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President Don O'Neill |
Newsletter Editor: Thomas S. Conger 6326 Bonita Rd, Apt H104 Lake Oswego, OR 97035 tcink85***gmail.com |
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Vice-President :Denny Denniston Vice-President Gerald Kaminsky |
Co-Bequest Chairs Red Facher 52 Collinwood Road Maplewood, NY 07040-1038 David Armstrong 4600 N Ocean Boulevard, Ste. 206 Boynton Beach, FL 33435-7365 |
Arts & Legacy Committee Oscar Arslanian 2489 North Edgemont St Los Angeles, CA 90027-1054 Pete Bleyler 42 Wildwood Drive West Lebanon, NH 03784 |
Secretary :Victor S. Rich 94 Dove Hill Drive Manhasset, NY 11030-4060 |
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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 |
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Class Historian/Necrologist Harris McKee |
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Co-Head Agents : Henry Eberhardt ( 727) 289-1681 300 Beach Dr N.E. Apt. 309 Saint Petersburg, FL 33701 Harris McKee 929 W Foster Ave Apt 705 Chicago, IL 60640-1682 (479) 619-7324 Roger McArt P.O. Box 1452 Oak Bluffs, MA 02557-1452 |
Mini-Reunion Chairman: Non-Hanover Dave Prewitt and Joan Prewitt 279 Warner Road Wayne , PA 19087-2156 |
Women's Committee |
(Note that email addresses inWWW are disguised using *** for @ to provide some protectionagainst sites looking for email addresses. Replace the *** with @ before using.) | ||
Class Web Site:http://www.dartmouth.org/classes/61/ |
Quick Links '61s: Anderson, Armstrong, Arslanian, Nyla, Bell, Bleyler, Conger, Denniston, Eberhardt, Facher, Gazzaniga, Grossberg, Holmberg, Kauffman, Kelton, Kittredge, Lemke, McArt, McCrea, McKee, Olson, Judy, O'Neill, Pelle, Prewitt, Joani, Rich, Patti, Rozycki, Russell, Wheeler |
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Maynard Wheeler, our Hanover Mini-Reunion Chair, Announces plans for this fall's Mini-Reunion in Hanover: As always, please contact me with any questions or suggestions. As Maynard reminds us, this will be Homecoming (fka Dartmouth Night) weekend, in the height of fall colors, thus accommodations will be tight. How many more of these lovely strolls down Memory Lane do we each have in us...?
'Tis a distinct possibility that the occasion might include the current Outstanding Alumni awardee, Art Kelton, who should be in town for the October Alumni Council Meeting. Seems we're building quite of roster of classmates thus honored—ain't we bitchen...! Dartmouth College Fund: Co-Head Agent Harris McKee reports Thanks to all your efforts, we beat our participation goal of 76%, and beat all other classes. We did fall short of our $$ goal. Speaking of honored alums, here's a photo of auld rugger Dave Prewitt at the CRC Rugby Sevens Tournament in Phila. with USA National Seven-A-Side Team Captain Madison Hughes '15:
Even closer to home, here is Prew-dads along with Joani (one of our Women's Initiative chairs) and Allyn Freeman, star fullback of the Brown '61 ERU co-champions (with [undefeated] Dartmouth), Southie high school classmate of Bill Kandel, Esq., and current nostalgia pundit for Rugby Today, moving force behind USA Sevens: Green Card: Bill Pelle <wjpelle***comcast.net> notes: "Spent the last five years researching continuing care facilities. The Quadrangle is the perfect place for me and my partner. Founded by retired Haverford College professors. Traded the concrete and noise of center city Philadelphia for the serenity and civility of the Main Line. As an independent, I feel like I'm living in a resort with all of the amenities of one. Perfect location—near top medical facilities and Phila. Orchestra concerts. Eternally committed to personal growth through introspection and levity. Meditate as I write and garden. Enjoy periodic conversations with Denny Denniston." ,/More good stuff on the brain from Steve Grossberg, excerpted from a June note to Webmaster H.B. McKee: "You kindly wrote that you hope that I am in good health. That is, of course, an increasingly meaningful good wish in the light of the fact that so many of our classmates are no longer with us.[...]Actually, I am feeling quite lucky all around.
