upon to lead.

No one I have subsequently met could gather andcodify masses of detail quite like Lew Stilwell norcapture a culture and a people as effectively as AlFoley. I especially acknowledge one Dartmouth debtdaily, again to John Dickey. The Great Issues course


Bruce Hasenkamp and Inta

My parents liked this guy, so we went to look at Dartmouth.

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is it, and it first made me consider public policy andevery citizen’s responsibility to evaluate the worldaround us and to participate in setting the directionof public discourse, action and policy.

Corey Ford remains my model for living well a sat-isfying and worthwhile life.

From that first drive up Tuck Mall through thewoods, Dartmouth was a magical place to learn, to have the world of ideas opened to you, and toexplore terrain never known before.

Fifty years may have flown by, but those first impres-sions of Dartmouth remain vivid. The images of“Dartmouth Undying” remain fresh and accurate.It was and is a magical place to learn and to enteradulthood. We are lucky to have had the opportu-nity to be Green.

Robert W. HatchBob

601 West 55th Street, Kansas City, MO 64113, (816) 523-0688, «[email protected]» Spouse: Nancy M. Hatch Occupation: Manufacturing, Cereal Ingredients Inc., 4720 South 13th Street, Leavenworth, KS 66048, (913) 727-3434

James M. Haught 1009 Washington Street, Bath, ME 04530, (207) 442-8771, «[email protected]» Spouse: Larry Kieft Occupation: Galen C. Moses HouseB&B, 1009 Washington Street, Bath, ME 04530, (207) 442-8771

Gordon Haw29 Oakhurst Circle, Pittsburgh, PA 15215, (412) 781-2687, «[email protected]»

Barry N. Hawkins Barry N. Hawkins died onMay 29, 1966.

Peter Hawks59 Northshore Drive, Burlington, VT 05408, «[email protected] » Spouse: Jacqueline Williams-Hawks

As I look back over the last 50years of journey through life, I find that one of the princi-pal sources of satisfaction andexcitement has been my alle-giance to physical activity andstaying moderately fit. Themantra I followed is the Greek, “the body is thetemple of the soul.”

I suspect that without even consciously recogniz-ing it, the reality of polio at age 7 served as a trig-ger to move me in the direction of athletics eventhough my potential and skills were physicallycompromised (modestly). I have always consideredthe capacity to move to be a privilege that I want-ed to maintain and maximize.

What is intriguing at this point in life is a (reluc-tant) recognition that physical capacity is waningand I am carrying a bit more baggage into my activ-ities. The piece that I have been most reluctant toadjust is my mindset. I have stuck to a “can-do”attitude and the belief that “if it has two arms and


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two legs and can do it, so can I.” Given the factthat my activities include mountain biking, down-hill mountain biking (one national and two worldmasters championships in the 60-plus age bracket),back country skiing (Outback Guide at SugarBush), lust for back country powder in the Rockies,off-road motorcycling, etc., I am now presentedwith the necessity of devoting more energy to riskmanagement.

Translation: as it relates to the above, it means thatI am compelled to ratchet back the endorphin-driven need for speed and replace it with seasonedjudgments. Sometimes I fall short. Last week, whileon a 130-mile off road motorcycle ride here inVermont, I miscalculated a landing, lost control, andslammed into a tree at about 30 mph. The bike wassufficiently mired that it took a chain saw to cut itfree (Thanks to the good fortune—did I mention

that it is good to be lucky in life?). I was pretty wellbanged up but functional and managed to ride theremaining 90 miles. The challenge there was toovercome discomfort and ride efficiently. My focuswas on the pleasure, not the pain.

In addition to the gnarly stuff, I play tennis, hike,bike, work out, and spin during the winter and dosome awkward stretching from time to time. Thebottom line is that my activities spring from a men-tal willingness to engage and just do it. Way toooften I hear people talk about what they can’t doany more. To that I say do what you can do and begrateful for the privilege.

The above notwithstanding my greatest joys in lifecome from my wife, four super kids, and our friends.There is no substitute for being connected to andbeing welcomed as a participant in the lives of thepeople we care about.

Life is great. Don’t be a spectator, live it to the max.

Oliver S. Hayward Jr. Osh

3510 Indiana St., Racine, WI 53405, (262) 554-8468 Spouse: Tamerin Hayward Occupation: Education, University of Wisconsin, Box 2000, Kenosha, WI 53141

Robert M. HeinemanBob

290 Western Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930, (978) 281-3026, «[email protected]» Spouse: Susan B. Field Occupation: Architecture/Construction, HeinemanArchitectural Assoc., 290 WesternAvenue, Gloucester, MA 01930

Michael Heitner135 Willow Street, Apt. 907,Brooklyn, NY 11201Office: Herrick, Feinstein, 2 ParkAvenue, New York, NY 10016;«[email protected]»

I never crossed the Green dur-ing my four years at theCollege without feeling thethrill of my good luck at beingthere. Walking to class, to thelibrary, to crew practice, to anevent at Webster, to Thayer, to a flick downtown,to a ride, or to the Skiway—from Freshman Trip toCommencement, it seems like yesterday.

That same wonder at my good fortune has so farcontinued through life, and much of that good for-tune is traceable to my dear wife, Susie, but also tothe Dartmouth experience.

After the Yale Law School, another very specialplace, I have simply spent the past 50 years prac-ticing corporate finance, sports, and entertainmentlaw in New York City, the last 40 of which yearshave been with some terrific clients and my won-derful partners at Herrick, Feinstein. Never in mywildest Tower Room reveries could I have foreseenspending 40 years crafting deals and contracts fortelevised world championship boxing matches.


I am now presented with the necessity ofdevoting more energy to risk management.

Peter Hawks

Michael Heitner and Susie


Along the way, I somehow managed to: surviveinfantry basic training at Fort Dix, N.J., with PaulCantor keeping us focused on the big picture; serveon the board of the Dartmouth Alumni Associationof New York City (I still attend meetings in a futileeffort to hold that raucous group together), risingat one time to the exalted position of Area Enroll-ment Director for all five boroughs of New YorkCity, thanks to the help of a super secretary; sireSam Heitner, Middlebury ’93, father-in-law toVanessa Guibert Heitner, Middlebury ’93, and thenproud grandpa to Santiago and Matías Heitner ofBuenos Aires, Argentina, and grateful that I paidattention in all those Spanish classes; serve as Sec-retary to the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing forever,duly compensated by a racing shell in my name andinduction to the Dartmouth Rowing Hall of Fame;live for our winter weekends and vacations skiingat Stowe, Vermont, and Whistler, B.C. (enjoyingsome great times at Whistler with Gus and GailLeach), and for summer weekends helping Susie sailThe Truelove on Lake Champlain.

Our amazing good health renders even morepoignant the prospect of the inevitable downhillslide that may lie ahead. But I just think of thosetwo dear grandsons, our friends and classmates,and I have to smile.

Edward J. Henriquez Jr.Ed

Apartado 0816-00469, Panama 5, «[email protected]» Spouse: Anita L. Henriquez

Bruce R. Henry225 Springside Ave., Pittsfield, MA 01201, (413) 443-1179, «[email protected]»

The most educational experi-ence of my last ten years was9/11—that is, 9/11 enlighten-ment (2006)—and its conse-quences.

Talking to people about 9/11,hearing their responses, has been like x-ray visioninto their minds. Mainly, one sees panic, fear, unwill-ingness to consider, denial, and blockage. (For our

newsletter editor, it’s been the trivialization reflex!)Occasionally, there is an open mind willing to ponder.

At first astonished, I now see the above said distri-bution of folks’ reactions are parallels to the opera-tion of society at large where the overweeningtendency is to continue mindlessly doing as one hasalways done before. For example, Houses are builtaccording to ingrained practice, not functionalityfor the current or incipient conditions.

“Managerial talent” at General Electric got on thebandwagon of easy mortgage money—and vitiatedthe company. Only occasionally is more consideredaction seen.

James A. Herbert243 Dearing Street, Athens, GA 30605 Occupation: Education

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Jack Herrick21150 Brantley Road, Cleveland, OH 44122, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Much of my non-business life has involved the gameof squash, which I’d never heard ofbefore going to Dartmouth. Aftertransferring my major sports interestfrom tennis to squash several yearsbeyond law school, I went after thesport both on and off the court. Inthe ’70s and ’80s, I had good suc-cess in the open and age groups, culminating in winning theInternational Masters Championship, 45 and over division,in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1983. Unknown to me, Dartmouth Squash and the DartmouthSports Information Department researched that result andfound that this was the first time an American had ever wona world squash championship. As of today, that feat hasbeen duplicated but by a woman. After serving as Captainof the United States Squash Team in the ’80s, during whichthe team recorded its highest finish to this day in the WorldTeam Championships, my interest turned to squash adminis-tration. (Translation, I was getting too old to be competitive.) After being elected in 1994 as Chairman of the Board of theProfessional Squash Association, which operates the men’sworld professional circuit, my life took place on airplanesand in numerous foreign countries, especially in the MiddleEast. It’s been a great ride, especially for a part time voluntaryjob. After marginal or no growth for the first several years, ourteam more than doubled the total prize money of the circuitbetween 2003 and 2007 and gave the sport increasedworld-wide presence. I retired from my position in 2008.Career: Went to Northwestern University School of Lawafter Dartmouth and then practiced with McDonald Hopkinsin Cleveland for the next six years. Although I remained “of

counsel,” I went into the business of investing in and man-aging commercial real estate, primarily in NortheasternOhio. I was always a buyer but in the last several yearsturned into a seller. Recently I’ve begun buying again.Family and Roots: Mary and I married in 1962 and havetwo sons (both Dartmouth graduates) and a daughter(Middlebury). Only the older son lives in Cleveland, and heand his wife have two children, our only grandchildren.Wife: Mary. We met in the library at law school, if you wantto believe that one.Major at Dartmouth: Mathematics.Dartmouth Activities: Alpha Delta Phi, Sphinx, 2-year let-terman in squash, and 3-year letterman in tennis

Peter P. Herrick8910 Rosewood Court NW,Calabash, NC 28467, (910) 579-6143, «[email protected]» Spouse: Frances E. Herrick

William A. Hibbs William A. Hibbs died on May20, 1998.

Thomas A. Hickey Jr.Tom

117 Upper Ridge Way, Travelers Rest, SC 29690, (864) 836-2396, «[email protected]» Spouse: Patricia Hickey Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, Prairie Asset ManagementInc., 117 Upper Ridge Way, Travelers Rest, SC 29690, (864) 836-2396


Jack Herrick: Maybe something new is on the horizonas seen in the recent photograph after a run withveteran French race car driver Stephan Gregoire atthe Indianapolis Motor Speedway


David HileyVero Beach, FLNew London, NH«[email protected]»

Hopefully, most classmateshave either misplaced or tossedthe excellent Musings albumfrom the 25th reunion. Unfor-tunately I recently reread myoffering, finding to my chagrina number of resolutions to beconsummated by our 50th.Few, if any, were completed or even attempted inthe intervening 25 years.

This time I am sticking to the bare facts in outline,with occasional slight hyperbole. I am semi-retiredwith increasingly infrequent financial consultingassignments. I have an awesome young wife part-ner, six joyous children, and 12 perfect grandchil-dren. My home base is New London, N.H., one ofthe great retirement communities in America thatincludes a world class golf course.

I look forward to seeing you all in June.

Art Hill PO Box 88864, Honolulu, HI 96830 Family and Roots: New HampshireMajor at Dartmouth: SociologyDartmouth Activities: ArmyROTC, The Players, Film Society,and Human Relations Club

(Ed. Note: The following is anextract from a letter Art wrotein August 2009): I’m not muchon writing my own obituaryminus the final chapter. It would, however, be help-ful to know which of us has passed away along witha comment from Class notes or the Alumni Mag.That may also help to fill what will be larger voidsin the class after the next 25 years.

Has anyone in the class or the College taken an inter-est in veterans’ affairs other than President Wright?I received a flyer from the V.A. announcing a gath-ering at the Hanover Inn in September 2009 tohonor New Hampshire and Vermont veterans livingin vets’ homes in those states.

I am aware that the few participants who are in ROTCat the College have to travel to Norwich U. for classesand drills, and that a group has tried to generate newinterest in ROTC without much luck. That’s too bad;the Navy kept Dartmouth afloat during WWII.

Ah, well, I hope someone was interested in attend-ing the Honor Veterans Day meeting.

Charles B. Hill III514 Milford Road, Deerfield, IL 60015, (847) 914-9544, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sheila B. Hill

Robert L. Hill Word comes from the SouthFlorida Sun-Sentinel of the deathof our classmate, Robert L. Hill,who expired September 11,2007, at the Chatsworth Nurs-ing Home in Palm Beach, Fla.,of Progressive SupranuclearPalsy, a degenerative brain dis-order.

Bob came to Hanover fromLinwood, N.J., and at Dart-mouth followed his musical hobbies and was amember of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, in ROTC,and editor of the ROTC newspaper. Bruce Hasenkampremembers that he was one of about 20 upperclass-men who frequented the unlicensed restaurant Ma’sRed Door Dining Room in Lebanon, N.H., operatedby the memorable Ida McAuliffe, whose specialtywas meat loaf. Years later, Bob was among thosewho returned to Hanover to help celebrate McAuli-ffe’s 100th birthday.

After graduation he received a Master’s degree incity planning from the University of PennsylvaniaGraduate School of Fine Arts. He served as a firstlieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers at Ft.Belvoir, Va., for three years and then became anassistant city planner in Philadelphia, going on tobecome the chief city planner for Richmond, Va.He taught at various times at the University ofPennsylvania, Howard University, the University ofVirginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University.He also prepared master plans for Linwood and otherSouth Jersey municipalities.

In 1974, Bob moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., andwent into the antique business with a compan-ion. He lived in Ft. Lauderdale for 26 years beforemoving to Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where heresided the last seven years of his life. In manyyears, he returned to Linwood for six months tobe with his mother.

Bob was a Democratic precinct chairman and amember of the Central United Methodist Churchin Linwood, the Tau Sigma Delta national architec-tural honorary society, and the American Instituteof Planners. He also belonged to two antiquedealer organizations.

He is survived by his caretaker and companion of 33years, Jerry W. Taylor, and several cousins. Charita-ble contributions in his memory may be sent to theCentral United Methodist Church Endowment Fundor the Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy,Executive Plaza III, Suite 906, Hunt Valley, MD 21031.

Kenneth P. Hillner 505 Minnesota Drive, Brookings, SD 57006, (605) 692-5560, «[email protected]»Career: Academic experimentalpsychologist; Professor Emeritussince May 2000: South DakotaState Univ. Family and Roots: Wife: Sarah(Sally) Holm (maiden name); BS,Psychology, Indiana Univ., 1960;Housewife, community and charityworker par excellence Children: Paul Hillner, MIT, BA in physics and EE, 1988;UCSB, PhD, physics, 1994; Andrew Hillner, BS, psychology, Southwest State Univ.,Marshall, MN, 1990; MS, clinical psychology, Fort HaysState, Hays, KS, 1994 Major at Dartmouth: Psychology; PhD, ExperimentalPsychology, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, 1965

What have I learned over the past 50 years sincegraduating from the College on the Hill? Let mepresent an illustrative sampling:

What we call reality (i.e., the so-called physical uni-verse) strictly is a construction of our sensory modal-ities and our cognitive brain apparati. No realityexists independent of a consciousness. Because I donot accept the existence of a divine consciousness,the physical universe did not exist (begin) until weevolved and constructed it with our sensory apparatiand cognitive abilities. In other words, the existenceof a physical universe is contingent upon the priorexistence of a human consciousness.

Although the nature and characteristics of thehuman being have been exhaustively studied, ana-lyzed, and classified by both the physical andsocial sciences, each individual is a unique entity,not reducible to a “whole is equal to the sum of itsparts” kind of interpretation. We are physical crea-tures; however, we are not reducible to sets of inter-acting or intersecting material desiderata. Thismeans that the individual is infinitely descriptive,

possesses infinite potential, and is basically unpre-dictable with respect to ultimate behavior and sta-tus in life.

Fundamental knowledge really is self-knowledge,i.e., stuff that works for you. It really is a result ofself-insight and self-understanding. Epistemologicaltruth has to be meaningful for or to you.

The best analogy for human existence or life is agame or competitive sport of some kind. By defini-tion, a game is some kind of recreational activity,i.e., a source of fun. In this context, the most suc-cessful individuals in life are those who are able tocombine work and hobbies into one. Think ofGandhi or Sister Teresa.

While it is true that something does not exist unlessa number or some other kind of measurement cat-egory can be assigned to it, the ultimate meaningof life is a non-quantitatively expressible entity.

Ethics and/or morality are perfectly meaningfuldimension(s) of existence; however, in order for agiven physical event to possess ethical reality, it mustbe originated by a human being or have some kindof effect on a human being (or both). In other words,ethical/moral events are mediated by human action.Virtually all so-called ethical concepts are meaning-ful: good, bad (evil), right, wrong, duties, obliga-tions, and such. However, since I do not admit theexistence of a divine consciousness, the notion ofsin has to be meaningless. Sin taxonomy is quiteidiosyncratic and confusing: there are venial andcapital sins; there are sins of commission and sinsof omission, and the like. At best, the concept of asin merely is a behavioral control device; at worst,the notion leads to all sorts of psychological mal-adjustment.

The notion of an afterlife strictly is fanciful: Heavenis the ultimate reward; Hell is the ultimate punish-ment ... other worldly entities that are used to tryto control earthly human behavior. An analogousfanciful creation is that of Santa Claus (who rewardschildren that are good and does not reward kids


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who are bad); but at least “he” is a much moreagreeable notion, at least at an emotional level.

When(ever) a person expires, it basically is a randomor unpredictable event, unrelated to any divinepurpose or one’s earthly track record.

Finally, some points to ponder:

If breasts were on the back, there would be nosocial dancing.

Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.

Between any two points, there is an infinite numberof points, ad nauseum.

Assuming a divine being exists, how come the enti-ty has no money of its own?

As a linguistic event, a kiss is an inverted bilabialclick.

Why is it that after one’s children grow up, many peo-ple start over again with a cat or a dog? Or, a widowor widower starts over again with a cat or a dog.

Finally, why is the human being capable of bothheinous acts of cruelty or brutality and untold actsof extreme sacrifice or courage?

William E. Hines Jr.Bill

12500 Madeley Lane, Bowie, MD 20715, (301) 464-9337,«[email protected]» Occupation: Government/Military

Mark Waldo Hinshaw MD43 Peartree Lane NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546Life’s Pursuits: I think that findingthe real significance and true joy oflife has been my actual “life pursuit.”My conclusion: the key to meaning-ful happiness lies in our embracingthe relationships that surround usand in our committing ourselves tothe values that transcend us. Career: When we matriculated atDartmouth, I knew I would “be a doctor”; however, I neverwould have guessed the direction my career would take.Having endured seven semesters of chemistry (which I foundto be tremendously boring and not of sufficient interest tospend much time in study), I found all the courses in myunique major (Modified Philosophy, Comparative Literature)

to be breaths of fresh air. Unbeknownst to me at the time,Fran Gramlich’s course on the “Philosophy of Human Nature”(essentially a primer in Freudian psychoanalytic theory)turned out to be a life-directing experience. A second such experience occurred in my last year in med-ical school (at which time I was planning on becoming aninternist), when I did a clerkship in psychiatry at the Psychi-atry Receiving Center in Kansas City. I discovered thatbecoming engaged with those who were struggling withemotional distress presented an unsurpassed opportunity tobring together biology and psychology in helping others toobtain relief. Having surprised both myself and my wife ofseveral months with my decision to become a psychiatrist, I next was surprised while in residency training to discoverthat I (an only child) found working with children to be aspecial delight. A final career-shaping experience also occurredwhen I was in residency training: during my involvement withWashtenaw County Community Mental Health, I becameintrigued with the challenge of impacting service delivery insuch a way as to improve the quality of care for many. Theseinfluences set the direction of my work of the last 40 years.Following internship, residency, and fellowship at the Univer-sity of Michigan (where I was Chief Resident at Children’sPsychiatric Hospital and Assistant Chief Resident for theDepartment of Psychiatry), I served in the U.S. Army at FortKnox. In the first year, I was Chief of the Mental HygieneClinic and developed a drug and alcohol abuse treatment pro-gram for the post. The second year I was Chief of the Depart-ment of Neuropsychiatry at Ireland Army Hospital. Rather than heading to the Pentagon for further work withthe Army’s burgeoning substance abuse problems, I decidedto pursue a unique opportunity in Grand Rapids with theCollege of Human Medicine of Michigan State University, inwhich I could combine teaching and educational adminis-tration with efforts to expand the quantity and quality ofthe mental health resources of the community. Developingclinical placements for medical students and specialty train-ing programs in adult and child-adolescent psychiatry in

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facilities throughout the city, I became Assistant Chair (forthe Grand Rapids Division) of the Department of Psychiatry,Michigan State University. During this time I also participatedin the expansion of special education programming through-out the area and initiated and managed a 30-person inter-disciplinary team mental health group for use by MSU as amodel teaching practice. After 18 years of being a full-time faculty member, in 1990,I left employment with MSU, moving to a position of Clini-cal Professor in the Department of Psychiatry as I continuedteaching and doing clinical work in our practice, PsychiatricConsultation Services. After several years of successfullydemonstrating that quality mental health services could bedelivered in the environment of managed care (if they wereprovided by a team rooted in and managed by psychiatry),I found it unacceptable to deal with the constraints beingimposed on mental health by non-clinician administratorsand bottom-line profiteers. For the last several years I havebeen busily involved, without outside constraints, in a solopractice of adult, child-adolescent, and forensic psychiatry.In all of my experiences, I have repeatedly been impressedby the value of developing trusting relationships and work-ing partnerships; of the significance in our lives of even smallchanges; and of the importance of being an on-going learn-er in whatever we are doing. Some of my career highlights have been: University of Mis-souri School of Medicine: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med-ical Society; U.S. Army: Commendation Medal; AmericanPsychiatric Association: Distinguished Life Fellow; AmericanAcademy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Life Fellow;American Board of Psychiatry: Examiner and Senior Examin-er (for over 25 years) in both General Adult Psychiatry andChild-Adolescent Psychiatry; The Best Doctors: Peer selected(from inception in the 1990s on).Family and Roots: I grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis,attending Webster Groves High School (featured in 1966 ina CBS Special “Sixteen in Webster Groves”). As was the casewith most of us in suburbia in that era, adolescence for mewas an exciting time of exploration and advancement; lifeseemed uncomplicated and the future straightforward. Hav-ing lived through the Great Depression, my parents werehard-working, traditional people who knew that educationwas central to one’s fulfillment. I was blessed with their con-stant support and gentle encouragement. My childhood was also enriched by the fact that my parents,who had moved prior to my birth to St. Louis from ruralcommunities in Kansas, had maintained close ties with fam-ily and friends “back home.” Each summer I would spendseveral weeks in a small farming town (population: 500)where my widowed grandmother was the City Clerk. It wasan unparalleled experience in learning the value of timespent in simple conversation and the importance of friendsbeing of support to friends.Wife/Partner: Candace Ward Hinshaw. Candace is anextraordinary woman, one whom I am overjoyed to have beenable to spend (so far) over 45 years in sharing the journeyof marriage. In Sociology, we learned that the majority ofpeople in the United States (at least at that time!) marriedsomeone who had grown up within a mile of themselves; suchwas the case with Candace and me, despite our really nothaving become acquainted until we both were in graduate

schools at the University of Missouri. Highly efficient and creative, Candace has been a leader inour community throughout the 37 years we have lived inGrand Rapids. Her activities have focused particularly uponeducation and the arts, with her first writing grants to placefine arts mentors in selected schools and then founding adistrict-wide Cultural Arts Committee (with which she stillparticipates). She became president of our school board ata critical time in its development; later she was co-founderof our district’s educational foundation. Most recently shehas been involved with the planning and completion of awidely acclaimed fine arts center whose facilities serve thecommunity as well as our schools.Having retired from teaching to be at home with our twodaughters, Candace has been the anchor and organizer ofour family. (Our daughters and our four grandchildren havebrought much joy to our lives.) Candace also has been the“social secretary” for the two of us in our many activitiesand adventures.Major at Dartmouth: AB, Modified Philosophy/Compara-tive Literature; MD, University of MissouriDartmouth Activities: Glee Club (Business Manager),Inter-Dormitory Council (Chairman, Judiciary Committee),Undergraduate Council, Delta Upsilon

Time moves on.

Urban C. HirscheyPO Box 855, Cape Vincent, NY 13618, (315) 654-5036, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sarah K. Hirschey Occupation: Forest/Paper Products


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Butch Hitchcock and Joan on “Madrigal”

Butch Hitchcock1415 Wapping Road, Middletown, RI 02842, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Husband, father,grandfather. Longtime involvementwith sailing and skiing. Career: Ad executive, Y&R (MadisonAve, NYC); marketing and salesexecutive, Sony/Teletronics, NJ;sales and marketing executive, PfaffAmerica, N.J. I moved to Newport,R.I., when my kids were out of college to run a printingbusiness of my own. I now work three days a week at theMuseum Store at the Breakers Mansion.Wife: Married to Joan 43 yearsMajor at Dartmouth: Geology

This past summer, I had a 50th reunion with aboat. “Madrigal” is a 46-ft. Sparkman, Stephenswooden yawl built in Maine 50 years ago. She wasstate-of-the-art 50 years ago and brought homemany trophies while I was among her crew duringsummers from the late 1950s to mid-1970s. Her

former owner’s son lovingly did a major refit andinvited Joan and me to Maine for some sailing.After 50 years, “Madrigal” looked as good as new, ifnot better. The weather gods smiled and providedus with the most beautiful conditions I have everseen in Maine.

Forty-three years ago, Joan and I rowed out to“Madrigal” one night as she sat on her mooring in

Rye, N.Y. It was just the two of us sitting therewatching the stars, the lights of boats passing by,the lights of Long Island, and those of New Yorkcity in the distance. It was the night of my mar-riage proposal to Joan.

With this summer’s “Madrigal” reunion, we hadcome full circle.

Hmm. Full circle. In a sailing race, the boats makepreparations for the start, jockey for a spot on theline, and then are off. The ocean is wide, and somehead left, some right, and some work their way upthe middle, looking for favorable winds or currents.Midway to the first turning mark, they are spreadfar apart: someone must be very right and someonemust be very wrong. At the mark, however, theyare bunched up. Yes, someone is ahead, someone isbehind, but all get there at about the same time.This scenario repeats at the next turning marks andat the finish. Back on shore, the sailors share theirexperiences, the primary consensus being that itwas challenging and fun.

So here we are: ’60s back on the shore where wemade the decision to go out and sail life’s course.Sharing our experiences with “wind shifts” and“currents” and agreeing that it was challenging andfun. We have come full circle. (I’ll wage not one ofus is looking forward to our “winter storage.”)

H. Rick Hite742 Baldwin Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23517, «[email protected]»Career: College Professor of Theater,actor, theater director, writer, andtranslator. I taught Spanish at JamesMadison U. for four years and The-ater/Communications at VirginiaWesleyan College for 30 years. I started the Theater program thereand also served as Chair of the Artsand Humanities Department for 11years. In 1974-75, I was awarded a Fulbright Professorshipat the Universidad de La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain.Family and Roots: I grew up in central Pennsylvania. Myextended family was all German stock, farmers and blue-collar railroad workers. I was the first to attend college. Mywife of 48 years and I have three grown children and threegrandchildren. Two of our kids are teachers with the Dept.of Defense Schools in Germany. Visiting them, and withsome self-study, I am getting back to my German roots. Wife: My wife is Barbara Allan Hite of Richmond, Virginia.We met when we were both grad students at Johns Hopkins U.Major at Dartmouth: Spanish, Romance Languages, andLit.; MA, Johns Hopkins; PhD, Theater/Communications,Michigan State UDartmouth Activities: I sang in the Freshman Glee Club,worked at WDCR as an announcer and DJ, climbed rocks

So here we are: ’60s back on the shore where we made the decision to go out and sail life’s course.

Butch Hitchcock

with the DOC, and was in a play directed by Warner Bentleymy senior year (Misalliance by G.B. Shaw). I was a Phi KappaPsi and directed our house for Hums senior year. I attendedthe Universidad Complutense in Madrid my junior year.

Coffee Shop Morning

In the roomThe women come and go—no talk of Michelangelo—Some, morning-innocentStill shower-damp with scentSome dry, sophisti-jadedWell heeled and elevatedGarb-guarded for the dayMore predators than preyThat old sadness in the eye—for even sirens suffer—Turning older, soon to die

Amour de loin

That distant, fetching lookin her eyes,that glint of perfect pleasuredeep within,that hint of some forbiddensecret sharedare wrapped all in the glance sheoffers me,and then I see the phone-budin her ear.

From Across the Room: M

In vain she clips up her hair,and strands keep flying free,willowy, feathery, fair,so all fetching is she,golden beauty, unaware, grace, gazelle, Salukí.

July Sunday Morning

All in your finery,Lady,

Your Dolce GabbanasTinted

Rose to protect your eyesAnd soul,

You step with sandaled feetPedi-

Cured, nails polished scarletInto

The First Lutheran Church ofNorfolk.

Jogger

He runsin the morningearlybeside the life-bringerand beyond remembering.Godlikeamong the laurelhe catchesthe scent of Daphnebrought to bay.He runsin the eveninglatebeneath the hunterwith dreams of eternitystreaming from his headlike antlerscaughtin the memory-mist ofCithaeron.His panic eyedefiles the bathing moon.He runsthrough the nightwith timeerstwhile companionnow howling after himlike Actaeon’s hounds.


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Homecoming

Back from battle, back from the sea, OdysseusFinds his old age waiting for him, and, loomingLove, his wife, Penelope, welcomes him withPatterns of patience.Mornings walking, hero and dog, OdysseusGazes seaward searching for what he knows heWill not find; indifferent now the sea, godless,Empty the prospect.Circumspect Penelope walks the emptyBeach and takes the measure of footprints guidingHer across the distance between OdysseusThen and this stranger.

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Odysseus Back Home Again

The pebble wash is background to the cryOf gulls, as is the scudding morning grayTo their magnesium white display:Glistening laughter spattered on a sky,While silent, foregrounded, a man stands byAnd gazes eastward towards the coming dayAs if to take the measure of its sun’s swayAnd read some meaning there to justifyThe onset of empty hours, this invert foe,Exhaustive tedium, ironic giftOf safe return, propriety restored.He reaches then beyond the morning’s glowTo catch a glint of yesterday’s sea-driftAnd heart-surge time of worlds still unexplored.

Jack N. HodgsonSummer: Box 68, Medina, WA 98039; Winter: 68-111 W. Pukaua Place,Kamuela, HI 96743; «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Affinity for back-country adventure and golf. Mygolf handicap stays at about twicemy wife’s.Career: Sole proprietor, hotel devel-opment companyWife: Stanford AB, MS. Very active in numerous non-profitsFamily: Susan: head nurse mid-wife; Gregor: business exec-utive; Wendy: claims adjuster, commercial fishing boatsMajor at Dartmouth: Dartmouth AB (Economics);Stanford MBA

“Christmas Card Letter Last Year”I asked Barbie if we should enclose a letter with ourChristmas card last year, and she said; “Oh, we’venothing significant to report.” I sat down at thecomputer to think about that and started watchingthe slide show on our screen-saver. It contains hun-dreds of pictures of people and animals and places

we love, and I realized that we have much to bethankful for. That these things that we embrace keeprepeating themselves every year is significant.

This Thanksgiving we celebrated Anniversary num-ber 48. If we could have been granted any wish forChristmas in 1961, that would have been it.

Many of our friends as well as I, have had somehealth problems, but that’s better than the alterna-tive, as they say, and we are glad they are here (thefriends), and they are glad we are here to be friendstogether and to continue having adventures.

We travel. And, most years we go back to the sameplaces to see and do things we have always enjoyedand because old friends are there. And, in theNorthwest, getting there is half the fun. This yearwe added some new experiences. Yet, in a way, theyare more of the same. We went to Cape Breton

Island with the Connachers, who were with us fish-ing in Idaho on 9/11. We went to Maine with theLeaches, who have accompanied us to many locales.We went to our 70th birthday party with theDartmouth Class of 1960, with whom we reunitewhenever we get a chance. We had a McGregorfamily reunion in Milwaukee. Everyone came, andour children rejoiced in meeting their cousins again.Barbie’s niece, Beezie, came straight back fromHong Kong with her medals for Equestrian Jump-ing, and we all got to hold them and be proud ofher. We fished again in three or four places wherewe always go and added a new one, the Big Hole ofMontana. It is in a wonderful setting we have driv-en through many times but have not stopped forlong. The same friends each year host and make usfeel so privileged in these special retreats.

In short, more of the same is good, and we arethankful.

More of the same is good, and we are thankful.

Jack N. Hodgson

Crosby Hall


David Eppons Hodson307 East 44th Street, Apt. 822,New York, NY 10017, (212) 986-3533Career: Self-employed

In a new Age of Uncertainty,everything’s in flux. Even theair feels different months afterdeep recession. Yet, I have notlost my way, due to an extraor-dinary friendship of seven yearswith Hannelore-aus Köln amRhein (see photo). Our approach to life is simple:reach high, dig deep, think coolly, and engage fully.Good advice. Try it. You’ll never lose your way.

Family traditions are still treasured with each pass-ing year. Mine are with strong Germanic roots inQuakenbrück, Germany, and Hoboken, New Jersey(a kind of Neu-Deutschland in my youth).

Recently, I found a published collection of lettersof Franz Liszt, translated by my late cousin HowardEppens Hugo (1920-1978), former Professor ofEnglish at UC Berkeley (Harvard University Press).Each Liszt letter is in spidery Gothic German script(Schriftzüge), that calligraphy that so resembles thecragged line of ink on a seismograph drum or lookslike barbed wire. HEH was a true Germanophileand esteemed Eppens family member, who namedhis 1934 Ford roadster Brünnhilde (it burned onequart of oil every 36 miles). HEH, whose name wasso linguistically impossible that a 1949 carte de sejourfrom his honeymoon in Italy appeared as “Ugo,Ovardo Epensa.”

In 2009, Hannelore and I traveled twice toQuakenbrück, Germany (a part of the old duchy ofBrunswick), in search of my Eppens ancestry, where

the oldest bearer of the name “Eppens” I was ableto find was Abel Eppens tho Equart (1534-1590),presumably Dutch who lived during those tumul-tuous years when Holland was struggling for inde-pendence from Spain. Alas, as far as I know, I amthe last person to own the Eppens name; rare, evenin Germany.

I am justly proud being a descendant of ChristianMatthias Schröder (founder of the famous SchröderBank), owner of a sugar refinery in Quakenbrückand Bürgermeister of Hamburg. Thomas Mann’sBuddenbrooks, though fictional, a favorite book ofmine, contains episodes, even quotations, whichrecall certain Schröder-Eppens Buddenbrooks con-figurations of my Teutonic roots. Hochkultur!

A long line of family Bürgermeisters (Quakenbrückand Hamburg) has led to mayoral counterparts inAmerica: Congleton (Newark, N.J.), Meister(Weehawken, N.J.), and Otto (New Rochelle, N.Y.)Erstaunlich!

Still peddling books of olde, I sold a fine crisp copyof Bulgarin’s “Ivan Vejeeghen” (1831), completewith armorial bookplate, at auction. Very scarce, itis a small treasure. Judy Frankel and GeorgeLiebmann will certainly appreciate such a zanilyamusing title.

Courses in art restoration and conservation atSotheby’s and painting oil portraits at home havebroadened my horizons since last reunion. In myspare time, I build models of sailing vessels. And,when projects don’t pan out, I recall Shakespeare’sadvice (from Harold Bond’s Shakespeare surveycourse): “Assume a virtue if you have it not” (fakeit till you make it).

A Königsbacher Pils toast (strong and robust) to mylate father Frank Eppens Hodson (Class of 1931),former President of Eppens-Smith Coffee and Teas(the family firm founded in 1855). FEH, who wasleader of the Barbary Coast Orchestra at Dartmouth,toured Europe with Paul Whiteman’s Band. Mygood father played the sweetest sax, ever.

Charles N. Holkins Charles N. Holkins died onJune 1, 2000.

David Hodson and Hannelore

J. Timothy HollandTim

«[email protected]»

Peter A. HollandPete

96 Conant Road, Weston, MA 02493, (781) 894-3658, «[email protected]» Occupation: Education

Robert M. Holland520 Meredith Lane, Unit 104,Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223, (330) 922-3399, «[email protected]» Occupation: Education

Mike Hollern511 NW Drake Road, Bend, OR 97701, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: After graduatingwith mediocre grades as a DartmouthEnglish major, we spent a year inMontana where I worked as a TVannouncer. I realized I was not ona track to replace Chet Huntley orDavid Brinkley and was accepted toStanford Business School at a time when it was much easierto get into such schools. After getting an MBA, I worked for Stanford for two years

and then was offered a job with a lumber company in Bend,Oregon. We liked the Bay Area but agreed to try small-townliving for two years with the stipulation that we wouldreturn to California if either one of us wanted to leave. Suefell in love with Bend even more quickly than I did. It hasbeen a great place to live and raise children. We’re still herewith no plans to go anywhere else.Wife and Family: Two days before our class graduated, SueUngar and I were married in Pennsylvania. Fortunately, wehave grown and learned together and still have a wonderfulpartnership. We have four great kids and six grandchildren. Career: My working career has been and continues to be inthe forest products business and in the real estate develop-ment business, both cyclical industries and currently in seri-ous recession, but Bend has grown from 12,000 people whenwe moved here to 80,000 now. We have been blessed withenough material success to take care of our needs and helpour kids get started in their own lives.

Both Sue and I have been deeply involved in com-munity activities, she with arts, children’s organiza-tions, and community foundations. I am involvedwith the Bend School Board, museums, foundations,and government service. I served for more thanseven years as Chair of the Oregon TransportationCommission, a rewarding experience as we becameway more than a highway commission, linkingtransportation planning with land use and environ-mental policies, and investing in light rail, transit,bike, and pedestrian facilities as well as roads andbridges.

Sue and I have served on many boards and com-missions and have traveled extensively. We playedmajor roles in establishing a system of round-abouts in Bend and in spearheading the installa-tion of public art throughout Bend.

In most ways, we are living the dream, but, as ourdevelopmentally disabled daughter says, “Some-times, life don’t easy.” About five years ago, I


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found out I had an inherited genetic disordercalled Myotonic Dystrophy. In me, it is mild withvirtually no symptoms. Unfortunately, it has beenpassed to three of our children and two grandsons.The condition is usually substantially more severewith each successive generation. The conditioncauses muscle wasting and a variety of other physi-cal and sometimes mental issues. There is noknown cure or treatment. Our daughter, EricaKelly, Dartmouth 1991, and our son-in-law, JeremyKelly, have been instrumental in establishing theMyotonic Dystrophy Foundation to promote researchand to provide counseling to families afflicted withMyotonic Dystrophy. We are enormously proud oftheir efforts.

We are a happy, optimistic family surrounded byloving family and friends. Every day brings newresearch findings in Myotonic Dystrophy and wehave high hopes for a breakthrough soon. We aredelighted and grateful to spend quality time withchildren and grandchildren though they are scat-tered from Portland to California to Mexico toNew York.

Gordon C. Holterman Gordon C. Holterman died onAugust 13, 1985.

Albert J. Holzscheiter Albert J. Holzscheiter died onJuly 31, 1973.

David S. HornPO Box 190, Jefferson, OR 97520,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Full time RVer,involved with various travel clubsas well as Rotary International.Continue to ride a motorcycle,BMW now.Career: CPA, retired in 1994, con-tinuing (16 years) to work tax sea-sons for a friend in Ashland, Ore.Children and Grandchildren:Nathan & Caroline, Burlington,Vermont, Heather Horn; Leslie & Hugh Walpole, Walnut Creek,Calif., Hailey and Grace; Debra & Jarrett Bryan, Haleiwa,Hawaii, Zoe and Jack; Brian & Becca Horn, Berkeley, Calif.Major at Dartmouth: English, then a CPA after non-degreecourses at University of Bridgeport

Well, what’s been going on since I last wrote for theMusings, 10 years ago. I guess the main thing is thatalmost eight years ago, I sold my house in Ashland,Oregon, and started full-timing in a motor home,me and my dog. And that started my travels aroundthe country, with probably over 50,000 miles trav-eled since then. I have visited every one of thecontinental United States, except Alaska.

I’ve developed a routine: every other year is a travelyear (2010 will be one). A few years ago, I startedreading heavily about the Civil War, so a lot of mytravel in the east is geared towards visiting battle-fields and museums. When not in travel mode, Ispend my summers in Anacortes, Wash., (where any


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day over 75 degrees is a heat wave). Travel usuallyends up in the Hill Country of Texas for the win-ter, until it’s time to head back to Ashland to workanother tax season. I’ve been doing that for 16years since I retired, working in a friend’s office for6–8 weeks leading up to April 15. I still carry amotorcycle with me, although five years ago Iswitched to a BMW. It’s a great bike, and I do enjoygetting out on some of the wonderful back roadsaround the country.

I continue to visit Rotary clubs wherever I am trav-eling, although I’m not as heavily involved as I waswhen I was a District Governor. I am involved with

a charitable foundation as Treasurer; it’s called theEllen Meadows Prosthetic Hand Foundation. Ourmission is to provide a light, durable, functional pros-thetic hand to every person who wants one and canbenefit from it, and do so at no charge. Check outour website for more information: «www.LN-4.org».

My children are all doing well in their chosenprofessions, and, although they are spread fromVermont to Hawaii, we still stay in touch and tryto get everyone together at least once a year. As Itravel, I stay in touch with a 24/7 satellite Internetconnection, so they know where I am, no matterwhere I’m traveling. By the time this is publishedthere will be five grandchildren, four granddaugh-ters and one grandson.

In February 2009 I turned 70 and had a board meet-ing with myself to examine my next 5-year plan. I liked what I saw with my present circumstancesand concluded that there was no reason to changeat this time. Still healthy, not too overweight, andtrying to stay flexible, so why not? I hope that thenext board meeting at age 75 will come to the sameconclusion. I’ll let you know.

Douglas A. Horsburgh Douglas A. Horsburgh died onSeptember 13, 1962.

L. Lee HorschmanLee

13 Mohave Court, Corte Madera, CA 94925, (415) 377-8612, «[email protected]» Spouse: Elaine Horschman Occupation: Consulting

Clifford J. Houser Jr. Jim

309 Nottoway Drive, Pearl River, LA 70452, (985) 863-0984 Spouse: Michen Houser Occupation: Health/Science, IMG Healthcare LLC, 5640 Read Boulevard, Suite 740,New Orleans, LA 70127, (504) 248-4180

R. Eldon Houston6014 Dover Court, Midland, MI 48640, (989) 839-0147


I sold my house in Oregon and started full-timing in a motor home, me and my dog.

David S. Horn

The Green

John R. Hoyne John R. Hoyne died on May20, 1993.

As there is no obituary avail-able for John Hoyne, I (yourpublisher) will add somethinghere, as I knew him slightlyand have talked to some peo-ple who knew him better. Johnworked for a long time at TedBates Advertising in New York,where he was the “right-handman” to agency president Bob Jacoby in the ’70s and’80s, when they were building the company into aworldwide network. As head of Bates International,John sought strong local agencies throughout theworld, and Bates acquired them. By 1982, Ted Bateswas the third-largest ad agency in the world, with99 offices in 45 countries. Much of its success wasdue to acquisitions orchestrated by John Hoyne.Hoyne spent a few months heading the agency’sToronto office, a year before I left Bates/New Yorkfor Toronto, acting as a trouble-shooter as he triedto get the agency on a better track. He was present-ed with an inscribed hatchet when he left, whichmade John and everyone laugh. In 1986, whenJacoby went to London for his final meetings withthe Saatchi brothers, who were about to buy theentire Bates agency, he took only one person withhim, John Hoyne. After the deal with Saatchi andSaatchi was complete, John, then Vice Chairman,was appointed President of Ted Bates Worldwide.When he retired from the agency, he moved toCalifornia and opened a small business. John isremembered by those who knew him at Bates asbeing a quiet, reserved, thoughtful, gentlemanlyman who was highly respected.

DLP ’69

Peter F. HubertPete

39461 South McHaney Court,Tucson, AZ 85739, (520) 818-9213,«[email protected]» Spouse: Margaret Hubert Occupation: Consulting

James E. Hughes Jim

PO Box 36460, Las Vegas, NV 89133, Spouse: Carol A. Hughes

Bruce W. Hulbert Capt.,USN (Ret) 2954 N. 157th Avenue, Goodyear, AZ 85395, «[email protected]»Career: 28 Years Surface WarfareOfficer, United States Navy. Six yearsExplosive Ordnance Officer/DivingOfficer; Commanded two Destroyers;Staff Chief of Naval Operations.Many years in and near Vietnam in’60s. 16 years executive contractorsupporting Navy ship moderniza-tion and maintenance. Family’s Dartmouth Roots: Great Grandfather: CalvinButler Hulbert, Class of 1853; President of Middlebury Col-lege in 1870s. Great-Grandson of Eleazar Wheelock. Grandfather: Homer B. Hulbert, Class of 1884. Varsity foot-ball on first Dartmouth teams. Still revered as patriot ofKorea, having spent 20 years there, 1886-1906, as a teacherof the royal family, created the Korean Public Education Sys-tem, bodyguard of the Emperor in times of crisis, and lifelongsupporter of Korean Independence. Awarded highest medal/honor possible for non-Korean in 1950.Uncle: William Chester Hulbert, Class of 1918. Left class earlyto fight in AEF as US Army Sgt, then LT in combat in France.Later graduated Dartmouth and Tuck. Cousin: Richard Kimball Hulbert, Class of 1951 and subse-quently graduate of Tuck School. Successful banker in NYC. Major at Dartmouth: Geography (Cartography, withProf. Van English) Dartmouth Activities: Freshman Lightweight Crew. AlphaChi Rho Social Chairman two years.

Dartmouth’s impact on my life: Lifelong friendships with fraternity brothers, class-mates, and upperclassmen. Appreciation for great art and architecture from Art 1 as opposed to minimal impact of too manyhours of calculus, physics, and chemistry. Love of the dark woods and the “Granite of NewHampshire.”

What’s Important: Family: No Contest: I have been blessed with the



company for nearly 50 years of the greatest womanin the world; 42 years with a magnificent son whohas won tough personal battles to become a success-ful professional, father, and husband; and preciousdaughter for 38 years whom we lost too young.

Country: My most significant disappointment withthe College (other than the football team of late)has been her estrangement from the military forover four decades. One only need read the obituar-ies of our 1935-1945 graduates to see the commit-ment of our fathers’ generation to self-sacrifice andnational defense. The current generation of gradu-ates, for the most part, is choosing a much moreself-centered direction.

General: I love Dartmouth College. She has a diffi-cult curriculum development challenge to balancethe provision of concepts that will serve studentsfor a lifetime with subjects that are, at best, tem-porarily fashionable. I have high hopes for our newPresident Kim to help restore more of the formerand less of the latter.

My (Margaret’s) best wishes to all.

David S. Hull David S. Hull died onDecember 5, 1998.

Mart H. Humphrey Mart H. Humphrey died onAugust 16, 1982.

Thomas Hunt

Gerry Huttrer Box 2425, Frisco, CO 80443,«[email protected]»

I can’t remember if I sent ablurb in for the last Musings,but since it has been 50 yearssince we left the big D, Ithought I’d try to write a fewwords for inclusion in thisMusings version.

For me, going to Dartmouthwas taken for granted themoment my application was completed and mailed.Though my grades in High School were very averageand I participated in only a few activities on a distinct-ly mediocre level, and though I also applied toWilliams, Brown, and Amherst, there was never aquestion in my mind that I would be accepted andattend Dartmouth! I had no idea that the competitionwas fierce and that the qualifications of my would-be classmates were far more impressive than mine.

Amazingly—I got in. And there began my mostlife-changing experiences. I made new friends,tried new foods, learned about subjects I had neverdreamed of, finally got to “run” my own life, andbest of all became part of the incredible, lifelongDartmouth brotherhood.

Bruce Hulbert and Margaret

Only after I graduated and tried to get into gradu-ate schools did I start to realize how my Dartmouthdegree would open doors and earn initial respect.Later, the same magic was evident as I sought jobsand memberships to various organizations. I don’tknow if the same “greasing of the wheels” wouldhave occurred had I gone to some other college,but I sincerely doubt it.

These days I live in Colorado, far from the HanoverPlain, but the same brotherhood remains a veryimportant part of my life. Specifically, it is withrespect to enjoyment of the outdoors, a passion begunby my parents, but which matured at Dartmouth. Iam so very privileged to be able to ski not only withmy ex-room-mate Joe McHugh, but with other ‘60sincluding Alan Danson, Mike Wood, Jim Progin,and Hans Wurster, but to associate periodically withalmost 120 other Dartmouth grads via the DartmouthClub—Vail Region. There are so many Dartmouthmen (and women) actively involved in sailing, bik-ing, hiking, traveling, tennis, golf, wine drinking,and partying in my part of the world that our omni-presence is sometimes considered an “infestation”by our other, non-Dartmouth friends.

One of the few regrets that I have is that none ofmy three children chose to go to Dartmouth. I dowish that they could have realized the myriadwonderful tangible and intangible benefits withwhich I have been blessed over the last 50 years. Ilook forward to our 75th!

William T. HuyckTom

1718 East 55th Street, Apt. 3,Chicago, IL 60615, (773) 667-3649 Spouse: Margaret Huyck

Kenneth N. IngallsKen

92 Atlantic Avenue, North Hampton, NH 03862, (603) 964-2587, «[email protected]» Spouse: Geraldine S. Ingalls

Russell W. Ingersoll52 Sturbridge Lane, Greensboro,NC 27408, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: My life sinceDartmouth has had two dominantpriorities: family and vocation. Family: The Greatest of My BlessingsWife: I was married in December1960 to Pat Podas, a figure skaterfrom Minneapolis, after being intro-duced to her by my hockey coach,Eddie Jeremiah. By the time of ourreunion we will be six months fromour 50th anniversary. In a life that has enjoyed many bless-ings, my family, my wife and our marriage are certainly theforemost.Dartmouth Activities: An Early Vision: I had a vision for mylife after graduating from Taft School. There I had experi-enced one of the great teachers in my life—a Latin teacherwho nurtured in me a love of the language and the literature,as well as a yearning for the teaching life. To teach Latin andcoach ice hockey seemed to me to be an idyllic life. So I setout for Dartmouth with that vision fixed in mind. A veryweak and boring Latin teacher intervened. After two semes-ters with him, Latin and classical literature had lost theirgrip on me. I began looking for a new vision. The vision laydormant until seminary when my student chaplaincy atEpiscopal High School awakened it.

A Wakeup Call from My Mother and PresidentDickey: I returned to Dartmouth for my sophomoreyear over-confident. Fear of not measuring up aca-demically had been conquered. My freshman year I had done far better than I ever dreamed as a result ofthe overtime I had put into my studies. However, Idrew the wrong lessons from my freshman experi-ence, concluding that Dartmouth was not as challeng-ing as it was cracked up to be. It did not require thekind of concentrated effort I had given it as a fresh-man. With varsity hockey and fraternity living addedto my life, I blithely cruised through my first term,missing all kinds of classes because of hockey tripsand pure indolence, feeling it unnecessary to get thenotes for classes missed. At the end of the term, I hada 1.8 average and had failed the only class in my life.

My mother, who was a hard-working widow tryingto raise two children, was on my back when I wenthome for Christmas. “Rusty,” she said, “What areyou doing? Your grades are terrible. You are goingto lose your scholarship and this wonderful oppor-tunity at Dartmouth if you don’t get serious aboutyour studies again.” My reply was something like,“Ma, don’t worry about it. Everything is undercontrol. I just miscalculated a bit and failed theone class because of an unfair exam that was basedalmost entirely on lecture notes that I missedbecause of hockey. Don’t worry, and please don’truin my Christmas vacation with this nagging overone bad term.”


When I returned after Christmas, nothing changed.I remained overconfident. I was having too muchfun playing the sport I loved, dazzled by fraternitylife, and simply enjoying the good life to which I feltentitled. Then, in February I got a letter from “TheOffice of the President.” “Wow,” I thought, “I’veknown a few guys who have had letters from theDean’s office, but I had never known anyone to beinvited to the President’s office. This must be reallyimportant.” I was excited. The President of Dartmouthwanted to meet with little old me. “What good thinghave I done to merit his attention,” I wondered.

When the appointed day arrived, I fished out mysoiled sport coat from the bottom of my closet, dugaround in a pile of clothes for a tie that I had notworn since I left Taft, and made myself as presenta-ble as a slob can. I then made my way to his office,excited to learn what prompted this unusual meeting.

After waiting a long time in the outer office, I wasescorted in. There on the far side of a paneled officewith its impressive collection of books on its shelves,sat a president who did not look happy at all to seeme. His stature had always struck me as imposing,but sitting behind the desk looking at me over hisreading glasses and summoning me with the curtdirection, “Sit down,” I suddenly knew his intentwas not to congratulate me on a good hockey sea-son. He went on, “I have something to say to you,Mr. Ingersoll, and a letter to read to you.” He read:

Dear President Dickey,

My son Rusty is a good boy and has alwaysbeen a serious student. But something hashappened this year. When I received hisgrades, I was stunned and deeply concerned.I tried talking to him over the Christmasbreak, but he wasn’t listening to me. BecauseI am a widow, he has no father to impressupon him the seriousness of his situation. SoI write this unusual letter in hopes that youmight speak to him and that he might listento you.

Dartmouth represents a great opportunity formy son. I thought he knew and appreciatedthat. He loves the College, and he did verywell last year. But something has changed,and I feel powerless to reach him. If youwould speak to him, I think you would makea strong impression on him and help himsee the predicament he has created for him-self, for I am certain his scholarship andplace at Dartmouth are both in jeopardyunless he immediately changes his ways. Inadvance, I thank you for anything you cando to get my boy’s attention.

Sincerely,

Jeannette M. Ingersoll

President Dickey continued. “Mr. Ingersoll, I havetwo things to say to you. First, your mother isexactly right. On reviewing your record, I can nowassure you that if you continue in this vein, youwill lose your scholarship. Second, I hope you rec-ognize the love and concern that prompted yourmother to write me. She must be a remarkablewoman. I hope you have understood what I havejust said and that you will remedy the problem atonce. We would hate to lose you.” Somehow Iunderstood that the conversation was over. Therewas to be no discussion. “Yes, sir,” I replied, “I willget right after it.” And I did.

“What am I when I am not what I used to be?”When I was at Dartmouth I had no understandingof the joys of growing old together. Not only havePat and I shared a lifetime of memories well docu-mented in photo albums and dust-gathering slideCarousels, but also we have been witness to eachother’s lives. We have been together through ourups and downs, seen each other fail and triumph,and laughed together and suffered together. We haveskated together with the wind at our backs throughmany passages in our lives. We have trudged alongtogether into the wind—uphill, leaning alternatelyon the other for support and strength. We haveobserved each other grow up and grow older know-ing each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Werejoice together today in the experiences we havehad as a family and in the people our children andgrandchildren are becoming.

Like us they are not perfect, and we did not do aperfect job in raising them. But we did the best wecould, and grace intervened to allow us to be afamily in which each might ultimately come intohis or her own. We’ve been through tough timestogether and gloriously happy times. Now we are


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privileged to see our children as adults raising theirown children and living more and more fully intotheir own unique personhood.

Never did I imagine how much a grandchild wouldmean to us. Our three children have now blessedus with five grandchildren, each of whom is a spe-cial and somewhat quirky creation. What a joy towatch them blossom into little people without ourhaving the chief responsibility for their feedingand watering!

Vocation: Aspects of My CallAnother interest in my life springs from my voca-tion. After a very brief foray into the businessworld, I surprised most everyone by answering amadly persistent call to the ordained ministry. I hadfought it off in my prep school and college days,

but toward the end of my Dartmouth career (thanksto Tom Wahman, who deviously got me involved inthe Dartmouth Christian Union) a call to ministryasserted itself. After two years in the lumber busi-ness with Brooks-Scanlon in Bend, Oregon (a greatopportunity afforded to me by Mike Hollern’s father),I answered the call and went to Virginia Seminaryto prepare for the Episcopal priesthood.

Unworthy to Be Called to Ministry—I went to sem-inary with a more than an average fear and trem-bling and a profound sense of unworthiness, for noone knew better than I how flawed I was as a personand a Christian. With my reputation as the bad boyof Ivy League hockey with the distinction of own-ing (for a time) the Ivy League penalty record, I feltI had a “scarlet letter” that everyone could see andjudge me by.

The first day of classes I felt totally out of place,surrounded by what I thought were uniquely holyand pious persons. My reservations seemed to beconfirmed when I walked into the refectory for myfirst lunch, awed by the portraits of priests andbishops and deans looking askance at me from theirplaces high above me. As I was taking all this inand thinking seriously of running as fast and far asI could, a familiar face approached me. “Who isthat?” I wondered. “Where do I know him from?Dartmouth? Yes, that’s it, but what is his name?”“Rusty, Rusty Ingersoll, what in the hell are youdoing here? You are the last person I would expectto find here!” My Dartmouth classmate, Ken Taborwas a senior, having come to seminary directly afterDartmouth. While his familiar face and warm greet-ing were most welcome, his jocular assessment of

my fitness for the place did not allay my appre-hensions. Ken quickly made me feel at home. Hehelped me to understand I was not such a specialsinner—just one among many who believed theywere called to ministry. “After all,” the chaplaintold me in an early counseling session, “if God didnot call hypocrites and sinners to his ministry, whomwould he call?” I figured that based on those crite-ria I was not out of place.

Thus began my 40-year ministry devoted to Episcopalschools, initially as a chaplain, teacher, and coachfollowed by nearly 30 years as a headmaster. It wasan uncommon path for most Episcopal clergy topursue. Indeed, when I went to seminary, I assumedthat my path would lead to a parish ministry. How-ever, upon reflection, I think I now understandhow I was led into a school ministry.

The reason was that I was nominated in my Mid-dle year the much coveted student chaplaincy atEpiscopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia.However, that would have been but an interestingtwo-year alternative experience in ministry if it hadnot been for a preceding circumstance.

I remembered my encounter with President Dickey.He had become for me a model of the kind of manan educational leader could be. I trust and believethat in my years as a chaplain and headmaster, I hadmany similar conferences with recalcitrant studentsand that many got the message, going on to be suc-cessful students and positive, productive citizens.

I am six years deep into retirement and musingabout a lifetime that passed in a flash. We have allexperienced difficult passages in life where we were


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I am six years into retirement and musingabout a lifetime that passed in a flash.

Russell Ingersoll

forced to give up much of what has given us mean-ing, identity, and purpose. One of those passages isour retirement. We wake up one morning withoutthe insistent ring of the alarm clock. Approachingit, I joked with friends that in retirement every daywould be Saturday with no alarms to wake me, andeach day would await me to see what I might feel likedoing with it—sounded pretty good in the abstract.

But it wasn’t a frivolous thing. It wasn’t just aboutalarm clocks and freedom to do what I wishedeach day. The reality is that in this passage I shed askin that had carried with it my meaning, purpose,and identity as well as many of my most valuedassociations. What do we do when we shed ourskin? Grow a new one. But how does one grow anew skin at 65 when one has been living in thesame skin all this time?

What I experienced is that we have not been livingin the same skin all our lives. We have shed it manytimes and lived distinct and disparate lives. Eachtime we came to a passage that required us to shedour skin and grow a new one, we discovered that, infact, there is life after death—I am who I am evenwhen I am not what I used to be.

In my 71 years, I had many passages (marriage,career changes, losses of loved ones and closefriends, tragic, life altering events, job changes, andmoves) each of which has raised the question:“What am I when I am not what I used to be?”

I have discovered that I am who I am. I have livedmany different lives, shed many old skins, and wornmany new ones yet I am still the same person I wasat the beginning. Each different life, and all the expe-riences and influences of people along the way, havemade significant etchings on me (and few wrinkles)and made me stronger, if not better looking.

Now our 50th reunion looms with that existentialquestion yet again, “Who am I when I am not whatI used to be?” That, I think is the point of ourreunion. Not to go back to relive what we were butto come together again in the fullness of time anddiscover what we have become. As Joan Chittisterhas said, our reunion can, “Allow those experiences(and friendships) to wash through us again, this timenot so much for the circumstances we remember asfor the insight they bring, the warmth they give usyet. These are experiences that had meaning to usthen, and there is meaning in them yet to be suckedout, to be savored—differently, of course, but still.”

Our reunion can foster this kind of experience; wecan come away from it a little warmer, with a littlemore insight, and a better grasp of the meaning ofthe life we are blessed to enjoy. We should be ableto return home and take on our retirement yearsmore at peace with the question, “What am Iwhen I am not what I used to be?”

Alexander V.W. InghamSandy

319 Tennent Road, Morganville, NJ 07751, (732) 591-1040, «[email protected]» Spouse: Nadine Lawson

Robert B. IrvineBob

497 Lightfoot Road, Louisville, KY 40207, (502) 897-5278, «[email protected]» Spouse: Rebecca Mason

Roderick T. Isaacson Roderick T. Isaacson died onMarch 3, 1974.

David Jablonsky624 Yorkshire Drive, Carlisle, PA 17013Life’s Pursuits: Writing: 6 books; 8 monographs; 20-30 articles.Latest book due out March-April2010 from Yale University Press:War by Land, Sea, and Air:Dwight Eisenhower and theConcept of Unified Command.Career: 30 years as an infantryofficer in the U.S. Army. I servedthroughout the continental United States, Germany, Belgium,and Viet Nam. Awards and decorations include the Silver


Star and Purple Heart. Military schooling: Command andGeneral Staff College and U.S. Army War College. I retired asa colonel in 1991. Subsequently served as civilian Professor of National Securityat the U.S. Army War College. Civilian schooling: MA in inter-national relations from Boston University; MA and PhD inhistory from the University of Kansas. I held the Elihu RootChair of Strategy; the George C. Marshall Chair of MilitaryStudies; and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Chair of NationalSecurity. In 2007, was made a Distinguished Fellow of theU.S. Army War College. Family: One daughter, Kyra, who lives in San Francisco, whereshe works for the SF Ballet and is married to a lawyer. Theyare a constant source of love and pride to us.Wife: I met the former Wiebke Meseck during the crisis overthe Berlin Wall. She had escaped from East Germany whenshe was younger and was at the time a Pan Am stewardess.We were married in 1965 and in Churchill’s description ofhis own wedding, “lived happily ever after.” Best move Iever made.Major at Dartmouth: History

I view the 50th reunion with anticipation and sometrepidation. Anticipation because of meeting friendsI haven’t seen in half a century and getting to knowother classmates for the first time. Trepidation,because of reminders made sharper by time andexperience of how little I took advantage of all thatwas offered at Dartmouth. A three-year stint in theArmy prior to college would have given me thematurity many of my classmates already possessedat the time. In any event, I was lucky to have backedinto a career in the military, a noble profession thathas give back to me much more that I contributed.

Jerome R. Jackson Jerome R. Jackson died onMarch 30, 1982.

Albert B. Jacobs3301 Charlemagne Circle,Pittsburgh, PA 15237, (412) 367-0292

Loren A. JacobsonPO Box 23657, Santa Fe, NM 87502, (505) 820-0448, «[email protected]» Spouse: Linda Goodman Occupation: Education, New Mexico Inst. of Mining andTech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801

Craig E. Jameson305 Middle Road, Brentwood, NH 03833, (603) 642-6721, «[email protected]» Spouse: Roberta E. Jameson Occupation: Chemicals

Murray J. Janus 309 Cheswick Lane, Richmond, VA 23229, «[email protected]»Career: Attorney specializing incriminal defenseFamily: I have two daughters:Laurie L, Janus, Smith, 1990, UVALaw, 1994; and Rabbi Beth A.Janus, Smith, 1993, Hebrew UnionCollege, New York Wife: Shelly B. Janus Major at Dartmouth: History; UVA Law School, 1993Dartmouth Activities: Pi Lambda Phi, President; intra-mural sports; Inter-fraternity Council


It seems like a few years ago that I was going to theannual Princeton football game, always the last oneof the year and always at Princeton. I recall we wonmore often than not. I remember seeing alumni incamel hair coats and Tyrolean hats, tailgating byJags and Mercedes and thinking, “When I grow upI want to be like tem.” Well, it is 50 years later andwe’re them.

After my family, comprising two daughters, one alawyer and the other a Rabbi, my beautiful wife,and our four grandchildren, my entire life has beendevoted to the practice of law.

I am a criminal defense lawyer and am proud of mycareer including being President of the NationalAssociation of Criminal Defense Lawyers and amember of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

I am still going at it full time albeit I am more tiredat the end of the day now. I enjoy it, as it is fasci-nating and interesting. I have had the pleasure oftrying some rather prominent cases over the years.

I credit Dartmouth for providing me with thediverse liberal arts education and background thatassured my acceptance by a great law school atUVA. My campus life was centered at Pi Lam frater-nity, where friendships made are lifelong. I do notsee my brothers as often as I’d like, nor do I returnto Hanover much either, but I think frequently ofour years there.

I am an avid aficionado for UVA athletics; the col-lege is only an hour up the road. Yet I continue tobe distressed about athletics at Dartmouth, and Ihave written to our Class Newsletter on the subject.I suppose we were spoiled by being at Dartmouthduring its “glory years,” but the present situation isembarrassing to say the least.

Nevertheless, life has been good to me, and I remainproud of my Dartmouth heritage.

Howard J. Jelinek 119 Sunset Terrace, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, (949) 494-1371, «[email protected]» Spouse: Judith Jelinek Occupation: Electronic DesignAssociates, 15530 Rockfield Blvd,Suite C, Irvine, CA 92618, (949) 540-0650

William F. Jerome Bill

9448 Stonebrook Drive, Charlevoix, MI 49720, (231) 547-5470, «[email protected]» Spouse: Diane Jerome Occupation: Health/Science

Bob Jervis 719 Center Rd., Middlesex, VT 05602(802) 223-2712,«[email protected]»

Hello! Bob Jervis, from thegreen hills of Vermont. I’velived here for 41 years, and,despite the fact that I’ll neverbe a native Vermonter, I reallydo feel at home here. I’vecome to know its people andplaces, its mountains and lakes, its rocks and min-erals, the forests, fields, bogs, and marshes. I knowtheir trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants; mam-mals that live here, the many birds, both thosewho have settled here for good, and those who canlive with our climate’s demands only part of theyear and who fly away to winter elsewhere. Thisknowledge, and my excitement with the workingsof the natural world, I have been privileged toshare with students, faculty, and friends ever sincemy Dartmouth days.

I love Vermont, yet on many occasions, largelybecause of curiosity, I have traveled, often far fromits geographic boundaries, to study and teach theecology of this grand world we share (and hope wecan find ways to continue sharing). One of the


Murray Janus and his grandchildren

greatest satisfactions in my life lies in the success ofmy semester-on-the-road courses in which I haveexplored the intricacies of regional ecology in NewEngland, the American Southeast, the Southwest,the Pacific Coast, Alaska, the Rocky Mountains,Belize, and the Bahamas. What a way to see theworld and to see students’ knowledge expand byleaps and bounds!

My greatest satisfaction, however, has come frommy lifetime (well, 281⁄2 years so far) partnership withLinda Radtke, my wife—the woman of my dreams.We live together in a comfortable (now that we’veinstalled new energy-efficient windows!) 1830sfarmhouse that’s much too big for our needs butprovides us with the space to be apart when weneed to be, and to be hospitable when we wish.

Linda and I met on stage. I was directing her inGilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers. She has sincedirected me in a production of The Crucible, mymost challenging role, as John Proctor. We havesung many G&S leading roles together, as well asArthur and Guinevere in Camelot, and CaptainVon Trapp and Maria in The Sound of Music. We havelifted our voices often as members of the VermontSymphony Orchestra Chorus. Theater and musicare strong ties for us, as is our travel.

We have explored the temples of Japan and Thailand,visited in homes in Soviet Russia and Georgia andseen their wonderful historic sights, and have trav-eled the length and breadth of Costa Rica and Belize.But I believe our strongest ties come from simplysharing our lives in the relatively isolated back-roadretreat we call home. We garden together and cooktogether. We read and watch the movies I have col-lected (a long-time obsession!).

Linda retired after 31 years of teaching high-schoolEnglish and directing student productions but isequally busy today with her own classical-musicradio programs, singing in Vermont’s professionalvocal ensemble, Counterpoint, touring the state

with “Vermont History through Song,” and man-aging a district-wide teacher and mentoring pro-gram. I am continually buoyed by Linda’s gentleencouragement, her sincerity, intellect, beauty, anddelightful companionship.

My children, who are no longer young children,continue to be a significant part of my life. Rebeccais a nurse–midwife in New Mexico. Michael is a

computer guru in Boston. The loss of my parentsleft a measurable void in my life, as I’m sure is sofor many of my classmates. But were they alive, I’msure they would be pleased and proud.

Finally, I could not close this reflection withoutacknowledging the immense importance of myfriends (several among them Dartmouth ’60s), whohave provided caring companionship during goodtimes and bad and whose lives I know I havetouched as well.

Kenneth E. Johansen1783 Bartlett Avenue, Orange Park, FL 32073, (908) 264-2078, «[email protected]»Career: Retired from: Federal PaperBoard Co. Inc. (purchased by Inter-national Paper in 1991), BobstGroup Inc. (A U.S.-based manufac-turer of Swiss machinery)Wife: RuthFamily: Karen in Orange Park, Fla.(2 grandchildren); Kathy in Butler,N.J. (5 grandchildren)

I think that I may be the only first-generationDane in our Class to attend Dartmouth. My moth-er and father were born in Denmark and lived only20 miles from each other but never had a chanceto meet. However, they both came to the UnitedStates and met at a dance in the Scandinavian sec-tion of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The net result was meand an older sister. Thankfully, my parents wereardent advocates of education, especially college.That was the reason I was able to attend Dartmouth,along with some decent SAT scores.

Fast-forward to 2009 for a retrospective about myinvolvement with my job, Dartmouth, community,and church. Prior to 1994, I was a Class Agent for afew years and then was tapped to serve as ReunionGiving Chair for our 35th reunion. That was theentrée for extensive class involvement for the next


I’ve lived here for 41 years, and, despite thefact that I’ll never be a native Vermonter, I really do feel at home here.

Bob Jervis

Kenneth Johansen with Ruth and the grandchildren

15 years. I served the class as Head Agent from 1996to 2005, during which time we set a few records fordollars raised and participation in the DartmouthCollege Fund. Those records have since been bro-ken, but we set the bar for younger classes. From apersonal perspective, the ability to renew oldacquaintances and to establish new connectionswith classmates has been heart-warming.

In 1990, my job as Manufacturing Manager waseliminated with the purchase of Federal Paper byInternational Paper. I was hired by the Bobst Groupto serve as a Technical Support Manager. Bobst is amajor Swiss machinery supplier to the folding car-ton, corrugated packaging, and printing industries.A major reorganization of their U.S. operations inmid-1998 resulted in the elimination of my position.After working briefly as a consultant for the FortJames Corp., Great Western Press hired me andmoved my family to Plano, Texas in 1999. The workas a Plant Manager was rewarding but short due toclashes in philosophy and expectations. So, I retiredin 2000 to devote more time to volunteer work.

While in Texas, Ruth and I trained and becamedocents at the Heard Wildlife Sanctuary and Museumin McKinney, Texas. The Heard is a 300-acre preservededicated to educating students about nature andthe preservation of wildlife. We both attended theParish Lay Ministry Academy to become authorizedlay ministers in the North Texas-North LouisianaSynod of the Lutheran Church. In September 2007,we moved to Florida. As a result of our lay ministrytraining in Texas, we were accepted as authorizedSynod Deacons by the Florida-Bahamas Synod ofthe Lutheran Church. We moved to Florida to helpour single-parent daughter and her two children,ages 8 and 7 in 2007. During our time in bothFlorida and Texas, we also planned visits to see ourdaughter, son-in-law and five grandchildren inNew Jersey.

It has been my privilege to serve as your ClassPresident from 2006 to 2010. Once again I wasblessed with the opportunity to get to know moreof my classmates. During this time, involvement bythe Class has been incredible. We set new recordsfor four straight years for participation and dollarsraised for the Dartmouth College Fund. We wereawarded Honorable Mention as Class of the Yearfor 2008. I was personally honored by the Collegeas Class President of the Year for 2008. For theClass Officers Association, I was elected to serve aspresident of the Association for 2009-2010. Noneof this would have been possible without outstand-ing support from members of our Class.

Edward J. Johanson4206 Vaughan Lane, Sarasota, FL 34241, (941) 371-3836, «[email protected]» Spouse: Cynthia E. Johanson Occupation: Manufacturing

Dana K. Johnson24 Davenport Avenue, Westport, CT 06880, (203) 227-7810, «[email protected]» Spouse: Virginia Johnson

Edward E. Johnson1210 Yarmouth Road,Wynnewood, PA 19096, (610) 642-2086 Occupation: Government/Military


College Hall, now Collis

Gregor Ernest Johnson Gregor Ernest Johnson wasborn on August 17, 1938, inBillings, the son of Dr.Raymond G. and Nellie “Nell”M. Johnson. He died onDecember 7, 2009, in FallsChurch, of natural causes.

James D. Johnson James D. Johnson died onNovember 30, 2000.

James D. Jones James D. Jones died on August27, 1995.

