1960 NEWSLETTER President: Bruce Hasenkamp, 2435 Skyfarm Drive, Hillsborough, CA 94010-6343 (650) 343-6829Secretary: John Mitchell, 300 Grove Street, Unit 14, Rutland, VT 05701; (802) 775-3716 jmm0033@comcast.netTreasurer: William Moorman, P.O. Box 6605, Jefferson City, MO 65102-6605; (573) 462-0009 bmoorman60@gmail.com

Co-Head Agents: Kenneth Johansen, 1783 Bartlett Ave., Orange Park, FL 32073 (H) 904-264-2078; (C) 904-214-5522 Jim Adler, P.O. Box 1653, Norwich, VT 05055, (802-649-1008)Gift Planning: Phil Kron, 127 Riveredge Drive, Chatham, NJ 07928-3116, phone (772) 631-3766 MLBKPCK@aol.comAlumni Council Representative: Axel Grabowsky, 17 Hardwick Road, Natick, MA 01760 (617) 504-7938 agrabowsky@earthlink.net Class Webmaster: Walter E. Daniels, 2802 Deer Street, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547-2000 (914) 245-1250 wdhikes@gmail.comNewsletter Editor: Dennis Goodman, 472 Hanover Center Rd., Etna, NH 03750 (603) 643-9763 goodman@sover.net

First off, you might note on your calendar that our Homecoming mini-reunion will be October 21-23.

Second, Dartmouth’s most successful men’s sport of the last 50-plus years---that would be rugby, of course---won the seven-on-a-side national collegiate cham-pionship in June with six wins in six matches over a two-day period against the best competition in the country. The finals saw the Big Green beat Army 32-

Jablonsky on Eisenhower; Levy on Health Care; Gus on the Governor; also A Whitey Burnham Classic; a Word to Remember; and a Doc Who Made House Calls?

Left Coast Lunch Bunch. In front: Bruce Hasenkamp, Luisiana Gale, Mary Farquhar. In rear: Dick Foley, Dick Gale, Roger Hackley, Tom Hannan, Ed Berkowitz, Hap Dunning, Peter Farquhar, Inta Hasenkamp, and Carolyn Geiger.

JULY 2011

10. The tournament was on national television (NBC) and probably provided the College more publicity than any single event since some of you clowns swiped the Harvard drum in Cambridge.

This gossip sheet should have been in your hands three months ago. If I weren’t retired, I’d have a lot more time for the Newsletter and everything else. If you are reading this in the printed version, try it off the Class website (www.dartmouth60.org under “News”). While

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it won’t do anything to improve the prose, it will do wonders for the photos.

Please note that John Mitchell, editor of that best seller, “Musings Unlimited,” is our new Class Secretary, replac-ing Spencer Morgan who wrote those fine Class notes columns in the Alumni Magazine about real and not-so-real classmates, but has decided it’s time to breathe the good air of western NC, or whatever it is they do down there. If you have some quality news that deserves better exposure than in this lowly rag, send it to John. His address is above. And for you Tuck moguls, Tom Kirby is always desperate for some news for “Tuck Today.” TK is at T2GOLF@aol.com

Enclosed are some late submissions to “Musings Unlimited.” You can insert them in the proper place in your copy of the book. More will follow, and if some of you still wish to submit something, please do. There is no time limit, and we can send them out with future Newsletters.

A further change in our class officers will occur in the fall when Peter

Crumbine takes over from Axel Grabowsky, who has done a super job as our representative on the Alumni Council. Peter retired from RBS Sempra Commodities this year, from Greenwich, CT politics, more or less, a year ago, and has a new email address: pcrumbine@gmail.com

Movie recommendations from movie editor Arthur Co-burn, who votes for Academy Awards and is said to know something about this stuff: “Winter’s Bone,” “The Fighter,” “The Black Swan,” “The Town,” “The Kids are All Right,” and “Animal Kingdom” (from Australia). And on Harvard Law School, which Arthur attended: “[W]ell it was an ego defying experience for me to go to HLS - and I wish I’d gone to Yale drama school or the Iowa school of writing, but all things considered I wouldn’t want the place vapor-ized.”

Now-sort-of-retired pundit Kondracke (see below) on nuclear energy and the media: “I never agree with Rush Limbaugh about anything, but here’s an exception: The mainstream media habitually spreads panic in the popula-tion. Right now, it’s about the safety of nuclear power.

“The danger of a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi reactors is real, but the media made it a ‘crisis’ from the get-go.”

The Spring edition of the magazine Dartmouth Medicine has a wonderful article by our Conner Moore describing his career of 40 years as a small-town Maine pediatrician who actually made house calls. In his mod-est way, Conner will have you crying, laughing, and concluding that here is someone who had a memorable career and who made a difference. A couple of ex-cerpts:

Opening paragraph: “In 1956, a week after graduation from high school, I knocked nervously on the door of a modest suburban house. A middle-aged couple opened the door and, although we had never met, embraced me. They had awarded me a scholarship in memory of their only child, John, a classmate of mine who had succumbed to polio early in our senior year. The schol-arship money had been earmarked for John’s college tuition.”

And the final paragraph: “A day that I was taking care of children like Jonathan was always a good day. One of my nurses had a poster that read: ‘One hundred years from now, nobody will remember the size of your house, car, or bank account–but they will remember if you made a difference in the life of a child.’ I tried to view my 40 years in practice as a time when I was given the privilege of caring for sick children. I salute all those–doctors, nurses, teachers, parents–who make a difference in the lives of children.”