Speaking of Rozycki and reunions, Al & I compared our high school 60ths this June. Lake View HS in Chicago graduated 310 in '57, and had 36 alums (plus spouses) show up for the 2017 milestone. Punahou '57 graduated 265, and around 60 classmates (+ SOs) turned out for our weeklong smorgasbord of activities (culminating with the All-5-year-class Alumni Luau on campus—a true extravaganza). A sad fact is that we said Final Aloha to 108 Punahou '57s at our memorial service, almost 3 times as many as attended Roz's reunion; of course, Punahou does go from K-12, and over those 13 years we had about 405 pass through the roster,—but that's still a lot of dear friends to be gone forever . . . More reunion stuff - D'96s enjoy their P'92 25th at Punahou Luau:
Also in 1957, from Writers Almanac: "One of [Prof. Wm. Strunk, Jr's] students at Cornell [in 1921] was a young man named Elwyn Brooks White, more familiar to readers as E.B. White, the essayist and author of beloved children's books like Charlotte's Web (1952). While working as an editor at The New Yorker in 1957, White dusted off Strunk's little book [The Elements of Style] - which he described as a 'forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English' - and wrote a feature story about it. He revised the style guide, expanded it, and updated it...White's contribution to The Elements of Style was so extensive that he is considered a co-author, and the book is commonly known simply as 'Strunk and White.' In 2011, Time named it one of the best and most influential books written in English since 1923." Those among us who went on past English I & II, esp. the intrepid souls who braved creative writing courses by Messrs. Booth '18 and Dewing '25, became extremely familiar with their dog-eared copies of "Strunk & White" . . . Vic Rich received an e-mail from Tom Russell regarding the July/August AluMag's article "Lone Pine Wine": "I thought our classmates would like to be assured that the recent Alumni Magazine's review of Dartmouth California winegrowers made one glaring omission, namely one of our classmates. Dr. Byron Olson and his wife Dr.Judy Olson, who spend considerable time away from their home in Montana, in California on the family estate, working physically and overseeing the cultivation of superb wine grapes in Sonoma County...Their chardonnay grapes are sold exclusively to the Francis Ford Coppola winery and therefore are justly credited with the grapes that won a award for an outstanding California chardonnay bestowed in 2016 in the annual contest of best California wines conducted by the San Francisco Chronicle.: Vic's response to Tom: "The article also makes no reference to classmate Bob "Otter" Anderson who in past years had been heavily involved in the CA wine industry...I am passing your email onto Harris McKee, our class webmaster, and to Tom Conger, our class newsletter editor, for them to place your comments into either the class website or in the next class newsletter." To which we replied with: "I had glanced at the subject article in the AluMag. Was stunned to notice that Otter was summarily omitted, as was our 20+ year partnership in the award-winning Konocti Winery in Lake County, CA. Otter has gone on since I sold my share to him, and continues to produce many good bottlings, incl. Road Trip Red and SugarHill Crossings whites. Likewise was puzzled to see Peter & Willinda McCrea's outstanding Stony Hill Vineyard garnering no ink. Am sure there are probably even more Dartmouth folks—maybe even more classmates—involved in the burgeoning Cah-Lee-Fornya wine industry whom I may have overlooked; but will certainly give those of which we are aware some mention in the next WWW." [Voila! ed.] Good news from the '61 Women's Initiative, reported here by Nyla Arslanian: We heartily encourage all the ladies of '61 to get aboard, at least to apprise the leadership of your contact(s). As actuarial tables insist the double-X chromosome bearers will outlive those of us who actually matriculated with the class, it is vital that we do all we can to ease the transition of '61 business to the "designated survivors." Bartlett Tower Society--And, finally, as we inevitably continue to create survivors, here are some intelligences from our Bartlett Tower Society chairs, Dave Armstrong and Red Facher: BARTLETT TOWER SOCIETY: Class of '61 on the Rise Friendly Competition. As you might expect, one of the factors that is considered when choosing "Dartmouth's Best Class" is the number of Bartlett Society Members. Currently, the Class of '61 is No. 2 in the classes'59 through '63 with 61 current members. Unfortunately the Class of '60 has been very aggressive in recruiting Members and currently has 94 Members. The amount of the bequest that you leave to the college is not relevant. It literally is the fact that you have thought of Dartmouth that counts. Procedure. All that you need to do to remember Dartmouth in your Will or Trust Agreement is to add a short (often one page) paragraph describing your gift in a Codicil to your Will or in a short Amendment to your Trust Agreement. If you are willing to become a BTS Member or if you would just like additional information, please contact David Armstrong (561-276-1008 (Office) or DArmstrong***hhk.com) or Red Facher (Tel. 973-808-1114, ext. 292 (Office) or zfz***zuckerfacher.com) and we will answer any questions you have and, if it would be helpful, provide you with sample language which your estate planning attorney can use. If you have already provided for a gift to Dartmouth in your Will or your Trust Agreement but have not advised the college, please call or email me or Red so that you will become an official Member of the BTS (and the Class will get credit for your membership). Thank you for considering a gift to the college at your death. Arts & Legacy--Oscar Arslanian and Pete Bleyler, co-chairs of the the Arts & Legacy Committee note that the upcoming October 3rd Hopkins Center performance of Jazz at Lincoln center with Wynton Marsalis co-sponsored by the Class of 1961 Legacy of the Arts is sold out except for student tickets. Let's close with a nice photo of Sam Bell and Dick Lemke at a recent teachers reunion in Detroit: Both Dick and Marty Lemke and Sam's wife Betty Castor were teachers in East Africa in the 60's. <a n Al Rozycki, while decrying the paucity of photos of 1961s in the Rauner Collections did find the shot of the 1957 Freshman Football team shown below. Beattie, Wybranowski Dayton, DeHaven, Marriott, Horton, Hopton, Gerfen, Kinderdine Persels, Knuti, Schoenng, Rozycki, Leech, Bryan, Jakubsen, Thompson, Glenn, Oehler, Marrone, Steinhauser, Toothaker, O'Neil, Wells, Sly, Johnson, Chapman, DiSavino, Lancaster, McElhinney, Mooney, Kola, Freeman, McKee, Auer Newport Mini--Cannot delay any longer: must proclaim the off-campus spring 2018 mini in Newport, RI, which Dave & Joani Prewitt have so ably put together: Resort : Gurney's Newport Resort ( formerly Hyatt Regency ) on Goat Island , Newport Harbor Activities : Dinners May 20th , 21st & 22nd ; Breakfasts May 21 , 22 & 23rd Start making your plans—yea, reservations—to be there!
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That oughta do it for now. Aloha, tc
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