Stanley B. JonesStan

PO Box 1848, Shepherdstown, WV 25443, (304) 876-6006, «[email protected]» Spouse: Judith K. Jones

Bob Kahn40 St. Stephen Road, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 2BJ, England, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I have been pursu-ing God, and He has been pursuingme. At Dartmouth, expressing myJewish faith was (and still is) impor-tant to me. But then, in reading theNew Testament, I came to believethat Jesus (or Yeshua, the Jewishname of Jesus) really is the Messiah.I became a Roman Catholic for some 25 years, a non-denomi-national Protestant for six years, and then an Eastern Ortho-dox Christian in 1993. Now, as an Orthodox sub-deacon, I find an attractive unity between my Jewish roots and myChristian worship. Jews and Christians (of all denominations)really do have one faith. Career: On leaving Dartmouth, I came to England on aJames B. Reynolds Fellowship (a one-year gift from Dartmouth)and stayed. I did two years of military service in France (withthe U.S. Army Adjutant General’s Corps, running a printingplant) and then returned to London where I worked forsome five years on educational programs about developingcountries. I then worked in London for 17 years for a charitythat gave housing advice to people on low incomes, followedby two years as director of a charitable trust, after which Icame to Kansas City, Missouri, for seven years, working in aninner-city Christian mission, and as a university teaching andresearch assistant. After two years working as a volunteer andteaching English and history in Tel Aviv, Israel, I returned toEngland and worked for four years as Sales Manager of Ortho-dox Christian Books. For the past four years, my primaryactivity has been speaking about and running an educa-tional website on pandemic influenza. (www.fluaction.org) Family and Roots: On coming to Dartmouth, I left myhome in Atlanta behind, just as on leaving Dartmouth I leftthe United States behind to live permanently in England.However, three of our five children (all of whom were broughtup in England) have returned to the States. As their homes


Bob Kahn with two of his grandsons


are now in Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Seattle, my wife and I see quite a bit of the States. The occupations of our familynow include scientific policy work for a charitable founda-tion, project management for a local charity, finance, teach-ing and international business development. We have 12grandchildren, ages 1 to 17.Wife: I met my wife of the past 47 years, Sylvia (born inCoventry, England), when we were studying together in 1960at the London School of Economics. In addition to raising ourfive children, she became a lawyer, specialising in trust, wills,and probate, having just retired in August 2009. She is, touse an attractive phrase from one of my relatives, “some-thing special.”Major at Dartmouth (and advanced degrees): EnglishLiterature. I also have a MA in Public and Social Administra-tion (from Brunel University in London), a MA in TeachingEnglish as a Second or Other Language (from Central Mis-souri State University), a PhD in Education (from Universityof Missouri-Kansas City) and several diplomas in religiousstudies. I just finished a Bachelor of Science Degree at theOpen University in England. It would be quite appropriateto call me “overeducated,” but I am trying to link the learn-ing to practical pursuits.Dartmouth Activities: I was active at Dartmouth with theDebating Society and the Jewish Life Council, rowed crew as afreshman, gave a joint presentation with Margaret Mead, andwon an essay contest sponsored by the Tucker Foundation.

My life is my essay. If any member of the Class of’60 wishes to continue the dialogue begun byMusings, I will be happy to reply.

Gary Kanady15401 Meherrin Court, Centreville, VA 20120, (703) 818-0563, «[email protected]» Spouse: Mary Frances Kanady Occupation: Advertising, 15401 Meherrin Court, Centreville, VA 20120, (703) 447-5993

Monte A. Kasuske Monte A. Kasuske died onMarch 8, 1958.

L. William Katz Bill

5021 South Barley Court, Gilbert, AZ 85298, (480) 248-6547, «[email protected]» Spouse: Betsy P. Katz

Melvin Edward KauMel

2539 Manoa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I am currently inthe practice of Optometry, was aNaval Officer (Active and Reserve-retired), was a Past Master ofMasonic Lodge (Le Progres DeL’Oceanie), am a 32nd degreeScottish Rite Mason and Shriner(Aloha Temple), am currently a St. Peter’s Church choirmember (for over 20 years), am a former vestry member,and am an usher.Career: Private Practice of Optometry (Sole Proprietor), andNaval Reserve Captain (MSC), USNR-retired.Family: Two children, Lisa, 20, attending Scripps College inClaremont, California, and Carole, 15, attending PunahouAcademy in Honolulu, HawaiiWife: Kooi Sim Ng-Kau, Certified Public Accountant, atTudor and Wilson, CPA’s in Honolulu, HawaiiMajor at Dartmouth: Biology; also an advanced degree,O.D. (Doctor of Optometry) from Southern California Collegeof Optometry, Fullerton, CaliforniaDartmouth Activities: Theta Delta Chi, Casque andGauntlet, Green Key, S.O.C., Rugby 2,3,4, Football 1, Crew1, Glee Club 1, Canterbury Club, NROTC

Mel Kau at Lisa’s graduation from Punahou

Meaning of Life

Ahura Mazda says the meaning of life is his, I say the meaning of life are these,To love and be loved by someone special,To work at a meaningful job that’s real,To leave this world a better place,Hopefully to finish the race,In tune with God and rest of mankind,Be remembered by those who are left behind.

Edgar D. KauffmanEd

2970 Baldwin Mill Road, Baldwin, MD 21013, (410) 877-8446, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sally Kauffman Occupation: Retail/Wholesale

Charles M. KaufmanChuck

64 Woodchuck Hollow Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724,(631) 425-5194, Cell (516) 448-3112, «[email protected]»Career: Executive in dairy business Wife: Diane (married 50 years) Family: David (49); Elaine (46);Lynn (42). Six grandchildren: 1 girl(21), 5 boys (19 to 13) Dartmouth Activities: President, Dartmouth Club OfficersAssociation; Alumni Council; President, DCLI (DartmouthClub of Long Island); Chairman, Continuing Education ofDCLI (20 years); Interviewer of prospective Dartmouth stu-dents (40 years)

As I thought about writing this, I decided that Iwould like to express my feelings as they relate toDartmouth and the Class of 1960.

My fondest memories are of the Dartmouth of “ourtime.” It had its own uniqueness and flavor. Tanzi’s,Doggie, Al Foley, Road Trips, Great Issues, and therest are just a few to mention as memory joggers.They are enough to bring a smile to my face.

That period at Dartmouth, and the experiences Ihad, has stayed with me all of these years. Havinggone through some difficult times, I have foundthose memories to be a comfort because they bringme back to a wonderful time in my life with goodpeople who lived and played in a good place. Itseems appropriate that in thinking of those days

the “400 Club” motto—“The Time is Always Nowand the Place is Always Here”—means more thanever. I am very fortunate and proud to have beenpart of a Class that was successful in every way. Itwas academically, athletically, and socially success-ful then, and it is now.

I value the many friendships I have made.

Raymond P. KeatingRay

PO Box 925, Campton, NH 03223, (603) 726-3922, «[email protected]» Spouse: Christine Keating Occupation: ACCS Inc., PO Box 925, Campton, NH 03223,(603) 726-3132

Timothy A. KellyTim

801 Virginia Avenue, Salem, VA 24153, (540) 389-9933 Occupation: Manufacturing,Salem Vent International Inc., PO Box 885, Salem, VA 24153, (540) 387-0217


Charles Kaufman and his family

Bob Kenerson14 Brooks St., Winchester, MA 01890, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I decided as a sen-ior at Dartmouth to switch to psy-chiatry and have enjoyed 42 yearsof teaching and practicing.Family and Roots: We are afourth-generation Dartmouth familywith daughter Julie from the Classof ‘92. Some of the first songs Ilearned to sing and play were Dartmouth songs.Wife: RuthMajor at Dartmouth: Philosophy and French Literaturewith a minor in MusicDartmouth Activities: Ski Patrol, Glee Club, Freshmansoccer, and piano concretizing

A quick ten years have passed since last composinga contribution to the Musings for our 40th reunion.I think that Ruth and I had achieved a really happyadjustment ten years ago, and we have continued toenjoy the life choices we have made, and the fami-ly, careers, and activities we have built. Mostimportantly, we have enjoyed excellent health. Westill live in the same home where we have been liv-ing for 40 years, enjoying the same town, commu-nity, club, and church. I still have the gratifications

of my psychiatric and psychoanalytic practice,where I have labored for 40 years. It still holds greatinterest, and I have reached a point at which I canmake philanthropic choices, treating many patientsat reduced fees as needed.

Ruth has many of her same activities. She is part ofa town organization that makes many communitycontributions. She is president of the local gardenclub and remains trim with tennis and golf, and wehave fun with mixed golf outings. We take the clubsalong on trips to vary the sight seeing. She remainsvery available to all our offspring for support andproblem-solving, especially for a grandson who is aspecial-needs child. Trips back to Switzerland havebecome less frequent, as her parents have passedon. Her own family has expanded to 21 nieces andnephews, most of who have married, with, at lastcount, 37 grand-nieces and -nephews.

The grandchildren are, of course, of great interest.We have six and are still counting. We keep a secondhome in the White Mountains of New Hampshire,and that’s a favorite gathering point for the entirefamily. We enjoy all seasons, with hiking, skiing,

golf, family fun, and repose. We take pride andpleasure in all our children’s lives. One daughter andher husband have chosen to live in New Zealand forsix months a year, so that our son-in-law can pursuehis love of fishing as a fly-fisherman guide there.Another daughter lives in Burlington, Vermont,where she is head of special needs for three ruraltowns. Her husband is having a successful career asan architect. Our son has chosen to live in SugarHill, New Hampshire, just down from the drivewayof our second home. He is thriving as a preservationcarpenter, a family man, with an antique home andan outdoor life as a skier, fly-fisherman, camper,and volunteer fireman. Our daughter-in-law worksin the children’s ski center at Cannon Mountainski area. Another daughter is a tenured teacher inthe Wellesley, Mass., school system, teaching in thejunior high school that I attended. She and herhusband and child live in Arlington, Mass. Timemoves along very quickly, and our eldest grand-child, a senior in high school, is awaiting wordfrom colleges.

I have continued to reduce my teaching responsi-bilities. I took retirement status at Harvard MedicalSchool this past summer, where I have been teach-ing for 40 years at the residency program where Itrained 1966-1969. I still am invited to speak thereand to take part in co-teaching seminars occasion-ally. Harvard University has issued me a retirementcard permitting me special rates for all culturalevents and free use of all athletic facilities through2030. I assume Harvard will reissue me another cardafter that time. In 2007, the American PsychiatricAssociation made me a life fellow for “life achieve-ment, and a significant contribution to the field ofpsychiatry.”

I still serve as a trustee of the Cardigan MountainSchool in Canaan, N.H. (39 years). The school hasmany exciting things taking place including newbuildings going up and new programs showingmuch creative thinking in education. I headed upthe effort for a new student health center, which


Bob Kenerson and his family

I assume Harvard will reissue me another cardin 2030.

Bob Kenerson

opened its doors in October 2006, and was madean honorary graduate of the school in 2004 inrecognition of my years of service.

A particular pleasure has been golf, playing for ourlocal club in the so called Twilight League, compet-ing against many of the clubs in the Boston area. I have the delusion that my best golf is still aheadof me. Being part of a team again has been invigor-ating, recapturing athletic fun of younger days.

A continuing pleasure is coordinating the Class of1960 Scholars program, staying in touch with theoutstanding students as they progress throughtheir Dartmouth educations and after, and givingthe Class an update each fall at homecoming. Thatprogram has now been operating for the Class since1992, when our first scholar was named. JohnMitchell and I have included a summary of the pro-gram and of our class scholars in this publication.

We have many nice memories of times with the Classof 1960, going back 30 years to the Fall Homecomingweekends held at the Moose Mountain Lodge inEtna, when we sang into the wee hours. Memorabletimes include the birthday parties in San Francisco,Chicago, and last year in Boston/Cape Cod. We lookforward to the 50th and renewing many friend-ships. At the time of our graduation in June 1960,my family had the good fortune of having my Ken-erson grandparents in attendance. They were intheir 80s and were loyal members of all the alumniactivities of the class of 1903. I spoke with themrather casually about how the best of Dartmouthwas over. They corrected me quite vehemently. Theyinsisted that the best was ahead, that if I wouldassociate with the Class and attend events, I wouldhave the rich experience of discovering friendswhom I had never known in the undergraduateyears and have the privilege of watching peoplegrow from insecure adolescents into well developedadults who would become a real source of supportin later life. Their prediction has become a reality.

John H. Kersey Jr. 2292 Doswell Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, (651) 646-8574, «[email protected]» Spouse: Anne Kersey Occupation: Health/Science, Univ. Hospital Minnesota, Box 806 Mayo, 420 Delaware Street SE,Minneapolis, MN 55455, (612) 625-4659

David C. Ketchen

Frank J. Killilea Jr.44 Hathaway Road, Wilmington, MA 01887, (978) 657-8244, «[email protected]» Spouse: Katherine H. Killilea Occupation: Government/Military,City of Beverly, Massachusetts,Department of Engineering, 191 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA 01915, (978) 921-6000

Thomas C. Kirby67 Osborne Rd., Garden City, NY 11530, (516) 294-4088, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: To lead an inter-esting physical and intellectual lifewithout hurting anyoneCareer: Marketing, sales and gen-eral management—corporatestart-ups and turnaroundsWife: Germaine KirbyMajor at Dartmouth: Tuck School, AB D’60, MBA T’61,Marketing and Finance Dartmouth Activities: Psi Upsilon, intramural sports, ski-ing, Outing Club

In my last Musing, I wondered how successful wewould be at keeping life interesting once we moreor less retired from making a living. My career jobswere mostly pointed at making enough income tosupport my wife and two daughters. My goal hadalways been to explore writing, photography, andwhatever level of athletics I could achieve.

As I reduced my business life, I realized that I need-ed a vehicle to do these things and fell into golf,which is probably the local sport of Long Islanddwellers with about 130 courses and 200,000 play-ers. Becoming active in the sporting life of my golf


club was a beginning. As monthly newsletter (veryhistorical) editor, I have produced over 140 missivesdescribing the 110-year history of the club and itsdaily activities. As Historian, I have helped developone of the largest private club museums with 350exhibits on the walls. As Librarian, I have cataloguedover 600 books in our library. As a photographer, Ihave shot hundreds of photos, both grip and grinand reasonably sophisticated nature photos. As aplayer, I have maintained my mid-handicap.

Many of these skills have been transferred to theLong Island Golf and Caddie Scholarship Associa-tion, where I hold similar positions includingdevelopment and tournament management forthat non-profit.

Along the way, I have built approximately 4,000 golfclubs, which allows me to work with my hands.

My two daughters have accomplished careers andgiven me two grandsons. My wife and I are stillenjoying our 46-year marriage.

While man proposes and God disposes, reasonableplans can make life pretty nice.

John R. Kirkpatrick 4611 Foxhall Crescent NW,Washington, DC 20007, (202) 338-1886, «[email protected]» Spouse: Christiana Kirkpatrick Occupation: Health/Science,Washington Hospital Center, Dept. of Surgery, 110 Irving St. NW,Washington, DC 20010

Ain H. Kivimae7208 Grubby Thicket Way,Bethesda, MD 20817, (301) 469-7076

Peter Klaren9438 Rabbit Hill Rd., Great Falls, VA 22066, «[email protected]»Wife: Sara Castro Klaren, b.Arequipa, PeruMajor at Dartmouth: History;PhD, UCLA, 1968Dartmouth Activities: Member ofPhi Kappa Psi fraternity

My life since Dartmouth hasliterally taken me around theWestern Hemisphere: UCLA, where I did my gradu-ate work in Latin American history and politics(1961-68); Peru, where I spent 18 months doingfield work for my dissertation (1965-66); back andforth periodically to Peru and elsewhere in LatinAmerica where I did research, lectured, and traveledduring my now forty year academic career. Evenback to Hanover where I briefly taught at Dartmouth(1970-72) and to George Washington University(GWU) where I am beginning my 37th year teach-ing (1972-present).

I met my wife Sara Castro, who was also a graduatestudent at UCLA, and we were married in 1963.She is a professor of Latin American Culture andLiterature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.Prior to Hopkins, Sara taught for more than adozen years at Dartmouth where she was one ofthe first women to receive tenure (during the presi-dency of John Kemeny). We currently live in GreatFalls, Virginia, some 15 miles from the White Houseand GWU, in a large, stone, and cedar contempo-rary set on six wooded acres, adjoining a 25-acrefarm where I power-walk with my Lab-Beagle Rustyseveral times a week.

During the early years of our married life in the’70s, Sara and I were among the first young aca-demic couples to commute between our respectiveuniversities—Dartmouth and GWU. On a flightfrom Lebanon to Boston I once sat next to econo-mist Milton Friedman, who was surprised to hear


Tom Kirby and his grandchildren

the details of this “academic commuting marriage.”Commuting was made more tolerable because ofDartmouth’s quarter system, which enabled me tospend summers in Hanover and Sara, the winterquarter in Washington. We flew back and forth bi-weekly during the fall and spring quarters. Thecommute and the trials and tribulations of thetenure-run, however, served to postpone havingchildren until our daughter Alexandra came alongafter 17 years of marriage in 1980. Two years laterSara moved to Hopkins, and her commute wasshortened to an hour or so as we consolidated ourtwo homes, first in McLean, Virginia, for the next18 years where we brought up Alexandra, and nowin Great Falls.

As I reflect over my years since Dartmouth in thisshort bio for Musings, I feel particularly blessed,having had good health, a wonderful loving wife ofalmost 47 years, a lovely daughter, Alexandra, nowmarried (she and her husband David are pursuingadvanced degrees at the University of Pittsburgh),and a stimulating and collegial teaching career. AtDartmouth, I was fortunate to have superb teachers—Lew Stillwell, John Gazley, Bob Riegel, Bob Huke,Francisco Ugarte, and John Hurd among others, asmy major in history set me on the road for a life-long career as a historian.

I have also achieved success in academia as a spe-cialist on Peru with most of my books having beentranslated and published in Peru, and in teaching

having won the Trachtenberg Teaching Award atGWU in 1995. I have published three books andnumerous scholarly articles and was a contributor tothe prestigious Cambridge History of Latin America(1986). At a recent conference on Peru that Iattended, a well-known Peruvian sociologist con-gratulated me on my history of Peru (Oxford, 2000),saying that he was only sorry that the best historyof Peru had been written by a foreigner! I waselected to two terms and am currently a memberof the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senateat GWU, which has given me an intimate view ofthe workings of the university.

Some highlights of my life and career (some happy,a couple not so) include presenting my work at aConference at Kings College, Cambridge, in the ’70sin which the distinguished historian Eric Hobsbawmmade an extemporaneous, generally hard, but favor-able critique of my work. The time in Argentinawhen Sara and I were briefly detained at a railwaystation in Buenos Aires as suspected terrorists in1976 at the start of what became known as the“dirty wars” in Argentina and Latin America. Onthe same visit to Buenos Aires where I was angrilyconfronted in front of the Pink House (Argentina’sequivalent to the U.S. White House) by a youngwoman who turned out to be in the vanguard theprotests of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo onbehalf of their “disappeared” children during thedirty war. The baptism of Alexandra in the gardenof our home in Hanover by William Cofflin, the

Episcopal chaplain at Yale and anti-war activistwho used to summer in Strafford, Vermont. Theintimate luncheon that we had with PresidentFernando Belaunde Terry and his minister of cul-ture at the presidential palace in Lima, with three-year-old Alexandra in tow. And finally the marveloussummer that Sara and I spent as junior scholars atthe Aspen Institute.

On the lighter side, I have enjoyed over the yearsplaying tennis and attending GWU basketball gamesand various opera, ballet, and other cultural perform-ances and activities available here in Washington. Ihave recently taken up golf, which I abandoned inmy impetuous and impatient youth, but have nowrediscovered to my considerable delight.

In sum, it’s been a great run and I hope, God will-ing, has more to go as we enter our senior years.


Peter Klaren and Sara

Sara and I were briefly detained in 1976 at a railway station in Buenos Aires as suspected terrorists.

Peter Klaren

Ron KleyPO Box 111, East Winthrop, ME 04343, (207) 395-4327, «[email protected]» Spouse: Linda Kley Occupation: Museum ResearchAssociates, 11 Spring Street,Hallowell, ME 04347,(207) 395-4837

Thornton Kline Jack

1882 Shaw Woods Drive, Rockford,IL 61107, (815) 877-3521, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Travel (mostly toforeign countries), hiking, kayaking,canoeing, and photography; Ameri-can Cancer Society participation,state and local; Rockford SymphonyOrchestra, Board/ PresidentCareer: Radiation Oncologist, SwedishAmerican Hospital, Rockford, Illinois; Chair, Department ofRadiation Oncology (until retirement 2003), University ofIllinois School of Medicine at Rockford, Institutional ReviewBoard (Chair), still active. Retired from practice 5/31/2003Family: Two sons, one with a PhD in Philosophy and onewith a Masters in International RelationsWife: Genevieve (Genny) Kline, Plant Taxonomist, World’sauthority on AgrimoniaMajor at Dartmouth: Biology; MD, Boston University Schoolof Medicine. Residency in Surgery (one year), Residency inRadiation Oncology, Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center(now Rush University Medical Center); Pillsbury Fellowshipto the United Kingdom in Radiation Oncology–one yearDartmouth Activities: Led a freshman trip sophomoreyear; Phi Tau fraternity

Don B. Knapp II 1645 Manor Way South, Saint Petersburg, FL 33712, Spouse: Patricia Knapp Occupation: 6499 38th AvenueNorth B-1, Saint Petersburg, FL 33710, (727) 344-1407

Duncan KnappPO Box 11035, Big Canoe, GA 30143, (706) 579-2617, «[email protected]» Spouse: Linda Knapp Occupation: Forest/PaperProducts, Triwood Corporation, 124 Austin Road, Americus, GA 31719, (229) 928-2233

Norris Knosher79 Independence Green, Montpelier,VT 05602, (802) 223-2427; Winter/spring: Centralstrasse 29,3800 Interlaken, Switzerland;«[email protected]»

Thanks to Dartmouth, I havenever been bored. I have appre-ciated music, art, literature,history, geography, the beautyof nature and its grandness andits detail, and have had theopportunity to indulge myself in all. Dartmouthalso gave me a step up in society, and gave me someof my best friends to this day, though one has died.

Beyond Dartmouth, life has been a disappointment.I have never forgotten the defeat of Barry Goldwaterand never forgiven the Americans who made us losethe war in Viet Nam. I have found good peopleand bad people everywhere, but on balance theworld, and especially the people of the United Statesand Vermont, have displeased me. Governmenthas become, even where it has not outlawed it, thereligion of the people, and shopping is their formof worship. Achievement is punished, honesty isdisparaged and derided, and laws are passed toassuage the “People” and oppress those who try toobey them. Morality has been replaced by govern-ment regulation, which though sparsely enforced,


Jack Kline with Genevieve

provides employment. The genuinely elite arescorned and common people, ordinary Americans,are held up as the ideal. The vulgar and obscenehave spread into every corner. Casinos and lotteries,once confined to Nevada, are ubiquitous.

I left Dartmouth and continued at Harvard Law,which I never liked, but I graduated. Jobs were hardto find, but Dartmouth had led me to Vermont,which I loved at the time. Vermont was the mostconservative state in the Union, free from racialstrife, cool, and green, and it had a job for me atNational Life Insurance Company, est. 1850.

Dartmouth’s president Hopkins had moved on tobe president there. After eight years, National Lifebegan reaching down, and I left to start a local lawpractice, solo. There I met people face to face, withreal problems and for whom I could sometimeshelp. That provided me great satisfaction, if notsufficient income. After another 12 years, I returnedto National Life, to a job dealing with regulators ofcourse, but that afforded travel. When I was 51, Iwas offered early retirement, which left me free toput travel first and return to private practice secondand supplemental. Since then I have progressivelypracticed less and traveled more.

I have never owned a house (only a condominium)or had to mow a lawn and have never married (untilrecently wasn’t allowed to). Fortunately, I neverwanted children, but I have thoroughly enjoyed,

and been blessed by, the children of several closefriends. In little Montpelier I built, I think, a respect-ed place the community, and was active for 30 yearsin the Congregational church, and now in theBarre Universalist church, and for ever so manyyears in the now politicized and governmentalizedAmerican Red Cross, in both the local chapter andthe blood program.

I have also gravitated more and more towardsEurope, at first because of my only brother whoemigrated to Germany after U.S. military service in1972. Upon early retirement I studied German atthe Goethe Institute in Berlin for six months. Forthe past two years I’ve spent half of each year inInterlaken, Switzerland, a country and a people I find much freer than America and Americans. I’mright at the base of the Jungfrau (one can’t lookdown at the Jungfrau) and travel to almost anyplace I care to by train in a day. I’ve found a churchhome in the Methodist church there and am mak-ing friends, am able to visit my friends scatteredabout Europe, and enjoy visits from Americanfriends (without being able to provide accommoda-tions). For me, it’s a better life, by far, from theUnited States of America today.

Gene Kohn518 Quinobequin Road, Waban, MA 02468, (617) 795-1715, «[email protected]»Wife: Judy Kohn, University ofNebraska at Omaha, Lesley Univ.Children: Stacy Schreiber, Brandeis;Janet Rebman, Emory; Andrew Kohn, USCGrandchildren: Alie Schreiber,Trinity College ’13,Deanna Schreiber,Staples High School, Westport, CT;Trey Rebman, Hanover High School, Hanover, NH; DanielleRebman, Richmond Middle School, Hanover, NH

What did Dartmouth nurture and develop that hasbeen most important to me?

Looking back is not something I do too frequently,but Musings prompted me to pull out the rear viewmirror. The word “curiosity” best characterizes whatcame bursting out of four years in Hanover. We weretold and sold that a liberal arts education would bethe best preparation for whatever we might face aftercollege. I bought in. It has become clearer to meover the years that the liberal arts concept has, infact, been most critical to how my life has unfolded.

No particular class or contact or activity stands outas determinative in choices I made for business.However, I have been fortunate to be involved in awide and varied diet of ventures. Changing careers


Norris Knosher

For the past two years I’ve spent half of each year in Interlaken, Switzerland.

Norris Knosher


every few years probably reflects the restlessness and“curiosity” that came from exposure to the liberalarts. I did not like repeating a project, or even anindustry—there was always more curiosity aboutthe “next” set of problems, the next “unknown.”

What has gone down outside of business all startedat Dartmouth. What a variety of experiences!

The Dartmouth Bible to Proust; Catullus to Joyce;Math 1’s Brown to Beowulf.

Cold mornings delivering the Times to late nightsat the Four Aces for Debate.

Concerts in Webster and theatre in Robinson.

Art—who knew where Herbert worked or what washanging on his walls.

Roommates hard to figure; a year of fraternity liv-ing; a joyous year in Sachem.

Working through family financial issues at homeand with Bob Huke.

Offering puerile advertising advice to McFate at theInn or the Piani group at Dartmouth Skis and theCo-op with Jim Johnson as my partner.

All of this was stimulating—the people more impor-tant than the books or classes or term papers.

But Dartmouth only jump-started the quest. Alongwith most of you, I now know there were notenough years; not enough hours. What I missed, I have chased over these last 50 years, still hopingto get to it all. My curiosity is insatiable about the“what, when, who, and why” of way too much. (I am seldom interested in “how” so, I guess, myDartmouth education was not perfect.)

Fortunately, this penchant for the next thing hasbeen supported by and contributed to by my family.Some might call my “short attention span” almostirresponsible in creating a stable home and businessenvironment. But Judy has allowed me to indulge.In many areas, she challenges me still to catch up

to where she has already progressed. Importantly,she raised three kids who have found unique pathsthrough life, bringing partners and grandchildreninto our world. I marvel at how the family constant-ly alters what we think we know and what we haveyet to learn.

The Class of 1960 has been a big part of our twolives from 1963 when I started to write the Newslet-ter. The commitment to the Class Judy and I feel is

about many of you. Some of you have been con-stant in our lives from the earliest days. Some wehave come to know as partners-in-service in alumniactivities. Some of you were just names on a listwho we really met only at one of our 1960 Birth-day Parties. We are both curious to meet once again,or for the first time, those of you who will come toHanover in June for our Fiftieth.

Harry R. Kolbe136 Ranch Road, Schuylkill Haven, PA 17972, (570) 366-2533 Spouse: Margaret Kolbe

Roland Kolman Roli

8622Davington Dr., Dublin, OH 43017, «[email protected]»Career: Consumer products’ salesand marketingFamily and Roots: I have two sons,Kent, SMU ’86; Ted SMU ’90, MBAU of Texas ’94; a brother, Mike D’64;a brother-in-law, Ted Izzard D’59;and two nephews, Mike Kolman Jr.D’91 and Alex Izzard III D’88.Wife: Charlotte Coomer, Morehead State U. BS ’68,Bowling Green U. Med ’84 Major at Dartmouth: Sociology; MS, Boston U., 1961 Dartmouth Activities: Beta Theta Pi (Secretary), Rugby(Captain), Sphinx, S.O.C, Winter Carnival publicity director,Army ROTC

Along with most of you, I now know therewere not enough years; not enough hours.

Gene Kohn

Gene Kohn and Judy

In our 25th reunion Musings, I candidly wrote that,at that point in time, “Dartmouth was the happiest,most joyful period in my life.” That reflected wellon Dartmouth but not on my life.

My cherished wife Mimi (sister of Ted Izzard ’59)had died of cancer in 1975, my second marriage

had ended in divorce after around two years, leav-ing me a single father raising two sons. My businesscareer had as many “downs” as “ups.” I wrote that “atour 50th reunion I hope to report I have had morehappiness and joy after Dartmouth than during.”

It’s 50th reunion time, and my wish for happinessand joy has come true. Here’s how it all happened:

Both sons graduated from S.M.U., started careers,are happily married, and are prospering in Dallas.Of course, my two grandchildren are exceptional,just like yours!

In 1991, I became a manufacturer’s rep selling to theimprinted sportswear industry. While the businessprovided a very comfortable living, more impor-tantly, I didn’t have to worry about bosses and sub-ordinates not willing to think or work as hard as I did. It was fulfilling to build a business fromnothing to a lot in a few years.

In 1964, an Englishman (now deceased) and I start-ed the Kansas City Rugby Club, which continues toflourish. Now I find I am semi-revered as the ancientco founder. Ain’t it great to finally have your 15minutes of fame?

In the first 25 years after Dartmouth, I moved tonine different cities. In the last 25 years, I havemoved twice, most recently in September 1993.Staying in one place is marvelous especially if it aspleasant as the Columbus, OH suburb of Dublinhome of Jack’s Memorial Golf Tournament and abubble of prosperity in an economically challengedstate. As a full-fledged Buckeye now, it’s my joy toroot loudly for Ohio State, a school that really knowswhat it’s doing and not only in collegiate athletics.

One of the real joys of Dartmouth that continuesin my life is the enduring friendships begun there.Any contact with Lee, Wahms, Ost, Bowler, Roger,Hard, Chase, Gundy, or Denny always makes mesmile. (Lord knows I do miss Summer, Hoyne, andour beloved McR.) Fortunately, I also have bondedwith a bunch of Dartmouth-like, politically incor-rect, beer (wine)-drinking, and fun-loving Ohiobuddies who keep me laughing and grounded.

Happiness is having good health, which has allowedme to exercise vigorously almost daily for over fourdecades. Is it anal for me to report that I will belogging around 47,000 miles by running and “elip-ticaling” or power walking by June 2010? I’d beeven happier if I learned how to hit a topspin lob!

Ah yes, and finally: the most important reason formy happiness is a gorgeous, blued-eyed, petite,bright, well-educated, passionate, Type A bundle ofenergy going by Charlotte Coomer (whom I’venicknamed “Missy”). A wonderful person to growold with; Missy is fun and funny, never boring,and always eager for new adventures. Although sheis much more refined than I (and you’re thinking“who isn’t”) she still giggles at my off-color com-ments and complains I need new material. Our com-mitted relationship is nearly seven years old now andI consider it as happy a time as any “at Dartmouth.”I’ll confirm that at or 75th reunion in 2035.

Stay tuned!


Roland Kolman and Charlotte Coomer

Massachusetts Hall

I also have bonded with a bunch ofDartmouth-like, politically incorrect, beer(wine)-drinking, and fun-loving Ohio buddieswho keep me laughing and grounded.

Roland Kolman

Morton Kondracke3013 P St. NW, Washington, DC 20007, «[email protected]»

A lecture-agent friend of mineis putting together what willbe a fascinating book of shortessays by mostly-illustriouspeople giving advice to youngpeople starting out in life. Heasked me for one, but I’ll sure-ly get lost among the likes ofColin Powell, Deepak Chopra, Bill Clinton, andLaura Bush. So I thought I would use it as the basisfor this Musing, with commentary. Here it goes:

I wish for you good work and good works—alsofaith, love, joy, and a sense of gratitude.

Work: Finding your vocation—your calling—islikely to be your first pre-occupation. School is thefirst place to look, so study hard and study widely.And don’t miss, as too many do, economics, for-eign languages, and science.

I was very lucky. My vocation found me in juniorhigh, though I tried to be pre-med for two years atDartmouth. I ended up an English Honors major,basically (if you can believe it) because SanbornHouse had a cool hideaway for Honors guys. I dis-covered history, economics, and politics throughGreat Issues. I spent much too much time runningthe Daily D (and badly—I’m no manager), nearlyflunked my comps, and spent far too little timeskiing, reading, and making friends.

When you have figured out what you want to do,do it diligently, enthusiastically, and with principle.Talent is important in getting ahead, but hard workis more so.

If you are very lucky, you will find work that excitesyou and does not just get you money and advancemen, but truly fulfills you. If you are attracted tosuch a calling, go for it.

As I say, journalism was really the only thing I coulddo, and I did better at it than I could have imaginedand probably deserved: Washington correspondent,Newsweek bureau chief, New Republic and Roll Calleditor, McLaughlin Group original, presidentialdebate panelist, Fox News commentator, etc.

I’m sad to say, my profession has deteriorated rap-idly—along with the politics we cover. It really wasnever the case that mainstream journalism was fairand balanced—the New York Times promoted Castroand the sainted Walter Cronkite took it upon him-self to declare the Vietnam war lost when it needn’thave been—but lately the media have becomeshrill, partisan, and highly polarized. I was there atthe beginning of combat journalism with The

McLaughlin Group, but Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck,Lou Dobbs, Keith Olberman, and their ilk havetaken the genre to new lows—both reflecting andexacerbating the right-left battles of Dick Cheney,Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, andtheir ilk. Barack Obama was supposed to heal theserifts, but he hasn’t.

Good Works: All good work helps others directly orindirectly, but you should look for other ways tohelp directly—and the more you succeed in life,the more you should do. Good works aren’t all big—they also include being kind to and interested ineveryone you meet.

Faith: Look for God in your life. If you find Him—the real Him—He will make you generous, coura-geous, and honest. You can be those things with-out Him, but He helps.

Also have faith in yourself. You will have setbacksin life. You may suffer grievously. Faith will see youthrough.

In college I used to be a DCU guest preacher at lit-tle Upper Valley churches—I can’t imagine whatwisdom I could impart—so I’ve always been inter-ested in religion but never got serious about it untilI was a 40-year-old alcoholic and joined AA, whoseprimary dictum is to turn one’s life over to a HigherPower. When I retire (soon: I’m gradually being


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“pasturized”—put out to pasture), I plan to getreally serious by reading a lot of religious books(including the Bible) that I haven’t had time for.

I’m persuaded that God is the embodiment of every-thing Good, True, and Beautiful in the universe andthat the good life consists of doing God’s Work. Myparticular bit of that has been to fight Parkinson’sdisease, which killed my first wife, Milly, and alsoadvance medical research generally. I also want totutor poor kids.

Love: My favorite song is by Sammy Kahn—andbest sung by Jimmy Durante. Part of it goes: “Fame,if you win it, comes and goes in a minute. Where’sthe real stuff in life to cling to? Love is the answer.

Someone to love is the answer. Make someonehappy. Make just one someone happy, and youwill be happy, too.” Profound!

Actually, you should love and make happy morethan one someone: your kids and grandkids.

I have been blessed to find deep love twice. AfterMilly died, I married Marguerite Sallee, now presi-dent of Colin Powell’s America’s Promise Alliance,with whom I share so much we’re practically tele-pathic. (Though she had a distinguished profession-al career as Sallee—Tennessee secretary of humanservices, founder of the business of worksite childcare, LPGA board chair, CEO of three companies.Board member of Saks—she actually changed hername to Kondracke. Very unusual. Very gratifying.)

I’m also blessed with two daughters, two stepsons,and three grandchildren who prove the adage that“grandparenthood is one of the few things in lifethat isn’t overrated.”

Joy: If you do good work(s) and find faith andlove, you will know what joy is. But you can alsolook for joy in small, every day places. Live in themoment. Look for beauty in the world.

Gratitude: Wherever life leads you, remember to begrateful to those who have helped you, including God.

And, two final pieces of advice: Stay in touch withthe friends you make along your way. Don’t let themget away; they are treasures. And, keep a journal.

Joy and gratitude are intertwined. If you’re deep-down grateful for all your blessings, you’ll be deep-down joyful. I need to work on that.

And if I have any regrets in life, they are that I’ve lettoo many friends slip away and never kept a journal.

Arthur E. Kopelman 1432 Waggaman Circle, McLean, VA 22101, (703) 488-0688, «[email protected]» Spouse: Loretta Kopelman

Martin A. Kordick3151 Orange Sun Street, Las Vegas, NV 89135, (702) 240-1725 Spouse: Diane C. Kordick Occupation: Architecture/Construction

Neil M. Koreman 600 Island Blvd., #1506, Aventura, FL 33160, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: Travel, golf, muse-ums, swimming, paintingCareer: Ophthalmologist, MD, andcompany president, MBAFamily: Married 45 years, daugh-ter Elizabeth (41), son Robert (39)‘92, and five grandchildren. Wife: Dorothy Koreman, MD(Dermatologist) Major at Dartmouth: Philosophy; MD, SUNY Downstate;MBA, U of Miami Dartmouth Activities: Aegis

I find it difficult to admit 50 years have elapsedsince I graduated from Dartmouth back in 1960.Ophthalmology was my career for 35 years, and Ialso ran a 200-MD’s partnership known as Pal Medfor eight years after earning my MBA in ’88.

We all have musings on or opinions about theworld around us. Over time it has occurred to methat some institutions we have relied on werewrong. For example, organized religion is a majordisappointment for me. Government decisions togo to war in Viet Nam, Iraq, and Afghanistan makeme wonder how our nearly incompetent leaders,irrespective of party affiliation, made those decisions.

I ended up an English Honors major because Sanborn House had a cool hideaway for Honors guys.

Morton Kondracke

Health care, in which I spent most of my life work-ing, is in need of major repair. The accomplishmentsin medical science in our lifetimes are astounding,but the implementation of them is spotty. I believein a single-payer system. Medicare for all is easy,and it works.

Why hand over 28% of the premiums to middle-men (the insurance companies)?

I do apologize if these musings are a bit “disjointed,”or perhaps I am too outspoken. But I have littlepatience for incompetence. It appears that greedand that incompetence were the undoing of WallStreet in 2009, as we almost encountered a secondGreat Depression. I still hope we’ll see a better worldin 2010 in Hanover.

My Dartmouth experience was a good one, and myson and daughter-in-law (Lynne Cohen Koreman’90) would agree theirs was too.

Martin Kraidin Marty

49 Heartstone Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87506, (505) 992-1492 Spouse: Lynn Kraidin Occupation: Health/Science

Philip C. Kron127 Riveredge Drive, Chatham, NJ 07928, (973) 635-7289, Cell (772) 631-3766, «[email protected]»Wife: Mary Lou B. KronFamily: Jennifer J. Kron, Canton, MA;Catherine M. Kron, Waltham. MACareer: Retired (4/1/00), Citibank,N.A.Dartmouth Major: AB, 1960;MBA, 1961

Boy, have 50 years gone by fast! This past August 29we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary, andnow we are looking forward to our 50th DartmouthReunion next June. And we don’t consider ourselvesold yet. When does “middle age” stop and “oldage” set in? Mary Lou and I, fortunately, still enjoygood health and remain active. In fact, Mary Loufinally got serious about golf a couple of years agoat age 70, and, while not quite an addict, she’snow enjoying it as an 18-hole game! I won thefamily golf championship this past summer withmy best round of the year, soundly beating mydaughter, Jennifer, who has acquired the bad habitof whipping her old man regularly. The ’60s weretruly the “Golden Years” for us, and we hope the’70s will be as good. We spend winters in Florida,summers in “God’s Country” on Canandaigua Lakein the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, andthe shoulder seasons in our hometown of over 40years, Chatham, N.J. Also, we would like to contin-ue to travel on trips such as the one we took thispast September, celebrating our personal 50th, downthe Danube from Prague to Vienna to Budapest,where our picture was taken with the HabsburgRoyal Palace in the background. What’s not to like?

But this is supposed to be a time for reflection and,in looking back, it’s been a pretty good ride. I can’thelp but be reminded of my last conversation witha neighbor who died at 71 from lung cancer. He wasa vibrant, full of life guy who said, “If this thingtakes me, I’ve got no complaints as I’ve really hada great life.” While I’m not anywhere near ready tocheck out, I’d have to say I feel the same way.

First, with regard to family, Mary Lou and I have hada marriage that has stood the test of time and hasproduced a couple of great daughters. While neitheris married, both have partners who we enjoy and wesee them all on a regular basis in Boston, Florida, andon Canandaigua Lake. And, how many coupleshave a parent help celebrate their 50th like my 94-year-old mother did? We survived Mary Lou’s can-cer scare in 1986 and are all the stronger for it.

Second, with regard to my career, the 31 years withCitibank were the “Golden Years” of corporate


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banking, and I wouldn’t change a thing. It was astimulating, challenging, and rewarding career fullof memorable experiences, extensive travel, andgreat personal relationships with both clients andcolleagues, many of whom I’m still in touch with.It was a time in banking and corporate financewhere the culture was to meet the needs of ourclients while balancing the risks to our sharehold-ers. We understood what we were doing and stroveto do the right thing. And, when it came time toretire, I was able to do it on my terms under a bosswho couldn’t understand why I would want to smellthe roses at age 61. Many friends have flunked retire-ment. I think I’ve Aced it!

Finally, the third major strand in my life has beenmy love for Dartmouth and my close associationwith it. My undergraduate and Tuck School yearsprovided the foundation for a productive career

while fostering friendships that have lasted a lifetime.And, these friendships have expanded as I haveremained active by serving both the Class and theCollege in a variety of capacities. I have neverattended a Homecoming, a birthday party, a reunion,or other gathering without leaving in awe of thegroup that I am a part of. We are a truly outstand-ing Class, both with regard to the individuals whocomprise it and to the well-recognized collectiveleadership it has provided within the DartmouthAlumni Family. I’m unabashedly proud to be a ’60.

Bottom line, no regrets!

Kent A. Kubitz25936 Currier St., Dearborn Heights, MI 48125, (313) 292-9096 Occupation: Transportation/Distribution

Peter J. Kushner 1362 6th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, (415) 731-9486, «[email protected]» Occupation: Education, University of California-SanFrancisco, Box 0540, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143, (415) 476-6790

Arthur B. LaFranceArt

18217 Delenka Lane, Lake Oswego, OR 97034, (503) 638-8716, «[email protected]» Spouse: Margaret S. Rowland MD Occupation: Education, Lewis & Clark School of Law, 10015 SW Terwilliger Boulevard,Portland, OR 97219, (503) 768-6627

Alexander C. Lampee Alexander C. Lampee died onMarch 4, 1970.


Phil Kron and Mary Lou in Budapest

Many friends have flunked retirement. I think I’ve Aced it!

Phil Kron

Donald J. LandzettelDon

200 Hillside Avenue, Allendale, NJ 07401, (201) 327-8184, «[email protected]» Spouse: Gail Landzettel Occupation: Retail/Wholesale,Landzettel and Sons, 17 12 River Road, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410, (201) 796-3506

William C. Langley Jr.Bill

18 Round Hill Dr., Stamford, CT 06903, (203) 322-2261, «[email protected]» Spouse: Patricia J. Langley Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

Nickolaus D. Langloh

Thomas L. Lanier Jr. Thomas L. Lanier Jr. died onAugust 20, 1983.

Duncan J. Lanum801 East Zia Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505, (505) 984-8225 Spouse: Joy Lanum

Stephen L. Larson Steve

PO Box 73, Crystal Bay, MN 55323, (952) 473-2575 Spouse: Lucinda A. Larson Occupation: Health/Science,OBGYN Specialists, Suite 60, 6545 France Avenue South, Edina, MN 55435, (952) 920-2200

Ernest Hargreaves Latham Jr.Ernie

942 24th Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits/Career: U.S. Coastofficer, 1961-1965; U.S. ForeignService Officer, 1966-1993; aca-demic world, 1993-presentFamily and Roots: Son: Ernest III,PhD; Daughter: Charlotte Lucy,PhD candidate Wife/Partner: None Major at Dartmouth: History; MA, Roosevelt University;PhD, University of Bucharest Dartmouth Activities: Germania, 1956-60; Sigma PhiEpsilon, 1957-60

With now some 54 years since we first met and someeight months until some of us will see each otheragain, I recall the words of a great 19th century poet: If I should meet thee after long years How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.

An equally great 20th century poet with equallypoignant insight wrote: What might have been is an abstractionRemaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation.


I trust with the above I have “been reasonableabout length,” and no classmate will feel himselfthe victim of an ad hominem attack. (Ed. Note—Yes and not at all.)

Steven Lattimore Steve

1146 Say Road, Santa Paula, CA 93060, (805) 525-6088

H. Lloyd Herbert Lawrence Jr.Lloyd

31 Lawrence Road, Edgecomb, ME 04556, (207) 882-9995, «[email protected]» Spouse: Anita S. Lawrence

James S. LawrencePO Box 378, Little Compton, RI 02837, (401) 635-2567 Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

Wade Layne

Augustus S. LeachGus

387 Niagara Street, Winnipeg, MB R3N 0V3, Canada,(204) 489-8804, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: My life’s pursuitshave included the following: Early years: I was born and raisedin Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Schooling: Winnipeg schools throughgrade 9; Shattuck School, Faribault,Minn.; Dartmouth College; and then an MBA degree fromthe University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.Business Career: My business career began in 1962 andlasted through 2001–at which time I retired completely.Community Activities: I have played an active role in manycommunity organizations, including United Way, JuniorAchievement, the National Gallery of Canada, the WinnipegArt Gallery, and The Manitoba Museum. I am still very activein the Museum and am somewhat active in the Art Gallery.During the winter in Whistler, I volunteer as a MountainHost–which I thoroughly enjoy.Recreational Activities: My current activities center around:Our summer cottage located on the Lake of The Woods,south of Kenora, Ontario—an absolutely gorgeous location;Our ski chalet located in Whistler, B.C., where we havespent the past eight winters. My knees and hips still permitlots of skiing—but for how much longer?; I’m an active, butnot particularly skilled, golfer! Previous activities included


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sailing and tennis. And, of course, my Family—who haveall been very important to me over the years. Career: After receiving my MBA in 1962, I joined our familybusiness located in Winnipeg. My career with the Companyincluded the following:The Company had been in the Canadian grain business since1909, with activities centering around country elevatorslocated across the Canadian prairie provinces and terminalelevators located in (now) Thunder Bay, Ontario (at thewestern end of Lake Superior), and Vancouver, B.C. We pur-chased grain directly from farmers, stored it in the countryelevators, and then shipped it to our terminal elevators forsale at those locations. My roles from 1962-1971 includedbeing in the accounting department initially and then mov-ing into managerial roles, supervising some elevator man-agers and then their managers.In 1971, we sold the entire grain business to some of ourcompetitors, and we then undertook a transformation intoa diversified conglomerate. During the course of the next 14years, we purchased and sold many companies—most ofwhich were in the transportation industry. My roles in theseactivities included being part of the M&A team.In addition to the M&A activities, in about 1975 we com-menced the development of a coal handling terminal inThunder Bay, Ontario whose function was to unload unittrains of coal originating at mines located in British Columbia,Alberta, and Saskatchewan. We stored the coal in large openpiles at the terminal and then loaded same onto large bulkvessels, owned and operated by other companies, for ship-ment to Ontario Hydro power generating stations locatedon various Great Lakes in Eastern Canada. I was the projectleader in the development of the terminal, which included thenegotiation of a long-term handling contract with OntarioHydro. I have always been particularly proud that we financedthe $75 million construction cost with only $400 thousandof equity, on the strength of the handling contract. My corporate role evolved into the presidency of the termi-nal company, as well as being a vice-president and Boardmember of the parent company until 1985—at which timeI resigned from active management but remained on theBoard until 1997.From 1985 until 2001, I was involved with a number ofventure capital activities in Winnipeg, providing investmentfunds as well as consulting services to smallish businesseslocated in Winnipeg.

In 2001, I retired completely – so I could head to Whistlerto ski all winter!!Family and Roots: I have always been very proud of ourfamily and our roots, which can be segregated as follows:Historically, our family’s connection with Winnipeg began in1909 when my great-grandfather, who lived in Minneapolis,started his own grain company in Winnipeg. My paternalgrandfather, two uncles, and my father all worked for thegrain company in Winnipeg and established deep and firmroots in the City.I basically followed in my father’s footsteps, since he alsoattended Shattuck School and Dartmouth (Class of 1931). I held him in great honor and admiration, and I never con-sidered not joining him in the family grain business.My own family roots included having four siblings—and ourfamily life while growing up was terrific, since we were veryclose to each other (as well as being very close to Momand Dad!).I married Gail in 1962, and we have three daughters andfour granddaughters, all of whom are a delight to havearound. Our only problem is that two of the three daughterslive in Hong Kong and Athens, Greece—so we don’t seethem nearly as often as we would wish. But, when we doget together, the family bonding is delightful to be part of!Wife: Gail, approaching our 47th anniversary as I write this.Major at Dartmouth: GeologyDartmouth Activities: Freshman hockey; Delta Kappa Epsilonfraternity; Sphinx; and being a member of The Dartmouth(aka the Daily D). I was on the business side of the news-paper and was the Business Manager in our senior year.

Rather than write an essay, here are some thoughtsrevolving about Dartmouth’s impact upon my life:

I’m proud to be a Canadian and living in WesternCanada. Going away to schools in the USA mademe aware early that Canada was different from theUSA, and I became proud to be a Canadian!

Friendships: Many of our classmates are good friends,and I cherish their friendship. I think our Class hasdone a great job in fostering our Class friendships—likely through the very wise decision to hold our50th Birthday Party in NYC in 1988 and then thesubsequent events!!

Education: And, of course, I received a superb edu-cation—which set the stage for a successful busi-ness career and the ability to enjoy life!

James S. LeavittJim

23 Marc Court, Shrewsbury, NJ 07702, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: My principal pur-suit over the last 50 years has beenmilitary service and support of mili-tary-related projects. Due to mymilitary service (11 years overseas)one of my endeavors has been


Gus Leach and Gail

extensive travel in the then Western Europe. I also haveenjoyed the good food in the areas where I was assigned. I still hunt and fish and annually find my way to NewHampshire and Vermont to ski. My goal is to return to Europeto ski before I am too old.Career: U.S. Army, Signal Corps (1962-2002), retired as aLTC in 1982 at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Since 1982 I haveworked as a support contractor (Program Manager) for sev-eral major Army development programs at Fort Monmouth.Family and Roots: All of our five children are college grad-uates from other than Dartmouth. My sister and I still ownthe property on Greensboro Road, Hanover, which was myfamily’s home since 1952.Wife: Sheila LeavittMajor at Dartmouth: Engineering Science. Other Degrees:Bachelor of Science; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.;MBA, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, L.I., N.Y.Dartmouth Activities: None

I am pleased to have the opportunity to reflect onmy to-date experience as a Dartmouth graduate.While much of the course work I took was theoret-ical, I found that I was well prepared to answerwhatever the issue that faced me in the 20 years ofmy military career.

I was also able to appreciate and enjoy the variedenvironments where my family and I found our-selves. As an example, during my last tour inGermany, we lived near Düsseldorf on a British andNATO base. As one of a very few Americans, we haddaily interface with British, German, Dutch, andBelgian counterparts and their families as well asthe local German community.

My principal concerns with Dartmouth today arethe tawdry development of the College’s property,which seems hell-bent on cramming a new build-ing on every inch of available space, the continu-um of non-Dartmouth-graduate presidents, andthe lack of school spirit as evidenced by the lowattendance at sporting events.

I hope to attend our 50th.

David E. Lee David E. Lee died onNovember 8, 2000.

Michael L. Leventhal Jr.Apt. #716, 2800 North Lake ShoreDrive, Chicago, IL 60657, (773) 871-1532 Spouse: Adele De Mooy Occupation: Law Offices ofMichael L. Leventhal, Suite 1700,120 South Lasalle Street, Chicago, IL 60603

Barry S. Levine 38 Lord William Penn Drive,Morristown, NJ 07960, (973) 267-1762 Spouse: Dale Levine Occupation: Health/Science

Dick Levy394 Golden Hills, Portola Valley, CA 94028, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Mostly I did busi-ness. I was CEO of the MedicalEquipment Company until 2006.Now I am Chairman. I keep up myinterest in healthcare reform as aBoard member of a large hospitalconsortium and as an advisor to theDartmouth Institute for Health Policyand Clinical Practice. My secondaryinterest is in the value, or lack thereof, of boards of directors.Career: Worked up from Salesman to CEO/Chairman at


Dick Levy and Susie

Varian Medical Systems, a $2 billion Silicon Valley Company.Family and Roots: Two sons: Gray, a high school footballcoach in Reno; and Carl (stage name Cash), a stand-upcomedian. We have only one grandchild, which makes mejealous of the classmates who seem to have tons of them.Wife: Susie, a true Vermonter from Rutland (home of ouresteemed editor).Major at Dartmouth: Chemistry major then earned aPhD in Nuclear Chemistry from Berkeley.Dartmouth Activities: Hard to remember, and who reallycares after 50 years?

Experience as much as you can. What makes mylife beautiful are baseball, dogs, Hawaii, Vermont,skiing, snorkeling, old friends, hikes, my bride of45 years, the California lifestyle, the fascinatingchallenges of business, crossword puzzles, vodka onthe rocks, a good book, and (of course) Dartmouth.(Susie, please take note, these are not in order ofpriority.)

George W. Liebmann700 Washington Place, 6D, Baltimore, MD 21201, (410) 347-0711, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: I have been apracticing lawyer for 45 years, thefirst 15 of them with a large firm,and the next 30 in my own officewith one partner. In the early stagesof my career, I published two two-volume treatises on Maryland CivilPractice. During the last 15 years, I have published six books,the first three dealing with the neglected and unpopular sub-ject of sub-local institutions and the last three (all books ofbiographical sketches) with the importance of maintaining pro-fessional values in law, diplomacy, and other professions. Thissubject is even less fashionable than the cause of sub-local gov-ernment in a nation and world interested only in nationalbureaucratic values on the one hand and market values onthe other. I am currently at work on a book that attempts todiscuss the last 50 years of American foreign policy throughdiscussion of the career of a contemporary diplomat. Career: I began as Law Clerk to the Chief Judge of theMaryland Court of Appeals. Thereafter, I served at varioustimes as an Assistant Attorney General of Maryland, Execu-tive Assistant to the Governor, and Chairman of study com-missions on local government liability and medical malpracticein addition to my private practice, which at various times hasfocused on appellate and constitutional litigation, antitrust,and bankruptcy. I have been a federal bankruptcy trustee fornearly 30 years, and for the last 25 years I have been Gen-eral Counsel to the Maryland Economic Development Corpo-ration. I am the current President of the Library Company ofthe Baltimore Bar. I was an unsuccessful candidate for theRepublican nomination for U.S. Senate in 1998, forming anindelible prejudice against post-Watergate campaign financelegislation. Since 1993, I was first Simon Industrial and Pro-fessional Fellow at the University of Manchester and then a

Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Family: I have been married for 42 years to the formerAnne-Lise Grimstad of Omes, Norway; three grown children. Degrees: My Dartmouth degree was with high distinctionin Government; thereafter, I was graduated from the Uni-versity of Chicago Law School where I was managing editorof the Law Review.

The course I have followed has been an unusualone, in an age in which the ambition of most“elite” college graduates seems to be to attachthemselves to national bureaucracies, public or pri-vate. I am hopeful, though by no means certain,that our recent governmental scandals and eco-nomic difficulties may lead to greater value beingplaced on independence, localism, and individualand professional responsibility.

David B. Ligon David B. Ligon died on April4, 2008.


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Sheldon A. Lippe Sheldon A. Lippe MD died onJuly 29, 1992.

John C. Litchfield John C. Litchfield died onNovember 19, 1982.

Bruce R. Lively17 Sybil Creek Place, Branford, CT 06405, (203) 315-6691, «[email protected]» Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

William B. Lloyd Jr.Burt

1915 Mount Vernon Drive,Covington, KY 41011, (859) 341-7238, «[email protected]» Spouse: Roselyn Lloyd Occupation: Manufacturing,Advanced Insulation Concepts,8055 Production Avenue, Florence, KY 41042, (859) 342-8550

David R. LodgeSpouse: Jean L. Lodge Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, David R Lodge Agency,6768 Dulce Real Avenue, Fort Pierce, FL 34951, (772) 468-0726

Franklin X. Loeb Frank

501 Salem Way, Smithville, NJ 08205, (609) 404-0001 Spouse: Marjorie Elenore Loeb Occupation: 415 South ChrisGroup, Absecon, NJ 08201, (609) 652-7477


Dartmouth Hall, between classes

Lewis C. LofgrenLars

14830 Esat Rhoads Court,Fountain Hills, AZ 85268, (480) 686-9127, «[email protected]» Spouse: Mary C. Lofgren

Roy P. Loney80 Parsons Green Circle, Sewanee, TN 37375, (931) 598-9618

David J. Loomis David J. Loomis died onOctober 2, 1995.

Marc Loveman10710 Music Street, Newbury, OH 44065, (440) 564-5311, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sherrie R. Loveman Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, SMH Capital Inc., 25800 Science Park Drive, Suite225, Beachwood, OH 44122,(216) 910-1808

Martin Avery Lower Martin Avery Lower, 71, ofNaples, Florida, andWilbraham, Massachusetts,passed away on Wednesday,December 16, 2009. He will bemissed by his loving anddevoted family, his daughters,Deborah (Mark) Wandzilak ofWaxhaw, N.C.; Pamela (Barry)Bass of Potomac, Md.; Rebecca(Michael) Collins of Bedford,N.H.; Cynthia (David) Hudson of Bedford, N.H.;and his grandchildren: Janna, Elena and DrewWandzilak; Jeffrey, Carly and Allison Bass; Zachary,Rachel and Reese Collins and Avery and RileyHudson. He is survived by his brother, James (Sue)Lower of Leesburg, Fla., and his sister, Sally (Francis)Sheehan of Skaneateles, N.Y., as well as cousins,nieces, and nephews. He is preceded in death byhis wife of 47 years, Roberta Dosh Lower, who diedDecember 10, 2007, his mother, Nancy MorganLower, and father, Martin Edward Lower. He wasborn in Syracuse, New York, and spent his child-hood in Baldwinsville and Solvay, New York, wherehe started dating his wife, Roberta, at age 13. He wasa graduate of Dartmouth College, Class of 1960, andthe Tuck School of Business. His business careerincluded employment at Procter and Gamble inCincinnati, Ohio; Booz, Allen and Hamilton inChicago, Ill.; and Ludlow Corporation in Needham,Mass. He was the proud owner of Ludlow Textiles,a textile manufacturing company in Ludlow, Mass.,from February 1983 until its sale in March 2005.

He spent a lifetime enriching the lives of thosearound him with his love. He demonstrated hisimpeccable character every day in both his businessand family life. He loved golf and played three timesa week up until his death. He was a member ofWyndemere Country Club in Naples, Fla., andLongmeadow Country Club in Longmeadow, Mass.,and a past member of Brae Burn Country Club inNewton, Mass. He also enjoyed curling for manyyears as a member of Brae Burn and BroomstonesCurling Clubs. He worked tirelessly for the DartmouthCollege Alumni Fund and enjoyed staying in touchwith his friends and classmates. He was also atrustee emeritus of Western New England Collegein Springfield, Massachusetts.

Please send memorial contributions to The RobertaD. and Martin A. Lower Fund, Dartmouth College,6066 Development Office, Hanover, NH 03755.

From Phil Kron:It is with great sadness and grief that I send thisemail to tell you that my very dear friend and our


beloved Classmate, Marty Lower, passed away thispast Wednesday, December 16, in Naples, Florida.The cause of death has not yet been ascertained, butwhen he missed a scheduled golf game, his partnerscame to check on him and found him slumped overthe steering wheel of his car at his home. Martydid not seem to have any health problems, enjoyeda family Thanksgiving in North Carolina with hisfour daughters and their families and was scheduledto spend Christmas with his brother Jim’s family inLeesburg. Florida.

While Marty’s spirits seemed to improving, he neverseemed to overcome the grief of losing Bobbie twoyears ago. They were exceptionally close and wereintegral to the fabric and family of Dartmouth andThe Class of 1960. Marty was a great Class leader,both formally as Head Agent and Class Presidentand informally as a leading songster at our variousreunions. His energy, enthusiasm, and gregariouspersonality will be sorely missed whenever we gath-er going forward. He was one of the good guys!

Robert William LuceBob

2930 Long Meadow Rd., Middletown, VA 22645, (540) 869-3764 «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: My life’s pursuits,arranged roughly chronologically,have been a great liberating artseducation—which made many ofthe following pursuits possible:graduate work in geology and geo-chemistry, laboratory research into how silicate mineralsweather, laboratory research into what assemblages of silicateminerals can tell us about past hydrothermal events, andmapping geology in terrains as diverse as glaciers, jungles,

and deserts. Accompanying these pursuits were rewards ofadventure, travel, and meeting women and men from othercultures. Overall, these experiences were engaging and fun,often accompanied by skiing, skin diving, sailing, and hiking.I have maintained old and close friendships, but with timefamily relationships increasingly overshadow such pursuits.Career: The first half of my professional career was spentdoing research with the U.S. Geological Survey. The secondhalf was with several environmental engineering and con-sulting firms, largely conducting investigations and cleanupsof toxic and hazardous waste pollution. The former producedsome “Aha” moments, the latter satisfaction by providingpeople what they really needed at the time. Both providedopportunities to play detective with Mother Nature. Family: Claudia and I met fortuitously 12 years ago andmarried seven years ago. She has enriched my life immea-surably. I am proud of my lovely daughter by a previousmarriage, Celia, who has just completed a post-doctoral yearas an environmental toxicologist with the Karolinska Institutein Stockholm, Sweden. Claudia has a son and a daughterby a previous marriage. Although my immediate family hadshrunk in recent years with the deaths of my parents andbrother, our combined family has grown like kudzu withClaudia’s parents, five siblings, and their children and grand-children. Not dull at all! By the way, family gatherings mostoften take place on our farm, amongst the hay, horses, veg-etables, and critters of all sorts. Major at Dartmouth: B.A. Geology; M.S., Geology, Uni-versity of Illinois; PhD. Geochemistry, Stanford UniversityActivities at Dartmouth: Dartmouth Geological Society;DOC, especially Cabin & Trail; Phi Kappa Psi—fellowship,parties, intramural sports, skiing, and swimming

Undoubtedly influenced by my travels, I havebecome very liberal politically. However, many ofmy friends are very conservative, and I’d ratheravoid discussing divisive issues incompletely here.So, concentrating on universal truths, let me say thatthe people that have affected me most profoundlyhave been those who quietly spread love and


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Bob Luce and Claudia

kindness and integrity, whatever their background.I am impressed also when I read about those of youwho have given so much back to others, followingJohn Sloan Dickey’s admonition that the educatedand fortunate have an obligation to help those lessfortunate. In my retirement, I try to do so in amodest way by volunteering with the Friends of theShenandoah River and the South River Science Teamto make our local waterways cleaner and healthier.

I’d like to close by quoting from E. Annie Proulx(Postcards). Here is an amusing musing:

“Carnation milk, best in the lan’, Comes to you in a little red can. No tits to pull, no hay to pitch, Just punch a hole in the son of a bitch.”

William B. Lum58 Chatham Raod, Short Hills, NJ 07078, (973) 376-9388,«[email protected]» Spouse: Lynn Lum Occupation: Health/Science, 58 Chatham Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078

Charles C. Lund II 7409 Oak Lane, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, (301) 656-4736, «[email protected]» Spouse: Viola E. Lund

J. Bradley LundBrad

121 Versailles Circle, Apt. A,Towson, MD 21204, (410) 377-0977 Spouse: Mary Anne Lund

Rick Lyman PO Box 442, E. Falmouth, MA 02536, (508) 548-0841, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: Retirement tem-pered by enjoyment Career: From August 1963 throughJune 1994, a group insuranceunderwriter at Conn. General LifeInsurance (CIGNA) Company Family and Roots: Pure NewEnglander Wife: Hila Lyman Major at Dartmouth: History Dartmouth Activities: House ping-pong team, VarsityWhales Tails

Continuing from my 40th Musings, I have beenretired for 151⁄2 years instead of a mere five and ahalf. My wife, Hila, uses a computer, but I do nottouch one. I don’t have a cell phone, but we haveadvanced to a touch-tone landline at which I swear—a lot. I use a charcoal grill that I swear at a lot too.I gave up golf a year ago; it just wasn’t fun anymore.Nevertheless, I still walk five miles a day. The pace isa lot slower than five years ago, attributable to estro-gen medication I take for prostate cancer. It cer-tainly would not be for aging that my pace declines. I am, however, happy to be able to do it at all.

God only knows where the time goes, but I rarelysit down until dinner. I do all the grocery shoppingand all the cooking (which I really enjoy), so I guessthat accounts for a great deal of time. I still mowthe lawn and putter around checking my endless“honey do” list.


Rick Lyman

We do have some fun traveling including exoticsnorkeling trips to Palau, the Andaman Isles (offthe coast of what used to be Burma and is nowMyanmar), and Papua New Guinea. Toss in roadtrips, so to speak, to Alaska, Baja, the Caribbean,and Scotland.

So, nothing earth-shaking but still enjoying life tothe hilt. All is well, after all.

Thomas J. Machura Thomas J. Machura died onJune 12, 2009.

Barry L. MacLean15330 Old School Road,Libertyville, IL 60048, (847) 362-7418,«[email protected]» Spouse: Mary Ann S. MacLean Occupation: Engineering,MacLean-Fogg Company, 1000 Allanson Road, Mundelein, IL 60060, (847) 970-4601

Gordon G. MacVean Gordon G. (Tim) MacVean diedMarch 16, 2008, at the Univer-sity of Pittsburgh Medical Cen-ter Shadyside of throat cancer.He was a leading executive inthe mining equipment businessand prominent in Pittsburgh’ssocial and philanthropic lifethrough his adulthood.

Tim came to Dartmouth fromthe Governor DummerAcademy and was known to his classmates for hisconservative social views and dry sense of humor.A member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, hedecided to live in Lord Hall for his senior year. “Hewas not the usual hell-raising undergraduate,”explained his friend and junior roommate Duncan

Gray. And another friend and classmate, SamParke, said, “He was not afraid of being somewhateccentric.”

After graduation, Tim attended ColumbiaUniversity for a time and served two years in theArmy as a weapons instructor at Ft. Knox,Kentucky. Then he joined the National MineService Co., a mining equipment business in whichhis father was also long active, and over the yearsserved as its vice president and president of itsinternational operations, later moving to theEickhoff Corp., a similar firm, where he rose topresident and CEO, while also becoming chair ofthe Manufacturers Board of Governors at theNational Mining Congress and serving as a directorof the National Coal Assn. and Shadyside Hospital.

In private life, he was known for his philanthropicwork, supporting museums, colleges, and universi-ties in the Pittsburgh area. He was a member of theexclusive Duquesne Club. His hobbies includedphotography and skeet-shooting, a sport that tookhim as far as Australia to shoot. He is survived byhis wife of 38 years, Kate Watson MacVean, his sis-ter, Margaret Finn of Sea Island, Ga., his brother-in-law, James Watson of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and hiswife, Ann, and many nieces and nephews.Contributions in his memory may be sent to theShadyside Hospital Foundation, 532 S. Aiken Ave.,Pittsburgh, PA 15232 or to the Governor DummerAcademy, Byfield, MA 01922.

Gerald E. Malkos440 Fairwood Dr., Irwin, PA 15642, (412) 351-0749


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Joseph D. Mandel 15478 Longbow Drive, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403,«[email protected]»Advanced Degrees: MBA, AmosTuck School; JD, Yale Law SchoolPrincipal Dartmouth Activities:Manager, Men’s Basketball Team;Treasurer, Green Key Society;Rushing Chairman, Tau Epsilon Phi

When I landed in Hanover asthe second youngest memberof the Class of 1960 (16, going on 13), I was clue-less. My public high school had ill prepared me fora rigorous academic and intellectual experience; mytightly circumscribed social life had largely beenlimited to a small core of close friends who sharedmy adoration of Mickey Mantle and the Yankees.

My first year or two of college life can best bedescribed as an awakening: socializing with malepeers from entirely different backgrounds, develop-ing some semblance of theretofore undevelopedstudy habits and laying the groundwork for myselection as basketball manager. The first of thosechallenges was most daunting. I can still remembermost evenings being invited across the Russell Sagethird-floor hall by three juniors who delighted in

plying me with one or two Rob Roys and then inobserving the ludicrous and entertaining conse-quences of their handiwork.

Yes, that first year or so was one of major lifeadjustment, complicated by a first semester courseload whose degree of difficulty was off the charts.(I had sought the advice of a ’59 who, unknown tome, was first in his class and who thought nothingof my taking in my first semester Math 3H withJohn Kemeny and Physics 3 with Francis Sears.) Ipersevered, however, and, with the good fortuneof joining a fraternity that provided a much-need-ed comfort zone, I began the social maturationprocess in earnest and even began to find my wayacademically.

By the end of junior year, aided by basking in theglow of an Ivy League basketball championship (thelast such achievement for Dartmouth), the disap-pearance of teenage acne and even a blind date ortwo, I felt at last that I belonged. Given the then

focus on accelerated degree acquisition, I headedoff to Tuck School. That two-year experience wasmost notable for two developments: it taught mehow to respond to the pressures of unpredictableacademic demands, and it (along with the publicaccounting work experience it provided during theintervening summer) convinced me that I was notready to enter the permanent work force. The solu-tion: apply to law school.

My decision to turn to the law was hardly the resultof a mature thought process. (Indeed, Dave Mostellertook me out after we both took the LSATs, wherehe celebrated with 11 martinis and I matched himwith 11 Manhattans. The aftermath of my consump-tion and its resulting physical consequences wasthat, since that February 18, 1961, I have not con-sumed a Manhattan, I have not smoked a cigarette,and I have not eaten a maraschino cherry.) Thedecision nonetheless was one of the best and mostsignificant of my life. Three years in New Havenproved to be an intellectual epiphany. Despite mygreat affection for Dartmouth, no institution oflearning of which I am aware compares to the YaleLaw School in providing the combination of intel-lectual rigor, professional training, and family envi-ronment. I am eternally grateful for that mind-altering experience and for the professional doorsthat it opened.

One of the doors that Yale opened for me led to theopportunity to serve one year as a law clerk to afederal appellate judge in Los Angeles before return-ing to New York to begin the practice of law. It tookless than three months on the left coast to convinceme and my bride Jean that we had discovered a life-style much more appealing to us than what layahead on Wall Street. So it was on to a career as acorporate and securities lawyer in a boutique LAfirm, a brief detour into corporate America as the


Joseph Mandel and Jean with their grandson

The aftermath was that since then I have not consumed a Manhattan, I have not smoked a cigarette, and I have not eaten a maraschino cherry.

Joseph D. Mandel


Vice President and General Counsel of a SanFrancisco-based public company that had been myprincipal client, a return to the law firm after thecompany was acquired in the aftermath of a hos-tile tender offer and then a second departure at age50 to become UCLA’s first Vice Chancellor for LegalAffairs. Forty-six years of a wonderful marriage tomy soul mate, two great sons, a marvelous Parisiandaughter-in-law and a little grandson who melts myheart whenever I see him in person or on Skype (heand his parents reside in Hong Kong) have con-vinced me that I have come a long way sinceSeptember 1956 and that it has been a marvelousand rewarding journey.

As I look back at my Dartmouth experiences, I findmyself often focusing on the six years I spent ontwo different alumni bodies trying to revise theAssociation of Dartmouth Alumni Constitution.My affection for Dartmouth ebbed and flowedthroughout that experience as I forged wonderfulworking relationships with my fellow toilers of allpolitical stripes. During that time, however, I alsoendured the nastiness of the political process, par-ticularly on the part of those who were advantagedby the status quo, notwithstanding their awarenessthat the status quo served to preserve a governanceand trustee-selection process that was outmodedand inequitable. My subsequent reading of RobertCaro’s three-volume biography of the ruthless andimmoral pragmatist and political genius LyndonJohnson has helped me to overcome some of mypolitical naïveté and to thicken my skin. My alum-ni work, coupled with a February 2009 delightful50th reunion of that last men’s basketball cham-pionship, also helped to restore my affection forDartmouth and to rekindle my reunion enthusiasm,an enthusiasm that I very much felt at our 25th,30th, 35th, and 40th reunions but an enthusiasmwhose absence led me to forsake our 45th. I nowlook forward eagerly to sharing the 50th reunionexperience with all of my classmates who maketheir way back to Hanover for the grand occasion.

David P. Mankowski901 Russell Avenue, #147, Santa Rosa, CA 95403, (707) 526-1778, «[email protected]» Occupation: Government/Military

Henry B. Mann 188 Wolf Neck Road, Stonington, CT 06378, (860) 536-6023, «[email protected]» Occupation: Suite 201, 567 Vauxhall Street Extension,Waterford, CT 06385

Jim Marlow 1 Timberledge, Mattapoisett, MA 02739, (508) 758-3892,«[email protected]», «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: AKA Foibles: Tryingto write novels, short stories, plays,and creative non-fiction. If it is afruitless hobby, it is also harmless.Trying to garden in rocky NewEngland. Trying to learn Italian after65. Reading. Fan of football, onesport I never played. Travel. Upon retirement I hope to brushup French and German and, perhaps, learn a little Lakota.One regret: that I did not ski more. Career: Not yet over. I’m teaching literature and drama.After articles and book on Charles Dickens, major new inter-ests developed in modern drama, semiotics. Regrets: I blewoff science early, especially neurology. Family and Roots: Born into a traditional family (with 32first cousins), I am now a member of a modern family: 4stepchildren; 2 children; 5 grandchildren so far. I have hopessome of the grandchildren will go to Dartmouth. Wife: Corinne Carter Thomas Marlow. We were introducedin 1962 in New Orleans by a fellow Theta Delt Ken Kolb‘61. We finally married in 1988. Major at Dartmouth: After a junior year in Vienna, I had

Jim Marlowe and Corinne

to go to Harvard Summer School and then take nothing butEnglish my senior year to eke out a major in English. MA andPhD in English from the University of California, Davis ensued. Dartmouth Activities: Theta Delta Chi. Great talk aroundthe kegs on Wed. and Sat., where I learned a lot about life(including how beautiful the girls were in New Orleans). Agreat bunch of guys also in The Dartmouth Boxing Cluboverseen by Corey Ford with whom I often went hunting.Golden Gloves, 1958. Greensleeves. Class Poet, 1960, notfor what I would call poetry but for a couple of songs cele-brating the joys of being at Dartmouth. Writing classes withAlexander Laing. I can never forget watching him try toteach, with tears running down his cheeks, a few days afterhis wife Dilys, a fine poet, died. Who says teaching is not aheroic activity?

In re-reading The Odyssey (for teaching it), I notedthe term “the sacred dawn.” Before reaching 70, Imight have ignored the epithet. But now I see thatto Homer the dawn is not deserved by mankind; itis a gift of the gods. The only human response tosuch an immense and undeserved gift is gratitude.There are so many things for which I am grateful:the love of my wife Corinne and my parents; thehealth and character of all of my children; the luckof being born in America, which includes the luck ofhaving the opportunity to go to Dartmouth. All ofthese were pure gifts.

