50th Reunion Ques

April 28, 2010

Dear Members of the Great Dartmouth College Class of 1961:

It is now time to get off the couch and start writing. I need your help now to make our 50 th Reunion Book a success. Without your reflections on life and/or your Dartmouth experience, our efforts will only produce a very expensive phone book. Believe it or not, you have a story to tell, a thought to impart, or some wisdom to transmit which will be of interest to your classmates.

While we know your personal/family information and thoughts are “priceless”, the cost of this book depends very much on the ease of editing what you send us. Please send as much a possible electronically and in the format we suggest.

You can send us everything electronically. It is important to send every jpg file names with last-name first, then first name as in: Baum, Jim.jpg

Photographs: We need one or two photos of you and your family. It is more interesting to have casual photos of you with wives, kids, and animals that you love rather than head shots for an employment application. Photo need to be 3.25” wide as a minimum; don’t crop, 300lines per inch resolution which means no Xerox copies, passport-size photos, or tiny jpgs. You can send them by e-mail (61reunion***att.net) (remember to replace the ***with an @)or by snail mail directly to our publisher: David Prentice ’69, Malin's Point, 123 Tapp Road, Sheenboro, Quebec J0X 2Z0. Remember, EXTRA Postage is required for mail to Canada.

(Note that I've replaced the usual email @ with *** in all email addresses herein to avoid the necessity of having you suffer through a log-in procedure.)

1. Your Full Name:

1a. Nickname:
2. Address:

3. E-mail address:

4. Phone(Home)::

5. Phone(Cell):

6. Undergraduate Major:

7. Dartmouth Extra-Curricular Activities

8. Favorite class, professor, best memories and/or miss most:

9. Military Experience: (Branch of Service, Years of Service, Rank, Major duty station. If you would like to expand on your service; its meaning and importance to you, please include your comments as part of your reflections.)

10. Career(s):

11. Extra-Career Activities :

12. Spouse/Significant Other--Name:

13. Spouse/Significant Other-- Information :

14. Children(DOB & Other Information):

15. Photos: Please send Favorite Photo(s) of yourself, including wife, significant other, children or grandchildren per Jim Baum's letter by email or snail mail. (If digital image is available, send as jpg)

16. Reflections:The essays are the essence of the book; they are what make these books useful and memorable and demanding to be read by the entire Class. If everyone wrote no essay, or only a paragraph, we are going to end up with an expensive address book.

May I suggest that none of us take the time to sit at the keyboard and try to put in words what makes us tick. It is not difficult. Here is my advice on how to approach an essay: don’t sit and agonize over an opening line, for if you do, you could sit for a long time and give up in despair. Start writing, any old thing, whatever pops into your head about yourself, and after a few paragraphs you will likely find your muse and you can proceed to the end. Then go back and look at the opening again, and do what you have to do to lead into where you finally went. Sit on it for a day, review it, and send it off. This appears to have worked for a lot of people. There is no format. Write it in any form you want.

Please compose your "Reflections" in Word or a text document and send your document to Jim Baum by email to 61reunion***att.net, (remember to replace the ***with an @) Remember your target is 300-500 words! Go longer if you like: we'll get back to you if we think it is too long.

17. Please Enter your name again

to Jim Baum. in this form.

Please submit your response to me at your earliest convenience, ideally by May 31, 2010 . Thank you very much for your participation in this questionnaire and for sharing your life for our reunion book. We look forward to seeing you in Hanover

June 10 – 13, 2011

-- once again, mark your calendar!

All best wishes,

Jim Baum

Note: Suggestions above for Reflections compositions have drawn heavily on suggestions from our publisher, David Prentice.