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1.Thus, the 25th Reunion Giving Campaign, when after Pres. Dickey's remarks to the class at the Bema, I stood up and said we were still $25,000 short of our goal and one by one classmates filed by to up their pledges and make a new Reunion Giving Record. After three hectic months of running a late starting campaign, it was the most satisfying Dartmouth event I can remember.

Other highly significant memories include, my surprise election as President of the Alumni Council, and co-managing the campaign to save the D swim and dive team.

2. Karl Michael, D swim and dive coach. He mentored and counseled a kid with low self esteem that he could be successful, not only in the pool, but in the life beyond Dartmouth.

3. Without any did not preconceived direction in life, and without professional ambitions, nor able to fit into corporate life, I became successful through trial and error entrepreneurial endeavors.

4. Who could have ever imagined Computers, the Internet, Space Travel, and the European Union? Terrorism and 9/11 have changed our lives to the negative dramatically during the past nine years.

5. The multitude of events Carol and I have experienced in our World Travels vividly stand out: Caught in a peasant revolution in Bolivia, rocks breaking windows in our bus, etc; put under armed guard in Burma for 8 hours, then deported back to Thailand; caught between countries, Kazakstan and Uzbekistan, for hours due to passport problems; Carol's breaking her kneecap in Vietnam's Hailong Bay cave on the Chinese New Year; Sunday market in Kashgar, western China; swimming laps at 15,000 ft in Lhasa, Tibet; stranded on a sandbar for two days in Ungava Bay, Nunavik, N. Canado; Antartica (period); the list goes on. I could expound on each one.

NORM VEASEY

1.The most significant event for me was when I switched from pre-med in our junior year after completing the pre-med requirements and deciding on law career after taking a course in legal debate while I was also taking organic chemistry. Discovered I was much better suited for law than medicine--kind of an epiphany that shaped the rest of my professional career--a career that continues as we speak!

2. I think it was Professor Smead who taught the legal debate course referred to above. Also, History Professor Foley taught me some good research and writing techniques.3. I didn't realize when I was at Dartmouth how lucky--'blessed' is a better word--I was to be in marriage, family, health, and professional career. So, after graduating from Dartmouth I was fortunate to be accepted at Penn Law School where I met Suzy, married her, and did well enough in law school to land a good job practicing corporate law and litigation with the leading law firm in Wilmington DE. Then we had four wonderful and later eleven super grandchildren. I was later fortunate in 1992 to be appointed and to serve as Chief Justice of Delaware. After retiring from my 12-year term in that office in 2004 I was lucky to be invited to become a senior partner in a large, leading international law firm, where I have offices in New York and Wilmington. All of the foregoing totally surprised me as it was developing and, in retrospect, in large part because I was not a great student at Dartmouth and I certainly was not ' a big man on campus' in any sense of the word!

4. In so many respects that I cannot enumerate the leading ones.

5. I guess the epiphany I mentioned in question # 1.

DAVE SICES

1.Since I taught at Dartmouth for 37 years, and then lived there for another 8, it's hard to pin down one single vivid 'Dartmouth memory.' The strongest memories I have, actually, are of leading foreign study programs to France and Italy.2. The strongest influence on my life (studies, future career, etc.) was Ramon Guthrie, who taught French literature.

3. I never thought I would be spending the greatest part of my life teaching at Dartmouth and, especially, living and bringing up four children in Hanover, NH!

4. Americans have grown far more sophisticated and conscious of the rest of the world than they were when I was a young man. I don't think they're that much smarter than they were, though.

5. One of my early colleagues in teaching at Dartmouth, George Diller, was a founding member of the Hanover Co-op. He almost created a revolution, in the late 50's and early 60's, when he managed to persuade the Co-op to stock French cheese for the first time (I believe it was Camembert).

TED NOVASCONE

1.Seeing my name in the graduation printout being awarded Distinction in my major. Did not study for the Final and instead had a date from Smith up the day of the exam. What I learned was that I could get to the point of a problem by zeroing in on the main ideas of the problem. That made solving my business problems easy and rewarding over the years.

2.My brother, class of '46, set the standards to live up to

3. That I outlived my roommates who were very close to me.

4.Do not like big government's takeover of so many of the countries. Class warfare is ugly worldwide. We have it here with the blue states versus the red states. I thought we settled the Civil War!

5.Go see Alaska and not on just a cruise. Rent a car and drive from Anchorage to Fairbanks. I spent twenty years visiting clients there every three months and never got tired of the vastness of the state.

CHARLES REED

1.Having a disagreement with Prof. Rosenstock-Huessy

2. Govt. Prof. Wilson

3. Become more radical

4. Become more reactionary

5. Owning my own business

ERNIE DAHL

1.Pres. Dickey calling me to his office, when, as a freshman I walked by him, head down, in thought, but seemingly depressed.

2.Dean MacDonald, as speech teacher in my freshman year, caring, yet dignified. We stayed in touch for some years.