And between those two paragraphs, some great tales of doctoring along the Maine coast, and all wonder-fully told. You can read it all on line at http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring11/html/just_kidding.php

Or you might want to read Conner’s new book, which has a great title, Black Bag to Blackberry. It’s avail-able from Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and from the publisher, Bryson Taylor Publishing, www.brysontay-lorpublishing.com

On a different note, Conner wrote, “It was with great sadness that Wendy and I noted the death of Bob Reid. Bob and I were roommates in Streeter and then Sigma Chi. We later studied a year apart at Cornell Medical School.

“As I mentioned in the last newsletter Bob, Don Stod-dard and I, and wives, sat and laughed almost continu-ally for an hour or so after the reunion dinner. I had not seen Bob since his wedding. Wendy had never met Bob but had heard all the bizarre and humorous stories of

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our Dartmouth group. She took an instant liking to Bob and Jill. At the reunion even more tales surfaced. His death is too close to repeat these here.”

Bob’s full obituary: Robert Hamilton Reid died unex-pectedly on November 27, 2010 at his home in Wil-mette, Illinois. Bob came to Dartmouth from Rye (New York) High School. In College he was a member of Sigma Chi and was the junior varsity football manager. Having majored in biology, he gradu-ated from Cornell University Medi-cal College with assistance from the United States Navy. As a com-missioned Navy officer, he served as a battalion surgeon with the Marines special-izing in village pacification during the Viet Nam war.

“Bob helped form a medical practice in Chicago specializing in Primary Care Internal Medicine and for over forty years was a member of the teaching faculty at Rush University Medical Center. After retiring, he was a tireless volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. Bob is survived by his wife Jill, son Jonathan, daughters Elizabeth and Cynthia and their families.

Gene Kohn’s mind seems always to be running at full tilt, 24/7. He spotted in the magazine “Dartmouth Medicine” an article in which a number of doctors from around the country recounted one or two books they had read, not on medicine, that had made a difference in their lives. It would be interesting to hear what book or books you’ve read in the course of a lifetime of reading that made a difference to you. To start it off, William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich headed me toward grad school in international relations and then a career in the Foreign Service. And you?

“So good to see you both enjoying the beauty of N.H.” That was the message in a “Surprise card from John Goyette after our chance encounter with him at Cannon Mt. ski area,” writes Eric Sailer. John “was gearing up for the slopes with some retro ski gear, i.e. rear entry boots and 15 cms. narrow Rossignals from the ’70s while a representative from the New England ski mu-

seum tried to figure out how to snatch his equipment! We last saw John flying into the lift line smiling happily and apparently having suffered no ‘wardrobe malfunctions.’ Anybody with some unwanted ski gear no more than five years old might want to contact him. What a guy, the ultimate in-domitable N.H. spirit.”

The Janu-ary Newsletter carried photos from the 50th Reunion, including one of John and Marilyn Dimling. Only it wasn’t the Dimlings. Only two of you wrote to cor-rect me. Jim Gallagher, in his usual kindly manner, said, “Enjoyed your newsletter as usual. However, that was Marilyn and Tom Murphy ( my Fiji brother) and not Marilyn and John Dimling in the photos from the 50th. First the eyes go, then ......” Later came a Green Card from John saying, “No big deal. I just don’t want people who attended the reunion wondering why they didn’t see me there.” Well, I got the Marilyn part right.

After nearly 20 years and roughly 2,030 columns, plus almost as many Roll Call editorials, Mort Kondracke has retired—sort of––. Not surprisingly, he will remain active, writing occasional columns, moderating panel discussions, serving as a contributor on Fox News and conducting an oral history project for the Jack Kemp Foundation.

Before “Roll Call,” which he joined in 1991, Mort was senior and executive editor at “The New Republic,” Washington bureau chief of “Newsweek” and White House correspondent of the Chicago “Sun-Times,” as well as a columnist for the “Wall Street Journal.” He survived The McLaughlin Group for 16 years, then Fox News for the last 15. He also found time to write a best-selling book, Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson’s Disease.

Adds the retirement announcement from “Roll Call,” Mort specialized in advancing the causes of political moderation, bipartisanship, problem-solving and de-nouncing polarization and incivility.

Jack Hodgson circulated to a few lucky classmates a YouTube commercial for a Danish superstore showing over 100 half-naked and beautiful women sky diving.

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I suggested this was not a proper thing to send to a civil, genteel (albeit a former Deke) Canadian like Gus Leach, but was told he’d already watched it over a hundred times. Jim Blaisdell noted earlier this year in response to an off color joke I sent around, “Gus already sent me this one, lecherous old polar bear that he is. See what those winters up there can do to one!”

From the ’60 monthly luncheon at the Norwich Inn in May: Gordie DeWitt had this Whitey Burnham story. Whitey was named to be the guy in the ath-letic dept. responsible for NCAA compliance. The NCAA wrote that they wanted a list of all Dart-mouth team members bro-ken down by sex. Whitey replied, “We have some who are broken down by alcohol but I don’t know of any broken down by sex.”

Dick Prior writes of “a recent get together four of us from the class had a few weeks ago in Savan-nah. We were all roommates at one time or another.

The cast of characters is: Dick and Sue Prior, Bill and Rebecca McClung, Shrimp and Tricia Clarke, and Dunc and Linda Knapp.”

Cabbie and currently President of the Dartmouth Club of the Florida Keys DocSid Goldman asserts that “Once again Key West shines. Three members of the class of 1960 held a planning meeting for our seventy-fifth class birthday party at Louie’s Backyard restaurant and unanimously deter-mined that the party shall occur on the premises. From left to right: Duncan Mathewson, Teny Deane ‘67, Don Sheffield, Susie Deane, Chris Sheffield, and Sid Goldman.” [Note: which premises the party “shall oc-cur on” is far from decided.]

