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1960 NEWSLETTER

President: Kenneth Johansen, 3629 Kite Landing Lane, Plano, TX 75074-7753 (972) 509-1990

Secretary: Ken Reich, 5522 Nagle Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91401 Tel. (818) 994-9231; FAX: (213) 237-4712

Treasurer: William Moorman, P.O. Box 866, Hanover, NH 03755-0866 (603) 643-8209

bmoorman60@mchsi.com

Head Agent: Bruce Hasenkamp, 2435 Skyfarm Drive, Hillsborough, CA 94010-6343 (650) 343-6829

Gift Planning: Dudley R. Smith,12 Sandy Brae, Grantham, NH 03753-1335

Mini-Reunion: John Goyette, P.O. Box 455, New Durham, NH 03855 (603) 859-7109

jgoyette01@aol.com

Class Webmaster: Walter E. Daniels, 802 Deer Street, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547-2000 (914) 245-1250

wdhiker@optonline.net

Newsletter Editor: Dennis Goodman, 472 Hanover Center Rd., Etna, NH 03750 (603) 643-9763

goodman@sover.net

Class website: www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/60/

MARCH 2007

A

s Thomas Carlyle remarked, “Silence is more elo-

quent than words.” Perhaps, but I probably need a

better excuse for the long intermission since the last

edition. You hadn’t noticed? Good. Meanwhile I have,

thanks to so many of you, an enormous accumulation of

good stuff to inform and entertain you here and in future

editions soon to follow. Some of this news may seem a

little old, but none should seem stale. Sometimes it just

takes a little something to get one (me) going.

F

or example, Dick Davidson asked, “Don’t take this

the ‘wrong’way, but I haven’t gotten a ‘60 newsletter in

a long while, since the late summer or early fall. I hope

that it is a function of a bad mailing address…. Please let

me know that it is nothing serious.” Laziness, someone

From Top Doc to Mr. Mom, “Gender-Neutral”

Housing, and a $4,000 T-Shirt. Also, World-class

Websites, Our Phony Physician, and Dealing with

Computers and Cell Phones.

Social Justice Award for Tom Wahman:

Back row: M. McGinnis, R. Hanlon, T. Wahman, R. Ostebo, D. Smith,

J. Hannon, R. Roesch; Front row: D. Goodman, J. Adler, H. Frankel,

R. Hager

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said, is resting before you are tired. Is laziness “seri-

ous”?

T

hen there was this in February from Mary

Grabowsky to Laura-Beth, responding to a notice for

the monthly wives’luncheon in Norwich, which paral-

lels the monthly husbands’luncheon: “Since Tara’s

baby is arriving sometime this week, I’m staying close

to her -- but am dying to come to one of these lunches,

and will asap. I would love to be a regular now that

we’re less than 2 hours away. Axel wants to, too, as

you probably know. In fact we’re both excited to have

such a wonderful excuse to go to Hanover! Hugs to

you and your adorable [sic] husband -- Mary.” How

can you not respond energetically to something like

that?

W

ith the Grabowskys (and how many others of you?)

anticipating a new grand, it’s a good time to start a

series of quotes and stories on grandparenting. Con-

tributions encouraged. Allow me to start it off with

this story from Lusaka, Zambia, from my daughter

Kim ‘91, about her five-year-old: “Conversation from

Sarah’s class yesterday about a pizza party: Teacher:

‘Look, everybody, we’ve got pizza today!’ Ishaan: ‘I

can’t eat that. I’m a vegetarian.’

T

eacher: ‘No, that’s OK, it’s vegetarian pizza.’ Sarah:

‘Oh, well I can’t eat it because I’m not a vegetarian.

I’m an American.’”

T

om Wahman received a Social Justice Award

for Lifetime Achievement during Dartmouth’s

Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in January. The

nomination, by a member of the Class of 1963, states

in part: “Mr. Wahman has devoted his entire adult

life to social, economic, and environmental justice

in the U.S. and abroad while also being an opponent

of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. In his twenties he

participated in, and in some cases arranged, direct

action events, such as sit-ins, demonstrations, teach-

ins, local and national lobbying campaigns, and he was

arrested and jailed several times for his non-violent

protests.

“S

ubsequently, as a senior staff member, consultant,

and advisor for over three decades to several founda-

tions and organizations—primarily the Rockefeller

Brothers Fund, the C.S. Mott and the MacArthur Foun-

dations—Mr. Wahman arranged substantial, multi-year

grants totaling tens of millions of dollars in support of

the Civil Rights Movement, principally in the South

and the Southwest and in support of related activities in

the fields of economic justice and global warming. He

also created and arranged the initial funding and endow-

ments for new domestic and international organizations

and for programs to promote social, economic, and envi-

ronmental justice in the U.S. and overseas.”

H

ere, from the documentation process involved in this

award, is how Tom viewed his time at Dartmouth as a

precursor to his later activities: “My primary involve-

ment in community work was participating in the activi-

ties of the Dartmouth Christian Union (DCU) during all

four years, serving as President during my senior year.

These ‘social action’activities, as they were called at the

time, included weekly visits to veterans of World Wars

I and II and the Korean War at the VA Hospital, chop-

ping and storing wood for winter use by the elderly, and

youth activities for teenagers of the ‘hidden poor’outside

of Hanover (there was an unofficial unemployment rate

of approximately 14 percent in the area at the time—a

northern extension of the ‘hidden poverty’of Appala-

chia).

“O

ne of the most enduring Dartmouth influences was

a guest lecture and interfaith sermon series sponsored by

the College and

arranged by

the DCU and

the College’s

chaplain,

George Kal-

bfleisch. This

series included

European and

American sem-

inary profes-

sors and pas-

tors who had

participated in the

European underground during the late 30s and early 40s,

helping Jews escape the Holocaust. Having an opportuni-

ty to meet and listen to these courageous people contrib-

uted directly to my acceptance of a Trial Year Fellowship

at Union Theological Seminary upon graduation. (This

meant I put an end to a possible career in hockey, reluc-

tantly declining an offer to become Dartmouth’s assistant

hockey coach and possible successor to Dartmouth’s

legendary hockey coach, Eddie Jeremiah, a personal

friend and mentor, who had already begun his battle with

cancer.)”

S

upporting statements for Tom’s award have come from

many, including Vernon Jordan, Ira Glasser (former Ex-

ecutive Director of the ACLU), Raul Yzaguirre (former

CEO of La Raza) and many, many more. Dudley Smith

Tom W. with former dean Fred Berthold

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read the whole package and summed it up well: “I’ve

obviously been sitting on my hands all my life. Incred-

ible documentation of Tom’s life. I read it with real

interest.” Jack Hodgson also got an advanced copy

and wrote: “Thanks for sharing the whole text. I read it

word for word this morning and am in awe. The MLK

Award will be a celebration of so many contributions to

humanity.”

T

he Class of 1960 showed up in force for the January

26 ceremony (see masthead photo).