3.Having 4 'permanent' relationships--still seeing myself as socially conservative.

4.The rise to the American Presidency of Black Americans. and.....sadly, the LITTLE change in world peace.

5. The several hiking trips to other countries: Nepal, Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, and France--all moderate in difficulty.

JACK BUFFINGTON

2,.In 1953 at the National Sailing Championships at Maumee Ohio, after a less than sterling start, our team was able to pull together and pull into the cumulative lead and win the championship at the conclusion of the 24th race.

Professor Jim Browning at Thayer: He taught me to pay close attention to assumptions.

1. I ended up mostly with Private Companies rather than large Public Companies.

2. The Country's growth of Government and its drift (rush lately) toward Socialism and away from our Constitution.

3. After retirement, I was blessed with the opportunity of leading the Carmel Bach Festival as President for two transition years during which we became one of the two best Bach music festivals in the Country.

BILL BRIGGS

1. (no response)

2. My roommate, Mike Marx, was an inspirational genius. We skied, climbed and made music together living that life style to the fullest we could manage. I kept it going, while he gave in to the corporate life.

3. That I was able to pioneer as much as I have.

4. The advent of electronic devices.

5. Discovering I'm an immortal being. As I walked out of the house, I changed my mind and suddenly left my body and found myself well above my body able to see in all directions from there as well as from the body. I drove along Wilshire Boulevard at rush hour and could see all the traffic from any viewpoint I chose. Obviously I exist as a being quite apart from the Body.

JOEL LASKY

1. When I met Al Reich '52. If you don't know who he was, Google him.

2. Al Reich '52 lived across the hall from me in my freshman year. He became my friend and was my role model throughout my life. He raised the bar on living higher than anyone has.

3 I'm still here and standing.

4. There have been no changes in human nature since we lived in caves. Only technology has changed, and we have never learned to control it.

5. Can't think of one.

ART GELLER

1. The most significant Dartmouth memories I have are:

Sending 3 sons to Dartmouth. The great 50th reunion.

2. (no response)

3. I achieved greater success in my career than I ever expected. I was President of a Medical Staff of over 500 physicians and served on the Board of Trustees of an outstanding teaching hospital in NJ.

4. America has changed; no longer do we seek solutions but it seems we seek to weaken others, particularly in the Political arena. It is not the political landscape that existed in 1954. The weakening of the middle class is a devastating problem, I believe, and is a great cause of concern to me.

5. Celebrating Toby's and my 50th wedding anniversary at Dartmouth with my sons and 7 grandchildren.

DICK KRIMM

1.I cannot think of any particular memory other than the excellence of the teaching at Dartmouth, in particular Professor Nemiah and Professor Williams.

2. (see above)

3. My government career working to alleviate the effects of natural disasters and methods to mitigate the results of natural disasters has been a career that I never

thought I would undertake, but which I found rewarding.

4. The rise of China as a great world power has surprised me the most in recent years. I made ten trips to China over a period of years and never thought on my first trip that China would become a world power in my lifetime.

5. In 1987, I spent six weeks in China talking about methods to respond to earthquakes and to mitigate the effects of earthquakes through better construction. For three weeks I was in the provinces with my interpreter and did not see a Westerner during that time. Every little village or town which I visited, I was treated with kindness and respect. I was impressed by the hospitality of the Chinese people, their patience and their interest in what I had to tell them. It was hard for me to ever believe that these people were ever our enemies and that we had no contact for almost thirty years. I heard stories of the Cultural Revolution and how the Red Guards burned the bibles that had been given to them by the missionaries. As a result of my trips to China, I firmly believe our two countries can work together for peace provided both countries have leaders who will cooperate with each other.

SHEL WOOLF

1.Getting into Pi Lambda Phi and making wonderful friends that have shared much of our life ever since.

2. I would have to say my Dad. In freshman year after the Korean War broke out I said to him 'I'm wasting my time and your money here at Dartmouth Let me leave school at the end of the year and get my military service obligation out of the way and I’ll return older and more mature.' Not a good idea he said and I listened to him, graduating when the war was over and ready to take on the world. Thanks, Dad.

3. That I have been able to fill my objectives of having a wonderful and adventurous life with my College sweetheart (Elisabeth then known as Betty Ann) with whom we just celebrated our 56th anniversary. We were blessed with four fabulous daughters and raised them well through troubled times. I was surprised to keep a business I started in 1960 going until 1998 and dodging so many bullets along the way. I'm most surprised that the Dartmouth connection still has such a great gravitational pull and feel more connected today than in 1950 when it all started.

4. The country has two generations who know now mandatory service. I think it is a loss to our country and is a cause for concern. Americans used to respect their leaders and be willing to sacrifice for the common good. Don't see much of that any more.