Fred C. Marsh IIWord comes from San Diegoof the death on November 10,2004, of our classmate Fred C.Marsh II, member of an infor-mal Dartmouth singing group,veteran of the Marine Corps,Naval Intelligence, and theNational Security Agency, and,later in life an expert in invest-ment finance. His wife, Gayle,says Fred died of spinal cancer.

His close Dartmouth friend, Joe Batchelder, recallsthat Fred was a member of a calypso singing group“Seven Hungry Men” that was formed out of TopliffHall and, in our freshman year, performed both inHanover and at nearby women’s colleges.

“Fred and I bonded Freshman Week and created anempathetic but eclectic group,” Joe recalls. “SevenHungry Men” included Bill Harlow, Bill Hibbs, JohnFreide, George Tolford, Fred Celce, Joe, and Fred.But it did not stay together long. Bill Harlow wasthe first member of our class to die, on December12, 1957, in the fall of our sophomore year.


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“I have met, worked with, and have been exposedto many geniuses in my life, but I would say thatFred was one of the most savvy, articulate, andintuitive amongst that group,” Joe observed.

Certainly, his varied career supports the point. ASan Diego Tribune obituary noted that after joiningthe Marines, Fred was sent to the Georgetown Uni-versity School of Foreign Service and then to theInstitute of Languages and Linguistics in Washing-ton, D.C., to study the Arabic language and MiddleEastern affairs.

In the military, Fred was a divisional team leader forPOW interrogation, later served in Naval Intelligencein the Middle East and North Africa, and was SeniorMarine Instructor in the Arabic language and intel-ligence matters at the National Security Agency.

After the military, Fred pursued a livelihood in thefinancial services industry. He lectured on the indus-try at UCLA, UC Irvine, Stanford, and Mills Collegeand for nine years in the 1980s produced a daily tel-evision show in San Francisco named, “A Few Min-utes With The Practical Economist.” Fred also was a30-year member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary,the volunteer civilian arm of the Coast Guard.

He is survived by his wife of the last seven years, sonChapin, daughter Elizabeth Manion, three grandchil-dren, Cade, Cana, and Cally, and five stepchildren.

Joel L. Martin 4051 North 33rd Terrace,Hollywood, FL 33021, (954) 983-5514 Spouse: Susan Martin Occupation: 3939 Hollywood Blvd.,Hollywood, FL 33021, (954) 961-7700

Ramon U. MartinelliRay

415 South Main St., Hightstown, NJ 08520, (609) 448-4485, «[email protected]» Spouse: Linda Martinelli

Tom Marx196 Appleton St., Cambridge, MA 02138, (617) 851-8584«[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: Work, family, chil-dren, grandchildren, and less egoCareer: Statistical programmer inpharmaceutical industryFamily and Roots: Born in Man-hattan. Father was first-generationAmerican and mother left Germanybecause of Nazi persecution. Wife: Former Linda Ann Chickering of Brattleboro, Vermont,and Walpole, N.H.Major at Dartmouth: English Dartmouth Activities: Daily D, Outing Club

Dartmouth University?Type Princeton University or Princeton College intoyour search engine, and this is the first sentence yousee. “Princeton simultaneously strives to be one ofthe leading research universities and the most out-standing undergraduate college in the world.”Their undergraduate college comes close too. TheU.S. News and World Report ranks Princeton Collegesecond in the country. We are 11th.

During Jim Freedman’s tenure as president of Dart-mouth, I recall his floating in the Alumni Magazinethe thought that since Dartmouth with three grad-uate schools and a number of PhD programs was auniversity in everything but name, we shouldbecome one in name as well. The letters to the edi-tor in the following issue weighed in against thisproposal, citing both the tradition of our having beena college from inception and the detraction fromundergraduate instruction increased emphasis ongraduate programs and faculty research would have.

It’s hard to argue against a successful 240-year tra-dition, but more and stronger graduate programsmay add more knowledge to our undergraduatesthan they remove. More graduate students in moreprograms means that senior faculty have more teach-ing assistants to do what the professor does not havetime for: meet regularly with a small group of stu-dents or coach individual students on a term project.

But wouldn’t faculty inevitably begin to shift someof their effort from teaching to research given theemphasis on getting research grants and publishingin prestigious journals? Apparently that hasn’thappened at Princeton or at Harvard (ranked #1) orat Yale (ranked #3). Why? It may not be true thatfaculty at research universities give less effort totheir teaching than their colleagues at other four-year institutions. Or it may be true that they arejust as effective with less effort. Or it may be truethat the decreased teaching effort of the faculty is



compensated by the instruction delivered by teach-ing assistants. Whatever the reason(s) Harvard,Princeton, and Yale rank 1-2-3 in quality of theundergraduate experience, and Dartmouth comesin 11th.

By not calling ourselves a university with its implic-it encouragement of the formation or expansion ofquality graduate programs, do we fail to attractoutstanding scholars? Do we also deny the 17extant graduate programs in our faculty of arts andsciences the recognition they deserve?

George F. Mathews George F. Mathews died onFebruary 21, 1965.

R. Duncan Mathewson III28509 Jolly Roger Dr.,Little Torch Key, FL 33042; 21 Seminary St., Middlebury, VT 05753; «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Archaeologicalexcavations, university teaching,shipwreck research and treasurediving, research and book publica-tions, improvement of public schooleducation (K-12)Career: Archaeologist, Educator,Author, Public Servant, Founder and Executive Director ofthe National Center for Shipwreck Research Ltd. 501(C)3.Family and Roots: Rachael Mathewson (15), Duncan(R.D.) Mathewson (15), Eric Mathewson (11).Wife: Arlene Rowold MathewsonMajor at Dartmouth: BA, Geology, Dartmouth; MA,Anthropology, Florida Atlantic Univ.; ABD, EnvironmentalArchaeology, Univ. of Edinburgh and Institute of Archaeology,University of London; PhD, Environmental Science Education,Union Institute and University Dartmouth Activities: Many Road Trips, Phi Psi SocialChairman, Spring Break Last Tango in Key West and Havana

Life after Dartmouth has always been full of surpris-es. Nothing worked out the way I expected. I neverimagined what a roller-coaster ride it would be withtwists and turns no Hollywood movie producercould ever have imagined. After leaving Hanoverand the Phi Psi House 50 years ago, life has never

been dull. It’s been quite a ride. Some of the besttimes were:

Running away to sea immediately following gradua-tion as a seaman on a Norwegian freighter, jumpingship in Naples to hitchhike around Europe for threemonths before ending up in Scotland in an effort totrace my 17th century Scottish clan ancestry.

Getting mistaken for a Rhodes Scholar, which ledme through my post-graduate studies in theUnited Kingdom in Anthropology at the Universityof Edinburgh and into the Institute of Archaeologyat the University of London in doctorate studies inArchaeology.

Explaining how red ants ate my Ph.D. data whilein West Africa at the University of Ghana as aresearch archaeologist at the University of Ghana

excavating archaeological sites in Northern Ghanaand living in the “bush” for six years.

Being the stand-in for my professor who had toremain in Cambridge, England, while I married himby proxy to an African Princess, daughter to theAshantehene, paramount chief of the Ashanti Tribe.

Introducing tie-dye to Jamaica in 1970 with WestAfrican Batik techniques learned in Ghana frommy Ashanti friends.

Duncan Mathewson and Arlene

Nothing worked out the way I expected.

Duncan Mathewson

Dealing with a third-world lifestyle living inSpanish Town, Jamaica, while conducting excava-tions on a 16th-18th-century site.

Directing the effort to find and map $400 millionworth of 17th-century Spanish sunken treasure offKey West, Florida.

Meeting my future wife, Arlene, by refusing to hireher for volunteer work because she didn’t have aresume; and then to my surprise two years later,finding out that I had hired her sister instead.

Getting married for the second time in a reggaepalace on the beach at Negril, Jamaica, with a week-long wedding celebration including over ahundred partygoers.

Going back to school as a university professor whileearning a belated PhD in Education.

Becoming a father of twins at age 56.

Fathering three kids at age 59.

Founding a charter school in the Florida Keys in 2002as the first conversion school in South Florida.

Becoming a politician to win two four-year termelections to the School Board in the Florida Keys.

Figuring out how to pay for 4-year college tuitionfor Rachael (15), Duncan “R.D.” (15), and Eric (11)for over a half of million dollars.

Relocating with my Florida Keys family to an “oldtime” house in Middlebury, Vermont.

Researching a book about the Revolutionary Warfocused on New England militia in the fight forindependence along the Lake Champlain corridorfrom 1774-1778.

I have always thought that unexpected surprises arewhat really make life so fascinating. I’m looking for-ward to our 50th reunion and hearing from class-mates about what made life so interesting to them.

Robert H. Mathog 27115 Wellington, Franklin, MI 48025, (248) 855-9281 Spouse: Deena Jane Mathog Occupation: Health/Science,Wayne State University, Department of Otolaryngology, 540 Canfield Street, Detroit, MI 48201, (313) 577-0804

Wesley C. MattsonWes

3225 Irving South, Minneapolis, MN 55408, (612) 824-4064,«[email protected]» Occupation: Consulting,Mattson/MacDonald Inc., 1516 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408, (612) 827-7825

William J. Mattson Jr. William J. Mattson Jr. died onJune 25, 2001.

Lloyd H. Maurer Lloyd H. Maurer died onSeptember 13, 2009.

Karl Stephen Mayer231 32nd Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121, (415) 668-9124, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Family, career, recre-ation, health, the occasional pauseto think and to feel deeply, and,best of all, being grandpa. My cur-rent challenges are to lose the 40pounds I’ve put on since quittingcigars (April 2009) and to stay“clean” while attempting also to lower my GHIN.Career: California Deputy Attorney General, Division of


Criminal Law, 1965 through 2002. I litigated criminal andconstitutional law at all levels of the state and federal courtsincluding California trial, appellate, and Supreme Court, aswell as federal district courts, courts of appeals (regular anden banc), and the Supreme Court of the United States. Someof the significant cases have involved imposing the deathpenalty, executions, execution protocols, jury nullification,whether executions will be televised, and federal class actionsrespecting California prison conditions and operations.Family and Roots: We have three children: Karl, b. 7/10/1967; Kirsten, b. 9/28/1969; and Stephanie, b. 10/20/1971.Karl is a marine biologist and sea otter specialist at theMonterey Bay Aquarium. Kirsten is a lawyer at Ropes & Gray,Boston. Stephanie is a nurse practitioner, gynecological oncol-ogy, in Oakland, Ca. We have been specially blessed withfive grandchildren: Russell (6), Natasha (3), and Luke (1) inBoston (thank you, Kirsten); and Sonia (3) and Henry (1) inOakland (thank you, Stephanie). Wife: I met Valerie Alberts during the 1960 Green Keyweekend. Valerie graduated Northwestern and pursued acareer in marketing and advertising as I went to law school(Rutgers) and tried to figure out whether anything wasimportant. We married in Evanston May 30, 1964, some ofthe results of which are reported above, and remain so asour 46th nearly coincides with the ’60s’ 50th. Major at Dartmouth: Engineering Science. I remainimpressed that the ES majors at Dartmouth are among thesmartest people I’ve met. I barely got through the major,then wisely escaped to the law where you don’t have toactually know anything: it’s enough just to say things. Dartmouth Activities: Books, Beta, Beer (maybe not alwaysin that order), and track and field.

Here I would like to remark on matters that havebeen particularly important to me, and some mat-ters that I haven’t figured out, but which neverthe-less worry me.

By a large margin, the following experiences havebeen the ones that affected me the most. Attendingthe natural birth of each of our three children;Valerie was heroic on each occasion. Arguing beforethe Supreme Court of the United States with Valerieand young Karl attending. Going in for, surviving,

and recovering from quadruple bypass surgery.Witnessing, as the Attorney General’s representa-tive, a number of executions.

I am worried about the how the law, the press, anda JD/MBA culture may be changing the country.

The judiciary has become a principal engine of socialchange. Government by litigation displaces repre-sentative government, as the setting of significantsocietal standards is increasingly accomplishedcooperatively by judges, who may be appointed for

life, and by nearly anonymous lawyers whohaven’t been elected by anybody to do anything.

The press, collectively, has diminished its role asan objective informant. The press touts itself as theguardian of “the people’s right to know.” But thepress also insists that there is no right to know whatit knows but elects not to publish. The decision ofwhether, what, and how to publish often seemsintended more to persuade, distract, or even misleadwith partial truths, than to fully and objectivelyinform The People. The press as a business may over-shadow the press as a source of reliable information.

I am concerned that an infusion of JD’s and MBA’shas imposed a sea change on our society and culture.Briefly, a JD culture has systemized self-interest, andan MBA culture has systemized greed. Our greatfreedoms had flourished under self-restraint andbeen influenced by the Golden Rule. The JD andMBA cultures seem neither to follow nor even rec-ognize such limits as desirable. It is not constructivealways to take all you can get just because you can.

We have all been privileged to be part of this remark-able group for the 54 years since we first convenedthe fall of 1956. Thank you, and thank Dartmouth.

Lawrence R. MayoLarry

282 Hay Way, Fairbanks, AK 99709, (907) 479-2954 Spouse: Gail O. Mayo

Thomas Ross McBurneyThomas Ross McBurney, 70, ofEdina, died March 31, 2009,at home, supported by familyand friends. Father, husband,grandpa, citizen, mentor, trav-eler, writer, and good friend.His love and humor will bemissed and celebrated by wifeBarbara, four daughters, andtheir families: Ann (Lynn),Susan (Michael; grandkidsOwen and Nora), Megan (Dan; grandkids Ian andSimon) and Lesley (Joel).

Born June 16, 1938, in Minneapolis. Preceded indeath by parents Lloyd and Lorna McBurney,


It is not constructive always to take all you can get just because you can.

Karl Stephen Mayer

brother Scott. Survived by sister Mary, nephewMacarthur (Lissa; Ava).

Attended Burroughs and Washburn schools inMinneapolis, Dartmouth College, and Amos TuckSchool.

Retired in 1989 from Pillsbury Company after 20+

years, including positions as EVP/Chairman U.S.and International Foods.

Held directorships with Valspar, Wenger, Meritex,Transport Corp. of America, Ameriprise Strategies& Funds, and other companies.

A passionate believer in service, community trans-formation, and the arts, Tom brought wise leader-ship, strategic vision, and eminent good sense tothe boards of The Minnesota Opera, Freedom fromHunger Foundation, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR),Allina Foundation, Minnesota Orchestra, UnitedWay, and other organizations.

Honored as Life Director of The Minnesota Opera,Freedom from Hunger and MPR; given the 2000Distinguished Service Award by United Way ofMinneapolis Area; named to 1997 Volunteer Hallof Fame by Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine.

Author of “Artistic Greatness: A Comparative Explo-ration of Michelangelo, Beethoven and Monet” andseveral collections of essays and commentaries.

Tom’s friends fittingly described him as a Renais-sance man. Travel, history, music, art, social issues,foreign affairs, writing, spirited conversation, goodfood, close family, and many terrific friends eachplayed a special part in his rich life.

In lieu of flowers memorials preferred to eitherFreedom from Hunger Foundation, 1644 DaVinciCourt, Davis, CA 95618; or The Minnesota Opera,620 North First St., Minneapolis, MN 55401.

John T. McCannW148N9976 Rimrock Road,Germantown, WI 53022, Occupation: 152 West Wisconsin,Milwaukee, WI 53203

William H. McCarter Jr.Bill

33 B Palmer Street, Winchester, MA 01890, (781) 729-3892, «[email protected]» Occupation: Law, Law Office of Wm H McCarter, PO Box 1044, Winchester, MA 01890, (781) 729-3892

Bill McCarter

BonfirePhoto by Joe Mehling ’69


Robert C. McCarthy133 High Street, Stratham, NH 03885, (603) 772-5738, «[email protected]» Spouse: Patricia McCarthy

William S. McClung4764 Sologne Court, N.E., Marietta, GA 30067, (770) 579-3444, «[email protected]» Spouse: Rebecca McClung Occupation: Consulting

Paul R. McClure Jr.Bob

2305 Tanglewood Dr., Lisle, IL 60532, (630) 961-0934,«[email protected]» Spouse: Linda K. McClure

Thomas L. McCorkle5 Hemlock Road, Cambridge, MA 02138, (617) 491-7850,«[email protected]» Spouse: Brooke Stevens

Henry J. McCourt Jr.22 Taft Avenue, Brockton, MA 02301, (508) 584-0729 Spouse: Carmella A. McCourt

Roger H. McCoy7 Parker Road, Wellesley, MA 02482, (781) 237-2642 Spouse: Marisa McCoy


Alumni Gym

Lester McCracken3206 Sylvanhurst Dr., Bonifay, FL 32425, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: St. Bernard fancier:Drummer was in the top 10 forthree years; Duplicate Bridge(ACBL), slightly more than 1,000master pointsCareer: The Wyatt Company, 30years as an actuary and systemdeveloper. Later, six years as a sys-tems analyst (contract) at AAMA,(Ft. Rucker)Major at Dartmouth: Mathematics. Associate Society ofActuariesDartmouth Activities: The Dartmouth 1,2; The Aegis 3,4

We 1960s were born at a wonderful time. Neither theDepression nor WWII had much of an effect, unlesswe lost a relative. Ditto the Korean War. Our militaryservice, if any, was Cold War (pre-Vietnam) unless wemade it a career. We’ve had 62 years of prosperitysince WWII. Current prospects are less bright.

Some years ago a colleague told me about the prob-lems his son had with stuttering. Apparently thiswas an intelligent boy whose mind provided outputmore rapidly than he could say the words. It set meto wondering what my Dartmouth experience wouldhave been like if we had PCs with spell check. MyGPA may have been at least 1.00 higher since twoof my flaws are spelling and using the typewriter.

Following Yogi’s philosophy, “When you arrive at afork in the road, take it,” I became a math major toavoid papers. Then, I took the only job I was offered.(This channeled me into an actuarial career, in partbecause passing exams guaranteed raises.) I wasdrafted and assigned to a Washington office whereI learned programming.

The former chief of that office visited us one day.He had just taken a job with The Wyatt Company,which had been using part time service personnelfor years. Since I had completed several exams, I waseasily hired. Wyatt was converting to computersfrom wired-board machines, and “in the world ofthe blind, the one-eyed man was king.” I continuedwith Wyatt after my two years were up. No one elsewas familiar with my GM program and union nego-tiations were eminent. I rode that horse for 30 years.

My first marriage was a short one to a little blondein our Miami office. Oh was that commutingromance fun, but expensive. All was not lost, how-ever; I was introduced to both St. Bernards andCathy, a lady whom I eventually chased down formarriage. When I retired from Wyatt in 1993, Cathy,the Saints, and I headed for Florida to Bonifay, alittle town she discovered in her travels as a doghandler. She passed in 2001.

I’m still showing Saints. Holly begins her showcareer next Friday.

Michael McCusker

Dave McEachronPoint House, Frenchboro, ME 04635, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Sailing, camping,canoeing, flying, skiing, outdooractivities in generalCareer: Early: Corporate sales,platform tennis court construction;Later and longer: Real estate servic-es, home constructionFamily and Roots: Lived almostentirely in New EnglandWife: After one not-so-good marriage of 14 years, I met PatMcBride, and (still counting) we have had 20 happy yearstogether. Our first grandchild was born May 5, 2009. Major at Dartmouth: GeographyActivities at Dartmouth: Theta Delta Chi, Capt. FreshmanLacrosse, freshman and Varsity Hockey, Beloved SandwichMan. Dartmouth came in three parts for me. First came 1½years of sports and parties; then three years in the MarineCorps. Second came another 1½ years followed by a six-month freighter trip to the Far East; and then, finally, a yearto graduation. (Isn’t that what we all did?)


Dave McEachron and Pat with their grandchild


The Class of ’60 is my class, and so many of youbecame such good friends in such a brief period oftime. Still I had just a year and a half before theDean suggested that I try “maturing” just a bit inthe service. I chose the Marines thinking that if thatdidn’t teach me the lesson, then nothing would. Itdid! After one day in boot camp I could havereturned to Dartmouth and gotten straight A’s.However, the contract had been struck, and I servedthree years in the Air Wing, mostly in Japan.

Although readmitted early in January 1960, therewas still no overlap with the class to which we allbelong. (The single great regret of that experience.)

So now we have our 50th, and I can’t wait to seegreat friends again but bemoan the fact that I mayactually be meeting some of you for the first time.I suppose that it won’t come as a surprise that I stillhope our social hours go way into the night. Com-menting here on the great issues of our worldmight rob us of a spirited conversation in person,so I’ll refrain. I would however like to say that I findit very sad that so many of our classmates have died,and we won’t have the opportunity for a laughtogether about the good old days. That is all themore reason to attend and enjoy each other’s com-pany while we can. Can’t wait for June!

Alex R. McGinnis Alex R. McGinnis died onOctober 26, 2002.

Michael McGinnis285 Riverside Drive (Apt. 14B),New York, NY 10025, (212) 865-1566, «[email protected]»

I remember driving down Route5 after graduation and doubtingthat I would ever be back.

I was right: persons going toHanover don’t use Route 5;they use the Interstate.

I was wrong: both my kids went to Dartmouth:Tom ’99 and Ian ’01. So I returned to Hanover

many times: to see Ian play basketball, and, ofcourse, to their graduations.

I was glad to renew old friendships and make somenew ones. And I remember well how much funeveryone was having at those graduations. So now,I look forward to next June to be part of the merri-ment of my fourth graduation.

Donald H. McGreevy519 Pineo Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941, (415) 383-7846 Occupation: Arts/Entertainment

Joe McHughDallas, Texas, in the spring and fall;Vail, Colo., in the summer and win-ter; «[email protected]»Major at Dartmouth: D’60, T’61Wife: Fortunately, I have beenabundantly blessed with far morethan I deserve. I have an extremelylovely, loving, as well as extremelybright, thoughtful, kind, and gener-ous wife of 47 years; healthy, intel-ligent children, and grandchildrenand a wide and growing circle ofgood friends. We have been blessed with good health, theuse of all our senses, and the means to travel and enjoy allthe wonders and beauties of the world. It’s great to be onthe green side of the grass, upright and ambulatory at thisage! Incredible!Activities: Brenda and I live in Dallas, Texas, in the springand fall and in Vail, Colorado, in the summer and winter.We have a large group of good friends in both places andare somewhat involved in community affairs. In Vail, weenjoy frequent hiking, skiing, sailing (yes, we sail in Colorado)and partying with classmates Danson, Huttrer, Pomboy, andProgin, all of whom are actively involved with the DartmouthClub of the Vail Region. We travel widely and often—frequent-ly with a Butterfield and Robinson hike as the centerpiece ofa 30-day trip, and we fill in the rest of the itinerary ourselves. I recall that, at our 40th reunion, classmate Dave Bond pre-sented a seminar on post-retirement activities and we heardseveral classmates relate their involvement in various chari-table and educational activities. I remember feeling humbledby their respective commitments and contributions to society.I never, for one millisecond, was concerned about what I wasgoing to do in my retirement years. I have stayed busy enjoy-ing the many things I did not have the time to do during

my working career. More recently, the descriptions of variousclassmates’ activities in the June 2009 class newsletter leftme even more humbled. I never cease to be amazed at thenumber and diversity of the charitable and educationalcommitments of many of our classmates and wonder howthey became so broadly involved and how they find thetime for so many divers commitments. Sadly, my contribu-tions to society have been minimal at best!

Unfortunately, not withstanding the above, I haveslowly evolved into a full-fledged, card-carryingcurmudgeon regarding politics, business ethics, reli-gion, education, and life and death in general. I

just re-read my 40th reunion musings and findthat not much has changed—once a curmudgeon,always a curmudgeon.

PoliticsThe Federal Government and a growing number ofstate and municipal governments have deterioratedinto two polarized, completely dysfunctional, irrec-oncilable, self-interested camps incapable of accom-plishing anything that is truly in the best interestsof the electorate or the nation as a whole. The goodnews, as stated by my lovely wife, is that few, if any,candidates for public office turn out to be as goodas you had hoped or as bad as you had feared (with,in the latter case, the possible exception of the cur-rent national administration). Additionally, each timeone party gains control of both houses of Congressand the White House, that party shoots itself in thefoot with childish bickering and political turf warsand accomplishes very little of its grand agenda.

I firmly believe that politics is a corrupting activityand that, regardless of any candidate’s high moral andethical code and most sincere, high-minded initialintentions, he or she succumbs to the corruptinginfluences of public office and degenerates into anactive participant in politics as usual. The longer oneholds public office, the greater the degeneration.That is one overwhelming good reason for termlimits at all levels of government. After one or twoterms in office, politicians begin to represent them-selves, their careers, and their livelihood, not theirconstituents. Gerrymandering by both parties worksto the perpetuation in office of the incumbents. It isastounding to me that any intelligent and ethicalperson would want to debase themselves and theirreputation by running for any public office and bybeing associated with such a thoroughly disreputablegroup. The Founding Fathers of the United StatesConstitution would be appalled. There are no moretrue “statesmen” in the best sense of the word.

Business EthicsHaving spent five years in commercial banking,almost nine years in investment banking, and 23years in manufacturing, I am appalled at the extentto which ethical behavior has deteriorated in allsegments of business society. Many, if not most, ofthe exotic financial instruments introduced in thepast ten years—various derivatives, credit defaultswaps, etc.—are little more than Las Vegas gamblingvehicles that serve no economic purpose and thatenable both sellers and purchasers (note I did notsay “investors”) to game the system. The Federalgovernment, under a series of Republican andDemocratic administrations and the various regula-tory agencies, aided and abetted the gaming andnow wants to blame it on someone else! Muchexecutive compensation is obscene, especially ininvestment banking, and far exceeds any reason-able calculation of that executive’s contribution tothe success of the particular enterprise or to societyas a whole.

ReligionMany of the great travesties throughout history havebeen perpetrated by religious leaders of various per-suasions who, through demagoguery, clever persua-sion, physical threats, and persecution of rivalreligions have oppressed millions by establishing adominant religion or, in some cases, a theocracy.One of the greatest provisions of the United Statesconstitution is the separation of church and state.That is a sound rationale now being carried to absurdextremes by various groups on the lunatic fringe.

I believe that the moral and ethical degradationdiscussed under Politics and Business Ethics aboveis due to the steady decline in one or two genera-tions of any kind of moral, ethical, or religiousguidance of their children who grow up with nomoral or ethical compass. I expect that, with orwithout organized religion, most, if not all, souls—both believers and atheists—will find their way toeternal salvation.


Commencement

The longer one holds public office, the greater the degeneration.

Joe McHugh


Education The quality of education in the United States at alllevels has rapidly deteriorated under the pressure of:1) politicians striving for egalitarianism regardlessof merit; 2) unions trying to protect teachers’ jobsand perquisites at the expense of the studentswhom they profess to serve; and 3) college facultiesand administrations that a) strive to enforce politi-cal correctness at the expense of freedom of speechand b) cater to various special interest groups’ sen-sitivities by offering dumbed-down meaninglesscourses in the curriculum.

Life and DeathThe greatest single tragedy that can befall a humanbeing is the death of a child or grandchild. Goodhealth into old age is one of life’s greatest blessings.

Every person’s grave should be marked with someidentifying object, traditionally a tombstone, stat-ing the deceased’s name, date of birth, and date ofdeath. It seems a great sadness not to acknowledgea person’s existence and passing, however modesttheir birth, life, and death.

Epitaphs are another matter. With no basis ofknowledge or research, I venture to say that 90% ormore of all tombstones have no epitaph, and that isprobably the way it should be. I suspect that thosethat do have epitaphs have two sources: 1) surviv-ing relatives who wish to say something positive ornegative about the deceased and 2) the last will andtestament of the deceased. I suspect that those twosources might yield dramatically different results ifplaced side-by-side, but not necessarily. A scumbagin life might acknowledge his or her reprehensible-ness in his or her will and be consistent with theassessments of his or her survivors.

I think that “non-willed” epitaphs should be reservedfor those truly great contributors to society—thosewho left the world better than they found it. I believethat that group is very small indeed, and I am notamong them.

Peace.

A. Patrick McLaughlin III Pat

PO Box 4837, Ketchum, ID 83340, Spouse: Carol McLaughlin Occupation: Box 4827, Ketchum, ID 83340, (208) 726-0124

D. Christie McLellan Chris McLellan died on July22, 2009.

Bruce G. McLeodPO Box 971328, Orem, UT 84097, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: On New Year’s Day2009 I retired from the ArizonaDepartment of Revenue after work-ing for that agency for ten yearsand have moved to Utah. Career: For the past 50 years, I have had various careers. Aftergraduation from Dartmouth, I became certified to teach second-ary school in Arizona and New Mexico and spent five yearsin teaching. I then entered the field of social work andworked for the State of Arizona Department of Public Welfareand later the Arizona Department of Economic Security inthat field several years. During this time I took two years toobtain a Master in Social Work degree from St. Louis Univer-sity, which was conferred in 1976. Later, I was in businessfor myself in an accounting firm before entering State Serviceagain with the Arizona Department of Revenue.Family and Roots: I married Wilma Layne in 1968, andshe died in 1974. I have one son, David, who lives in Mesa,Arizona. My mother died in the year 2000 at the age of 103.Major at Dartmouth: Philosophy, MSW, St. Louis Univer-sity, 1976

Bruce McLeod with son David and Kristine Young atProvo, Utah, 2009

Robert H. McManus Robert H. McManus died onJanuary 21, 2007.

Bob came to Dartmouth fromBerkeley, Calif., and roomedin Massachusetts Hall in hisfreshman year with Ken Siegeland Webb Wade. But he leftHanover to return to California,where he graduated from UCBerkeley. Later, he was a gradu-ate of the University of MiamiSchool of Law.

He served in Army Intelligence as an enlisted manand was stationed in Germany with a special expert-ise in Polish affairs. Later, he worked in the officeof the Boulder, Colo. district attorney and then hisfather’s law office in the Bay Area, and was the ownerof the Town House Bar and Grill in Emeryville, Calif.

He was devoted to music, art, golf, skiing, and trav-el, frequently going to Palm Springs, Maui, Mexico,Napa, and Mendocino.

Bob is survived by his second wife, Addie CassityMcManus, and two brothers, Tom and Jim, and theirfamilies. Charitable contributions in his memorycan be sent to the American Cancer Society.

Samuel McMurtrie Jr.11 Kent Square, Brookline, MA 02446, (617) 734-0628,«[email protected]» Career: First National Bank ofBoston and self-employedWife: ElizabethMajor at Dartmouth: HistoryDartmouth Activities: soccer andlacrosse

I don’t feel much like musingbecause the weather is beautiful and I have manyprojects to accomplish. But if my thoughts are tobe part of the record, then I need to meet the fast-approaching deadline.

Much has changed and big things have happenedsince 1960: women and sororities; computers;Hopkins Center; Indian symbol; pathetic footballteam; term away from campus; expansion of plantand facilities; Mary Hitchcock; Dartmouth Review;governance; and diversity. If we all assigned ourlists of significant happenings to a plus or minuscategory, I wonder whether most of us would comeout on the plus side of the ledger.

I get my news about Dartmouth from the Newslet-ter, the Alumni Bulletin, and from attending the

lunches that Jim Adler hosts in Norwich everymonth. Despite this good pipeline, it’s hard toevaluate events as good, bad, stupid, frivolous, etc.I guess one needs to be close to the situation andon a continuous basis to get an accurate reading.I’d be worried about Dartmouth’s future were itnot for the lunch group which has quite a few sen-sible people who are close to the action. I don’tsense strong discontent or panic from them, so Itend to think Dartmouth is on the right track mostof the time.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, I reiterate thesense of two observations I made in More Musings.First, in his June cover letter, John Mitchell refersto “the Western canon taught at Dartmouth in the

late ’50s.” The canonhas served me well, andI have no problem withthe “dead Europeanwhite men” responsi-ble for it. Second, theTrustees should neverhave banned theIndian symbol.

I’m ashamed to admitthat I didn’t know whata bad football team wehad until the regularmonthly luncheon inNorwich in early 2009.I’m not the rah-rahtype, but Dartmouthcannot field a laughing-

stock team for too many years before highly quali-fied students, athletic or not, decide not to attend.When one considers how competitive Dartmouthwas in the late ’50s, it comes as a shock to be apushover.

Dennis Goodman’s June Newsletter reports on page10 that “45% of the students admitted to Dartmouthare students of color, the most diverse group in theCollege’s history. Students of color currently makeup over 30% of the student body. I find both per-centages astounding!


Samuel McMurtrie Jr.

John W. McNair Jr.Jock

26601 Pratt Road, Salisbury, MD 21801, (410) 860-1435,«[email protected]» Spouse: Barbara L. McNair

Gary C. Meehan1301 Medallion Street, Redlands, CA 92374, «[email protected]»

Stuart L. MegibowStu

1208 Cypress Lane, East Brunswick, NJ 08816, (732) 238-6728 Spouse: Joan Megibow

Edward W. MeissnerPO Box 304, Hurlock, MD 21643, (410) 943-4183

Michael G. Menaker Michael G. Menaker died onDecember 10, 1967.

John H. Merrill5624 Coffeen Avenue, Sheridan, WY 82801, (307) 674-9522 Spouse: Nancy Merrill Occupation: Consumer Services,Gourmet Galley Inc., 5624 Coffeen Avenue, Sheridan, WY 82801

Robert T. Messner1061 Black Ridge Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15235, (412) 731-0329, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: Reading, research-ing and writing about history, par-ticularly the French and Indian War.I am presently engaged in creatinga historical visitors’ center at thesite of Braddock’s Defeat in 1755.Authored “Reflections FromBraddock’s Field.” Raising two wonderful children and enjoying five grandchil-dren. I’ve been jogging (earlier) and on long walks (morerecently). I’ve done board service on numerous non-profits.Volunteer transporter and foster for rescued Cairn Terriers.Co -authored publications on the conduct of board of direc-tors’ meetings and shareholders’ meetings, as well as thePennsylvania Shareholder Protection law. Commanded U.S.Army Technical Intelligence Unit in the Far East and served asBriefing Officer for the Commanding General of the UnitedNations Command in Korea with decorations received. ArdentPittsburgh Penguins fan. Career: After Dartmouth, graduated from The University ofPennsylvania Law School and fulfilled my ROTC commitmentwith the U.S. Army by serving in the Far East. Upon myreturn, I joined a large Pittsburgh law firm and was recruitedto build a law department for a major general merchandiseretail firm. I served there as General Counsel for 17 years,


practicing general corporate law. Next, I became GeneralCounsel of a major regional bank where I remained for thefollowing 22 years until my retirement two years ago.During my career, I have been involved in hostile corporatetakeovers, the savings and loan crisis, and the commercialreal estate crash. As the proverb goes, I have “lived in inter-esting times”. Family and Roots: My wife Anne and I have been marriedsince 1966. Our daughter, Megan Kraai, graduated fromYale and from Duke Law School. She practiced law with Reed,Smith in Pittsburgh, Bank of America in Charlotte, N.C., andFannie Mae in Washington, D.C., before joining the lawfirm DLA Piper in Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.Our son, Michael Messner, is a principal in Mind Over Media,a Pittsburgh-based internet and television production firm.He has won 11 regional Emmys for producing and directing.In college, he captained the Penn State ice hockey team,then played minor league professional hockey before gettingon with his life’s work. Major at Dartmouth: Government

Things I think I think:

Of all the things I’ve done in my life, the mostimportant and the ones of which I am most proudare raising two great children to be wonderful andsuccessful adults and parents and my marriage ofmore than 40 years to a wonderful woman I love,respect, and admire. Nothing else even comes close.

While in the Army, I served as Briefing Officer forthe Commanding General of the United NationsCommand in Korea. Later, as General Counsel fora major corporation and later a large bank, I

advised a total of eight corporate CEO’s. Theseexperiences gave me some insight into the humandecision-making process. For the most part, humandecisions are not the product of a logical process, butrather of intuition. Often the decider is not evenaware he or she has already decided but appears tobe trying to make up his or her mind. Then a logi-cal construct is created to justify the intuitive deci-sion previously made. This does not mean thedecisions are bad ones, merely that those who thinkthey make their decisions based solely or primarilyon logic are probably misleading themselves. Mostoften the final decisions are the same as one’s firstinstinctive reaction. In this regard, most of the bestdecisions are made by those with the best instincts.

The death of people we love does not extinguishthe love they felt for us or that we felt for them. Itendures.

As a lifelong student of government and history,nothing has distressed me more than the way money,lobbying, and the “revolving door” for governmentemployees and contractors has corrupted theAmerican political and legislative processes.

Equally distressing has been watching Wall Street’sinvestment banking firms, which formerly helpedraise money to finance the growth of America’s busi-nesses, thereby promoting employment, deteriorateinto entities specializing in fleecing the Americanpublic and dismantling established businesses fortheir own greed by “putting them in play.” Whenthe trading departments began to control theinvestment banking firms, greed displaced any senseof ethics and integrity Wall Street ever had. Americais paying a steep price for that change.

Rescuing a dog from a kill shelter or puppy mill isone of the most satisfying and rewarding activitiesin which one can engage. Rescuing more than onemultiplies the fun.

I am grateful that my Dartmouth roommatesremain special friends 50 years later. Also, though I was never much of a drinker or party guy, my fra-ternity experiences with fellow members of ThetaDelta Chi are among my most favorite Dartmouthmemories. Lots of laughs, meaningful conversa-tions, great bull sessions, intramural athletics, andgreat friendships.

Having (and surviving) a heart attack can make lifethereafter very precious and special. Since March1991, I have been grateful for each minute, hour,and day. Every relationship, every encounter withanother person means so much more when yourealize that might be the last time you will be withthat person and that is how they will remember you.There is no place for pettiness or minor irritations.It teaches you to enjoy every minute you have left.That is my hope for all of you.


Robert T. Messner


Jon K. Meyer 2210 Dalewood Road, Lutherville Timonium, MD 21093, (410) 308-1752 Spouse: Eleanor Meyer

Erik Mickelsen3933 Maiden Canyon Road, Lewistown, MT 59457, (406) 538-5512

Robert K. Miller

John O. Milligan

Hoby Millington710 Verna Hill Road, Fairfield, CT 06824, (203) 255-4372 Spouse: Dianne Millington Occupation: Manufacturing

David A. Mills26 Beach Walker Road, Amelia Island Plantation, FL 32034, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Early on, myleisure time was spent coaching mykids’ teams. Now I play tennis orgolf about five times a week, takecare of the golden retriever, andkeep up our property. My wife ishooked on NetFlix at night while I watch my N.Y. teams on Direct TV.Career: I guarded the gold at Ft.Knox for two years, worked at TWA, Lockheed, and Sikorskyover a 20-year span doing numbers for marketing. In 2004,I moved to an adult summer camp on Amelia Island withgolf, tennis, fitness centers, and the like.Family and Roots: My two children, Kristin, 39, andJonathan, 36, each have a son and a daughter. They live inAlbany or Boston and see us in Florida as much as they didin Connecticut before the move. Wife: I married Linda Wallraff in 1966. A fellow New YorkCity girl, she is both a great wife and mother as well as atop-notch Realtor. Major at Dartmouth: Tuck my senior year, followed bymy MBA at ColumbiaDartmouth Activities: Varsity Soccer, Army ROTC, ChiPhi. Interviewed in Garden City, N.Y., and Madison, Conn.,and was always impressed by the applicants to the College.

David Mills with Linda and son Jonathan

I have been concerned with the degree of politicalcorrectness evinced at the College recently. I believethe Alumni Board of Trustees-packing was not agood thing. Nevertheless, undergraduates I havespoken with love their Dartmouth experience andare not obviously put off by these matters. I dohope that by our 75th reunion we will win a foot-ball game or two, however.

John M. Mitchell300 Grove Street, Unit 14, Rutland, VT 05701, (802) 775-3716, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: Life, Liberty, andthe Pursuit of HappinessCareer: A life of corporate vaga-bondage, emerging as a capitalistand retiring as a company presidentFamily and Roots: I descend fromMayflower, Italian, Scots, and Irishforerunners who fled monarchs,religious persecution, poverty, and diverse oppressions to livethe American dream. My two sons live on with their dreams. Wife: Married in 1962, divorced in 1998. Fun with My FriendCarol McQuate Major at Dartmouth: Economics and Tuck School: AB,1960; MBA, 1961 Dartmouth Activities: I dallied at freshman track as a pole-vaulter and at diving for two years, and at taking coursesfrom the best teaching professors I could con into letting metake, or even audit, their courses. I reveled at Tri-Kap.

The Dartmouth that my father, James William ’30,and I attended was pretty much the same. Histuition started at $300/year, mine at $900; now it’s$44,000. His classmates were men, as were mine;now it’s a women’s school with a minority of menstudents.

Six of his instructors were professors of mine, andwe watched about 20 percent of our respective class-mates leave before graduation for academic, social,

or financial reasons. Hopkins and Dickey, our pres-idents, respectively, announced to us we’d be giventhe opportunity to succeed by being given thechance to fail. Now, if you can get in you can’t failunless you commit a felony.

We both entered the conversation across the centurieswith a classic education in the Liberal Arts inclusiveof Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Mathematics.

The point of our educations was to produce capa-ble and cultivated men who could think, solveproblems, and behave like civilized human beings.There were no courses in Ethnic Studies, Porn andPiety, or Great Moments in Women’s History inthe Muslim World.

Shortly after I left the College, a veil of stupidityswept the nation and be-clouded even our Trusteesand administrators. When something is subsidized,you get an excess of it, and Federal entry into themarket for higher education lavished money onuniversities, which spent it like a Saudi woman onholiday in Paris. Administrators multiplied likehangers in a closet. Women were admitted becauseeveryone else did it. Two hundred years of experienceand tradition were abandoned like a foundling ona convent’s steps.

Dartmouth’s heritage as a school to educate Indianswas tossed aside too, even though no one seems tohave found a wealth of Indians who wanted to besaved from calumny.

My father served six years in WWII with colleagueseducated by the thousands from Dartmouth’s V-12program. But now, the military is not welcome oncampus. I am reminded of a comment by Sir


John Mitchell

As my grey-haired old father was wont to say,“It ain’t like it used to be, and it probably never was.”

John Mitchell


William Francis Butler, the English General of the19th century, who said the following (edited a bitby me):

The {college} that will insist on drawing aline of demarcation between the fightingman and the thinking man is liable to findits fighting done by fools and its thinkingdone by cowards.

My father was enticed into contributing to theAlumni Fund with the promise that if he did so for60 years, he’d receive a Sterling silver bowl recog-nizing that fact. So he did contribute thus andreceived a pewter bowl.

Four lads discovered a hacker’s scheme to breachthe Tuck School’s admittance database and did soto see their standing. I called Dean Danos to ascer-tain their fate. Two were to be admitted because anEthics Prof said it was “OK” and they were outstand-ing candidates. I explained I could not now hire aTuck grad at my company because I would not knowwho the cheaters were. The Dean seemed surprised.He was given a five-year renewal contract.

Perhaps it’s just a sign of the times, but when aDartmouth grad is honored by our country andnamed Secretary of the Treasury of the USA, heturns out to be a tax cheat. Montaigne observed inthe 1500s, “In a world of cause and effect, coinci-dence is suspect.”

Only about 20 percent of high school graduates arecapable of doing college-level work as we knew it.The other 80% learns a trade. The Scholastic Apti-tude Test (my father took it, too, in 1925) measuredreasoning by analogy and understanding mathe-matical concepts and predicted likely success at anacademic college. Luckily, the students accepted atDartmouth, for the most part, can still see throughthe veil of P.C. silliness, learn to doubt, think forthemselves, and emerge civilized human beings.Some will not.

As my grey-haired old father was wont to say, “Itain’t like it used to be, and it probably never was.”

Austin S. Mittler10708 Stapleford Hall Drive, Potomac, MD 20854, (301) 299-3134 Spouse: Carole S. Mittler Occupation: Law, Hogan & Hartson, 555 13th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004, (202) 637-6582

Richard M. Mobley Richard M. Mobley died onDecember 3, 1996.

William B. Modahl841 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, (505) 986-1922, «[email protected]» Spouse: Leslie A. Modahl

Seth R. Moger Seth R. Moger died onSeptember 12, 1981.

Bruce A. Molinaroli100 United Nations Plaza, Apt. 22E,New York, NY 10017, (212) 753-0579 Spouse: Sandra R. Molinaroli Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, Ingalls & Snyder, 61 Broadway, New York, NY 10006, (212) 269-7657

Roy F. Monson Roy F. Monson died on May 1,1993.

Richard L. Montgomery Jr. Monty

PO Box 833, Millburn, NJ 07041, Occupation: Education, UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School,Department of Oral Pathology, 100 Bergen St., Newark, NJ 07103

Steven R. Moody504 Ocean Avenue, Wells, ME 04090, (207) 646-5667, «[email protected]» Occupation: Government/Military

Conner M. Moore MD15 Pine Ridge Rd., Saco, ME 04072, (207) 282-1976, «[email protected]»Wife: Wendy

In the fall of 1955, a highschool classmate died of polio.After my graduation the nextyear, I tearfully embraced hisparents as I received a collegescholarship in his name. Twelveyears later my nurse would be administering poliovaccine to a startled and screaming infant. In 1958,

on my Dartmouth organic chemistry final, I wasasked to synthesize a new wonder antibiotic fromscratch. I must have succeeded, and this feat prob-ably saved my career in medicine. Ten years later, I was mixing a vial of this same antibiotic. It wouldnow save the life of a child.

Every time I am tempted to give unsolicited wordsof wisdom I quickly remember the comments fromfive-year-old Matt. Matt was in the office for hiskindergarten physical. I asked him some usualsmall talk questions. Intermixed were queries that

secretly tested his reading readiness such as ques-tions about the color of grass and sky, the order ofseasons, and the location of body parts. Matt didnot appear impressed. On arrival home, Matt’s dadasked how his visit went. “Well,” he offered. “Dr.Moore asked me a lot of questions he didn’t knowthe answers to. He isn’t very smart.”

Those of you who have spent careers in one areaknow how deep the roots can be. Upon my retire-ment last year, I filled four large scrapbooks withcards from both former patients and parents. They


“Dr. Moore asked me a lot of questions he didn’t know the answers to. He isn’t very smart.”

Conner M. Moore

Baker Library Stacks


ask me what I don’t miss. “The 3 am phone calls,”I quickly answer. “What are your most memorablecalls?” they ask. I respond, 1. “My child is wheez-ing and the dog ate the inhaler,” 2. “I’m here atcollege and couldn’t sleep, so I thought I wouldcall you,” 3. “How often do you give the 12-hournasal spray?”

Over 40 years in semi-rural Maine, I have watchedmedicine evolve from house calls to glass buildings,hand-scratched notes to electronic records, andmeasles to HIV. I have witnessed small-town Americachange from the pharmacy lunch counter to mallshopping, farms to condos, and VWs to SUVs.

Our two-pound Canadian preemie who was bornhere by accident in 1971 is now an 18-wheel truckdriver living in Missouri. A local girl whose life wesaved as a teen is now a surgeon somewhere in theU.S. A chubby asthmatic child who spent manyhours in my office and the hospital is now the chieffinancial officer of a major league baseball team.Around 1980, for three of four consecutive years,Maine high school students that I interviewedbecame valedictorians of their respective Dartmouthclasses. I watch in wonderment as these stories unfold.

After watching physicians give rambling 45-minutetalks at retirement dinners, I have vowed to avoidthis. I do need to thank my college and medicalschool classmates and professors for their support,tutoring, and understanding. Especially when Imade the error that cost our medical school teamthe college softball championship. I am continual-ly impressed with the academic, business, humani-tarian, and community achievements of the Classof 1960. I thank Wendy for essentially raising mychildren alone and allowing me to play doctor. Shehas been my pillar of support in good and badtimes. I thank my three sons for forgiving myoften times quirky and outside-the-box parenting.They are now re-teaching me life lessons from moun-tain climbing to fly-fishing.

Here’s an example: this year I was caddying for myson Michael during a Maine Amateur Qualifyinground. He is playing almost par golf. Disasterstrikes, and he takes a nine with four holes to go. I would have walked off the course. But no, Michaelthen tees it up and hits hole in one. He’s made thecut. Never give up.

The hour is late. The Red Sox are driving me nuts.Come by and say hi next summer.

Bill Moorman#6 Jolisa Court, Smithville, MO 64089, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Scratching out aliving to support my family, hopingto have a few bucks left to playsome golf, do a little dancing, andtravel a bit.Career: A few financial positions(auditor, budget director, account-ing supervisor, controller, etc.) in afew companies for almost 20 years,then business administrator and assistant superintendent forbusiness and personnel for the Hanover area public schools,from 1979 to my retirement in 2001.Family and Roots: Born a Cardinal fan and raised inSouthern Illinois near St. Louis; moved to N.H. in 1979 andthan back to the Midwest in 2006. I have four kids, eightgrandkids, three ex-wives, and a partridge in a pear tree!Wife: N/A (Not Advisable)Major at Dartmouth: Economics; MBA, Northwestern, 1962Dartmouth Activities: Class Treasurer, 2004 to date

If it’s true that “Everything I Needed to Know ILearned in Kindergarten,” I feel short-changed! I only spent half a year in KG, then received a mid-year promotion to first grade. (I used to be smartwhen I was a kid!)

Robert Fulghum’s book further states, “Wisdomwas not at the top of the graduate school moun-tain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.”I learned many life values in Sunday school andKindergarten, but I also learned many more frommy parents, grandparents, siblings, cousins, class-mates, friends, and of course, my kids.

And also, of course, golf! It’s true what the commer-cials say for the “First Tee” program. Golf teaches

Bill Moorman

you integrity, honesty, confidence, and many otherimportant values you carry throughout your life.My son and I have four rules when we play golf:(1) play the ball as it lies, (2) no Mulligans, (3) nogimmes, and (4) no BS! Yep, I learned a lot on thegolf course.

Formal education at Dartmouth and Northwesterngave me a number of technical skills that allowedme to make a reasonable living, so that I could sup-port my family and pursue a few hobbies. Perhaps

more importantly, however, I learned how to think—to research, analyze, weigh alternatives, and makelogical decisions. I also learned how to be independ-ent, to be organized, to prioritize, to understandothers, and to assume responsibility for myself.

Regrets? I’ve had a few, but then again, too few tomention. Oops, seems like I’ve heard that songbefore; maybe from Sinatra? Anyway, looking backon 50 years A.D. (After Dartmouth), I’m satisfiedthat I tried my best, and I did it my way—I won afew, lost a few, and played a few in the rain.

Perhaps my most satisfying moments have been, asa single dad, watching my four kids grow up suc-cessfully, in spite of me. They were 13, 11, 7, and 2when I was first divorced and granted custody. Theyhave five Master’s Degrees plus a C.P.A. among themand have all become healthy, happy, contributingmembers of society, which is all I ever really want-ed for them.

Now, for myself, I need to go back to that half yearof Kindergarten that I missed and figure out what I want to be when I grow up!

J. Spencer Morgan315 Inverness Court, Flat Rock, NC 28731, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Graduation, Mar-riage, Two Children, Career, Divorce(stupid), Formed Own Company,Bachelorhood, Marriage (stupid),Divorce, Second Career, Found aGreat Partner, Sedentary and PetulantCareer: Forest products industry: pre-sumed expert in non-wood celluloseFamily and Roots: Jill W. Morgan,Dartmouth, 1985; Lindsay Keare, 15; Brian Keare, 13; JeffKeare, 10; Jay S. Morgan, Syracuse, 1987 Partner: Gretchen Van Emburgh, a Marathoner Major at Dartmouth: History

Dartmouth Activities: Sigma Chi, Dragon, a bit of footballuntil smothered by Virostek, a little basketball but inept, somebaseball, Interfraternity Council, Undergraduate Council

Life’s Highlights:

In Dallas when JFK assassinated. Spent a day skiing with Robert Redford. Many trips to Tunisia and the Sahara. Pushing a Mercedes down a sand dune with a Libyanarmy patrol. Helped start Von Summer’s Scotch drinking andskiing weekends. Skiing the Rockies, Alps, and south island of NewZealand. Two weeks in French Polynesia. Painting military miniatures. Exploring countries lapped by the Mediterranean,Baltic, and Bering seas. Substitute high school teacher known as “Mr.Yankee” by local rednecks.

The Immediate Future: 50th Reunion, Grandchildat Dartmouth, Skiing South America

Expectations of the Beyond: Shorter Lift Lines

Yol Bolsun!


I won a few, lost a few, and played a few in the rain.

Bill Moorman

J. Spencer Morgan


R. Marsh Morgan Jr.Marsh

PO Box 745, Campton, NH 03223, (603) 726-8636 Spouse: Sandy M. Morgan

Patrick M. MorrisPat

845 Donald Ross Drive, Pinehurst, NC 28374, (910) 255-0774 Spouse: Constance Atwell MorrisOccupation: Government/Military

Roger Morris

Robert F. Morrison145 Oliver Road, Bedford, NY 10506, (914) 234-3581, «[email protected]» Spouse: Jeannette E. Morrison Occupation: Manufacturing

T. Truxtun MorrisonTruck

1525 Hunter Drive, Wayzata, MN 55391, (763) 473-7600, «[email protected]» Spouse: Adrienne Morrison Occupation: Transportation/Distribution

H. Geoffrey Moser Geoff

PO Box 446, Bozeman, MT 59771Life’s Pursuits: Retired to Bozemanin 2002; the many outdoor oppor-tunities in this part of the northernRockies include fly-fishing, hunting,skiing, and enjoying nature as itchanges through the year; much timespent with our Labrador retrievers;scientific writing coming to an endbut keep busy reading and writingpoetry and getting around to reading the novels I alwayspromised to read or reread “some day.” Career: Marine fisheries biologist for 40 years in La Jolla,Calif.; research focus on early stages of the marine fishesthat inhabit the California Current region, from the Gulf ofAlaska south to Cabo San Lucas and the Gulf of California.Family and Roots: Paternal grandfather taught all gradesin a one-room schoolhouse in the Pennsylvania Dutch coun-try; maternal Welsh grandfather (Poppy Williams) worked inthe coal industry near Scranton, Pa., starting as a childlaborer picking the anthracite from the slate at 8 years ofage (going to work, his lunch pail dragging in the snow); at12 began driving mule teams in the mines and eventuallybecame the office manager for Lehigh Coal and NavigationCompany; paternal grandmother was a gifted painter andraised my dad, who became a physician after graduating fromJefferson Medical College. My dad met mom on an elevatorin Philadelphia where she was working as a secretary. I neverknew my maternal grandmother, Bessie Williams but wish I had. My wonderful sister, Judy, died in an auto accident inMichigan in 1990 (see poem included with essay). My daugh-ter, son-in-law, and grandson live in San Diego, California,and son and daughter-in-law in Great Falls, Montana.Wife: Pamela was the eldest daughter of Edward T. Cham-berlain Jr., Director of Admissions at Dartmouth (1950s-1970s). We were married in the Church of Christ in Hanoveron September 5, 1961, with a reception at the DartmouthOuting Club, attended by Dartmouth classmates, friends,and family.Major: BA, Biology; PhD, Biology, University of SouthernCalifornia, 1966Dartmouth Activities: Senior Fellowship and various part-time jobs in Biology Dept.; upland bird hunting; fly-fishing;

skiing; Theta Delta Chi Fraternity; Dragon Senior Society;freshman track; observing and enjoying New Hampshire’schanging seasons.

I first became interested in applying to Dartmouththrough Seth Strickland when we were working ata summer camp (Adirondack Woodcraft Camps, OldForge, N.Y). He was applying to Dartmouth and wewere good friends, so I applied and was accepted.Arriving at Dartmouth from a small public highschool in Pennsylvania was kind of overwhelming.I’ll always be grateful to Seth for introducing me toDartmouth. We were roommates with Dave “Mac”McEachron in Lord Hall during freshman and soph-omore years. Larry “Zoo” Gazley introduced me toPam Chamberlain one evening in 1960 at a party athis house during spring break, and to “Zoo” I will beever grateful. Other appreciation goes to Dr. WilliamBallard, my professor in Biology, and to Dr. KurtBenirscke, Chairman of the Pathology Department,Dartmouth Medical School, who co-authored andguided me through my first scientific publication.Also, Hannah Croasdale, instructor in Biology,trained me in histology and histochemistry, skillsthat later helped put food on the table and datainto my PhD dissertation. Hannah was one of thefew, maybe the only, female professors on campusat the time. Dartmouth was a natural paradise andI spent as much time as I could in its woodlandsand trout streams and on its ski trails. BunnyBertram charged me $1.25 for a daily ticket on thepoma lift at Suicide Six, and, when the tickets addedup to $25, he gave me a season pass. The day after

Pam and I were married, we set out for L.A. in our’55 Chevy with all our worldly possessions. Drivinginto L.A. on the San Bernadino Freeway was a fright-ening experience and at one point I pulled off ontoan interchange and announced that we were head-ing back to New Hampshire. Pam quietly explainedto me that we could do that but that I would alwayswonder what I had missed by not giving USC gradschool a try; the first of many times that she set ourcourse in the right direction—and she still does,going on 48 years.

Here is the poem for my sister:

Garden Hat

Standing in her back porchlooking at my sister’s garden hathanging on the wallwhere she left it beforeleaving for her anniversary celebration at the cottagein the north of Michigan.

Her returnending suddenly and without warningat one of those intersections thatcriss-cross the middle part of the state.

No one will ever again wear this beautifulhat with its wide brim and perfect, roundedcrown.

Standing there thinking about her in her gardenlovingly placing tender summer flowers thathave waited patiently for her to rescue themfrom their black plastic pony packs.

Removing the few weeds, recently emerged,and enjoying the feeling of warm soil crumblingand falling between her fingers.

Thoughts drifting to her children and belovedhusband who will dance with her, alone,just the two of them, Judy glancing out at the lakeremembering to order new seeds.

H.G. Moser, “It’s All Natural: Collected Poems andProse,” 2008

David S. Mosteller David S. Mosteller died onOctober 22, 2005.


Prof. John Kemeny

Reynolds E. Moulton Jr. Reynolds E. Moulton Jr. diedon March 5, 2006.

Reynolds E. (Rey) Moulton Jr.was a hero of our class. A manwho played baseball and indeedwas captain of his high schoolbaseball team after losing anarm to cancer at the age ofonly five, he commanded admi-ration by overcoming adversi-ty. Late in life, he underwenttwo heart bypass operations and then had a hearttransplant in 1999.

Rey was a generous man. At his memorial service,attended by many Class members, someone told thestory of how Rey, engaging a service station atten-dant in conversation and learning of his desire toget an education, presented the man with a checkfor $1,000 within minutes.

Rey gave also often to Dartmouth and toward theend of his life provided a new turf field for the Uni-versity of Vermont. As an undergraduate in Hanover,he had played three years of soccer.

The recipient of numerous awards, includingMarblehead, Mass.’s Man of the Year in both 1991and 2003, as well as the Rotary Foundation’s PaulHarris Fellow Award, he served his private school,the Governor Dummer Academy, as trustee from1998 on and was always a devoted alumnus.

As a Dartmouth traditionalist, he was a strong believ-er in the school’s Indian symbol, presenting a rep-resentation to friends and to a new Class Secretary,where it hangs in my living room today.

A professional in insurance, Rey was the largestemployer in Marblehead and well known for hisphilanthropies on Massachusetts’ North Shore. Theoffices of his company spanned the country.

Jim Adler remembered Rey after his death, of can-cer at his home in Manchester, Mass., for his gen-erosity and the respect in which he was held byclassmates.

He is survived by his wife, Betsy Winder, a son,Ren, of Brooklyn, N.Y., a daughter, Holly Whall ofWakefield, R.I., a son Jonathan of Venice, Fla., asister, his mother, Aristeen Lambert, and twograndchildren.

Allen F. Muglia601 Thalia Point Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23452, (757) 463-1989, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sarah Muglia Occupation: Allen F. Muglia,Mgmt. Consultant, 601 Thalia Point Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23452, (757) 463-1989

H. Nicholas Muller III15 Harbor View Way, PO Box 244,Essex, NY 12936, Fax (518) 963-8188, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Good fortune canmeld career and life if one gets paidfor doing what one likes. Most ofmy colleagues in history know theirname will never grace a one-volumehistory of western civilization, muchless a multi-volume version. We willleave our mark through successivegenerations that best express and carry on our values. Manyin our class have found an expression of this working withinthe Dartmouth family. In my working life, I led institutions that I value and servedon roughly 40 not-for-profit boards. I have served andsometimes led a medical center, preservation and historicalorganizations, a community foundation, municipal, statewide,and national institutions, and those roles have reinforced acapacity to contribute. Several public boards, including oneslisted on the NYSE, have broadened my perspective andareas of contribution. As a historian, I have published several books and about 60articles. When I Include syndicated newspaper op-ed piecesand book reviews, the number climbs to over 200. Retirementgives me more time to write and serve on boards. Speakingengagements continue, and I enjoyed receiving an honorarydoctorate from Lawrence University. On a more hedonistic plane, I attended a decade’s worth ofKentucky Derbys, Super Bowls, and the occasional stakesrace. A Heisman Trophy dinner, professional and collegegames with good friends, and good times have providedmore than a few laughs. Season tickets to Dartmouth foot-ball games have lately brought a little less fun. At home, wekeep a 35-foot sloop and a vintage Chris-Craft on LakeChamplain, garden, and manage a property that seemslarger and more demanding each year.Carol and I (she more gracefully than I) grow into our rolesas grandparents of the children that our five children andstepchildren are raising. Career: After leaving Hanover, working on a PhD in NorthAmerican history, returning to Hanover to teach for a termand help with freshman soccer, and teaching and coaching


soccer for two years at Mount Allison University in NewBrunswick, Canada, in 1966 the University of Vermont (UVM)invited me to join its Department of History. We settled intoBurlington, Vermont, where among other courses I taughtthe history of Vermont. That qualified me as a leadingexpert in the field and propelled me into speaking engage-ments, legislative testimony, and service on boards andpublic agencies with recognition that the perspective of thepast had a role in public policy formation. UVM provided a great deal of scope for a young man, put-ting me into the Dean of Arts and Sciences office, assigningme major responsibility for the construction of eight buildings,allowing me to teach only Vermont’s history, and allowingme to engage in the public sector. I became Chairman of thefinances of the Vermont Bicentennial Committee, Chairmanof the Burlington Bicentennial Committee, Chairman of theVermont Council on Historic Preservation, editor of VermontHistory, a Senior Editor of Vermont Life Magazine, a newsanalyst for a local TV station, a regular radio commentator,the color broadcaster for some UVM hockey games, a speechwriter for a Governor of Vermont. I could also find time toplay serious softball and goalie for an area hockey team. The opportunity to lead Colby-Sawyer College lured me outof Vermont and next door to New Hampshire in 1978, giv-ing me the responsibility to transform the former junior col-lege into a baccalaureate institution.After eight years, I headed to Wisconsin to become the CEOof the Wisconsin Historical Society, a state agency with a per-manent staff of nearly 200, a seasonal staff that approached700, more than 200 buildings including museums, historicalsites, more than a dozen archival installations, and the largestlibrary (four million items) devoted to North American histo-ry. The historic preservation program engaged me in, amongother things, the preservation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin.I enlisted as the President and CEO of the Frank Lloyd WrightFoundation and President of the Frank Lloyd Wright Schoolof Architecture. With headquarters at Taliesin West inScottsdale, Arizona, and an office there and at Taliesin inSpring Green, Wisc., I split time between the two. Achievingaccreditation for the School and putting the organization onsound financial footing helped put an historical figure in theone-volume History of American Civilization. In 2002, we retired and came to Essex, N.Y., on the westshore of Lake Champlain, where we look to Vermont’s GreenMountains and I can pursue my interest in Vermont’s past.Family and Roots: I left secondary school in Pittsburghand entered Dartmouth, the son of a Dartmouth ’35 and aColby Junior College ’35, both the first generation in theirfamilies to attend college. I have never left northern NewEngland, though I lived for nearly 20 years in Wisconsinand Arizona. Now married 24 years, we brought five children together,two of mine and three of hers. None studied at Dartmouth;the College accepted one of mine, who decided to go toBrown. They and their families have scattered living in NewHampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Wisconsin, and Oregon. Wife: Carol A. Muller, actively retired in Essex, N.Y., isengaged in civic organizations and functions. Before retire-ment, she worked in the travel industry, managing the Stateof Wisconsin for Carlson Travel. She worked ten years asDirector of the Executive Residence for Governor Tommy

Thompson there, then retired. Major at Dartmouth: History; PhD in History, Universityof Rochester Dartmouth Activities: Soccer (4 years), Chi Phi Social andRushing Chairman

Reflections on Dartmouth Football and the College

(Editor’s note: Pause here and let the memorieswash over you, and see how a professional drawsyou into the picture and opens your mind to think.)

Four or five Saturdays in the fall, the soccer gameover, showered, tired, having wolfed the first cup

of Ballantine from the keg Tanzi’s had deliveredthat morning for $7.50 and a galactowich construct-ed from bread, meats, cheeses, and condimentsfrom AI’s Red & White, I shoved off for MemorialStadium. A few blocks away, Ben Thompson with awhistle, white gloves, and a freshly pressed uniformoverrode the light at the intersection of Main andWheelock Streets and separated the vehicular andfoot traffic. The whole campus seemed to tilt towardthe stadium.

Two blocks down the hill the crowds closer to thestadium ebbed and flowed in a more compressed,


I ponder about what the alums of 50 years agotailgating before a football game found lacking or promising about our era on campus.

H. Nicholas Muller III

Halftime Show


disorderly tide. The newest of the Hanover Policetried without much luck to maintain some orderwhere Observatory Road and Crosby Street clashedwith East Wheelock Street as the swelling, excitedcrowd converged. Alums tailgated on every squarefoot of the lawns around the Sphinx, the Ripleydormitory complex, and behind the Fayerweathers.Clad in old numeral and letter sweaters, jackets andties, and class hats, their wives usually in a camelhair coat with a green and white six-footer scarf,they washed down burgers, potato salad, and chips.Graying or balding, a little paunchy, a bit jowly,and unaware of issues d’jour on campus, the off-field natures of the men they came to cheer, or thechanges created by moving from a semester to atrimester system and its chilling affect on WinterCarnival, they presented a condition into which I could not imagine devolving. They openly drankbeer and Bloodies with impunity. Classmates and I could not, as Cap Goudreau and his minions hada keen eye for the offense of an open container fol-lowed by an automatic “warning” from the dean.Music blared from AD and Chi Phi, and some excit-ed classmates tossed or punted a football or sailed aFrisbee around the lawns watched from the porch-es by guys and their dates cradling mugs or waxedcups emblazoned with beer logos.

Cars, the Gamma Delta fire engine, students, dates,alums, the Band in white pants and shoes and greenblazers that could actually march enough to keepreasonable straight lines and could play a spiritedrendition of “Dartmouth’s in Town Again” pouredinto the intersection in an inchoate, happy massgenerally moving between the tennis courts andTopliff toward the stadium. Students hawked pro-grams, and long lines formed in front of the localstaking tickets. Going through the gates and up theramps, pressed against others in front and behind,we emerged into the noisy crowd filling the concreteseats on the west side, both end zones’ bleachers,and the stands on the visitors side. Players performedwarm-ups in Dartmouth Green jerseys, white pants,and white helmets with a double green stripe andthe “D.” Coach Blackman, with his characteristiclimp, in a brown topcoat, often with a fedora, andhis assistant coaches watched the activity.

The Band marched onto the field and the Indianmascot with a warlock, moccasins, bare above his

breech cloth and leggings, war paint on his face, anda large “D” emblazoned over the red ochre painton his chest thumped the big tom-tom and assistedcheerleaders in white ducks, white bucks, and greensweaters. We looked for our fraternity block andimpatiently waited for the national anthem andkickoff. By then, much of the almost abandonedcampus up the hill had gone quiet. Football hadbecome the center of the College.

Fifty years later, with season tickets, Carol and I,often with some family, make the short two-hourtrip from Lake Champlain to Hanover on footballSaturdays. (The fact that we purchase two mid-fieldseason tickets for $74, including shipping and han-dling, while our friends in Wisconsin where we for-merly lived pay a $3,000 seat license for the right topurchase a season ticket suggests more than the IvyLeague de-emphasis on athletics.) We can drivedown East Wheelock Street, turn left, and climbObservatory Road, certain of a spot to park. TheClass mini-reunion and tailgate near the Observa-tory on one Saturday each fall provides a congenialsetting to see old friends.

We have become the aging alums and spouses thatI could not fathom joining five decades ago. Wehave turned in letter sweaters and six-footers andmost other green and white attire and primary col-ors for the earth tones of clothing designed foroutdoor activity with brand names or inscriptionsinstead of “Dartmouth” and numerals. The tailgat-ing around the Sphinx and the nearby dormitories(now residence halls) seems less crowded and fren-zied. When the Class tailgate begins to disperse,many more gather for a hike, the shops on MainStreet, an exhibit at the Hop, or the golf course thanhead down the hill toward the stadium.

We cross East Wheelock Street with the trickle offans. No one has to queue in front of the under-graduate selling programs, and, with guests or familyalong, we buy them game-day tickets at the boothwithout a wait. We then move through the gatesin a short line and ascend the ramp into sparselypopulated stands with ample unoccupied space tosit with friends whatever the seat and row designa-tion on the tickets indicates. Class sections thatonce provided a mini-reunion themselves barelyexist. Only kids eager to catch a ball after an extrapoint or field goal stay near the deserted end zonebleachers. The disheveled Band enters, ragged,unkempt, and thin, without a clue of how to marchand not much more of one about how to render atune. The obvious and tired parody on the uni-formed marching units of the big (and, of course,less intellectual) collegiate bands has become a sadparody of itself. Even the cheerleading squad, nowwell over a dozen, appears somewhat detached anddisinterested. The team loses, and we leave Memorial

Stadium with the remnants of the thin crowd,retrieve the car, and head home with no need forBen Thompson to sort out traffic.

On the drive home on I-89 across Vermont, sur-rounded by the colorful foliage set off against themountains turning purple in the early autumnevening, I wonder whether the College has discov-ered a center to replace the football Saturdays of mymemory, and I think about change. It had becomesecond nature as a historian. As an administrator, I had worked to achieve and to control it. Clearlymy alma mater has changed over five decades, andit should and, inevitably, would; and so had myclassmates and me. I ponder about what the alums of50 years ago tailgating before a football game foundlacking or promising about our era on campus.

Returning to the College, we cannot miss the dif-ferences. Most of us approach Hanover on I-91 orI-89, lopping off hours and bypassing the dangersand frustrations of Routes 3, 4, or 5. Coming fromthe Lebanon exit we pass new hotels, car dealerships,and the huge Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.Arriving in town from any direction, we encounterthe multi-story red brick buildings extending southon Main Street and along Lebanon Street and thenational chain retailers, boutiques, and restaurantsthat have replaced Tanzi’s, Fletcher’s sleazy empori-um, Campion’s, Rogers Garage, and Trumbull-Nelson.On the sidewalks and Green we see as many womenas men, often clad in unisex camouflage and T-shirtsadvertising product, place, platitudes, and pornog-raphy. We hear the sounds of rap and reverberatingpercussion instead of the Kingston Trio, HarryBelafonte, Elvis, the Diamonds, or the Coasters. Apartially ideologically driven bent has weakened theGreek system, and the houses look tired.

Beneath these palpable, obvious, transitory, andsomewhat symbolic changes lie more important,pervasive, and sometimes subtle differences. Thecomputer has become the favored form of commu-nication. Students exchange emails with facultymuch more frequently than visiting them duringoffice hours. Most of the faculty who taught andbefriended us did not have the credentials to com-pete for a faculty position today. The Dartmouth

Plan, cleverly devised to accommodate the suddeninflux of new students without major campusexpansion, has eroded campus cohesivenessthrough required summer and off-campus terms andits influence on determining the backgrounds andaspirations of many of students who seek Dartmouth.This has eroded the tendency to form a close-knitcadre of friends who study, play, eat, and staytogether. It has also provided the need to putgreater reliance on forming new friends and groupsthroughout the undergraduate years. It has had anegative effect on athletic programs. Graduatestudy has extended well beyond the professionalschools and permeated much of the College. Thesechanges have all created a deeper, more permanentalteration in the landscape than superficial fads indress, music, or Main Street retailers.

The ethos of the College has changed more pro-foundly in the half-century since our class leftHanover than in the 50 years that preceded us. Inthat difference lie the roots of the protest of TheDartmouth Review, the ridicule and elimination ofthe Indian symbol, or the recent struggles overgovernance. The Dartmouth family has divided overthe fundamental urge to maintain deep-seated tra-dition and the natural impulse of new generationsto set a course of their own. Some think dismantling


The Green, after a rainy football gameDavid L. Prentice ’69


traditions they did not share embraces the future.They also exhibit a strong tincture of self-assertionand a somewhat naked display of power. Others,defending tradition, trying to preserve what theyfervently hold as the best of the past, at timesdeny the future. The administration, faculty, staff,students, and many of the alumni have alreadyembraced the change, and how they manage toaccommodate and respect the polar forces at play,or more likely ignore them, will do much to influ-ence the future of Dartmouth. I ask, as I drive, canthe College discover a new way to bring the campustogether the way most of us experienced it a longtime ago and still, for many of us, hold dear in ourmemories? I then ask, do the folks who make upthe contemporary Dartmouth understand or desirea congealing, unifying experience? Would a winningfootball team make a difference? Turning off of I-89and heading to the ferry to cross Lake Champlain,I conclude victories at Memorial Stadium wouldcreate excitement and boost the alumni fund, butthey would not restore the campus solidarity thatmany of us remember and cherish. The College haschanged, and it will not return to the late 1950’s.

Rory Mullett361 Thunderbird Rd., Hesperus, CO 81326, (970) 259-7277,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Not sure.Career: Human Resources in anumber of big companies and asmall consulting firm. Couple ofpart-time teaching stints–NYUBusiness School and Fort LewisCollege. Started in labor relations,sat in most of the HR chairs, facili-tated learning communities of (1) EEO/Diversity managersand (2) employment lawyers, retired in 2000, un-retired forfive months in 2009 to handle HR (including two negotia-tions and a reorganization) for the Durango school district,and mostly pro bono mediations since 1995.Family and Roots: Parents were born in Ireland. Fathercaught TB, came to America, didn’t deteriorate on schedule,invited my mother to come over and marry him, and movedto Colorado. After leaving the nest, I married a law schoolclassmate and we wound up living in metropolitan NewJersey for 30+ years. Upon retirement, left son and his familyin N.J. and daughter and her family in NYC and moved toColorado. Now trying to decide whether to hang on here oreventually move to (1) a continuing care facility in Santa Feor (2) a seniors-oriented facility in N.J.Wife: Heather Lohrentz; grew up in Pittsburgh, graduatedPenn State ’59, Michigan Law ’63, elected to Phi BetaKappa and the Order of the Coif. Fortunately her brilliancedid not extend to her taste in men. Has been a corporatelawyer for 30 years as well as a spinner and knitter.