Jonathan Cohen was recently given the prestigious

Dartmouth

Alumni

Award, the

sixth mem-

ber of our

Class to be

so honored.

The primary

qualifica-

tion for this

award is

long-stand-

ing and

meritorious

service to

Dartmouth, with career achievement and community

service as additional important dimensions. Usually,

four to six awards are given annually. The award cita-

tion notes: “Following your graduation from Tuck,

you served as a lieutenant in the US Navy. A career

in finance followed with five years at the Irving Trust

Company before entering a relationship that continues

to this day with Goldman Sachs. Your career has been

distinguished, as you rose from associate to vice presi-

dent and partner. Currently, you serve as an advisory

director of the firm. Throughout the years, you contrib-

uted to a wide variety of civic organizations, serving as

a member of the Friends Seminary Committee, former

trustee of Oberlin College and the First Presbyterian

Church in the City of New York, and current trustee

of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the

Wildlife Conservation Society….You were honored in

1999 with the Tuck Distinguished Alumni Award and

in 2002 with the Tuck Overseer’s Medal. You…serve

on the President’s Leadership council and….chair the

newly constituted Hood Museum Board of Overseers.”

And that’s only some of it! Other classmates honored in

past years with the Dartmouth Alumni Award are Gene

Kohn, Barry MacLean, Rick Roesch, Peter Schwartz,

and Mickey Straus.

D

artmouth is putting up a $20 million football building

behind the visitors stands at Memorial Field, and I am

still waiting for someone around here to praise the idea,

or the

build-

ing. Not

only is

the need

ques-

tioned,

but the

building

looks

from the

outside,

at least,

to be

another

undistin-

guished

rectan-

gular pile of bricks. Then there is the new MacLean

Engineering Sciences Center, dedicated September 29,

which increases the size of Thayer School by more than

60 percent. It is a sensational addition to Thayer and to

Dartmouth, educationally and architecturally, and to hear

students talking after the dedication ceremony was to

feel good in every way. If those students’business here

is still learning, Barry and his family have done a great

and good thing. Just incidentally, Mary Ann and Barry

have also endowed two professorships, a Thayer fellow-

ship fund, an undergraduate scholarship, and have made

major gifts to the Dartmouth Skiway and the Dartmouth

College Fund. Three of their five children graduated

from Dartmouth.

H

ere’s a good new word for your vocabulary, courtesy

of T. Conger, ’61 newsletter scribe: prelapsarian (pree-

lap-SAYR-ee-uhn) adjective; Relating to any innocent

or carefree period in the past. That seems an appropriate

introduction to hearing from one Jon Stockholm, maybe

for the first time since our prelapsarian days of rugby and

partying in the ‘50s. Writes he: “I’m in San Diego (actu-

ally Solana Beach) at 858-481-5666. [And jdstocks@

roadrunner.com] Donna and I have three red- haired girls

and one rugby son. I had a heart attack from seeing all

those people in San Francisco [at our 60

th

] but I’m doing

great now.

“I

ended up in Seal Team in the Navy and ended up

playing for the “Circle Sportif” Rugby team anytime they

had a match while I was in Saigon. It was great fun as

President Wright and Jon Cohen

Dedication of MacLean Center: Adler, Hannon,

MacLean, Goodman, Roesch

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nobody spoke English. It was French, Spanish, or Viet-

namese only. There were a bunch of Dartmouth officers

in the teams. Clay Freeman, Fred Bagnell, Cleve Carney,

& Mike Welsch come to mind. It was quite a group. Art

Coburn said the dedication of the new club house was a

great event. I’m sorry I had to miss it.”

R

ay Pong tells me that he liked what both Eric Sailer

and Gary Kanady had to say in recent newsletters. This,

of course, is logically impossible, but Ray practiced

medicine all those years in California and now lives near

Las Vegas, so one must show a little understanding.

G

ary Kanady’s response when I told him Dartmouth

had shut the place down for a day because of the Valen-

tine’s Day snow storm: “That’s what you get when you

go coed!” Geez, Captain, what have women done to the

Navy?

T

he election is over, the election campaign has begun,

and I have a brilliant suggestion for you: don’t read

anything—anything--about the ’08 campaign for at least

another 10 months. Think of the additional nap time this

will provide. And you won’t miss a thing worth know-

ing. I have some interesting comments on the last elec-

tion and the next one from Mort Kondracke, Ken Reich,

Al Roberts, Shel Gisser, Jack Patterson, and Howie

Frankel, but limited space means you’ll just have to wait

for the next edition..

A

t times I worry that this rag is just a little too flip and

casual. After all, we are pushing 70 now—you’d forgot-

ten?--and you have lived serious lives with plenty of re-

sponsibility and many accomplishments. So maybe this

newsletter needs to be more serious. Then I get a couple

like the following and conclude that “serious” may be the

wrong word for this crowd.

I

can’t tell you whom this first one is about---I’m sworn

to secrecy---but I can say it comes from a classmate who

was recovering from some pretty serious surgery late in

2006. Wrote he: “Last night at 3 a.m. I cut my restraints,

slipped out of my room and walked down the corridor to

a doctors’break room where I found a doctor’s smock

and a stethoscope. I took the stairs to the floor below me.

I went in to 3-4 rooms, told the patients I would be giv-

ing them an exam...they were to take their PJs off and to

stand in front of the window that faced out to the street

and wait.. I would be back.... then I beat it back to my

room.”

A

nd from Mike McGinnis: “A while ago I went out

to NJ to go to the tennis matches at Orange with Bill

Lum. His wife opened the door and asked me why I was

there. I replied that I was there to go to the matches with

Bill. Just then Bill appeared. His wife asked him how

he could plan to go to the matches when surely he must

know how much there was to do to get ready to move

the next day. Bill reminded his wife how important the

matches were to him.”

I

have yet to hear from anyone who wasn’t thrilled with

his 50

th

high school reunion. No doubt something to do

with seeing old girl friends. Reacting to all the attention

in the last Newsletter to the lads from Shaker Heights,

Mike Heitner notes: “It may not be Shaker Heights, but

right here in Brooklyn the Class of ’60 was well-repre-

sented at the Polly Prep Country Day School 50

th

reunion

by Bruce Decker, Chuck Kaufman, Neil Koreman,

Mike Heitner, and their wonderful wives.” [How can

you have a “country” school in Brooklyn, even 50 years

ago?]

F

rom Alma, ME, seemingly a long way from Vanderbilt,

from which I understand he is now retired, Cliff Russell

learns from the last Newsletter that he and Dave Harri-

son were at the same Exeter reunion in May, but, he says,

“it seems neither of us remembered the other went to

Dartmouth….I am on my way to meet my son and eldest

grandson for a week of spring skiing in Portillo, Chile.

They live in Buenos Aires where my son and daughter-

in-law have a tour company for Norteamericanos.”