This simple email message from long-time computer holdout Eric Sailer tells the story: “Now all God’s chillin got email.” But that’s not quite true, or Barry Betters is not one of God’s chillin.

Would-be pundit Shel Gisser on the Nov. election results: “Celebrate your victory now; it won’t feel so victorious once the new Congress is sworn in and they start arguing among themselves. In the book I’m cur-rently reading What Hath God Wrought (published in 2007) being US history from 1815 to 1848, the author says that the Jackson/JQ Adams election of 1828 was the filthiest US election ever. I wonder where on a spectrum of filthiness he would put yesterday’s elec-tion.”

Jim Gallagher’s idea of good news in January: “Tell me that it is 75 degrees and sunny in Hanover and that the Dartmouth faculty went Republican in the mid-term elections. Anything!”Added Jim, “We had a great time at the beach this fall with Jack [Sommer], Rusty [Ingersoll] and spouses, as well as Pete Herrick. I had looked up Pete when I was down there a month earlier. We all

enjoyed a fine dinner prepared by Jack and a discussion of ‘What was the number one defining moment in your life?’ It was a good uplifting experience.”Dave Sammons is “….. finishing out my second year as the Interim Senior Minister of the Jefferson Unitar-ian Church in Golden, CO, and as an adjunct faculty member of the Iliff Theological School, relearning what it’s like to live in the snow as in the good old days in Hanover. Come June my wife and I return to Walnut Creek, CA and try to finally retire. It’ll be my third at-tempt at it. I’ve missed being with our other Bay Area ‘60s who have great times together.”Cards George Potts “I see we got a Frank Stella paint-ing for the Hood Museum. Back in the early 1970s my children attended Grace Church School in Manhattan with Frank Stella’s children. I was head of the father’s group there and I had to contact Stella for some long-forgotten reason. I called him multiple times. He never returned the calls…not even one of his ‘people.’ He is an [expletive] in my opinion.” [No surprise, he went to Princeton.]Reg Regestein is “distressed by the book Empire of Illusions by Richard Hedges. It chronicles the advanc-ing impoverishment of working class Americans, their anger and the base depravity of contemporary culture. The bottom line now has replaced enduring moral values. We live in a world of graphic impressions more than printed information. The cultural capital of Amer-ica is now Las Vegas. My friend just published a book about Las Vegas where she grew up. The ambition of

Roomates all

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high school girls there is to become a cocktail wait-ress—but it is a very funny book entitled Neon Dreams. However, our world is full of good things—for instance the first recipe, I believe, to appear in the 1960 class Newsletter.” [And a second soon to follow.]Russ Ingersoll has the sad task, along with Ken Taber, of compiling Class obituaries. Here is another:Bruce “Skip” Snyder died on December 6, 2010 in Peoria, Illinois where he grew up and returned to be a business and civic leader for more than four decades. Born July 12, 1938, in Peoria to Frank and Grace Snyder, Skip graduated from Peoria High School in 1956. On Sept. 9, 1961, he married Sarah “Sally” Page, who survives, along with four daughters, Sarah, Susan, Sandy, and Debbie. His wife and children were with him at the time of passing.

At Dartmouth, Skip was involved in a variety of activi-ties including the Army ROTC program, the D.O.C., and his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. In his fraternity, Skip was always a good and reliable friend, a voice of reason and a thoughtful and responsible influence. Fol-lowing our graduation in 1960, Skip earned his MBA from Tuck School, graduating in 1961.

“After finishing college, Skip served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He then worked for Proctor & Gam-ble before taking a position in Peoria at Commercial National Bank. In 1972, he was named vice president in charge of the estate and trust division. He became senior vice president in 1975 and executive vice presi-dent in 1984 and was elected to the board of directors in 1985. Skip continued as executive vice president after First of America bought the bank and served in that position until 1995, when he retired.

“Among his many community and civic involvements he served as founding executive director of the Peoria Riverfront Development Corp. and chaired many civic organizations and projects in Peoria. Skip will be remem-bered by colleagues, his community, and classmates for his dry wit, his personal integrity, and his selfless devotion to his family and the communities in which he chose to live and which he served so generously.”

Asks Mike McGinnis, “Can you imagine what circulates among iPhones in 105 Dart-mouth?” [Do we really want to know?] On a slightly

more serious note, Counselor McGinnis noted many months ago: “I thought Obama would look at problems with a ‘fresh mind’: my opinion is that his every deci-sion has been wrong. Now he is without credibility and so unable to lead us out of our mess. We are lucky that he wasn’t considered to coach men’s basketball.” [But this was before the SEALS did their work in Abbotta-bad.]

From Dan Wilkinson: “When I played for the Monday night [Reunion] function, John Goyette was kind enough to announce that I was about to head to Ireland to play with a country artist, Billy Dean, and Billy was opening for Kenny Rogers in Ireland. The attached pictures show that even older guys can still have some fun! Our class leaders did a fantastic job on our reunion!”

Cards Brad Palmer from Grand Rapids, “All is well in Michigan.” Only that (and a nice comment on the last NL). Brad is at 286 Shore Haven Dr. SE, Grand Rapids 49546.

Jack Hodgson on Richard Lamm: “Dick was a very popular if outspoken visiting professor at Dartmouth in the sixties. My anecdote on him goes like this:

“My friend, Gus [as in Leach], Dick, and I were talking at a cocktail party in Vail 40 years ago. Dick was asking Gus everything about what he did, where he came from, his family, etc. After he paused, Gus said: ‘Well, what do you do Dick?’ to which the Governor replied, ‘Well I’m the Governor of Colorado.’ ‘Well,’ Gus retorted, ‘I guess if I were the Premier of Manitoba you wouldn’t know me either.’ I thought Gus was pretty quick with that one.”

