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| For the fourth time in the
past 10 years, 1961 is planning a major out-of-Hanover reunion. First, our 50th Birthday
party was in Washington, followed by Dartmouth Goes Hollywood and Dartmouth Meets the Big
Easy in New Orleans. We’ve also had several smaller reunions in Vail and Florida. Now its "Dartmouth in Chicago," June 4-7. The headquarters hotel is the Fairmont, a plush hostelry on the south side of the Chicago River, just blocks from the Loop, and in easy walking distance of both the Miracle Mile – North Michigan Avenue – and the Art Institute of Chicago, just five blocks south. Key elements are a visit to the Chicago Stock Exchange, hosted by Exchange President Denny Engelman; an evening cruise on the Anita Dee, a 140-foot boat; buffet lunch in the Signature Room at the 95th, atop the John Hancock Building; and gourmet dinner and dancing at the MidAmerica Club, atop the Amoco Building next to our hotel. The Chicago planning committee -- Cleve Carney and Bill Glenn, chairs, Denny Engelman, Frank Ginn, Richard Keith, Alan Orschel, Rick Taft, Jim Watson, Dave Cook and John Edwards -- has also arranged a pre-reunion dinner Thursday night at Spiaggia, and a post-reunion Sunday Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues. They've also left lots of free time and presented lists of options. Many of these guys grew up in Chicago -- as I did -- and the Holiday Season parties that Alan hosted at his parents' apartment during our undergraduate days couldn't have been more than a mile from the Fairmont. The Saturday class meeting will have a full agenda. At our Nov. 1 class meeting President Oscar Arslanian and Reunion Chair Art Johnson said we need to decide whether to have a weekend reunion or a midweek reunion for our 40th. The College would prefer that we have a midweek reunion, noting that we would get the pick of the best, most likely the air-conditioned new dormitories, compared to whatever is available on the weekend. We’ll make a final decision in Chicago. We also had extended discussion of our next class projects, and at least four proposals are on the table. I’d be happy to fax or E-mail the report of these discussions to you. These proposals will be discussed in Chicago. News Notes: Chuck Dayton has received the 1997 Distinguished Service Award from the Minnesota Justice Foundation for his involvement in dozens of significant pro-bono environmental cases, including securing wilderness designation for the Boundary Water Canoe Area and for his efforts in winning passage of the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act and the Minnesota Environmental Policy Act. Ron Heinemann, professor of history at Hampden-Sydney College, has just written Harry Byrd of Virginia, Virginia’s long-time political leader....Steve Elson has been named president and chief executive officer of Pine Company, the largest information processing and management company in the west, where he expected to lead a major expansion in optical scanning....Dave Birney is continuing to put on "The Diaries of Adam and Eve," his own adaptation of two of Mark Twain’s love stories. "It’s an old enduring love story," he told the Springfield, Mass. Union News. "We have a prologue about love, which is not Twain’s. The rest is a compilation of odds and ends, bits and pieces. I hope it’s robust, humorous and deeply moving." Robert Conn Wake Forest University School of Medicine Note: This column is limited to 500 words at the request of the Alumni Magazine. |