Logo April 2016

President :Denny Denniston
266 West 91st St
New York, NY 10024-1101

Newsletter Editor:
Thomas S. Conger
6326 Bonita Rd, Apt H104
Lake Oswego, OR 97035 tcink85***gmail.com

Communication Officer:
Harris B. McKee (Webmaster)
5 Cunningham Ln.
Bella Vista, AR 72715-6550
h4mmckee***sbcglobal.net

Vice-President:Ken DeHaven
19 Sky Ridge Dr
Rochester, NY 14625-2159

Co-Bequest Chairs
Peter M. Palin
1323 Southeast 17th Street # 129
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316-1707
John Damon
79 Bayberry Lane, PO Box 218
Barnstable MA 02630-1801
Arts & Legacy Committee
David Birney
20 Ocean Park Blvd, Townhouse 11
Santa Monica, CA 90405-3589
Oscar Arslanian
2489 North Edgemont St
Los Angeles, CA 90027-1054
Pete Bleyler
43 Berrill Farms Lane
Hanover, NH 03755-3216
Secretary :Victor S. Rich
94 Dove Hill Drive
Manhasset, NY 11030-4060
Treasurer :Ivar A. Jozus
73 Main St.
Middletown, CT 06457-3408
Mini-Reunion Chairman: Hanover
Maynard B. Wheeler
P.O. Box 538
Grantham, NH 02753-0538
Class Historian/Necrologist
Harris McKee
Co-Head Agents :
Henry Eberhardt
( 727) 289-1681
300 Beach Dr N.E. Apt. 309
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Harris McKee 5 Cunningham Ln
Bella Vista, AR 72715
Roger McArt
Mini-Reunion Chairman:
Non-Hanover

Dave Prewitt

279 Warner Road
Wayne , PA 19087-2156

Spouse Chair:
Nyla Arslanian
nyla***discoverhollywood.com



(Note that email addresses inWWW are disguised using *** for@ to provide some protectionagainst sites looking for email addresses. Replace the *** with @before using.)
55th Reunion ChairJim Baum
80 Lyme Rd, Apt 310,
Kendal at Hanover
Hanover, NH 03755-1232
Alumni Council :Roger McArt
P.O. Box 1452
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557-1452
Class Web Site:http://www.dartmouth.org/classes/61/

Quick Links
Sections: Bartlett Tower Society, Dartmouth College Fund, Frost Student Art Contest, Green Cards, 55th Reunion,

'61s:, Baum, Bleyler, Beasley, Bloom, Bosworth, Dale, Damon, Eberhardt, Gitchel, Haertl, Hartley, Holbrook, Horan, Kelton, Kirst, Levy, McArt, McKee, Palin, Rich, Richards, Rowley, Shearer, Sperling, Walker, Wheeler, Wybranowski, Whitehead

 

Wake up, gents: Last Chance Saloon!  That big 55th Reunion lurks, hovering over us as we craft this final class-wide appeal. Check it out, and get off the dime...! 

Click on Class of 1961 Reunion: June 13–16, 2016 or copy and paste: http://dartmouth.org/reunions/1961.html
You will find links to Registration, Attendees, and schedules for every day from Sunday June 12 for the pre-reunion Moosilauke overnight through our departure on Thursday morning June 16.

See Who's Coming
Register Now

Your Reunion committee, led by Chair Jim Baum, has been working diligently to provide you with a fun-filled and memorable weekend of activities as well as opportunities to just hang out with old friends – and maybe make some new ones. You will find some familiar venues for our meals, new educational programs organized by our classmates, and great music planned by our classmates. Our registration fee for all the offerings is only $400. Sign up now and tell your friends to sign up too!

 

More Reunion details, this from Ron Wybranowski
To: '61 Artists
We are planning another Art Show for our 55th Reunion on June 13-16. 
If you or your spouse are an artist (amateur, semi-pro, or accomplished professional), I hope that you will participate.  For our 50th, the work of 25 painters, sculptors, photographers and architects made the show successful and rewarding.  What also made it so special was the wide range of subject matter, medium, talent and motivation for producing art.  