When you live full time in a motor home and don’t have grass to cut or attics to clean, you can read. David Horn does. “After almost wearing out my new Kindle in January and Febru-ary reading myster-ies and spy novels, I actually bought a real paperback book since I wanted to have it as a future reference: A Patriot’s History of the United States. You may have heard of it, but as it is highly recommended by Glenn Beck, news of it may not have penetrat-ed New England. I mean, do you even get Fox News up there??”

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Jim Gallagher: “I was very impressed with President Kim [at our 50th]. It appears that ‘the new sheriff in town’ is a good one. Time will tell. Also, Chase and Gundy did a fantastic job of planning and executing the programs and festivities for the event. Thanks to the College as well for the best reunion ever. It seems like only yesterday that we were graduating in front of Baker Library.” Of course, in 1960 Brother Gallagher didn’t know that was the library.

Headlines from the “Daily D”: Six college alumni in Congress; Admissions applications reach record high; Baker-Berry to undergo redesign; Sexual assault alert issued to all students; College preps for capital cam-paign; Kim suggests initiative to reduce alcohol abuse; Carnival celebrates 100 years of history; Students build snow castle reminiscent of first sculpture; IFC endorses Zete re-recognition; Women’s hockey topples Cornell [#2 in the country]; Dartmouth, peers work to hire mi-nority faculty; Women’s hockey earns NCAA bid; Tu-ition to increase by 5.9 percent next year [tuition, room, board, and fees will be $55,365]; Former math profes-sor Snell dies at 86; Town approves Inn renovations; Dartmouth admits 9.7 percent of applicants [a record low]; Lights approved for Memorial Field; Former prof. Copenhaver ’46 dies; New course teaches sign lan-guage; Approx. 25 percent of seniors receive jobs; One year later, [Athletic Director] Sheehy’s presence begins to show impact; Fraternities, sororities discuss assault policy; Profs. to protest Bush’s degree in letter to Kim.

A nice January call, out of the blue, from Mitch Engle. He lives north of Dallas and is retired now after a five-year stint as a Navy pilot and a more than 30-year career with American Airlines, which took him to all parts of the world. After retiring, he flew his own small plane for awhile, but when a landing gear failed to oper-ate properly, he decided there was a message there and he’s given up flying altogether now. Mitch managed to miss the 50th, despite Hap Dunning’s best efforts to get him to attend, but he sounded interested in a possible June visit to Hanover. It would be his first since graduation.

At a dinner at the Hotel Pierre in NYC in April, Jim Adler and two other alums were awarded the prestigious Mandel Award. Present from the Class were Marc Austen, Doug Bryant, Paul Cantor, Peter Crumbine, Allan Glick, John Goodman, John Goyette, Mike Heitner,

Tom Kirby, Bill Langley, Bob Phillips, Ruel Stanley, Mickey Straus, Seth Strickland, and Tom Wahman.

Wrote Paul Cantor afterwards: “Jim did himself real proud and took us ’60s along with him with just a slight assist from Pres. Kim. Jim’s speech should be reprint-ed.”

And so, in part, here it is: “I accept this wonderful award with grateful thanks, but it should be going, not just to me, but to the remarkable Class of 1960, the greatest bunch of enablers ever. Raising money for Dartmouth isn’t really hard work – after all you’re giving people an opportunity to invest in an institution that truly holds a key to making our world a better place - but even Dartmouth fundraisers can sometimes find themselves trying to coax blood from a stone. For most ‘60s, giving generously to their college is a reflex; they have a way of simply rolling up their sleeves and ask-ing, ‘How many pints do you need?’

“The Class of ’60 sets DCF records every year, but last year for our 50th we made magic happen. $4.43 million dollars and 93.4% participation. Boy was that ever fun! Yes, as leadership giving co-chair with Barry MacLean, I had a significant hand in it, but it only happened because a team of totally committed class-mates came together, determined to truly dare a deed. Class president - Ken Johansen, head agent – Bruce Hasenkamp , a leadership giving committee of 15 guys who set the tone by digging deep – and then getting others to follow their example, a team of 65 – count ‘em – 65 Class agents – that’s who made it happen, as did the many, many guys whose gifts for their 50th were way beyond what was expected of them I also want to acknowledge someone who’s as important to our class as any of us – the DCF’s wonderful Vicky Riley, who steadfastly stands prepared to crash through brick walls when necessary to make sure the Class of ’60 rules.

“In closing, thank you all once again for this humbling award. I accept it for the Class of 1960. We’ll go on

setting records for the Dartmouth College Fund, this year and for many years to come. We’ve done it all – and we ain’t done yet!”

Commented John Goyette, who made the trip to NYC: “Adler gave an excellent acceptance speech upon receiving his award. NYC is an expensive place! Almost spent my entire discretionary budget for a month in a single day.”

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Bob Messner offers some reading tips and more: “On these cool fall mornings when I walk my dogs, I really appreciate the green vests we received as favors [at the 50th]. Just the right weight and good looking, too.” [Which is no doubt why so many of them showed up at our Homecoming mini.]

Continues Bob: “There have recently been some great books which have helped make sense of some of the more confusing aspects of recent events. Washington Rules, by Andrew Bacevich, connects the dots which have influenced American military, foreign and domes-tic policies since the 1950s. I don’t think anyone can read it without developing a deeper understanding of why things really happened. I strongly recommend it. …... For me, he is a renewal of Eisenhower’s warnings about the military industrial complex. Having served in Korea, I can’t believe we are still stationing substan-tial numbers of troops there - or in many other areas of the world. Also, with all the current moaning about the budget deficits, I find it interesting the Tea Party folks and GOP don’t mention that we have been deeply engaged in two questionable, expensive, high tech wars since 2001 without raising taxes to pay for them. Some things are apparently still off limits to criticism. I can’t say I am thrilled with the present administration, either, though. Guess I am becoming a political agnostic.