Degrees: History in Hanover. MA (conflict resolution),Michigan Law ’63, McGregor School, and Antioch ’97Dartmouth Activities: Extended adolescence, Freshmantrack, Bones Gate, some learning

Ideas about Constructive DialogDifferences are not about what is true but aboutwhat is important. Differences stem from conflict-ing perceptions, interpretations, and values. Hence,a persuasive argument is unlikely to produce a solu-tion. Listen to the other person.

The beginning of a solution is understanding wherethe other person is coming from and why.

Examine your assumptions.

An assumption that there must be a winner and aloser makes the agreement slope slippery.

Strive for consensus (something both parties canlive with) rather than converting the person(s)with whom you are dialoguing. Assigning blameproduces defensiveness and diverts attention fromlearning what is wrong.

A solution is figuring out what combination of fac-tors and behaviors gives rise to the problem.

Presume the best in those with whom you dialog.

Assuming other people’s intentions is damagingbecause there is no way of doing so accurately.Resolving the question of intent does not resolvethe problem; you may accept that my intentions arebenign and also feel that my behavior is hurtful.

Keeping others at arm’s length prevents them fromforcing us to confront our differences.

Master the facts.

Try to think of a solution for every problem youidentify

Solutions that don’t generate consensus provide abasis for learning why and building better ideas.

Let others know that you are trying to be positiveand don’t appreciate negative behavior.

The problem is probably more complex than it seems.

Make an effort to see it through the other person’sspectacles.

Take early responsibility for your contribution tothe problem.

Share explicitly what in the other person’s behaviorpushes your negative buttons.

Understand your feelings and share them in infor-mational, non-blaming ways.

Acknowledge the other’s feelings by communicatingthat you have heard the message and that you under-stand or are trying to understand her/his perspective.

Understand that nobody is completely terrible orcompletely perfect.

Avoid:

Saying the same things repetitively that haveproved unfruitful in the past

Talking too much; not listening enough

Engaging the other before you’ve sorted your-self out on the issues

Undervaluing your feelings/perceptions; notarticulating where you’re coming from

Cross-examining the other person

Making points indirectly (jokes, questions, off-hand comments, body language) versus directly

Exaggerating

Placing greater value on winning than beingfair

A little humor goes a long way.

William S. Mullin17426 Frondoso Drive, San Diego, CA 92128, (858) 487-0920

George J. Mundt Jr.PO Box 187, Newark Valley, NY 13811, (607) 642-3352, «[email protected]» Spouse: Donna B. Mundt Occupation: Law

Dave Murphy33 Cary Avenue, Milton, MA 02186; 33 Indian Trail, Chatham, MA 02669; «[email protected]»Career: US Army CounterintelligenceCorps, 1961-1964; Boston CollegeLaw School, 1964-1967, JD, 1967;National Labor Relations Board,1967-1969, Baltimore Labor Rela-tions Attorney; Raytheon Company,Lexington, Mass., 1969-1971,Labor Relations Counsel; John Hancock Financial Services,Boston, Mass., 1971-2001, Labor Relations and EmploymentLaw Counsel, Retired as Vice-President, Human ResourcesWife: Nancy, married 1974 to presentFamily: Children: David L Murphy III, BA, St. Lawrence Uni-versity, 2001; Jennifer Soares, BA, Skidmore College, 1999.Dogs: Three Australian Shepherds: Mattie, Sundance, andCassidyFather, David L., Dartmouth, 1934; Brother, Philip D., Dart-mouth, 1973Major at Dartmouth: English, AB, June 1961; JD, BostonCollege Law School, 1967Dartmouth Activities: Member Delta Kappa Epsilon

Coming, as I did, from a Dartmouth family tradition—father, uncle, cousin, and brother—after gradua-tion, I became involved in alumni interviewing inthe town where I lived. My father, brother, and Iwere all involved in trying to interest young menand eventually women in the College we loved. Butas the years went by it became increasingly moreevident that the Admissions Office no longer valuedindividuals I considered ideal candidates. And overthe years, I became increasingly more disillusionedwith a series of mediocre (or worse) presidents thatfollowed the outstanding John Kemeny. Duringthat period, in my opinion, the College slippedconsiderably in comparison with some of its peers,Brown and Penn for example. I believe, however,

the College has finally made an outstanding selec-tion in its new President, Jim Yong Kim.

I have attended a few reunions—25th and 40th.While I remain interested in what transpires inHanover, Dartmouth no longer occupies as signifi-cant a place in my life as it once did. Hope to makethe 50th. I guess I’m breaking my “vow of silence”if for no other reason than there will be someinformation for my obit when the time comes.


Somewhere in the White Mountains

The College has finally made an outstandingselection in its new President, Jim Yong Kim.

Dave Murphy


Thomas F. Murphy Jr.Tom

PO Box 1664, North Falmouth, MA 02556, (508) 563-6492, «[email protected]» Spouse: Marilyn C. Murphy Occupation: Consulting

Matts Myhrman

Ned P. Nabers Ned P. Nabers died on March13, 1984.

John Nash

Art Needham 94 Richardson Road, Fitchburg, MA 01420, (978) 342-8293, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: By way of news,Martha and I are going to Englandand Scotland in less than a week.Yes, this “Martha” is the same girlas the one whose picture was in myroom at Dartmouth. As of the 2010Commencement, we will have beenmarried 50 years.

Some of you might not recall this, but around 1960,we were first warned, “The optimists are studyingRussian; the pessimists are studying Chinese.” Inthose days, that warning was supposed to be a joke.Who in 1960 would have thought he would everlive to see the day when the Chinese would sum-mon the POTUS (Ed.: President of the United States)to China—and POTUS would meekly answer thesummons? Who would have thought we would seethe day when the Chinese would tell POTUS, “Donot accept a visit from the Dalai Lama,” and thatPOTUS would meekly obey?

For 50 years, when we have read about Dartmouth,we have been told things unbelievable. The tri-umphant 1965 shout of, “Thank God the VietCong are winning,” by a Dartmouth commence-ment speaker, became “academic freedom.” (Ed.Note: The quotation is, “Thank God we are losingthat war,” said in 1968.) When the New York Times,of all papers, told us Dartmouth was practicing racialsegregation, Dartmouth assured us it was not. WhenDartmouth covered over the mildly salacious butpolitically incorrect Hovey Grill murals, we weretold by Dartmouth it was not censorship. WhenDartmouth students tried to open a newspaper witha different ideological slant, their academic freedomhad to be protected from Dartmouth College bythe ACLU. Who among us could have imagined in1960 he would ever see Dartmouth College to theleft of the ACLU?

McNutt Hall, the former Tuck School

Please don’t condescendingly tell me, “Don’t worry.Things could be worse.” I have tried not worryingon numerous occasions, and, sure enough, thingsgot worse. Now I know why so many older folksaround here say, “Thank goodness I am so old Iwon’t be around when it ends.”

Harry T. Newcomb III3233 Lahitte Court, San Diego, CA 92122, (858) 552-8293

David Newhart

James R. NicholsJim

23 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA 02493, (781) 891-5791, «[email protected]» Spouse: Elizabeth D. Nichols Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, Nichols & Pratt LLP, 50 Congress Street, Suite 832,Boston, MA 02109, (617) 523-6800

Andrew H. Nighswander Andrew H. Nighswander diedon August 10, 2009.

James A. NolanJim

5228 Fairfield Boulevard, Virginia Beach, VA 23464, (757) 490-7011, «[email protected]» Spouse: SallyJo Nolan

Richard P. Norgaard Dick

PO Box 1135, Argyle, TX 76226, (940) 241-1435, «[email protected]» Spouse: Carolyn P. Norgaard Occupation: UnitedHealthcareInsurance Co., 1600 West PlanoParkway, Ste. 100, Plano, TX 75075, (972) 461-5893

Mike Notaro2300 Gulf Blvd., Belleair Beach, FL 33786, «[email protected]»

My God, I am sitting here inmy 71st year musing on mylife—still alive after all thoseyears. I would prefer to museforward rather than backward,but I lack the imagination andclairvoyance I had 50 yearsago. Seventy-one is not reallya very long time on this 4.5 billion-year earth—athin slice of a very big pie. But empirically, it is all



I have to go by. Life has taught me that I am notmuch more than a grain of sand on a very bigbeach.

Fifty years ago when we parted, I was full of ambi-tion, bent on saving the world from something(anything) and acquiring all the wealth that thisplanet possesses. Well, not much has changedwithin me but I never quite did all of what I hadhoped—some of it but nowhere near what I dreamedof. No one really knows my accomplishments exceptmy dear wife Leslie, to whom I keep repeatingthem. She nods passively, so she must be listening.

After Dartmouth, I spent three years in the Army.My life should have ended right there, but I waslucky. Actually, I liked it since it was a big forum,both bad and good. Save lives, be patriotic, shootguns, run computers, blow up things, get free food,and cool uniforms to run around in. But the

atmosphere was hostile, the money was no good. I learned never should I let myself become a gov-ernment employee again. So out I went into thecomputer business, grad school, marriage, kids, andthe business world..

Life has been unbalanced toward me. I see nowthat I really got more than I put in. I was never avery good father, yet my three kids turned out tobe fine, well-adjusted kids. Somehow, I found themost wonderful woman in the world and talked herinto marrying me. Talk about luck—I really won thelotto there. She is my strength and moral compass,and being a lawyer, keeps me off the ten o’clocknews and out of an orange jumpsuit.

Retirement was not what I thought it would be. I miss the activity, the competition, and the focus Ihad before. Most of my age group friends primarilydiscuss Medicare, digestive problems, and how toprevent hair loss. I was too old to be accepted backinto corporate America, so I took a big risk for meand pursued a brokerage in commercial developmentand real estate. I got lucky again.

The past 50 years since we left school, I have learnedsome lessons from life. I never expected but shouldhave known:

Take better care of your knees, hips, and lungs.Always use sunscreen.Don’t drink wine, beer, whiskey, or smoke cigars.Judge a woman by her mother. They seem to turnout just like mom.Give the most menial people the respect youwould wish for yourself.Don’t take yourself too seriously.

Our house in Belleair Beach, Florida, is alwaysopen to classmates, as is food, drinking, fishing,golf, and most importantly. friendship and laughs.Come see us.

John F. NunnJack

1309 Kaimalino Lane, San Diego, CA 92109, (240) 446-1326, «[email protected]» Spouse: Janet Nunn Occupation: Transportation/Distribution

Michael O’Keeffe2821-1 Century Harbor, Middleton, WI 53562, (608) 827-6779, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Teaching a self-invented course, “Business English,”at Edgewood College, Madison, Wisc.My students are from mainlandChina. I started this last year afterretiring from my last job, with the115th Fighter Wing in Madison, Wisc.Career: Best job was as a DoDcivilian intelligence officer in Panama. Second best was set-ting up a Community Redevelopment Agency of my ownchoice, in Pt. Charlotte, Fla.Family and Roots: Boston Irish. Two sons in Madison andSt. Charles, Ill., with five grandkids

Mike Notaro and Leslie

She keeps me off the ten o’clock news and out of an orange jumpsuit.

Mike Notaro

Wife: Emlen and I divorced in 2002 but are on good terms.Major at Dartmouth: EnglishDartmouth Activities: Boxing and ROTC

Dartmouth is probably a better place now than in1956, especially with women there. I was lucky tohave had a vigorous high school background andstrong family life. Family is still my main “root,”though now I enjoy travel. Just returned from Russia.It strikes me that many of the countries I saw as ayoung lieutenant in 1961 in Germany, like Austria,Denmark, Norway, and Finland were way behindus in most ways then and are ahead now, certainlyas manifested in the lives of the citizens. We needto return to values and reinvent ourselves.

P. Kevin O’Sullivan8212 Coach Street, Potomac, MD 20854, (301) 299-2225,«[email protected]» Spouse: Lynda O'Sullivan, Esq. Occupation: Consulting,O'Sullivan Group Inc., 8212 Coach Street, Potomac, MD 20854, (301) 299-0900

Joseph T. Okimoto Joe

PO Box 13348, Burton, WA 98013, (206) 679-7395, «[email protected]» Spouse: Jean D. Okimoto Occupation: Health/Science, Suite 201, 5410 California Avenue,SW, Seattle, WA 98136, (206) 679-7395

Paul K. OltmanSpouse: Nancy Oltman Occupation: Architecture/Construction

John Omaha PhDPO Box 1531, Santa Rosa, CA 95402, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: My life’s overarching pursuits have been self-knowledge and spirituality, although I only came to realizethat was what was going on at around 50. In the course ofthese pursuits, I have been a medical student, a biochemist,a free speech and antiwar activist, a dropout and hippie, aprofessor of humanities at the S.F. Art Institute, the co-direc-tor and producer of a film with the Zap Comix artists, anunderground chemist, a drug dealer and addict, the screen-writer for two award-winning pornographic films, founder ofa company selling adult films in video cassette, a geneticengineer, a biotech entrepreneur, a drug and alcohol coun-selor, a psychologist, the published author of a book on emo-tion regulation, and the creator of Affect Centered Therapy,Affect Management Skills Training, and “Healing with BothSides of the Brain.” I am presently practicing psychotherapyas a registered marriage and family therapist intern in Cali-fornia and expect to earn my license in 2010.Career: I never could feel comfortable identifying myself bymy career or profession. I made a living any way that I could.“Making a living” supported my life journey; it did not defineit. My career has been discovering who I am. My career hasbeen my life’s journey.Wives, Partner, Family and Roots: I married twice. In1962, I married Marilyn Mass. She was a behavioral psychol-ogist. We went through Berkeley, the anti-war movement,and the early hippie days together. We had two children,our daughter Reina, who was tragically killed in a car crashin 2001, and our son, Justin, who is an attorney in SantaRosa where I live. After several years of adventures as a singleman in S.F. in the late ’60s and early ’70s, I met PalletteKarageris, my second wife. We were together for 21 yearsand had two boys, Jared and Morgan. Pallette left in 1994and drowned in Mexico in 1996. For the last ten years I’vebeen in a partnership with Joni Stanfa, my Sicilian girlfriend.Education: I majored in Chemistry and minored in pre-med at Dartmouth. I have two all-but-the-dissertation mas-ter’s degrees from U.C. Berkeley in biochemistry. I earned aPhD in Counseling and Transpersonal Psychology from theInternational University of Professional Studies in Hawaii in2001 and a Master of Counseling degree from University ofPhoenix in 2006.Dartmouth Activities: Psi Upsilon, Ski Team


Michael O’Keeffe


Life has a certain urgency these days as “these days”dwindle down to a more and more precious few.These Musings, “the very likely last Musings” andthere’s the urgency, provide an opportunity to drivea stake in the ground and say this is what I believe,this is what I know to be true for myself, this is whatI’ve learned. I “choose to muse” on the foundationsof my beliefs, the core of my personal philosophy,and hopefully to share something of myself andmy experience in the process.

The question of purpose is central. As I am nearerthe nether terminus, what has been the point of allthis, these 71 years of experiencing? ErwinSchroedinger’s essay, “What is Life?” read as a youngchemistry major, taught me that the meaning oflife is the act of life itself. Life is that which main-tains itself against the tendency of the universetoward randomness. The creation of meaning islike the creation of living beings, in that each usesenergy to create order and maintain it againstentropy. The assembly of new and more encompass-ing thought pathways is an act of life, and for thisthinking-being, it provides the purpose to my life.What this has meant is that I have sought toexpand and refine my understanding of my self andmy place in the universe. Along the way I came tosee the Buddhist nature of Schoedinger’s cosmolog-ical argument. Life is the web without a weaver,and its purpose is the journey itself. KonstantinKavafis wrote, “If, when at last you reach Ithaca,you find her wanting/ Do not blame Ithaca/ Ithacagave you the beautiful journey. She has no more togive you.”

The question of purpose forces the issue of causa-tion, or of creation, said another way. I came toDartmouth a reluctant Congregationalist and left a

committed agnostic. I now accept the universe itselfas the Power Greater than Myself to which AA andNA told me I needed to surrender my will and mylife in order to recover from addiction and alco-holism. I came to know for myself that I absolutelyneeded some power greater than my self to surren-der to, because nothing else kept me sober. Inrecovery, I found that Power is the Universe itself. I learned the Taoist principle of Mystery. I acceptthat the universe came into being 14.5 billion yearsago in a brief event that loosed all of the energy andmatter existing now or ever in the universe. I believethat the progress of human thought and humanconsciousness over the span of our existence hasbeen to produce this creation story. There have

been many creation myths along the arc of ourcivilization and many gods. The Tao suggests thatit is an act of hubris to think we can know the ulti-mate causes, to invent a creator. I accept that theultimate origin of the Universe, the origin of what-ever it was that exploded in the Big Bang, is inMystery. This creation story is satisfying because itsays that being of the physical universe and beingconscious of being of the physical universe providesdirect access to Mystery.

My musings began with death, and now deathcomes up again. Since 1994, I’ve devoted myself topsychology. My goal has been to understand myselfand my society within the world-view I’ve created.The religious views of my ancestors and parentswere theistic, like the Dartmouth world-view. Thecentral problem for our entire civilization and foreach of us as individuals is to come to terms withdeath. We are apparently the one species that pos-sesses self-aware, self-knowledge the one speciesthat knows that it exists and therefore that it mustdie. Ernest Becker in The Denial of Death taughtthat as a species we attempt to deny the fact of ourmortality through various “mortality projects.” TheEpic of Gilgamesh tells the story of our civilization’sfailed attempts to deal with the emergence of con-sciousness and with it the knowledge of our mor-tality. This is the knowledge of the fruit of the tree

What has been the point of all this, these 71 years of experiencing?

John Omaha

John Sloan Dickey

of good and evil. In 1992, a year and a half intorecovery, I was “called” to enter a traditional NativeAmerican sweat lodge, and I found my spiritualhome. I found a place where I could experienceconnection with Mystery at the deepest levels ofmy being. I committed myself to the medicine wayand in 1994, I was called to open my own lodge. Ihave been praying with the Stone People regularly,mostly in California, but also in Alaska andWisconsin ever since. During this time, I foundedHumanity Rising, a mutual self-help group modeledon AA and the 12-Steps for recovery from WesternCivilization. Most importantly, I found a belief sys-tem that allows me to accept death. One of theways to understand the sweat lodge ceremony isthat over the course of the ordeal, one’s old con-sciousness dies and is reborn. Through many train-ings, teachings, and ordeals, I have become ashaman. In the practice of psychotherapy, I’m ableto express my healing function. I am a woundedhealer. I feel fortunate to have found my true call-ing, even though late in life.

Dartmouth provided an excellent education inthinking critically. I’ve been using the tools I learnedin Hanover to explore, investigate, and celebratethis beautiful, if brief existence. Through providingpsychotherapy, I bring all that I know, my years ofexperience and training to bear on helping myclients. Working on a sliding scale, I offer my servicesto poor and wealthy alike. I feel that I am adheringto the Buddhist principle of Right Employment. ABuddhist monk once taught me that I am a fierceprotector of children. In my work I feel blessed tobe able to protect children, mostly by helping theirparents to be better at parenting. Every adult clienthas a child part, usually wounded, scared, and hid-ing. I get to help these inner children too. I judgemyself successful in my life because I am doing themost I can with what I was given to start with. I feelgrateful for the opportunity to share this story,because writing it has shown me once again whata beautiful journey Ithaca has given me.

Hiroshi Ono Occupation: Education, York University, 223 Behavorial Sciences Bldg., 4700 Keele Street, North York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada

R. Blair Osborn Occupation: Engineering, Olympic Hot Tub Company, 1425 Dexter Avenue North,Seattle, WA 98109, (206) 634-0700

Richard P. OssenDick

510 Cedar St., West Barnstable, MA 02668, (508) 362-1739, «[email protected]»Wife: Pat

It seems like yesterday that I submitted an entry for our40th reunion Musings. Nothinghas changed since then exceptfor a quintuple bypass in 2001.And that we now have seven grandchildren. Andthat I have retired from full-time teaching at BentleyUniversity but serve on several non-profit boardsand am involved in an exciting start-up business.

Pat and I are looking forward to our 50th next Juneand to renewing old friendships. We are a remark-able class in many ways, something I am remindedof every time I read our class newsletter and AlumniMagazine class notes. And that we will do even morein the years ahead. At a Dartmouth Club of CapeCod luncheon today (October 2009), I sat next to amember of the Class of 1939. He had attended his70th reunion in June, where 17 classmates andothers were in Hanover. More than 60 of his class-mates are still alive today. My sense is that ourClass will turn out in record numbers in June andin succeeding reunions.

The best is yet to come. See you next June.


Ryan M. Ostebo27 Pleasant Street, Saxtons River, VT 05154, (802) 869-2729, «[email protected]» Spouse: Mary Hepburn Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, Ryan M. Ostebo CLU, 134 Rockingham Street Rear,Bellows Falls, VT 05101, (802) 463-4853

Ole B. Pace III202 East 5th Street #400, Sterling, IL 61081, (815) 625-8200 Spouse: Mrs. Ole B. Pace Occupation: Law

Ridler W. PagePO Box 384, East Boothbay, ME 04544, (207) 633-7797 Spouse: Helen Page

Errol K. Paine Errol K. Paine died on October13, 1979.

Bradley H. PalmerSuite 101, 286 Shore Haven Dr. SE,Grand Rapids, MI 49546, (616) 942-6034 Spouse: Judith Palmer Occupation: Manufacturing, P/S Substrates Inc., Suite 101, 286 Shore Haven Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, (616) 949-7323

Robert N. Palmer1206 Siesta Bayside Drive, Sarasota, FL 34242, (941) 346-0064, «[email protected]» Occupation: Information andTechnology

Benjamin D. Parish III3D Carnation Circle, Reading, MA 01867, (781) 779-1225, «[email protected]» Spouse: Barbara Parish Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

Sam Parke314 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Treasurer of theSeamen’s Church Institute inPhiladelphia, server at St. Vincentde Paul soup kitchen, Chairman ofthe Scholarship Committee of ourRotary Club, which supports first-generation college students, Boardmember of our condo association,enthusiastic supporter of various charitable organizationsincluding The Bay Institute (Hap Dunning has been on theboard for over 25 years), Guide Dogs for the Blind, and the


Buck Institute for Aging (How to live a healthy life to a rea-sonable old age: no guarantees beyond 100 years!). I haveenjoyed trips with my family to Ireland, Mexico, Alaska,Hawaii, Panama (early 2010), California, Arizona, Oregon,Pennsylvania, Maine, and Florida.Career: I was a senior portfolio manager with United AssetManagement until I retired after 35 years as an investmentadvisor. We managed the equities of many university endow-ment funds of which two of my favorites were in Massachu-setts. (After a presentation to Brandeis University, I woulddrive to Holy Cross College for a visit with the Jesuits.)Family: After the sudden death of my first wife in 1994, I married Mandy in 2003 and acquired four stepchildren and11 step-grandchildren — lots and lots of fun!Wife: Mandy ParkeMajor at Dartmouth: HistoryDartmouth Activities: I enjoy occasional lunches withclassmates at our Left-Coast gatherings.

I’m most grateful indeed for my good health (I hada serious cancer scare about seven years ago), myprecious wife, family (including a sweetheart of ayellow lab named Duchess), and friends, the oppor-tunity to try and do some good and being able toenjoy life to the full. I am very fortunate to live inan incredibly picturesque small town across the bayfrom San Francisco with a temperate climate through-out the year. And finally, I have become more andmore appreciative of my Dartmouth education,friends, and fun times in Hanover over the years.

Charles H. Parker Pete

5202 Camino Bosque, Tucson, AZ 85718, (520) 572-2420 Spouse: Anne M. Parker Occupation: 5375 East Erickson, Tucson, AZ 85712

V. Adrian Parsegian22 Amity Place, Amherst, MA 01002, (413) 549-4734, «[email protected]» Spouse: Valerie Parsegian Occupation: Education, Universityof Massachusetts Amherst,Department of Physics, Hasbrouck Laboratory, Room 301, Amherst, MA 01003

John C. Passeggio 1 Edward Bentley Road, Lawrence, NY 11559, (516) 239-1507;66 Gun Club Drive, Sheldon, SC 29941, (843) 846-4945; «[email protected]»Wife: DeDeChildren: Nicole (Charlie) andCamille (Paul); Grandchildren:Hannah, Jackson, and JamesDog: Bizzy

Life is good!

How fortunate it is to be able to say that at age 71.DeDe and I are still plugging along after 48 years ofmarriage. We met on Winter Carnival, 1959. It wasa blind date neither of us wanted but agreed to, sothat a couple of friends could get together. Life hasbeen a blur since then. There are no earth-shatter-ing accomplishments on my resume. My dentalpractice was successful and satisfying. I tried to giveback to my community and my church, and I hopeI have made more friends than enemies. Keepingin touch with my AXP brothers has been most sat-isfying. Our lives have gone off in many directions,but the friendship and camaraderie still remain.

I have a roof over my head, food in my belly, fami-ly, and friends. Everything else is icing on the cake.Life is good!

Ned G. Patrick Ned G. Patrick died onNovember 17, 1964.



Earle J. Patterson III12 Cheshire Meadows Lane, Kennebunk, ME 04043, (207) 985-5930 Spouse: Bette F. Patterson Occupation: Law, Bergen and Parkinson LLC, 62 Portland Road, Kennebunk, ME 04043, (207) 985-3561

John Fenimore PattersonAKA Patsy, Rafter Jack, Jack

89 Stuart Ave., Norwalk, CT 06850, (203) 866-7667, «[email protected]»Career: Wall St. to 1980, J.F. Patterson Building thereafter.Wife: DivorcedAt Dartmouth: History major,Theta Delt, Glee Club, Lacrosse,Dragon, Storm Kings, ROTC

The Globe is warming; I think we are to blame.Vote Democratic. Have racist thoughts, reactions.Often admire those who are sure. Go to otherswhen I feel lost, unsure, troubled. Consider myself“favored” when I was college age—caution othersbeing “favored,” it’s now affirmative action, etc.; itcan be a big adjustment. Still not “sure” as to valueof affirmative action as to that. When the safetyinstructions on my weed whacker were more legiblethan the directions for feeding the line, I startedquestioning how much government we need in ourlives (versus the amount we have) that the promi-nence of safety instructions, etc., over directionswould have driven my uncle nuts. Same uncle, bestmale role model in my life—You? Am aware that Iam aging. Am a Buddhist—as much a wannabe asI am committed, but practice “sit” and see it as theWay.

More and more it seems I love those I have alwaysloved.

The times they are a-changin’ (w/o doubt.)

I cut and rake, etc. my own lawn; using commercialfertilizer for the first time last spring as a way toenhance the look of my home as I thought to sellit; felt, feels, like I “caved” to money, all that.Greatly, you see, as I was raised (every summer, allsummer originally) on an island in a fresh-waterriver. Nirvana. In the 1960s, I sent a sample of thatwater to a testing lab as conditions had changed.Still changing, rarely for the better. Commercial—

most—especially non-organic fertilizers lead tofouled fresh water. Troubles me.

I tested the water clarity for many years. All kindsof new organisms in the St. Lawrence—esp. ZebraMussels, Gobys, and Sheepshead (Fresh WaterDrum). We don‘t yet care enough about our water.My relationships at D were the best things about D.

But I still want to be Captain of the Lacrosse team;Co-Captain, Dick?

I especially remember Mike Menaker—“Ted.” AndAndy Purdy and Tom Beadel. Tom was a pal fromthe Thousand Islands. His family—sisters, brother-in-law, others—esteemed there now. But Tomknown esp., to me for “remorse,” Ne Plus could doremorse. To frequently sought situations wherein hemight display his specialty. He borrowed our small(Sailfish) boat and broke the mast (seaweed on thetop of the mast when returned .. .). “I’ll get thebeer,” he cried and sped to shore in his Dad’s woodinboard motorboat. Cut the corner too close on arocky reef just offshore—much. Ask me maybeabout the beach plan! I miss you, Tom. Andy had aheart condition. He was a Brother (Theta Delt) fromBuffalo. Had no problem with his heart other thanphysiological. Always there for house events, hismates. So I remember him being cited at a housemeeting for having the presence of mind to crawlonto the fire escape rather than remain in his roomwhen things became too heated up (for his “physi-ological” heart) with one particularly amorousdate. Taught me about courage in many, many ways—still teaches me. Dealt with the cards he was given.Andy, let me take those for you.

Hope to add more, hear from you, when we aretogether!

Andrew R. PaulAndy

1450 Emerson Avenue, McLean, VA 22101; 1417 St. David’s Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32967; «[email protected]»Wife: Married to a most wonderfulSwedish lady, Britt-Marie Hagelbrantof Goteborg, SwedenCareer: Spent 40 years in Wash-ington, D.C., as a lobbyist in thetelevision, entertainment, and satellite field; independentconsultant for the defense industryMajor at Dartmouth: Majored in French and Internation-al Relations; Master’s Degree in International Relations fromGeorgetown University

In the past commentaries, I reflected on the manytransitions we all underwent with the passage oftime, and what each passage meant to me. So this

is what a Hungarian kid who came from New YorkCity and went directly to Dartmouth adds to whathas already been said. I am reminded, and oftenamused, by words from Dr. Gordon Livingston’slittle gem, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, “When wethink about loss of freedom, we seldom focus on theways in which we voluntarily impose constraintsupon our lives.” This from the chapter entitled,“The Most Secure Prisons Are Those We Constructfor Ourselves.” Just in case you’re interested, anoth-er chapter that is as cogently entitled, “The Problemsof the Elderly Are Frequently Serious But SeldomInteresting.” Well, whatever race we were engagedin is long over. Having said that, I am delighted toreport that I have broken out of jail some time ago.

And that all of you have done so too hopefully,keeping in mind the caveat that in spite of ourproblems becoming serious, they are nonethelessnot interesting.

Many of our classmates are no longer with us.Others are too ill or indisposed to make the trip. Soit is incumbent on each of us to make the most ofwhat there is—in whatever capacity suits us best—because it is a responsibility to do just that. At leastthat’s my take on it.

I have owned and shed many skins over the years inorder to arrive at my “jailbreak,” including student,athlete, soldier, lobbyist, and businessman. But Ican’t live in them all anymore in order to say, “thisis who I am.” So facing this naked truth, so to speak,I am happy to report that what is left is an enormous

intellectual curiosity concerning the human condi-tion that I satisfy by reading literature and talkingwith my peers (basically whoever is around). I amparticularly interested in why man treats his fellowman so slovenly and cruelly, and why, in the 21stcentury, some civilizations are failed states, othersstill existing in the 18th century, and others suppos-edly advanced. I am constantly amazed that, givenall the information that is out there, so much self-interest takes precedence over rule of law. Myfriends tell me that perhaps I am a little naïve, butI don’t think so. I think that I because I still believethat a man’s word is who he is, that I have proba-bly become a dinosaur, perhaps like my parentswhen they first came to this country and couldn’tunderstand why the rest of the world did what itdid. In any event, I am thrilled to participate inthis 50th reunion. I believe that most of us, as chil-dren of WWII, have a similar view and still seekgreater answers to the condition of humanity.

Robert A. Peck Robert A. Peck died on July27, 1992.

Wilder G. Penfield Wilder G. Penfield died on April 1, 1976.

Louis C. Perullo Jr.Lou

Spouse: Chanta Perullo


Andy Paul and Britt-Marie

I am constantly amazed that, given all theinformation that is out there, so much self-interest takes precedence over rule of law.

Andy Paul

John L. Petersen MD405 West Highland Drive, Seattle, WA 98119, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits and Career: Ireceived my medical education atthe University of Washington in1964, residency at Cornell in NYC,1964-1966, EIS officer in Bostonand Brazil, 1966-1969, and Cardi-ology Fellowship at the U of W,1969-1971. I was a full-time facul-ty member in Cardiology at the Uof W for a few years before entering private practice in diag-nostic and interventional cardiology in Seattle. We developeda single specialty cardiovascular clinic, The Seattle HeartClinic, and recently have developed Swedish Heart and Vas-cular Institute in conjunction with Swedish Medical Center,the northwest’s major medical center. Medicine and particularly cardiology has been a great fit forme. Interventional cardiology has made great strides in thepast 30 years. I have enjoyed being a part of this momen-tum through the delivery of patient care, teaching residentsand cardiology fellows and teaching CME—post-graduateseminars nationally and internationally in conjunction withour specialty societies and the American Heart Association.Family: Family life continues to be a top priority. Lailla, mywife of 44 years, has been spectacular and very supportive.We have two sons: John L. II (Dartmouth ‘91), an interven-tional cardiologist who has recently joined our Heart andVascular Institute after being full-time faculty at Duke for

seven years; Edward O. (Whittier ‘93), an entrepreneur whohas created two very successful software companies in theSeattle area. Rebecca, John’s wife, is a surgeon on the U ofW medical faculty, Dept. of Surgery, doing minimally invasivesurgery and general surgery. Jennifer, Edward’s wife, is anattorney working in the King County Prosecutor’s Office inSeattle. We have two grandchildren, Jackson, 3, and Elsa, 1. Major at Dartmouth: Zoology (Pre-Med): The Dartmoutheducation I received taught me to apply didactic and class-room information to new areas of inquiry and problem solv-ing rather than only learning by rote. This has served mevery well over the past 50 years.

I have been very fortunate. I am able to do what I want to do, to share with the partners I wish to bewith, and live in the location where I want to live.It continues to be a great ride!

David L. Petrie4295 7 Lakes West, West End, NC 27376, (910) 673-4295 Spouse: Deanna Petrie Occupation: Communications

Richard A. Petrie Dick

3 Moharinet Way, Durham, NH 03824, (603) 868-5179,«[email protected]» Spouse: Virginia Petrie Occupation: Suite 4, 17 Old Rollinsford Road, Dover, NH 03820, (603) 742-3243

Richard V. PhillipsDick

518 Moores Court, Jackson, NJ 08527, (732) 833-9427, «[email protected]» Spouse: Nancy A. Phillips


Bob Phillips 130 Wallacks Drive, Stamford, CT 06902, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: Graduation foundme in New York City at Columbiaworking on an MBA prior to twoyears as an officer in the US Army,where I ended up back in NYC sta-tioned on 14th Street as a counter-intelligence agent and rugby player.Wife and Family: Married to PatCole since 1965, I continue to mar-vel at her ability to support and give care to the disadvan-taged and abused through her pioneering efforts on domesticviolence, and creating facilities for the homeless. She is stillactively engaged and has received recognition and awardstoo numerous to mention, but suffice it to say I am “Mr. Pat”in the community. This she has managed while running ahome and family and allowing my focus to be elsewhere. Atthis moment, our son and daughter each have two youngchildren (all five years or younger), thus providing “Nana”unlimited opportunities for her generous love and caring.We see the future through them and delight in their visits,whether in Stamford, Conn., or Colchester, Vermont. Career: Discharged in 1964, my business career began asa Kool-Aid salesman in St Louis for General Foods. Thatassignment was brief, and I was sent to the White Plains,N.Y., headquarters for a tour of sales and marketing positionsand more rugby playing. My bosses took issue with the laterendeavor so I joined the more enlightened Chesebrough-Ponds Company as a product manager where rugby playingbecame more an issue of diminished capability and injurythan a career. A decade later, I was president of U.S. opera-tions and in 1988, president of the corporation that wasabout to be acquired by Unilever. When the takeover dustfinally settled, I was running the combined Unilever-Chese-brough business in North America.After purchasing both Calvin Klein Cosmetics and ElizabethArden, I became a Unilever Director headquartered in Lon-don and was assigned the task of globalizing their personalproducts while finding time to be a spectator of world-classrugby. The acquisitions of Helene Curtis, Best Foods, Ben

and Jerry’s, Slim Fast, and others resulted in my return tothe U.S. to manage the augmented North American busi-ness while using the Concorde to keep track of the reorgan-ized personal care operation. By 2000, I reached themandatory retirement age and resolved to find anothercareer or avocation.I settled on education by matriculating at Columbia some40 years after my previous program for a Masters degree inAmerican Studies, and as president of a public educationreform foundation in Stamford, Conn. Columbia proved tobe the more successful project as a Master’s degree wasawarded in 2003, and my study produced several publishedarticles and co-curating a museum exhibition in New YorkCity celebrating the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman’sLeaves of Grass. Reform of public education proved to be adaunting task, as the obdurate administration blocked initia-tive and change. A transparent budget process was achieved,and a road map to close the achievement gap between theadvantaged and disadvantaged was developed, but only mar-ginal progress resulted for those needing the greatest help.By 2005, I had retreated to the comfort zone of the businessworld by becoming a Senior Advisor to the Peter J SolomonInvestment bank, and Managing Director of a marketingcompany, The Clarecastle Group in New York City. Thesepositions have provided a front line view of economicexcesses and collapse! Today the investment bank is mostlyconcerned with financial restructuring as the glory days ofM&A become a fleeting memory and the realities of “hon-est” work are manifest. The marketing company has seenChapters 11 and 7 filings as banks punish start-ups andrisk capital is a term no longer evident in their vocabulary.The lessons learned are more “Ben Franklin-ish” thenGreenspan-isms, “beware the free lunch and too good to betrue is a lie.”I will try to keep a balance as work “works” for me but willfocus future efforts locally in nonprofits while pulling togeth-er an exhibit or article dealing with the contributions of theBallou Family (mother’s side) where Hoesea Ballous I & IIwhere founders of Tufts University and spiritual leaders ofUnitarianism in American. I also have a cousin who found-ed the Boston Globe and gave Winslow Homer his first jobas an illustrator. Stay tuned.

My continuing involvement in rugby, particularlyDartmouth Rugby, is a great source pride and lookslike it will evolve into a national role with USARugby, as we hope the sport will become part ofthe Olympic Games. The Dartmouth RugbyFootball Club, from my perspective, is “best prac-tice” in the realm of collegiate athletics. It is suc-cessful on the field at the national level, receivesgenerous alumni support, and as a club placesheavy administrative burdens on the participants.Thus, as an experience it provides Dartmouth menand women with life skills that no matter whatfield they choose in the future, they will have theconfidence that their efforts will matter, are appre-ciated, and that by working together, anything ispossible. This is leadership training at its best. Thisis Dartmouth at its finest.


Bob Phillips and his family


Albert Pieper Jr.Al

408 Awixa Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, (734) 663-7782, «[email protected]» Spouse: Louisa Pieper Occupation: Education

Robert Pike Bob

900 West 17th Street, Suite C, Santa Ana, CA 92706, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Other than work, I have spent most of my life raisingand educating my children, stepchil-dren, and now six grandchildren. I managed to find plenty of time fortravel, tennis, skiing, fishing, andother recreational activities. Inrecent years, mostly deep sea fishing, from Baja Californiato Alaska.Career: I have practiced civil trial and family law in SantaAna, Calif., since 1964, initially with a firm (where I becamea senior partner) and then as a solo practitioner for morethan 20 years. I have been semi-retired for the last five yearsor so, working part time mostly out of my home (though I dokeep an office downtown). Never became wealthy—just com-fortable. Turns out I was a better lawyer than a businessman.Family and Roots: Daughter: Catherine (Kitsy), HumboldtState University, Calif., 1982, a secondary school teacher.Son: Robert, Univ. of California San Diego, 1986, computerprogrammer/consultant. Son: Daniel, Oregon State Univer-sity, 1994, computer programmer/consultant.Wife: Donna, married 1988Major at Dartmouth: Psychology. Graduate Degree: JurisDoctor, USC School of Law, 1963Dartmouth Activities: Football (Freshman and Sophomoreyears), Sigma Chi/Tabard, Nugget Theater usher, hostingoff-campus parties in Sachem Village (married housing) dur-ing senior year

I once heard an elderly gentleman describe his life ashaving been like a good “B” movie, saying he didn’twant to leave before it was over, but he wouldn’twant to repeat it. There’s some truth in that, I guess.Life has been very good to me. As with all of us, therehave been ups and downs, but overall it has been agood ride. I’ve been blessed with good family andmany friends, and we learn later in life that this iswhat is really important. My father was born beforethe first Wright Brothers flight and lived to see menwalking on the moon. In our lifetimes, we have seen

the introduction of TVs in our homes—then colorTV—followed by important scientific advances suchas WD-40, duct tape, and Ziploc bags. Computers,and then the Internet, changed everything. I waslucky: my computer-oriented kids dragged me kick-ing and screaming into the computer age more than20 years ago. Now I couldn’t get along without theInternet, and I’m amazed at what my four-year-oldgranddaughter can do with a mouse and a keyboard.Life continues to be very interesting, and I can’timagine having time for boredom or apathy. And I still miss the Indian mascot, damn it!!

The Reverend Guy H. PiltzBox 1973, Kamuela, HI 96743,(808) 885-4622 Spouse: Josephine A. Piltz Occupation: Education

Rev. James M. Pollard Jim

64 Charlestown Road, Amherst, NY 14226, (716) 839-6548, «[email protected]»Career: Ordained as a Deacon in1961 and an Elder in 1964, afterseminary graduation from BostonUniversity School of Theology. In1964 I began my ministry as alocal church pastor. I’ve servedMethodist and United Methodist local churches in Pekin(Niagara County), N.Y. (’64-’67); in Amherst, N.Y. (Associ-ate (’67-’69); Lakewood, N.Y. (’69-’77); Webster, N.Y. (’83-’87); and Williamsville, N.Y. (’99-2003). I’ve also served infour regional denominational staff positions: Associate Con-ference Executive for the Western N.Y. Conference, based inWilliamsville, N.Y. (’77-’83); Conference Council Director forthe North Central N.Y. Conference, based in Syracuse, N.Y.(’87-’92); District Superintendent in Rochester, N.Y. (’92-’94); and Conference Council Director for the Western N.Y.Conference (’94-’99)Family and Wife: Sally J. Pollard, a graduate of HoughtonCollege, Houghton, N.Y., Sally is a Christian educator, leader,and ministry developer at Christ United Methodist Church,Amherst, N.Y. At the time of our marriage in 1981 she wasworking at Emmanuel United Methodist Church in Lockport,N.Y. She also served as Director of Education at theRochester ( N.Y.) Korean United Methodist Church while welived in Webster, N.Y.

Children: Two daughters from first marriage: Laura PollardShone, MSW, DrPH, Rochester, N.Y., Health policy researcherat University of Rochester; Martha C. Pollard, MS, PhD,Edinburgh, Scotland, Psychology lecturer and health andpersonality researcher; a son from second marriage: Christo-pher J. Pollard, BS, Buffalo, N.Y., high school math teacher,Lancaster, N.Y.Major at Dartmouth: Philosophy; Advanced degree: Mas-ter of Divinity, Boston University School of Theology, Boston,Mass., 1964Dartmouth Activities: As an undergrad, Dartmouth RowingClub, Glee Club, Dartmouth Christian Union, Delta UpsilonFraternity, Green Key, Casque & Gauntlet. As an alumnus: In first six years after graduation, Class of’60 Treasurer. While serving in the Buffalo, N.Y., area,Alumni interviewer with Dartmouth Club of WNY, althoughI gave that up when I realized that I could not answerquestions about “What is it like at Dartmouth?” asked byfemale applicants.

I came to Dartmouth with a sense of call into theordained ministry of the United Methodist Church,and I have had the satisfaction of doing exactlywhat I felt called to do.

As a United Methodist pastor and denominationaladministrator, I’ve always sought to connect thelife of Christian faith to the real world of livingand action for personal and social wholeness, con-sistent with Methodism’s founder, John Wesley, forwhom personal holiness and social holiness wereinseparable.

I’ve been able to do some international traveling,thanks to the church: twice to Israel, with one ofthose trips focusing on the people and issues ofIsraeli and Palestinian relations; and once each toKorea, Mexico, Guatemala, and Northern Ireland.On each of the journeys, meeting local lay andclergy leaders and gaining an appreciation of howthey face the challenges and issues in their uniquecontext. My learning included the following:

While I am not wealthy by American standards, I am overwhelmingly wealthy in the setting of aGuatemalan rural village where the families raisepigs and sell eggs and hand-woven goods so theycan send their children to school Or in the settingof a rural Mexican agricultural and educationalcenter that teaches sustainable low-cost growingtechniques and educates community health workerswho draw on folk medicine wisdom in assisting peo-ple toward health. Or in the kitchen of a PalestinianChristian woman in one of the Jordanian refugee“camps” in which she manages to feed a family ofseveral children and make a loving home.

Peacemaking in Northern Ireland has been madepossible by faithful and courageous ordinary peo-ple on both sides who kept praying, meeting, andtrying to find ways through the “troubles” to bringreconciliation. In particular, the center at Corrymeelais a place trusted as safe for people to gather in griefat their shared experiences of loss and in a commit-ment to find a better way forward. That kind ofcourage and realistic hopefulness is needed in somany places, and will provide a way to get beyondthe terrible violence that still prevails in too manyplaces.

Family has also taken me outside the U.S., with myyoungest daughter a resident in Scotland and nowalso a subject of the U.K., now that dual citizenshipin possible. Nine trips have enabled me to feel rightat home in Edinburgh and Scotland. One of thosetrips included participation in the 2001 WorldMethodist Conference in Brighton, England, withSally and Christopher also attending as delegates.

Ecumenical ministries have been a career-longinterest, especially at the local and state level. I wasactively involved in various leadership groups ofthe N.Y. State Council of Churches for 20 years,many in connection with my assigned responsibili-ties in the United Methodist Church.

I’ve also been involved in theological education,both as an adjunct instructor in church adminis-tration and polity at Colgate Rochester DivinitySchool and at United Theological Seminary, Dayton,Ohio, where I also served four years as a trusteewhile the seminary had an extension program inBuffalo, N.Y.

In retirement, I teach and lead retreats from timeto time in the local United Methodist congregationwhere my wife, Sally, is Minister of Education andCommunity Enrichment. I also serve as a regionalconsultant for the United Methodist Frontier Foun-dation (N.Y.), assisting local churches in establish-ing planned giving programs and developing theirfinancial stewardship. In retirement I’ve served twointerim pastoral appointments, in addition tostanding in at pulpits for vacationing or ill pastors.


Jim Pollard


I’ve served on the Boards of Directors of severalUnited Methodist-related health and social serviceagencies: Folts Home, Herkimer, N.Y.; Gateway-Longview Youth and Family Services, Williamsville,N.Y.; and currently Beechwood Continuing Care andBeechwood Health Care Center, Getzville, N.Y. Foreight years, I was on the Board of a United Methodistagency in the northeast devoted to racial justice anddeveloping racial-ethnic ministries in the UnitedMethodist Church.

Choral singing has been, and is, a continuing inter-est, mostly with church choirs, and for a couple ofyears as a member of the Rochester, N.Y., OratorioSociety when I lived in Webster, N.Y.

Richard M. PomboyDick

781 Potato Patch Drive, Vail, CO 81657, (970) 479-9908, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sissel Pomboy Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, Pomboy Capital Corp., 781 Potato Patch Drive, Vail, CO 81657, (970) 479-1865

Raymond S. Pong Ray

1736 Choice Hills Drive, Henderson, NV 89012, (702) 407-2570 Spouse: Amy O. Pong Occupation: Health/Science, Raymond S. Pong MD PhD, 1736 Choice Hills Drive, Henderson, NV 89012, (702) 407-2570

John L. Porter 8 Spring Creek, Denison, TX 75020, (903) 465-1078, «[email protected]» Spouse: Glenda Porter

Robert L. Posnak Robert L. Posnak died onOctober 27, 1994.

Robert I. Postel Robert I. Postel died on March6, 1999.

George W. Potts12 Sheridan St., Natick, MA 01760, (508) 651-3445;460 West Main Rd., Little Compton,RI 02837, (401) 635-8513; «[email protected]»,«[email protected]»Blogs: Politics:http://fletchcast.blogspot.com/Dartmouth Traditions: http://old-traditions.blogspot.com/Science:http://junksci.blogspot.com/Travel Logs: http://rkstvsnot.blogspot.com/

Life’s Pursuits: Programmer (Bank of New York, 1960;White Weld & Co., 1965); software company founder(Meta-Language Products, 1968; Occam Research Corp.,1989); investment analyst (Dean Witter & Co., 1974);strategic planner (Data General, 1978); tutor (Natick PublicSchools, currently); three U.S. software patents (5,297,280;5,349,526; 5,418,898); Harvard Business Review article(“Exploit your product’s service life cycle,” Sept./Oct. 1988)Hobbies: Painting, writing, politics (town meeting member,board of assessors), travelFamily: Debbie (1960, 4 children: Katie, Ben, Alex, Maddie);Gretchen (1962, 2 children: Sarah, Max); George Jr. (1967,2 children: Isabel, James); Rebecca (1969, 2 children: Ava,Sophia)

Wife: JeanetteDartmouth Major: Mathematics; three years of MBA grad-uate studies NYU/GBA, no degreeDartmouth Activities: Freshman Crew, Sigma Nu Fraternity

Anyone wishing to learn more about my life andmy worldview: please peruse my Blogs listed above.

Otto G. Powell Jr.Gene

65290 Gerking Market Road, Bend, OR 97701, (541) 385-9979, «[email protected]» Spouse: Gretchen Powell Occupation: Gene Powell &Associates, 65290 Gerking MarketRoad, Bend, OR 97701, (541) 312-2111

D. Borden Powers241 State Street, Guilford, CT 06437, (203) 453-9583 Spouse: Leslie Ann Powers Occupation: Sports/Recreation

William B. Pratt Bill

1612 Granger, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, (734) 668-7943 Spouse: Diana Pratt, PhD, Esq.

Richard E. Preininger Dick

Box 466, 8912 East Pinnacle PeakRoad, Scottsdale, AZ 85255, (480) 419-9196, «[email protected]» Spouse: Carolyn Preininger Occupation: Health/Science

J. Richard PriorPO Box 921, Quogue, NY 11959, (631) 653-4524,«[email protected]» Spouse: Suzanne Prior Occupation: Manufacturing

Arthur L. PritchardArt

PO Box 2879, Alameda, CA 94501, (510) 769-1920, «[email protected]» Occupation: PO Box 2879, Alameda, CA 94501


George Potts and family

James A. ProginJim

PO Box 85, Jackson, NH 03846, (603) 383-9051, «[email protected]» Spouse: Judy Holmes

Bob Prouty301 Summer St., Norwell, MA 02061,«[email protected]»Career: PediatricianWife: MauraMajor at Dartmouth: Philosophy;Dartmouth Medical School; MD,Harvard Medical School

Other than getting older, nota lot has changed for me inthe last five years, and that’s agood thing. I still work as apediatrician at our rapidly expanding, multi-spe-cialty, group practice, but I stopped attending atthe hospital three years ago, thereby greatly reduc-ing stress. But I plan to retire when I would rathernot work than work. I have been at the same prac-tice since leaving the Navy in 1970 and am sur-prised to find I am the second-oldest physicianhere behind an 83-year-old orthopedist, also fromDartmouth.

I vacation a great deal with Maura and travel a lottoo. We have done six Dartmouth-sponsored trips,the last to Tuscany in 2009. I also joined the “bion-ic” group with a new hip in 2009, which delayed

skiing until, I hope, next winter. Although I stoppedjogging years ago, I still hike, walk, and swim toexercise, and it is easier on the knees.

Maura and I still have a sailboat but gave up cruis-ing and just day-sail in the Boston harbor area.

I am only three hours from Hanover so I attendthe fall reunions each year. It is a highlight each ofthose years to renew old Dartmouth friendships.

I have no wise word for the ages just now. PerhapsI shall when I get old. For now, one year at a time.

Andrew J. Purdy Andrew J. Purdy died onAugust 14, 1977.

Harry W. Quillian9234 13th Avenue Circle Northwest,Bradenton, FL 34209, (941) 795-0420, «[email protected]»

Paul Quinlan31 Water Street, Natick, MA 01760, (508) 650-5170, «[email protected]»

Eleazar Wheelock (“Vox cla-mantis in deserto”) prepared aplace in the wilderness wherethis lad of Catholic Celtic clothcould assimilate a world-classYankee heritage.

Dr. Bob Smith (Dartmouth graduate) and BillWilson, both Vermonters, touched the lives of tensof millions with healing spirituality. Their discov-ery of a way out of the scourge of addiction wassurely a premier moment of the 20th century.While leaving space for my childhood poetry,they showed me to a place beyond what I had known in Rome.

Laura Ingraham, a class act Dartmouth dame (onoccasion a mite shrill? Oh well, these are shrilltimes), has helped steer me through the flotsamand jetsam of contemporary Great Issues; PaulZeller gifted me with a lasting appreciation of music.I later made my living as a music publisher.

Spes gregis (Ed. note: The hope of the family) (sevensweet progeny): Warren, Robert, Nancy, Kathryn,


I am the second-oldest physician here, behind an83-year-old orthopedist, also from Dartmouth.

Bob Prouty

Kevin, James, Nicholas, all launched on the turbu-lent seas of the latter years of the 20th centurywithout incident. Does that deserve a tiny littlewah-hoo-wah? Ever so softly so no one will catchus celebrating our wonderful Dartmouth heritage!

Three senior fellows: Bob Jervis shared with me agreat fact that changed my life: real brotherhoodisn’t necessarily about blood; Jim Marlow—sharing abeer with Jim was always a piece of pure poetrywhile I provided the prose; and Bob Kenerson, a verypleasant and supportive presence, a true gentleman.

Ten happy random recalls from freshman year. Ten’60 pixies! Now there’s a tradition that might wellhave been axed while forever embracing the “noblesavage.” A shibboleth for our times? Extirpate theguilt by decree! Anyway, these men taught me thesimple joys of a home away from home: LymanBacon, Pete Brightman, Mike Bromer, Bob Clark,Mike Ehrlich, Bob Hill (RIP), Jim Hughes, BruceHulbert, Roger McCoy, and Roger Stephenson.

Nancy Jean Malloy Quinlan, she of purest gold, andaccording to my Irish poetry, “a living saint.”

Thanks for the memories and blessings to all!

Carles F. Raber Jr.Cai

1146 North Middleton Drive NW, Calabash, NC 28467, (910) 287-4595 Spouse: Barbara Raber Occupation: Engineering

Charles M. Radigan Jr.Charlie

124 Laurel Lane, Lancaster, VA 22503, (804) 435-1503, «[email protected]» Spouse: Elizabeth Radigan Occupation: Law

Peter W. Ralph Peter W. Ralph died onOctober 24, 1983.

Richard E. Raymer3008 Rivermeade Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30327, (404) 351-0733, «[email protected]» Spouse: Jean A. Raymer

James W. Reece6924 N. Baltusrol Lane, Charlotte, NC 28210, (704) 553-0634, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Since retiring in1993, my wife and I have traveledextensively in the U.S. and abroad,including numerous cruises. Earlyon, I served for several years as avolunteer arbitrator for the localBetter Business Bureau. Recently, I stepped down from assisting at the President James K. PolkState Historic Site, including a 4-year stint as a member of


James Reece with Janet and grandchildren


the board of directors. For the past few years I have exten-sively researched my family genealogy, which has been mostinteresting and has resulted in my joining several lineagesocieties plus a clan.Career: Upon graduating from Dartmouth, I embarked onthree years sea duty as a naval officer ending up as execu-tive officer and navigator of the ocean tug U.S.S. Stallion(ATA-193). Then it was off to law school at Indiana Univer-sity. After a brief time practicing law in Florida, I made acareer change and joined the DuPont Co. in 1967. MyDuPont career took me to Akron, Ohio, and Charlotte, N.C.,while serving in a variety of marketing and administrativepositions. My final assignment was running one of DuPont’stextile fibers businesses for several years until retiring.Family and Roots: My wife, Janet, and I were married in1960 and share the experience of being born and raised inthe Republic of Panama, Panama Canal Zone. Our fatherswere employed as engineers by the Panama Canal Co. Wereared two children. Our daughter, Karen, died as the resultof a car accident at age 22, shortly after graduating fromUNC-Chapel Hill. Our son, Doug, graduated from The Citadeland has an M.B.A. from UNC-Charlotte. He is a banker withWells Fargo in Florida where he and his wife, Laura, andtheir two young children reside.Wife/Partner: Janet, Teacher: BS, Bucknell University, Edu-cation; MS, Indiana University, Guidance and CounselingMajor at Dartmouth: Dartmouth College, AB, BusinessAdministration; JD, Indiana UniversityDartmouth Activities: Chi Phi Fraternity, IDC, NROTC

In our 40th Reunion More Musings, I lamented thefact that the politically correct folks in charge atDartmouth were gradually dismantling what wasonce a great institution. The recent abolition ofparity on the Board of Trustees in favor of theunjust packing of the board essentially completesthis project. The worst event that I can recall priorto this was the expulsion by the college of theROTC units. I would not have attended Dartmouthwithout the financial assistance provided by myNROTC scholarship. The college that I once knewand loved is gone, probably forever. One has towonder whether “Dartmouth Undying” is still“miraculously builded in our hearts!”

Quentin Regestein Reg

6 Worthington St., Boston, MA 02120, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Understanding theworld in order to help peopleCareer: PsychiatristFamily and Roots: No siblings, nochildren, 27 cousins. My wife’s fam-ily has become my family. Wife: Lois (Wetzel) Regestein;Oberlin ‘59; Yale ‘61 (music).Major at Dartmouth: Philosophy

Dartmouth Activities: What I remember: Acted, e.g.,Gabriel in “Green Pastures.” Edited lit magazine, captainedblood drive, German Club. Wish I had skied.

Our musings about the world say more about usthan about our world. My good wife thought myfirst draft of these musings were “complaining andunhappy,” probably because I wrote them lying onthe floor nursing back pain. I usually have a funlife, which is like saying I have a complacency prob-lem. I stupidly hurt the back. I seem to need trou-bles to keep me attentive.

We become what we chose to, net of harmfulinstincts. American culture encouraged us tochoose near-term pleasure rather than long-termpurpose. My psychiatrist work helps people controlharmful instincts and emotions. I envy my wife’swork as a musician. She fosters rather than sup-presses emotion.

Classmates who work to “give back” impress me.They help people who find modern culture toocomplex to manage. Most professions help peopleget what they want, but people often want junkfood, cigarettes, or hard-to-repay loans. Helpingpeople has a moral component. Some professionalshelp people invest in Altria (formerly Philip Morris).

Now we see the old struggle between top-down,authoritarian rule vs. bottom-up, egalitarian ruleplayed out in national struggles against GATT andWTO and bottom-up struggles of internet-connectedinterest groups to gain influence. America’s intellec-tual and cultural pre-eminence might survive its eco-nomic and political downfall as it cedes dominance

Reg Regestein

to China, like Italy’s once did. Maybe we can relateto the newly emerging Asian bourgeoisie.

Americans’ recent health and econ omic problemsshow that too many of us try to get more than wecan use. Something is amiss in a land where somany people consume too much food, drink, andcredit. How we look after our health indicates howmuch we like being alive. Since average longevity

measures a nation’s success, America should shootfor higher than around 50th for longevity amongdeveloped nations.

We have foundered on our pragmatic, second-classvalues and quarterly planning horizons. When anAmerican car manufacturer observed to Mr. Hondathat Japanese car quality must take a lot of assem-bly line inspectors, Honda replied “Quality is not amatter of inspectors; quality is a way of life.”

On a transatlantic flight, my seatmate was an Italianengineer who sells large valves to oil refineries. Isaid he must have many clients in the Middle East.“Oh, no,” he replied, “There they only buy onlyfirst class valves. Our company makes cheaper, sec-ond-class valves. My clients are in the United States.”

The bill has become due for our fly-now-pay-latercountry. A penchant for minimal up-front financ-ing and high back-end maintenance costs explainsour crumbling educational, health, and civic infra-structures as well as our undereducated, overweight,over-jailed citizenry. Our pandemic, often discre-tionary, sleep deprivation imposes a ton of nervousand hormonal troubles that cause everything fromdepression and work inefficiency to accidents andobesity.

Harvard Business School’s Clay Christenson saysproducts should be “just good enough.” We arestarting to recog nize that our healthcare system isnot good enough. My practice is not good enoughbecause I focus on treatment-resistant patients whosuffer complex medical or neurological problems;they are not well covered by health insurance, whichmeans my pay is low. I advise people to choose stan-dard diseases. The best advice is, “Don’t get sick!”

My prescription for good health: 1) Have a system-atic daily exercise routine; 2) End sleep at the sameclock time each day; 3) Maintain a high-volume,low-density, low-glycemic index diet; 4) Keep inmind an over-arching purpose that guides yourbehavior and requires you to develop new skills.

I bet high-quality values will rebound, because highquality can bounce back when bidden. Hewlett-Packard and Steinway piano regained their qualitymissions after opportunists temporarily trashedthem. Sometimes better values get re-imposed.Kellogg had been founded by a health enthusiastbut was recently forced to stop marketing junk foodto children.

At Dartmouth, we discussed issues like racial inte-gration and Sputnik but not the then-recent discov-ery of DNA structure. Now we discuss globalizationand global warming but little notice the mappingof the human genome, which is as far-reaching asthe atom bomb or man’s voyage to the moon.Biotechnology is about to change life as much asinformation technology has. I work with a groupat MIT to develop a device that will help diagnosepsychiatric problems (there is no objective way todia gnose psychiatric problems, e.g., no blood testfor depression). My MIT colleagues show me theunbounded future. You need not to go to the movies.Real life is fascinating enough.

Kenneth I. ReichKen Reich, our extraordinary class secretary, died athis home in Van Nuys, California, on June 30,2008. He was 70.

Ken was raised in Palm Springs,and from an early age he hadan intense interest in currentaffairs. One of his camp coun-selors recalls that, at the ageof ten, during free time at thecamp Ken would be buried inTime magazine while his fel-low campers would be offplaying ball. Ken remained avoracious reader all his life, which certainly con-tributed to his deep understanding of world histo-ry and world affairs.

As a Southern Californian, Ken had a hard timeadjusting to winters in New Hampshire. Indeed, inMusings Ken wrote, “Upon graduation fromDartmouth, I told myself I never wanted to live out-side California again ...” But he was a stellar stu-dent at Dartmouth, graduating summa cum laudewith Highest Distinction in Government. He wasin Army ROTC at Dartmouth.

After our graduation from Dartmouth, Ken servedin the military in California. He then attended theHarvard Law School for a few months, and he alsoearned a master’s degree in political science at UCBerkeley in 1962. But his true calling was journal-ism. He began his career as a journalist during hisfreshman year in high school, when he worked as


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a sports reporter for the Riverside Press-Enterprise.He also worked on The Dartmouth our freshman andsophomore years. In 1962-63, Ken was employedat the Sacramento bureau of UPI, then he reportedfor Life magazine in 1963-65. But most of his jour-nalism career was spent with the Los Angeles Times.

Ken was hired by the Los Angeles Times in 1965 asa reporter in the newspaper’s Westside bureau. Heserved as Atlanta bureau chief from 1970 to 1972,after which he spent five years as a political writer,an area he continued to report on occasionallylater on. Ken covered the presidential campaigns ofEugene McCarthy, George Wallace, and JimmyCarter. He was known as an extremely outspokenand tenacious reporter, one who was meticulous ingetting the facts of his story straight.

Ken considered his most important professionalaccomplishment to be his coverage from 1977through 1984 of the 1984 summer Olympics heldin Los Angeles. He reported on everything aboutthose games except the sporting events themselves,e.g., site selection, finances, traffic, economic impact,pollution, etc. His editor at the time wrote recentlythat, aware of the financial disaster of the 1976Olympics in Montreal, Ken wrote to ensure “thatthe L.A. taxpayers would not foot the bill” for thegames. And they did not—those games ultimatelywere very profitable. Ken’s book about the L.A.Olympics is Making It Happen—Peter Ueberroth andthe 1984 Olympics (Capra Press, 1986).

Ken’s Olympic reporting took him to more than 25countries. He always loved visiting foreign countries,and in fact he spent his Dartmouth junior year as astudent in France. Shortly before his death, Kenachieved his goal of visiting 100 countries duringhis lifetime—Malta was number 100. This happenedduring a 73-day cruise around Africa, one he tookdespite being by then in very poor health. He hadheart problems as well as diabetes. Ken’s tenacityalso led him to attend our recent Class gatheringin Boston, where he was confined to a wheelchairand assisted by his caretaker.

At his funeral service in Los Angeles on July 3, 2008,one attended by over 150 people, a longtime friendmentioned that for many years Ken consideredhimself “more politically Jewish than religiouslyJewish.” But in recent years he became close friendswith the rabbi who presided at the funeral servicefor his mother, and he later not only joined thatrabbi’s temple, but he also was a particularly activemember of the congregation.

Ken was married in 1970, but divorced in 1978. Hewas an extremely devoted Dad to his children, Kathyand David, often taking them along on his travelsto cover the Olympics and elsewhere. Together,also, they climbed much of the Pacific Crest Trail.Ken was fiercely proud of Kathy and David’s manyaccomplishments, including David’s service innaval intelligence in Anbar Province, Iraq. Ken wasalso extremely close to his parents, Ruth andHerman; his sister, Carolyn; and his two grandchil-dren, Abigail and Jonathan (“Jack”), the youngchildren of Kathy and her husband, Ken Meyer.

In his later years at the Los Angeles Times, Kenbecame involved in, as he put it in More Musings, “astruggle to maintain the quality of the paper ...against advertiser intrusions in the editorial product.”Later he was ferocious in his opposition to actionsby an outside company that had bought the news-paper from the Los Angeles family that had ownedit. Ken’s strongly worded views on the paper’s newmanagement, as well as many of his political opin-ions, can be found on his blog: «takebackthetimes.blogspot.com». That blog also now has postings ofmany remembrances of Ken from readers of hisblog and others.

Ken became our Class secretary in 1995, and heloved that assignment. In More Musings, he wrotethat through writing the 1960 class notes for theDartmouth Alumni Magazine, “I’ve made many newfriends in the class and have come to feel even moreat home in the Dartmouth community. It’s been aconstant joy to me.” In 2006, he was named ClassSecretary of the Year by the College. The commen-dation read in part, “Well-researched, well-writtenstories delivered on time. No doubt that’s all in aday’s work for a reporter with 40 years of experi-ence at the Los Angeles Times. But we don’t takeyour efforts for granted. Ken Reich, we thank youfor the outstanding columns you bring to your class,the College, and the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.”

Ken Reich was one of a kind—tenacious, thought-ful, generous, and idealistic. Many examples of hissometimes off-the-wall sense of humor were givenat his funeral service. He will be missed enormous-ly by his many friends in the Class of 1960 andothers around the world.

Hap DunningSenior Fence

Martin L. Reich Martin L. Reich died onJanuary 5, 1987.

Anton R. ReicheTony

Saint Benete, 17770 Migron, FranceSpouse: Victoria Reiche Occupation: Manufacturing

Robert Reid Bob

1351 Greenwood Ave., Wilmette, IL 60091, (847) 256-5259, «[email protected]» Career: Primary Care InternalMedicine (private practice)Wife: Jill K. Reid; BSN, Duke, 1963Dartmouth Major: BiologyDartmouth Activities: DCAC, JVfootball mgr.

I cannot believe that it has been 25 years since Ihave mused.

Retirement is a wonderful thing, and I am fullyenjoying it. The ideas I had of retirement 25 yearsago were certainly different from the reality of thepresent. I no longer want to get in a Big RV andtravel the country changing venues by the season.I am content with just two places to rest my body.I no longer fantasize about driving an 18-wheelerfrom coast to coast. Heck a 4-wheeler is just fine.

Retirement has given me the time to reflect on whatI have been given and realize it is time to give back.Volunteerism is one of the most rewarding things I have done. Helping deliver food to the local foodpantries, helping repair things at the church, andorganizing work crews to help in construction ofhomes with the local Habitat for Humanity chapterhave made me realize how fortunate I have been,and how many other people are in need. You canget a lot of enjoyment out of framing a house, put-ting on siding or delivering foodstuffs to a depletedfood pantry.

There is still enough time for Jill and me to travelto distant lands once a year. Machu Picchu, theGalapagos, and a slight plane crash in Quito,Ecuador, one year, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, andSlovenia another and a Dartmouth trip to Sicily withProf. Rodger Ulrich have been our recent adven-tures. Our only wish is that there were more fundsto enable more trips.

Winter in Florida, summer in Illinois, salt waterfishing and freshwater fishing both in the Midwestand Canada fill in my time. Jill is involved with thechurch choir and does the local soup kitchen detailwhen needed. By reunion time we will be grand-parents for the third time. Jill enjoys her role asgrandma or Nana as the case may be. We are thank-ful that we have been truly blessed, and we arecontent. That is all that we could hope for.

Except maybe a Congress that works. That wouldbe a change and something to hope for. It seems welearn nothing from history. Merle Travis wrote asong a while ago about being another day olderand deeper in debt. Sounds familiar. Now we whileaway our time with Facebook and Twitter. All Iremember is Rockin’ Robin rocking in the treetopall day long going tweet, tweet, tweet. As it says inEcclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun.

By the time you read this, we may have a healthplan that works for all of us, but somehow downdeep in my heart I know the politicians will screwit up. By the time you read this there may be peacein the Middle East, but I doubt it. By the time youread this the Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and NorthKorea problems will be solved by our charismaticadministration, but I doubt it.


Bob Reid and Jill

Eugene A. ReillyGene

134 Baker Street, Walpole, MA 02081, (508) 668-1130, «[email protected]» Spouse: Joan Reilly Occupation: Law, 3 West Street,Walpole, MA 02081, (508) 668-4051

Tom ReillyPO Box 5450, Wayland, MA 01778, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Family, business,non-profit board service (health,education, social service, religious,and recreational)Career: 1961-1964, HartfordNational Bank; Arthur Andersen &Co.; 1995-2006, corporate boardpositions, consultantRoots: John F. Reilly 1919. Family: Tom Jr. (1962), Colby College, 1984; Mary EllenEldridge (1963), Dartmouth, 1985; Karen Quirk (1966),Colby College, 1988; Jim (1969), Dartmouth, 1991Wife: Norberta (Nobbie), married June 24, 1961Major at Dartmouth: Economics; MBA, Harvard BusinessSchool, 1966Dartmouth Activities: Dartmouth Alumni Association ofEastern Massachusetts, Treasurer 1978–1985; Vice President1986–1987; President 1988. Class Treasurer 1985–1990.Alumni Council 1988–1990 (?)

John H. Reimer Jr.205 Great Hills Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807, (908) 526-6958 Spouse: Linda V. Reimer

James N. ReinhardtJim

5412 Poola St., Honolulu, HI 96821, (808) 373-1180, «[email protected]» Spouse: Kathleen Reinhardt Occupation: ArchitectureArchitectural Diagnostics, 800 Bethel Street, Queens Court Suite 500, Honolulu,HI 96813, (808) 532-2000

Richard L. Reynolds Richard L. Reynolds died onJune 24, 1986.

Robert C. RhinesBob

43 Pleasant Street, Plymouth, NH 03264, (603) 536-2699, «[email protected]» Occupation: Engineering

David O. Rhoad32 Elm Street, Windsor, VT 05089, (802) 674-2326 Occupation: Architecture/Construction


John M. Richardson Jr. Box 33 Hume, VA 22639, «[email protected]»; Blog: «dormgrandpop.blogspot.com»;Facebook: AU DormgrandpopLife’s Pursuits: Tennis, biking (espe-cially more for transportation thanrecreation), studying new subjects,visiting and writing about Sri Lanka,mentoring young faculty, graduatestudents, undergraduate students,and living with undergraduate stu-dents. Created of American Universi-ty’s Faculty in Residence program as its longest serving facultymember in residence. Tibetan Buddhist meditation and sus-taining my blog, «http://dormgrandpop.blogspot.com»Career: Naval Officer, partner in high fashion boutiques, cityward leader (in Minneapolis), pioneer in the field of globalmodeling under the auspices of the Club of Rome, consult-ant and project director for the U.S. Association for the Clubof Rome and the Hunger Project, Professor in the fields ofpolitical science, systems engineering, applied computer sci-ence, applied systems analysis, international relations, andinternational development at various universities primarily atCase Western Reserve University and, for the last 32 years,at American University in Washington, D.C. Also held admin-istrative appointments, particularly as Director of DoctoralStudies in AU’s School of International Service and, mostrecently, as Director of AU’s Center for Teaching Excellencewith responsibility for academic technologies, the quality of

academic instruc-tion, multimediaapplications, anddistance educa-tion. Named by acommittee of theSociety for Com-puter Simulationin 1983 as “Oneof the 20 mosteffective decision-makers in theworld.” I haveauthored, co-authored, or edit-ed six books andlots of papers,book chapters,and reports on

various subjects. My favorites are Groping in the Dark:The First Decade of Global Modeling and my most recent,Paradise Poisoned: Learning About Conflict, Develop-ment and Terrorism from Sri Lanka’s Civil Wars, portions ofwhich have been translated into Sinhala and Tamil. I havetwo book projects in progress, one on my Dormgrandpopexperience, the other on sustainable poverty alleviation,focusing on a case study of Singapore. I am a consultant tovarious governmental and, much more rarely, to private sec-tor organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere. I have servedon boards of directors and advisory committees of various

organizations in the U.S. and Sri Lanka dealing with environ-mental quality, sustainable development and ethnic conflict.Family: Father (Class of 1932) and maternal step-grandfa-ther (Class of 19??) were Dartmouth Grads. Three children,one acquired via a second marriage, and four grandchildren.Wife: Emily RichardsonMajor at Dartmouth, etc.: European History. I receivedthe Class of 1837 prize for the best thesis in European His-tory; PhD, Political Science, University of Minnesota; Post-doctoral work in mathematicsDartmouth Activities: Crew, freshman year. Drinking andpartying (sophomore year). The Daily Dartmouth (primari-ly Junior Year). Member of DU. Honors program student inHistory, working on medieval history and philosophy of his-tory with professor John R. Williams (one of my most influ-ential mentors).

What I would like to share are excerpts from lettersthat two students wrote to me recently. Whetherthey accurately characterize my work as a professoris for others to judge. In any case they describeideals that it is worth striving to live up to.

The first letter was from a graduate student whograduated about ten years ago and with whom I haveremained in contact.

Who would have thought that my statisticsprofessor would find me a husband, thefather of my child, and teach me how topray, but this you have done. I’m deeplygrateful that you have spent this time withme really listening and sharing from thedeep well of your experience.

The second letter was from a recent BA graduate whoworked closely with me in both the Faculty ResidentProgram and the Center for Teaching Excellence.

Four years ago, you were the first professor toever cook me a meal. At that point, I barelyknew what CTE [The Center for TeachingExcellence] was, but I knew something aboutyou was extraordinary. Your unfailing com-mitment to meet students on their termssets you apart and makes a profound impact.I have had the privilege to witness this inmy own life and in the lives of many others.