J

ohn Goyette has been president of his high school class

since Eisenhower ran the U.S, more or less putting John

in the rare company of Fidel Castro and Peter, Paul and

Mary. Writes he: “I was under a bit of pressure having

been class president for the past 54 years. Had MC duties

too, so had to move things along. Pinkerton Academy has

had only 3 Headmasters since 1940. We had 2 of them at

our 50th.

“G

ood thing we all had name tags, otherwise there

were many I did not recognize, especially the women

(sexist, but true). Margie and I are off to Florida, but

we’ll be in Hanover later this month when Hanlon

returns from Chile/Argentina. I’m not quite sure how I

landed his mini-reunion job, but will attempt to fill his

rather large boots.”

J

ohn is a great choice as our new mini-reunion chair-

man, but this also calls for a loud Wah-hoo-wah and

words of profound thanks to Roger and Ann Hanlon for

all they have done these many years putting together so

many ‘60 minis. Large boots indeed.

I

f your Christmas cards never made it to all those people

just waiting to hear about your grandchildren’s pet

rabbits and soccer victories, you might want to blame

Bill McCarter. He regaled some of us at the Norwich

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Inn Class Christmas luncheon with stories of his recent

three-week holiday stint with the Post Office, doing some

heavy lifting behind the scenes. Bill showed off some

shredded

fingers to

confirm

he’s been

doing real

work. Bill

has also

been a law-

yer. There’s

a lawyer

joke there

somewhere.

Another

wonderful

tale from

one of those

Norwich Inn lunches, this from Barry Betters. We were

talking of computer problems. “My computer is in small

pieces,” said Barry. “I was never very good at it, and

one day I just threw it out the window. Not only that. I

took my cell phone, put it under the tire of my truck and

crushed it.” Too bad W has already named a new Secre-

tary of Defense.

D

ave Harrison wrote in mid-September: “Summer’s

over and I am happy to report that my knees are still

working. Note in

the last newsletter

has me headed for

Lubbock, Texas

on June 25th

for a half-iron-

man (S1.2, B56,

R13.1; that’s 70.3

miles) triathlon.

After a decent

swim, my bike

chain broke less

than 5 miles into

course, resulting

in a DNF. Mi-

nor component

failure results

in a $4,000 T-

shirt (estimated

cost of updat-

ing equipment,

travel and other

expenses). With that level of investment, I was forced

to find another race, meaning another month of training.

On August 6, in Spokane, Washington -- with half the

family in attendance -- as the oldest competitor in a field

of 195, I completed the 70.3 mile triathlon in just under

5:53, my goal, 116th out of 195. To give my knees a rest,

I took a week-long motorcycle trip across Oregon, to the

coast, Cape Flattery (furthest west point for the 48), and I

returned to Sun Valley to see a picture of my new BMW

1200RT in the Class Newsletter and find out that [Dave]

Horn uses it for sore knees as well.

“O

h yeah. Pic attached. Just before start of the Troika

Triathlon, with my granddaughter, Anna, who ran across

the finish line with me 6 hours later. ”Whatever disease

Axel Grabowsky, Brooke Adler, Allan Cameron, Bill

Colton, and too many others caught, it looks to be still

contagious. Writes Axel, “… Tom Grow is going to

have one of his knees replaced in a few weeks. (And no,

he is not doing it himself!) Let’s wish him lots of luck!”

Email and snail mail address updates:

Class treasurer Bill Moorman: bmoorman60@mchsi.

com

John Mitchell: jmm00033@adelphia.net

Gus Leach use: gus@gusleach.com

Julie and Dudley Smith: djsmith37@comcast.net.

Mike Notaro: MRN@tampabay.rr.com

Tom McBurney: tommcburney@comcast.net

Stephen Carroll: 4501 Country Club View, Baytown,

TX 77521

Peter Farquhar: Ubique@mac.com (for Dartmouth

group mail); Quar@mac.com (for personal mail)

B

ill Colton

reports from

Hartford in late

September: “I

have just retired

finally from my

work in Human

Resources.” Bill

is looking to car

pool from CT

to VT to attend

future Class

luncheons at the

Norwich Inn.

Bill and Terry are

at 5 Serra Drive,

Unionville,

CT 06085;billterry5@hotmail.com

McCarter Delivers

$4,000 T-shirt man Harrison

Colton needs a ride

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E

d Daumit sent a brief note last fall that “Wife Beth

died last November [‘05]. Had lived with her since 1978.

Sold home in Jupiter, FL and now fish for tarpon in avid

fashion and let my fly rod #14 run.” Ed would welcome

calls from classmates. He’s at 1-800-782-6217.

J

ules and Jackie Cote have been gallivanting around the

world and the USA with the International Association

of Lions Clubs. Following two weeks of meetings in

Hong Kong, Jackie writes, “we took the opportunity to

tour mainland China, the highlight being a Yangtse River

cruise. Due to the near completion of the world’s largest

‘Three Gorges Dam,’this trip will be very, very different

when the river floods to its planned total height. Seeing

those 175 meter (flood height) signs way up the hillsides

of the three Gorges, we felt we truly were experienc-

ing one of the world’s vanishing treasures. 1.3 million

people are being relocated from their homes and farms,

thousands of years old! We have also toured Japan and

Korea (including a moving DMZ tour) since 2002, and

did an enormous number of Lions conventions in North

America. Seeing community service activities and

humanitarian efforts and projects, impacting millions

in the world was a gratifying experience!” With Jules’

two-year board term over, Jackie writes “we now have

time to see more of family and friends. We now feel

‘retired’—the first time since we actually did retire 5 1/2

years ago! Since Jules has never used the ‘green cards’

to date, this news comes from wife Jackie.” And a most

welcome contribution it is.

H

ere’s another such example, from Tom Wood’s wife,

Kathie: “Tom is too modest to write about himself. He

retired June 30 (2006) in Anchorage, AK after a 35-year

nephrology practice. The ‘Anchorage Daily News’ran

an article on July 4

th

in the Life Health section with the

caption: ‘Father of Dialysis in Alaska Eases into Retire-

ment,’and listing his many achievements. Dr. Wood is

now called ‘Mr. Mom’and ‘Mr. Honey-Do’at home.” I

knew there had to be a kicker in there somewhere. The

article shows a career with too many achievements to list

here, so I will note the one really important item: “Wood,

67, is turning his attention elsewhere—playing more

piano and learning to fly-fish, for starters.” (I can think

of a few classmates—J.Goyette, A. Paul, E. Daumit, J.

Hodgson-- come to mind—who would be happy to offer

their fishing expertise in exchange for mere travel ex-

penses.) The article is glowing, and with a great photo of

Tom. I will send it to Walt Daniels for our Class website.

Email Kathie and Mr. Mom at docwood@ak.net

T

om McBurney can squeeze more into a Green Card

than almost anyone, and if it’s from last July, it’s still of

interest: “Barbara and I remain healthy and busy. I’m

still on quite a few boards but am cutting back so I have

more time to write and travel. But I’ll always keep a few

things going. One needs to keep the learning curve go-

ing up….Barbara is still painting and planning to have a

show this [last] fall. She’s also on three boards.