“On the financial crisis, I have read numerous books documenting the destruction of the financial system and the economy. In my opinion, the best are 13 Bankers by Johnson and Kwak and two books by Charles Gaspa-rino, The Sellout and Bought and Paid For. Guaranteed to make you wiser...and perhaps angrier.”

Tom Grow would have you read The Immortal Game, A History of Chess, whether you’re a player or non-player.

And from Rafter Jack Patterson: “Today ‘s the Day - Mel Fisher and the finding of the Atocha ; our own Duncan Mathewson, archaeologist for the search. Read Dunc’s marvelous book - Treasure of Atocha.”

From Ken Taber, this sad news of a classmate who was present at our 50th in June 2010. Allan Greenberg passed away suddenly on Au-gust 28, 2010, in Cody, WY, while on a tour of Western national parks with his wife of 47 years, Hazel. Allan was ‘A proud Brooklyn boy- al-ways have been, always will be.’

His career after Dartmouth started with medical train-ing at SUNY, Duke and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He spent most of his career practicing ophthalmology in Miami (FL) where he was a board member of the North Dade Medical Foundation and served as Chairman of the Board of the North Shore Medical Center. Allan would want to be remembered most for his love of family: Hazel; his three sons Jef-frey, Bruce (’90), and David; and his three daughters-in-law; and his five grandchildren. They are pictured in “Musings Unlimited,” our 50th reunion book. He would want you to read his life pursuits, career history, and life’s reflection on page 108. You can read of his love for Dartmouth.

His life reads like the lyrics, ‘Around the girdled earth they roam, Her spell on them remains.’ He and Ha-zel lived in Ft. Lauderdale (FL) but traveled to every continent of the world except Antarctica. Fourteen of his TEP brothers celebrated reunion in June and Alan invited them for a cruise in the summer of 2011. He will not be with them in person but will be in spirit. We will miss him.

Jack Baird passed away on June 8. The Dartmouth flag was flown at half-staff June 16 and 17 in Jack’s honor. Jack taught Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth from 1967 to 2000. A fuller obituary will appear in a future issue.

And Craig Jameson writes, “Just received word (from his wife Jean) that George Bruder, my roommate in our junior and senior years, died on Wednesday, June 8. George had suffered from Alzheimer’s (or some similar form of progressive dementia) for the last decade or so. She said that there will be a memorial service at 1 pm on July 9 at All Saints’ Church, 3 Chevy Chase Circle, in Chevy Chase, MD.” A fuller obituary on George will appear later.

The staff of “The Aegis” have been in touch. If you want to order a copy of any Ae-gis back to 1969 or order a copy of this year’s ...please e-mail aegis@dartmouth.edu

Here’s a word, if you can remember it, that should be part of your vocabulary: anomia, the inability to recall names of people or objects.

From Russ Ingersoll this news: Roy Loney passed away Febru-ary 13, 2011, at Southern Tennessee Medical Center in Winchester. He was born in Okemah, Allan Greenberg

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Okla., the son of Roy and Grace Loney, and grew up in Glenrock, Wyo.

At Dartmouth Roy majored in philosophy, was a member of Green Key, and was deeply involved in The Players, serving his last two years at Dartmouth on the Cabinet. In addition he was involved in the Human Rights Society, an interest that engaged him throughout his life. After graduating from Dartmouth, Roy received a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He taught at Kansas State University and the University of Colorado and worked in Colorado state government. Roy was active in the Colorado Democratic Party, serving as Boulder County Chair for 12 years and manager of several campaigns for state and national office.

He and his wife, Pat Wiser, moved to Sewanee in 1995. Roy chaired the Cumberland Center for Justice and Peace board for 12 years and served as a Sewanee Utility Board commissioner for eight years, four of those years as president. He was an active volunteer for the Sewanee Summer Music Festival and Friends of DuPont Library and served two years on the Sewanee Community Council. He is survived by his wife and two step-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to CCJP, PO Box 307, Sewanee, TN 37375, or Animal Harbor, 25 Walnut Grove Road, Belvidere, TN 37306.

In case you’ve been sleeping for the past two years, the question of healthcare is at the center of the most important problems facing the US.

Dick Levy knows a whole lot about healthcare de-livery, as anyone who attended the Reunion panel on health care or who climbed Smarts Mountain with him a day after the reunion can attest. According to Dick, “We waste $600B dollars (1999 dollars) on overuse, underuse, and misuse of medical procedures. The parts of the country that waste the most provide the worst care. More healthcare is worse healthcare.

“Our National vision should be to reallocate the $600B to take care of people who don’t have insurance and to improve the health and healthcare of those who are insured.

“A massive government program devised by a highly politicized Congress answerable to voters who cannot fully understand the unintended consequences of a mas-sive program, cannot by itself address the vision.

“Equally needed is grassroots involvement of hospi-tals, doctors, suppliers, insurers, and patients. This also is starting to happen, especially in places like Northern California where Sutter and Kaiser are experimenting with many new approaches for more effective and effi-

cient healthcare delivery. (I’ve counted at least 17 such initiatives at Sutter. Some are incentivized by govern-ment programs and some are disincentivized.)”