Since I first started working with you, I wasinstilled with a sense of empowerment. Morethan even the skills gained through each taskwas the impression that I was working towarda worthy goal with a team of excellent peo-ple. All the while being treated with theutmost respect by co-workers with vast andvaried experience and expertise. This is anamazing basic thing that you do: create com-munity that believes in human worth ... .

My best wishes to colleagues and friends of 50 yearsand more on the occasion of our 50th reunion.Appropriately, this is a time for reminiscences andrecollections, but let’s keep pressing forward as well.


John Richardson

Jon N. Richardson Our classmate Jon N.Richardson died April 15, 2008,of heart failure while in a dia-betic coma. I’m in debt to hisfriend Tom Hannan, with thecontributions of Rick Roeschand Mickey Straus, who werealso close to him, for preparingmost of this obituary.

Jon came to Dartmouth fromMaine Township High Schoolin Park Ridge, Illinois. In Hanover, he was a mem-ber of Sigma Chi, which became The Tabard, andone of the best-known persons on campus. Class-mates will enjoy at least a chuckle and more likelyraucous laughter when recalling some of his adven-tures and exploits at Colby College and elsewhere, andhis running encounters with Dean Thad Seymour.

He was a member of the Navy ROTC unit. Aftergraduation he served three years on active duty,then entered law school where he was a top stu-dent, while simultaneously working at Alexis, anupscale San Francisco discotheque, managing ahotel, and driving a cab. After a short, successfulcareer as a lawyer, he was active in the restaurantbusiness. He returned to law and various other

businesses in his later years. At the time of hisdeath, Jon was living in Canon City, Colo.

He made a mark on the lives of those he touched.He was enormously fond of the fairer sex and theyof him, and took great interest in his friends’ off-spring, often acting as Santa Claus. He never mar-ried nor sired, to our knowledge.

In a long essay for our Class book, More Musings, 40years out of Hanover, Jon notably expressed somesadness at the evolution of Dartmouth, writing, “Weshould have a Requiem for the College. The onewe knew. It has died. But it had a good life. Whathas happened to its Soul? Does it live? Does it livein us? What about its spirit?”

Paul C. Richardson Jr.Chuck

19 Allwood Road, Darien, CT 06820, (203) 655-2286 Spouse: Mary Richardson

William H. Richmond864 West Yarmouth Road,Yarmouth Port, MA 02675, (508) 362-2788, «[email protected]» Spouse: Janice B. Richmond Occupation: Architecture/Construction

E. Lee Robbins 4405 Starview Court, Glen Arm, MD 21057, (410) 592-2687 Spouse: Beatrice M. Robbins, R.N. Occupation: Government/Military,MD Disability Determination, Suite 38, Timonium, MD 21093,(410) 308-4377


Snowball Fight, 1970: Dean Seymour in shorts, tryingto keep students away from buildings and windows

Alfred W. Roberts IIIAl

Winter: 1418 Beach Club Lane,Apollo Beach, FL 33572, (813) 649-9155; Summer: 95 Forest Street, New Canaan, CT 06840, (203) 966-0053; Always: «[email protected]»

Arthur Young & Company, Winthrop,Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, 1998–Present: This and that (details uponrequest)Wife: PamChildren: (Ashley, Dartmouth ’92; Kirk, Davidson ’97;Mike, Dartmouth ’00) and grandchildren (see photo!)Graduate School: Amos Tuck, 1961

Hmm. Twelve years of retirement. Time was, back inthe working days, when someone asked “What doyou do?” I could answer in two short sentences andbe pretty sure I was communicating clearly. Now, myanswer often starts out, “Well, nothing special,” andthen wanders off into a few rambling sentences ofexplanation, the sum of which only demonstratesthat the starting out answer was the correct one.

Still, when musing about the past ten years, I musethis way: How lucky can you get? Making it this farhas been really fortunate; as of this writing, at least,Pam and I are relatively healthy and solvent; ourchildren and grandchildren continue to be sources ofpride; and for all those things I’m extremely grateful.

I don’t exercise as hard or as frequently as in thepast, don’t work as much, don’t worry as much(well, not quite as much), and that’s all just fine.

I spend more time with charities, with our childrenand grandchildren (there are a lot more of themthan there used to be), and with other family andfriends, and that’s also just fine.

It’s a little sad to think I won’t be here to see all thosegrandchildren grow into adults, and to realize thatwhen they do grow up they will probably have to

deal with the results of our country’s present finan-cial and other problems, but hey, that’s life, andmaybe it will all turn out better than it appears now.

What’s next? I’m going to continue to spend a lotof time trying to be helpful (it makes me feel good),and try to enjoy every blessed day.

Win Robinson12 School Street, Kingfield, ME 04947, (207) 265-5831, «[email protected]»

For sometime after graduating,I thought Dartmouth was theway life was and should be. Ittook me longer than some tomake the transition to the realthing. Right now, I’m happy Idelayed it, happy I eventuallytransitioned, and feel very fortunate to have had theexperiences, career, family, and friends that havehappened over the last 50 years.

I gave the city and corporate life a try for a few yearsbut tired of it quickly and couldn’t warm up towhat that corporate and suburban future appearedto have in store for the longer term.

The last 37 years has seen me living in a small townin rural Western Maine, raising a great family withmy life’s partner, Vici, doing an entrepreneurial gigin many aspects of the forest products industry,chairing the board of a small community bank foryears as it grew much larger farming a little, andinvolvement in the startup of a now well establishedski academy. It’s been lots of fun, challenges, andgood fortune.

I continue to do a little small business consulting,importing when the strength of the $ allows (notmuch), mixed in with volunteer and board work.

My current project is working with others in a non-profit, nongovernmental effort to build 180 milesof hiking and Nordic ski trails with “huts” (sleepand feed 40+). The trail winds through a pristinewilderness corridor of Western Maine («mainehuts.org»), providing and protecting access to spectacularback country for future generations and low-impacteconomic development in the rural communities itpasses through.


Al Roberts and his family

Living in rural Maine is a great way of lifebut sometimes challenges you to find a way to make it work.

Win Robinson


Living in rural Maine is a great way of life but some-times challenges you to find a way to make it work.We did, and I think our family treasures the roadwe traveled, and the life we were able to lead.

I continue to ski, hike, travel, read, golf, and spendtime with our daughter and two sons (Dartmouth’95 and ’97) and their families.

Dartmouth has been good to and for our family.My father, Class of 1926, played on the NationalChampionship Dartmouth team of 1925—“talkabout changes”—but that opens up a whole newtopic, and I’m not going to go there.

Peter Robohm Our classmate Peter Robohm,a lover of nature and especial-ly Maine’s north woods, diedFebruary 28, 2008, at MaineMedical Center in Portland,Maine, of a cerebral hemor-rhage suffered six days before.

Summing up his life style inour class publication, MoreMusings, 40 years after gradua-tion, Peter wrote, “I am at besta mediocre fly-fisherman. But, mental and/or phys-ical retreat to the wilderness has often kept myspirit from withering. Early in our years as a family,we adopted the remote reaches of (the) north woodsas the one place where we could find ourselvesagain, individually and collectively.”

Civic-minded, Peter served in active retirementafter 1998 in Bath, Maine, as chair of both theBath Transportation Commission and the Gateway1 Project to prevent urban sprawl in Maine andspearheaded the restoration of the historic BathRailroad Station. He had a passion for trains, bothreal and model. He also worked in many charitableand other activities and was a fundraiser for ourDartmouth class.

He came to Dartmouth from Southold, N.Y., HighSchool, belonged in Hanover to the Glee Club, theOuting Club, and Alpha Chi Alpha, and after grad-uation earned a Master’s Degree in electrical engi-neering at the Thayer School. He served three yearsas a Naval officer, specializing in computer science,then was employed 25 years by IBM, then for otherfirms, and ended his working career at the RobohmManagement Group. During his IBM years, he wasa supervisor of the town of Pound Ridge, N.Y.��

He is survived by his loving wife of 45 years, Sharon,their four daughters, Catherine, Amy, Jennifer, andSarah, and their husbands, four grandchildren, andthree siblings. The family asked that donations be

made in his memory to the Jackman, Maine,Regional Health Center or the Heartwood RegionalTheater Co. in Damariscotta, Maine.

Sol Rockenmacher MD25 St. Andrews Drive, Bedford, NH 03110, «[email protected]»Career: I enjoyed two careers inpediatrics the first 16 years in pri-mary care practice in Dover, N.H.,then 19 years as a pediatric cardi-ology subspecialist with the Dart-mouth Hitchcock Clinics in Hanover,Lebanon, and Manchester, N.H.After a retirement of over threeyears, I was called out of the bullpen in June 2009 to workpart-time in my former practice, on a temporary basis, tohelp fill a gap left by the move of one of my former associates.While in retirement I managed to keep busy with volunteerwork, for my temple, for advocacy causes for children’s healthcare, and for Dartmouth. I served a term on the DartmouthAlumni Council (recently completed) and am in my secondterm on the Dartmouth Medical School Alumni Council. I amthe DMS’61 Class Secretary and Class Agent.Family and Roots: I was born in Brooklyn and moved toRedondo Beach, California, just before my junior year inhigh school. I remain in pretty close contact with severalRedondo schoolmates, and we enjoy mini-reunions whenLinda and I go to Palm Desert for a couple of weeks in thewinter. Throughout the years, I have touched base withsome of my Brooklyn Junior High School pals.I am the youngest of five surviving Rockenmacher childrenby 16 years. I had three brothers and a one sister, whohave all passed away. One sister-in-law remains.Wife: How lucky was I to have met my wife, the formerLinda Jean Lawrence of Farmington, N.H., while we wereboth working in the clinical laboratory at Mary HitchcockHospital. I was a DMS student working part-time in the lab,and Linda was a University of New Hampshire senior in theMedical Technology Program. Linda eventually went on toget a degree in nutrition. Linda and I have been married for47 years. We have three daughters. Two of them went toDartmouth (’86 and ’88) and one to UNH (’90). They areall married, and we have five grandchildren that we are for-tunate to have live close by. We have a true “rainbow”family. One son-in-law is African-American. Another is fromthe Azores. (The third is from Maryland.) We have twoadopted granddaughters from China to go along with ourtwo mixed-race grandkids.Major at Dartmouth: I majored in Biology and spentthree years as an undergraduate, before starting the thentwo year program at DMS in my senior year. My last twoyears of medical school were at Harvard. Activities at Dartmouth: I was a member of Tau EpsilonPhi, Sophomore Orientation Committee, and Sphinx. Iearned my 1960 numerals as a member of the freshmanbasketball team and still have the sweater, stored with myfreshman beanie. One of the early disappointments in my


life was getting cut (twice I might add) by Doggie Julianwhile trying out for the varsity. I think that I have gottenover it.

I consider myself the fortunate one in my family. I was born as the Great Depression was starting toresolve. I was safely at home when my brothers wereoff serving in World War II. I had older siblings whowere supportive as “extra” parents. My mother andfather were both immigrants from Poland. Theyhad not had formal learning, but they stressed totheir children the importance of education. I hadthe experiences of living on both coasts and beingin high school during “happy days.” I never thoughtabout a “quota” system when I applied to college. I received financial aid from Dartmouth College andMedical School. I served as a pediatrician in theNavy and was never sent to Vietnam. I had theprivilege of training in wonderful medical programsand having been mentored by some outstandingrole models. I have enjoyed my medical career. I havehad some wonderful friends throughout the years.I have a lovely wife who has been at my side formany years and who has given me a special family,and for this blessing I am the most grateful.

Richard H. RodeferRik

1517 Ingomar Heights Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237, (412) 366-7716, «[email protected]»

George C. Rodgers Jr. George

4250 Georgetown Greenville Road,Georgetown, IN 47122, (812) 951-3009,«[email protected]» Spouse: Tania Condurache MD Occupation: Education, University of Louisville, Department of Pediatrics, 571 South Flood Street, Suite 325,Louisville, KY 40202, (502) 852-3782

Antony RodolakisTony

91 East Mountain Road, Westfield, MA 01085, (413) 562-4131, «[email protected]» Occupation: Health/Science,Western Massachusetts Hospital,91 East Mountain Road, Westfield, MA 01085

Frederick Aldrich RoeschRick

12 Partridge Rd., PO Box 60, Etna, NH 03750, (603) 643-9028, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Family, friends,travel, arts, exercise, giving back,and happinessCareer: U.S. Navy 1960-63;Citibank 1964-99; retirementFamily and Roots: DaughterLarissa Roesch ’88, grandson Calder, 1½; Son Erick Roesch’90, granddaughter Hannah, 10, grandson Zachary, 7; SonBrian Roesch, grandson Mason, 8, grandson Grant, 5,granddaughter Olivia, 3Wife: Linda Johnson RoeschMajor at Dartmouth: History, Tuck School (1 year); MBA,UC Berkeley, 1964Dartmouth Activities: Class Head Agent, Class VP, ClassPresident; Hopkins Center and Hood Museum Overseer

How fast ten years pass! Seems like just yesterdaythat many of us were retiring, adjusting to newways of living, sharing new goals, and reflecting onsix decades of life.

I was one of those who set retirement goals in col-laboration with my special life partner and our pre-cious offspring. It may be time to see what happened.

#1: Brew Beer—Our offspring encouraged that. I didit with lots of help. Was it Ambrosia? Well, it dis-appeared with alacrity, some of it ingested by class-mates with no medically challenging side effects.One opined that it disappeared so well because thecost was right. Since it was never spelled out whetherthe nectar of the gods was defined in terms of tasteor toll, victory seemed a nudge.

#2: Discover a Celestial Body? This had more to dowith the “why are we here?” question than with anyrealistic expectation. With my Schmidt-Cassegraintelescope, I only got to the level of Galileo by con-firming that Saturn has rings and Jupiter moons,observing the transit of Venus, and concluding it

was warmer inside on dark nights—plus you cansee much more on the spectacular NASA website.

#3: Giving Back was much easier than the goals, forit is unbelievable how eager not-for-profit organi-zations are to accept free labor! And by leveragingthat with financial donations, demand quicklyexceeds supply!

Aside from Dartmouth endeavors, all volunteeringhas been local and has been enormously rewardingboth in terms of relationships and results. Here,unlike corporate bureaucracies where turnover andadvancement are slow, if you show up regularly (oreven sometimes if you don’t show up!) you windup with responsibilities. For my sins, I find myselfChair of the Upper Valley Land Trust (on whichBoard I sit with classmates Quentin Faulkner and

Roger Hanlon); President of the Montshire MuseumCorporation (following in the footsteps of reveredTuck Professor Brian Quinn); and co-Vice Chair ofLedyard Bank, which almost qualifies for givingback as local bank directors don’t get Wall Streetcompensation. Canaan Street Lake became unoffi-cially known as Class of ’60 Lake since Jim Adlerinitiated the invasion—Dudley Smith is now thePresident of its Association and I serve as his VP.Linda has been as active as I, and more productivethan me, in this area, having Chaired the multi-million-dollar rebuilding of AVA, the local art cen-ter. Since we do neither crosswords nor Sudoku verywell, the above are our attempts to keep the graymatter un-darkened.

#4: We had no control over this final goal—but upfrom one grandchild at the turn of the century, wenow boast of six grand-wonders, all perfect of course.As I write this, we are preparing for their annualarrival at our lake Camp HaMaZaGraLiCa, namedfor the first two letters of each of their names (Ed.—except for Gra). The accompanying photo showsthem celebrating my 70th in December.

Life is Good.

Graham A. Rogeness 3046 Colony Dr., San Antonio, TX 78230, (210) 690-0456, «[email protected]»Career: After Martin Luther King’sdeath and the resulting riots, Iworked in an inner city housingproject community in Chicago as acommunity psychiatrist. I was ableto develop several programs when I worked there and it also taughtme a great deal. I learned that the values of most of thepeople in the community were middle class values, but thatthe culture they were placed in encouraged failure rather thansuccess. During this time, I wrote a paper—“The Culture ofFailure”—reflecting upon what I saw and experienced. Oneof the many reasons that I am a strong supporter of PresidentObama is his understanding of the different cultural andsocial factors that inhibit success. The feeling I experiencedin this community could be characterized as, “I can’t.” It ismeaningful that President Obama uses, “Yes, I can,” to helpdeal with the feeling that one cannot succeed. We moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1975 when I joined thefaculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center inSan Antonio. I helped develop the research program in childand adolescent psychiatry during the 1980s. In recentyears, I have been Medical Director of Southwest MentalHealth Center, a non-profit child and adolescent psychiatrichospital. I stepped down from that position in July 2009and am now enjoying no-call and no-administrative work.Currently, I spend my time treating outpatients. I plan to dothis for another year or two while I figure out what I will dowhen I retire. Family and Roots: We have 6 children and 11 grandchil-dren, and they are the center of our life.Wife: I met my wife, Ruth, when I was a medical studenton rotation at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where shewas working as a nurse. Our first date was in December,and the temperature was a very cold 15 degrees. Not own-ing a car, I borrowed my roommate’s. The car did not havea working heater and had a hole in the floorboard, so whenshe sat in the front seat she saw the street whizzing bybelow. She went out with me again, indicating I had foundsomeone who might be able to put up with me. I am blessedthat she married me in 1963, and we will celebrate our 47thwedding anniversary on 8/24/10.


Rick Roesch and his family

It is unbelievable how eager not-for-profitorganizations are to accept free labor!

Rick Roesch


Politically, I have become more and more troubledby the Republican Party. They seem to have turnedtheir leadership over to talk radio. It is disgustingthat Republican Congressmen do not even have thecourage to criticize those who call counseling forend of life and living wills, “death panels.” It appearstheir only goal is to try to have President Obama andthe Democrats fail. In days past, we had liberalRepublicans like Rockefeller and conservatives likeGoldwater who had strong and independent opin-ions but would work together for the good of thecountry.

I continue to admire the many contributions ofour great Class of 1960.

Anthony Z. RoismanTony

241 Poverty Lane Unit 1, Lebanon, NH 03766,«[email protected]» Occupation: Law, National Legal Scholars Law Firm,241 Poverty Lane Unit 1, Lebanon, NH 03766

C. Weston Roodhouse Jr. C. Weston Roodhouse Jr. diedon July 24, 2002.

Daniel RosenDan

125 East 84th Street, Apt. 2-B,New York, NY 10028, (212) 988-2833, «[email protected]» Spouse: Charlene P. Rosen Occupation: Consulting,Manhattan Transfer/Edit Inc., 545 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017, (212) 772-3653

Ken Rosenfield 29 Tall Trees Court, Sarasota, FL 34232, (941) 371-2575, «[email protected]» Spouse: Dotti Denise Rosenfield Occupation: Health/Science, Ken Rosenfield, DMD, PA, 1900 S. Tuttle Avenue, Sarasota, FL 34239

Donald L. Rosenkrantz520 East 81st Street, #6B, New York, NY 10028, Spouse: Maureen Rosenkrantz Occupation: 38 West 32nd Street,New York, NY 10001

Edmund A. Rosenthal Edmund A. Rosenthal died onSeptember 27, 1972.

Saul David RoskesHome: 8 Cliffdweller Court, Owings Mills, MD 21117, (410) 363-4044,«[email protected]»; Office: Maryland Pediatric Group,10807 Falls Road, Suite 200,Lutherville, MD 21093, (410) 321-9393Wife: Danielle Cator Roskes, TeacherChildren: Erik, 8/17/64, AB, D’86,forensic psychiatrist, Baltimore;Jonathan, 6/6/66, BA, Columbia, 1988, attorney, Bank ofAmerica, New York City; Sanford, 8/24/70, BA, Harvard,


1992, venture capital, Washington, D.C. Seven grandchildrenCareer: General practice, pediatrics, since 1968Major at Dartmouth: Chemistry; D.M.S. DartmouthMedical School; MD, Johns Hopkins

I was moved by the announcement of BuddSchulberg’s death for two reasons: Professor Dewingwas my teacher in freshman English. Apparently,Budd Schulberg was the only person who everreceived an “A” from Professor Dewing. I was satis-fied to earn a “B.” Our son Erik graduated fromDartmouth in June 1986. It was also Budd Schulberg’s50th reunion, and we were thrilled to see him lead-ing his class into the commencement ceremony.

So now here we are at our 50th. It’s hard to believe.Much love and luck to everyone.

Abraham S. Ross Abe

PO Box 55, Hopewell, NS B0K 1C0, Canada(902) 759-5630 Spouse: Susan Ross

Everett C. Ross Jr.Clif

685 Pinecrest Drive, Port Townsend, WA 98368, (360) 385-2365

Stephen D. Rubin Stephen D. Rubin died onOctober 31, 1991.

Eric G.S. Rundberg Jr. 1313 Wilderness Drive, Henrico, VA 23231, (804) 222-6801, «[email protected]» Spouse: Norma Lee Rundberg Occupation: Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical, Wyeth ConsumerHealthcare, 1211 SherwoodAvenue, Richmond, VA 23220,(804) 257-2442

Richard G. Rundle Richard G. Rundle died onMay 30, 2004.

Saul Roskes and Danielle

George C. RushPO Box 631, West Hyannisport, MA 02672,(508) 775-2755, «[email protected]» Spouse: Maria B. Rush Occupation: Information andTechnology

Clifford RussellCliff

15 Head Tide Church Rd., Alna, ME 04535, (207) 586-6788, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Teaching myselffurniture building; Still fly-fishing,mainly now in the Maine moun-tains, at the Megantic Fish andGame Corp., near Coburn Gore onthe Quebec border; Keeping busywith service on a couple of non-profit boards: treasurer of the local land trust (SheepscotValley Conservation Assoc.) and secretary of the MaineMaritime Museum; Boating, whenever possible, in otherpeople’s boats; Traveling, but not much in the last 12months; Working to become a better and smarter investor.Career: June 1960–Dec. 1964, U.S. Navy; officer on twoships and attended several schools. Extended my obligationto be able to serve as XO and Navigator of the USS NIP-MUC, ATF 157, out of Newport, R.I., from July ’62 to Dec. ’63.Feb. ’64–Aug. ’64, research assistant for Brian Van Arkadie,who had been one of our professors at Dartmouth and whowas then writing a book about the East African economyfor Yale’s Economic Growth Center; at Makerere University,Kampala, Uganda.Sep. ’64–June ’68, graduate student at Harvard, GSAS, ineconomics. I had summer jobs at the Social Security Admin-istration in Baltimore, Wayne State University in Detroit(where I was hired by Tom Finn, another one of our Dart-mouth professors), and at the Harvard Water Program. I received a PhD in 1968.Aug. ’68–Dec. ’85, employed at Resources for the Future, anenvironmental and resources “think tank” in Washington,D.C. Over the 17½ years, I had a number of titles and jobsand when I left, I was director of the Quality of the Environ-ment Division. I had a 6-month sabbatical in 1976 and spentit in Bergen, Norway, at the University of Bergen.Jan. ’86–Dec. ’02, director of the Vanderbilt Institute forPublic Policy Studies and Professor of economics in the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,Tenn. In addition to “dean-like” administrative duties, I taughthalf time most of those years, part in the department ofeconomics and part in the Graduate Program in Public Policy.I had a nine-month sabbatical in 1996–67 that I spent as

the Valfrid Paulsson Professor at the Beijer Institute, a partof the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.Dec. ’02–present, retired. During the spring semester of2003 I taught at Bates College here in Maine as the ThomasSowell Visiting Professor of economics. From ‘03 through’06 I had an appointment as a visiting professor at AKF, athink tank in Copenhagen. I did not live there but visited forabout 2½ weeks each year—really tough duty.Family and Roots: I was born in Holyoke, Mass., in 1938to Kenneth C. Russell and Helen S. Russell and grew up andattended school there until ’54, when I went to Exeter. Thegroup I was lucky enough to be a part of remains quite closeto this day. It included Fred Celce of our class and I was onlya little younger than a group including Aaron Daniels, Classof ’57, who introduced me to squash at Dartmouth. Myfather was born and raised in Harvard, Mass., when thatwas a deeply rural place, with real, live Shakers in residenceand the Alcotts only gone for a few decades. His line of theRussell family had first settled in Temple and Strong, Maine.My mother came to New England from Belle Vernon, Penn.,to be the principal of a private day school in Holyoke.Wife: I married Susan Reid Russell in 1985. She is a 1962graduate of Syracuse University and had a very successfulcareer in non-profit management and fund-raising before“retiring” and becoming a consultant on non-profit strategicplanning in 1999. Since we moved to Maine, “retirement”means even less, though she no longer gets paid for whatshe does as chair of the board of Kieve-Wavus EducationInc., member of the board of the Coastal Maine BotanicalGardens, and Treasurer of the Historic Head Tide ChurchCommittee. When these duties permit, she is a superb flyfisher (and instructor).Major at Dartmouth: Math and Economics. The mostamazing educational experience I ever had was a coursewith John Kemeny on “Transfinite Numbers and Computabili-ty and Solvability.” In that class, I learned I was no mathe-matician, when I produced, after much agony and time, a4- or 5-page proof of a proposition that others in the class,Bill Veech, for example, proved elegantly in one page! ButKemeny, wearing his chair hat, encouraged me to do thecombined major that pretty much defined my career.Dartmouth Activities: Squash: freshman and varsity;Lacrosse: freshman; Sophomore Orientation Committee(president); SAE; Dougal’s Boys Club (with Chubb, Flickinger,Hansen, and Rhodes)


Cliff Russell and Susan


I was about to repeat myself, as I discovered whenI looked back at the things I wrote for our 25thand 40th Musings. That led me to think some moreabout the changes that have occurred in my lifejust since 2000. It’s not just a matter of retiringand moving to Maine, though those were big stepsand the basis for everything else that has happened.It’s also that my reaction to how life is playing itselfout is quite different than I would have guessed ifasked to predict, back in 2002. This I find especial-ly intriguing. I realize that, when I retired, I had afairly vague idea that my professional life would goon at about the same pace for at least a decade,with consulting, research, and maybe even a littlepart-time teaching staying important elements.What has happened, in fact, is that environmentaleconomics has decayed in importance to me, whilethe work I do for non-profit boards has grown—andI don’t miss the former nor do I resent the latter. Idon’t think this is just bowing to the inevitable butis a symptom of internal changes.

Perhaps it could be called further mellowing,though some people might think that word itself isinappropriate. Or maybe it’s just laziness, becauseit is hard work to stay even roughly current. I liketo think it’s fascination with the challenge of help-ing find money for worthy enterprises that alwaysstruggle and just now have taken it on the finan-cial chin. There is also the special challenge of try-ing to help move from promise to actuality. Theseorganizations have so much potential, but it’s sohard to get a collective like a volunteer boardbehind any particular effort that involves even alittle change. There’s also the very small town welive in. We’re still “new” and “from away,” but evenso, we get asked to do things, such as serving oncommittees, to try to help make sense of one oranother contentious issue. For example, should the

town borrow money to build a new firehouse forthe volunteer fire department; or should it borrowmuch less and renovate the existing building; orshould it tell the firemen to suck it up and makedo? (This was a three-year, three-committee issue.)This exposes us to town politics and gossip, whichhold their own fascination. And it all adds up tosomething I find quite satisfying. That’s not to saythat no amount of money could lure me back intosome consulting. But it is to say that I’m happy notto face the choice. In short, I feel quite content.

Bruce B. RyanPO Box 1077, Pacific City, OR 97135, (503) 965-4545 Spouse: Connie Ryan Occupation: Education

Peter M. Ryland1311 SW 25th Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL 33426, (561) 736-2422 Occupation: Manufacturing, Wrock Enterprises, PO Box 969, Boynton Beach, FL 33425

Eric A. Sailer PO Box 118, 17 Flint Hill Rd., Lyme Center, NH 03769, no e-mailLife’s Pursuits: Retired ten yearsFamily: Wife Joanne with a com-bined family comprising eight chil-dren and 11 grandchildrenMajor at Dartmouth: MedicalSciences followed by two years atthe Medical SchoolDartmouth Activities: Freshmanhockey, Outing Club, Casque andGauntlet

“Heh, Eric, the way you are always on the go, you’dthink you only have a few years to live.” My answeris I’m racing the Grim Reaper. There’s so much to doand who knows how much time to do it in. I fig-ured on 60 or 70, guaranteed. So now, every year isa bonus. There’s skiing (75 times last year), fishing(trout, salmon, and stripe bass), travel, children,and grandchildren.

I did 35 years of obstetrics and gynecology (thefirst 12 of which were on call either every night oralternate ones), which ate up most of the 50 sincegraduation. I had outside interests and felt sorryfor contemporaries who did not develop hobbiesand were afraid to retire for fear of nothing to do.My ten years of retirement, so far, have been a ball.

And it all adds up to something I find quite satisfying. That’s not to say that no amount of moneycould lure me back into some consulting.

Clifford Russell

As my good friend, Walker Weed D’40 says, “I’vehad a whole ’nuther life.”

We live near the Dartmouth Skiway in rural NewHampshire, which is the closest I’ve ever come tojoining a country club. I cannot think of a betterplace to spend the last 35 years than near DartmouthCollege. We avoid computers and e-mail and getalong fine without the both of us, Joanne and me,checking for e-mail continuously. For folks whocomplain they spend too much time computing, I say, “Well you have a choice!”

Highlights of retirement are many, the first of whichis my wonderful wife of 12 years, Joanne. Whilewe don’t depend on our eight children to keep us

entertained, we do our best to be a part of theirbusy lives. Second has been travel, which was pro-scribed during working hours so of late we’ve madeup for it including a trip to Antarctica on a Russianship, on to kayaking, the Sea of Cortez, and a walkacross England. We piled on with a helicopter skicaper in Alaska with three sons and fly-fishing forking salmon tossed in.

The Dartmouth fellowship makes it a snap to con-nect with outdoor folks and has precipitated somenine canoe trips in uninhabited Northern Canada,north even of the Arctic Circle. Just a month ago thelast one with six seasoned veterans, three Dartmouthand five over 70, found us paddling through the tun-dra about as near to the moonscape as one can get.

I’ll wrap this up with a quote from Norman Vaughn,who left Harvard to accompany Richard Byrd toAntarctica in 1929; then, at age 89, he climbed amountain there named for him. Said he, “Dreambig and dare to fail.”

Ira S. Salafsky 580 Ingleside Park, Evanston, IL 60201, (847) 328-9366, «[email protected]» Spouse: Carolyn Feigelson, PhD Occupation: Health/Science

Dave Sammons1868 Denver West Court #511,Lakewood, CO 80401, Cell (925) 708-9058, «[email protected]»

After a brief career in business,I have been a Unitarian Uni-versalist minister servingchurches in New York, Ohio,Illinois, California, and Col-orado. I was also on the facultyof Starr King School for theMinistry, where I served a year as Acting President. I have got five children, five grandchildren, and alovely wife, Jan, who is a retired schoolteacher.Having retired twice, I’m back at work as ConsultingSenior Minister in Golden, Colorado, serve on theboard of Pacific School of Religion, am on mydenomination’s Committee on Socially ResponsibleInvesting, and on our ministers association’s EthicsCommittee. I took my last year at Dartmouth atTuck, so have a degree in Business Administration.I have an MDiv from Starr King, a DMin fromPacific School of Religion (in business ethics), and anhonorary STD from Starr King. At Dartmouth, I wasPhi Beta Kappa, played freshman football, and rantrack and was social chairman for Phi Kappa Psi.

Other: I never thought during my Dartmouth yearsthat I would be attracted to the ministry but mybroad education there prepared me well when I feltthe call to serve my rather offbeat denomination.It’s been a roller coaster of a career featuring lots ofinvolvement with the issues of the day from Vietnamand urban riots to abortion rights and GLBT issuesto mentoring those who wanted to become minis-ters and being a seminary professor.

I have done lots of travel often for social causes introubled countries. Lots of late hours, lots of stress,providing personal satisfaction. At the end of mycareer, I have been called out of what I thoughtwould be retirement to serve a church whose minis-ter has been elected president of our denomination


Eric Sailer and Joanne

I felt sorry for contemporaries who did not develop hobbies and were afraid to retire for fear of nothing to do.

Eric Sailer


and now needs someone to shepherd it through atransition. When that comes to an end in the sum-mer of 2010, my wife and I hope to have moretime, at last, for family and grandchildren. It’s alsobeen a delight to find a bunch of classmates in theBay Area with whom I can share lunch and anannual Christmas party. They are great guys whohave all had interesting and useful lives.

J. Stuart Sandberg52 Davis Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605, (914) 946-1019, «[email protected]» Occupation: Religion, Siloam Cooperative, 52 Davis Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605, (914) 946-1019

Bob Sanders11661 Rockridge Drive, Anchorage,AK 99516, (907) 345-0203, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: Hunting, fishing,cabin building, skiing, hiking (untilmy knees gave out), then gun mak-ing, and sword collecting andrestoration. I have a major interestin restoring Morgan sports cars(have two on road)Career: Geologist with USGS andDept. of Energy; Director of Miningfor State of Alaska; several years in trying to develop a coalmine in Alaska; 10 years as consulting geologist, and last 10+

years with Corps of Engineers as Design Manager, ProjectManager, and “troubleshooter” in deployments in Iraq,Thailand, and “Katrina.” Throughout the years, severaladjunct positions at several colleges in Alaska and Ger-many; Visiting Professor Univ. Nottingham, U.K.; ResearchFaculty Penn State Univ. 38 years in Alaska. I retired at 70. Family: Father, Richard B. Sanders (d) ’29; Uncle, C.W.Sanders (d) ‘23(?); Uncle, Richard G. Miller (d) ’35(?);Brother, Richard M. Sanders ’56; Daughter, Wendy SandersMD, 1983 Wife: Jo F (McConnell) SandersDartmouth Major: Geology and Northern Studies; MS,Geology (micropaleontology), Univ. Iowa, 1963; PhD, Geol-ogy (Palynology) (Ed. Note: the study of spores and pollen),Univ. Oklahoma, 1967Dartmouth Activities: DOC, Cabin & Trail, Woodsmen’sTeam, Ski Patrol

It’s been sad to see the decline of Dartmouth intoa liberalism that neither engages nor embracesopposing ideas.

L. Ervin SandlinErv

8416 Eagle Rock Avenue NE,Albuquerque, NM 87122, (505) 821-1075, «[email protected]» Spouse: Linda Sandlin

Joel A. Saperstein 42 Lawler Road, Medford, MA 02155, (781) 483-0226 Spouse: Helaine Saperstein Occupation: Health/Science

Theodor Geisel ’25 is known better as Dr. Seuss; fora while around 1940, he drew cartoons to help sup-port the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.

Alan Sarles

John E. Saterberg John E. Saterberg died on June25, 1988.

Michael H. Savage PhD36 Talmadge Hill Road, Darien, CT 06820, (203) 656-1163, «[email protected]»

After graduating fromDartmouth with a major inPsychology, I earned a Master’sdegree in Guidance Counselingand a PhD in EducationalAdministration from New YorkUniversity. I spent more than35 years in the field of education, most of whichwas with the New York State Education Departmentin New York City.

For many years, I have been an active member ofboth the Executive Board of the Dartmouth Clubof New York City and the Executive Board of theDartmouth Alumni Association of New York City. I have also been an active member of the New YorkUniversity Alumni Association Board of Directors.

My wife, Mary Beth, and I live in Darien, Conn. Weare now both retired, enjoy golf and swimming,and look forward to having more time to travel.

Philip L. SavageLarry

1703 Coventry Lane, Nichols Hills, OK 73120, (405) 858-0120, «[email protected]» Spouse: Virginia Sue Savage

William G. Savage Skip

Spouse: Dr. Ruta Savage Occupation: Health/Science,William G. Savage DDS, 8725 Lakeside Boulevard, Apt. 301,Vero Beach, FL 32963

Stephen Saywell

John Scarinzi18 Herb Road, Middletown, NJ 07748, (732) 671-3089, «[email protected]» Occupation: Government/Military


Mark Schachter3530 Mystic Pointe Drive, Apt. 810, Miami, FL 33180, (305) 933-4221,«[email protected]» Spouse: Annie Schachter Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

Roger F. Schaefer9 Kensington Road, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920, «[email protected]»Interests and Pursuits: Retired(2003): golf, scripophily, trustee-ship, grandchildren activities, read-ing (non-fiction and military history),personal investment management,and Eastman (Grantham, N.H.)townhouse getawaysCareer: Investment professional,U.S. Trust Co. of N.Y., 33 years;Marine Midland Trust (HSBC), 10 yearsFamily: Jeffrey (son) and Karen, and Emily and William (chil-dren); Jennifer (daughter) and David, and Elizabeth andJonathan (children)Wife: Carolyn Schaefer (married 5/11/63); BA, HistoryDartmouth Activities: Undergrad: Baseball, S.O.C., FroshGlee Club, Alpha Theta Fraternity; Postgrad: Class Co-liai-son with Athletic Dept., Class Agent, Alumni Interviewer

I salute my classmates who will return to theNorth Country to celebrate our milestone 50thReunion and who have made their mark on societyafter going out into the “wide, wide world” well-prepared by Dartmouth to face the challenges theymight encounter.

I also want to remember those classmates who areno longer with us. They shall always be a part of ourClass. May they forever remain in our memories.

The Class of 1960 has truly distinguished itself bythe significant contributions it has made to the lifeof the College and elsewhere. I am proud and hon-ored to be a part of this great Class. I wish each ofyou personal best wishes as we go forward into thefuture. We have climbed the mountain, and nowit’s time to enjoy the view.

Peter C. Schanck562 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505, (505) 986-6024, «[email protected]» Spouse: Karen Ushman Occupation: Education

Bill Scher46 Glenn Road, Larchmont, NY 10538, (914) 833-9568, «[email protected]»

A Poem:

When I was a kid,Walt Dropo burst into the Bigs,And, first at bat,Flattened a 2-1 fastball into the cheap seatsIn right field at Fenway.He was the new Messiah,And I, an 11-year-old acolyte, Followed the radioed play by play of games,Always pinning hopes on his next at bat…And then his next…Until he was traded into obscurityTo Chicago and then beyond.He flew close to the flame of stardom,Then settled comfortably Into better-than-average,Bobbing in the splash that others made,And then quietly floated to shore And walked away from a careerLonger on might-have-beens than record books.

We all stood there briefly at the starting gate…All of us grads…Green and Crimson and Blue and Gold…B.A.ed and bushy-tailed,Who set sail, like Dropo, one home run in hand,Trying to hit the next…And then the next,And fly to stardom.Some did,But most floated to shoreAnd walked awayTo lives of quieter fulfillment.


Leonard W. Schmitz Leonard W. Schmitz died onSeptember 27, 1999.

Leo L. SchmolkaLen

17 Whippoorwill Crossing, Armonk, NY 10504, (914) 273-2786, «[email protected]» Spouse: Lucille J. Schmolka Occupation: Education, New YorkUniversity, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, (212) 998-6165

Alan H. Schnitzer Alan H. Schnitzer died onJanuary 31, 1962.

John-David M. SchofieldDavid

3547 West Locust Avenue, Fresno,CA 93711, (559) 447-9187 Occupation: Religion, Diocese ofSan Joaquin, 4159 East DakotaAvenue, Fresno, CA 93726, (559)244-4828

David L. SchreurDave

PO Box 2457, Holland, MI 49422, (269) 857-8652, «[email protected]» Spouse: Mrs. Sally Schreur Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, Schreur & Associates Inc., 348 Waverly Road #14, Holland, MI 49423

Frederic J. SchroederJack

600 Fillmore Street, Denver, CO 80206, (303) 593-1748, «[email protected]» Spouse: Janice Schroeder

Roger J. Schulz52 Alexandra Boulevard, Toronto, ON M4R 1L9, Canada(416) 488-2334, «[email protected]» Spouse: Marilyn Schulz


Gile Hall

Peter C. Schwartz5367 Chase Oaks Drive, Sarasota, FL 34241, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Fully enjoying retire-ment in Sarasota, Florida. Hard tobelieve I am cheering for the Raysand playing bridge. Career: Practice of law with theHartford law firm of Gordon, Muirand Foley emphasizing defense ofproducts liability litigation and pro-fessional malpractice and discipli-nary claims.Family and Roots: Daughter Bonnie ‘85, a graduate ofArizona State University School of Law and Andy Weeks, andfantastic granddaughters Lindsey and Emily. Ann and sonDean Schwartz and awesome grandsons Nate and Owen.Dean is a graduate of Colby College, where I was privilegedto serve as an Overseer, and of Case Western UniversitySchool of Law.Wife: Judith, classmate Ken Rosenfield’s sister, who I met atgraduation from Dartmouth. Love at first sight and still verymuch growing.Major at Dartmouth: Economic Geography. AttendedTuck School during senior year before entering University ofPennsylvania Law School, Class of 1963Dartmouth Activities: President, Dartmouth Alumni Council;President, Dartmouth Club Officers’ Association; Presidentof Dartmouth Club of Hartford

Judy and I have been most fortunate. We are blessedwith great children and grandchildren. Judy, whowas a professor at Connecticut’s largest communitycollege, authored a national textbook for Glencoe,edited other texts, and chaired Connecticut’s Busi-ness Professors Association. In addition to servingDartmouth, for which I was honored as a recipientof the Dartmouth Alumni Award, outside activitiesincluded the International Association of DefenseCounsel, Chairmanship of the Glastonbury (Conn.)

Republican Town Party, service on professional andcommunity boards, authorship of professional arti-cles, and speaking before multi state groups on legalmalpractice and risk management. Judy and I, stillcreative and inquisitive, continue to enjoy ourinterest in theater, art, and travel. We are indeedliving our dream.

Peter D. Scott2 Montague Terrace, Brooklyn, NY 11201, (718) 875-8557,«[email protected]» Spouse: Roberta Lee Scott

Hector J. Seda «[email protected]» Occupation: Health/Science, Berks ENT, 1 Granite Point Drive,Suite 300, Reading, PA 19610,(610) 376-3738

Edmund P. SedivyEd

2205 Highland Court, Bozeman, MT 59715, (406) 586-6367 Spouse: Shirley Sedivy Occupation: Law, Sedivy White &White PC, PO Box 1906, 2020 Stadium Drive, Bozeman, MT 59771, (406) 586-4311


Peter Schwartz and his grandchild


Arthur N. Seessel IIIArt

6000 Poplar Avenue, #150,Memphis, TN 38119, (901) 683-7436, «[email protected]» Occupation: Retail/Wholesale, AutoRadio, 1532 Bonnie Lane, Cordova, TN 38016, (901) 255-1384

David Segal 16 Farm Place, London W8 7SX, EnglandSpouse: Katerina Segal Occupation: Retail/Wholesale, ARS Ltd., 16 Farm Place, London W8 7SX, England

David A. Sendler2560 Aspen Creek Lane, #201,Naples, FL 34119, (239) 566-8913, «[email protected]»

Philip B. Serlin 6106 N Placita Pajaro, Tucson, AZ 85718, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Cornell MedicalSchool, 1964; Internal medicine andcardiology training at these hospitals:Bellvue, Kings County, Montefiore, andNew York Hospital, all in New YorkCity. Before starting my practice I wasa Captain in the Air Force during theVietnam War, stationed in ThailandCareer: Practiced clinical cardiolo-gy in private practice in Tucson and at the Univ. of Arizonafor nearly 40 years. I took two years off in the 80s to dodrug research in New Jersey (What was I thinking?) I retired

from the university in June 2009 and do occasional locumtenens work mainly in Virginia.Roots: I came to Dartmouth from Bridgeport, Conn., wheremy mother and father settled when they came from Europe.My sister and I graduated from the local high school. I stillhave lots of cousins in Connecticut. Wife: Jackie Serlin is originally from New Jersey. We will havebeen married 40 years by reunion time. I met Jackie on a planeover the Grand Canyon while I was flying back from a car-diology convention and she was working as a stewardess.She is now a retired school teacher and we are proud par-ents of two daughters: Michelle Carrie Serlin, Class of ‘94,is living in New Haven with her husband Adam Hittelmanand daughter, Natalie Pearl. She is a pediatrician at Yale;he is a urologist at Yale; Robyn Page Serlin, NAU ‘97 andNV ‘99, is a speech pathologist at the Arizona School forthe Deaf and Blind in TucsonMajor at Dartmouth: Psychology, I think. And in my mind,I minored in Philosophy, Literature, and History.

“I am not who I am.” Iago in Othello“And neither are you.” P.B.S.

My Journey of LifeVarious stages of wonderment and delight includehappiness, minimal profundity, not too muchboredom, some exhilaration, and, rarely, pain anddisappointment. My Dartmouth journey directedme to economics, art, philosophy, literature, histo-ry, and much more. I was given the basic tools andencouraged to keep on learning

I would have liked to meet these people:

Pope John XXIIIGen. George C. MarshallNora Barnacle JoyceRosalind Franklin Paul Farmer

I did meet these people, among others: Prouty,Lum, Hiley, Kirkpatrick, “Bobbo” Holland, Frankel,Noll, West, and Kemeny in places called MiddleFayerweather, Dartmouth Hall, and the Pi Lam fra-ternity house. They have influenced me and con-tinue to do so in ways I do not understand.

Phil Serlin and his family


Notes to myself: On my future journey, in no intel-ligent order, I want to help educate, support, andencourage the children and avoid being obsolete orcrotchety; reaffirm my devotion and love to Jackie,Michelle, Robyn, and Adam; pledge my allegianceto my country, friends, college, profession, andpatients in no particular order or time frame; rideanother bicycle Tour de Tucson; get my first holein one; see my granddaughter Natalie PearlHittelman grow up, work hard, and be our thirdgeneration at Dartmouth. and who knows, becomethe first woman president of Dartmouth

May an almighty force look down on us kindly, begracious to us, and bring us peace on our journey

Kenneth E. Seslowe Ken

951 Orienta Avenue, Mamaroneck, NY 10543, (914) 698-8410, «[email protected]» Spouse: Judith Seslowe Occupation: Health/Science, R.P. Koval & K.E. Seslow MD AC, 4033 76th Street, Elmhurst, NY 11373, (718) 898-5470

Joe L. Sewell Joe L. Sewell died onSeptember 12, 1989.

Thomas Sharpless

Alan M. Shaver139 High Head Road, Harpswell, ME 04079, (207) 798-4852, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Having been“retired” since 1995, my activitieshave been focused primarily in the“volunteer” sector. In more recentyears they have been centered inthree primary areas: Co-Chair of the Portland, Maine,chapter of SCORE (Counselors toAmerica’s Small Business) where my major objective has beento recruit and retain new volunteers.Board member and manager of investment fund for HarpswellNeck Fire and Rescue Inc., a non-profit emergency servicesprovider for the Town of Harpswell. The investment fund isapproximately $250,000 and requires significant attention.Episcopal Church, where I am Secretary of the Diocese ofMaine, a licensed lay reader, and chalice bearer at GraceChurch, Bath, Maine.Career: Most of my working life was spent as a corporateattorney and, ultimately, an elected officer of a major corpo-ration. I was employed by Kellogg Company (Battle Creek,Mich.) and Foster Grant Co., Inc. (Leominster, Mass.), and I finished my corporate career as Secretary of General FoodsCorporation (Rye Brook, N.Y.). I then spent some years inprivate practice in New York and Connecticut.Family and Roots: I came to Dartmouth from Michiganand married Ellen Martz (sister of Larry Martz ’54, andRichard Martz ’57) in 1961. We have two children, Steveand Laura, and three grandchildren, Ryan and Abby Wattand Isaiah Shaver.Wife: The Reverend Ellen M. Shaver, ordained as an EpiscopalPriest in the Diocese of New York. Now conducts an activepractice as a spiritual director.Major at Dartmouth: Economics. In 1963 I received aBachelor of Laws from Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn.Dartmouth Activities: The Dartmouth; DartmouthOuting Club; was employed for 3.5 years by the DartmouthNews Service, then an office under the College Secretary

Recently in another context I was asked what (1)most concerned me in the present, and (2) gave methe most hope for the future.

My concern is the extent to which “the ends justi-fy the means” has become the controlling standardfor our culture and nation. It is seen most vividlyin a number of sectors, including the law, media,corporate conduct, behavior of our political andsocial leaders, and, unfortunately, in the manner inwhich our nation sometimes acts. When I enteredthe practice of law it was still an “honored profes-sion” in which professional ethics and proper behav-ior were understood and generally prevalent. By thetime I retired the law had become for far too manysimply a “money-grubbing business” in whichalmost anything, it seems, goes.

As a corporate executive in the early to mid-1980sI observed normal expected restraints on executivecompensation begin to give way to whatever couldbe gotten away with. That a major bank today canidentify more than 2,000 employees “worth” morethan a million dollars in a year boggles the imagi-nation.

Truth has become a major casualty of our publiclife, with our political leaders making claims and

statements thatwould get any other“advertiser” inmajor trouble withregulatory authori-ties, and yet they donot seem to getchallenged by themedia.

My hope, however, isbest reflected in mygrandchildren andmost young people.The promise andenthusiasm I see inthem give me greathope for the future.As annoyed as Imight have gottenby the actions of theDartmouth adminis-

tration in recent years (where, by the way, “endsjustifying means” also seemed active), I put great stock in the ability of young people tosee through the cant, nonsense, and propaganda ofprofessors and administrators who pursue “agendas”rather than an honest search for the truth.

Finally, at this stage of my life I take comfort fromno longer feeling responsible for “fixing” any ofthis. The baton has been handed on, and I can sim-ply take joy from friends, family, and the wondersof the world. Although my advancing physicaldecrepitude marks the progress of my life’s journey,even that does not terribly trouble me. It merelyreminds me that I am nearing the goal.

Dennis J. Shea Denny

52 Marina Drive, Supply, NC 28462, (910) 842-7075, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Raising family,enjoying same; enjoy playing golf,doing some fishing and duck huntingCareer: After two years of gradu-ate school, then two years of active

duty in the Army and 38 years with Corning Glass Works inmanufacturing. Employment started as foreman in PilotPlant making glass parts for color TV (cathode ray tubes)and concluded as Materials Manager for Corning’s opticalcable manufacturing in Hickory, N.C.Wife: Claire Finnegan Shea for past 48 years. Graduate ofRegis CollegeFamily: Son Dennis R. Shea, graduate of Bowdoin Collegeand Villanova Law School; Daughter Katie Shea Ivancich,graduate of Clemson University. Grandchildren Jack andMichael Shea and Emily IvancichMajor at Dartmouth: Geography, Dartmouth ’60; MBA,Labor Relations, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Dartmouth Activities: DOC, Winter Carnival Chairman,Chi Phi, and Intramurals

Donald A. SheffieldDon

PO Box 383, Flat Rock, NC 28731, (828) 692-0215, «[email protected]» Spouse: Chris Sheffield Occupation: Government/Military

Shiao-Wei Shen 18420 Tranquil Lane, Olney, MD 20832Life’s Pursuits: Clinical research inMetabolic-Endocrine DiseasesCareer: PhysicianFamily and Roots: ChinaWife: Fun-Dee ShenMajor at Dartmouth: Psychology

On a crisp autumn day in 1955,I eagerly walked into the prin-cipal’s office of theInternational College, American University ofBeirut, Beirut, Lebanon. I went to see Mr. LeslieLeavitt ’16, the Principal of the Prep Section. I hes-itantly told him that I would like to go to the U.S.for college when I graduated in 1956 and askedhim to recommend some colleges. He was deep inthought while rummaging through my records.After 5 or 10 minutes, which seemed an eternity tome, he smiled and told me firmly, “There is onlyone college worth attending in the U.S. and that isDartmouth College.” That was the very first time Iheard of Dartmouth College. Seeing my puzzledface, he invited me to his residence on the campus,overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, that weekend.I found myself looking at numerous pictures of the“College on the Hill.” He also briefly told me the


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history of Dartmouth College, how Dartmouth hasremained a small liberal arts college primarilydevoted to undergraduate education. He quoted theimmortal words of Daniel Webster, “Sir, it is a smallcollege, yet there are those who love her.” Thor-oughly convinced, I dutifully completed the appli-cation process with letters of recommendation andother documents. Just before I went home forChristmas in Baghdad, Iraq, I was called into Mr.Leavitt’s office. He smilingly handed me the letter ofacceptance signed by Mr. Chamberlain. I remem-ber thinking to myself at that time, “Applying to aU.S. college is quite easy and fast.”

On another crisp autumn day, I found myself atthe train station at White River Junction, Vt., hail-ing a taxi to Hanover, N.H. As they say in the fairytales, “The rest is history.”

After four years at Dartmouth, I decided to go tomedical school. There followed many years of mov-ing as I went to different medical centers to com-plete different phases of my post-graduate medicaltraining, culminating in a Fellowship in Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases at Stanford University School ofMedicine. I had decided by then on a career ofresearch and teaching. I managed to publish a sem-inal paper demonstrating that insulin resistance,not insufficient or defective insulin, characterizesType-2 Diabetes Mellitus. It took me a year to get itpublished as this view was considered heresy atthat time, and one reviewer stated, “The titleoffends me!” Now, this view is universally acceptedand many current therapeutic agents are designedto correct this defect.

In 1997, I went back to China for the first time.While I was struck by the scenic beauty of the ThreeGorges of the Yangtze River and Yellow Mountain,I was appalled by the abject poverty in the villages.My wife and I came back determined to do some-thing. After 18 months of consultation and plan-ning, we established Shen’s Daughters’ Foundation,a charitable foundation dedicated to the premisethat education is the most effective and efficientmechanism to achieve our goal. The scholarship

program consists of two parts, at the college leveland at the elementary school level. This year, Shen’sDaughters’ Foundation is celebrates its 10th year.There are, altogether, 180 elementary-high schoolstudents and 37 college students. Eleven are under-graduates and eight are in graduate schools, with twoin the U.S. The rest have graduated with advanceddegrees and are working in different Provinces inChina and in different fields including the follow-ing: Hydroelectric Power, Environmental Protection,Chemical Engineering, Information Technology,Financial Management, Pharmaceuticals, Editing andPublishing, and at the Rocket Division of China’sSpace Agency, etc. One is even in Johannesburg,South Africa, representing Huawei Co. (a leadingChinese information technology company); andanother is doing her internship in Basel, Switzerland.Indeed, “around the girdled earth they roam.” It isalmost like a fairytale. They were nervous and timidhigh school graduates from poor rural areas just sixto eight years ago. Now they are poised, confident,educated young women, flying high. It gives usunimaginable feelings of wonder, satisfaction, hap-piness, and pride. The other source of our pride andhappiness is our three sons. One went to St. John’sCollege in Annapolis and is a programmer at Bankof New York–Mellon. One is Dartmouth ’87, went

on to Yale Medical School, and is now a thoracicsurgeon at the Mayo Clinic. The youngest one isDartmouth ’93 and went on to Harvard LawSchool. He is with Intel. They are the inspirationfor our establishing the Shen’s Daughters’ Founda-tion, and they fully support our endeavor.

It is indeed a privilege for us to have played a smallpart in these girls’ lives. All the Shen’s Daughters,big and small, are validating our original premise,which was that helping a poor girl from the coun-tryside to obtain an education can affect three gen-erations. She herself becomes a high-achievingperson, and she supports her parents in their oldage (China has a rudimentary pension system). And,since mothers play an essential role in educatingthe young, her offspring will very likely be educat-ed too. Thus, the cycle of generation-after-genera-tion of illiteracy and poverty is broken. We are alsopreparing for some of the Shen’s Daughters to takeover while we will continue to provide the funding.They have a vested interest keeping Shen’s Daugh-ters’ Foundation continuing for many, many yearsto come, just as Mr. Leavitt had a vested interest ingetting me enrolled at Dartmouth College. I hopehe is smiling at me from Heaven now.


It gives us unimaginable feelings of wonder,satisfaction, happiness, and pride.

Shiao Wei Shen

Shiao Wei Shen in China with his students

Charles W. Shevchik Jr.Chuck

1519 Industrial Drive, Itasca, IL 60143, «[email protected]» Spouse: Frances A. Shevchik Occupation: Transportation/Distribution

Robert M. Shields Jr.500 East 70th St. Apt. 335, New York, NY 10162, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Survival! Raisedtwo wonderful daughters with mydear wife. Chairman and CEO of PiedmontMining Company Inc. Career: The hard way! Family and Roots: The twodaughters are Jennifer Shields andVirginia ShieldsWife: She is the wonderful and devoted Margaret McNeelyShields. Major at Dartmouth: Geology, cum laude; PhD, Geo-chemistry, M.I.T.; MBA, Stanford University Graduate Schoolof Business AdministrationDartmouth Activities: Geology labs and field trips, GleeClub, Dartmouth Outing Club, Ski Patrol

As Rocky Balboa said to his son (in the eponymousmovie): “Life ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. Itain’t about how hard you can hit. It’s about howhard you can get hit and still keep moving forward.”

Alan R. Shons 40 Deer Park Road, Great Neck, NY 11024, (516) 487-6490 Occupation: Health/Science, Alan R. Shons, MD, PhD, 935 Northern Boulevard, Suite 301,Great Neck, NY 11021, (516) 482-6893

D. Barry SibsonMay–October: 5100 Cortland Drive, Jackson, WY 83001; (307) 734-3840November–April: 73287 Phoebe Ct., Palm Desert, CA 92260, (760) 340-9292; «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: Happily retired. Myprimary activity in Wyoming is fly-fishing for trout and steelheadthroughout the northern Rockies andBritish Columbia. After 40 years of enjoying this sport, I find,pleasantly, that I am still learning and improving. It alsogives me the opportunity to continue to row, although indrift boats, navigating white-water rivers.Golf is another pastime in Wyoming and California. Unlikefishing, my proficiency in this pastime is deteriorating, frus-tratingly.Priscilla and I continue to travel with emphasis on historicaland cultural themes in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.I am also advocating for environmental preservation of theGreater Yellowstone Ecosystem.Career: I spent 35 years in the building construction indus-try, 30 of which were with Turner Construction Company.My last 10 years with Turner, I was an EVP responsible forthe Western Division which included eight offices in citiesfrom Seattle to Phoenix. Projects included office buildings(many high-rise), hotels, hospitals, aerospace industrial facil-ities, prisons, and even theme-park attractions at Disneylandand Universal Studios. My interest in this career was sparkedby a love of architecture developed in Professor Lathrop’sHistory of Architecture course.Family: My wife, Priscilla, and I have been married for 48years. She retired from practicing law when I retired. We havea son in Santa Monica in real estate development and adaughter in Northern Virginia in governmental affairs andpublic relations. We have a grandson and granddaughter inCalifornia and two grandsons in Virginia.Major at Dartmouth: Engineering Science; Stanford: CivilEngineering, Construction Management

I regret that I and our generation have done toolittle to face and influence the extremely criticalissues of over-population and over-industrialization


Robert Shields and Margaret


which I believe are going to destroy our naturalenvironment. Our electorate wants and our gov-ernment continues with policies that will exacer-bate these destructive forces. Will disease, famine,lack of potable water or war halt these forcesbefore the planet is completely uninhabitable?

Kenneth L. Siegel Ken

33 Barlow Lane, Rye, NY 10580, (914) 835-4344, «[email protected]» Spouse: Phyllis Siegel, PhD Occupation: Kenneth L. Siegel, DDS PC, 1 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021, (212) 772-7730

Arnold E. Sigler45 Kira Lane, Ridgewood, NJ 07450, (201) 444-2477, «[email protected]»Career: Retired from J.P. Morgan inMarch 1994Wife: Marcy Van Emburgh SiglerChildren: Gretchen Fields, Advance,NC; David Sigler, Ridgewood, NJ;Sally Luery, Chicago, ILGrandchildren: SevenMajor at Dartmouth: History; JD,University of Virginia Law SchoolDartmouth Activities: Alpha Delta Phi, Social Chairman;Inter-Fraternity football; Sphinx

Time flies when you’re having a good time. Fiftyyears worth to be exact. My first exposure toDartmouth, other than attending a football gameat Palmer Stadium against archrival Princeton, wasin June 1955 at my father’s 25th reunion for theClass of 1930. The campus was spectacularly beau-tiful, sun shining, bells chiming, beer flowing, andlive music—in short, nirvana.

What you see is not always what you get.

The real Dartmouth began for me after I was accept-ed for admission off of the waiting list in July 1956.This was at least partially the result of some heavy-duty lobbying on my behalf by a few of my father’sclassmates. While I was obviously elated by thisnews, I couldn’t help thinking that being acceptedso late meant that I would be low man on thetotem pole in the smarts department. With this inmind and a great deal of excitement I headed forHanover in September.

My confidence level in succeeding at Dartmouthwas eroded further when I was diagnosed with

blood poising freshman week, the result of aninfected needle used in administering a polio shot.A week in Dick’s House followed.

Dartmouth proved to be even more challengingthan I had anticipated and I struggled to stay inschool freshman year. By sophomore year myworkload seemed to ease somewhat but I know nowI would not have survived without additional helpfrom others, including my Spanish professor.

Sophomore year also marked the year that I joinedAlpha Delta Phi and my future wife Marcy came toWinter Carnival for the first time. These two eventsinfluenced my future immeasurably.

Barry Sibson and 30-in. Rainbow, Moraine River, Alaska

Arnold E. Sigler and Marcy

The campus was spectacularly beautiful, sun shining, bells chiming, beer flowing, and live music—in short, nirvana.

Arnold E. Sigler

Junior and Senior years seemed to fly by and Ifound my courses as a History major relatively easycompared to those of freshman and sophomoreyears. My grade point average improved dramatical-ly. Following graduation, Marcy and I were marriedand in September 1960, we headed to Charlottesville,Virginia, where I was to begin law school at theUniversity of Virginia.

Law school was every bit as challenging as freshmanyear at Dartmouth, but I had the advantage of timeto focus entirely on my studies as Marcy handledall the other details and necessities of everyday liv-ing. We both loved Charlottesville and I was pleas-antly surprised to find at the end of the first yearthat I had finished in the top 10 percent of myclass and was selected to be on The Virginia LawReview. This eventually led to an offer to join WallStreet law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. Afteralmost ten years at Davis Polk and another 20 yearsJ.P. Morgan Investment Management, I electedearly retirement.

When I sit back and reflect on all of this, I marvelat all the good things that came my way—my wife,Marcy, our three children, seven grandchildren, andclose friendships with many classmates. Dartmouthwas and is an integral part of this process.

We’re looking forward to the 50th reunion.

Jay G. Sigmund II Jay G. Sigmund II died onMarch 31, 1999.

Wilburn L. Sims Wilburn L. Sims died onOctober 24, 1989.

Stephen Sayre SingerStephen

200 East End Avenue, Apt 6N, New York, NY 10128, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I’ve done a modestamount of traveling, used to do agood deal of recreational salt watersailing, and recently tried my handat fly-fishing. I’m looking forwardto doing some more traveling, amalways willing to go sailing, andexpect to do some more fly-fishing too.Career: I started out as a litigator in an old New York firmthen noted for its international practice, with offices in Paris(unusual at the time) and elsewhere abroad. My work, how-ever, was defending domestic copyright, defamation, andprivacy lawsuits brought against broadcast media, advertis-ing agencies, and motion picture and TV producers, all ofwhom carried insurance underwritten by the firm’s insurancecompany clients. This work involved me in many notedcases of the time. Gradually, my work at the firm expandedto include business, commercial, and securities litigation.When I left after a number of years, I soon found myself insolo practice and my daily work gravitated more to busi-ness and commercial matters. Although I found them inter-esting and challenging they didn’t have the conversationalglamour associated with some of my earlier cases. Early inthe present century, I began to slow down and graduallyslid into retirement.Wife or Partner: Although no female has yet agreed tohave me with any permanence, I remain optimistic, andever adoring of conversation with their sex.Major at Dartmouth (and onwards to Harvard LawSchool): I arrived in Hanover thinking I would major inHistory. A freshman introductory course in Philosophy, which,I believe, uniquely at the time, approached the subject fromthe vantage point of differing schools of philosophic inquiryrather than chronologically or historically, opened up for mea dimension of knowledge of which I had been whollyunaware. I believe the course had several sections, but itwas chaired by Maurice Mandelbaum, who later left for aposition at Johns Hopkins. Although I found this and severalother philosophy courses to be transformative experiences I opted to major in Government and was awarded a SeniorFellowship to pursue a project entitled A Comparison ofthe Judicial Philosophies of Justices Frankfurter and Blackand went on to the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1963.

Vignettes from Memory: Some recollections frommy time in Hanover.

Fitting In: As a freshman, I joined in weekend visitsto nearby female academies. I especially rememberthe prelude to one such excursion to Smith Collegeat Northampton, Massachusetts. In those days, forsuch an occasion, we wore jackets and ties. On theSaturday morning of this trip, I was dressing whenI discovered that I had returned from the Thanks-giving holiday leaving all of my neckties at home.


I went over to James Campion’s on Main Street topurchase a new tie. Selecting a brown wool challisone with a green paisley pattern, I placed myselfbefore a store mirror and proceeded to try to knotit. Here I need add that from my first freshmanmoments I had noticed with some discomfort thatmy tie knot always looked different from everyoneelse’s. So here I stood before Campion’s mirror, andwith attempt after attempt to knot it the tie cameup very short, making me feel helpless and increas-ingly concerned. Somehow it finally occurred tome that the knot I was tying, a Windsor knot, and

the only knot I knew, looked different because itwas a different knot, tied in a different way fromeveryone else’s and using up more cloth. I don’trecall whether I consulted a store salesman or fig-ured it out by myself, but I then discovered andtied the four-in-hand knot, found the tie falling toa proper length, and went off with satisfaction athaving mastered a small rite of passage.

Critical Thinking: The printed word on a page issometimes accepted as having more authority thana careful examination of its meaning would warrant.So it was for me and my fellow fledgling scholarsenrolled in an international relations course taughtby Government Professor Richard W. Sterling. One

bright sophomore-yearmorning, the assignedcourse readings includ-ed an academic journalarticle whose argumentwas that nationalismwas a declining force inworld politics. Sterlingopened the class byasking what wethought about thisthesis. Several personsattempted generallyapproving responses.After a few moments

of comments of this sort, Sterling called a halt andasked whether the article or any effort to defend itmade any sense at all. What was the role of nation-alism in the events we read about in the daily news-papers? he asked. Could we name anyplace in theworld where the force of nationalism wasn’t rising?At this point a collective recognition came upon usthat instead of our having critically evaluated thewriter’s argument we had assumed that since it waswritten in black and white in a publication, essential-ly it must be correct. Sterling shaped a stark lesson for

me about the need to be always questioning mate-rial, which I came to especially appreciate later,when as a law student, the essence of study was toquestion and probe everything we read.

Character Exemplified: The image of DonaldMorrison, College Provost, who died in 1959 at age45, is fixed in my mind as an embodiment of char-acter and integrity. I had only one encounter withhim and cannot remember details beyond its sub-ject matter and my lasting impression of the prin-cipled way in which he treated me. In the secondterm of 1958 I was a sophomore writer on the staffof The Dartmouth. The College had a capital giftscampaign under way, seeking to raise $25,000,000over the next ten or so years. Of this sum, $3,000,000was earmarked for faculty salaries and the balancefor physical plant, including $5,000,000 for thecompletion of Hopkins Center. Then, as now, TheDartmouth was read by alumni, so when I wrote atwo-part piece that argued that faculty salaries wereinadequate, criticized the allocation of only 12% ofthe capital drive to improving them and contrastedHarvard’s more generous plans to enhance itsalready superior pay scales, Parkhurst was upset. Itsemissary to me and the newspaper directorate wasDonald Morrison. It was known that PresidentDickey was a strong defender of a free press, but myarticle was a direct challenge to and a potentiallytroublesome interference with College fund-raisinggoals. Morrison invited me to meet with him. I amunaware of whatever communications he may havehad with any directorate members. But with me,and without the slightest menace or suggestion ofcompulsion, Morrison explored the issues I hadraised and attempted to show me the merits of theCollege’s position. His aim, of course, was to see ifby persuasion he could change or moderate myperceptions and thus give me an incentive to pub-lish a revised or softened view. This never cameabout, but from our conversations I acquired akeen sense of his fairness and decency, and hebecame for me a palpable example of how a gen-tleman of character and integrity navigates a deli-cate situation.

Milton J. Singleton Jr.Jim

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Sterling shaped a stark lesson for me aboutthe need to be always questioning material.

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Richard S. Skolnik 99 S. Park Ave., Rockville Center,NY 11570, (516) 766-6291,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I’m well versed incurrent affairs and public policy,active athletically, and immersed infamily matters. I’m upbeat with asunny disposition as long as I’m notdwelling on international terrorism,global warming, the battered econ-omy, and the dysfunctional politicalsystem.

(Ed. Note: Prof. Skolnik grades his essay himself.He’s a self-confessed tough grader.)

I get an “A” in family, comprising four kids living inthree time zones, of whom three are married andthe last is about to be. They have grown up nicelywith little Sturm und Drang. It probably would nothappen that way today, but the grandchildren arenear perfect.

My Career gets a B+ as one that was solid if not spec-tacular teaching U.S. history to college students. Adecent proportion seemed to have learned a thing

or two. I have a half a dozen publications and wasawarded tenure early and never experienced thetypical workplace pressures of competition.

My marriage gets an “A.” I was lucky, and it’s lasted43 years so far and counting. I believe the secrets areequality, compatibility, friendship, and fun togeth-er. Besides, Louise still looks great.

My health rates a “B+.” My meds are working, myfingers are crossed, and I’m hanging tough.

My Dartmouth alumni relations earn a “C-” becauseI haven’t connected. But I do have a son who is an’89, and I keep up with a lifelong friend, Bill Scher,who was my roommate in both Gile and Fayerweath-er. And, please credit me for a trip or two to Hanover.

Dave Sloper10062 Green Clover Dr., Ellicott City, MD 21042, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: The first 40 yearsafter graduation I concentrated onmy job, my marriage, and raisingthree children. My other passionswere family and sports, includingmany years of participation in bas-ketball, golf, and tennis; coachingmy sons in basketball, football, andbaseball; and cheering on the Oriolesand Baltimore Colts. I continue to enjoy golf and cheeringfor the Ravens.In addition to part-time consulting work after retirement, mywife Lynda and I enjoy traveling particularly foreign travel.A reason I retired was so we could have more time for travel.Our trips included China, Scandinavia, Egypt, the CanadianRockies, Hawaii, Cancun, a Christmas cruise on the Rhine,Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Russia, Ukraine, a SouthAfrican safari (our favorite vacation so far), and our latest,Ecuador and Peru, including Machu Pichu and the GalapagosIslands. Most of these trips were with Grand Circle Travel ortheir small group OAT affiliation. Lynda and I have alsoenjoyed all of the ’60 birthday parties and the recent reunions.Grandchildren are now also a passion for us. Since all sevenare close by, we can enjoy seeing them frequently and attendtheir many activities including sports, dance, music recitals,and school plays.In addition to the above, we have enjoyed good health, solife is good!Career: After graduating Thayer School in 1961, I went towork for Westinghouse in Baltimore in their graduate studentprogram and ended up in an advanced computer develop-ment group, where we worked on parallel processing. It wascreative work, and I received two patents. However, hard-ware was not yet capable of supporting our concepts, so thecompany eventually dropped the program. After that, I wasinvolved in airborne processing and radars for various mili-tary programs including working many years on the AWACSradar development program.My career evolved from engineering and engineering


Richard Skolnick with Sari, Louise, Debbie, Seth,Rebecca, and little Drew

management during for 30 years or so to program manage-ment for advanced development. I investigated next gener-ation airborne radar concepts during the last 10 yearsbefore retirement.Since retiring from Northrop Grumman in 2001, I have spentmost of my time doing engineering consulting on about ahalf-time basis. First for Northrop Grumman, then for thelast five years, for TCOM, a small company in Columbia,Maryland, building Aerostats (Tethered Airships) to carrysurveillance equipment including radars, cameras, andinfrared sensors. TCOM currently has Aerostats flying in manycountries including Iraq.Family and Roots: My parents lived in Massachusetts mostof their young lives, and both graduated from MiddleburyCollege. I was born in Pittsfield, Mass., but soon moved toOhio where I lived for the next 14 years near Cleveland. Wemoved to the Syracuse, N.Y., area for five years and thenon to Connecticut before my last year at Dartmouth. I havetwo younger brothers, one of whom graduated from Dart-mouth in the Class of ’63.I moved to the Baltimore area after graduation and have livedthere ever since. Lynda and I have three wonderful children,a daughter, 44 and two sons, 41 and 39. My daughter livesin northern Virginia with her husband, son, 15, and daugh-ter, 13. My sons both live in Maryland. David and his wifehave three girls, 7, 5, and 2, and a boy, 1. Todd is newlymarried and his wife is expecting (as of this writing) inOctober 2009.Wife: Lynda and I have been happily married since beforeshe was 21. After bearing three children, she pursued her desire to become a nurse. After receiving her RN degree in1979, she worked primarily in cardiac and pulmonary rehab.She’s retired and loves traveling and contributing to ourgrandchildren’s growth. She’s been an active garden clubofficer and does volunteer nursing in her spare time.Major at Dartmouth: I majored in Engineering Science andreceived an MS in electrical engineering in 1961 from Thayer.Dartmouth Activities: Winter and spring Track for 4 years(Sprints and Long Jump); Alpha Chi Rho fraternity

My political views are fiscal conservative with a tiltto the left socially. I enjoy listening to conservativetalk shows, but during the last few years I have

grown tired of all the gloom and doom that is fore-cast for our country. Although our country and theworld face many challenges, I believe in theAmerican people and our political system. I feel thatin 20-30 years our country will be as strong as ever.However, we may need to work longer, conservemore energy, and reduce pollution to make thishappen. I hope the government does not get tooinvolved in controlling our lives.

One small example of progress has recently beeninstituted in our county. A huge recycle bin wasdistributed to all households to replace the smallbins. More liberal rules for recycling were also insti-tuted. Since then, with no additional effort and per-haps less, our household recycling has more thandoubled. This is the type of progressive action thatour country and the world need to pursue.

Richard Slosberg 85 Dartmouth College Hwy #101, Lyme, NH 03768, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Retired from medicalpractice as a pediatrician and com-munity public health director andschool physician. I am now contentwith watching and participating inthe growth and development offour grandchildren. I volunteer asmedical director of a home visitingagency and at the COVER and theReCOVER store.

I am married to Margaret, a Dartmouth MPH grad-uate, who brought me back to Hanover to pursueher career as a teacher at TDI and pain specialist atDMHC. We take birding and volunteer medicaltrips together and have hosted three Dartmouthinternational students, which has brought us vicar-iously to Mexico, Romania, and Ghana and backto our undergraduate days. I look forward to recon-necting with many of my classmates.