“T

his summer we’re spending four-five weeks at our

place on North Shore of Lake Superior. A real change for

us—lots of reading and hiking—no TV, only public ra-

dio. We’ve had grandkids up there for a couple of weeks.

John and Ann Kersey have a place not far from us so we

hike with them. I talked to Wes Mattson at my 50

th

high

school reunion. He seemed fine and retired….I’ve gotten

involved in a progressive think tank called Growth and

Justice. It deals with domestic public policy. Interesting

work and it gives me some feeling about doing some-

thing about the messed up directions of our country. I’m

very concerned.”

S

id Goldman is wondering if any classmates might be

interested in participating in June in the annual Paddle

to the Sea, down the Connecticut River from Hanover to

Long Island Sound. Sid says he would plan to do it in a

canoe or kayak, not his Key West taxi. Standard proce-

dure is to shed all clothing paddling through Hartford. I

don’t even know if the DOC would be interested in hav-

ing a bunch of chaperones like us ’60s along, but if there

is any interest we can check it out. Good project for Eric

Sailer.

R

ecent “D” headlines: Applications for Class of 2011

rise by 2 percent; ‘Gender-neutral’to be introduced next

fall [allowing students of different sexes to room togeth-

er—OK, you were born 51 years too soon.]; Study ranks

College 20

th

for research; $12 million Hitchcock facelift

well underway; Historically black frat strives for recogni-

tion; Polarizing Belafonte to deliver 2007 MLK speech;

Carnival organizers import snow; Zete to be re-recog-

nized in 2009; Dartmouth second-last Ivy fundraiser;

Plans for ‘Dartmoose’mascot gain momentum; Admis-

sions office can prove a hurdle for athletes; For the first

time, money enters into Trustee race; Trustees increase

tuition by 5 percent ($45,483, including room, board,

tuition, and mandatory fees).

I

received two “slightly different” reports on the same

NJ Class luncheon, one from an anonymous ‘60 [who

frequently goes by the name “Roger Schaefer”] and

one from Bob Colyer. Since Mr. Colyer was willing

to reveal his sources and Mr. Schaefer, like “Scooter”

Libby, seemed unable to recall his, perhaps the result (see

below) of German shells fired at NJ in WW II, you get

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the Colyer version:

Writes outdoorsman Bob on Feb. 4: “Guess whose turn it

is to document for the 1960 Newsletter last week’s latest

quasi-quarterly luncheon gathering of New Jersey ‘60s,

a most eclectic group if there ever was one. And so were

the topics of random discussion, beginning with reactions

to co-host Dick Griggs’s arrival with a copy of Chris

Miller ‘63’s new book, The Real Animal House.”

[R

ory Mullet offers this on the Miller ’63 book, which

his Dartmouth daughter ‘87 gave him for Christmas:

“The ADs must have had something that generated much

more sexual opportunity than I had any clue about, but,

envy aside, the tome elicited a number of good laughs/

fond recollections. As a history major, I may be lacking

it in capability for literary criticism, but I’d give it a D+

to a C- despite the belly laughs.”]

C

ontinues Colyer, “Our co-host Bob Boye was asked

to reflect on Bullet Bob’s real personality, and this was

delivered in all its complexity….Rog Schaefer edified us

with generally unknown tales of World War II German

submarine damage from off the coast of New Jersey. Bill

Evans wasn’t happy that the reflections on current NYC

attractions included Don Stoddard’s and my recom-

mendation of “Bodies: The Exhibition” at South Street

Seaport while lunch was being served. Doug Bryant

and Jim Leavitt, like all of us, were astounded at Boye’s

report that the little-known currently expected load for

a Dartmouth faculty member is but two courses a year!

(No wonder the recent trustee petition candidate men-

tions students’inability to register for the courses they

prefer, despite Dartmouth’s seemingly excellent 6:1

student:faculty ratio.)

“O

f course we shared recent

travels and the usual tales, good

and bad, of joint replacements.

And Don announced his forth-

coming nuptials. All in all, a

most pleasurable and entertain-

ing couple of hours, the varied

flavors of which I hope may

attract more current Jerseyans

(and those passing through) to

join their ’60 classmates when

next we gather.”

Rory Mullet sent the

accompanying photo of “The

Dunning/Geiger and Mullett

duos in the land where Gross

National Happiness vies with

GDP for the most appropriate measure (Bhutan). We

recommend it highly.”Hap described things thusly:

“Imagine a country with only one airport; with only

one airline serving that airport; and, at last count, with

only two passenger airplanes in that airline’s fleet.

That’s Bhutan, a small Buddhist kingdom located in the

Himalayas between India and China (Tibet), a country

seeking to preserve its ancient traditions and to avoid

being gobbled up by either of its huge neighbors.

“T

his fall Carolyn and I spent ten days in Bhutan with

a group of ten, one which included Heather and Rory

Mullett. We spent lots of our time visiting ‘dzongs,’

which are huge and lovely buildings which house both

monasteries and government offices. At one, we attend-

ed a festival, which consisted of monks and others per-

forming

lengthy

and

elaborate

religious

dances.

We also

had

lots of

lengthy

bus rides

through

mountain

terrain

on very

narrow roads filled with

taxis, buses, trucks, cattle (yaks at the higher elevations)

and road crews. For those with more energy than any

of us had, there are also lots of

trekking trips to Bhutan.”

Y

ou should know by now of

our hot affair with the Class of

2010. We’ll celebrate our 50

th

when they graduate. Mean-

while, we have been involved in

a number of activities with these

young upstarts. Matriculation

was one. The nearby photo

shows J. Goodman, Hager,

Reich, Mitchell, Colton, D.

Smith, Davidson, DeWitt, and

Schaefer and their better halves.

Dick Davidson, with grand-

daughter Rebecca a ’10, follow-

ing daughter Jody ’82, reports

Geiger/Dunning and Mullets explore the exotic

Checking out the ’10s

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that “The event was quite meaningful; the class of ‘60

set a new standard, as usual. As Dudley Smith said,

‘what a bummer

that we can only do

this once.’“Dudley

said in one of his

welcome speeches,

‘the class of ‘60

does not intend to

be substitutes for

your parents or

grandparents, with

one exception. Dick

and Arlene David-

son will always be

the grandparents

of your classmate,

Rebecca Davidson

Wolf.’”

T

oo late to attend but still of interest. Arthur Coburn,

soon to retire, or so he says, is off on a new, writing

career: “I have a murder story published in a murder

anthology. There will be a book launch at the Mystery

Bookstore, 1036-C Broxton, West LA, http://www.

mystery-bookstore.com/blog/ October 21st at 5:30 p.m.

Maybe not a milestone in American publishing but a

happy day for me.” Check it out on Amazon.

“T

he Class website,” writes its master, Walt Daniels,

“has the URLs of two Class bloggers; are there more than

just Ken Reich and Howie Frankel with their own blog

sites?”