Dudley Smith offers his own brief opinion on health care delivery: “I have just stepped down after 2 1/2 years as Chair of New London (NH) Hospital ( I’m now trying to recharge my batteries!!) and can tell you the current fragmented delivery system is very inef-ficient. I’m for a single payer, streamlined system with reimbursement based on quality of outcome. Outcome (results) seems to be a foreign concept. We are headed faultingly that way. Jim Kim, Jim Weinstein and Elliot Fisher, all at DHMC or DC, are really seizing an oppor-tunity to hasten positive changes.”

To which Dick Levy replied in part: “ I appreciate the comments from someone who has been in the middle of the storm. I have likewise been in that storm and have similar opinions about the non-sustainability of the present system. A single payer system would be much more efficient and would save lots of money, but I don’t think we can realistically get there from here. I also don’t think the government can fix the problems in healthcare, although the government can motivate the providers and the insurers to get their act together. From my vantage point, I see lots of good things happening at the provider level: measures of health outcomes for entire communities through ACOs as promoted by Dartmouth; reduction in unwarranted variability, also measured and promoted by Dartmouth; redefinition of the role of PCPs; gain sharing between insurers and providers; integration of doctors’ groups; disease focused Centers of Excellence; bundled pay-ments; better management of the last year of life when most of the costs occur; administrative simplification; better computerized metrics of cost/outcome/complica-tions per procedure; narrow networks between insurers, providers and companies with large patient popula-tions; etc. All of these initiatives are starting to happen because the current legislation has convinced everyone that the status quo will end.”

And, responding to an article on healthcare by Mort Kondracke, Dick adds: “You’ve shamed me into add-ing my two cents, even though no one ever wins an ar-gument about politics or religion. Obama wasn’t wrong in damning the healthcare insurance companies. He was wrong in not also blaming hospitals, doctors, big phar-ma, equipment companies, lawyers, medical schools, state governments, the Federal Govt., and patients (who always want more services for less money).

“Obama wasn’t wrong in beating up on big business. He was wrong in not also beating up on small investors (like me) who want quarterly returns from our

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mutual funds or hedge funds, politicians who accept money from big business, lobbyists who give them the money, voters who respond to rhetoric over rationality, sensationalist talk show hosts, lawyers who can find loopholes in everything, shareholders and Boards who approve unethical practices as long as the stock price appreciates, labor unions, and business schools which train people in how to make money but not in how to solve societal problems.

“Every constituency must change. If the President of the U.S. can’t get them to change nobody can. My opinion---Obama is sincerely trying and needs support, not damnation. We can once more become a meritoc-racy in this country, but not with the present level of inflammatory rhetoric.”

Following a post-Reunion climb up Smarts Mountain, which included some further discussion of health care, Dick sent this: “Several people, yourself included, have pointed out that the Healthcare panel did not really explain what was meant by an ‘improved delivery system.’ This would be my definition.

1. A multi-specialty network of physicians who com-municate with each other and coordinate care for each patient.

2. About 50% of the network should be general practi-tioners.

3. Communication between physicians should be facili-tated by an electronic medical record for each patient.

4. There should be metrics on unwarranted variation between physicians in the network.

5. The network should publish metrics on adherence to accepted evidence-based best practice procedures.

6. Patients should have access to their own computer-ized health records and should be able to communicate with their doctors via e-mail.

7. Patients should be educated on their alternatives and should share in treatment decisions.

8. The network of doctors should be compensated as much for keeping people healthy as for curing disease.

9. Everyone should have access to a basic level of health care. Patients should be able to buy insurance or pay directly for a higher level of care.

10. The government should standardize and simplify administrative requirements, but all medical decisions would be between the doctor and the patient.”

Your comments on this important topic would be most welcome.

This reaction to my “Musings” rant, from Roger Ste-phenson: “I share your deep concern with the current world status and only hope we have leaders who know what needs to be done, but even then ---. Somehow we have prevailed in the past.”

From a former colleague of Wes Roodhouse: “I came across your class update [on the Internet]. I had the pleasure of working with Wes Roodhouse in Boise back in 1994. It was my first job out of college. He was run-ning Roodhouse Investment Management Company, and it was just he and I. All day he would buy and sell and I did the back office bookkeeping trying to keep up. He introduced me to sushi, told me some things about business, and then kicked me out the door to go get my MBA at Notre Dame. I know he loved his daughters be-cause everyday he would tell me about them over lunch. I was also amazed at the number of miles he logged jogging. Although the news I found wasn’t what I’d hoped for, it was nice to see he was so well regarded by all of you as his class-mates. Best Regards, CJ Martin.

Lou Perullo to Gene Kohn on why Lou was going to miss the 50th (largely unedited): “gene...great to hear from you...sorry i can t be there....i m bench manager for the mont-pellier baarracudas..a french professional baseball team in the french national league...plus playing at the hot club every week...the hot club is where django r. got his start in 1936 and just got invit-ed back to my 7th appearance at the vienne jazz festi-val....i think im getting too old for this....and i am sad that there is no time in june...and all this commences or takes place in june and i ve already given my ok....i ll miss you guys,,,,4 wonderful years,,,i ll send some pixif they can be of any use...not ego shots,,,just shots...good luck with it..iv e been in contact with a lot of the guys...gotta get back to the club our third set is from 2am to3>30am and i need to tune my drums...regards..lou”

And a follow-up from Lou: “ah gene..wonderfulto hear from you again...i think i may end up with a replaced

Lou’s Gone French

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steel shoulder myself but have been assured that in 3 months my .playing will be up t o level again....we close the club in july and august so it gives me time...and we split our baseball season the same way..nobody stays in lyon in the summer just like new york and the hamptons…i talked via e mail to colton and norge and butch so i ll stay in touch from this end.....here are a few pix...mostly music and baseball are all i have...my machinewill only send 3 pix at a time...cuz i bought the cheapest one like a stupido...more later...be happy.....lou”

Dick and Massy Foley “spent a delight-ful weekend participating in the annual Dartmouth/Vail ski weekend, CarniVail, with Silvia and Alan Danson.” Added Alan, “Right now we’re watching the live trans-mission of Lucia from the Met in our local CineBistro. Not bad for a small town.”