Mel Small1815 Northwood Blvd., Royal Oak, MI 48073, «[email protected]»Wife: Sara

I’m one of those wastrels who,aside from summer jobs as astudent (such as moving dormfurniture for Buildings andGrounds at Dartmouth), havenever met a payroll. Indeed, I have been on the governmentdole ever since I left graduate school in 1965 andaccepted a position in the history department at


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Wayne State University in Detroit, a large publicurban university that is about as distant from theDartmouth experience as one can get. However, as myfavorite chanteuse used to sing, Non, je ne regrette rien.

During those early years at Wayne, my wife Sara(who used to work at Baker) and I moved for adecade twice within Detroit and also to Stanfordand Denmark during leaves of absence, until wesettled in Royal Oak, in 1975, just five blocks fromFather Charles Coughlin’s historic Shrine of theLittle Flower. One of my graduate students, a retiredpodiatrist and longtime member of the CommunistParty, used to clip the good priest’s toenails.

We celebrated our 50th last year at the Drake inChicago. When I quixotically left Dartmouth for aweek in the middle of the semester in the fall of1958 to hitchhike out to Madison and once theredecided to elope with Sara (if she was willing), itwas by far the most wonderful decision I made inmy life. Je ne regrette rien.

We have two sons, Mike who is in the appellatedivision at Akin Gump in Los Angeles, and Mark,with his four children, of whom three are triplets,

who is the director of adult services at a large social-work agency in our area.

In addition, for over 15 years, I have written restau-rant reviews for a Detroit weekly and peaked intennis some time ago at 4.0, now, alas, plummetingwith age to 3.5.

Sara retired from her social-work position severalyears ago and I will be teaching my last semesterthis (2009) fall. I did achieve the rank of Distin-guished Professor and I’ve written a bunch of non-commercial monographs over the years with anemphasis on the Vietnam War and Richard Nixonincluding Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves (1988), Atthe Water’s Edge (2005), and The Presidency of RichardNixon (1999). Although I was a knee-jerk liberal whostrongly disliked Vice President Nixon when I wasin college, I was pleased that most reviewers of theNixon book thought it was fair and balanced, andI don’t mean in the Fox News perversion of that term.

I am still a liberal. This means that I was as appalledby the undemocratic conservative riffraff whoshouted down fellow town-hall meeting attendeesduring the summer of 2009 as I was by the unde-mocratic radical Marcusian (Ed. note: Marcuse wasa New Left follower of Marx.) riffraff who made itimpossible for members of the Johnson and Nixonadministrations to engage in reasoned debate oncollege campuses during the late ’60s.

I recall that in a journal response to a foreign-rela-tions lecturer in Great Issues in 1960, I expressedpessimism about where our nation was headed andwhether Sara and I should think about bringingkids into the then troubled world. In fact, my pes-simism was apparently so pronounced that it elicit-ed an uncharacteristically long response from thereader who tried to cheer me up suggesting, amongother things, that I should take a longer view.

Here we are with the Cold War over for two decades,the triumphs of the civil-rights and women’s liber-ation movement, the end of Apartheid in South

Africa, the amazing internet and email, no morelong-distance calling charges—which might havemade it easier for me in Hanover to keep in touchwith Sara in Madison—and a variety of other dramat-ic improvements in our human condition, includingthe election of our first Kenyan president, and yetI am back to despairing again.

Part of it may relate to my elation in 2008 and myhopes for what appeared to be an extraordinaryregime change and, what, as I write in August, now


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We continue, with somewhat less energy, to carea good deal about our civic responsibilities.

Mel Small

appears to be politics as usual with some of theworst invective and outright lies I have seen sincethe McCarthy era dominating our political discourse.Maybe I watch too much cable news and by thetime this sees print next summer unemploymentwill be significantly lower, U.S. direct involvementin Iraq will be at an end, the war in Afghanistan willbe winding down, and Congress will have passedmeaningful economic and social reform legislation.

But then again what I am to make of the two crude-ly racist jokes an otherwise polite and refined ten-nis acquaintance (a Brown graduate) sent me overa two-week period in August 2009? He thoughtthey were a “hoot.”

Some of our friends have stopped paying attention tothe disheartening news and have stopped participat-ing in the political system in order to concentrateon travel, grandchildren, hobbies, and sports. Weboth find it difficult to “drop out” since we havespent much of our post-Dartmouth lives “engaged”in one way or the other. Sara, who was a (Gene)McCarthy precinct delegate in 1968 and I, whohave made the postwar era my area of professionalspecialization, continue, with somewhat less energy,to care a good deal about our civic responsibilities.Perhaps that has something to do with the solidliberal-arts education I received at Dartmouth andSara got at Wisconsin. Given the declining enroll-ments in the social sciences and humanities andthe concomitant rise in enrollments in “practical”majors in universities like my own, there is anoth-er reason to despair.

Yeah, but perhaps this too shall pass, although as ahistorian I am only an expert in predicting the past.Nonetheless, we have had a good run, are in goodhealth, and still can make each other laugh. So, asthat late philosopher of the ’50s, A.E. Newman,would remark, “What, me worry?”

Donald H. SmithDon

32 Linden Street, #D, Wellesley, MA 02482, (781) 237-3296, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sybil P. Smith Occupation: Systems Developer, BJ's Wholesale Club, 5 Strathmore Road, Natick, MA 01760, (508) 652-3972

I think I was the last member of our Class to actu-ally earn my degree. It was in 1966! So it is fittingthat I am writing my mere musings close to thedeadline. I have preserved my habits of taking along time to do things.

I have retained a keen interest in Dartmouth, morefor the state of the College now, and worried dur-ing the time of the right-wing ascendancy. Fromreports from current students, mostly female, I hearjoyous stories of intellectual and challenging expe-riences. So with just this little knowledge, I nonethe-less conclude that the old place is doing well. I hopeit nurtures students of all callings and cultures andtreats them well. I too found Dartmouth challeng-ing and had joyful classroom experiences in thepresence of some brilliant minds and gifted teach-ers. But I also had dreadful social experiences and along sense of isolation and not belonging. TheDartmouth of our time was not kind to those whowere “losers.” I never could figure out quite why I was, but then it didn’t really matter. I just was.

Nonetheless, I have had a very happy life outside ofDartmouth. Now married for 40 years and a proudhusband, father, and grandfather, I am active inpolitics, church, and organizations, and I pursuemany interests. One child is a Methodist ministerin the U.K. after earning a PhD in political andsocial thought; the other works for “The Onion,” asatirical publication, mostly online, that skewersour society in delightful ways. I read, am fascinatedwith contemporary topics in science, go to classicalmusic concerts and opera, and am still working asan IT systems developer after retiring from mana-gerial positions. More because I enjoy it thanbecause we still need the money. Of course, we prob-ably do. My wife is an academic administrator, andis currently Executive Director of a continuing edu-cation program at Brandeis.

We live in a modest six-unit condo complex veryclose to the Wellesley College campus We walk reg-ularly around the Wellesley campus and Lake Wabanfrom our unit. We are also very close to shops,library, church, restaurants, and friends just behindthe main thoroughfare and the Boston Marathonroute. Despite bad knees (which ended a long run-ning career in 2003), mild arthritis, and a few sig-nificant operations, I am in good health and goodspirits. It is ironic that of my closest friends frommy Dartmouth years, nearly all are deceased. I keptin touch with only a very few.


Beta House at Hums, under Director Chris Swanson

Dudley R. Smith12 Sandy Brae, PO Box 1335, Grantham, NH 03753, «[email protected]»Career: Chairman of the Board ofthe New London (NH) Hospital;President of the Canaan (NH) LakeAssociation; Chubb & Son Inc., Sr.VP, ended July 1996; ChubbFoundation, President, ended 1996 Family and Roots: Descendedfrom Dutch farmers who settled inLower Manhattan Wife: Julie Smith Major at Dartmouth: History Dartmouth Activities: Psi Upsilon and Hockey

I attended Camp Passumpsic on Lake Fairlee inVermont in 1946. As a nine-year-old having lunchin Hanover on Parents’ Weekend, I was taken withthe human dimensions of the campus, the geog-raphy of the Connecticut River, and the NewHampshire hills.

In 1955, I applied to several colleges with somesuccess. My parents, however, cautioned that myacademics might not be up to Dartmouth’s stan-dards. While I surprised them and was accepted,the College required summer tutoring in Frenchprior to matriculation, even though I had hadthree years of intensive study in high school. I didso, passing French 1 with a D.

After graduation, I joined the Infantry, met Julie inWestport, Conn., and started a 35-year career with aproperty and casualty insurance underwriting compa-ny. We have three sons living in New York City,Minneapolis, and Raleigh, and six cool and entertain-ing grandkids. We lived in Wilton, Conn., Wayzataand Orono, Minnesota, and, finally, Princeton, N.J.

In 1996, Julie retired from elementary schoolteaching and I retired from the insurance business.We moved outside of Hanover and have flourishedfor the past 14 years. Classmates who I didn’t know,or knew slightly, have become close friends, along

with people from other classes and even some non-Dartmouth graduates—a pleasant change after 20years in Princeton, N.J.

It has always seemed to me that Dartmouth has adistinctive place in higher education because of itsunique spirit, its truly magnificent setting as acountry college, and its long tradition of academicexcellence. The outstanding qualities of the studentbody are the same today as they were in the late1950’s. I’m not convinced current students are anysmarter than we are.

In the mid-1950s, an Alumni Fund solicitation letterarrived from Hanover. Its tone was cynical, stressing“Here we go again ... the College has its hand out.”I was irritated by this poor “ask” and fired off a let-ter to Mike McGean, who had been my advisor. Heimmediately wrote back stating the letter had comefrom the Class of 1960, not from the College. If Iwas unhappy, I should volunteer to do somethingabout it. I took his advice and have been involvedin Class matters ever since.

I have felt a strong bond to classmates, as well allother alumni. Prior to accepting the presidency ofDartmouth, Dr. Jim Kim apparently talked with anumber of Dartmouth graduates in the Boston area.He noted his conversations often ended with tearsin the eyes of the alums. He commented this neverhappens when he talks with Harvard graduates.

Four years in Hanover had made all the difference.

Robert Smith

A. James Sniderman A. James Sniderman died onJune 5, 1997.


Dudley Smith and Julie


Bruce F. SnyderSkip

7210 North Charles Way, Peoria, IL 61614, (309) 691-0564, «[email protected]» Spouse: Sarah Page Snyder Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

Jacque E. Sohm5885 Clubhouse Drive, Vero Beach, FL 32967, (772) 569-5409, «[email protected]» Spouse: Lucy Sohm

Jack Sommer19532 Weavers Circle, Cornelius, NC 28031, (704) 896-0718, «[email protected]» Spouse: Diane Sommer

Slip Sliding Away

The news that Kodachromefilm would no longer be pro-duced arrived the day afterDiane and I had completedour monumental “end of his-tory” project. Yellow boxes of slides, empty of theircontents, were still in the trash bin—“Christmas1974,” “Arabia 1955,” “Dartmouth Graduation,” andhundreds more were the hollow detritus of a life ofmemories embedded in chemicals on 2x2 celluloidsurfaces. Diane says the reason we have been mar-ried 50 years is that I never part with anything andshe is indecisive. There may be something to her wis-dom, but the plastic bags of discarded pets, places,nephews, celebrations, and so much more give proofthat aphorisms and universal laws are different.

Each slide projected a captured image on a wall (theancient folding screen that pinched my fingers everytime it was assembled has long gone to Goodwill)was subject to judgment more harsh than Sparta’sgenerals made of prisoners. Nearly five thousand

met their fate—a mere thousand survived in neat-ly labeled Carousels for some future family reunionand easy disposal when the kids sweep out the clut-ter of our lives.

It seems our lives, all our lives, have been a “Kodakmoment.” We were babes just a year or two afterKodachrome was invented, and just as this era offilm has given way to the digital age, we too, oneby one, concede the day. “Dartmouth Graduation”contained an image snapped by my proud mom thatcaught me in line with Alex Summers and JacquesSohm, proof that this trio had defied Dickerson’sDictum of “the missing man to the left or right ofus” then. Today we are reminded that a moreenduring “iron law” has taken its toll of our good

classmates. Bless those who have perished andthank them for sharing parts of their lives with us.Thanks to those who remain to read this for doingthe same.

I imagine the collective “us” of the Class of 1960has been the subject of more than a million snap-shots, which, if made into a collage of smiling facesof family, friends, and fellowship could only hint atthe immense dynamism that has driven the contri-bution this group of individuals has made to theircommunities, local, national, and beyond. Whoamong us has not felt intense pride in the accom-plishments of Sixties in so many endeavors? Thanksto the dedication of Class scribes over the years wehave been alerted to the good works of classmates,and in so doing they have supplied a bonding agentthat makes the very concept of Musings a possibility.These snippets of our lives, and the photographs ofjoyous reunions great and small remind us of thefullness of humanity in this body and inspire us tointroduce ourselves to those we wish we had known,or known better, when were younger.

Friendships from Dartmouth days are a gift thathas endured. My good fortune in later life has beento become friends with guys who were almoststrangers when we were at College and to be movedby their enduring qualities: Jim Gallagher’s mirth,Russ Ingersoll’s humanity, Denny Goodman’sinsight, Hank Greer’s passion for our Nation, DaveFarnsworth’s dedication, Spencer Morgan’s tender-ness (yes, that’s right), and the fair-mindedness ofJim Adler and Gene Kohn when we disagree soagreeably.

These snippets of our lives and the photos of joyous reunions remind us of the fullness ofhumanity in this body and inspire us tointroduce ourselves to those we wish we hadknown, or known better, when were younger.

Jack Sommer

I look at a group picture of us as teammates or trip-mates to Moosilauke and the College Grant withpride and sadness, pride in finding myself amongsuch men; sadness not to have known the undoubt-ed special talents of so many.

The old slides have lost their vigorous colors andthe photographs have been betrayed by unrelent-ing Sepia, the Chromatic Chronograph. Frozentogether in time we look more and more like thoseearlier Classes that line the corridors whereDartmouth students hurry by. So be it. We had ourtime—and we were good.

Walter F. Sosnowski7049 Winchester Street, Dallas, TX 75231, (214) 341-6163, «[email protected]» Spouse: Doris M. Sosnowski Occupation: Real Estate, Self-Employed, 7049 Winchester Street, Dallas, TX 75231, (469) 363-0547

Arthur R. Stagg Jr. 213 North Street, Medfield, MA 02052, (508) 359-6378 Spouse: Lois Stagg

George J. Stambolian George J. Stambolian died onDecember 22, 1991.

Reuel Stanley442 Oval Road, The Monmouth,Manasquan, NJ 08736, (732) 722-7219, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: What a journey ithas been over the last 50 years.Lots of marvelous highs and a fewsignificant lows, but as I approachour 50th reunion, I find myself in awonderful place in my life. Somehowin spite of all the wear and tear Ihave administered to this old body(I have survived major back surgery, a severely broken wrist,and prostate cancer) I’m in remarkably good shape bothphysically and mentally —yet another blow to clean living. As with all of us, I have been faced with many difficult deci-sions, choices, and lessons to be learned along the way. I did-n’t always make the best or right decision, but probably themost important lesson was that family and personal relation-ships are far more important than any business or financialsuccesses one may have. Had it not taken me so long tocome to this realization, I might have made different deci-sions, worked fewer hours, traveled less for business, andspent more time at home with the family. But I am blessed tohave three wonderful children and their spouses, nine terrificgrandchildren, and a comfortable life that I never envisioned.


Backpacks, Freshman Trip, Moosilauke Ravine Lodge

“To think I did all that./And may I say, not in a shyway/No, oh no, not me, I did it my way.” Paul Anka


Now after years of living in Scarsdale, Boston, the Hamptons,and Manhattan, I have moved to the Jersey shore and amextremely fortunate on many levels to be starting over withan extraordinary new partner. Together we are enjoying myretirement and the freedom that brings. The days fly bythrough a mixture of traveling, recreation, reading, andspending time with friends and family. Consequently I don’tmiss work a bit. However, I do long for some of the person-al relationships I have made over the years in business andam working to maintain or rekindle many of them in mynewly found free time.I’m looking forward to seeing many Dartmouth classmates(too many to name here) and renewing friendships that havegone unattended for far too long. The journey continues.Career: 1961: Army, Second Lieutenant; 1963-1978, IBM,various sales, marketing staff, and sales management posi-tions; 1979-1984, Chase Manhattan Bank, Vice PresidentCorporate Trust, Group Executive Pension Trust and FinancialServices; 1985-2007, Fidelity Investments, Senior Vice Presi-dent, Institutional SalesPartner: Carley WardMajor at Dartmouth: Economics; MBA, Amos Tuck Schoolof Business Administration, 1961

Luke H. Stapleton Jr.63 Shipyard Drive, Apt. 403, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928, (843) 785-3893 Spouse: Barbara Stapleton Occupation: Sports/Recreation,Sea Pines Country Club, 30 Governor's Road,Hilton Head Island, SC 29928, (843) 671-2334

Albert M. Stark65 Lovers Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540; 993 Lenox Drive, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, (609) 896-9060; «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: On graduationday, 1960, if a Reader had told meI would marry a spectacular womanand have two children, that onewould become a professor and theother a lawyer, would grow from atwo-person “family” law firm to one with more than a hun-dred lawyers and five offices, write four books, and wouldplay tennis with a racquet twice as big and powerful as myJack Kramer autograph model, I would have told the Readershe was nuts.Career: Life in courtrooms, representing people who sufferedtraumatic spinal cord, burn, and brain injuries was rich andrewarding in more ways than just making money.

Wife: Ellen Berman Stark Major at Dartmouth:Government. JD, University ofPennsylvaniaDartmouth Activities:Tennis, squash, governmentand political clubs

A Poem

The could, the should and would haves,During the fifty years that have passed, Are silent now.I have learned to treasure each day,As if it might be my last.

Gordon Starkey231 Woodland Trace, PO Box 1665, New London, NH 02357, «[email protected]» Career: A dinosaur by today’sstandards, I worked at the samecompany for over 42 years. As aconsulting engineer, I helped planand design water supply facilities,mostly for large metropolitan areas.In the States, clients included New York City, Chicago,Detroit, and Bridgeport, Conn. International projects werelocated in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Amman, Jordan, and Cali,Colombia. (I was in Cali before it became infamous for theCali Cartel. After I left and Cali developed a reputation, I didwonder about an acquaintance there who flew a DC-3 fullof cut flowers (?) to Miami four or five days a week.)Family and Roots: Diversity rules. An only child born inthe mountains of North Carolina and raised in New Hamp-shire, I married a colleen born and raised in the west of Ireland with five brothers and four sisters (cousins, nephews,and nieces too numerous to count). We have a son and adaughter adopted from Colombia.Wife: Marcella Teresa nee McDonaghMajor at Dartmouth: Engineering Science; MS, Civil Engi-neering, Thayer School

The Return of a Previously Truant ’60

In 1961, when I left Thayer School to work in NewYork City, I had in mind a one-year trial. Forty-two-plus years later I returned to the Uppah Valley.During those 42 years, I had very little contact withDartmouth or the Class of ’60. When Marcella andI decided to retire in New London, we had in mindskiing (both of us), golf (both of us, with Marcellaa reluctant beginner turned avid) and fishing(Gordon only). We viewed Dartmouth as a potentialcultural resource. Enter Jay Emery. Being smartenough to make the correct inference from a“DART60” license plate, I introduced myself to Jayin the parking lot. When I got home and openedmy email, I had been invited to a Class lunch at

Albert Stark

the Norwich Inn. I was welcomed very warmly bya group of classmates, none of whom I knew wellif at all while in college. Getting together with thisgroup at the monthly lunches, with larger groupsat October mini-reunions, our 45th reunion, andat the Boston 70th birthday party has made retire-ment a lot richer for Marcella and me. Our Classhas made us feel that we are part of a truly specialgroup. If any of you reading this are undecidedabout returning to Hanover for our 50th becauseof a lack of contact with the class (or any otherreason), please put that doubt out of your mind.You will be welcomed as if you had been activesince June 1960.

Edmund P. Starzyk Edmund P. Starzyk died onJune 20, 1964.

Gary J. Stass28 Old Rock Lane, New Canaan, CT 06840, (203) 972-1733 Spouse: Nancy Stass Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, John Gates Securities Ltd., 28 Old Rock Lane, New Canaan, CT 06840,(203) 972-1542

John Stephenson172 Rincon Point Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013, Vox and Fax (805) 201-2611, «[email protected]»

50 Years Hence1956 was quite a year. Some 820of us arrived on the HanoverPlain, pretty much convincedthat we knew what was goingon in the world. The Cold Warwas heating up. By 1960, whenwe graduated, other forces were just being glimpsed:

Vietnam, integration, and the Age of Aquarius.Looking back, we have to marvel at what has changedand what is the same, at what turned out to be trivialand what was important. And what is just plain silly.

Who would have thought the following:

That Professors Kemeny and Kurtz would reallychange the world with BASIC, and that everyonewould have a computer—whatever that was. Thatfrenzied communication, email, Twitter, SMS, andcell phones would be the norm in the dorms,replacing our one pay phone and a weekly letterhome. That communication would become perva-sive; anyone could impose his message. T-shirtsand bumper stickers work just fine.

Wednesday evening at the fraternity house was“Have Gun, Will Travel” in black-and-white. Whowould have thought that TV would spread our val-ues and pop culture to the world? Do words like“dumb-down,” “attention span,” and “values” haveanything to do with the effects of TV?

Who would have thought that our Class of 1960column would creep so far toward the front of theClass Notes section?


John Stephenson

Kemeny’s T-Bird


Fashion: now, there’s a wide-open topic. In 1956,we were sent to Hanover with coats, ties, and maybeeven a tux. Who would have thought that the hip-pies would leave a legacy of blue-collar work clothesbecoming mainstream? Blue jeans and baseball caps(now backwards and indoors) have become thenorm. In the work world, coat and tie have givenway to Tevas worn by the new 25-year-old Internetmillionaire. The style of haircut on campus has comeback to our time. What goes around, and so forth.

To us as teenagers, the ’50s were static. Indeed, grad-uation seemed to be the starting point for the gal-loping changes that have ever since swirled around

us: pop culture, rock and roll, the cult of personality,single-issue politics, tabloid values, exploding pop-ulations, the death of colonialism, the collapse ofthe Cold War, AIDS, and the emergence of Americaas the only superpower.

Since graduation, social culture and values havemorphed at seeming light speed: racial and genderintegration (yes, there are girls at Dartmouth now),the number of divorces equals marriages, the sched-uling of childhood, (“No, Johnny can’t come outto play; he’s at soccer practice, Little League, musiclessons, or SAT tutoring”) and, despite television,regional provincialism is making a comeback, per-haps because there no longer is Selective Service;the great mixing pot of the draft has disappeared.War, however, has not disappeared. In ROTC, welearned about M-1s. Now wars are of the push-but-ton variety. Mini-wars have replaced global conflict.And Vietnam forever changed us.

There’s no doubt about it; the last 50 years havebeen an adventure.

Roger H. Stephenson5761 Valente Place, Sarasota, FL 34238, (941) 966-2410, «[email protected]» Spouse: Harriet Dower Stephenson Occupation: Non-Profit: Health/Science

Jon R. Stockholm314 Santa Helena, Solana Beach, CA 92075

Don Stoddard 64 High Point Rd., Bloomingdale, NJ 07403, «[email protected]»Wife: Barbara Major at Dartmouth: Geography

Fifty years out and still aliveand kicking! Hard to believe,and very thankful to still havethe piss and vinegar to enjoylife to its fullest. Still have allmy parts and refuse to be takenpiece by piece. Still have my passion for skiing butnow enjoy cruising the groomed slopes rather thandoing the diamonds. For the past ten years, Barbaraand I have traveled to Europe with the “Friends ofDartmouth” group, mostly ’59 thru ’61 classmatesand spouses. It’s been a wonderful yearly connec-tion to college friends and a way to ski Europe andsightsee afterwards.

Met Barbara shortly after wife Janet died in 1999, andwe’ll have been married three years at reunion time.She works, I play, and life is good. I retired in 2003after 42 years as a sales engineer with Eaton Corp(formerly Westinghouse Electric). It was a very satis-fying and fulfilling career. (My hirsute appearance inthe photo is atypical, a result of a sailing adventurein the Caribbean—but it’s a cute shot of Barbara.)

In 1956, we were sent to Hanover with coats, ties, and maybe even a tux.

John Stephenson

Don Stoddard and Barbara

Andrew W. Stone7300 20th Street, Lot 81, Vero Beach, FL 32966, (772) 978-7694 Spouse: Rosemarie A. Stone

Thomas Stone11 Gilson Road, West Lebanon, NH 03784, (603) 643-3094, «[email protected]»Career: PhD (Anthropology) Cor-nell 1966; Research Associate inCharge of Rural Studies, CornellProgram in Social Psychiatry, 1964-66; Asst. Prof. of Anthropology andResearch Associate, Center forAppalachian Studies and Develop-ment, West Virginia University,1966-69; Asst. Prof of Anthropology, Knox College, 1969-71; Assoc. Prof., Prof., and Prof. Emeritus, SUNY Potsdam,1971-present.Wife: Sarah Stone, BA, CornellMajor at Dartmouth: PhilosophyDartmouth Activities: Outing Club, Mountaineering Club,Northern Studies Program

At the end of our senior year, I made a last-minuteswitch of grad school plans from philosophy atHarvard to anthropology at Cornell, a move thatwas the product of a case of disciplinary ADD cou-pled with the fact that Al Hastorf (then chair of thepsychology department) advised me that anthro-pology was a field where I could study just aboutanything and still get away with it professionally. I probably made the right decision—consistency offocus has hardly been a hallmark of the work I’vedone since. Following my first anthropological forayinto the field in Alaska looking at Inupiaq ecologyin ’59, I’ve managed to get involved with researchprojects dealing with the effects of community socialchange on psychiatric epidemiology in MaritimeCanada, poverty and community organization insouthern Appalachia, law and indigenous cultureon a Canadian Iroquois reservation, miners’ andwhalers’ law in the 19th century western Arctic andsub-Arctic, the organization of Mughal and EastIndia Company mercenary forces in India, spiritmediums in western New York, law and moral econ-omy in the early Mormon church, and the Practical

Christian movement’s Hopedale Community ineastern Massachusetts. At the moment, the Hopedaleproject is continuing, and I’m also looking at howrecent work on the ascription of mental states mightapply to conceptions of the spirit world in someindigenous northern societies.

At Cornell, I met my wife Sally when we happenedto share a calculator at the first meeting of an 8:00am statistics lab. (The calculator was one of the oldmechanical Marchants), and the only thing thatSally remembers about that day is the TA emphati-cally telling us “this machine cost the University$5,000; don’t break it!”). Sally and I got married in1962 (still are), and after leaving Cornell we spenttime in West Virginia and Illinois before I settled infor a long-term teaching job in a new anthropologydepartment at the SUNY campus in Potsdam, N.Y.Notwithstanding the fact that Potsdam is about as

far away from New York City as you can get geo-graphically and culturally and still be in New YorkState, the place had its appealing aspects. TheAdirondack Park was immediately south, Ottawaand Montreal were each a short drive north, andthe campus was home to a top-notch music school(Renee Fleming and Stephanie Blythe were bothstudents while I was there, and in 2004 we saw themperform together at the Met in the lead roles inHandel’s Rodelinda). We were in Potsdam 30 years.

In 2001, our daughter took a research job at DHMC,so we decided to move near her and our east coastgrandkids and headed south (a bit) to our retire-ment venue next door to Dartmouth here in NewHampshire. That’s where we are now, and wherewe will likely stay. Baker (now Baker-Berry) Library


Thomas Stone and Sarah

Consistency of focus has hardly been a hallmark of the work I’ve done.

Thomas Stone


is an ideal daily worksite, only a 25-minute walkfrom home (mostly uphill—good for me, my doc-tor tells me) and cultural events, visiting academicspeakers, colloquia, seminars, and congenial facultyall abound. I’ve managed to hook up with fourdifferent choral groups—a university chorus, amadrigals group, a Bach group, and a really goodEpiscopal choir. The choir has performed at theNational Cathedral in D.C. a couple of times sinceI joined, and the University Chorus gives us oldgeezers (Dartmouth grads for the most part, includ-ing a lot of former Glee Clubbers) a chance to do alot of the old Zeller arrangements of the traditionalsongs at our June Alumni gig in Spaulding. If win-ters begin to drag on a bit here in Hanover, son Jayand his family out in San Marcos, California (a bitnorth of San Diego) afford us a very pleasant placeto visit.

Amazingly (given the way my memory occasionallybehaves nowadays) I still have a clear mental pictureof some of the guys in our class whom I haven’tseen since graduation—can’t wait to see how those50-year-old mental portraits compare with the peo-ple I’ll meet at reunion!

J. Gilbert Stone 25 Bank Street, New York, NY 10014, (212) 675-0009 Spouse: Ellen Stone Occupation: Health/Science

Paul G. Stone 18 Miller Road, Putney, VT 05346, (802) 254-6540 Spouse: Amelia Stone Occupation: Health/Science

William W. Storm Jr. William W. Storm Jr. died onSeptember 21, 1980.

Allen H. Stowe301 Island Creek Dr., Vero Beach, FL 32963, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Beach life, both inFlorida and New Jersey, cruises,organizing 15 grandchildren, Club200 for exotic golfing.Career: Attorney, Dartmouth Co-Op Family and Roots: Marcy GallupKearney, Madison, N.J.; ChristopherStowe, Lyme, N.H.; Laurie GallupFusco, Essex Fells, N.J.; Denby Stowe Coyle, Lyme, N.H.;Christopher Gallup, Marblehead, Mass.; Jonathan Stowe,Pennington, N.J.; 15 beautiful grandchildren, from under 1to 17Wife: Partner, Friend, and Saint, WendyMajor at Dartmouth: BA; MBA, Tuck School; LLD, Univ.of Virginia Dartmouth Activities: Theta Delta Chi, Dragon, Crew,Green Key, The Dartmouth

“Carpe Diem”

Allen Stowe and Wendy

Owen Straight

Mickey Straus146 Central Park West, Apt. 5E,New York, NY 10023,«[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Giving back to theeconomy in as many ways as possi-ble. Balancing my day-to-day hyper-active work with cultural activities.And, working to stay fit.Wife: Leila StrausMajor at Dartmouth: Economics;MBA, Harvard Baker ScholarDartmouth Activities: Chairman, Hopkins Center, HoodMuseum, John Dickey Center

Richard W. StrehleSchwanthaler Strasse 71 D-60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Tel./Fax +49 (69) 603-2362, «[email protected]»

“Pushing the Envelope”Writing my contribution toMusings has meant taking stockand assessing my life 50 yearsafter graduating fromDartmouth—in particulardefining how “the” DartmouthExperience has affected my life. Although I learnedmuch in my four undergraduate years, the most valu-able lesson was learning to “push the envelope,”something I’ve been doing ever since.

This began with my acceptance in the Class of 1960,which I hadn’t believed could or would happen.Newly arrived in Hanover, I genuinely feared that I well might not succeed and make it through tograduation. That both of these wonderful thingsdid, in fact, happen taught me to meet and con-front new challenges with confidence—and mylife reflects this. At Dartmouth, I fell in love withthe process of learning and came to savour the joyand satisfaction to be had in accomplishment, inboth large and small undertakings. Striving to learn

something new every day and to accept the neces-sity of confronting and attempting to master allthe new challenges life inevitably brings becameintegral to my approach to life—and it still charac-terizes how I live my life today.

Along the way, I have come to believe in fate as I cannot otherwise explain the course my life hastaken. I was born and grew up in a smallMidwestern town where I never envisioned that I would one day attend an Ivy League college, livein New York City and work in Wall Street and thenin London followed by Germany and Australia, andfinally settle again in Germany, making Europe mypermanent home. Still a dedicated American,though sometimes a disillusioned and despairingone, I have now lived half of my life as an expatri-ate. Acknowledging this fact still amazes me. Likeeveryone, I have experienced highs and lows, bothprivately and professionally, but in no way has mylife been boring. No longer needing to work for aliving, which I did for 20 years as an internationalvice-president for the Deutsche Bank, I can nowpursue my other interests, such as extensive travel,studying Italian in Italy for one month each year,gourmet cooking, resuming playing flute and piano,teaching English to foreigners, and becoming a dupli-cate bridge tournament director. A very satisfyingactivity is playing an active role in the DartmouthClub of Germany, leading a hike through nearbyvineyards each spring and each winter interviewingDartmouth candidates from the Rhein-Main areaof Germany.

My new artificial left knee, regrettably, has put anend to many of the athletic activities I’ve enjoyedover the decades, two of which I learned andlearned to love, at Dartmouth—skiing and moun-tain trekking. My tennis playing days are also over,but golf—mediocre golf, that is—is fortunatelystill possible. All in all I consider myself extremelylucky to still enjoy the good mental and physicalhealth I do at this stage of “acute-late-youth.” I havelearned to regard each day I am able to live a fulllife as a true gift for which to be thankful.

I am basically satisfied with where I find myself inlife and the choices I have made or which fate hasmade for me. In many ways, I feel that I am onlynow learning how to really live. My main frustra-tion is in feeling that I have not made the most ofmy abilities, such as they are, and not having ful-filled the potential fortune granted me. My missionnow is to make the most of these in whatever timeI have left. I am truly grateful for “my” DartmouthExperience and the positive impact it has had onmy life.



Seth Devore Strickland14 Stanwich Lane, Greenwich, CT 06830, (203) 869-4813, «[email protected]» Spouse: Kathy Fulenwider Strickland Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, Monitor Capital Inc., 8 Sound Shore Drive, Box 19, Greenwich, CT 06830, (203) 340-2601

Thomas Strong26 Burns Street, New Haven, CT 06511, (203) 624-1675 Occupation: Architecture/Construction, Strong Cohen, 1146 Chapel St., New Haven, CT 06511, (203) 865-4511

Charles B. StuartChuck

601 Delmar Road, Edgewater, MD 21037, (410) 956-5057, «[email protected]»

Paul Suerkenc/o Matt Simar, 1449 Glenwood Avenue Southeast,Atlanta, GA 30316, (814) 397-3754, «[email protected]» Occupation: Education

Alexander Summer

Richard A. Sutliff14050 Maxfield Creek Road, Monmouth, OR 97361, (503) 838-5837 Occupation: Education

Kenneth W. Taber IIKen

200 College Avenue, NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, (616) 233-3163, «[email protected]» Spouse: Cornelia M. Taber Occupation: Ken Taber &Associates LLC, 1345 Monroe NW, Suite 301,Grand Rapids, MI 49505, (616) 233-1187

Photo by Tony Furnary ’80

Henry D. Talbot 185 East 85th St. (23 G), New York, NY 10028, «[email protected]»

After graduation in ’60, I wasdrafted into the U.S. Army, anexperience fun to look backon nostalgically but uncom-fortable at the time. New YorkCity was my home, as it is now.This was a pre-Viet Nam townwith nostalgia where the fire-house next door still had a live Dalmatian mascot,the corner phone booth had phone books, and theNew York Stock Exchange was my workplace for thenext 35 years. Back then, the floor of the Exchangecomprised hundreds of traders and market makers.

During the past 50 years a familiar story arose.Marriage, family get-togethers, pets, vacations, retire-ment, and the rest of the story.

Fast-forwarding to the present, I have the same fire-house but with a wooden Dalmatian in front, vir-tually no phone booths with or without books buta bevy of devices with a plethora of functions that

even make phone calls, and an Exchange comprisinga sea of computers tended by a smattering of brokersmaking up the Brave New World of trading stocks.

Strangely, my only complaint about the 50 yearspast is that I waited 65 years before taking up golf.The game is a microcosm of the life experience.You need a lot of help at the beginning. You needschooling, practice, the ability to get along withothers, and a whole lot more to lead a good life.

So let us enjoy the twilight years to the fullest, over-coming little handicaps (such as my golf index fig-ures) that remain with us.

Joseph C. Tausta 138 East St., Oneonta, NY 13820, (607) 432-4428

Jackson Taylor Jr. Jack

304 Deer Run North, Oxford, MS 38655, (662) 234-6483, «[email protected]»

Luther F. Taylor7014 NW 39th Street, Coral Springs, FL 33065, (954) 752-9681 Spouse: Gloria Ann Taylor Occupation: Education, Broward College, 1000 Coconut Creek Boulevard, Coconut Creek, FL 33066

David A. Temeles403 Jackson, Falls Church, VA 22046, (703) 532-5631 Occupation: Finance/Financial Services

Alexander H. ter WeeleAlex

Caracole, 158 Rustique Lane, Castleton, VA 22716, (540) 675-3606 Spouse: Francine Grenade ter Weele Occupation: Finance/Financial Services


Golf is a microcosm of the life experience.

Henry D. Talbot

Donald L. Terwilliger Jr.Lee

131 Bacon Road, Roxbury, CT 06783, (860) 350-3410 Spouse: Margo Terwilliger

Anthony H. Thompson325 Allen Street, Hudson, NY 12534, (518) 822-0855 Occupation: Arts/Entertainment

Bruce L. Thornton Bruce L. Thornton died onSeptember 9, 1994.

George K. Tolford III295 East South Trail Street, Tiffin, OH 44883, (419) 447-8847 Occupation: Manufacturing


Dartmouth Row from Rollins Chapel

David C. Tomlinson148 Salem Street, Andover, MA 01810, (978) 475-7383,«[email protected]» Spouse: Mary Louise Tomlinson

Thomas R. TorinusTom

3560 Kangaroo Beach Road,Baileys Harbor, WI 54202, (920) 839-9124 Spouse: Mary Glenn Torinus Occupation: Communications

James W. TownsendJim

226 Overlook Avenue, Leonia, NJ 07605, (201) 944-7005, «[email protected]» Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices, Townsend AssetManagement Co. Inc., 45 Essex St., Hackensack, NJ 07601, (201) 646-1511

Lutfi R. Trabulsi 5 Diamond Drive, Thornton, PA 19373, (610) 399-3172 Spouse: Christine Trabulsi Occupation: Health/Science,Eastern Orthopedic Institute, Ste. 2302, 1088 West Baltimore Pike,Media, PA 19063

Richard T. Travis Tom

3113 Catrina Lane, Annapolis, MD 21403, (410) 280-2057 Spouse: Judith Travis

Tom Trimarco18 Monument Sq. #1, Charlestown,MA 02129, (617) 241-7258, «[email protected]»Spouse: Barbara J. Rouse Occupation: Attorney, Sr. VP forGovernment Relations, O’Neill andAssociates, Boston, Mass., andWashington, D.C.

This submission has me writingas if in a time warp. It seemsI’m in Hanover in the springof ’60 writing my thesis against a deadline. Well,fortunately this will be much briefer. I am well pastmy final extension and as our editor emailed me;“We are a forgiving bunch but there are limits.”Some things never change.

I write this with a heavy heart having recentlylearned of the sudden passing of my dear and greatfriend and roommate Martin Avery Lower. The ideaof attending our 50th in a few months without Martyand his sweetheart Bobbie seems fundamentallywrong. The Class of 1960 simply can’t hold a mean-ingful Dartmouth event without his presence. Heloved the College, and he loved his class. His memo-ry and the lifetime of experiences shared with him (atand away from Dartmouth) will live with me forever.My life has been so enriched and enhanced because I attended Dartmouth and developed lifetime friend-ships with so many special people; Mart being fore-most among them. Thanks for the memories, Skip.

Shortly after graduation, I left New England for myfirst duty station at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Idrove the southern route in my 1950 humpbackPontiac, and my first overnight stop was Winchester,Virginia. I called home that night and told myfolks I felt I was in a foreign country. People lookedsuspiciously at my car with the Vermont tags. Whatwas a guy with a New York accent doing driving acar from Vermont. The “white only” signs inrestaurants, water coolers and public facilities werejarring and offensive to this Bronx kid. These



strange and uncomfortable feelings only intensi-fied at my next overnight stops in Birmingham,Alabama, Meridian, Mississippi, and Odessa, Texas.I thought I would feel at “home” at Fort Bliss. But Iroomed with 2nd Lt. Tom Lake from the Universityof Alabama and 2nd Lt. Ray Murski from TexasA&M, and many a night was spent vociferouslyarguing into the wee hours that their universitiesand other state schools in the South would never, I said never (do you understand that, Try-Marco)

integrate. And as soon as Northern “do-gooders”like me understood and respected the southernpoint of view this country would be a better place.It turned out it wasn’t only racial bigotry that wasrampant there but also religious hatred as well. Atwo-month tour at Mineral Wells, Texas locatedbetween Dallas and Ft. Worth found me attendinga Roman Catholic church where all worshippers satin the center pews because you risked being hurt byflying glass and rocks if you sat in the outside aislesby the windows. No, I never truly felt at home inmy two years spent in west Texas. Even thoughLake, Murski, and I were charged with “leading” ourtroops, white, black, and Hispanic, the environmentremained “foreign” to me.

Obviously, the progress our country has made onthe racial and religious tolerance fronts (as well ason sex and sexual orientation) has been enormous.Although I frequently think of my Ft. Bliss room-mates and wonder how they have adjusted to the“new” America. Can they believe it is a new and“improved” country? Can winning the nationaltitle in football with the vast majority of black ath-letes leading the way be happily accepted by myformer roommate from the University of Alabama?

With all this progress over the past 50 years, I findit ironic that once again these feelings of being ina foreign land are recurring for me. I spent almost40 years actively involved in Republican politics. I worked with legendary figures like John Volpe,Eliot Richardson. Ed Brooke, Henry Cabot Lodge,and Mitt Romney. Liberal, moderate, and conserva-tive points of view are represented among thisaugust group. They are or were all great Americans;highly intelligent and dedicated to doing good withincredible integrity. My association with each is apersonal badge of honor that I proudly carry. Yet ourpolitics today in America is broken and vile. I can-not find a political “home” in either party. My for-mer party celebrates and exalts the inanity andincompetence of Sarah Palin. No serious national

Republican figure can dare take on Sarah or hercheerleaders Rush or Beck and live to be on a presi-dential ballot. The other major party produced acandidate I happily voted for and hold out greathope for; yes, I am an Obamacan. But how can hesucceed as a national leader when his party is ledin the Congress by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?Where are you Ev Dirksen, Howard Baker, SamRayburn, Tip O’Neill, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan whenwe really need your kind? You all had your ownstrongly held ideology but you knew how to getthings done and were not fearful of reaching acrossthe aisle. What’s so “foreign” about that?

I hope that when my son celebrates his 50th in 2040this great country will have worked its way throughthis current political madness to a better place.

Thomas G. Troyer Thomas G. Troyer died onMarch 13, 1993.

Jonathan D. Tuerk 2605 Northampton St. NW,Washington, DC 20015, (202) 686-0424, «[email protected]» Spouse: Catherine Tuerk

I never truly felt at home in my two years spent in west Texas.

Tom Trimarco

Parkhurst Hall

Marshall E. Tulloch Marshall E. Tulloch died onOctober 16, 2000.

H. John Tully49 White Pond Boulevard, Beaufort, SC 29902, (843) 522-3287

John D. TurnerProf

3832 Orchard Street, Lincoln, NE 68503, (402) 464-9467, «[email protected] » Spouse: Elizabeth Sterns

Tom Van WinkleTom

PO Box 656, Honolulu, HI 96809, (808) 523-2529, «[email protected]» Spouse: Pat Van Winkle Occupation: Law, Carlsmith Ball LLP, PO Box 656, Honolulu, HI 96809, (808) 523-2629

Alden E. VanBuskirk Alden E. VanBuskirk died onDecember 11, 1961.

John VanBuskirk


Rauner Special Collections Library (Webster Hall)

Gary S. Vandeweghe5343 Greenside Drive, San Jose, CA 95127, (408) 251-6877 Spouse: Barbara M. Vandeweghe Occupation: Law, Self-Employed, 96 N 3rd Street, Suite 500, San Jose, CA 95112

Steven W. Vaughan Steven W. Vaughan died onApril 7, 1960.

David W. Vaules 29 Nelson Avenue, Cooperstown, NY 13326, (607) 547-8521, «[email protected]» Spouse: Martha P. Vaules Occupation: Health/Science

William A. Veech Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251,(713) 526-6158 Occupation: Education, Rice University, Math Dept. MS 136, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251, (713) 526-6158

Vincent H. VermootenBill

1412 Anthony Michael Drive, Lawrence, KS 66049, (785) 856-7615, «[email protected]» Spouse: Virginia Vermooten

Roger P. Vickery Jr.2960 Holyroad Drive, Oakland, CA 94611, (510) 530-0478, «[email protected]» Spouse: Richard J. Bodensteiner

Frank Virnelli 23 Lorena Road, Winchester, MA 01890, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: If I had to choose anepitaph, I’d like to be rememberedas a family man with a great loveof the outdoors. I was attracted toDartmouth because of its wonderfullocation and have had the goodfortune to be able to continue thehiking, camping, skiing, and canoe-ing (recently more kayaking) that I enjoyed as an under-graduate.Wife: I married UNH grad Judy Cochrane in 1961, the year


President Dickey mixes it up on 1960’s FreshmanTrip at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge

that I finished Dartmouth Medical School (then a two-yearschool). Career: I’ve practiced plastic surgery for 38 years and con-tinue working 25 to 30 hours a week.Major at Dartmouth: I had planned to major in historybut was unable to finish the major when I started medicalschool my senior year. I remain a student of history andhave always felt that I would have been a history teacher ifI hadn’t become a physician. I received my MD from Harvardin 1963.Dartmouth Activities: Crew, DOC

We’re approaching our 49th anniversary and hopeto have many years left to spend together. We havethree children and six grandchildren. Our daughter,Suzanne, is a Dartmouth ’86 and is a dermatologistpracticing in Winchester. Having her and her threechildren in the same town has been wonderful.

It’s hard to accept the fact that I’ve already becomeone of those geezers on the Green that I rememberseeing as a freshman over 50 years ago. Time can real-ly play tricks when you’re not paying attention. I’vecertainly been fortunate in the choice of my spouseand my profession. Judy and I are proud of our fam-ily and have been very lucky to be close enough tospend a lot of time with all our grandchildren.

I’ve cut back on the hours that I’m working to abouthalf of what they were during most of my career. I now have time to pursue more interests and havefound that I have to be careful not to volunteer fortoo many activities. I never realized before how easyit is to become over committed when you expect tohave extra time to enjoy yourself. Judy and I havebecome serious gardeners, and we enjoy spendinga lot of time at our cottage in New Hampshirewhere we stay active and entertain the grandchil-dren. Two of my favorite annual events include anOctober backpacking trip in the White Mountainswith friends who have been hiking together foralmost 35 years and a week skiing in the West withthe same group.

I’m currently preparing for a trip to Mali in WestAfrica to perform cleft lip repairs. Mali is a very poorcountry that doesn’t have a single surgeon who hasbeen trained to repair cleft lips. Our group, TheGlobal Smile Foundation, is making its third trip toBamako, the capital. We’re doing our best to teachthe ENT surgeons (we’ve worked with all eight inthe country) how to do the surgery, but it’s a Frenchspeaking country, and the language barrier has madeit difficult. Fortunately we have a few terrific inter-preters and I think that at least one surgeon is aboutready to start doing cases without our help. Thewhole experience of working in the third world hasbeen the most satisfying of my career. I’ve beenfortunate to be able to work in nine developingcountries and Mali has become my favorite project.

Whenever I think of my years at Dartmouth, Iremember what amazing opportunities were avail-able there and realize that I was too immature totake advantage of most of them. I’ve always been

proud of the school and owe it a lot. I’m lookingforward to renewing some of the great friendshipsthat were made at Dartmouth. It always seems thatI get to know some interesting people at reunionsthat I didn’t know at all when I was in Hanover.It’s a great place to go back to.

Robert J. Virostek Bob

24 Maddox Lane, Tupper Lake, NY 12986, (518) 359-3922, «[email protected]» Spouse: Susan B. Virostek


Frank Virnelli and Judy

Time can really play tricks when you’re not paying attention.

Frank Virnelli

Shattuck Observatory

Alexander C. von Summer Alexander C. von Summerdied on July 4, 1997.

(Ed. Note: Alexander was list-ed in our Green Book asAlexander C. Summer.)

William F. Wachter

W. Webb WadeWebb

4430 River Trail Road, Jacksonville, FL 32277, (904) 744-3933, «[email protected]»

Thomas W. Wahman711 Amsterdam Avenue, Apt. 27L,New York, NY 10025, (212) 749-8349, «[email protected]» Spouse: Susan Tabor Wahman

Allan R. Walker Al

120 Linden Avenue, Newark, NY 14513, (315) 331-9537 Spouse: Betsy J. Walker, R.N.

John T. Walker 3040 La Paz Lane, Unit A, Diamond Bar, CA 91765, «[email protected]», «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: I have had a long-standing interest in Europe, especial-ly German culture, since my daysas a German major at Dartmouth.In addition, I remain keenly interest-ed in international affairs, arguablyas an offshoot of John Sloan Dickey’srumored goal of making StateDepartment officials out of us all. His efforts resulted inalmost complete failure, in spite of the successful careers ofPaul Boeker, Dennis Goodman, and others. I subscribe to several German publications and continue toread in the German language every day. I am proud of hav-ing established the Study Abroad Program at my institutionand have traveled in Europe at least every other year for thelast two decades. I have maintained my ties to the institution through theDartmouth Club of Orange County (California), of which I was President (1986-88) and Alumni Council Representa-tive (1981-85).I remain involved in the publication of articles and book reviewsrelated to German-American relations, enthusiastically pursuingscholarly work that I expect to continue into retirement. Career: I began teaching the German language at FullertonCollege, a California community college, in 1963. Severalyears later I added Western and European histories, which I continue to this day since German enrollments are some-what anemic on the Left Coast. In September, I signed thecontract for my 46th consecutive year and I plan on teachingfor another two years. For 15 years in the middle of thattenure, however, I was the Dean of Instruction, an experiencethat greatly increased my appreciation of teaching. Family and Roots: I was born in Chicago and my wife wasborn in Waukegan (Illinois), but we are both products of ourfamily’s Route 66 migrations to California. We found eachother more than 20 years later. My dissertation advisor hadcounseled me at the onset of my studies of the value ofmaking friends with the librarians. While he did not suggestthat I should marry one, I did so, on my own volition. Six out of eight of our grandparents emigrated from Eastern


Europe. The most dramatic emigration was that of mypaternal grandfather, who deserted from the Austrian armyin approximately 1890. Rumor has it that the infamousAustrian bureaucracy is still looking for him.Our blended family consists of five children, two relativelyyoung women and three similarly young men, who rangefrom 37 to 45 years of age. We consider being parents themost delightfully positive factors in our lives. We are grand-parents to a female high school sophomore track “star” anda newly minted Marine.The death of my daughter, Janine, in 2005, was the mostdifficult event that I had to face in my life. She spent most ofher 30s fighting breast cancer, which she did with courageand optimism. I believe that I have been moderately success-ful in coming to terms with this loss. One consolation hasbeen my wife’s daughter, Kristin, who enjoyed a loving andoften playful relationship with Janine. As a sign of my lovefor Kristin, I legally adopted her this year, becoming a fatheragain at the age of 71. Wife: While Joy Wanden is my second wife, she is only inci-dentally my favorite librarian. More importantly, she is, intruth, the joy and love of my life and my best friend. Sheretired in 2009 as U.S. Training and Education Manager forthe OCLC Online Computer Library Center, a nonprofit,membership, computer library service, and research organi-zation serving more than 71,000 libraries and cultural her-itage institutions in 112 countries.Major at Dartmouth: At Dartmouth I majored in Germanlanguage and literature, inspired by Professor Frank Ryder andamused by Professor Schlossmacher (affectionately known as“Schlossie”). I received an MA in German language and litera-ture from the University of Southern California, an MA in historyfrom the University of California at Irvine, and a PhD in historyat the same institution. I wrote my dissertation on Bismarck’sRussian policy during the unification years in Germany.Dartmouth Activities: In truth, I was fairly inert at Dart-mouth. However, “Schlossie” dragooned me into his Germania (the German club), which I very much enjoyed.Very soon after my arrival in Hanover, I fell in love with theCollege and succumbed to the beauty of New England. Ithink that it is safe to say that I visited the various villagesand regions beyond Hanover more than many of my peers,thanks largely to one of my New England classmates to whomI shall always be indebted.

In my senior year I spent the fall term in Freiburg,Germany, where I was hosted by a marvelous Germanfamily who helped me to ingest the language aswell as copious amounts of Southern Germancooking. Over the years, I have maintained contin-uous contact with this family; in fact, the grand-daughter spoke at my 70th birthday celebrationlast year. I recall what President Dickey repeatedlysaid about the importance of “place” in one’s life.

My two “places” are clearly New England andSouthern Germany. One could say that both NewEngland and Southern Germany have been majorinterests throughout my life.

“Where have all the hours gone?” While in gradu-ate school I read the usual ancient poets wholamented the fleeting nature of time. But I wasunmoved by their complaints, chiefly because I wasin my early twenties and could not comprehendthat I would ever plan to attend our 50th reunion.Therefore, I approach our reunion with gratitudeand in anticipation.

One of the aspects of Dartmouth that I found mostappealing has been the quality and diversity of myclassmates, not to mention the frequency of delight-ful eccentricities. I am looking forward to meetingyou in Hanover, so many years after our initialmeetings at venerable Webster Hall and commonmeals in decrepit College Hall in the fall of 1956.


John Walker and Joy

Commons, College Hall

I found most appealing the quality anddiversity of my classmates, not to mention the frequency of delightful eccentricities.

John Walker

Robert J. Wangbichler12790 Lakeview Road, Bear Lake, MI 49614, (231) 889-5550 Occupation: Automotive

Gail L. Warden250 Washington Road, Grosse Pointe, MI 48230, (313) 881-2615, «[email protected]» Spouse: Lois J. Warden Occupation: Education, U. Michigan School of Public Health,109 South Observatory, M3218 SPH 11, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, (734) 764-1920

William S. Watson Sad news comes from Mel-bourne, Australia, that ourclassmate, William S. Watson,died on March 27, 2004, of thecomplications of lung cancer.Our classmate, Jon Cohen, alongtime friend, was able to goto Australia to see him abouta month before he died.

Bill realized a lifelong dream ofa career in international bank-ing and business, living in Australia the last 30years of his life. He and his family were grantedAustralian citizenship, although they retained theirAmerican citizenship as well. His wife, Clarisse(“Pinky”), who was from San Francisco, told me thatafter their business tour in Australia, they had beenslated to return to the U.S. East Coast, but they hada family meeting and decided they wanted to remainin their beautiful home outside Melbourne. Bill andPinky’s children, John and Tori (her full name actu-ally is Victoria, the name of the Australian state inwhich she was born), grew up in Australia, and Torinot long ago married an Australian farmer.

Bill was a fixture in the business life of Melbourne,very active in cultural affairs and American-Australian

relations. Three hundred friends attended his funer-al, and the American consul-general in the citypresented Pinky there with an American flag inBill’s honor.

Our classmate, Gordon Haw, who was Bill’s room-mate when they were both attending the Tuckschool, sent me this remembrance of his old friend,and here it is, lightly abridged:

Bill was born of Scottish parents in MountVernon, N.Y., in lower Westchester County ...He attended the Loomis School before Dartmouth.At Dartmouth, Bill was an international affairsmajor and graduated from Tuck with honors inaccounting ... He was also cox for the Varsitylightweight crew. He was a member of Phi Taufraternity. He graduated from the Army ROTCprogram. Aside from being a wonderful personin every way, Bill infected everyone around himwith his biting sense of humor. Even today, manyof us walk around with nicknames, not alwayscomplimentary, that Bill assigned to us. ‘I onlykid people I like,’ he said.

I met Bill in ROTC class our sophomore year ...Early on, we planned a trip to Europe at the endof our senior year. We made the three-monthtrip along with Jim Sanford ’59, Dave Hodson ’60,and Butch Small ’61, covering all of Europe for$1,000 apiece. Bill was an Army officer out ofROTC, getting infantry and intelligence trainingand serving in strategic planning for the 82ndAirborne Division at Fort Bragg.

He began his banking career in 1963 in theInternational Department of Irving Trust Co. Hestarted working the Middle East and thenswitched to Asia. He married Pinky Lawrence, afellow worker ... In between assignments to Aus-tralia and the Philippines, he and Pinky lived inRamsey and Ridgewood, N.J. He and his familyleft the Philippines under threats to their lives.Bill explained that he must have done a goodjob uncovering fraud as he was replaced by fivepeople from New York. Don’t mess with a Tuckaccounting major ... Subsequently, Bill workedfor State Street Bank in Boston and Bank ofBoston in Australia. When he retired, he wasworking with Bank of New York in Melbourne.

Bill was a lot more than an American expatriatein Australia ... He was well known by everyonein banking and business circles. He had an excel-lent reputation as a hard-working professionalbanker, humorist and beer consumer, qualitiesmuch appreciated by his fellow Aussies.” Billmade it back home to attend several Dartmouthreunions and sent his regrets for missing thelast one.



“Round the girdled Earth indeed.” (Ed).

Clarisse (Pinky) Watson of Melbourne, Australia,feels that although her Bill has ridden to the greatRailroad Junction in the sky, he would like to beremembered by the Class as a storyteller whose wifewrites fondly about him as follows:

I wasn’t around when my Bill was at Dartmouth.Thank God, I probably never would have mar-ried him. Here’s my favourite Dartmouth datingstory, amongst all the thousands of stories I heardfrom him and from his friends.

I think the poor girl was from Green MountainJr. College (the Groin? Such refined young menof Dartmouth). In the event, she was from someplace that was far enough away that she had totake the train to Hanover for whatever weekendit was. Bill decided it would be amusing to arriveat the train station dressed in his pyjamas. Whichhe did, carrying a sign with the poor girl’s nameon it. She got off the train, big smile on face, forher blind date with a Man of Dartmouth, tooka look at the sign, the sign’s holder, and turnedright ’round and got back on the train, never tobe seen again. Bill never even got to speak to her.

And who could blame her? Can you imagine sucha thing even remotely happening to the Class of2010? First of all, even the concept of pyjamas!Just a thought; fond for me. I loved him so.

Oh, and does your Axel have a relative who is apretty great jazz musician here in Australia? Hegoes by the name Paul Grabowsky. Now thatwould be just too much!

Best, Pinky Watson

Hugh H.C. Weed III914 Kilkenny Drive, Wheaton, IL 60189, «[email protected]»

Charles A. Weeks 1115 Quinn Street, Jackson, MS 39202Life’s Pursuits: Teacher, scholar-writer, travelerCareer: Teacher Major at Dartmouth: History.Advanced degrees include an AMfrom the University of Michigan (his-tory) and a PhD (Latin-Americanhistory) from Indiana UniversityDartmouth Activities: Member ofthe Dartmouth College Band (marching and concert); mem-ber of the Cosmopolitan Club, president of same senior year;member of student vestry of St. Thomas Episcopal Churchsenior year

Much of what I’ve done can be explained by theopportunities Dartmouth afforded. I have been ateacher, in part because of the kind of environmentand education the College provided. I came tobelieve strongly in a liberal education that encour-ages seeing connections and relations. A move toMississippi came about in part because I liked theprospect of helping to shape a humane letters orhumanities program that stresses engaging textswhatever they might be is some kind of syncretizingand sequential form. More formal education lead-ing to the advanced degrees came about because of teaching and wanting to know more about whatI was talking about. Travel has been part of thatlarger endeavor. Doing two books and some other

Charles Weeks


writing have produced no monetary gain, but theyhave been further ways to learn. And, meeting andcoming to know some wonderful people, includingDartmouth folks, has done even more. Happily, allthose activities continue.

Kenneth E. WegKen

2614 Tamiami Trail North, #701, Naples, FL 34103, (239) 643-5357, «[email protected]» Spouse: Carolyn Weg Occupation: Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical

Dudley J. Weider Eric Sailer and some friendswere waiting on the evening ofFebruary18, 2005, at a cabin inthe Dartmouth College Grantfor the arrival of their class-mate, Dud Weider, for the week-end when someone stopped byto say he had just noticed abody on the ski trail into theGrant. Eric and the others spedto the scene, but it was too lateto revive Dudley J. Weider, one of the most promi-nent members of the Class of 1960. He was 66.

An autopsy showed Dud had died, probably instan-taneously, of a massive heart attack and may havehad a small heart attack he didn’t notice a weekbefore about the time he had skied 60 miles in theCanadian Cross-Country Marathon.

Dud, an otolaryngological (ear, eye, nose, andthroat) surgeon and a member of the DartmouthMedical School faculty since 1989, was one of themost respected medical authorities in the Hanoverarea. He was known not only for having served as apresident and trustee of the Grafton County MedicalSociety, but for his dozens of innovative articles inmedical publications and his hundreds of lectures, aswell as being a compassionate, hardworking surgeon.

Class President Rick Roesch said, “Dud would havebeen on my list of the last five guys left standing inour class. When we spoke, Eric Sailer recalled theirski-across-Greenland trip, when Eric backed outfrom fatigue and cold, but Dud pushed on despite afrozen foot and finished the traverse. Just last week-end, Dud had completed a ski marathon in Canada.

As Eric said, he died as he would have wanted,with his skis on.”

Our former class president, Jim Adler, declared, “Weare blessed to be part of a Dartmouth class thatboasts a great many men (and women) who haveled fully productive lives and made remarkable con-tributions to their families, friends, and communi-ties. But even in that rich assembly, Dud Weider wasnearly without peer. Oh my, how we will miss him.”

Dud, the president of the Hanover Lions club andthe Church of Christ at Dartmouth, got his medicaldegree at Tufts and worked several years in Alaskaand near where he grew up in Ohio before comingto Hanover to practice at the Hitchcock Clinic andultimately two other hospitals as well. There weremany testimonials to his warm treatment of patientsand his many favors to people, inside the Class andout, who needed quick medical treatment.

He was a doctor’s doctor and the member of count-less medical groups, but also he was known as aremarkably enthusiastic sportsman and athleticendurance participant. As the Valley News was torecord in its lengthy obituary, Dud performed alpine,telemark, and Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, hiking,mountain climbing, fishing, speed skating, inlineskating, biking, and running. Three times, the firsttime when he was a Dartmouth student, Dud bikedfrom Hanover to Cleveland, He ran in the BostonMarathon and the first marathon ever run inAntarctica, among others, and he climbed Mt.McKinley, the highest peak in North America, in1996 and Mount Rainier in 2001, rescuing lost hik-ers during the McKinley climb. For 31 years, Dudwas a member of the Geriatric Adventure Society,and he used to mow his lawn carrying a backpackfull of rocks to keep himself in condition. He alsotraveled widely.

Dud’s sudden death provoked a major outpouringof tributes from the Class in answer to the news.

Jim Pollard said, “Residents of the Hanover-Lebanonarea have lost an excellent physician and surgeonand a wonderful friend and neighbor.”

“Dudley was a truly remarkable member of ourClass, and a meaningful contributor to the good ofsociety,” said Roger Schaefer.

Dick Chase thanked him for helping to find doctorsand timely medical care in cases of sudden need andsaid, “I count myself lucky to have been able to getto know him a little bit over these several years.”

John Mitchell remembered, “He saved my life,rushing me past the gatekeepers to Hitchcock for aheart fix. We became fast friends. His generosityknew no bounds ... Dr. Johnson says, “natureabhors a vacuum.” But the God who made us allwill be hard pressed to fill the space he occupiedwith such vigor and love of life.”

And Gerry Huttrer messaged from Colorado, “Onbehalf of all the skiing Dartmouth ’60s in Vail, pleaseextend our very sincere condolences to Dud’s wifeand family ... His unexpected death will serve as areminder to all of us to continue doing things weenjoy ... to smell the roses, as it were, while we arelucky enough to continue to do so.”

Dud Weider is survived by his wife Joan, of 41 years,a son, David, two daughters, Mary Feia and HeidiNichols, and five grandchildren. The family suggest-ed contributions in his memory to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the Norris Cotton CancerCenter, or the Church of Christ at Dartmouth.

Obituary from the Valley News:

Hanover—Dr. Dudley Johnston Weider, 66, diedsuddenly on Friday, Feb. 18, 2005, while skiing intothe Dartmouth Grant. He was born in Norwalk,Ohio, on July 20, 1938, a son of Mary Janet(Johnston) Rogers and Nathaniel Rogers. He gradu-ated from Bay Village High School in Ohio, wherehe was a member of the undefeated football teamand competed in speed skating. He received anundergraduate degree in 1960 from DartmouthCollege, where he was a member of Delta UpsilonFraternity and joined Church of Christ his freshmanyear. He received a medical degree from Tufts Uni-versity Medical School in 1964. On June 15, 1963,he was married to Joan Downing of Akron, Ohio.

After the completion of medical school and a rotat-ing internship at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cleveland,he was a staff physician and then a service unitdirector at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospitalin Kotzebue, Alaska. He completed his residency inotolaryngology at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland.At the end of his residency, he returned with hisfamily to Alaska as a staff physician at the AlaskaNative Medical Center in Anchorage, where hebecame the chief of otolaryngology.

In 1974, he returned with his family to the UpperValley, where he joined the Hitchcock Clinic. Hewas a member of the Dartmouth Medical Schoolfaculty, becoming professor of surgery in 1989. Hewas a member of Mt. Ascutney Hospital staff from1988 to the present, and of Alice Peck Day Memo-rial Hospital staff from 1992 to the present.

He was a physician dedicated to his patients, givingtirelessly of his time providing compassionate care.Whether he was easing the fears of young childrenby wearing bear-claw slippers into surgery or meet-ing patients in need at all hours of the day or night,he consistently shared his warmth and concern forall who came under his care.

Dr. Weider was a member of the American Academyof Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, the Amer-ican College of Surgeons, The Triologic, the A.M.A.Centurion Club Deafness Research Foundation, the


Elms lining North Main Street (also known as Faculty Avenue or Faculty Row); View looking south along theGreen, circa 1895.

Reserve Commission Officers Association of theU.S. Public Health Service, the New Hampshire andGrafton County medical societies, the New EnglandOtolaryngological Society, the New HampshireFoundation for Medical Care, the New HampshireSociety of Otolaryngology and Maxillo-Facial Sur-gery, the Society of University OtolaryngologistsHead and Neck Surgeons, the Hitchcock Founda-tion, SENTAC, the American Otological Society,the American Neurootological Society, the AmericanRhinologic Society, Alpha Omega Alpha HonorMedical Society, Societas Baranyensis, Neurootolog-ical and Equilibriometric Society Reg, and the NewEngland Medical Association.

He was secretary and treasurer of the Grafton CountyMedical Society from 1978 to 1984, vice presidentin 1984, and president in 1985. He was secretary ofthe New Hampshire Medical Society from 1984 to1988, vice president in 1989, president in 1990, anda trustee from 1988 until his death. He was presidentof the New Hampshire Society of Otolaryngologyand Maxillo-Facial Surgery in 1983. He was a mem-ber of the American College of Surgeons Nominat-ing Committee. He was a delegate to the Board ofGovernors of the American Academy of Otolaryn-gology and Head & Neck Surgery Inc. from 1985, amember of the Prosper Meniere Society from 1994,and a councilor to the executive committee of theNew England Otolaryngology Society from 1998,all until he died.

He published dozens of professional papers, was acontributor to several chapters in books and gavehundreds of lectures in his field.

He was the current president of the Hanover LionsClub and a member of Church of Christ at Dart-mouth College. Dr. Weider was a deeply spiritualman, and his involvement in the church was animportant and fulfilling part of his life. He was amember of the Lake Mitchell Trout Club, the Mont-shire Speed Skating Club, and for 31 years an enthu-siastic member of the Geriatric Adventure Society.

He made annual fishing trips with friends to remotefishing spots in Canada.

While at Dartmouth College, he biked from Hanoverto Cleveland. He repeated the trip when his son,David, was in high school and when his daughter,Heidi, was in middle school. He and his son rodethrough England and Scotland, meeting up period-ically with his wife and daughters. He participatedin the Audrey Prouty Century Ride every year. Twoyears ago, he purchased a folding bike so he couldtake it with him wherever he went, including thelake region of Italy. One of his great joys was goingon long in-line skating excursions with his daugh-ter, Mary. In the last few years, he participated inDartmouth track events, competing with the weight

and hammer. He was always eager and willing tojoin any activity, from soccer with his children andgrandchildren to headstand contests. Dr. Weider wasan avid reader and also enjoyed playing the piano.

Dr. Weider enjoyed his world travels with his wifeat his side. He loved being able to see different cul-tures, meet and learn about new people, and trydifferent things, including bungee jumping in NewZealand at age 60. He also enjoyed going to SanibelIsland, Fla., each year with family and friends.Despite his professional commitments, he alwaysmanaged to support his children and grandchildrenin their activities. A member of the Mixed NutsSupper Club, he loved having people over to hishome for dinner.

He is survived by his wife of Hanover; a son, DavidWeider of Thetford; two daughters, Mary Feia ofMenomonie, Wis., and Heidi Nichols of Lyme; asister, Nathalie Bridegam of Amherst, Mass.; fivegrandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.He was predeceased by his mother, Mary JanetWeider; his adoptive father, Roger Weider; and hisfather, Col. Nathaniel Rogers.

Contributions may be made to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center or Norris Cotton CancerCenter, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH03756; the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College,40 College St., Hanover, NH 03755; or the charityof one’s choice.


Prof. Al Foley in Dartmouth Hall

E. Richard WeilerDick

39 Hilliards Hay Way, West Barnstable, MA 02668, (508) 362-2963, «[email protected]» Spouse: Judith C. Weiler

Charles F. WeingartnerChuck

301 Hazelnut Street, Winter Springs, FL 32708, (407) 366-5790 Spouse: Jeannine Weingartner Occupation: Chemicals

Tay J. Weinman «[email protected]» Spouse: Shirley Jean Weinman Occupation: Health/Science, Tay Weinman MD Inc., San Pedro Eye Care Associates, 571 West 7th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731, (310) 833-1327

Henry Walter Weiss Henry Walter Weiss died onNovember 3, 1991.

Martin H. Weiss Marty

357 Georgian Road, Flintridge, CA 91011, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: My focus has beenprimarily family, friends and profes-sion; and I have been fortunate inhaving some success at each of these. Career: Medical School at Cornell,Class of ’63. I have spent my pro-fessional life in academic medicine(Neurosurgery) starting at Case Western Reserve UniversityMedical School. Residency there and then at the Universityof Southern California School of Medicine since 1973.With outstanding support from friends and colleagues (anda lot of good luck), I became Professor & Chairman of Neu-rosurgery at USC in 1978 and was then honored with anendowed chair in my name by the Wrigley family. I steppeddown from the chairmanship of the Department in 2004 butstill hold the endowed chair and continue to operate andteach. Along the way, I was in the “right place at the righttime” for a number of opportunities resulting in Chairman-ships of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, theResidency Review Committee for Neurosurgery, the Neurolo-gy B Study Section of the NIH along with the presidencies ofthe American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and theSociety of Neurological Surgeons. As a consequence of theseopportunities, I was awarded the Cushing Medal (AANS),the Jamieson Medal (Austral-Asian Neurosurgical Society),and the Cloward Medal (Western Neurosurgical Society).My most fulfilling job outside of our department has been asfounding Editor of an online journal (Neurosurgical Focus),now the world’s most widely read neurosurgical journal (thepower of the Internet). All in all, it has been a satisfying andrewarding experience.


Martin Weiss and Debby on top of the Perito MerinoGlacier, Patagonia, 2009 (white spots are snowflakes!)


Family and Roots: Married Debby Rosenthal in 1961. Shestarted at Wheaton College (’63) but transferred and grad-uated from NYU while I was in medical school. We areblessed with three wonderful children (Brad, Jessica, andElisabeth) and six beautiful grandchildren. Brad (AB, Dart-mouth ’84; PhD, University of Chicago ’93) is a Professorand Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at theCollege of William and Mary; Jessica (U.C. Berkeley ’87) is adevelopment officer at a private school outside of Washington,D.C., and runs a program (Yogamoms) for pregnant women;and Elizabeth (Northwestern ’89) is an independent filmproducer in San Francisco. Brad has a son (Ezra), Jessicahas two daughters (Madison and Kendall) and Elisabeth hasthree daughters (Hilary, Lucy, and Carlyn).Wife/Partner: R(uth) Debora (Debby Rosenthal) Weiss;married 1961; English Degree from NYU (’63); taughtbriefly after we were married. Active volunteer for medicalschool activities and vigorous ballet student and supporter.Major at Dartmouth and Subsequent Education: EnteredDartmouth Medical School after our junior year and there-fore AB, ’60, B.M.S., ’61. Transferred to Cornell (NYC), MD’63. Internship (General Surgery) and residency (Neuro-surgery) at University Hospitals of Cleveland (Case WesternReserve University) (1963-1970) with two years on activeduty in the Army (1964-1966) as a surgeon at West Point. Dartmouth Activities: Major activity was Marching Bandand Orchestra. Delighted to see how well many friendsfrom these activities (Marc Loveman, Pete Schwartz, DonLandzettal, and Bruce Hasenkamp) have done.

All in all, Dartmouth was a positive experience. Iwas focused on my studies and my social life tooka “back seat” (no pun intended). As I reflect uponthose years, I believe that we would have been abetter place if co-education existed at that time; andI strongly believe that the decision to become a co-ed institution was the right thing to do. The Collegecontinues to evolve in a positive fashion with broadopportunities for all of the students including out-standing educational offerings and a “real life” envi-ronment for the student community. I have workedfor 36 years at a university (USC) that many wouldconsider having a “successful” football program. Asa team physician, I have cared for a number of All-Americans, Heisman Trophy winners, and NFL Hallof Famers. However, the advances in academic pro-grams, competitive student enrollment, and schol-arly pursuits of the faculty under the enlightenedleadership of our past three presidents have donemore to enhance the stature of the University withrespect to top-notch student recruitment and recog-nition by the community of scholars than havenational championships or Rose Bowl victories.Dartmouth’s recent selection as the country’s #1undergraduate educational institution should makeus all proud and enthusiastic in our support. In theend, that’s what it’s all about.

I do wish all of you long life and good health toenjoy it!

Donald M. Weitzman After an unusual and tragicdisease of seven years, ourclassmate Donald M. Weitzmandied on October 31, 2003, inStamford, Conn., of the com-plications of Dementia withLewi Bodies. This has aspectsof both Parkinson’s andAlzheimer’s, and although itmay not even be known tomany of us, it is considered byscientists to be the second most frequent cause ofdementia in elderly adults.And not so elderly.

At 58, a talented lawyer mainly in matrimonial casesfrom his two-man law firm in Morristown, N.J., Donbegan to lose his power to speak words and even-tually could only speak in numbers. His wonderfulwife of 42 years, Harriet, told us in a class note twoyears ago how difficult Don’s condition had become,although she said there were moments where theold Don was present. The last 10 months of his life,however, he could not communicate at all.