W

ell, here’s one more, by George Potts: “Greeners

(and others), I’ve started a blog called “Dartmouth Tradi-

tions” (http://oldtraditions.blogspot.com/) that attempts to

document Dartmouth traditions and start a dialog about

what was good and what needed to die. (I am also inter-

ested in what traditions are taking the place of the ones

we used to know and love.) Although you may or may

not agree with my thoughts, please read the comments,

too, because they often offer more insight than I do. Feel

free to add your opinions.”

A

dds George in a follow-up email: “I’m limbering

up ... getting ready to duck. Your query, ‘a five-story-

high bonfire??’ -- 30 feet of wood and 20 feet of flame

is how I remember it. Didn’t we, as Freshmen set the

record??…. Please encourage classmates to add their

thoughts ... and even entire entries ... too.” Well, here’s a

start: “Freshmen” is now an un-word, a failed tradition.

Like Freshmen beanies. How sad.

J

ack Benson reports on a trip taken last summer: “We

signed up to take our grandson on a Dartmouth family

trip to Greece and Rome. Coincidentally, Larry & Jane

Dingman were on the trip with three of their grandchil-

dren. We started in Athens, took a couple of day-tours

and boarded our ship, the Corinthian II, in Nauflion. Our

cruise took us to Santorini, Rhodes, Crete, back to the

Greek mainland to visit Olympia, Sicily, Sorrento (for

Pompeii and Herculaneum) and Rome. It was an infor-

mative and fun introduction to the Classical world. There

were about 50 kids along who bonded in theie various

ways during the trip. Getting to know Larry and Jane was

an added pleasure, as Larry and I didn’t know each other

at Dartmouth. Enclosed is a picture of the four of us at

lunch in Rome.

“T

he trip was run by Travel Dynamics, and this is the

second year that Dartmouth has participated. I highly

recommend it for classmates and grandchildren if it is

offered

again.”

L

arry

(Dingman)

had similar

comments

on the trip:

“…just

returned

from a won-

derful trip

to Greece

and Italy.

This was

the ‘Voy-

age to the Land of Gods and Heroes’trip sponsored by

Dartmouth Continuing Education….The trip was well

run, with excellent guides, and was a great experience for

us and the grandchildren. The experience was enhanced

by meeting Jack and Scilla Benson, also on the trip with

their teen-age grandson. I did not know Jack in Hanover

but getting to know him and Scilla was a great bonus to

the trip, and we hope to see more of them.”

L

arry’s long letter from last summer says more: “In the

past six months or so Jane and I have enjoyed meeting

two classmates whom I didn’t know in Hanover, and

their wives. Back in December, we invited Elliot and

Sue Carr to our small annual Christmas party. Elliot is a

prominent figure on the Outer Cape: former president of

Cape Cod Five-Cents Savings Bank (still independent!),

involved in many community projects, and insightful and

wise columnist in the fortnightly ‘Cape Cod Voice.’ The

Rebecca Wolf ‘10 and elderly gentlemen

Scilla, Jack, Jane, and Larry, somewhere

in the Med

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party turned out to be an adventure, as the outer Cape had

a strange, brief, almost rainless storm with winds of 100

mi/h the day before. We lost 19 trees and like several

thousand people (including the Carrs), were without

power (including water and heat). However we decided

to go ahead with the party… and ended up with 10 hardy

Cape Codders, including Elliot and Sue. We used a camp

stove to heat up the food, and it all worked out well.

“N

ow back in Eastham (MA), we are beginning our

second year of retirement (after 30 years of teaching

hydrology in UNH’s Earth Sciences Department), and

enjoying the time for gardening, walking, canoeing, and

fishing. I’m trying to finish a textbook, playing trombone

in a couple of community bands and an orchestra, and

beginning to get active in some community boards. We

are also trying to do what we can to support local and

national environmental causes, the Democratic Party,

ACLU, etc.—our small part to help the country and the

world survive the Bush Administration.

“B

ased on the above political comment, and my almost

40 years as a practicing and teaching hydrologist, you

will not be surprised that I did not find the language you

quoted from John Mitchell’s several letters to Governor

Dean and others ‘marvelous’--but more in the category

of ‘Animal House’-type ‘humor.’ And in spite of the

frequent reporting of what seems to be the distressing

preponderance of rightish views of our classmates, I do

very much enjoy reading the newsletter.”

T

he ever loquacious Pete Erwin (two lines and a cloud

of ink) writes in October: “Hi, The Browns will not

surprise the Bengals. I am going to see my grandson play

football this weekend in Columbus.” And I with three

granddaughters under six.

I

sent around to a few of our

ex-Lax (something wrong

with the way that sounds)

players a story about a

67-year-old Scot who was

still playing goalie for his

national team, and I asked

sarcastically, “What are you

guys doing for exercise?”

The best reply came from

Spike Hamilton: “Do stress

tests count?”

I

know no one bothers to

read much in the DAM (Alumni

Magazine) other than our Class Notes column, and why

bother when you have this scurrilous newsletter, but you

will be pleased to know that Ken Reich, our peripatetic

ex-LATimesman,, was named Class Secretary of the

Year by the College. Class secretaries write the class

notes in the DAM and Ken does a DAM good job at

them. Here in part is what the certificate, awarded him at

Class Officers Weekend in September reads:

“Y

ou’re a reporter’s reporter. You cover your beat

with flair, humor and humanity. You work your connec-

tions and establish new ones — tracking down news and

opinions from the full range of classmates, including

those who had been ‘lost’since graduation….As class

necrologist, you bring deceased classmates’stories to life

by talking with the people who knew them best — fam-

ily, friends and former College roommates.

“Y

ou’ve given of yourself to your class and the Col-

lege as district enrollment director, public information

chairman and as a member of the committee for the

arts. Those activities would have been service enough.

But through 11 years as class secretary you’ve worked

tirelessly to keep your class connected. Ken Reich, we

thank you for the outstanding columns you bring to your

class, the College and the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.”

H

ere, from Ken, is some of the (sad) proof of all that:

“Word comes from his classmate Bill Colton and his

family that our classmate, Peter A. Egan, died at home in

Farmington, Connecticut, on July 21, 2006 of pancreatic

cancer.

“P

eter lived a romantic life, and in many respects the

high point of it came on Feb. 21, 1963, the day he met his

wife, the former Fausta Romiti, an Italian citizen, while

working for the Daily American newspaper in Rome.

On Oct. 20, 1963, Peter and Fausta began 42 years of

marriage. Always very close to his family and friends, his

wife described him as the ‘love of my life.’

“R

epeatedly, after taking a job with Newsday, the Long

Island newspaper, Peter and Fausta returned to Italy on

vacation, and when Peter left Newsday, he took a job 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.

“W

hen Peter was told by his doctor he had pancreatic

cancer, he took chemotherapy for several weeks, but his

doctor finally advised him that it wasn’t working and

he only had a short time to live. Fausta said that she and

Peter immediately decided to pay one last visit to Italy.