Just in case you forgot what a nice art show we had, you can click on:
      http://www.dartmouth61artshow.org/
We have already posted new work from Peter Holbrook, Maynard and Sandy Wheeler and myself.  Ben & Mel Gitchel have also been providing periodic updates since the 50th.

The format and presentation of the show will remain the same.  Here are the highlights:
Open to all '61s, spouses and significant others.
Submit digital images of your paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, quilts, collages, architecture, and other forms of art which you produced yourself.
The '61 Art Show will be available on-line from early June, 2016, until December, 2016.
There will be a running slide show in Brace Commons and a running slide show at one of our major events.
Twenty images per participant, hopefully, of new work you've created in the past five years.
A personal profile, if you have one, with links to your personal website.
For those who are computer-challenged, send me your images, and I'll get them show-ready for you.
Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2016.  Contact me for how to submit your images.

If you participated in the 50th Art Show, we hope you will do so again this year.  
If you didn't participate but want to share your art with your life-long friends, regardless of whether or not you attend the reunion, just send a note to let me know of your plans.

Regards,
Ron Wybranowski

89 Millpond
North Andover, MA 01845
978-975-3013
ronwybo@gmail.com
www.ronwybranowski.com

Frost Student Art Contest: In another 55th reunion celebration, Vic Rich and Pete Bleyler have created an art contest for Dartmouth Student with cash prizes for the winners. Twenty-eight students have submitted sculptures paintings, and drawings of Robert Frost that will all be displayed during our reunion.

 

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Speaking of art, Bruce Beasley had an exhibition at the esteemed Museum of Contemporary Art in Beijing (aka Peking, ska Peiping) earlier this year:

 

And speaking of Ben Gitchel, he submits this [January '16] photo from the ever-popular '61 Geezers & Caregivers monthly lunch at Norwich Inn:


Beasley Sculpture

 

Upper Valley '61s Luncheon

Left to right: Bob Shearer, Mel Gitchel, Carol Baum, Jim Baum, Pete Bleyler, George Whitehead, Ben Gitchel, Maynard Wheeler, Sandra Wheeler
Photo by Janette Hannah.

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Green Cards  Arthur Bloom: "My article 'Edwin Forrest: the Exotic American Body on the Nineteenth Century English Stage' was published as part of Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century Britain. The book was published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften." [and, we presume, mit englische Sprache... ed.]


Steve Dale: "Happy to see the musical review mentioned in the January newsletter as one attraction at our 55th...At this point 8 different 'acts' have volunteered to perform. You would represent the 9th if you would act as our Thad Seymour surrogate this time. I think a great way to [open] the show would be a reprise by you of some of the more amusing anecdotes from all your past newsletters [since 1974...]. I'm hoping you're  still on for the MC role too." This keenly anticipated "variety show" takes place the first night, during/after the class dinner in '53 Commons—you won't want to miss it!!


Anthony H. Horan, MD: "I showed a poster at the 26th International Prostate Cancer  Update at Vail, CO, Jan. 21-24, entitled 'To Respond Fully to the USPTF Critique Re-direct the "Elevated" PSA Patients to Benign Prostate Hypertrophy (BPH).' I was given 2 minutes for an oral presentation to the, by now, tipsy experts from all over the country & the world.  Marcie & I took a 3-day weekend to ski in the Sierra. Inflation is alive & well in ski country! Consolation: I got a 'SuperSenior' rate, half-price, '61s take note!" [also pls. take note of your prostate and what it can do to you; as Tony will affirm, it has not forgotten you...!]


Ken Walker: "After 32 years with Morgan Stanley & predecessor firms, my partner & I and our sales assistant moved to Merrill Lynch. It's complicated to transition to a new firm, but it's going well and feels like a good fit. Last year I didn't ski a single day due to my double bypass in December. So far I've had a great week [late Feb.] in Montana. Just got back from Grand Targhee Resort in Wyoming. In March I'm spending a week in Vail. Coming to 55th w/Bert Rowley."   [must observe that Merrill Lynch certainly offers lax duty hours—for SuperSeniors... ed.]