Don wrote memorably in our Class’s Musings in 1985,remarking, “A law practice dominated by matrimoni-al law has taught me to try to work at my marriage,and as a result, and with the help and similar attitudeof a good wife, I’ve maintained a comfortable stabili-ty in a world of chaos and broken relationships. It isa world largely centered on three good children whohave given us no heartache and much joy.”

Don, who got his law degree at Columbia Universityand who in Morristown was also president of hissynagogue, had come to Hanover from Newark. AtDartmouth, he was an enthusiastic participant inCrew, a producer for the campus radio station,WDCR, and a member of the TEP fraternity.

Rollins Chapel

His friend, Alan Friedman, remembered that he wasvery fond of skiing, and his sophomore and juniorroommate in Hitchcock, Richard Ossen, rememberedin a recent tribute that he had many enthusiasms.

“Donnie was a great guy and had a marvelous senseof humor,” he wrote. “He was always upbeat, lookedon the bright side of things and was really up onmost subjects, particularly sports. Anyone who satnext to him at a football or basketball game knowswhat I mean. He was one of the few people whocould out-talk me, according to another classmate.”

Two of Don’s children, his son, Jeff, and his daugh-ter, Deborah, graduated from Dartmouth in theclasses of ’85 and ’86. His son recalled of his father,“He loved Dartmouth. He was overwhelmed withpride when we went there. He loved to sing thesongs and tell the stories of the games. He and Momeven brought a condo at Quechee while we wereup there.”

Jeff remembered Don as “a gentle man in a toughpractice,” which lasted decades after he foundedhis firm in 1968. He needed many psychologicalskills, he recalled, in dealing with so many clientsin distress.

In addition to Harriet, Jeff and Deborah, Don issurvived by a second daughter, Lisa, and six grand-children, one born very recently.

Peter W. WerdenPO Box 278, Orient, NY 11957, (631) 323-0165

John R. Wheaton1831Rockwood Drive, Sacramento, CA 95864, (916) 359-7223, «[email protected]» Life’s Pursuits: I still ski, fly-fish,bird-hunt, and golf; been to all sevencontinents; gone on a Rotary medicalmission; manage family Sierra cabin;and visit the East Coast where son’sfamily lives, and try to keep upwith personal business interests. Career: After three years with theU.S. Army, I worked with the Honolulu-based Dillingham

Corporation for 17 years in finance and energy, as well asdoing a stint at the Stanford Business School. We moved toSacramento from Honolulu with a Dillingham subsidiary in1974 and we stayed. I worked with the 1984 Los AngelesOlympic Organizing Committee. Afterwards I pursued myinterest in smaller companies by becoming involved with a healthcare finance company, a natural gas explorationcompany, and a financial advisory concern. Family and Roots: William Rufus Wheaton was a lawyerin New York, and with a group of friends came to Californiaby ship (213 days) in 1849. At first he sought gold, but hefound the mercantile business was the way to go. WilliamRufus was married, and he brought his family West later.My mother’s family came to California in the early 1880swith the U.S. Geodetic Survey. Family: Jane Railton and I met in Honolulu in August 1966and were married in February 1967. Our son Cal, with hiswife Aimee, a doctor, and their three young daughters livenorth of Baltimore, where he is in the finance arena. Ourdaughter, Mele, is pursuing her PhD in Science Education atthe University of California at Santa Cruz. Major at Dartmouth: Engineering Science through MSdegree. Luckily at Dartmouth, an engineering student getsa broad liberal arts background as well as the engineering. Dartmouth Activities: Lightweight Crew, Dartmouth OutingClub, Ski Patrol, Theta Delta Chi

Three of us from our high school class of 24 at theThacher School in Ojai, California, went to Dart-mouth in the fall of 1956. They were Peter Farquhar,Trudcie Morrison, and I. Trudcie left the Class earlyand went on to a very successful career in interna-tional grain from Minnesota. Peter and I ultimatelyreturned to California where we stay in contact atthe “Left Coast Lunches” as just one such opportu-nity. As the lunches testify, there is a great bondingwithin our Class and among all Dartmouth alumni.Just yesterday (August ’09), I was hiking in the Sier-ras with my ski club when I noticed a guest wearinga cap with “D25” on it. “Dartmouth?” I asked. Sureenough, he had recently returned from his ’25 classreunion. Instantly a friendship developed, along


John Wheaton and Jane

with his wife and family. That is how it has beeneverywhere we have lived or traveled. From gather-ings in Honolulu to making acquaintances on a tripto Antarctica, Dartmouth people have had thisstrong tie, stronger than any other college I know.Of course, we all recognize this to be true.

Dartmouth does some things right! It is interestingto me that Dartmouth alumni include two Secretariesof the Treasury (who have recently shaped the coun-try’s financial future), the current CEO of the largestindustrial company in America, the editor of theEditorial Page of the Wall Street Journal, and an out-spoken liberal (by his own labeling) professor ofpublic policy and past Secretary of Labor. Very dif-ferent views of the world are within this group, buteach had the Dartmouth experience. They went onto develop their own philosophies, on the right andon the left, and each became a leader. I think thisspeaks wonders for Dartmouth and its education.We can find similar contrasts in the Class of ’60.

Here are a few lasting memories from my days atDartmouth. The four-man room at the top of SouthMass where Farquhar, Hackley, Yeager, and Wheatonhung out our sophomore year; rowing on theConnecticut River; cramming for exams in a roomat the top of McNutt; skiing at the Skiway and atgood ol’ Oak Hill; and the fellowship at Theta Delt.The experience was wonderful!

Douglas W. WhitneyDoug

38 Dewey Avenue, Fairport, NY 14450, (585) 377-8167, «[email protected]» Spouse: Jean Ann Whitney Occupation: Law, 12 Pleasant Street, Fairport, NY 14450, (585) 223-2170

David S. Wiggins9582 Drumbeat Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92646, (714) 968-5071

Daniel F. Wilkinson1255 Lynnfield Road, Ste. 295, Memphis, TN 38119, (901) 485-1795«[email protected]»

Your April 2009 MusingsUnlimited invitation arrived.Being long removed from theHanover campus, and havingbriefly returned one time (40thReunion), my contact with theCollege has been very limited.I can’t say I really loved Dartmouth; I certainlydon’t despair of her, but I really don’t wallow inindifference about her. Mainly through the media(not through what I receive directly from Dart-mouth), I do have an interest and do still very muchvalue my four-year experience in Hanover, NewHampshire. There are several things, as they relateto me that I have learned about life.

First, my good health is attributable to the fact thatI have never stopped working and am still employedat the same company for which I began working in1960. Fortunately, my name is in the company’sname, and they are hard-pressed to retire me, fireme, or get rid of me. This luxury affords me theopportunity to come to work every day and to enjoythat opportunity and that experience more andmore as I grow older. The remarkable thing is thatevery now and then, I am even slightly productive.

The second thing I have learned is that modernmedicine may keep us alive, but we need to be verycareful, as we grow older, to make sure we also keepour distance from the medical profession! Havingsurvived a malignant melanoma, almost 40 yearsago, I certainly appreciate the effectiveness of what


Another Alumni Fund drawing by Dr. Seuss ’25

doctors can do for you. However, as we grow older,those contemporaries of mine who regularly visitdoctors are buried in a sea of medications; I havecome to the conclusion that frequent visits to doc-tors only gives them more opportunities to findsomething wrong with us and prescribe, in somecases, medications that don’t really benefit us.

The third thing that comes to my mind is the factthat all of us need to have an avocation that givesus the chance to try to excel at something otherthan the way we make our living. For me, this hasbeen music, and I am very fortunate in that mymusic has given me the opportunity to play profes-sionally in most of the United States, several timesin Europe, and Alaska and Hawaii as well. I am cur-rently dabbling with some very adept performersin Nashville and am turning more and more tocountry music. I am very fortunate that some of thecountry artists playing today have taken a liking tomy style of banjo (it’s such an old style that theyhave never heard it before), and this gives me some-thing new to do.

I have no idea whether or not I will make it to our50th and will cross that bridge at some future date.At this point, my experience at our 40th was pleas-ant and rewarding; and when the time comes, I willprobably opt, one more time, to try to renew someacquaintances that I have not been able to pursuein many, many years.

Nathan B. Witham Siekenweg 29, 37603 Holzminden, Germany, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: 1960-1961, U.S.Army, Ft. Benning; 1961, Eighth andlast summer lobstering; 1962-1964Peace Corps volunteer, DominicanRepublic; 1964-1966, Ohio Univer-sity (MA, 1966); 1965/1966, sum-mer jobs in Berlin; 1966-1967,Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison; 1967-1969 Peace Corps staff, Chile;1970-1972 Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison (PhD, 1973);1972-2005 Landschulheim am Solling; 2005, Retired inHolzminden, GermanyCareer: Secondary school teacher of history and socialstudiesFamily and Roots: Two sons, Michael Richard and DavidKlaus; two grandchildren, Alexander Cornell and AltheaCharlotteWife: Frauke Hildegard Bärbel Schmidt WithamMajor at Dartmouth: HistoryDartmouth Activities: WDCR

Not really an essay but things that have stayed withme over the years for one reason or another and inno particular order include the following:

A long walk in snowy woods with my younger sonafter he had failed a French exam through no faultof his own.

Riding through leafy green on the first day of sum-mer vacation to the Lincoln County Fairground.

The first time I saw my wife, across the room at alakeside restaurant in Berlin.

Teaching Sunday school at the White Church inHanover.

Failing to strap another guy’s rifle under his harnessbefore a training jump with full equipment.

Trying inconspicuously to look inside Ivern’s sleeve-less dress in high school biology class.

Exploring the waters of Oléron with my older son.

Surviving a traffic accident outside San Juan de laMaguana with only a wrecked shoulder.

Seeing a fog bank turn black as a northwest squallcaught me unawares and threatened to drive meall the way across to Metinicus.

An open-air performance of Schubert’s happy ThirdSymphony in Bevern’s Renaissance courtyard

Taking picnic lunches to the Desembocadura, wherethe Bío-Bío flows into the Pacific

Hallucinating after heart surgery that I had becomechairman of the Kenyan cricket board.

Discovering that St. Martin in the Fields is actuallyon Trafalgar Square.


Nathan Witham

Cecil L. Wittson Jr.163 East 74th Street, Apt. 4R, New York, NY 10021, (212) 249-4181 Occupation: Petroleum

Roger C. Wolf450 North Mountainside Place, Tucson, AZ 85745, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Yakking with wifeCheryl, kids and grandkids, swim-ming, birding, travel, AudubonSociety, two dogs, friends and rela-tives, adulation of Obama, reading,playing harmonica, campingCareer: Peace Corps in Bolivia, legalaid lawyer on Tohono reservationnear Tucson, general practice of law,and then immigration law until retirement, all in TucsonFamily: Wife is Cheryl Lockhart, a masterful English teacher.We were married in 1975 whereupon I became the dad totwo fine sons, both of whom live in Tucson. Tarik took overand multiplied my immigration law practice and has six kids,and Tim is into politics and negotiation training with SAB. My father was Ted Wolf, Dartmouth ’30. Wife and I visitedthe Wolf ancestral home in Freinsheim, Pfalz, Germany, anda beautiful wine town. My mother died last year at age 100and was a proud descendant of Ben Franklin. Brother Pete,retired judge, lives by the Chesapeake Bay. Major: I was an English major at Dartmouth. Activities: I was on the freshman swimming team and thevarsity rifle team, in a fraternity.

I launched from the Green that June in 1960, thetypical, maybe even ideal, Dartmouth Man. I wenton to law school. But first I was off to the far Northto cool my heels with an adventurous summer jobat Resolute Bay in the Canadian Arctic.

In law school, I read the cases, took the exams, didnot drop out when I almost failed real property, andgot the degree. Then the West, and a Smith gradu-ate there, lured. I turned down a job as an armedgumshoe at the FBI and dutifully resisted trying torelive my two happy law school summers as a parkranger at Old Faithful. I kept my man-hat and but-ton-down shirt in deep closet at my first job with ano-necktie law firm in Tucson while I waited outthe bar residency requirements. I didn’t even lookat the big eastern law firms.

The Smith Wife and I soon were on our way toSouth America. I heard the call from JFK somemonths after he died. The Peace Corps was theFrench Foreign Legion: adventure, learning a lan-guage, and foreign travel, while not getting shot at.We trained in Seattle, stored our stuff at theMayflower warehouse, and boarded Panagra fordusty La Paz, Bolivia.

We were barely acclimated to that air at 12,500feet when it was time for a revolution. We stayedout of sight with our host family and sneaked apeek out the window at some strafing. After that,though, we did get to see a lot of Bolivia’s andSouth America’s amazing Andean geography andethnography. But teaching English and giving a fewpoorly attended law lectures got stale after a year anda half, especially after my last lecture where onlytwo people, Nancy being one of them, endured myYankee take on La Educación y la Profesión delAbogado. The Peace Corps-issued book lockers losttheir dissolute charm. We left a little early, swallow-ing the ignominy the Peace Corps ladled out at us.I got a terrible job in Washington, D.C., at theDept. of the Interior, where I dealt gingerly with theU.S. territories, a junket to the South Pacific notwith-standing. I even saw Secretary Stuart Udall once.Eric Anderson ’60 was somewhere in the buildingtoo. The job was like waiting table in Hollywood.

So in 1967 it was back to Tucson. Legal aid for thepoor had by 1967 begun to flourish with the waron poverty, so here was still another way to avoidthe oppressive tedium of the country club and thelawyer money track. I became the head and onlylawyer on the Tohono Indian reservation and firedsome juicy federal lawsuits at the abuses the NativeAmericans endured, such as cutting off their work-welfare wholesale because there were reports of let-tuce to pick 120 miles away.

The plot, the pot smoke, and the sexual revolutionthickened when the marriage thinned in 1969. I


Roger Wolf and Cheryl Lockhart, September 2009

went into private practice in a counter-culture lawfirm. Once a judge told me that I made the mistakeof dressing like my clients. I married Cheryl, themom of two great boys. I became an immigrationlawyer, trying to keep everyone in the U.S., includ-ing the very drunken Mexican at a party who shothimself but thought someone else shot him andkilled the someone else. But also including interest-ing and meritorious people like professors who hadjob offers at the university, engineers and managers,and refugees from horrible persecution. I stayedwith it until I could retire with the older son Tariktaking over the practice a few years ago. He has astaff of eight paralegals and is one of the best immi-gration lawyers in the country.

I’m lucky to enjoy swimming. I swim a couple hun-dred miles a year, and I’m sure it helps stave off theinevitable and spares the declining knees. The wifehas recently gotten into it, and we’re off to themunicipal pool together before breakfast. I did a fewhalf-miles at La Jolla Cove, California, in 63 degrees

green and kelpy in July ’09 and have done two rough-water races there. Dartmouth gets some credit formaking us all swim those 50 yards in September 1956,whereupon I got talked into the freshman team.

The Peace Corps gave me Spanish. I’ve been back toSouth America three times to see the family I livedwith. Speaking Spanish helped nudge me into immi-gration law, and living in South America gave meperspective on the U.S. and the world. (Dartmouthpre-Rassias was only a little help learning Spanishwhen I slogged through Spanish 13 and some densenovel of the Orinoco River.)

A childhood with a brother and a mother pointingout every avian in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and on a cross-country Chevy trip on Rt. 66 got me into a lifetimeof birding, and more lately, conservation. I went onthe board of Tucson Audubon Society in ’99, andthen I went on to the board of the National AudubonSociety. Looking at birds is secondary to saving themfrom urban sprawl, global warming, grazing and log-ging, etc., and to trying to keep the organizationafloat financially. Interesting and competent people,however, abound in Audubon, and board meetingsare usually at great bird refuges. A little credit goesagain to the alma mater: I squeaked into Zoology22, introductory ornithology, for a leafy springtimein idyllic New England that last year at the aptlynamed Green.

Michael M. Wood 2188 Montezuma Road, Dillon, CO 80435, (970) 262-0683 Spouse: Vicki Wood Occupation: Manufacturing, Box 48, Dillon, CO 80435, (970) 262-0683

Thomas C. Wood Tom

4655 Emerald Circle, Anchorage, AK 99502, (907) 248-0050 Spouse: Kathleen Ann Wood Occupation: Thomas C. Wood MDMACP, 3260 Providence Drive, Suite 326, Anchorage, AK 99508, (907) 562-2712

George N. WoodworthWoody

85 Dean Road, East Lyme, CT 06333, (860) 739-3568, «[email protected]» Spouse: Deborah Woodworth Occupation: Sports/Recreation


Here was still another way to avoid the oppressive tedium of the country club and the lawyer money track.

Roger Wolf

The Tanzi Brothers

G. Brooks WrightnourRD 1 Box 1552, Nicholson, PA 18446, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: Post-retirementinclude gardening and bikingCareer: 1960-65: US Navy Under-water demolition team as a SEAL,Coronado, Calif.; 1967-86: Com-mander, US Naval Reserve (Ret.);1965-67: Tuck School; 1967-08:Family tire and auto businessFamily: Son Bay, 33; Son Rob, 29;Grandson Brooks, 2Wife: Janet Conathan Wrightnour, Skidmore ’67Major at Dartmouth: Art History; MBA, TuckDartmouth Activities: Crew, Kappa Sigma, Casque andGauntlet

Hans C. WursterPO Box 5278, Breckenridge, CO 80424, (970) 547-4623, «[email protected]» Spouse: Mary Jane Wurster Occupation: Transportation/Distribution

Frank J. Yeager2111 Avondale, Wichita Falls, TX 76308, (940) 767-0683, «[email protected]» Spouse: Kathryn Anne Yeager Occupation: Petroleum, Frank Yeager, Suite 200, 2304 Midwestern Parkway, Wichita Falls, TX 76308, (940) 691-7770

Rick Yocum29739 Gleneagles Road, Perrysburg, OH 43551, (419) 666-0438, «[email protected]»Life’s Pursuits: My major “life pur-suits” have involved a focus on myfamily, a business career, and discov-ering opportunities to serve others,all of which are outlined below. Career and Experiences: My careerhas been in two distinct stages.During the first half, I worked forlarge companies in consumer goods marketing and generalmanagement positions building a base of knowledge andexperience. The second half has been my “small companystage.” I started my own management consulting group,concentrating on start-up and turnaround opportunities andjoined a series of venture capital funds pursuing small-com-pany investment opportunities. The second half has been farmore interesting, worthwhile, and in some cases, flat-out fun. I’ve had the opportunity to serve the community in variousways, serving as Board Chairman of our local hospitals andhaving been active on various other community boards andin church leadership as well. One of our prized activities over the years has been a seriesof bicycling trips with friends which have taken us to manyvaried locations in the U.S. and Europe. Family and Roots: Born and raised in New York City’ssuburbia, I found the City to be fascinating early in my life.Once the family arrived, business opportunities took us tothe Midwest and we have lived in Ohio for over 30 years.We are also drawn to the mountains of North Carolina, wherewe have a second place with a terrific climate and lifestyle. My family has been a major part of my life. Jacquey and I arequite close to our two children, Stephanie and David, bothnow married, and we welcomed our first grandchild into theworld on August 17, 2009, a healthy baby boy named AsaFrederick Fowler Yocum. It took us a while to get to this stageof being grandparents, but we couldn’t be more proud tojoin that group. We’ll try to grow into it. Wife: Jacquey and I have been married for 43 years, and I’mextremely proud to have had her as my partner all theseyears and to have had the opportunity to experience our lifetogether. Aside from being a terrific mother to our children,


G. Brooks Wrightnour

and now a proud grandmother, Jacquey was educated innursing and has served in various RN and administrativecapacities, and she has been a museum docent and a vol-unteer in many community causes. Major/Activities at Dartmouth: I was an English majorat Dartmouth and still reflect on those courses in a verypositive manner. My experiences included various fraternityactivities (some of which I choose to remember, some ofwhich I don’t) and stints on The Daily Dartmouth, and theJack-o’-Lantern.As I mentioned in a previous Musings, at the time that Iattended, I had no idea how much the Dartmouth experiencewould mean to me later in life.

I guess I should entitle this “What’s been of interestto me.” I’m long convinced that we have all beenblessed by living in this place and age which hasoffered us the chance to progress and to enjoy lifewhile simultaneously serving others less fortunate.This balanced opportunity is an extraordinary one,to learn, build family values, enjoy excellent health-care when needed, create economic sufficiency, andutilize these advantages to promote a sense of fair-ness, respect, and economic assistance to others.

I hope to be able to say someday, “I sure haven’tdone it all, but I’ve done enough to be satisfied andI feel pretty good the way things have turned out.”In terms of the things I’ve been blessed with, Ithink I’m there and very thankful for it. In termsof the opportunity to serve others in a meaningfulway, I’m still working on it.

John Jacob YouleAlfredo Salazar, 697, San Isidro, Lima 27, Peru«[email protected]» Spouse: Maria Ines Youle Occupation: Consulting, Consultandes SA, Alcanslores 1262, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru

George A. Young III 508 North 85th St., Omaha, NE 68114, (402) 397-2271 Spouse: Jeanne Young

Thomas Young

David Zehr


Rick Yocum and Jacquey

Alan B. Zients 1056 5th Avenue #20E, New York, NY 10028, (212) 534-6977, «[email protected]» Spouse: Ronda Zients Occupation: Health/Science, 1056 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028, (212) 639-9543

Seth I. Zimmerman525 Whitecap Road, Bellingham, WA 98229, «[email protected]» Spouse: Louise Zimmerman

John P. Zipser206 East Gaston Street, Savannah, GA 31401, (912) 447-8816 Occupation: Finance/FinancialServices

Martin E. Zipser 1240 East Myrtle Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85020, (602) 264-4384, «[email protected]» Spouse: Kathleen Zipser

Roger L. Zissu32 Washington Square West, #8W, New York, NY 10011, (212) 777-3468, «[email protected]» Spouse: Leesa Zissu Occupation: Law, Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu PC, 866 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, (212) 813-5900

Paul Zwick


The old Mary Hitchcock Hospital

When Axel Grabowsky asked your editor if our Musings Unlimited book might have room for a Then and Now sec-tion, said editor figured, “Hey, it’s unlimited.” He also envisioned a page of data comparing our era with the present.Read on, my fellow classmates; herewith, a veritable plethora of facts, observations, and memory-jogging informa-tion patiently, assiduously, and creatively assembled by Axel and his band of merry assistants. When you see Axelat our reunion, don’t forget to grab his hand and say, “Nice job, Axel, thanks for the memories!”

Then and NowBy Axel L. Grabowsky ’60

Have things changed at Dartmouth during the last fifty years? You bet they have! And yet underneath thestatistics and numbers, behind the names and new courses on subjects that we hadn’t even heard about,the more things change, the more they remain the same at our alma mater. It’s one of the great institu-tions of learning in the world. It still inspires passion among its alumni as at few other schools and it con-stantly adapts to change and even contributes to the change.

Since we are speaking of change here, let me paraphrase Jim Wright on the subject. “Dartmouth alumni,”he said more or less, “enjoy their four years here so much and think the place so perfect that heaven helpanyone who wants to change the tiniest little thing.” Well, he is, of course, correct but eventually we allrealize that in order to stay great an institution must adapt to modernity while keeping its basic principlesintact. I think Dartmouth does that admirably.

Now that this essay is done, I realize that I raise more questions than I answer. Dartmouth is an incrediblycomplex organization, always has been. Every one of the dozens and dozens of departments, offices, fief-doms, and interest groups could take up by themselves all the space I am allotted. Therefore, what followsskims the surface.

I have refrained from commenting on the data (although it was hard at times); you will have your owntake on the changes and on the things that stayed the same. But during Reunion, face to face, and after-ward in the Class Newsletter we can bat this about to our hearts’ content.

I was going to include the Medical School, the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School ofBusiness here. Each of them kindly and enthusiastically provided me with all the information I asked for.Alas, I ran out of space so if some ’60 wants to do a “Then and Now” on the occasion of his 50th anniver-sary of graduating from one of these fine schools, I’ll be happy to contribute my notes to him.

All dollar amounts quoted for “then” are followed by an amount in brackets that is today’s equivalent ofthe 1960 dollars adjusted for inflation. The exact adjustment figure is 6.92893; I have rounded that to 7. Allinformation in this article comes from Dartmouth publications and websites, the College’s administrators,faculty, other employees, and its alumni. To avoid a thicket of references, I have not cited any. If you wantto know where I got a fact, ask me and I’ll tell you. At the end of this piece, I list the people who helped.While I engaged my wife, daughter (a ’92), and several classmates (also named below) as fact checkers andeditors, any remaining errors, omissions, unwarranted slants, outrageous speculations remain mine alone.

We begin with statistics about Dartmouth’s students. As you read this, keep in mind that there were1,434,000 U.S. high school graduates in 1956; in 2001 (the latest available actual numbers) there were 2.9million. So I estimate about 3 million for 2006.

50TH REUNION BOOK 2010 289 1960 MUSINGS

Let’s compare the Class of 1960 with the Class of 2010.

(A footnote: in 1956 Thad Seymour was the crew coach. Of course, he was also an English professor butnot yet Dean of the College. He scoured the incoming ’60s for rowers and determined that about one-third were 6 feet or taller. No comparable statistic for the Class of ’10 is available.)

1960 MUSINGS 290 DARTMOUTH CLASS OF 1960

How many applied, wereadmitted and enrolled

’60s: 5,703 apply, 3,500 completethe applications; 1,461 are admit-ted; and 805 enroll. (That enrollment number is a newrecord then.) Acceptance rates: 25.6%, 41.7%

’10s: 13,938 apply (these are com-pleted applications); 2,186 are admitted; and 1,081 enroll. Acceptance rate: 15.7%

SAT scores ’60s: math 601.6, verbal 568.5 ’10s: math 721, verbal (mean) 715(About 15 years ago, SAT scoreswere “re-centered,” which resultedin everyone’s scores going upthereafter.)

Total enrolled undergraduates Fall 1956: 2,825 Fall 2006: 4,147

Early admission Inaugurated in 1958 for the Classof ’63: 88 are accepted; 47 aredeferred to regular admission time

’14s: 1,594 apply; 461 are admit-ted, 599 are deferred, and 534 aredenied admission.

Geographic provenance ’60s: from 39 states, the District ofColombia, Hawaii, the Canal Zone,Puerto Rico, and 8 foreign countries.

’10s: from 48 states, the District ofColombia and 26 foreign countries.

Foreign provenance ’60s: Canada (3), Hong Kong, France,Taiwan, Philippines, Trinidad, andPanama.

’10s: most foreign students comefrom Canada, China, Korea, Indiaand Singapore.

Public vs. Private HS ’60s: 72% from public, 28% from pri-vate schools

’10s: 66% from public, 30.8% fromprivate, 3.2% from parochial schools

High School ranking ’60s: 79.1% in top quarter of graduat-ing class; 40.7% in top one-tenth

’10s: 89.9% were in the top 10% oftheir graduating class; 30% werevaledictorians; 10.6% salutatorians.(Many high schools no longer reportclass rank)

ROTC ’60s: 336 ’60s in the Army, Navy andAir Force ROTC units

’10s: Only the Army ROTC is repre-sented on campus; fewer than adozen students (all four classes) areenrolled.

Ethnicity ’60s: no hard statistics available; bestestimate: one African-American, fourAsians or Asian-Americans, one ortwo Latinos; i.e., less than 1% stu-dents of color

’10s: 7.4% African-Americans, 13.9%Asian-Americans, 5.2% Latinos, 3.8%Native Americans; i.e., 30.3% stu-dents of color

Legacies ’60s: 112 (13.9% of class) (fathersrange come from the Classes of ’18 to’38)

’10s: 116 (10.7% of class)

Gender ’60s: 805 men ’10s: 523 men and 558 women

What were we “then” and what are the ‘10s “now” expected to accomplish to make it to graduation, whatwere and are the requirements?


Number of courses ’62s: 36 term-courses (38 for ROTCstudents), of which at least 16 mustbe passed with a grade of C+ or bet-ter. (Because of the switch to thethree-term system, the number ofcourses required for us was slightlydifferent; the ’62 number permits aclearer comparison.)

Now: 35 courses need to be passed;no more than eight may be passedwith a D

Freshman Orientation The twice-weekly “The Individualand the College”

The one first-year seminar that isnow required is less an introductionto the College than an introductionto seminar work. Students can chosefrom a comprehensive list.

English/Writing Unless exempted, English 1, 2 and 3which included both compositionand literature

Writing 5, Writing 2-3; or proficiencyequivalent to Writing 5

Foreign language One foreign language 1,2, 3, unlessexempted

One foreign language 1,2, 3, unlessexempted; or fluency in any lan-guage other than English

Distributive courses 11 term-courses: 3 in Humanities, 4in Science, 4 in Social Science.(Within the Humanities, Sciences,and Social Sciences areas, there arefurther distributive requirements.)

13 term-courses: 1 in the Arts; 1 inLiterature; 1 in Systems andTraditions of Thought, Meaning andValue; 1 in International orComparative Study; 2 in SocialAnalysis; 1 in Quantitative andDeductive Sciences; 2 in the NaturalSciences; 1 in Technology or AppliedScience. (One of the courses in theNatural Science or Technology cate-gories must have a laboratory, field,or experimental component.) Plus 1course in each of 3 areas of WorldCulture: Western Cultures, Non-Western Cultures, and Culture andIdentity.

Independent Reading All freshmen and sophomores mustread Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey,Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophersor Mirror for Man by ClydeKluckholm, Biography of the Earth byGeorge Gamow or What is Life? AndOther Scientific Essays by ErwinSchrödinger; in addition, three booksmust be read from a long list cover-ing a) great literary works (with onlyChaucer and Milton originally writ-ten in English), b) Science and itsImpact, c) Philosophical, Social andCultural Works, d) the Meaning ofEducation, and e) Miscellaneous

None, except the assignment of abook to be read before the first yearstudent arrives on campus. Once oncampus students will attend a “FirstClass Lecture” on the book. This yearthe book was Mountains BeyondMountains and President Kim, PaulFarmer, and Ophelia Dahl gave thelecture.

Before we compare courses, academic departments, majors, and other such academic matters, recall thatexactly in the middle of our college careers, the traditional two-semester per year system changed to threeterms per year, which eventually, in the 1970s, morphed into the “The D Plan” to alleviate overcrowdingthat came with co-education. After two years of two semesters per year and five courses per semester, wewere faced with three terms per year and three courses per term. You had to be there to appreciate theconfusion and apprehension, although the College, I recall, did a commendable job of selling the newscheme. Today the D Plan (four terms per year; students must be off-campus for at least one fall, winter, orspring term during their sophomore or junior year and on-campus for the summer term between thesophomore and junior years; typically the off-terms are used for foreign study or some kind of internship)is still unique in U.S. higher education, but at Dartmouth it is well accepted.

So, what could we chose from in terms of academics? Let me stress, however, that neither the numbersfor “then” nor for “now” are absolutes; it is at times difficult to distinguish between a “department,” forexample, an “interdisciplinary program” and an “orphan course.” But neither set is off by more than oneor two.


Great Issues A series of twice-weekly lectures dur-ing the entire senior year of 3 terms,counts as one-term course.

None, although President Jim Kimimmediately upon arrival on campusannounces that he will want to re-institute a Great-Issues-type course

Physical Education Required three times a week for allfreshmen and sophomores; fresh-men, varsity, and club sports can besubstituted. All students must be ableto swim 50 yards.

All undergraduate students mustearn three (3) credits in physical edu-cation and complete a 50-yard swimtest to fulfill the graduation require-ments for physical education. Creditsmay be earned by successfully com-pleting activity courses, wellness-ori-ented non-activity courses, andparticipation in intercollegiate andclub programs.

Academic divisions Then: 3 — Humanities, SocialSciences, and Sciences

Now: 5 — Arts & Humanities,Social Sciences, Sciences, Interna-tional and Inter-disciplinaryStudies, and Graduate Studies

Academic departments Then: 31 departments plus sever-al programs and a number oforphan courses.

Now: 29 departments plus nearly20 institutes, foundations, inter-disciplinary programs, and shops

Humanities & Arts departments Then: 11 — Art, Biography, TheClassics, Comp. Lit., English,German, Music, Philosophy,Religion, Romance Languages,and Speech

Now: 13 — Art History, Classics,English, Film & Media Studies,French & Italian, German Studies,Music, Philosophy, Religion,Russian, Spanish & Portuguese,Studio Art, Theater, the LeslieHumanities Center, HumanitiesComputing, and the LanguageResource Center

Social Sciences departments Then: 10 — Air Science,Economics, Education,Geography, Government,History, Phys. Ed., Psychology,Russian Civilization, Sociologyand Anthropology

Now: 8 — Anthropology,Economics, Education,Geography, Government,History, Psychological & BrainSciences, Sociology, plus theRockefeller Center

Note: Why Air Science was classified as a Social Science and its Military and Naval counterparts as Scienceby now has become quite nebulous.

What courses were and are now available, and which are most popular? The remarkable thing about thefollowing is how the “fundamentals” continue to reign supreme with a few “modern” additions. It wouldseem to show the emphasis that the College had and is placing on the core of human knowledge andthinking without neglecting the fact that the world moves on.


Science departments Then: 10 — Botany, Chemistry,Engineering Science, Geology,Mathematics and Astronomy,Military Science, Naval Science,Physics, Physiology, Zoology

Now: 7 — Biological Sciences,Chemistry, Computer Science,Earth Sciences, EngineeringScience, Mathematics, Physics &Astronomy; plus Apparatus Shop,and Electronics Shop

International & Interdisciplinaryprograms

Then: At least one, InternationalRelations, and probably a fewothers

Now: 9—Comparative Literature,Environmental Studies, JewishStudies, Latin American, Latinoand Caribbean Studies, Linguistics& Cognitive Science, Math &Social Science, Native AmericanStudies, Women’s & GenderStudies, Writing & Rhetoric, plusthe Neukom Institute and OffCampus programs

Graduate Study programs Then: A Master of Arts degreewas available in Botany,Chemistry, Geology,Mathematics, Physics, Zoologyand Geography. There were noPh.D. programs.

Now: 20—Master’s and doctoratedegrees are available in Biology,Biochemistry, Chemistry, CognitiveNeuroscience, Comparative Litera-ture, Computer Science, Electro-acoustic Music, Engineering, EarthSciences, Environmental Sciences,Evaluative Clinical Sciences,Genetics, Immunology andMicrobiology, Master of Arts inLiberal Studies, Mathematics,Molecular & Cellular Biology,Pharmacology & Toxicology,Physics & Astronomy, Physiology,Psychological & Brain Sciences

Courses without official depart-mental affiliation (“then” knownas “orphans” and officially desig-nated as “College Courses” since1968/69)

Then: Japanese, Humanities,Administration, AsianCivilization, Great Issues,Northern Studies, Science, andTheatre Scenic Design

Now: Reading Artifacts: TheMaterial Culture of Science, Dra-matic Storytelling: A Playwritingor Screenwriting Workshop,Mind and Brain: PhilosophicalImplications of Modern Neuro-science, Mapping Health andDisease, and Book Arts StudioSeminar

Study abroad began to be popular “then.” Dartmouth had set up three programs: one each in Caen,France, Freiburg, Germany, and Salamanca, Spain. Now, there are 45 programs in 26 foreign countries:Morocco, China, Japan, New Zealand, Italy, India, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Thailand, Greece, Ireland,United Kingdom, Trinidad, South Africa, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, Austria, Brazil, Russia,Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Denmark, and Korea. In addition there are 17 off-campus arrangements in theUnited States at a number of colleges, universities, other academic, and teaching institutions.

How does the faculty compare between “then” and “now”? Because the faculty not on tenure-track, i.e.,lecturers, visiting professors, adjunct professors, teaching assistants, etc., are not always readily identifi-able, particularly in the late 1950s, and because a number of professors are active in multiple departments,the numbers here are approximations.


Number of coursesoffered

1959/1960: 615 (235 or 38.2% in theHumanities; 196 or 31.9% in theSocial Sciences; and 184 or 29.9% inthe Sciences)

Summer of 2008 to Spring 2009: 1,381

Numbers of coursesoffered by department

Then: The largest departments (i.e.History, Mathematics and Astronomy,English, Sociology and Anthropology,Economics, Psychology, French,Government, and Spanish) offered 25to 30 courses each in any one year

Now: the larger departments routinelyoffer almost 100 courses each. (For details go to http://www.dartmouth.edu/~reg/courses/desc/)

The ten most popularcourses

1. Great Issues; 2. English 1: Literature and Composi-tion for Freshman;3. Philosophy 1: Problems of Philoso-phy;4. Economics 1: Intro. to Economics;5. English 2: Freshman Seminar inEnglish; 6. Physics 3: Intro. to Physics (I); 7. Chemistry 3: General Chemistry;8. Psychology 1: Intro. to Psychology;9. History 6: US History since 1877; 10. Art 1: Architecture

1. Engineering 11: Technology andHomeland Security; 2. English 47: American Drama;3. Biology 11: Emerging InfectiousDiseases;4. Psychology 23: Social Psychology; 5. Astronomy 1: Exploration of theSolar System; 6. Psychology 6: Introduction toNeurosciences;7. Chemistry 6: General Chemistry; 8. English 42: American Fiction to 1900; 9. Psychology 1: Intro. to Psychology; 10. Earth Sciences 3: ElementaryOceanography;

The second ten mostpopular courses

11. Physics 4: Intro. to Physics (II); 12. Math 3: Intro. to Calculus; 13. Life Sciences; 14. Math 4: Calculus and DifferentialEquations; 15. Chemistry 4: General Chemistry;16. History 5: U.S. History from1763 – 1877; 17. Comparative Literature: Types ofAmerican Thought; 18. French 1; 19. French 2; 20. Art 15: Modern Art

11. Biology 2: Human Biology; 12. Biology 11: DNA to Diversity; 13. Russian 13: Vampires, Witches andFirebirds; 14. Biology 13: Gene Expressions andInheritance; 15. Biology 12: Cell Structure andFunction; 16. Physics 3: General Physics 1; 17. Psychology 21: Perception;18. Environmental Studies 2: Intro. toEnvironmental Science; 19. Linguistics 1: Intro. Linguistics20. Philosophy 3: Reason andArgument

One of the most noticeable differences between “then” and “now” concerns one of the, at least hitherto,very fundamentals of academic life: books.We constantly read (or perhaps better, hear and view) thatbooks are on the way out, to be replaced by electronics. One hopes not, but all the signs point that way.


Number of faculty Then: The College then claimed tohave “275 men” teaching; adding upthe published names results in 296;and summing up the professors perdepartment, while fully aware thatseveral men taught in multiple depart-ments, gives us 313. A good guesswould be that the faculty was about300 strong. To that needs to beadded the faculties of the threegraduate schools, who did, howev-er, very little undergraduate teach-ing (with the possible exception ofThayer).

Now: The Valley News on 12/2/09quoted the Dean of the Faculty asDartmouth having 767 faculty;adding up the tenured and tenure-track professors comes up with thenumber 397; that would leaveabout 370 non-tenure track faculty;plus of course the faculties of thethree graduate schools who nowseem to be teaching undergraduatesa great deal more. (Particularly thefaculty of Thayer teaches the entireEngineering Science major.)

Faculty per department Then: Air Science (4), Art (10), Biog-raphy (2), Botany (5), Chemistry(13 ), Classics (4), Comparative Lit-erature (4), Economics (18), Educa-tion (2), Engineering Science (15),English (29), Geography (5), Geolo-gy (11), German (5), Government(13), History (16), Mathematics andAstronomy (21), Military Science(12), Music (6), Naval Science (7),Philosophy (7), Physical Education(8), Physics (18), Physiology (1),Psychology (12), Public Administra-tion (7), Religion (6), Romance Lan-guages (19), Russian Civilization (8),Sociology and Anthropology (9),Speech (6), Zoology (10)

Now: Anthropology (10), Art Histo-ry (7), Biological Sciences (28),Chemistry (16), Classics (9), Com-puter Science (6), Earth Sciences(12), Economics (26), Education(4), Engineering Science (49 – allfrom Thayer), English (29), Filmand Media Studies (5), French andItalian (19), Geography (9), Ger-man Studies (8), Government (25),History (25), Mathematics (20),Music (9), Philosophy (8), Physicsand Astronomy (16), Psychologicaland Brain Sciences (18), Religion(10), Russian (4), Sociology (8),Spanish and Portuguese (15), Stu-dio Art (7), Theatre (7)

Major departments by num-ber of faculty (excluding theThayer faculty forEngineering Sciences)

Then: English (29)Math and Astronomy (21)Romance Languages (19)Physics (18)Economics (18)

Now: English (29)Biological Sciences (28)Economics (26)Government (25)Mathematics (20)

Faculty salaries The Alumni Magazine of January1959 reported an outside survey ofDartmouth faculty that found thatthe average salary plus fringe bene-fits for a professor was $11,071 p.a.[$77,497], for an associate professor $9,357[$65,499], for an assistant professor $7,508[$52,556], and for instructors between $5,531[$38,717] and $6,315 [$44,205].The salaries stack up very wellnationally, says the report.

The Chronicle of Higher Educationreports the following average salariesfor 2008/9 for Dartmouth: Professor, all $154,500, men$159,500, women $142,000; Associate Professor, all $104,200,men $110,000, women $95,600;Assistant Professor, all $83,200, men$81,500, women $85,400. (No information was available forInstructors.) According to Dean Folt’s2008 faculty address, the 2007-8median compensation was abovethat of our peer schools at all ranks.


Baker-Berry is a library that has evolved, is evolving, and will continue to evolve from being “only a physi-cal entity” to one that is that, plus more and more “digital,” as the library’s reference bibliographerexplained it.

Online/digital materials are “now” available 24/7 from any authorized user’s desktop on campus.

The library catalogue moved from the physical card catalog (that filled much of Baker’s main hall)to an online system.

Reserve readings have significantly shifted from print to digital copies accessible online 24/7.

The availability of journals and magazines online has been vastly enhanced; and a growing numberof books are also available online.

The shift from reproducing archival sources in microfilm to digital editions has been made.

Library users are now able to search the full text of online, digital resources.

The access to materials beyond the Dartmouth collection has been significantly expanded; andmuch quicker delivery is now a reality through cooperative agreements such as Borrow Direct(books) and Rapid (articles).

And, the library now features public computer clusters; the ability to scan material on flat-bed scan-ners and via photocopiers; Geographic Information System (GIS) software for mapping; an exten-sive video collection; and the ability to “stream” videos over the campus network; plus the NovackCafé on the ground floor.

The user of Baker-Berry (the Berry part opened in 2000) and the other libraries, Biomedical Libraries(opened 1963), Feldberg Business & Engineering Library (opened 1974), Kresge Physical Sciences Library(opened 1973), Paddock Music Library (opened 1962; expanded 1986), Rauner Special Collections (opened1998), Sherman Art Library (became a separate unit in 1970), and the Storage Library on campus and theMatthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (opened 1992)“now” has access to more than 35,000 digital resources such as indexes, databases and journals, 20,000print and digital journal titles, 2.7 million books, 12,000 videos, 190,000 maps, 35,000 sound recordingsand 450,000 photographs. “Then,” when we graduated, Baker boasted of 750,000 volumes.

These ever more digital libraries are a very good example of one of the greatest differences between “then”and “now”: the computer. When we graduated, the very great majority of us had never touched a comput-er. Perhaps the simplest way to describe “then” is to list the “great” computer moments at Dartmouth. Inthe late 1950s John Kemeny and fellow mathematics professor Thomas Kurtz invented the computer lan-guage BASIC. In 1959, Dartmouth acquired a rudimentary LPG-30, which started “computing in earnest”on campus. That was the “then.” In 1964 Kemeny and Kurtz installed a GE computer in College Hall andwith the help of several undergraduates developed the then-revolutionary idea that a computer can andwill process the tasks of more than one user. In 1962, they proposed a centralized campus computer facili-ty that in 1968 became the Kiewit Computation Center with a GE-635. In 1983, the College installed acampus-wide data network and in 2001, a campus-wide wireless network. Today there are about 13,000computers in use on campus.

Although most of us belong to the last generation that thought of the computer and the even more exoticthing called software as something extraordinary, even we undoubtedly appreciate the incredible differencebetween “then” and “now.” To bring it home even more poignantly, the Director of Alumni InformationResources at the College, in a recent presentation to alumni, informed us that the current generation ofstudents, for example, considers “emailing barely adequate for communicating with their grandparents.”Today “texting” and “messaging” are the way to stay in touch instantly with everyone no matter wherethey or you are. And we—at least the great majority of us—thought we had caught up with computing!

What were the costs to attend Dartmouth “then” and “now”?

Tuition Then: In our freshman year it was$980 [$6,860]; in our senior year ithad gone to $1,400 [$9,800]

Now: For 2009/10, it stands at$38,445

The College knew “then” and “now” that not everyone could afford these charges. In many cases “then”and “now” financial aid was needed. This led to what “now” is called “need-blind” admission, i.e., firstyou are admitted, and then the College figures out how to finance your education. (For all I know, it wascalled the same thing “then.”)

Fifty years have given our lives as students a miraculously shiny and warm patina. But the shine and thewarmth are subtly and sometimes not so subtly different for every one of us. (More on that under theheading “Traditions.”) So I intend to have everyone remember their own experience as you read what theClass of 2010 thinks and does. (The following is based on an absolutely unscientific poll in October 2009.)

The ’10s are concerned about the College’s budget cuts. It’s a somewhat amorphous concern; they realizethey will be gone by the time the dollar-and-cents reality hits. But that raises their most immediate con-cern: finding a job after graduation. On campus they continue to struggle with two issues: alternativesocial spaces (i.e., something in addition to fraternities and Collis) and the gender imbalance in the Greeksystem and elsewhere. In referring to these two issues, student leaders have coined the phrase “gender-neutral social space.” What they articulate is the need for campus social space that is at least comparableto (or better than) fraternity basements. Students need, it is claimed, social spaces that are not controlledby either one gender or the other. (Perhaps the best way to elucidate this concern is to quote one womanwho said that she felt absolutely equal in the classroom and on the playing fields and as a second-class cit-izen socially.)


Room and Board Then: Eating in newly renovatedThayer (our Junior year) cost $490[$3,430] for the three-term year; inour Senior year room rents rangefrom $200 to $510, averaging $345p.a. [$2,415]; for a total of $690[$4,830] to $1,000 [$7,000]

Now: For 2009/10 it averages$11,295

Other, e.g., books, laundry,clothing, room furnishings,social and personal expenses,but no travel

Then: $2,500 [$17.500] to $2,700[$18,900]

Now: I am told that this numbervaries so widely, depending on theindividual, that it is just aboutmeaningless.

Costs at peer schools Then: In our Junior year Harvardwas the most expensive at $2,278[$15,946]; Cornell was second at$2,200 [$15,400]; Dartmouth wasthe least expensive at $1,990[$13,930].

Now: The other Ivies are all over$47,000.

Total financial aid disbursedby the College

In 1957/8 a total of $960,000 [$6.7million] consisting of $765,700[$5.4 million] in outright scholar-ships, $100,000 [$700,000] inloans and $60,000 [$420,000] inearnings from Thayer Hall. Thetotal increased to $1,022,700 [$7.2million] in 1958/9.

In 2007/8 a total of $54,494,740 inoutright scholarships only. Thisrises to $63.2 million in 2008/9and to $72 million in 2009/10.

How many students receivefinancial aid?

In 1957/8 768 undergraduates, i.e.,27.3% of the student body; in1958/9 this drops to 750 students,i.e., 26.4%

In 2007/8 about 50% of all under-graduates receive outright scholar-ships; in 2008/9 57% do. 45.6% ofthe Class of 2010 receives outrightgrants.

Average amount of outrightscholarships

In 1957/8 $1,043 [$7,301]; in1958/9 $1,064 [$7,448]

For the Class of 2010: $28,676;Class of 2012: $33,240; Class of 2013: $35,499

For the ’10s the favorite places to hang out are fraternities (not sororities), Collis Center, and the Green(weather permitting). Under the rubric of non-academic, non-organized favorite activities are listed: play-ing beer pong (if “playing” is the right word), seeing varsity games (I question my findings a little here,with perhaps the exception of hockey), hanging out at fraternities, skiing, movies at The Nugget and themovie theatre in Lebanon, and the shows at the Hop. The favorites among the more organized activitiesare: intramural sports, particularly hockey, dancing, the various publications, and the myriad of studentorganizations encompassed by COSO. (More about COSO below.)

The favorite food is pizza, followed by salads, salmon, Collis soup, steak, hamburgers, and South Americancuisine. The preferred on-campus eating establishments are Home Plate and Collis; off-campus, Molly’s, Jewelof India, Murphy’s, The Canoe Club, Bentley’s in Woodstock, and Jesse’s in Lebanon. If you have reached thelegal N.H. drinking age of 21 (this qualifier is another one of my findings that I question just a little) youpreferably indulge in bourbon and ginger ale, Cosmopolitans, and gin and tonic. (Beer wasn’t especiallymentioned, presumably because it is so ubiquitous.) If you are younger, you go for hot apple cider from TheDirt Cowboy, hot chocolate from Lou’s, smoothies from Collis Café, and cream soda. A few more wordsabout beer: to be permitted on campus, every keg must be registered with the College. Last year 283 kegswere so registered, and there probably were a few that weren’t. Ergo, about 300 kegs and an uncounted num-ber of 30-racks are “now” annually consumed. Stinson’s has replaced Tanzi’s as the local purveyor.

Dartmouth men and women, I learned, “now” mostly date Dartmouth women and men. In this connection, I was also told that the term “dating,” as I understand it, is an anachronism. “Then” our dates came from backhome (and that is still the case many times “now”) and otherwise primarily from Colby Junior, Mount Holyoke,Smith, and Skidmore, plus a slew of other women’s colleges. A brief anecdote puts this into perspective: a seniorcame to one of our classmate’s house near Hanover two years ago to watch a football game. Our classmate toldhim he was sorry his wife wasn’t here, and that she had gone to a Smith luncheon. “What’s Smith?” he asked.

The Greek-letter organizations, although at times under heavy assault over the last 50 years, and withmany warts perceived through adult eyes, both “then” and “now” were and are in healthy shape. Theywere and remain the center for students’ social activities. All fraternities “then” and most Greek-letterorganizations “now” have their own or College-owned facilities.

April 1, 1960, was a historic date in the history of fraternities and all future Greek-letter organizations at Dartmouth. On that date all nationally imposed discriminatory clauses in the rules governing localchapters had to be eliminated. The fraternities affected (Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi DeltaTheta, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu) had five choices: go out of exis-tence, cut their ties with their nationals, change the national charter, get an exemption from theirnationals, or go local.


Fraternities Then: 2420 nationals: Alpha Chi Rho, Alpha DeltaPhi, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Phi, Delta KappaEpsilon, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon,Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, PhiGamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Pi LambdaPhi, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon,Tau Epsilon Phi, Theta Delta Chi, andZeta Psi.4 locals: Alpha Theta, Gamma Delta Chi,Kappa Kappa Kappa, and Phi Tau.

Now: 17 (see note below)6 nationals:; Psi Upsilon; Sigma AlphaEpsilon; Sigma Nu; Sigma Phi Epsilon;Theta Delta Chi; Zeta Psi;

9 locals: Alpha Chi Alpha; Alpha Delta;Beta Alpha Omega; Bones Gate; ChiGamma Epsilon; Chi Heorot; GammaDelta Chi; Phi Delta Alpha, Kappa KappaKappa.

Sororities Then: None Now: 116 nationals: Alpha Phi; Alpha Xi Delta;Delta Delta Delta; Kappa Kappa Gamma;Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; AlphaPhi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.4 locals: Epsilon Kappa Theta; KappaDelta; Kappa Delta Epsilon; Sigma Delta

Co-ed houses Then: None Now 3Alpha Theta; Phi Tau; The Tabard

Note: I have been trying to get these numbers straight for several weeks now. No luck. The various web-sites and the cognoscenti can’t come to an agreement. What is more, Kappa Kappa Kappa always was andis a local, no? (Editor’s Note: As a Kappa, I can report, Tri-Kap founded in 1842, is the third oldest fraternityin the country, was and is a local, and always discriminated on the content of one’s character!) (Author’sNote: Editors invariably pull rank and then shamelessly propagandize!)

“Then” we had three senior societies: Sphinx, Casque and Gauntlet, and Dragon, in order of seniority.“Now” there are eight: the three from “then” plus Fire and Skoal, Phoenix, Abaris, Cobra, and Gryphon.

Student organizations have always been and continue to be myriad, sustained by tradition, buffeted bymodernity, but always responding to the needs and desires of the students. “Then” and “now” the majori-ty were and are under the aegis of the Council on Student Organizations (COSO). But many others are notand therefore difficult to pin down. “Then” COSO covered 32 clubs and organizations; in addition therewere an unknown number of groups outside of COSO. “Now” there are 137 groups officially under theaegis of COSO; in addition there are at least 65 to 70 recognizable groups outside of COSO. The followingclassification, based on COSO websites, student comments, and common sense, is at best incomplete.


Academically orientedgroups

Then: 3, International RelationsClub, Forensic Union (debating),Geological Society

Now: 4, College Bowl, Ethics Society,Mock Trial Society, ParliamentaryDebate Team

Performing: theater, dance,music and other

Then: 2, Theatre: The Players, is thedramatic club, and with itsadjunct, the Experimental Theatre,offers a dozen productions annual-ly. The Players sponsor theInterfraternity Play Contest. TheExperimental Theatre sponsors aplaywriting contest each year forstudents.

Dance: none

Music: 9, The Marching Band (since1898), Glee Club (Radio City Hallengagement in the summer of ‘59),Injunaires, Handel Society Chorusand Orchestra (founded in 1807 forstudents, faculty and communitymembers), Madrigal Singers,Barbary Coast, Modern Men,Sultans, Sanborn House VoiceChoir (faculty)

Now: c. 11, Theatre: Mainstage The-ater Dept. productions, studentdrama groups (Black UndergroundTheatre and Arts Association, DogDay Players, Harlequins, NuestrasVoces, Sitdown Tragedy, DisplacedTheater Company, Sheba, Far OffBroadway, Untamed Shrews, PrettyHow Town Theater Company), TheFrost & Dodd Play Festival, SpecialEvents, and Extracurricular StudentTheatre; including the student groups Dance: 11, Professionally and student-directed dance ensembles:Dartmouth Dance Ensemble, Chi-nese Dance Troupe, Fusion (multi-genre), Sheba (Hip-hop), Jumpstart(Swing), Roots of Rhythm(African), Step, Steppin’ Out (tap),Ujima (multi-genre), Ceili IrishDancers, Native Women's DancingSociety and Roots of Rhythm Gum-boot Dance TroupeMusic: 21, Professionally directedmusic ensembles: Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Barbary Coast JazzEnsemble, World Music PercussionEnsemble, Marching Band, GleeClub, Handel Society, GospelChoir, Chamber Singers; Student-directed music ensembles: Dart-mouth Steel Drum Band, OccomPond Singers, Dartmouth ChamberOrchestra, Madrigal Singers, Aires,Cords, Final Cut, Decibelles, Rock-apellas, Subtleties, Dodecaphonics,X.ado


Publications/Media Then: 5 Print media consisted of TheDartmouth, founded in 1839, “theoldest college newspaper inAmerica,” Jack-o-Lantern, themonthly humor magazine, Aegis,the yearbook, Green Book, the annu-al freshman book, and Greensleevesreplaced the Dartmouth Quarterly asthe literary magazine.

Broadcasting was handled by WDCR

Now: Print, 24 organizations: TheDartmouth, Aegis, Jack-O-Lantern,Green Book, Aporia Journal, AREA,Beacon, Dartmouth Review, CollegiateJournal of Art, Apologia, BusinessJournal, Free Press, Independent,Journal of Asian Studies, Law Journal,First Voices, Green Magazine, InvisibleHand, Main Street, Sin Compas, Sir &Madam, Squeezebox Music Magazine,Stonefence Review, Untamed

Broadcasting: Two radio stations,WFRD-FM, WDCR-AM Television: DTV!

Outdoors Then: The DOC subsumed all out-door activities via Cabin & Trail,the Ledyard Canoe Club (TitcombCabin, white water canoeing, annu-al “Trip to the Sea”), Bait & Bullet,and the Mountaineering Club; plusthe management of all wintersports, the varsity ski team, the skipatrol; maintaining the MoosilaukeRavine Lodge; as well as the stagingof Winter Carnival and, morerecently the annual Woodsman’sWeekend of sawing, ax-swinging,fly casting and much more. In ourSenior year, the DOC celebrates its50th anniversary.

Now: The Outdoor Programs Officehas administrative responsibilitiescovering: the Dartmouth OutingClub, competitive skiing programsincluding the D Skiway, outdooreducation seminars, workshops,and courses, the Connecticut Riverwaterfront and the Ledyard CanoeClub, Mount Moosilauke and theMoosilauke Ravine Lodge, recre-ational and educational uses of theSecond College Grant and Oak Hill,the Dartmouth Cross Country SkiCenter, the Climbing Gym, theDartmouth Organic Farm, theDartmouth Outdoor Rentals pro-gram, and the Andrew W. MellonGrant distribution.

Culture specific Then: 4, Cosmopolitan Club (for-eign students), Germania, Le Grenier Francais, Spanish Club

Now: 22, AfriCaSo , Aseano , Chi-nese Language Club, Cuban Ameri-can Undergraduate StudentAssociation (CAUSA), Asian Organi-zation (DAO), Chinese Culture Soci-ety (DCCS), Japan Society (DJS),Hellenic Student Association (HSA),Hokupa’a, International StudentsAssociation (ISA), Italian Club,Korean Students Association (KSA),La Alianza Latina, Milan,Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/ade Aztlan (MEChA), Native Ameri-cans at Dartmouth (NAD), Por Lati-noamerica, Quisqueyanos atDartmouth (QuAD), Russian Club,Students of Hong Kong, TaiwaneseAssociation, Vietnamese StudentAssociation (VSA)


Issue-specific Then: 2, Young Republicans, YoungDemocrats

Now: 27, Active Minds, Alliance forSocioeconomic Awareness, Coali-tion for Progress, College Democ-rats, College Libertarians, CollegeRepublicans, Animal Welfare Group(DAWG), Coalition for Life (DCFL),Ecovores, Free Culture, Undergradu-ate Veterans Association (DUVA),Gender, Sexuality, XYZ (GSX), His-tory of Dartmouth Club, Intelli-gence & National Security Alliance -Dartmouth Chapter (INSA-Dart-mouth), Liberal Party, MEDLIFE,National Association for theAdvancement of Colored People(NAACP), Occum's Razors, Promisein North Korea (PiNK), Real BeautyInitiative, STAND, Student to Stu-dent Linking Up (S.T.L.U.K.E), Stu-dent World Assembly, StudentsConcerned for Palestine, Studentsfor Africa, V-day at Dartmouth,Women of Color Collective

Recreational Then: 6, Film Society, Camera Club,Motor Sports Club, Chess Club,Flying Club, Antique Fire EngineClub

Now: 16, Argentine Tango Society(DATS), Backgammon Club, ChessClub, Creative Gaming, CreativeWriting Club, Classical Ballet The-atre, Yoga Club, Friday Night Rock,Medieval Enthusiasts, Organizationof Filmmakers, Origami Club,Paper-Folders (Origami Club), PokerStrategic Thinking Group, PRFORM,Swingers, Thursday Night Salsa,Union of Bogglers

Pre-professional Then: 1, Pre-Law Club Now: 19, American Indian Scienceand Engineering Society (AISES),Architecture, Art History Associa-tion, Association of Women inMathematics, Chemistry Society,Entrepreneurs (CODE), CO-SIGN,Black Business Association (DBBA),Black Legal Association (DBLA),Latino Business Society, Mathemati-cal Society, Minority Association ofPre-Health Professionals (MAPS),Nathan Smith Premedical Society,Rotaract Club, Social Enterprise &Economics Development (SEEDS),Society of Black Engineers (NSBE),Society of Investment & Economics(DSIE), Society of Women Engi-neers, Women in Business


There were “then” several organizations the purpose of which is lost in the fog of history, e.g., Mu KappaGamma (aka “Mystic Knights of the Grommet”), D.G.U. (previously known as the Eight School StreetGotcha Club), Gile Hall Basement Committee, and the Peacock Club. Among the groups that are “now”listed particularly under “issue-oriented” there are also a number that, on the surface at least, fail to com-municate a purpose.

The Arts in general and visual arts in particular are one of the “great secret strengths” of Dartmouth, saysKate Conley, the Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Arts and Humanities. In the late 1950s the visualarts were still confined to Carpenter Hall (as were the performing arts to Robinson and anywhere else theycould put up something resembling a stage); but in our Senior year, ground was broken for HopkinsCenter. And that was eventually followed by the magnificent Hood Museum. Here we are 50 years laterand construction is starting on the new Visual Arts Center to leave Hopkins presumably entirely to theperformers.

The collection of art and anthropology objects in 1959 numbered about 18,000; “now” that number hasincreased to roughly 60,000. It is interesting, however, that the majority of what the curators call the“stars” of the collection today have been on campus since well before 1960, among them the Assyrianreliefs; the Orozco murals in Baker; the Daniel Henchman silver monteith (aka the “Wentworth Bowl”);the portraits by Joseph Steward, Class of 1780, of John Phillips and Eleazar Wheelock; the College Counselportraits, including Francis Alexander’s portrait of Daniel Webster; John Sloan’s “McSorley's Back Room,”and Vuillard's “Seascape at Honfleur”; as well as more than 100 works that Abby Aldrich Rockefeller gavethe College in 1935, including Thomas Eakins’s “The Architect.”

The Players, as well as smaller performing groups and of course the various musical ensembles, pitchedtheir tents wherever they could and performed splendidly “then.” The comparison, in particular, betweenthe Little Theater in Robinson and the facilities of Hopkins Center is spectacular. As one of our thespianclassmates said, he put on his full costume and makeup in one of the downstairs closets that served asdressing rooms in Robinson, left the building by the back door, went around it and reentered it throughthe front door, climbed two sets of stairs, and only then entered the theater from the back, singing asloudly as he could “I’ve been working on the Railroad” while strolling down the aisle to the stage.

Dartmouth always had and has a number of religious groups that permitted students to grow spiritually.“Then” we had the Tucker Foundation, designed to “further the moral and spiritual work of the College,”plus the inter-denominational Christian Union, Canterbury Association, Newman Club, Jewish Life Coun-cil, Lutheran Club, and Christian Science group. In the more complicated world of today, there are morethan three times as many groups, all overseen by the Tucker Foundation: Agapé Christian Fellowship, AlNur: Muslim Student Organization, Alpha Omega Student Group (UCC and Presbyterian), AquinasHouse – Catholic Campus Ministry, Baha’i Association, Baptist Student Union, Chabad at Dartmouth,Christian Impact (aka Campus Crusade for Christ), Christian Science Organization, The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints Student Association, Episcopal Campus Ministry, Gospel Choir, Hillel: JewishStudent Organization, Logos Community at Dartmouth (Presbyterian), Morning Glory, Navigators Chris-tian Fellowship, Orthodox Church in America, Eastern Orthodox and Orthodox Christian Fellowship(OCF), Our Savior Lutheran Church and Student Center, Quakers: Society of Friends, Rollins Chapel (Ecu-menical Christian Congregation), Shanti: Hindu Student Organization, Unitarian Universalist Fellowshipat Dartmouth College, United Church of Christ at Dartmouth, and Zen Practice Group (Buddhist).

Duckboards on the Green, ca. 1941


Varsity athletics has been and is an essential part of the Dartmouth experience.

The two co-ed programs “now” are Equestrian and Sailing.

The win-loss records in the major varsity sports that convey heavy “bragging rights,” i.e., football, basket-ball, and ice hockey, have of course varied greatly from year to year.

Varsity teams Then: 14 men’s Now: 16 men’s; 16 women’s; 2 co-ed

Programs for men Then: BaseballBasketballCrewCross-CountryFootballGolfIce HockeyLacrosseSkiing, Alpine & Cross CountrySoccerSquash SwimmingTennisTrack & Field

Now: Baseball*BasketballCrew, Lightweight Crew, HeavyweightCross CountryFootball*GolfIce HockeyLacrosseSkiing, Alpine & Cross Country SoccerSquashSwimming and DivingTennisTrack and Field, IndoorTrack and Field, Outdoor (*men’s team only)

Programs for women None Now: BasketballCrew Cross CountryField Hockey**GolfIce HockeyLacrosseSkiing, Alpine & Cross Country SoccerSoftball**SquashSwimming and DivingTennisTrack and Field, IndoorTrack and Field, OutdoorVolleyball**(** women’s team only)

Davis Rink

Club sports have been and continue to be very important. One club sport has been particularly outstand-ing both “then” and “now”: rugby. Dartmouth’s rugby club has been persistently nationally ranked for thelast 50 years.


Football 1956 | 20061957 | 20071958 | 20081959 | 2009

Won 5, lost 3, tied 1 Won 7, lost 1, tied 1Won 8, lost 1 (Ivy Champs)Won 5, lost 3, tied 1

Won 2, lost 8Won 3, lost 7Won 0, lost 10Won 2, lost 8

Basketball (men) 1956 | 20061957 | 20071958 | 20081959 | 2009Basketball (women)1956 | 20061957 | 20071958 | 20081959 | 2009

Won 18, lost 7Won 22, lost 5Won 14, lost 1 (Ivy Champ)Won 10, lost 4

Won 9, lost 19Won 10, lost 18Won 9, lost 19Won 2, lost 6 (in progress)

Won 15, lost 13Won 16, lost 15Won 19, lost 11Won 2, lost 5 (in progress)

Ice Hockey (men) 1956 | 20061957 | 20071958 | 20081959 | 2009Ice Hockey (women) 1956 | 20061957 | 20071958 | 20081959 | 2009

Won 13, lost 11Won 14, lost 10, tied 1Won 10, lost 0, tied 1 (Ivy Ch)Won 9, lost 1 (Ivy Champs)

Won 20, lost 11, tied 4Won 13, lost 17, tied 4Won 15, lost 13, tied 3Won 3, lost 8, tied 0 (in progress)

Won 27, lost 5, tied 2 (ECAC Ch)Won 18, lost 9, tied 6Won 19, lost 11, tied 5 (ECAC Ch)Won 5, lost 4, tied 1 (in progress)

Number of club sports Then: 8 Now: 31

Men’s sports Then: Corinthian Yacht ClubCheerleadingFencingBoxing WrestlingRifle TeamIce hockey (incl. faculty andcommunity)Rugby Club

Now: Ice HockeyLacrosseRugbySoccerTennisUltimate FrisbeeVolleyballWater Polo

Women’s sports None Lacrosse RugbySoccerTennisUltimate FrisbeeVolleyballWater Polo

The intramural program has been equally strong and varied.

The following section on the non-academic side of the administration, particularly for “now,” is a bitsparse. I was unable to obtain much information.

The College’s publication Officers, Regulations and Courses for 1959/1960 lists a total of 78 administratorsplus another eight for Tuck (3), Thayer (2), and the Medical School (3). In the academic area, (i.e., thepresident, the various deans and assistants, registrars, academic and other counseling) there were 23. Thatleft 55 for the rest of the non-academic administration. One must also assume that there were a number ofstaff people.

The Office of the Treasurer (the treasurer, assistants and associates, comptrollers, bursars, business managers,purchasing agents, the managers of Building and Grounds, forest properties, dining facilities, and The HanoverInn) had 19 people. The Development area had 9. The Secretary's Office (which included The AlumniMagazine and the News Service) consisted of 7 men. The library was managed by 7 people. The Health Servicewas administered by 6 men and women. And Athletics plus all Student Organizations were overseen by 7.(Aninteresting sidelight: of the 78 administrators, only three were women, each very formidable but in anarchetypal female role: Mary F. Shaw, Assistant to the President, Jeanette Gill, Manager of the DartmouthDining Association, and Ruth H. Moser, Administrator and House Mother (I kid you not) of Dick's House.


Co-ed sports None BadmintonBoxingCheerleadingCricketCyclingDressageEndurance RacingFencingFigure SkatingIntegrated Martial Arts Mean Green MachinePolocrosseTable TennisTae Kwon DoTriathlonWrestling

Sports offered Then: 14FootballGolfBasketballHandballIce hockeySquashSoftballBridgePing PongSkiingSwimmingTrack & FieldVolleyballWrestling

Now: 19BadmintonBasketballDodgeballEight BallFlag FootballGolf Ice HockeyLacrosseRacquetballSkiing/Snowboarding SoccerSoftballSquashSwim MeetTable TennisTennis Turkey Trot Fun RunVolleyballWallyballWater Polo

For the “now” (specifically January 2010) I can only report that the College has 3,951 employees, ofwhom 767 are faculty, which leaves 3,184 for all other. The numbers refer to “FTEs” or “full-time-equiva-lents.” In other words, there are probably more people involved since at least some are part-timers.

Alumni contributions to the College Fund have well outpaced inflation rates over the years.

President Jim Kim tells a funny story about the circling of the bonfire on Homecoming Friday eveningthat captures the essence of “traditions.” After the speeches from the steps of Dartmouth Hall are all doneand the bonfire is flaming away lustily, our new president decides to partake in that primeval Dartmouthtradition of running around the bonfire. He does half a dozen laps and figures that’s enough of one stren-uous tradition for one night. He stops at a cluster of alumni, faculty, and administrators who all applaudhis run and says something to the effect that six laps is enough—no need to do the last two class numer-als plus 100 laps. Everyone stares at him and then they proceed to tell him what the “real” tradition is. Bythe time he hears seven (or maybe a dozen) different versions I suspect he realizes that traditions are avery personal thing. Every class, every alumnus or alumna, every faculty and administration member has aspecial and personal version. As for alumni, the older we get, the more special and more personal our“real” real versions get.

With that in mind let me run down Dartmouth’s hallowed traditions, well beloved, usually somewhat lostin the fog of history—but our traditions nonetheless. (Some of this comes from the September/October2008 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine with revisions as needed.)

I have divided our traditions into three groups: the grand old or essential ones, the “nice to have” onesand the minor ones—and I expect to be properly castigated for making these divisions. First the “grandold” ones:

Bonfire: Supposedly it started in 1888 to celebrate a baseball victory. “Then” and “now” it was and is one ofthe essentials of celebrating Homecoming. In the late 1950s we scoured the countryside for creosote-ladenrailroad ties, fallen-down barns and outhouses, crates, pallets, and cartons from Thayer and local merchants,and pretty much anything else combustible that we could get our hands on reasonably legally and for free.The College helped us move our material to the center of the Green, and then we built the pyre ourselves.The tradition lives on strongly with a few modernizing changes. The College buys the materials to beburned and brings it to the Green; the lumber and other stuff is lifted up the side of the pyre by fork-lifts,everyone working on the bonfire wears a hard hat, and only a certain number of people can work on it atany one time. There are as many traditions as to the required height of the pyre as there are undergraduateclasses or perhaps even alumni. (In October 1959, there were 28,530 living undergraduate alumni and atotal of 29,658; on October 9, 2009, there were 56,697 living undergraduate alumni and a total of 71,087.)

The Homecoming Parade and the Circling the Bonfire: The returning classes parade through town and aroundthe Green to the steps of Dartmouth Hall. The freshmen “then” and the first year students “now” equallyenthusiastically circle the bonfire until it collapses. That’s the tradition—I think.

Ice Sculpture: “Then” as “now” the DOC designs and builds a usually monumental ice sculpture in the mid-dle of the Green. “Then” just about every fraternity and dormitory also built smaller ice sculptures ontheir front lawns. “Now” only a very few fraternities still do.

Freshman/First Year Student Trip: An enduring tradition for new students before classes begin, “then” and“now” expertly planned, arranged, and managed by the DOC. There are some differences, though. About100 ’60s hiked into the woods and mountains of New Hampshire; more than 95% of the ’10s made thetrip, although in addition to hiking, they also mountain climbed, canoed, kayaked, rode horses—youname it. One of the best parts of the trip is the telling of ghost stories at the Ravine Lodge.

The Dartmouth Indian: He came a cropper in the 1960s. Suggested replacements such as an anthropomor-phized beer keg named “Keggy” or a similarly anthropomorphized moose called “Dartmoose” haven’t quitecaught on. Neither has been the attempt to “mascotize” the Lone Pine. The Big Green would seem to be a


Amount contributed 1955/56: $708,527 [$5.0 million]1959/60: $628,000 [$4.4 million]

2008/09: $38.1 million

Number of contributors 1955/56: 17,8321959/60: 18,904(might include both actual con-tributions and pledges)

2008/09: 22,971(includes only contributions andno pledges)

reasonable placeholder although certainly not for everyone. Indian Head Senior canes, going back to 1898,hung on a little longer but were discontinued by 1972. Clay pipes ceased to be a tradition in 1992.

Pong: “Now” labeled the “quintessential Dartmouth drinking game.” A malicious rumor has it that Pongbegan in our days. The better your aim, the thirstier you get.

The following traditions are in turn nice to have, sometimes delightful, and sometimes hard to fathomwhy they lasted at all.

Sink Night initiates the new brothers and sisters into Greek-letter and similar houses. At Wet-down thenewly elected student government members were originally pelted with food and water on the Green.When food and water was replaced by flogging with belts, the tradition died in the 1960s. The a capellachoral competition, aka “fraternity hums,” going back to 1899, pitted the various fraternities against eachother on the steps of Dartmouth Hall in the spring. Misogynistic lyrics in 1975 apparently ended this trulydelightful tradition. Freshman headgear was very much still in fashion “then.” It disappeared from thescene in the early 1970s. Rubbing Bentley’s Nose in Hopkins Center has become a well-entrenched tradition“now.” “Then” we used Dean Craven Laycock’s nose in Baker but not nearly as assiduously. The Trip to theSea is the Canoe Club’s annual 218-mile paddle (and sometimes race) from Hanover to Long Island Sound,re-staging John Ledyard’s escape from Dartmouth in 1773. Paddling through Hartford, Conn., in the buffis definitely a new “now” tradition. Milk Punch, a combination of left-over liquor, milk, vanilla ice cream,and chopped ice, was served in a large galvanized washtub in fraternities on Sunday morning to, as one ofour classmates wrote, “purge the demons and ethers” of the weekend—usually to no avail. Not even thesupposedly well-worn jock strap, usually floating in the punch, cleared anyone’s head. Finally, road trips,mostly to women’s colleges, “then” were traditional, always much fun, always dangerous, and a few timesfatal. There is not much need for road trips “now.”

Here, in no particular order, are some minor traditions; some have held on over the last 50 years, somehave died, and some have started new: Fraternity Play Contest, rushing the football field at halftime,Sanborn tea, Salty Dog Rag, 24 hours to Moosilauke, Baker Bells on Request, Keg Jump, Ledyard Challenge,old and new chariot races, polar bear swim, Senior Fence, tennis balls at Princeton hockey games, togaparties, and the Tuck Bicycle Races.