They spent a week in the Italian lake country in the north,

and a week in Rome, and celebrated their happy marriage

and their love of Italy. Then, they returned home. In its

Hamilton, stressed

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obituary, the Hartford Courant, remarked that Egan had

‘a passion for Italy’that never languished.

“P

eter entered Dartmouth from Malverne High School

in 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.

“G

raduating from Dartmouth, he first served in the

military and then took his first journalistic job with the

Knickerbocker News in Albany, N.Y. After his TWA job,

Peter moved to Farmington, where he worked as director

of advertising for the Heublein company and later Home

Insurance and Prudential Realty. He was a Proclaimer

at the Church of St. Patrick and served on the board of

Tunxis Village, the neighborhood where he lived. He

continued to golf and ski.

“P

eter is survived by his wife, two daughters and sons-

in-law, Rita E. and Eugene F. Mockler of Fairfield, CT.,

and Monica E. and Brian J. McGrath of Fairfield, his

sister, Virginia Egan of Denver, and eight grandchildren

in which he took great pride. The oldest is 13.

“M

emorial contributions may be made to the Church of

St. Patrick, 110 Main St., Farmington, Ct. 06032, or to a

charity of the donor’s choice.”

A

nother sad message from Ken: “Word comes from his

daughter, Ashley Adams Knecht, of the death on June 29

of our classmate, Robert Downs Clark, who succumbed

to leukemia at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.

“A highly successful lawyer in New York and Connecti-

cut for 40 years, he practiced in the areas of trusts, estates

and personal income taxes. He had also served as Coun-

sel to a New York state senator, John R. Dunne,

“B

ob, who was active on WDCR and in the Green Key

Society, transferred from Dartmouth and graduated from

NYU and the NYU Law School. He grew up in Lake

Placid, N.Y., and attended Phillips Academy Andover in

high school. He became a wealthy man, with homes in

Branford, Ct, Fire Island and Lake Placid, yet he had to

overcome challenges as well. He was, according to an

obituary prepared by his daughter, ‘an active and dedicat-

ed member of Alcoholics Anonymous, (where) he helped

many others in their quest to achieve a better way of life.’

“B

ob proudly served as a trustee of the Deo B. Colburn

Educational Foundation in Lake Placid, which provides

college scholarships, and was a trustee of the New

Canaan, CT Congregational Church’s Raymond Fund

for interim ministers. In private time, he enjoyed tennis,

skiing, gardening, kayaking and shell fishing and was

known as a gracious host.

“B

ob is survived by his daughter, of Metuchen, N.J., a

son, Robert D. Clark, Jr., two grandchildren, and his first

wife, Merle Tuck Clark Peterson of Islamorada, Florida.

“T

he family asked that donations in his memory be sent

to The Church of Pointed O’Woods, Pointed O’Woods,

N.Y. 11706.”

Y

et another: “Belated word comes that our class-

mate Richard G. Rundle died in Naples, Fla. on May

30, 2004. He was in business in the Naples area and a

member of a country club there. Apparently, he was not

married and left no survivors.

“E

fforts to learn about his life and career after he gradu-

ated have been unavailing. Rundle came to Dartmouth

from New York City and the Trinity School, where he

played football, baseball and soccer. He lived in a single

room in New Hampshire Hall his Freshman year and

then joined the DEKE fraternity. He was a participant in

ROTC and the German Club. If any classmates reading

this are able to provide more information, please contact

me and I will write a supplemental obituary.”

F

inally, this on one of our more interesting and contro-

versial Classmates:

“O

ur classmate, Edmund R. (Ned) Hanauer of Fram-

ingham, Mass. died in a Boston hospital on Aug. 10 of

pancreatic cancer. For 34 years, he championed Pales-

tinian rights in an organization he founded and headed,

‘SEARCH for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel.’

Easily, he was the most publicly outspoken member of

our class on Middle Eastern issues. For him, it became a

fulltime occupation.

“N

ed’s questioning of Israeli and American policies

went back to his grandfather, Elias Kaufman of Lake

Charles, La., who served on the Board of Directors of

the American Council for Judaism, an anti-Zionist or-

ganization which believes that Judaism is a religion, not

a nationality. Ned’s own prescription for a resolution of

the Arab-Israeli conflict, as explained in a 2004 classnote

after I interviewed him, was ‘a two-state settlement,’with

the Israeli settlements in the West Bank gone, a sharing

of Jerusalem and an option for Palestinians to live in

Israel, the Palestinian state, the Arab World or elsewhere.

“I

n our Class book ‘Musings,’in 1985, Ned acknowl-

edged, ‘Although I am Jewish, my position did not go

down well with much of the Jewish community...Sorry

to say, SEARCH remained a voice in the wilderness, and

has not received the support we had hoped for. Arab-

Americans thought it was too “balanced” and Jews saw it

as anti-Israel.’But he never dropped his strong advocacy,

writing a newsletter, visiting newspaper editorial boards,

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speaking at universities, world affairs forums, churches

and synagogues. In a Boston Globe interview in 2004,

he declared that the United States ‘should drop its blan-

ket, one-sided, knee-jerk support of Israel.’

“N

ed, who came to Dartmouth from Newton, Mass.

and majored in history later received Master’s and

doctoral degrees in political science at the American

University in Washington, D.C, where he wrote his

doctoral thesis on ‘An Analysis of Conflicting Jewish

Positions Regarding The Nature And Political Role of

American Jews, With Particular Emphasis on Political

Zionism.’He then taught political science in Germany

at the overseas division of the University of Maryland

and at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. In the 1980s,

he returned to Germany for seven years and again

taught and did free-lance journalism.

“H

e wrote in Musings, ‘Looking back at Hanover,

1956-60, I regret not having made the enduring friend-

ships reflected in the pages of the 1960 Newsletter. It

was probably not possible, though, as I was not much of

a “Dartmouth type,” too reserved and into books...Four

years at Dartmouth and I did not take up either skiing or

beer. But I enjoyed Dartmouth, and only in retrospect

did I decide that I might have been better off at a small,

co-ed, more “intellectually” oriented college.’

“N

onetheless, Ned added, a course he took at Dart-

mouth on ‘Imperialism, Colonialism and Nationalism,’

taught by a Mr. McCormack, a retired foreign service

officer, ‘gave me a life-long opposition to all imperial-

isms, including the U.S. brand.’

“A

n obituary provided by the Hanauer family and

given to me by his brother, Peter Hanauer of Berkeley,

Calif., described Ned, in its opening sentence, as ‘a life-

long peace and human rights activist.’