On June 19 I received from Andy Paul the shocking news that Allan Cameron passed away on June 10, the result of complicating factors involving his autoimmune system. A full obituary will appear later. Here are some thoughtful words of wisdom from Allan, penned a year ago:

“No, there is no end to it short of 2012, so we’ve got two and a half years to hurl brickbats, which at our ages could be deleterious to our health! All I know is that DC is a much better place now than it was a couple of years ago. When one talks to people who work in the Pentagon it’s as if a veil of darkness was lifted and they see the sunlight for the first time in eight years. You have no idea how bad morale was there!

“The Hill is a different matter, because what we used to call ‘comity’ no longer exists. That’s been the case of several years now. One result is that Congress is unable to do what it is supposed to do -- I heard Representa-tive Mike Castle speak at lunch today, and his view is that there will be neither a budget nor appropriations bills, rather that they will just go right to a Continuing Resolution. I’m sorry, but I think the Congress should do what it is supposed to do (one of which, by statute, is to balance the budget, according to the Byrd Amend-ment), and do at least the minimum required to keep

the Government functioning and to ensure the common welfare and the common defense.” Perhaps anticipating the WikiLeaks disaster, Allan wrote, “A lot of the technology I don’t understand -- Twitter and Facebook and all those, which among other things pose a real security threat. I know what Skype is but have not used it -- I’m still an old-fashioned tele-phone guy. And I’m not an electronic book person -- I like to hold the actual thing in my hands. I also carry a cell phone mostly for emergencies, though it’s hard to reach Margaret since she rarely turns hers on!”

Bruce Hasenkamp recommends the new edition of Lou Cannon’s book on the Reagan presidency, Presi-dent Reagan, The Role of a Lifetime. “Superb history. Having spent a lot of time with Reagan, especially when he was Governor (met with him monthly for a couple of years), it also rings very true of the man. Highly recommended, especially for those who do not think he was worth much. This will change their views or at least add perspective.”

Also recommended by Bruce, Washington by Ron Chernow and a flick, “The Way Back,” “a riveting and strong true story of human bravery and fortitude about

a bunch of people who escaped from the Soviet gulag.”

Jack Hodgson recommends Bruce Ducker’s book, Home Pond.

Before they arrive at Dartmouth, incoming members of the Class of 2015 are being asked to read The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Exam-ines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli.

Bruce Clark has a new email address: campbruce89@att.net. “In addition,” writes he, “because of the change we have two TIVO DVR’s which they say we cannot use and which are now excess. If anyone would like to have one for their own please let me know.”

Bob Boye’s new email address: rbboye@gmail.com Bob Fairbank’s new email is robertfairbank85@yahoo.com The 85, says he, is his IQ, not his age, but I sus-pect it’s his admiration for a certain wide receiver down the road in Cincy.

Ace West Coast reporter Peter Farquar reports that “On January 19 the Left Coast Lunch Bunch met at the Spinnaker Restaurant in Sausalito at which we be-gan a new tradition of a table for the ladies. Afterwards we adjourned to the Gales’ houseboat down the bay for a warm, sunny afternoon tea party with more fine conversation, excellent refreshments, and picturesque views.” To which Hap Dunning adds: “…most of us relaxed on “Luisiana’s Purchase,” a houseboat in Sau-

Foleys and Dansons living high

salito that Luisiana and Dick Gale have owned for the past fifteen years. Those at the houseboat in addition to Luisiana and Dick were Ed Berkowitz, Mary and Peter Farquar, Dick Foley, Roger Hackley, Tom Hannan, Inta and Bruce Hasenkamp and Carolyn Geiger and myself. Dick Levy was with us at lunch but could not join in the houseboat fun. Our current policy for Left Coast is to try to have ‘lunch plus”’whenever we can.” In May the Left Coasters were at it again. Reports Hap, “After lunch at a fish restaurant in the Fisherman’s Wharf part of San Francisco, we visited the Aquarium of the Bay….We had a fascinating tour at the AOTB, then some of us repaired to Tom Hannan’s nearby law office for wine and cheese.

“Those who attended all or part of our triple header were Ed Berkowitz, Denise Cattan, Peter Farquar, Dick Gale, Carolyn Geiger, Tom Hannan, Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp, Dick and Susie Levy, Karl Mayer, John Wheaton and myself.” Photo on page 1.

There has been too much news of illness, injuries, and assorted health problems. If you have something both-ering you, and who doesn’t at our age, just know that you are in good company. Putting it bluntly, getting old sucks. Class Pres Hasenkamp is “recovering just fine, thank you. Go back to the surgeon in about two weeks, when I learn if I can resume driving, going to the gym and otherwise breathing normally. My hair is growing back where he shaved part of my head for the sur-gery, but that will take another 6-12 months the barber figures. I am trying to develop a comb-over and may consult Trump. Anyhow, the dizziness has vanished and Inta says I walk better. So it was worth it. Don’t need to do that again, however.”

Jack Benson took a bad nighttime fall in a hotel in Albany in March, resulting in much internal bleeding in his head. He, has been in recovery since and is finally back home, still in rehab, but making good progress, including boating again on Lake George.