Jon Sperling: "I do plan to attend reunion  and am looking forward to it. I've cut way back on my overseas work but continue with my work training new FSOs in the arcane ways of USAID under a contract. I'm engaged for another year or so on this and have been doing it since 2001. Takes between a week or two per month and in downtown Washington so no strain. Keeps me out of the bars and poolrooms. Sad to see [Steve Bosworth] go. He made a real contribution to US foreign policy. Wish we had more like him.  See my older daughter a lot as she lives 10 minutes away. The other one is in NYC working in advertising and we get together at the house I have in Greenport NY every couple of months for long weekends drinking wine at local vineyards and enjoying some peace."


Mike Kirst, Responding to an article re. Nike's Phil Knight's $400mill gift to Stanford for Graduate Studies: "This is my 47thyear on Stanford faculty. I do not teach but have foundation funded research projects. My next book will be 'Higher Education A High Tech Economy' about the SF Bay Area."


Jim "Workshop" Richards: "Great winter so far here; still 16 hour days and seven days a week (next day off is March 14th), and then off to Kenya and Thailand for some R&R—have 50 books loaded on my Kindle. Roger Hartley coming this week end for a ski and visit. Jake Haertl's ex-wife called about a month ago as Jake does not do e-mail, and finally hooked up on a phone call; there is a chance he might want to join me in Thailand.
We might have good snow mid-March but, from 44 years of experience, the skier is done and looking for cheap tickets to Cancun or Maui.  We have learned our lesson.  The last two weekends we have a Native American Seed Conference, and the final weekend is a music and dance fest—then on the 14th on my way to Nairobi.  
Normally I go to Kenya twice a year now and have for the past 5 years. Love it, but not for everyone; dodging Al Shabaab is always a nuisance and pain as I often go to Lamu which is on the Somalia border. No love at all between the Kenyans and Somalis. But great ocean and hiking, and do cheap game drives and safaris in Tsavo Park close by.

Last November in Kenya visited an old high school buddy, a retired naval carrier pilot on disability who went there 15 years ago for a reunion and, while there, walking down the street, hit his head on a sign. Lady doctor came to his rescue and, long story short, they married (he had never tied the knot), have a beautiful home there, and two boys in school—an 11th grader who is class pres and captain of the futbol team, plus a second grader...   Life begins at 77!!!


Thailand just blew me away; had a fantastic condo right on the beach for $27 a night, super pool, and food is out of this world. Within a  five-minute walk: 5 Norwegian restaurants; Minnesota and North Dakota, second home of the Norskis = 0. Tons of Russian there too, but less due to the tanking of oil and all. So back to give it another try.

Why Kenya?? We have two guests that were both born there of Swedish Lutheran Missionary parents, came back to Gustavus for college, and have been coming to Maplelag for over 30 years.  One is now head of IT at Gustavus (where my daughter went to college) and the other owns 3 banks in Minnesota. They said: Jim, try Kenya; and I did some five years ago, and loved it. Wild West for sure, and not for everyone, but more than exciting.
Hockey tonight with the grandson playing the first game of the playoffs. An awesome player, the 11th leading goal scorer in Minnesota.
Take care, and the welcome mat is always open at Maplelag if you get the urge for a Midwest roadie."

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Still ski season in Switzerland in February:

Levy--Kelton Ski

Larry Levy and Art Kelton do their famous imitation of a stoplight . . .

In the race to set records for the class participation rate in the Dartmouth College Fund, Co-Head Agents Eberhardt, McArt, and McKee send word that our class is currently in second place among all classes for participation at about 50% but no class has a higher goal than our 80% so get your gifts along to Hanover. Bartlett Tower chairs Damon and Palin's Hanover support person, Julie Hinman has prepared another graphic representation on our class effort to achieve 55 participants by our reunion.

BTS April Summary

For the DCF, we need your dollars now. For the BTS the dollars flow after you are dead; you won't miss them.

Here's news on another campus landmark:
Who knew?:  
bema PRONUNCIATION:(BEE-muh)
plural bemata, bemas

MEANING:
noun: 1. A platform for speaking. 2. An area around the altar in a place of worship.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek bema (step, platform), from bainein (to go). Earliest documented use: 1683.
(I always thought is was the natural amphitheater itself...)

 

That's about it. Hie thee to Hanover. Special groups Wednesday aft: Football - 1:00-3:00 at Floren, Rugby 4:00-5:30 at The Corey Rugby Clubhouse.


Aloha, 
tc