“Peter also passed along a compilation of tributes to

his work and his organization.. There is not space for

all of them here, but Joseph C. Harsch, former foreign

affairs columnist of the Christian Science Monitor,

declared, ‘For reliable, honest and objective informa-

tion about the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East,

I recommand the publications of SEARCH’; Noam

Chomsky, professor at MIT, said, ‘For years, SEARCH

has been working constructively to advance (its) goals,

a task of great import for the people of the region’; and

David Riesman, professor emeritus of social sciences at

Harvard, ‘SEARCH is a responsible and reliable source

of information and ideas not generally available in the

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 a Frankfurt train station, his brother, who is

a member of the Dartmouth Class of 1961, , his niece,

Elly, and his nephew, Andy, Class of 2004, and his

father, Edmund M. Hanauer, Class of 1931, of Rancho

Santa Fe, Calif.

“D

onations in his memory may be sent to SEARCH,

P.O. Box 3452, Framingham, MA 01705-3452.”

B

ob Prouty wrote last summer that his daughter

Heather, a second-year emergency medicine resident

“was married in Boulder, CO in June. Officiating at the

ceremony was John Guy who has a J.P. license in NH.

This was John’s 2

nd

wedding performance. He married

Bill Gould and Marie Stanger earlier [last] year. Bill

and Marie were

also at the wed-

ding, which was

at a small amphi-

theater high in the

hills overlooking

Boulder.

Y

ou think we

have problems

with Iraq, N. Ko-

rea, FOX News?

Try the District of

Columbia. Mal

Churchill tutors at Ballou

High School there. Writes he: “The problem is the fa-

miliar one of student reluctance….There’s so far to go.

My algebra student yesterday couldn’t do 7 x 2!” Also

tutoring in the program with Mal is Greg Johnson.

F

or those few hundred of you who have time on their

hands and their hands on a keyboard, here is a carefully

selected grab bag of web addresses sent specially to me

but which I am willing to share with you. Space does

not permit a description of them. Just type them into

your browser and see what you get.

T

his, courtesy of both Hank Greer and Jack Hodgson,

is a must: http://tropicalglen.com/

http://www.familywatchdog.us/Search.asp

http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/special/ppcs/

ppcs.html

J

ohn Mitchell offers this one: When you are on a plane

or train sitting next to someone who’s irritating you

........Try this: 1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop

case.

Matchmaker Guy

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2. Remove your laptop.

3. Boot it.

4. Make sure the guy who won’t leave you alone can see

the screen.

5. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky.

6. Then hit this link: http://tinyurl.com/e8efm

http://www.break.com/index/amazing_dartmouth_tour_

group_prank.html

http://www.bariatricedge.com/dtcf/pages/bmi_calculator.

htm?pgn=7

from Dick Davidson: <http://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?

l=ridphoto&P=guest&AID=3889083&CID=17765

46&T=1&E=Y&ILD=2599532>

http://www.nmfn.com/tnetwork/longevity_game_popup.

html

F

rom D. Farnsworth: http://www.howmanyofme.com/

Scoops again: http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html

http://www.delanceyplace.com/

A

bout Dartmouth: http://www.dartmouth.edu/oir/data-

reporting/factbook/index.html and www.boredatbaker.

com

F

rom Jack Paterson, for those following Dartmouth’s

second-best team this year, women’s hockey:

http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?t=59884

W

omen’s hockey lost a heartbreaker March 10 to B.C.

Wrote friend Patterson that night: “I have followed those

wonderful women for more then two years . It was a let

down to have them lose…..A great run! They gave me

some wonderful moments . I’m empty here now that it is

over - but will be greatly appreciative . Terrific job by the

ski team [After a 31-year NCAA team title drought, Dart-

mouth won the 2007 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Skiing

Championships March 10, marking the first NCAA team

title for the College since 1976.]. The women’s hockey

would have been icing on the cake.”

A

dler, D. Smith, Sailer, and I were all in attendance at

the hockey game and feel at least as bad. Fortunately, the

men’s team beat Princeton a couple of hours later, also

at Thompson. And as Adler so well puts it, “All in all,

the Big Green still is a force to be reckoned with when

there’s snow or ice involved.” Wrote Russ Ingersoll, “I

saw that the Dartmouth men’s hockey had beaten Princ-

eton and that Princeton didn’t take it too well. [The game

ended in a brawl.] The ski team win at the Nationals is

awesome. A National championship is a rare achieve-

ment for Dartmouth. We are enjoying Florida and having

a hard time imagining the lingering winter up north.

Hang in there and thanks for the update.”

P

eter Hawks started 2007 with the following message:

“I suspect that each of us is aware that global warming

is a serious issue which threatens our quality of life in

massive ways. We can’t wait for political leaders to fix

it. We each need

to translate our

concern into an

action plan which

conforms to our

mindset.

“T

he purpose of

this message is to

ask you to come

up with a list of

10 ways to lessen

your impact on

global warming.

I would also ask

that….you share

your concern and action

plan with at least one other person.

“F

ollowing is my commitment for 2007 and beyond…:

1) Turn off computer overnight; 2)Take cell phone

charger and other chargers out of socket when not in use;

3) turn off lights in rooms when not in use; 4) convert

at least six lights to energy efficient CFC lighting; 5)

monitor timers to make sure they are working properly;

6) monitor electric bill to make sure we use at least 10%

less electricity this year; 7) drive conservatively in terms

of speed and stop/start; 8) confine van mileage to 15,000

in 2007 (a reduction of 5,000); 9) plan local driving to

be more efficient in terms of errands and activities; and

10) if car is going to idle more than 11 seconds, turn it

off; 11) keep two or three cloth bags in the car so you no

longer need to respond to the question paper or plastic;

12) shut off water when shaving.” And much more. For

anyone interested in pursuing this, Peter is at randonee-

man@yahoo.com”

I

have from our representative on the Alumni Council,

Jim Wooster ’59, a long report on their last meeting, too

long to include here in its entirety. A few selected com-

ments:

“T

he Trustees stressed their view that they do not

represent any particular constituency - but have a

stewardship responsibility for the College as a whole.

They are concerned over the split among alumni, and

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promised to help as needed as we try to heal it. We

expressed our concerns that the alumni body is split on

the College’s position on the issue often referred to as

“college or university”. Some of the negative feeling is

based on knowledge and conviction, while others may

not have enough information to take a position. We feel

the College must make its case better to the alumni body.

We also accepted our responsibility, as (hopefully) well

informed alums, to convey to our constituencies our own

reflections on this issue (More later) Jim Wright and

Bill Neukom addressed the full Council Friday evening

- and Al Mulley did the same Saturday when both he and

Bill held a Q&A. All three reconfirmed their position

that the primary focus of the College is, and should be,

working to be preeminent in undergraduate education.

“I

think that some of us are also concerned with the

possible downsides, that could possibly include larger

classes, TA teaching and distance between undergradu-

ates and faculty. There were many assurances that these

are not problems, but I think the College also needs to

make this case directly to all alumni with data to back

it up. The Trustees noted that in the past few years the

faculty has been increased by 5% (while the student body

has remained the same) as an indication of their concern

over these issues.

“M

y own opinion is that whatever mission the Council

has, two way communication between alumni, trustees

and the administration should be high on the list. As a

member of the CRG for the next 3 years, I will be in a

position to support and improve that communication. I

would welcome your views on how best I can do that.