Mel Kau, in Hawaii, had “an open partial Neprec-tomy Surgery” on April 14 and is “convalescing slowly but well. Actually I went back to work on the 10th of May (part time). Hope to gear up, so I can participate fully in our 55th (Punahou) reunion…” Mel is at <me-kau@hawaii.rr.com>

Others tell of prostate problems, cardiac arrhythmias, knee and hip replacements, more.

Yale University Press published David Jablonsky’s new book War by Land, Air, and Sea: Dwight Eisen-hower and the Concept of Unified Command. Reads

the blurb: “In this book a retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisen-hower’s lasting military legacy, in light of his evolv-ing approach to the concept of unified command….a concept that eventually led to the current organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”

David “is a retired U.S. Army infantry colonel and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and Staff Col-lege and the U.S. Army War College. His awards and decorations include the Silver Star and Purple Heart. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle, PA, where as professor of national security affairs he held the Elihu Root Chair of Strategy; the George C. Marshall Chair of Military Studies; and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Chair of National Security Stud-ies. He lives in Carlisle, PA.”

Ya gotta love those classmates who, in the dead of a tough NH winter, write from Florida to say what fun they’re all having getting together for dinner and golf. Writes Bob Derderian, “Andy and Britt-Marie Paul, George and Maria Rush and Bob and Gail Derde-rian had a Vero Beach reunion in February. The Pauls and Derderi-ans are stay-ing in Vero Beach and the Rushes are in Fort Pierce. We had a great dinner together and all are doing well. Andy and I played golf together several times this winter, and George is doing both golf and tennis. What an athlete.”

In the kind of news we dread perhaps more than any other, Peter and Jackie Hawks lost their son Ryan March 1 in a skiing accident. Ryan died of injuries suffered during an extreme competition in Northern California. He was 25 and a rising star in the sometimes dangerous sport of big-mountain freeskiing.

John Goyette knew Ryan and sent this for the newslet-ter: “Margie and I were deeply saddened to learn that our classmate and friend, Pete Hawks, had lost his son Ryan.

“Remembering Ryan, I think of a day some years ago when Peter and I were riding the chair at Sugarbush Ski Area in Vermont. Looking down we saw an

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Thoughtful snowbirds Derderian, Paul, and Rush

acrobatic skier doing giant helicopter rotations off the moguls. Peter said proudly, ‘That’s my son Ryan.’ Ryan’s joy and passion for his sport were obvious. How could it be otherwise with a dad like Peter? Ryan skied the famed headwall at Mount Washington’s Tuckerman’s Ravine when he was nine years old. From that moment on he was hooked on big mountain skiing.

“Ryan graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in mechanical engineering last December. The Ryan Hawks Memorial Fund will support athletes or in-dividuals that share the passion that Ryan brought to the sport of freeskiing. Information is available at www.ryanhawksmemorialfund.org.”

From “Anonymous,” re famous Bellevue, Washington athlete Tom Van Winkle: “In our local two-chair barber shop where I get my $12 10-minute haircut, they have

all the Bellevue HS year books going back to the 1940s. In Boston, I told Tom’s wife that he was famous at the barber shop. Why? They asked all the seniors what they first wanted to accomplish after graduation. Tom’s response: ‘Finish my book on how to

make the girls I take out happy.’ Second question: What do you most enjoy about this project? Answer: ‘The research.’”

As we have done for 20 years now, we purchased art from senior studio art majors for display in dorms and elsewhere around the campus. Only this year and on into the future the program has been modified by our joining with the Class of 2010 to co-sponsor. The program is enormously popular with the art majors, the Studio Art Department and the Office of Residential Life, and this new arrangement allows for it to continue well into the future, beyond even your 100th birthday. Details are in a story run in “Dartmouth Now” and available at http://now.dartmouth.edu/2011/05/classes-of-1960-and-2010-team-up-on-residence-hall-art-proj-ect/

Dorm art is not the only project sponsored by our class. The SEAD program that brings disadvantaged students to Dartmouth for the summer and our student scholarship awards are two others. Regarding the latter, Bob Kenerson reports that Percy Lee ’11, one of our

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scholarship students, graduated Summa and Phi Bete with a 3.97 grade point average. And Matthew Ip-polito ’04 graduated from Dartmouth Medical School a member of AOA, election to the National Humanitarian Association, the award for best student in psychiatry, and, finally, the award as best community physician. Not too bad. Kudos to them and to Doc Kenerson, who carefully nurtures this program.

Commencement 2011: Speaker, as most of you must know, was Conan O’Brien. Said the “D,” “arguably [Kim’s] most popular decision among students to date.” My scientific survey shows the kids thought him a great choice; very old alums like those I happen to know just rolled their eyeballs. But the post-Commence-ment comments were generally favorable, especially

from the younger generation. The Class Day speech by Charlie Wheelan ’88, author and public policy lecturer at the University of Chicago, is worth reading. It may be found at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~commence/speeches/2011/wheelan.html Honorary degree recipi-ents for 2011: former president George H. W. Bush; Ruby Dee, actress; Howard Hiatt, former dean of Har-vard’s School of Public Health; Elousise Cobell, Native American leader; Michael Gazzaniga ’61, neuroscien-tist; Russell Boss ’61, Chairman, A.T. Cross fountain pens; Roz Chast, artist and “New Yorker” cartoonist; Joel Klein, former chancellor of NY City schools; and TV personality O’Brien.

Start planning for our fall mini-reunion over Home-coming, October 21-23. And keep the news coming, to me, our new Class Secretary John Mitchell, and Tuck scribe Tom Kirby. You’ve been great on this score. Many thanks. dg

Van Winkles, well researched

Old ’60s and a Young ’10: Adler, Goodman, Julia Zak ’10, Mitchell, Roesch, and Smith