At quick word about the physical appearance of Dartmouth. The campus was described in the 1959/60General Information Bulletin as “a compact unit of 175 acres ... and more than 70 buildings.” The “morethan” seems to have included at least another 15 or so ... at least that’s what I came up with when I count-ed only the named buildings on the campus maps of that time. But in any case, the “now” is vastly larger.According to the current website the campus now encompasses about 225 acres, and, as a look at the cur-rent campus map will show, many more buildings, although some have also disappeared, been added to, orchanged their name. The most noticeable new buildings since our time are the Hopkins Center, the Berrypart of the Baker-Berry Libraries, the Hood Art Museum, Rockefeller Center, and, off campus, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. There are many more new buildings, primarily more or less in the area wherethe hospital used to be, almost entirely devoted to the sciences. The athletic facilities have had many addi-tions and renovations. The most notable are Berry Sports Center, Boss Tennis Center and Gordon Pavilion,Leverone Field House, Red Rolfe Field, Thompson Arena, Floren Varsity House, and Corey Ford RugbyClubhouse. The Rowing Boathouse has been totally overhauled.

While you are on campus for the 50th Reunion, take a guided tour: you will marvel at all the new stuffand yet recognize the many nooks and crannies that have lasted without change over a half-century.

In addition to my wife Mary and daughter Tara (’92), I am very indebted to a slew of Dartmouth folks forproviding information, making suggestions, checking facts, editing, and all sorts of other assistance: JimAdler, Rick Bender, Theresa Bryant, Peter Carini, Joe Cassidy, Deborah Carney, Jennifer Casey, BobCaulfield, Bob Ceplikas, Ellen Ceppetelli, Jay Davis, Carol Fuchs, Lynne Gaudet, Phyllis Gilbert, DennyGoodman, Bill Gould, John Goyette, Bill Gray, Bill Green, Hank Greer, Bill Gundy, Katherine Hart, FredHart, Joe Helble, Jeff Horrell, Gerry Huttrer, Bob Kenerson, Brian Kennedy, Gene Kohn, Roli Kolman,Maria Laskaris, Barbara McAdam, Sarah Memmi, John Mitchell, Bill Moorman, Peter Nolette, JoeO’Donnell, Francis Oscadal, Bob Phillips, Sean Plottner, George Potts, Vicki Riley, Rick Roesch, TonyRoisman, Jay Satterfield, Roger Schaefer, Sylvia Spears, Eleni Stavrou, Megan Steven, David Spalding, AndySteele, Steve Stewater, Janet Terp, John Turco, Francis Vernon, Ellen Waite-Franzen, Jeanne West, as well asthe staff of Rauner Special Collection Library not specifically mentioned above. Thank you all very much.And if I did inadvertently forget anybody, mea culpa.


Great IssuesYour Editor takes leave to add one more lagniappeto the tray of treats above. We, sometimes grudg-ingly but always curiously, attended a course enti-tled Great Issues. It. was conceived by ourlate-of-the-U.S.-State-Department President Dickey.It’s gone now, perhaps to be revived by PresidentKim.

Our Bob Messner hoarded his copies of the write-ups we were compelled to submit following eachlecture. Below are the names of those engaged tospeak. Bob observes, “The biographies of thesespeakers are incredible. They were either the lead-ing people in their fields or about to burst on theinternational scene.” For your consideration, theirnames and topic titles follow:

Professor Hans Kohn: The Context of Our TimesThurgood Marshall: The Race ProblemJames J. Kilpatrick: Title unknown. He may haverebutted the Marshall talk. He later edited TheNational ReviewDr. James B. Conant: American EducationMadame Vijaya Pandit: Democratic Experiment inIndiaLeon H. Keyserling: Economic Growth of theUnited States: Its Domestic and InternationalSignificance

James Reston: Mass Media in a Free SocietyW. Willard Wirtz: Responsibilities of Labor andManagementSenator William Proxmire (D-Wis): The Case forLiberalismSenator Styles Bridges (R-N.H.): The Case forConservatismWilliam F. Buckley: Up From LiberalismPierre Mendes France: Political and EconomicProblems Confronting a Summit ConferenceProfessor Jovan Djordjevic: Concepts ofContemporary SocialismEdwin S. Munger: Evolution and Revolution inAfricaHarrison Salisbury: A New Look at Soviet RussiaAlbert Ravenholt: Mao’s China: A Decade ofCommunismDr. Charles Malik: The Dialectic of CoexistenceProfessor Charles P. Issawi: The Role of the MiddleEast in world AffairsMarya Mannes: But Will It Sell?Sir Jacob Bronowski: Is Science Immoral?Bernard M. Loomer: Religion and the Moral LifePatrick Murphy Malin: American Civil Liberties

Your editor, a waiter at the Hanover Inn, met,spoke with, and fed nearly all of the above. Wasthis a great college or what?


President John Sloan Dickey

1960 Scholars: The Class of 1960 Makes a DifferenceA Generous Spirit

During the mid-’90s, the Class undertook to assistadmitted students who, but for their inability tostretch their funds to cover the entirety of tuition,room, board, books, and assorted fees, would be ableto attend Dartmouth. Our Bob Kenerson was desig-nated the liaison among the College, the Class, andthe scholars. It was a coincidence that two of Bob’sgreat-grandfathers were the first to found a scholarsfunding program, this done at their 25th reunionin July 1909! So far, some 15 individuals haveavailed themselves of a share of the pool of funds.

It has been written in Outliers and The Black Swanthat no amount of planning will replace dumbluck. And so it was that like manna from heavendropped on Moses in the desert, found-money hashelped these boys and girls sup at the smorgasbordDartmouth offers and has snatched their academiccareers from the jaws of defeat.

Hereafter, Bob’s random comments about ourScholars and from each of them (almost) a commen-tary on their experience. You, Class of 1960, addedjust a little more to our civilized world. Thanks.

By Class, from oldest to most recent:

Nathan SomersBob’s comments: Nathan Somers was our firstClass Scholar, who was namedin fall 1993 as a freshman. Hecame to Dartmouth from WestSpringfield, Mass., High School,where he was an outstandingstudent. His father was a sur-veyor, and a younger sister wasalso planning on college. Hebecame a pre-med at Dartmouth but majored inanthropology and biology. He did research withAnthropology Professor Kenneth Korey through thePresidential Scholars Research Program. He spent thefall trimester of his junior year studying at St. Anne’sCollege at Oxford University in England, studyingHuman Physiology and the plays of Shakespeare.Back at Dartmouth, he had a work-study job withProfessor Eric Lambie in the molecular genetics labo-ratory. Nate graduated Magna Cum Laude and PhiBeta Kappa in 1997. He went on to the University ofMassachusetts Medical School where his intereststurned to Psychiatry. He received extensive train-ing in child and forensic psychiatry.

Nate and Amanda were married in March 2000. Shehas helped support the family with her work as a

pharmacist. They became parents in January 2002and now have four children, three sons and a daugh-ter. They reside in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

Nathan Somers’s report:Since graduating from Dartmouth in 1997, I attend-ed the University of Massachusetts Medical Schoolin Worcester. I finished medical school in 2002 andentered a combined residency in Adult and Child-Adolescent Psychiatry there. In my final year of res-idency, I served as the Chief Resident in the Child-Adolescent Psychiatry program. Then, in 2007, I took a position at Providence Behavioral HealthHospital in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and I continueto work there. I manage one of two units specializ-ing in acute psychiatric treatment for emotionally

disturbed youth, one for adolescents and the otherfor younger children. I had been the attending psy-chiatrist on the adolescent unit for a little morethan two years but rotated to the unit for youngerchildren about a month ago. Providence Hospital,though technically a “private” facility, has a signif-icant majority of its patients insured by Medicaid,and as such the work is extremely “public sector”-oriented. We collaborate routinely with many differ-ent state agencies in serving our patients, includingthe Department of Mental Health, Department ofYouth Services, and of course, the Department ofChildren and Families. I find it very rewarding to be apart of this institution that provides critical, althoughoften unrecognized, services to our community.

In addition to my inpatient position at ProvidenceHospital, I also work at a nearby community men-tal health center in Westfield, Mass., part-time,which is called the Carson Center for Children and


UK Prime Minister Clement Atlee guest speaker atGreat Issues chatting with Dick Harrison and others

Although Dartmouth is a very old place, to me it always seemed brand-new, like a shiny toy on Christmas morning.

Nathan Somers


Youth. There, my primary role is to provide psy-chopharmacological management to children andteens (and a few adults) who are seen by othertherapists at the clinic. My secondary role at theCarson Center is to provide consultation to theintensive care coordination service, which is a new“wraparound” model outreach program, launchedthis past summer. The goal is to support childrenand teens who are struggling with emotional andbehavioral issues by collaborating with their fami-lies first, and then working to enhance further col-laboration between the youth/family and othercommunity supports (schools, mental healthproviders, coaches, etc., i.e., the “It takes a village”approach). You may be familiar with this programas it is part of the Children’s Behavioral HealthInitiative (CBHI), a comprehensive strategy thatthe Commonwealth has developed to address themental health needs of children receiving healthcare through Medicaid. My work at Carson, as atthe Hospital, has a definite focus on addressingpublic sector mental health needs. This is where, I feel, my professional heart lies, although downthe road I do hope to complement these experi-ences with perhaps a small private practice, whereI would hope to have the opportunity to provideboth psychotherapeutic as well as psychopharma-cologic treatment

While much has happened in my professional life,even more has gone on personally. As you know,while I was in medical school, I became engaged toAmanda Conway, and we married in March 2000.Amanda and I had met in high school and per-formed in several high school musicals together.Amanda graduated from the University of RhodeIsland in 1999 and is a pharmacist. Our eldest son,John Gregory Somers (Jack) was born January 10,2002. Jack is now in 2nd grade and especially

enjoys paleontology and soccer. Charles ErnestSomers (Charlie) was born July 19, 2004. He juststarted Kindergarten this year. Charlie has a specialinterest in cooking, as do I, and enjoys makingdesserts with both Amanda and me. William NathanSomers (Will) was born July 15, 2006. Will is inpreschool and loves riding his bike and doing puz-zles. Our final addition is Claire Marie Somers, whowas born on November 26, 2007. Of course, she’ll bewell protected with three older brothers, but I thinkit’s also making her a force to be reckoned with inher own right! She’ll be 2 years in just a couple ofweeks, and as with all of them, this stage of devel-opment has been so wonderful as I start to see herpersonality emerging more and more, day after day.

Of course, the challenges of having such a large,young family are many, particularly with twoworking parents. Fortunately, we have the support(and often, babysitting help) of all four of our par-ents, who live in town. We moved back to ourhome town of West Springfield a little over a yearago and live in a great little neighborhood withseveral other young families. In spite of the hur-dles, I’ve found the joy of being a father and hus-band second to none. I’m sure I’m not alone in theexperience of looking at any of my children at onetime or another and thinking, “I can’t believe we’vecreated such a beautiful thing.” Certainly, this issomething that keeps me going when the hurdlesget higher or come faster.

In my (copious) spare time, I’m trying to squeezein some long-distance running whenever I can.Fortunately, I have a very motivated neighbor whois also a runner, and we are planning to run theVermont City Marathon up in Burlington nextMay. I’ve also started to try my hand at golf, butthat’s more of a work in progress.

Thinking back to my life when I was at Dartmouth,what stands out most is the excitement of possibil-ity. Dartmouth was a place for me, where I couldallow myself to imagine my life going in many dif-ferent directions, and where there was always asupportive community and so many resources toexplore those paths. There has never been a timein my life when I felt more freedom to learn justfor the sake of learning. Throughout my years atthe College, there was continued excitement foreach approaching year, term, course, professor, lec-ture, or book, all of which were opportunities tolearn something novel. As I sit here writing this, Irealize that although Dartmouth is a very old place,to me it always seemed brand-new, like a shiny toyon Christmas morning. Though it’s hard to putsuch feelings into words, I think that this best cap-tures what I felt, and still feel, when driving Northto Hanover and first catching that glimpse of BakerTower peering over the treetops.

Nelson Rockefeller with wife Happy and Dean ThadSeymour outside Tanzi’s, fall 1959

Karolyn Dector Bob’s Comments:Karolyn Dector was reared inPittsburgh, Pa. She had manyaccomplishments in highschool besides being an out-standing student. She wasnamed to the National Women’sSoftball Team. At Dartmouth,Karolyn majored in ComputerScience and Engineering. Shehad an internship with Oracle in Nashua, N.H.,and a later one with Microsoft in Seattle. Her seniorthesis was extremely interesting and was coordi-nated with the department of surgery at the MaryHitchcock Hospital and Dartmouth Medical School.Using a combination of her knowledge of advancedmathematics, computer science, and engineering,she created a system of visualizing the area of sur-gery on a screen in the operating room to permitthe microscopic excision of tissue affected with can-cer. Karolyn defended her thesis successfully and shegraduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude.

Karolyn chose to follow an offer of employmentfrom a firm named Microstrategies in Vienna, Va.This firm was founded in 1988 by Dartmouth grad-uates. Eventually the company was sold to GeneralElectric. She took courses at the APL/Johns HopkinsLaboratory and started leaning toward Biotech.However, she was hired by a firm called Parature,

which focuses on a web-hosted customer care soft-ware geared to help companies effectively and effi-ciently communicate with their customers. She isnow in her fifth year with this company.

Karolyn Dector’s Report:It’s great to hear from you! I’m doing very well—I’m actually writing you from the Tokyo airport inroute to Korea for work. I wanted to be sure torespond to you so that you have updates for yourClass meeting.

It’s been a busy year for me: my husband and I justcelebrated our first wedding anniversary. We weremarried in my hometown, Pittsburgh, and enjoyedour honeymoon in Cabo, Mexico. Then we boughta home in Vienna, Va. (Tysons Corners, if you’refamiliar with the shopping area in northern Virginia).We had been living in D.C. but decided it was timefor more space. In July, we added a Visla puppy toour family. His name is Hutch. Of course, we havea cat, Starsky.

On the work front I am in my fifth year with asmall software company named Parature. The com-pany provides a web-hosted product for customersupport. When I started with the company, I wasemployee number 16. Now we now are a little over100 employees. I continue to enjoy the companyand the people. I run the product management andprofessional services teams.

My ten-year reunion is coming up. I believe myclass actually celebrates it next year combined withanother class.

Tanveer Abbas Bob’s comments:Tanveer Abbas ’01 came to Dartmouth fromBangladesh, where he was educated in an eliteBritish Colonial-style prep school. He was outstand-ing as a student, including making a 1580 on his SATexams. His father and mother are both Bangladeshiwith graduate degrees received in Australia, whereTanveer spent some of his boyhood. He decided ona double major at Dartmouth in government andeconomics with a focus on international relationsand finance. He took an internship in the fall ofhis junior year at Schroders and Co., an interna-tional investment bank, and in the spring of junioryear at Salomon Smith Barney.

In the summer between junior and senior years, heinterned at Goldman Sachs in New York City.Tanveer was permitted to take courses at the TuckSchool starting in his junior year as he had taken allthe undergraduate courses in his area of specialty.He was selected as the outstanding student at Tuckto attend the Tuck Business Bridge Program atOxford University, an intensive 4-week program infinance, studying with many outstanding interna-tional economists. As he finished his junior yearhe appeared before the Class of 1960 at our 40threunion. He had no spending money for the trip,and we passed the hat and helped to make the tripa pleasure for him. He left most of his electives forsenior year. The most valuable course that he tookwas a religion course that made him examine hisown Muslim faith in a moving and informative way.He was heavily recruited by Goldman Sachs, MorganStanley, and Bain Corporation. He chose MorganStanley, which was demanding route. He avoidedtragedy on 9/11 when Morgan Stanley’s headquar-ters was destroyed in the World Trade Center.

He left Morgan Stanley in August 2002. Then heworked in White Plains with the Ithica Hedge Fund,helping to manage $40-50 billion. He then decidedto return to his homeland to dedicate his talents toBangladesh. After starting a new stock market toprovide what he hoped would be a non-corruptavenue for investment, he started up an educationalnon-profit organization to provides students’ coun-seling on higher education and set up the second


I am in my fifth year with a small software company named Parature.

Karolyn Dector


private-public library in the capital city of Bangladesh.In addition, he wrote a book that provides educa-tional and scholarship advice specifically for poorBangladeshi students. That book was a huge hitthe year it appeared. He then worked at the WorldBank Group’s International Finance Corporation(IFC). When last heard from, he had achieved Con-sultant status.

He was in the process of setting up the first venturecapital fund in Bangladesh due to be launched soon.He created an investment platform for Bangladeshisliving abroad so that they can easily invest in theircountry, because individuals’ investing in Bangladeshfrom abroad is very difficult. As a research consult-ant for the World Bank he was published. For exam-ple, his work dealing with the effect of the WTO(World Trade Organization) on the financial sectorin Bangladesh received acclaim. He went to Indiato engage to in research on how to improve tradebetween India and Bangladesh.

He sent the Class his greetings and thanked us onceagain. His correspondence sounded positive, and heencouraged me to stay in touch.

It has been a continuing surprise and a puzzle thatwe no longer hear from him. The College has beenunable to locate him. Unfortunately, 10/2/03 wasthe last that we heard from Tanveer. He had visitedus, the Kenersons, during the holidays betweenChristmas 1998 and New Year’s 1999, and I hadenjoyed him a great deal. Tanveer was a powerhouseof achievement, and I keep expecting to read abouthim in international news. The alumni office waschecked for leads to his whereabouts but list himas Lost to follow up. We remembered that hisyounger brother attended Princeton University, soa call was placed to their administration. There isno record at any office at Princeton that anyonenamed Abbas even attended Princeton. Any furtheropinion at this point is pure speculation.

Tanveer wrote us in September 2000 thanking usfor his aid. We have not been able to locate himsince. Ed.

Matt IppolitoBob’s comments:Matthew Ippolito has had adynamic journey through hisundergraduate years andbeyond. As a freshman he tooka great interest in learningChinese and then decided tomajor in it, as well as in Gov-ernment. This led to theopportunity to study in Chinathrough the Dartmouth Language Study Abroadprogram. Before departing, Matt spoke to our Classat our 40th reunion, and we supported his foreign

study in China by passing the hat. While in China,he followed the curriculum offered by Dartmouthand immersed himself in the study of Chinese. Hespent ten days traveling along the Silk Road to thewestern part of China and back to Beijing. He thentraveled on his own to the southwest part of China,an impressive region that is largely undeveloped. InOctober 2000, he returned to Beijing to teach Englishat a private university. The entire experience inChina he reported at the time as “the greatest timeI’ve ever had in my life.” Returning to Hanover, hehad enough Chinese to be a teaching assistant,teaching the introductory language skills. He becamea Presidential Scholar, assisting a professor in theChinese Department in the compilation of a Chinese/English dictionary, majoring in Asian Studies/Government major/minor. He went a second timeto China as an undergraduate interning at a Chineseimport/export company and teaching English tosome of the employees and to their children. Twodays after graduating in June 2002, Matt again wentto China, this time as the Assistant Director of theDartmouth Language Study Abroad in China. Aftera period of travel after the program was completed,he gained employment teaching English to theChinese people employed by the Dow Jones Com-pany. He then shifted to a Chinese travel companyfor English-speaking people and compiled a trave-logue for English-speaking people. His employmentchanged again, and he became a project managerin a boutique consulting firm serving foreign com-panies in China. He headed an office in Beijing,where his interest was not great, but he made sig-nificant progress in paying off his college loans. Heremained in China until May 2005.

In the summer of 2005, he and his girlfriend spenttime in Peru assisting a group that helps post-trau-matic stress disorder orphans in Lima. They hikedextensively and visited Machu Pichu.

He then headed to Ghana with the Peace Corps toserve as a SED (Small Enterprise Development) advi-sor for two years. He located in the Ashanti regionof Ghana working as a community development

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volunteer, focusing on health and business issues.He faced a great disappointment when he was sep-arated from the Peace Corps because of an adversereaction to the anti-malarials that he had to take.He had become three-quarters deaf. Undaunted, herebounded with a new career objective, gaining aposition in Philadelphia in deafness research. Hestarted taking pre-med courses. Once again, theClass of 1960 offered him additional financial sup-port in his effort as a pre-med student. He gainedadmission to Dartmouth Medical School, where wehave had the chance to see him again at our Classmeetings during our fall Homecoming weekends.He is thriving as a medical student, with great pas-sion, excelling in every subject including psychiatry.He intends to focus on pediatric infectious diseases,especially neglected diseases, with an eye eventuallytoward global medicine. Matt is currently applyingfor several MPH programs and for a one-yearresearch fellowship with the NIH

Matt Ippolito’s report:I was born and reared in Long Island’s HamptonBays, the second-busiest fishing port in New YorkState. I wore our school colors of purple and whiteon the soccer field and running track. I had anolder brother and sister ahead of me in school andtwo younger brothers behind. Our parents werehardworking New Yorkers who sacrificed much toraise the five of us. Our father was an office man-ager at a local lightbulb company and our motherwas a nurse at the local hospital where we were born.Thanks them and to the Class of 1960 I can callmyself a son of Dartmouth, and I am on my waytowards a career in global health.

At the age of 17, I graduated valedictorian from oursmall school and left home for Dartmouth College.Beholding the New Hampshire countryside fromthe top of Mt. Moosilauke; watching the sunrisefrom Holt’s Ledge; the late-night meteor showersfrom the College golf course; scaling Bartlett Tower;rocketing down the Dartmouth Skiway; singingwith the Glee Club in Carnegie Hall; exploring theSilk Road in China with classmates; launching froma rope swing into the Connecticut River; and leap-ing into Occom Pond in February were unforget-table treats. These were the experiences, like colorson an artist’s palette, that painted my Dartmouthexperience. The friendships forged there are as strongtoday as ever. I was not a brother on Fraternity Row,but I had my own special group of Dartmouthbrothers and sisters, and we truly do roam ’roundthe girdled earth. From organic farming in Thailand,to refugee law in West Africa, to health care in Tibet,my Dartmouth friends continue to inspire me. Myown journey has taken me from travel writing inManchuria to business consulting in Beijing, fromthe Peace Corps in West Africa to public health

research in Guatemala, not only as a DartmouthCollege graduate but as a Dartmouth medical stu-dent. It is thanks in no small part to the Class of1960 that I have been able to pursue these adven-tures over more than a decade of ever-present sup-port, encouragement, and guidance. When theClass of 1960 learned that I was taking my first trip

to China and holding three work-study jobs so I could afford the airfare, it stepped up and helped.When the Class learned, years later, that I had beenmedically evacuated from West Africa, where I hadbeen serving with the Peace Corps, and was strug-gling with car payments and tuition as I preparedfor medical school, the Class again stepped up andextended a generous hand. More than their generos-ity, however, the Class has shown me again andagain what it means to be a son of Dartmouth. Myfirst encounter with your Class was during the fallof my freshman year in 1998. The Class was gath-ered there in a room beside Dartmouth Hall to wel-come a new generation of Dartmouth students,nearly four decades after they had left the Hanoverplain for the wide, wide world. I can still conjure upthe sense of awe I felt then when I realized what aspecial place I had come to, which calls back to itssons and daughters across the decades. Thanks tothe Class, I also understand and feel the same pullas well.

Michael Perry Bob’s comments:Michael became a Class Scholar in his junior year.At that time, we had a scholar in each undergradu-ate class. We did not meet him until he returnedfrom Edinburgh where he studied Philosophy aspart of the Foreign Study Program.


These were the experiences, like colors on an artist’s palette, that painted my Dartmouth experience.

Matt Ippolito

Fraternity Row


Michael comes from Eden Prairie, Minn. As a soph-omore, he served as V.P. of Academic Affairs wherehe worked on student-faculty relations, a studentonline course guide, and the academic direction ofthe College. In his summer term, he was presidentof the Assembly.

He has served as editor-in-chief the Policy Perspec-tives Quarterly, was in the World Affairs Council,and is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

On his return from Edinburgh, he served in the U.S.mission to the U.N. He contemplates a career in theForeign Service His Senior thesis was on Wittgensteinand his concept of knowledge.

Michael Perry’s report: I graduated from Dartmouth in 2003 cum laude,receiving the Barrett Cup and Gramlich PhilosophyPrize. After graduation I immediately entered a grad-uate program in philosophy at Johns Hopkins Uni-versity, earning an MA in 2005 and a PhD in 2009.

I specialized in epistemology (Theory of Knowledge)but also focused on logic, the philosophy of mind,the philosophy of language, and political philoso-phy. I wrote the equivalent of a MA thesis on theskeptical epistemology of Robert Fogelin (ProfessorEmeritus at Dartmouth). My PhD dissertation, entitled

Epistemology in the Shadow of Pyrrhonism (anancient form of skepticism), was an attempt toapply Pyrrhonism to contemporary issues in episte-mology and thereby shift our understanding of therole and task of epistemology. While at Johns Hopkins I taught courses ranging from Bioethics toLogic. I also designed and taught a course on para-doxes. I currently reside in Ann Arbor, Mich., whereI am pursuing a JD at the University of Michigan LawSchool. My primary interests are in ConstitutionalLaw, International Law, and Jurisprudence. I amscheduled to graduate in 2012 and am interested atthis point in either public service employment orlegal academia.

Brenda Whited Bob’s comments: Brenda comes from PalosVerdes, California, where shehad an outstanding high schoolcareer. Among other things,she was nationally ranked as afemale wrestler. She intends tomajor in EnvironmentalBiology. As a sophomore, shechose to study in Brazil withthe Language Study Abroad from Dartmouth. Shehad been learning Portuguese. Her mother is fromBrazil, but Brenda had never been there.

Back at Dartmouth for her junior year, she is study-ing Chemistry and Biology. She is helping with theresearch of Professor Mark McPete with researchthat involves DNA in evolutionary biology. She hascontinued a strong interest in rock climbing in herfree time.

Brenda Whited’s report:Hi, Class of ’60! All is well, though nothing thatexciting to report unfortunately. I have seen a lotof career changes recently. Last April, I movedfrom Tuolumne County (just north of Yosemite inCalifornia) where I was working for a non-profitconservation group to the North Coast (far northcoast) of California to Eureka (Humboldt County).I spent a wonderful summer up here working for theBureau of Land Management doing Spotted owl,Marbled murrelet, and Pacific fisher surveys. Now,I’m beginning work with an environmental consult-ing firm. I’m just starting this week, so we’ll seehow it goes! I moved here to be closer to my olderbrother who went to school here and has livedhere for the past eight years, and also for better jobopportunities for my boyfriend of two years, whois an electrician. Tuolumne County was hit hard bythe recession and there was absolutely zero workfor the trades in this county.

Aside from work, I am continuing with my variousother passions, rock climbing, skiing, and begin-ning to learn how to surf in these cold, cold PacificProf. Fran Gramlich

While at Johns Hopkins I taught coursesranging from Bioethics to Logic. I alsodesigned and taught a course on paradoxes.

Michael Perry


waters. This May, my boyfriend Damien and Iclimbed Mt. Shasta to 14,179 feet and skied downa full 7,000 feet of one beautiful long run.

I also hope to get in a bit of traveling this winter, toEl Potrero Chico in Mexico for some rock climbing,and I hope to get to Spain and Portugal and seehow my Brazilian Portuguese fares in Portugal. MyDartmouth Portuguese classes are still sticking, andI get to practice the language with my Brazilianmother quite frequently. Aside from a few trips eastthese past few years, I haven’t traveled anywhere tooexciting, so I hope to get in a good trip this year.

Tanisha KeshavaBob’s comments:Tanisha, a graduate of McLeanHigh School in McLean, Va., isa native of Patna, India. As ahigh school senior she attendedthe Virginia Governor’s sum-mer program where she com-pleted college-level courses inmultivariable calculus and ele-mentary differential equations.She was also a member of the National HonorSociety and the Varsity Math Team, and she waseditor of her yearbook. Her father worked for theInternational Monetary Fund but went back to Indiaa couple of years before Tanisha came to Dartmouth.In India, he became a student again with new plansto contribute to the growth of India. Mother wassupporting the family including a younger brotherwho soon was to head for college.

When she entered Dartmouth, she planned to spe-cialize in mathematics and explore fields of journal-ism and politics. But she became captivated by thestudy of chemistry when she took organic chemistry.

She minored in economics. With a 3.85 gradepoint average, she became a Rufus Choate Scholarand a member of the National Society of CollegiateScholars. She received a citation in multivariablecalculus. Her student job was as a Presidential ScholarResearch Assistant in the Department of Chemistryfor Professor Gribble.

In the spring of 2004, she had an internship withJ.P. Morgan in New York City and in the summerof 2004 at Goldman Sachs in Los Angeles. Both ofthese internships were investment banking intern-ships in which she learned a lot about corporatefinance and the inner workings of Wall Street. Shevolunteered to work as a Sexual Abuse Peer Advisor,

was a columnist for The Dartmouth, and participat-ed in the Adopt-a-Grandparent program. For awork-study job, Tanisha was a Sex EducationAdvisor within Health Resources at Dick’s House.She felt this activity opened up her eyes to theworld in a way that no other part of her educationat Dartmouth did.

Tanisha graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa CumLaude, and took a job in Los Angeles with GoldmanSachs. She hopes to give back to Dartmouth by“helping students like myself have the opportunityto enjoy Dartmouth as I have.”

Tehnisha Keshava’s report:I am doing well. After graduation, I moved to LA towork for Goldman Sachs in their investment bank-ing division. After completing the two-year program,I moved to New York in 2007 to work for Goldman’sprivate equity division. I recently quit Goldman inSeptember 2009 after four years to work for a hedgefund based in NY called Porter Orlin. Just finishingone month of the new job—so far, so good! On apersonal note, I am getting married in May 2010—my fiancé and I met in NY. He is a U Penn ’04 andalso works in finance in NY. We will be getting mar-ried in Virginia, where my parents live. After thewedding, we plan to remain in NY—at least for theforeseeable future. He has never been to Dartmouth,so I am excited to take him up to Hanover, probablyduring the leaf season next fall.

Ben SchwartzBob’s comments:Benjamin Schwartz ’06 cameto Dartmouth from Columbia,Maryland. He had an outstand-ing high school record at theRiver Hill High School andreceived the OutstandingSenior award. He was aNational Merit Scholar, and hereceived a Certificate of Meritgiven to the top 5% of the Merit Scholars. As afreshman at Dartmouth, he received the William S.Churchill Award to the freshman who best “possessesqualifications of manliness, uprightness, fairness,and respect for duty.” He majored in governmentand minored in education policy. He studied at theLondon School of Economics in England on aGovernment Foreign Study Program during hisjunior. Later that year, he received a Tucker Founda-tion Fellowship to Ghana and taught at the ManyeAcademy there. He graduated from Dartmouthmagna cum laude with a 3.75 average. After gradu-ation, he taught for period of time at the ManyeAcademy in Ghana before returning to Dartmouthin the Admissions Department.

Ben Schwartz’s report:Since my arrival in Hanover in the fall of 2002, my

I recently quit Goldman to work for a hedge fund based in NY called Porter Orlin.

Tehnisha Keshava


life has been changed in ways I could never haveimagined in my days before Dartmouth. My firsttwo years in Hanover were marked by over-involve-ment and lack of clear direction. During my firstmonth on campus my classmates elected me chairof the freshman bonfire committee. I also success-fully auditioned for Dartmouth’s oldest co-ed a cappella group, the Dodecaphonics. When classesbegan, I thought I would study engineering, butafter a not-so-successful math class my freshmanwinter and several wonderfully engaging andprovocative government classes, my academic focuschanged to international relations. Sophomoreyear I won election for Class President and becameeven more involved in the Quaker Fellowship oncampus. Junior fall took me abroad for my firsttime ever. At the London School of Economics ona Dartmouth Foreign Study Program I studied com-parative politics and international affairs, and Iresearched higher education policies. After submit-ting my final papers for my term in London I spenta month backpacking around Europe, staying withDartmouth friends all along the way from Madridto Copenhagen to Sofia and eventually to Paris forNew Years with about a dozen Dartmouth friends.

Drawn to further study of international education-al issues, I spent the winter of 2005 living in asquatter settlement in Ghana, West Africa, volun-teering with the Manye Foundation, NGO. Back atDartmouth for senior year and deeply affected bymy time in Ghana, I began studying education

across cultures while also working as an intern forthe admissions office. Following a less-than-directpath, I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a majorin Government and a minor in Education Policy. I was honored to serve for a year at the ManyeFoundation in Ghana as a Lombard Fellow, chosenby Dartmouth’s Dickey Center for InternationalUnderstanding. During my year back in Africa, I didmany things. I taught and served as a school admin-istrator; I oversaw many school improvements; I helped upgrade facilities, increased communityengagement and improved teacher training andretention efforts. I helped to successfully establisha library and computer center, improve studentand teacher attendance, and increase parent involve-ment at the school. Finding my talent and enjoy-ment for improving education in underprivileged

communities, I decided to found a non-profit,World Partners in Education, to build upon thesesuccesses. I’m now back in Hanover working as anAdmissions Officer in charge of web strategy andAfrican and Caribbean recruitment for Dartmouthwhile also serving as president of the non-profit. Inthe past year, with the help of dozens of Dartmouthstudents, alumni, faculty, and staff from across theinstitution, we’ve expanded our services to nearly600 children in Ghana and Kenya. I’m proud to sayour first graduating class in Ghana all passed thenational high school entrance exam with scoresthat put them at the top of the country—provingour efforts to be nothing short of miraculous. Aftersuch a fulfilling educational experience at Dart-mouth, it’s wonderful to be able to spread the powerof education with future generations through mywork—both in Dartmouth admissions and throughWorld Partners in Education.

Dan PeeblesBob’s comments:Dan Peebles was raised in Italyby a British mother and anAmerican father. He did notlive in the U.S.A. until he cameto Dartmouth. He had attendedhigh school in a small privateschool in Rome. At Dartmouth,he studied classical piano withSally Pincus, a member of thefaculty of music who is a noted teacher. He was aphotographer for the Aegis and belonged to theItalian Club. He majored in Computer Science andreceived a citation in one of his computer courses.He studied in Japan for a semester on the Advanced

Our first graduating class in Ghana all passedthe national high school entrance exam with scores that put them at the top of the country — proving our efforts to be nothing short of miraculous.

Ben Schwartz

John Peterson and his date on clean-up duty

Language Study Abroad Program and studied Chi-nese as well. These language studies combinedwith his competence in computer science led to avery interesting senior honors thesis on integratingChinese and Japanese characters into various aspectsof computing. Through Computer Science 38, Danbecame very interested in the problem of hackedcomputers worldwide. After graduation, he becameemployed at the Institute for Security and Technol-ogy Studies in Hanover on the Lyme Road. He hasreturned to the Computer Science department atDartmouth to pursue a PhD in computer science.

Dan Peebles’s report:Ed. Note: As of our publication date, we have notheard from Dan.

Kristen LurieBob’s comments: Kristen Lurie graduated fromOceanside (New York) HighSchool. She has one youngersibling, a sister, and parentswho were dedicated to theireducational development.Both parents worked in mod-est income jobs. She wasSalutatorian of her class andwas involved in the science research program forfour years where she worked in two biochemistrylaboratories. For her research on novel tuberculosisdrugs, she was named an Intel Science Talent SearchSemi-Finalist. She was principal bass of the All-StateOrchestra for two years and was president of boththe Science Club and the Bio-Medical Club.

At Dartmouth, she immediately excelled scholasti-cally and became a Rufus Choate Scholar with a3.8 grade point average. She became a member ofthe National Society of Collegiate Scholars. For awork-study job, Kristen had a WISP (Women inScience Project) internship with Professor BrianPogue in the Department of Biomedical Engineering,helping create a device to measure fluorescence inmalignant tumors. She readily became the principalbassist in the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra anda bassoonist in the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra.The summer between freshman and sophomoreyears, she had a Research Experience for Under-graduates (REU) position sponsored by the NationalInstitute of Health at the Cleveland Clinic throughwhich she designed a component of a device thatcould test the efficiency of various heart pumpsdesigned in the laboratory.

The following spring, she studied in Rome, Italy,with the Italian Language Study Abroad Program.Returning to Hanover, she identified her intent tomajor in Engineering with a minor in Mathematics.She elevated her grade point average to 3.88,remained a Rufus Choate Scholar, and placed in the

top 5% of her class. In 2004-2005, she received theAlbert Schweitzer Fellowship, which is awarded tomedical, law, and engineering students for a year-longproject to improve the health of their community.With her friend, Rose Mutiso, she sought to motivatelocal middle school girls with the one opportunitythat would give them impetus in the future to takechallenging math and science classes in high schooland perhaps continue on in college. There were multi-ple competitions and mentoring aspects to the pro-gram, which has become a permanent program inthe Dartmouth–Hanover community.

As an Engineering Sciences major and a Mathematicsminor, she enjoyed many classes, especially thoseclasses that had hands-on projects. As a senior, inaddition to finishing her Bachelor of Arts degree,she received her Bachelor of Engineering degreefrom Thayer School with a concentration in elec-trical engineering. In June ’08, Kristen graduatedPhi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, with highhonors in her major subject, Engineering Sciences.She was named recipient of the Richard W. Olmsted’32, Thayer ’33 Engineering Science Prize. Kristenwas accepted to all the graduate programs to whichshe applied.

At the spring concert of The Dartmouth SymphonyOrchestra in her senior year, the Orchestra playedMahler’s First Symphony, which included a basssolo, which Kristen took. That was very moving tosee her perform, as Ruth and I were able to attendthe concert and to meet Kristen’s parents afterward.Alan and Lois Lurie were justifiably proud of theirdaughter on all accounts, but they were especiallyprofuse in their praise of the Class of 1960 ScholarsProgram and wished their gratitude to be extendedto the entire Class.

Kirsten Lurie’s report:Here’s some news: I am in the second year of anelectrical engineering MS–PhD program at Stanford.I will finish my MS degree this spring and will con-tinue on for the PhD. I’ve worked on two researchprojects so far, a machine learning–robotics proj-ect, which just got submitted to an internationalconference, and a biomechanics project, which is


Thayer School of Engineering


looking at a new way to treat knee osteoarthritisby training patients to walk differently. I haven’tcompletely decided on a lab yet, but I am hoping

to work on an electrical engineering project withmedical applications. I am also continuing to playthe double bass in the orchestra. I miss Dartmoutha lot, but I am enjoying my time here. My parentsmiss Dartmouth too; they went back to see thecampus a few weeks ago!

Silvia FerreiraBob’s comments:Silvia Ferreira is from Jamaica, New York, where shewas raised by her parents, who are working-classimmigrants from Portugal. During high school, shewas a member of the National Spanish Honor Soci-ety as well as National Honor Society, and she wasa finalist in the Newburgh Debate Festival. Shereceived the English Department Award for Excel-lence and also found time to be editor-in-chief ofForum Political Opinions magazine. Summers werespent working for the Fund for Public InterestResearch, particularly for Environmental Action,which sought to mitigate mercury pollution. Shealso worked for the Human Rights Campaign.

At Dartmouth, Silvia’s interests mutated fromPhilosophy to the study of Arabic and Portuguese.She spent the summer between freshman and soph-omore years participating in the Language StudyAbroad Program in Fez, Morocco. She especiallyenjoyed living with her host family, who taughther Arabic. After taking part in her sister’s weddingin Northern Portugal, she immediately went toSalvador, Brazil, on the Portuguese Foreign StudyProgram. There she again lived with a host family

who helped her perfect her Portuguese andimmersed her in the Brazilian culture. After spend-ing a semester off in the winter in New York Citywaitressing in a Spanish-speaking cafe, she returnedto Hanover where she declared her major in Com-parative Literature in Arabic and Portuguese. Shedevoured classroom academics, and courses in mas-terpieces of African literature were unforgettable.This entire academic journey extended to writing asenior year thesis that was a comparative studywithin the continent of Africa of Portuguese andArabic women’s post-colonial writing. She also foundtime to participate in the Big Brother/Big sister Pro-gram and to serve as a Sexual and Domestic ViolenceCrisis Line Volunteer at a local women’s organization.

Late in her senior year, Silvia was awarded a Dean ofFaculty Undergraduate Research Grant to go toRabat, Morocco, to interview an author who figuredprominently in her senior thesis (Leila Abouzeid).Returning to Dartmouth, she graduated Magna CumLaude, and Phi Beta Kappa. She rejoiced with newsof her acceptance with a fellowship for graduatestudy at the University of California at Santa Barbarato obtain her PhD in Comparative Literature.

Silvia Ferreira’s report:California is sunny and beautiful, just as I expected.While UC Santa Barbara is a fairly large university,my program is quite small and has the close-knitfeeling that I love about Dartmouth. My classes arechallenging and fascinating, which is exactly whatI was hoping for!

I’m sad to not be able to join the Class at this year’sreunion. I trust you will have plenty to hear aboutfrom the new scholars, but please do send every-one my warmest regards!

Trent CardenBob’s report:Trent graduated from Seminole High School inSanford, Florida, where he was a member of theSpanish Honor Society and the Mu Alpha ThetaMathematics Honor Society. He received numerousawards at the regional, state, and national level forMu Alpha Theta mathematics competitions. He wasan Advanced Placement Scholar and a NationalMerit Finalist, and he graduated as Salutatorian ofhis high school. Throughout high school, Trentworked at a supermarket.

At Dartmouth, Trent enjoyed the Freshman Trip,hiking overnight, and activities at the MoosilaukeRavine Lodge. He did well with Calculus III, anintroduction to economics, and a first-year seminaron the Vietnam War. He found it quite an adjust-ment to Hanover winters but managed to enjoy theenvironment. He seemed very positive in a letter tothe Class after his first year. He attended a Class meet-ing in the fall of 2007 and spoke of his course work

1958-59 Basketball: Aley, Sosnowski, Kaufman,LaRusso, Coach Doggie Julian, Vandeweghe

I miss Dartmouth a lot, but I am enjoying my time here.

Kristen Lurie


and a growing sense of community at Dartmouth. He thanked the Class for the financial support.

In the fall of 2008, I received an email from Trentsaying he would attend our Class meeting inHanover, but he did not appear. We have not heardfrom him since. In the Class Scholars program, thereis no obligation of the part of any scholar to partic-ipate with the Class in any way. After many tries, I have discontinued efforts to reach him.

Trent Carden’s report:Ed note: At out publication date, still no word.

Percey LeeBob’s comments:Percey Lee ’11 is already a junior. He comes from BritishColumbia, Canada. He wasborn in Korea, lived the firstfour years of his life there, andimmigrated with his parentsto Canada. He graduated fromhigh school in Vancouverwhere he was an outstandingstudent. During the summer, he has taught youngchildren, and he has the ambition to become ateacher. He studied for part of his first year in a For-eign Study Program learning Chinese in Beijing. He

chaired Big Sib Little Sib, a biweekly program thatcombines Korean culture and fun for Upper Valleychildren who were adopted from Korea. We havemet Percy at three of our Class meetings.

Percy Lee’s report:Dartmouth’s fall is as exciting as usual. And it seemslike last week I was a freshman. But it’s when a ’13

comes up and asks me a question, “Where’s thelibrary?” that I realize how long I’ve been here.

I’m halfway to a BA with an economics major andminors in psych and math. And I’ve kept up a 3.98GPA that gets harder to maintain as I aspire tohigher-level courses.

Meanwhile, over the summer, I have worked at sev-eral jobs including library manager, tutoring writingand economics, and as a research assistant. Work-ing hard keeps me focused and prevents me fromslacking off.

I rushed Phi Tau this past summer. It’s a small close-knit brotherhood; just what I was looking for. Per-haps there are some Phi Tau’s in the class of ’60.

Connie ParkBob’s comments:Connie was born in Milford,Mass,, of Korean parents, whohad immigrated there. Herfather had a car dealership.They soon relocated to NewYork City, where her fatherthen had a dry cleaning busi-ness. Connie attended HunterCollege High School andexcelled as a student. She was a member of Band andmade the Math team. She was also News Editor ofthe school paper. She was attracted to Dartmouthbecause of its rural feel. It was big enough to havethe advantages of a large college but small enoughto have a feeling of intimacy. Connie has been tak-ing premedical courses but has found that she needsbetter study habits. She hopes to go to Barcelona,Spain, next semester as she has had four years ofSpanish. She feels much more at home this year asa sophomore. She has joined an a cappella choircalled the “Subtleties,” a group that plans to performat several places around campus.

Connie Park’s report:Having lived in New York City for basically my entirelife, I wanted to get away from the streetlights, theloud noises, and the rush that the city is famous for.Dartmouth, known for its passionate faculty and first-rate education, offered me the contrasting peaceful,rural college campus on which I wanted to spend myundergraduate years. During Dimensions, the Collegeshowed its spirit through its students, who put on anamazing show that hyped up all the prospies’(prospective students) spirits. Dartmouth attracted mewith its rich traditions and its unique language, withwords like prospie, blitz, and fro-yo (frozen yogurt).

As thrilled as I was to finally get away from homeand experience the college life that students ravedabout, adjustment was hard not only because I wasaway from home but also because I didn’t knowthe right way to study; my premed grades failed to

Working hard keeps me focused and prevents me from slacking off.

Percy Lee

Bonfire

show the effort I had put into my courses. But,thanks to Dartmouth’s trimester system, every suc-ceeding term came quickly and granted me a freshstart to improve my academics.

Dartmouth was my window to actualize my goalsand seize new opportunities. I learned to sing pub-licly with the Subtleties, one of Dartmouth’s all-female a cappella groups, I was able to continuevolunteering with autistic children in the surround-ing community, and finally, I was granted the oppor-tunity to study Spanish in Spain. Students oftensay that their sophomore year, an ambiguous areabetween upperclassmen and underclassmen, istheir least favorite year of their undergraduate edu-cation. I beg to differ.

I’ve come to truly and honestly appreciate Dartmouththis year and am only excited for what my next twoyears will reveal. My undergraduate years are racingby a bit too quickly, but I try not to be saddened bythe passing time, mindful of the fact that when I lookback, these years will be filled with great memoriesinstead of being a huge blur of passed time.

Torry BarrettBob’s Comments:Torrey is our latest scholar, whohails from Las Vegas, Nevada,where she has lived since theage of 5. She is the daughter ofJacqueline Ackerman, who is a1977 graduate of Dartmouthand a graduate of Harvard LawSchool. She attended a smallprivate high school. Herfavorite subjects were ancient history and anthro-pology. She was involved in the student theatreand was editor of the literary magazine. She stud-ied abroad in Japan during the summer and speaks

both Japanese and French. As one of the foundersof MicroBank, she helped to make loans availableto women in Third World countries to start busi-nesses. This summer she plans to work in the cam-paign of Shelley Berklee for Senate. Torrey spoke tothe Class of 1960 at our Class meeting on Home-coming weekend.

Torry Barrett’s report:My journey to Dartmouth has been rather serendip-itous. Growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada, I hadalways heard stories from my mother, JackieAckerman, Class of ’77, about her time at theCollege on the Hill; tales about the beauty of theHomecoming bonfire, sledding down hills onThayer dining trays, the tranquility and sense ofplace she found in Hanover. I never seriously con-sidered applying to Dartmouth, however, until thesummer before my senior year of high school.During that whirlwind tour of East Coast schools,my mother and I found ourselves one rainy morn-ing walking up the steps of McNutt Hall, inquiringwhere we should meet for the ten o’clock tour. Theentire time we walked around campus, I couldn’thelp but think, “This is what college is supposed tolook like.” I knew then that Dartmouth was theplace for me.

Now, a freshman in the Class of 2013, I am deeplyhonored and humbled to have been named a Classof 1960 Scholar. My Dartmouth experience wouldnot have been possible without the generous sup-port and warm welcome your class has shown me.I have a few ideas about what I may want to dowith my life—perhaps the intelligence field, inter-national business, or the television and film indus-try—and, thanks to you, I know I can look forwardto exploring all my many interests and abilities inthe years to come.


The DOC House on Occom Pond

Class of 1960 Officers and Historical AwardsClass Presidents Class Secretary

Borden Powers Phil Kron Tom McBurney Bob BoyeAllen Stowe Marty Lower Axel Grabowsky Mort Kondrake

Spencer Morgan Jim Adler Dick Ossen Ken Reich Seth Strickland Rick Roesch Bill McCarter Spencer Morgan Gene Kohn Ken Johansen Mickey Straus

Class Treasurer Class Newsletter EditorJim Pollard Phil Kron Tom Green Dudley Smith Bruce Clark Tom Reilly Gene Kohn Denny Goodman Tom Brock Jay Emery Jim Adler Arnold Sigler Bill Moorman

Class Head Agent Dartmouth Alumni AwardBill Batt Bob Phillips Peter Schwartz 1987

Seth Strickland Marty Lower Gene Kohn 1995Don Sheffield Rick Roesch Mickey Straus 1999Dick Harrison Ken Johansen Rick Roesch 2005Phil Kron Bruce Hasenkamp Jon Cohen 2006

Barry MacLean 2006Jim Adler 2008

Class President of the Year Award1972 Spencer Morgan1995 Marty Lower1997 Jim Adler2008 Ken Johansen

Alumni Fund Green Derby Awards1967, 1969, 1970 Seth Strickland1971, 1972 Dick Harrison1983 Bob Phillips and

Dick Davidson1988, 1989 Marty Lower1991, 1992 Rick Roesch2004 Ken Johansen

2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Bruce Hasenkamp

College Boards of OverseersHanover Inn Jack HodgsonHood/Hop Rick Roesch and

Mickey StrausHood Museum Jon Cohen Hopkins Center Paul Cantor & Allan Glick Real Estate Alex von Summer

Thayer School Barry MacLeanTuck School Jon Cohen

College Board of TrusteesBarry MacLean


Class Secretary of the Year Award2006 Ken Reich

Class Newsletter Editor of the Year Award1979 Gene Kohn

Class of the Year Awards196919912005

1960 Geographical ListThis is a list of all Home addresses of members ofthe Class. We have relied upon the College data-base and have tried to update it with informationsubmitted for this Book. We have also tried to listboth Home addresses for submitters who indicatedtwo homes; these people’s names are shown withan asterisk.

AlaskaAnchorage Robert B. SandersAnchorage Thomas C. WoodFairbanks Lawrence R. Mayo

ArizonaCave Creek Charles E. Butler Jr.Fountain Hills Lewis C. LofgrenGilbert L. William Katz.Goodyear Bruce W. HulbertParadise Valley Robert C. HackettPhoenix Martin E. ZipserScottsdale Donald W. HallScottsdale Richard E. PreiningerTucson Jerry E. BoyleTucson William M. DavidsonTucson Peter F. HubertTucson Charles H. ParkerTucson Philip B. SerlinTucson Roger C. Wolf

CaliforniaAlameda Arthur L. PritchardCarmichael Charles F. CollinsCarpinteria John B. StephensonChico Paul H. GodwinCitrus Heights Franklin C. CurrenCorte Madera L. Lee HorschmanDavis Harrison C. DunningDiamond Bar John T. WalkerFlintridge Martin H. WeissFresno John-David M. SchofieldHillsborough Bruce H. HasenkampHuntington Beach David S. WigginsKentfield Richard A. GaleLa Quinta Jim HarringtonLa Verne Edward J. GeraghtyLaguna Beach Robert S. CohenLaguna Beach Howard J. JelinekMill Valley Donald H. McGreevyMission Viejo Robert E. DestinoOakland Richard A. GoodmanOakland Roger P. Vickery Jr.Pacifica John P. BurksPalm Desert D. Barry Sibson (*)Palo Alto Edward H. BerkowitzPasadena Haley J. FromholzPauma Valley Donald D. BelcherPleasanton Robert J. HarrachPortola Valley Richard J. Foley

Portola Valley Richard M. LevyRancho Santa Fe Robert A. BolingbrokeRedlands Gary C. MeehanSacramento John R. WheatonSan Diego William S. MullinSan Diego Harry T. Newcomb IIISan Diego John F. NunnSan Francisco Robert B. BentelSan Francisco Donald P. BlackSan Francisco Michael J. CarrollSan Francisco Robert L. CaulfieldSan Francisco Emil R. EisenhardtSan Francisco Peter FarquharSan Francisco Peter J. KushnerSan Francisco Karl S. MayerSan Jose Gary S. VandewegheSan Rafael Roger W. Hackley IISanta Ana Robert S. Pike Jr.Santa Barbara Francis W. DauerSanta Paula Steven LattimoreSanta Rosa David P. MankowskiSanta Rosa John OmahaSherman Oaks Joseph D. MandelSolana Beach Jon R. StockholmThousand Oaks John BarchilonTiburon Samuel W. Parke Jr.Ventura William L. DanforthWalnut Creek James D. Foch Jr.

ColoradoBasalt Charles W. Cole Jr.Breckenridge Hans C. WursterDenver Wheeler T. DanielsDenver Bruce DuckerDenver Frederic J. SchroederDillon Michael M. WoodEstes Park Jonathan T. Ford Sr.Fort Collins A. Wayne GivensFrisco Gerald W. HuttrerGolden Conrad E. GardnerHesperus Roderick O. MullettLakewood David G. SammonsPagosa Springs James Washington Cole


Dartmouth Glee Club on Parkhurst stairs

Steamboat Springs Jon N. HalversonVail Alan S. DansonVail Richard M. PomboyVail M. Joseph McHugh III (*)

ConnecticutBranford Bruce R. LivelyBridgeport Robert S. CooperCanton Jeffrey I. FineCos Cob George F. BruderDanbury Bruce M. ClarkDarien Paul C. Richardson Jr.Darien Michael H. SavageEast Lyme George N. WoodworthFairfield Hoby MillingtonGreenwich J. Eric AndersonGreenwich Peter J. CrumbineGreenwich Seth Devore StricklandGuilford D. Borden PowersKensington Robert A. ArgazziMystic H. Russel Burgess Jr.New Canaan Gary J. StassNew Canaan Alfred W. Roberts III (*)New Haven Thomas StrongNorth Haven David P. HambletonNorwalk John F. PattersonRoxbury Donald L. Terwilliger Jr.Stamford Martin L. BuddStamford David L. FrankelStamford William C. Langley Jr.Stamford Robert M. PhillipsStonington Henry B. MannTorrington Charles F. BrowerUnionville William A. Colton Jr.West Hartford J. Roger HanlonWestbrook Jose M. Asensio Jr.Westport Dana K. JohnsonWillington Gary F. Griffin

FloridaApollo Beach Alfred W. Roberts III (*)Aventura Neil M. KoremanBal Harbour Robert A. FarmerBelleair Beach Michael R. NotaroBonifay Lester R. McCrackenBoynton Beach Peter M. RylandBradenton Harry W. QuillianCocoa Beach Miller S. BellCoral Springs Luther F. TaylorDelray Beach Richard I. DavidsonFernandina Beach David A. MillsFort Lauderdale Allan M. GreenbergHollywood Joel L. MartinJacksonville W. Webb WadeJupiter Edward W. DaumitKey West Sidney H. GoldmanLittle Torch Key R. Duncan Mathewson (*)Miami Mark SchachterMiramar Donald L. Caress

Naples Joseph L. BatchelderNaples David A. SendlerNaples Kenneth E. WegOrange Park Kenneth E. JohansenPalm Beach Gardens Dennis P. CoylePalm City Owen O. Dow (*)Palm Coast Thomas J. Brock (*)Pensacola Beach Jerome E. GurstPonce Inlet Blackwell S. BrunerSaint Petersburg Don B. Knapp IISarasota Edward J. JohansonSarasota Robert N. PalmerSarasota Ken RosenfieldSarasota Peter C. SchwartzSarasota Roger H. StephensonTallahassee Robert C. BrownTreasure Island William C. HadleyVero Beach David B. Hiley (*)Vero Beach Jacque E. SohmVero Beach Andrew W. StoneVero Beach Allen H. StoweVero Beach Andrew R. Paul (*)Winter Springs Charles F. Weingartner

GeorgiaAcworth Charles W. CherryAthens James A. HerbertAtlanta Dan GordonAtlanta Richard E. RaymerAtlanta Paul SuerkenBig Canoe Duncan KnappMacon William W. Baxley Jr.Marietta William S. McClungSavannah John R. AdamsSavannah Sanford V. BerensSavannah John P. Zipser

HawaiiAnahola Robert B. BarkerHonolulu Arthur E. HillHonolulu Melvin E. Kau


1960s Jim D. Graham, Bob McManus, Earle Patterson,Steve Vaughan, and Butch Hitchcock with BillBrigiani ’59, before Freshman Trip

Honolulu James N. ReinhardtHonolulu Tom Van WinkleKamuela Jack N. Hodgson (*)Kamuela Guy H. Piltz

IdahoHailey David F. HarrisonKetchum A. Patrick McLaughlin III

IllinoisChicago Morris FeldmanChicago Walter G. FreedmanChicago William T. HuyckChicago Michael L. Leventhal Jr.Crystal Lake Joseph F. Cramer Jr.Deerfield Charles B. Hill IIIElgin Paul F. SitzEvanston Ira S. SalafskyGlencoe Burton E. GlazovItasca Charles W. Shevchik Jr.Libertyville Barry L. MacLeanLisle Paul R. McClure Jr.Northbrook George A. ClayPeoria Bruce F. SnyderRockford Richard E. FreemanRockford Thornton C. Kline Jr.Saint Charles James S. BrannenSterling Ole B. Pace IIIWheaton Hugh H. C. Weed IIIWilmette Robert H. Reid

IndianaFishers William L. Browning IIIGeorgetown George C. Rodgers Jr.Indianapolis William G. BattLa Porte Windham Bremer

KansasLawrence Vincent H. VermootenMission Hills Bryant P. Barnes

KentuckyCovington William B. Lloyd Jr.Louisville Robert B. Irvine

LouisianaPearl River Clifford J. Houser Jr.

MaineAlna Clifford S. RussellBath James M. HaughtBridgton R. Michael DaleyEast Boothbay Ridler W. PageEast Winthrop Ron KleyEdgecomb H. Lloyd Herbert Lawrence Jr.Frenchboro Dave McEachronHarpswell Alan M. ShaverKennebunk Maxwell F. EvelethKennebunk Earle J. Patterson IIIKingfield Win RobinsonOwls Head Jerome B. BartSaco Conner M. MooreWells Steven R. MoodyWindham Kenneth Gordon

MarylandAnnapolis Frederick W. Celce Jr.Annapolis Philip A. ClarkAnnapolis Richard T. TravisBaldwin Edgar D. KauffmanBaltimore George W. LiebmannBethesda Allan W. CameronBethesda Ain H. KivimaeBowie William E. Hines Jr.Chevy Chase Charles C. Lund IIEdgewater Charles B. StuartEllicott City David K. SloperGlen Arm E. Lee RobbinsHurlock Edward W. MeissnerLutherville Timonium Jon K. MeyerOlney Shiao-Wei Y. ShenOwings Mills Saul D. RoskesPotomac Austin S. MittlerPotomac P. Kevin O’SullivanSalisbury John W. McNair Jr.Timonium Francis P. GallettiTowson J. Bradley Lund

MassachusettsAmherst V. Adrian ParsegianAndover David C. TomlinsonBeverly Joel L. BlackBoston Arthur G. AaronsonBoston Quentin P. FaulknerBoston George G. Hand IIBoston Quentin R. RegesteinBrewster Elliott G. CarrBrockton Henry J. McCourt Jr.Brookline Samuel McMurtrie Jr.Cambridge Joel B. AlvordCambridge Thomas J. MarxCambridge Thomas L. McCorkle


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Cataumet Fred A. AbbeCenterville John J. CrouthamelCharlestown Thomas H. TrimarcoChatham David L. Murphy Jr.(*)Concord Michael G. EhrlichDanvers Arthur E. Balser Jr.Dennis Robert B. HarveyEast Falmouth Richard T. Lyman Jr.Eastham S. Lawrence DingmanFitchburg Arthur B. NeedhamGloucester Robert M. HeinemanMarblehead John C. GoodmanMarblehead Richard C. HarrisonMarshfield Steven B. AtwaterMattapoisett James E. MarlowMedfield Arthur R. Stagg Jr.Medford Joel A. SapersteinMerrimac Robert A. BeckerMilton David L. Murphy Jr.(*)Natick Axel L. GrabowskyNatick George W. Potts (*)Natick Paul W. QuinlanNorth Falmouth Thomas F. Murphy Jr.Norwell W. Robert ProutyOak Bluffs Harold E. Harris Jr. (*)Orleans Lyndell M. Carlin Jr.Pittsfield Bruce R. HenryPlymouth Richard E. BonzReading Benjamin D. Parish IIISouth Hadley Harold E. Harris Jr. (*)Swampscott Roland C. Booma Jr.Swampscott Robert S. CarySwampscott Robert G. FreedmanWaban Eugene H. KohnWalpole Eugene A. ReillyWayland Thomas J. Reilly II

Wellesley Robert M. DerderianWellesley Nathaniel M. GortonWellesley Roger H. McCoyWellesley Donald H. SmithWendell Richard D. BaldwinWest Barnstable Richard P. OssenWest Barnstable E. Richard WeilerWest Hyannisport George C. RushWestfield Antony RodolakisWeston Peter A. HollandWeston James R. NicholsWestport Robert G. ArmknechtWilmington Frank J. Killilea Jr.Winchester Robert F. KenersonWinchester William H. McCarter Jr.Winchester Frank R. VirnelliYarmouth Port Peter E. BrightmanYarmouth Port William H. Richmond

MichiganAnn Arbor Albert Pieper Jr.Ann Arbor William B. PrattBear Lake Robert J. WangbichlerBrighton Robert W. BauerCharlevoix William F. JeromeDearborn Heights Kent A. KubitzFranklin Robert H. MathogGrand Rapids Mark W. HinshawGrand Rapids Bradley H. PalmerGrand Rapids Kenneth W. Taber IIGrosse Pointe Gail L. WardenHolland David L. SchreurMidland R. Eldon HoustonPelkie Robert E. DohrenwendPortland Richard A. GuilfordRochester James D. GrahamRoyal Oak Melvin Small

MinnesotaCrystal Bay Stephen L. LarsonEdina Michael D. BromerMinneapolis Wesley C. MattsonSaint Paul Robert M. BrusicSaint Paul John H. Kersey Jr.Wayzata T. Truxtun Morrison

MississippiJackson Charles A. WeeksOxford Jackson Taylor Jr.

MissouriBallwin John F. BurrKansas City Robert W. HatchSmithville William H. Moorman

MontanaBillings Gregor E. JohnsonBozeman H. Geoffrey MoserBozeman Edmund P. SedivyLewistown Erik MickelsenMissoula Harry W. Fritz


The Dartmouth Indian at Memorial Field, ca. 1960

NebraskaLincoln John D. TurnerOmaha George A. Young III

NevadaCarson City J. Thomas HannanHenderson Raymond S. PongLas Vegas James E. HughesLas Vegas Martin A. Kordick

New HampshireBedford Sol RockenmacherBrentwood Craig E. JamesonCampton Raymond P. KeatingCampton R. Marsh Morgan Jr.Dover John T. GuyDurham Richard A. PetrieElkins Richard H. Chase Jr.Etna Dennis C. GoodmanEtna Frederick A. RoeschGrantham Owen O. Dow (*)Grantham Dudley R. SmithJackson James A. ProginLaconia Robert E. HansenLebanon Anthony Z. RoismanLyme Richard M. SlosbergLyme Center Eric A. SailerNew Boston William C. GouldNew Durham John GoyetteNew London Jay W. BookerNew London William E. GundyNew London David B. Hiley (*)New London H. Gordon Starkey Jr.North Hampton Kenneth N. IngallsPlymouth Robert C. RhinesStratham Robert C. McCarthyWest Lebanon Gordon V. DeWittWest Lebanon I. Thomas Stone

New JerseyAllendale Donald J. LandzettelBasking Ridge Roger F. SchaeferBloomingdale Donald A. Stoddard Jr.Bridgewater John H. Reimer Jr.Chatham Douglas C. BryantChatham Frederick T. GraybealChatham Philip C. KronEast Brunswick Stuart L. MegibowEdgewater Malcolm A. DuffyHackensack Wm. R. EvansHightstown Ramon U. MartinelliJackson Richard V. PhillipsLawrenceville Don M. BettertonLawrenceville Albert M. Stark (*)Leonia James W. TownsendManasquan R. Reuel StanleyMiddletown John ScarinziMillburn Richard L. Montgomery Jr.Morganville Alexander V. W. InghamMorristown Barry S. Levine

Mountainside Harold R. Burdge Jr.Newton Robert J. ColyerPottersville Robert B. BoyePrinceton Jonathan M. BrownPrinceton Albert M. Stark (*)Ridgewood Arnold E. SiglerShort Hills Howard J. Frankel (*)Short Hills William B. LumShrewsbury James S. LeavittSmithville Franklin X. LoebWestfield Richard C. Griggs

New MexicoAlbuquerque L. Ervin SandlinRio Rancho Milton J. Singleton Jr.Santa Fe Brian P. BrighamSanta Fe Loren A. JacobsonSanta Fe Martin KraidinSanta Fe Duncan J. LanumSanta Fe William B. ModahlSanta Fe Peter C. Schanck

New YorkAmherst James M. PollardArmonk Leo L. SchmolkaBedford Robert F. MorrisonBrooklyn Michael HeitnerBrooklyn Peter D. ScottCape Vincent Urban C. HirscheyCold Spring Harbor Charles M. KaufmanCooperstown David W. VaulesEndicott Elmer G. Erdman Jr.Essex H. Nicholas Muller IIIFairport Douglas W. WhitneyFayetteville Charles P. DarrowGarden City Thomas C. KirbyGhent John A. BenjaminGreat Neck Alan R. ShonsHastings on Hudson Allan H. Glick (*)Hudson Anthony H. ThompsonHuletts Landing John K. Benson Jr.Irvington John A. Dimling Jr.Larchmont William I. ScherLawrence John C. Passeggio (*)Lloyd Harbor Russell E. Brooks


Dean Seymour, Morton Kondracke, et al. on a panel,ca. 1960

Mamaroneck Kenneth E. SesloweMohegan Lake Walter E. DanielsNew York Marc A. AustenNew York Paul S. CantorNew York Jonathan L. CohenNew York Bruce W. Eaken Jr.New York T. Richard FishbeinNew York Alan H. FriedmanNew York David M. GreensteinNew York David E. HodsonNew York Michael McGinnisNew York Bruce A. MolinaroliNew York Daniel RosenNew York Donald L. RosenkrantzNew York Robert M. Shields Jr.New York Stephen Sayre SingerNew York J. Gilbert StoneNew York Melville StrausNew York Henry D. Talbot IINew York Thomas W. WahmanNew York Cecil L. Wittson Jr.New York Alan B. ZientsNew York Roger L. ZissuNew York Allan H. Glick (*)Newark Allan R. WalkerNewark Valley George J. Mundt Jr.Oneonta Joseph C. TaustaOrient Peter W. WerdenPenfield Thomas M. AshbyQuogue J. Richard PriorRockville Centre Richard S. SkolnikRye John A. FriedeRye Kenneth L. SiegelScarsdale Kuk-Soo ChungThendara Frank M. BurnapTupper Lake Robert J. VirostekWhite Plains Richard M. BurgWhite Plains J. Stuart Sandberg

North CarolinaCalabash Peter P. HerrickCalabash Carles F. Raber Jr.Charlotte James A. GallagherCharlotte James W. ReeceCornelius Jack SommerFlat Rock J. Spencer MorganFlat Rock Donald A. SheffieldFletcher David L. FarnsworthGreensboro Russell W. IngersollHertford James P. Burns IIIHickory Howard R. CraigHickory Jay V. N. CraneMorrisville Carl R. BahnPinehurst Paul G. BaxterPinehurst Patrick M. MorrisRaleigh Thomas J. AndrewsRaleigh Franklin E. BellSupply Dennis J. SheaWest End David L. Petrie

OhioAshtabula Dwight A. BeebeChagrin Falls Lewis M. GoodmanCleveland Richard M. CowanCleveland Paul M. GoldbergCleveland John F. HerrickCuyahoga Falls Robert M. HollandDublin Roland H. Kolman Jr.Granville Reed S. BrowningHudson Peter L. ErwinMiamisburg Robert L. Fairbank Jr.Moreland Hills James E. Culver Jr.Newbury Marc LovemanPepper Pike Sheldon M. GisserPerrysburg Frederick L. YocumTiffin George K. Tolford IIIZanesville Dale R. Boyse

OklahomaNichols Hills Philip L. SavageTulsa David C. Haight

OregonBend Michael P. HollernBend Otto G. Powell Jr.Cottage Grove Craig W. ClarkeJefferson David S. HornLake Oswego Arthur B. LaFranceMonmouth Richard A. SutliffPacific City Bruce B. RyanPortland Robert B. Conklin

PennsylvaniaCarlisle Colonel David JablonskyDowningtown John V. BousumFurlong Paul J. FreudIrwin Gerald E. MalkosNicholson G. Brooks Wrightnour


Freshman Hike at Mt. Moosilauke. Gordon Starkeyenjoys the music after dinner

Palmyra Walter L. Cressler Jr.Pittsburgh Gordon HawPittsburgh Albert B. JacobsPittsburgh Robert T. MessnerPittsburgh Richard H. RodeferSchuylkill Haven Harry R. KolbeThornton Lutfi R. TrabulsiValencia John L. BrackenWarren Thomas K. Creal IIIWest Chester Bruce L. BoothWynnewood Edward E. JohnsonYork James H. Chubb Jr.

Rhode IslandBarrington John W. BundyBlock Island William D. Comings Jr.Little Compton James S. LawrenceLittle Compton George W. Potts (*)Middletown William R. Hitchcock

South CarolinaBeaufort H. John TullyDaufuskie Island Thomas L. AlaimoHilton Head Island Luke H. Stapleton Jr.Seabrook Island Henry H. GreerSheldon John C. Passeggio (*)Travelers Rest Thomas A. Hickey Jr.

SouthDakotaBrookings Kenneth P. Hillner

TennesseeMemphis Arthur N. Seessel IIIMemphis Daniel F. WilkinsonMonteagle Morton M. KondrackeMount Juliet Donald E. BaylesSewanee Roy P. Loney

TexasArgyle Richard P. NorgaardAustin Robert G. CushingBaytown J. Stephen CarrollDallas M. Joseph McHugh III (*)Dallas Walter F. SosnowskiDenison John L. PorterGainesville Joe C. ConyersHouston G. Gordon Biggar Jr.Houston A. Duncan GrayHouston William A. VeechMount Vernon Mitchell P. EngleSan Angelo Kurt H. BuergerSan Antonio Clifford H. AndersonSan Antonio Graham A. RogenessWichita Falls Frank J. Yeager

UtahOrem Bruce G. McLeodPark City Robert G. Christopher

VermontBurlington Peter B. HawksE. Dummerston Douglas B. HamiltonHartford Barry K. BettersLondonderry Thomas C. EttingerMiddlebury R. Duncan Mathewson (*)Middlesex Robert A. JervisMontpelier Norris C. Knosher (*)Norwich James R. AdlerNorwich Howard J. Frankel (*)Putney Paul G. StoneRutland John D. HansenRutland John M. MitchellSaxtons River David C. ChevrierSaxtons River Ryan M. OsteboShelburne Jules D. CoteSouth Pomfret John C. BairdSouth Strafford John C. HannonStowe Thomas J. Brock (*)Thetford Center J. Roger HanlonWindsor David O. RhoadWoodstock Robert M. Hager

VirginiaArlington Stephen N. GellBlacksburg E. Pierson Felch IIIBurke Bernard W. DoeCastleton Alexander H. ter WeeleCentreville Gary KanadyCharlottesville Peter EasterCharlottesville Charles J. FlickingerFalls Church David A. TemelesGreat Falls Peter F. KlarenHenrico Eric G. S. Rundberg Jr.Hume John M. Richardson Jr.Lancaster Charles M. Radigan Jr.Leesburg Melville B. ConverseMcLean Arthur E. KopelmanMcLean Andrew R. Paul (*)


Prof. Al Foley

Middletown Robert W. LuceNorfolk Harold Rick HiteRichmond Murray J. JanusSalem Timothy A. KellyVirginia Beach Allen F. MugliaVirginia Beach James A. Nolan

WashingtonBellevue Anthony A. BottoneBellingham Edwin H. BrownBellingham Seth I. ZimmermanBurlington Joel W. BakerBurton Joseph T. OkimotoGig Harbor Raymond D. DilworthMedina Jack N. Hodgson (*)Port Townsend Everett C. Ross Jr.Seattle Arthur R. CoburnSeattle Clifton L. ElliottSeattle Tom GrowSeattle John L. Petersen

Washington, D.C.Washington Malcolm H. ChurchillWashington John R. KirkpatrickWashington Ernest H. Latham Jr.Washington Jonathan D. Tuerk

West VirginiaShepherdstown Stanley B. Jones

WisconsinBaileys Harbor Thomas R. TorinusGermantown John T. McCannMiddleton Michael A. O’KeeffeMilwaukee Carl W. BackusRacine Oliver S. Hayward Jr.

WyomingJackson D. Barry Sibson (*)Sheridan John H. Merrill

CanadaHopewell, Nova Scotia Abraham S. RossNewmarket, Ontario Peter D. GumpNorth York, Ontario Hiroshi OnoToronto, Ontario Roger J. SchulzWinnipeg, Manitoba Augustus S. LeachWestbank, British Columbia David E. Bond

EnglandDavid Segal LondonRobert E. Kahn Warrington

FranceAnton R. Reiche Migron

GermanyRichard W. Strehle FrankfurtNathan B. Witham Holzminden

PanamaEdward J. Henriquez, Jr. Panama 5

PeruJohn Jacob Youle Lima

SwitzerlandNorris C. Knosher (*) Interlaken


Joe Mehling ’69

Jake Crouthamel

Bob BlackmanDemolition of the Hanover Inn, 1996

Below: Dean Albert Dickerson, Dartmouth Row ca. 1860, Prof. Bill Slesnick, Freshman Trip, Dean Ralph Manuel ’58, Snow Football

Panoramic view of the Inn corner at the arrival of the Earl of Dartmouth for the laying of the cornerstone of Dartmouth Hall in 1904.

Wilson Hall, once the College Gym, now the Museum

Montage of Dartmouth Dormitories, ca. 1920

New Dartmouth Hallbefore painting, 1904

Dartmouth UndyingDartmouth! There is no music for our singing,No words to bear the burden of our praise;Yet how can we be silent and rememberThe splendor and the fullness of her days?Who can forget her soft September sunsets?Who can forget those hours that passed like dreams?The long cool shadows floating on the campus,The drifting beauty where the twilight streams?Who can forget her sharp and misty mornings,The clanging bells, the crunch of feet on snow,Her sparkling noons, the crowding into commons,The long white afternoons, the twilight glow?See! By the light of many thousand sunsetsDartmouth undying like a vision starts:Dartmouth, the gleaming, dreaming walls of DartmouthMiraculously builded in our hearts!Franklin McDuffee ’21

reunion book - dartmouth class of 1960

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