What are your hot buttons, or subjects, about which you

have questions? What is the best way for me to pass on

to you what is going on in Hanover? What is the best

way for me to collect your thoughts on the College so

that I can represent them to the trustees and administra-

tion? I look forward to hearing from as many of you as

possible.

“C

learly the College has never been stronger in most

areas. Clearly the alumni have seldom been as split.

The Council and I, want to heal that divide by finding a

middle ground that we all can share. I particularly ask

you to let me know your thoughts on that subject. If any-

one wants more information on any point, please let me

know by responding to “james.wooster@valley.net. In

addition, I would appreciate receiving any facts, opinions

or positions that you want to share with me.”

T

his class of ours seems heavily into meals. From

Hap Dunning: “The Class of 1960 Left Coast Lunch

Group met once again early in October, this time with

two visitors from the Other Coast. We were honored to

have two former class presidents join us: Gene Kohn

and Jim Adler. They stopped over in San Francisco for

a couple of days while en route to China. Regulars in

attendance were Dick Foley, Bruce Hasenkamp, Tom

Hannan, Lee Horschman, Dick Levy, Karl Meyer,

Ken Reich and myself. With Jim having served on the

drafting committee, there was naturally a lot of discus-

sion about the proposed new alumni constitution, as well

as our controversial speaker at our holiday dinner in

December 2005 – T. J. Rogers. TJ and several of us, Ken

Reich in particular, had gotten into some heated discus-

sions at that event. In other news, we learned that Ken’s

son, David Reich, an intelligence officer with the Navy

Seals, is leaving shortly for a six month tour in Iraq. We

all wish him a safe return. Finally, Tom Hannan, one of

two present not at least partially retired, mentioned that

he is currently helping to represent the archdiocese of

Los Angeles with regard to a multitude of sexual abuse

claims made against it.”

“O

n December 13

th

,” writes Hap, “classmates from the

San Francisco Bay Area, joined by one from Southern

California, gathered for our annual holiday party at the

University Club. We all had a great time. We had thirteen

classmates and ten partners, namely Ed Berkowitz, Jim

Foch (with Susan), Dick Foley, Dick Gale (with Loui-

siana), Tom Hannan (with Denise), Bruce Hasenkamp

(with Inta), Lee Horschman (with Elaine), Dick Levy

(with Sue), Sam Parke (with Mandy), Ken Reich, Dave

Sammons (with Jan), John Wheaton (with Jane) and

myself (with Carolyn Geiger). At the end, Dave spoke

about his appreciation for the chance to reconnect with

classmates. We plan on continuing with our classmates-

only lunches from time to time in 2007.”

G

us Leach reports sightings of Mike and Susie Heitner

on the slopes at Whistler, B.C., and the expected visit

there of John and Lucy Stephenson.

A

t our October Homecoming dinner at the Hanover Inn,

a representative of the College made the following award

presentation to the Class:

“C

ongratulations to the Great Class of 1960! This

award, the Dartmouth College Fund Committee Award,

is the highest honor a Class can achieve. The decision

is by vote and based on measurable/quantitative bench-

marks ($raised, % participation, etc) but also considers

the spirit, attitude, devotion and dedication of the Class

and the Class Leadership (Head Agent, President, and

others). 1960 deserves this award!”

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T

he certificate reads: “Dartmouth College Fund Com-

mittee Award Presented to Class of 1960 in recognition

for the best all-around achievement post 15th reunion

classes during the 2006 Dartmouth College Fund.”

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0 was best-performing class for the second year in a

row. Our goal was $425,000, which would set a record

for a class 46 years out of college. We raised $509,441.

We aimed for 77% participation, which would also be a

46-years-out record and hit 78.2%. And we broke our

own past non-reunion records for participation and dol-

lars raised.

M

arty Lower, who knows a thing or two about fund

raising, wrote, “Bruce, you have done a marvelous job as

our Head Agent including last minute calls from a hospi-

tal bed. Congratulations on winning everything in your

first year as Head Agent!!!”

I

n February, reports the Head Class Agent, the Class was

well on track for an even better performance than our

record-breaking run in 2006. “As of Valentine’s Day,”

writes Bruce, “we passed the 50% mark on our way to

$513,000, with $260,397 in gifts and pledges; 121 class-

mates have made their commitments. That puts us nearly

$26,000 and seven donors ahead of this time last year.”

B

ut watch out

when you get a

phone call from

Hasenkamp.

He not only

extracts dollars,

but information

as well, and said

info might even

find its way

into some gos-

sipy rag. “Sam

DeCamp,” he

writes, “retired

from Boeing

and downsized

to a town near

Ann Arbor,

Michigan,

where he is playing

in three AA area orchestras, currently preparing a differ-

ent symphony by a different composer with each. The

DeCamps have eight grandchildren, which they think is

probably it.

“P

aul Suerken retired after teaching choral music at

Mercersberg Academy for 31 years. He said that he

discovered his career calling senior year as a conse-

quence of directing the SigEps to second place in Hums

(behind ever-powerful Alpha Theta). They did “Brush

Up Your Shakespeare” from Kiss Me, Kate, a Bartok

piece based on folk music, and ‘Blessed Is the Man.’

Paul subsequently used ‘Blessed Is the Man’at Mer-

cersburg--and has a terrific memory for program details.

Whatever happened to Hums, by the way? No recent

student has ever heard of it.

“J

ock McNair sold his food brokerage company and

retired last July 1. He and Susie had their first grandchild

in November, Lauren Barbara McNair, the first girl in the

family for a long time. Jock and Susie raise horses for

sale. They currently have five, including two foals from

last April, if any classmate is shopping for a new horse.

The McNairs live on nine acres in Salisbury, Maryland,

seven of which are pastureland for the horses, who live in

their six-stall barn.

“D

avid Bond, of ‘College Bowl’fame, and his wife

Diane live in British Columbia’s Okenagan Valley, which

is Canada’s prime wine country. David has recently

agreed to represent the association of small wineries in

the Valley on issues with the provincial and federal gov-

ernments. He is paid in wine. The area where the Bonds

live is beautiful, and the prospect of a bulging wine cellar

should increase the number of classmates who visit.”

A

rt LaFrance wrote in Feb: “I leave Wednesday morn-

ing to teach Bioethics at the University of Canterbury in

New Zealand, and won’t be back until early June.”

Well, I expect to be back before that, with news I

couldn’t squeeze in here from another 30 or more of

you, including Andrews, Sandler, Roberts, Kirby,

Fairbank, Shaver, Churchill, Sommer, Klaren, Pat-

terson, Gallagher, Jelinek, Herrick, McLung, Cra-

mer, Vandeweghe, Janus, Paul, Crumbine, Stark, and

Henry. Space permitting. And new stories from every-

one are still needed and appreciated. Thank you, all.

F

inally, a quick heads-up: Homecoming and our next

mini-reunion are October 19-21.

Chief arm twister Hasenkamp