5. I was social chairman of Pi Lam in the spring of '53. I arranged a picnic/beer part on a meadow along the banks of a river close to Quiche Gorge. We'll after a few beers I got onto a co-ed touch football game and being somewhat of a jock I thought I could pull of a great interception and leaped high in the are over a co-ed receiver, missed the ball, and proceeded to fly off this 150 foot cliff which was tree-cluttered and strewn with boulders. I was in freefall doing cartwheels feet over head. By some miracle I grabbed a branch and broke my fall only yards from the riverbed. That night I was the only guy dancing, everyone else acted like they were at a funeral.

JIM BOWERS

1.I remember being enthralled by the lectures of John Finch, so much so that I could not take notes and therefore did not do well on the exams. I believe it was in his class, however, that I was asked to read to the class a paper that I had written. I was terribly embarrassed.

2.I was in a seminar with Philip Wheelwright based on his book 'The Burning Fountain.' That seminar started my lifelong search for understanding myth and in particular the works of C.J. Jung.

3. In 1986 I got a job teaching in China, and we were there during the Tiananmen Square massacre. We had 48 hours to get out, but adjustment to life in the states proved to be too much; so my wife and I arrived in Czechoslovakia a few months after the Velvet Revolution and in 1991 we found ourselves at a recently reopened university in Lithuania while the country was still under Soviet control. We witnessed their passage to freedom, brought in part, I believe, by the sacrifice of the Chinese students whose example nurtured the student’s revolutions in communist countries. I never expected to be a witness to revolutions.

4. The biggest surprise has been the change in the role of women, their emancipation to develop their own personalities rather than just be what men expect them to be.

5. See number 3.

JIM COLBY

1.One snowy weekend I hiked to a DOC cabin for a couple of days of uninterrupted waiting on God (prayer and Bible reading with minimal food), badly in need of fresh direction and vision. The result was more permanently beneficial than I could have imagined.

2. Your question about who most influenced my path of life reminds me most of a youngish man named Frank Buttles, a Hanover resident though actually not, and clearly not, a Dartmouth person, as he had what I suppose would be called a learning disability. Because he was so different from us Dartmouth guys, I felt ashamed to be seen with him whenever he visited me in the dorm. But he had a strong and deep faith in Jesus Christ and a clear and practical understanding of Biblical teaching, which I reckoned had been revealed to him not by 'flesh and blood' but by the Father in heaven. What he taught me was deeply humbling and highly beneficial.

3. I suppose I didn't expect to spend most of the rest of my life away from the USA, and thus not to have earned another dollar since 1956!

4.& 5. (no response)

PETER GEITHNER

1.Arriving in Hanover as a freshman, having known of Dartmouth only because they played Penn in football when I was in HS in Philadelphia.

2.John Masland who determined my major in IR and subsequent career in international affairs.

3.Everything! If there is any logic in what I have done it appears only in hindsight.

4.The combo of globalization and localization.

5. (No response)

JOHN HEYN

1.At commencement, Pres. Dickey's statement that “your education is just beginning now.”

2.Classmate Dave McLaughlin, especially after reading his autobiography. His difficult decisions, his career - all done with respect and dignity.

3.Biggest surprise - after numerous career ups and downs, we (Sally & I) are reasonably comfortable now for our final chapters.

4. 1. Our present President in the White House. 2. I am fascinated by all the HI-tech stuff my grandchildren use. 3. Nothing surprises me anymore.

5. Just got home from chasing polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba. Great experience. I recommend it.

JERRY SMITH

1.I always looked forward to the Great Issues events. After each one, I told myself that the next one could not possibly equal the lecture I had just been privileged to attend. And the next one was always equal or better. I particularly remember my feelings after hearing Sir Edmund Hillary talk about climbing in the Annapurna range. I felt that with preparation, dedication, energy and a free spirit, anything was possible. Many years later Jane (my wife) and hiked in the Annapurna range, one of the most memorable of our many world travels.

2. Professor Foley made American history come to life for me; Professor Carr made our American government an important part of my life's concerns.

3. My understanding of what is really important in life has matured and changed over the years. Many things that seemed critical in 1954 no longer seem all that important. I now see the betterment of the human condition as the most important issue facing society. But, I still stand tall and get 'goose bumps' when the Star Spangled Banner is performed.

4. I continue to be bewildered that the world has not seen how liberty, democracy and individual freedom is, in the long run, the only way for the world to live in peace.

5. As an Arizona 'snow bird', I am one of three people who organized and share our experience in a Photography Club. We have 60 - 85 members each year with skill levels from 'how do I turn my camera on?' to 40-year professionals. As a lifelong hobbyist (Asst. Photo Editor, The Daily Dartmouth), it is extremely rewarding to see the enthusiasm and growth in the group. Sharing your passion is a great experience!

ROGER GILMORE

1. A Philosophy Honors independent study course with Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.

2. Prof. Fred Berthold's encouragement to pursue graduate study in religion and philosophy.

3. Falling into a 38-year career running art colleges.

4. Our propensity for war-making, the decline of bi-partisan global policy-making, and our decline in humanistic values and international respect.

5. Receiving honorary Doctor of Fine Arts and Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from, respectively, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maine College of Art.