ISSUE:      January    March     May   JULY   September    November      2010

                                                     1963 HOME PAGE:  www.dartmouth.org/classes/63   EDITOR: schaefer3@gis.net

ROOM SERVICE.

My fishing creel mailbox (what else would you expect from a serious fisherman!?)  contained an article sent to me by Dan Muchinsky concerning possible Hanover Inn renovations, management changes, and news of a

classmate. To quote part of the article that appeared in the 4/14/10 issue of the Valley News:
“There may be hope for Dartmouth College’s dowdy old Hanover Inn. RICHARD FRIEDMAN, the 1963 Dartmouth graduate and Cambridge, MA-based developer whose firm is overseeing the up-to-$13 million renovation of the Hanover Inn, isn’t your ordinary hotelier. In 1985, he build the Charles Hotel, which helped spur new growth around Harvard Square, and one of his latest projects in Boston converted the ugly Charles Street Jail near Massachusetts General Hospital into the Liberty Hotel.  Friedman was also part of Clinton administration lore, seeing as how the Clintons vacationed at Friedman’s 20-acre spread on Martha’s Vineyard eight different times.”

COOL CHARACTERS.
     Anyone (including my wife) can tell you that Florida weather this past winter was mighty cool. But that didn’t stop this foursome from gathering and reminiscing. BOB SILVERMAN sent the following email and photo:
     “A year ago I bought a condo in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.  Mike Prince, one of my roommates, had purchased a condo in the same complex three years ago.  Ralph Sanders, who lived across the hall in Richardson Hall, had purchased a home a few miles away from Mike in St. Augustine Beach, Florida when he retired from his professorial and administrative duties at Syracuse University.
      Mike and Jeanne Prince and Barbara Berlin (my significant other) and I decided to host a reunion and invited Ralph and Nancy Sanders, Howard and Janet Nannen, Chuck Wessendorf and his significant other.  Howard and his wife, Janet, came from Brunswick, Maine.  Chuck could not make it because of a previous commitment.
     The person who would have enjoyed this reunion more than anyone was Jimmy Fox, Mike Prince’s and my roommate.  Jimmy died of cancer in 1968 or 1969.  He often fantasized about getting together 50 years after graduation and reminiscing abut our time together.  I am in touch with his widow, Jane Fox Anderson, who is married to Jim Anderson ’63.
     Janet Nannen took the photo below of Howard Nannen, Ralph Sanders, Mike Prince and me.” 

LEARNING MATTERS
     “The grade I would give 'Life' right now would be ‘sort of OK. Says JOHN MERROW."  He continues:
     “ Major knee surgery--TKR, total knee replacement--on May 24th, and that's kind of a drag, but the end game--relief from a knee with almost no cartilage--is worth it.  
     And trying to find support for Learning Matters, my non-profit, is a constant struggle.  Many foundations have become issue-driven: "$$ is available if you cover what we care about, the way we care about it" is the sub-text when dealing with some, and, as journalists, we can't go down that road. On the other hand, these are fascinating times in education, a treasure trove for a journalist.        
      Joan and I are on the right side of the lawn, and that's good.  She is retiring after 17 years as head of Casteileja with great and richly deserved fanfare, including a surprise visit to campus last week by Billy Collins, her absolute favorite poet (and former Poet Laureate of the US).  That was magical.   Then on Saturday night we surprised her with a gathering of the 25 people she is going to miss dearly when we move to NYC this summer, and that event included the presen- tation of a proclamation from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, declaring her to be pretty close to a national treasure.  Tears and cheers all around.”
PS. This green card info arrived after John’s email”
     1. Our coverage of Washington, DC and New Orleans for the PBS Newshour won first prize for The Education Writer’s Association.
     2. I am having TKR (total knee replacement) surgery, on my other knee 5/24/10 (First was four years ago.) If you’re near Palo Alto, CA, come watch the World Cup with me.”
1263 Emerson St., Palo Alto, CA 94301 Jmerrow@learning matters.tv  650-328-2203
(Check “Authors” section as well for more on John.)

ON THE ROAD AGAIN.
     BOB GREENWOOD’s green card finds him logging miles like crazy. Too bad there aren’t frequent driver miles, as Bob would probably rack up a jillion. Here’s what he said:
     “Just returned from an umpteenth tour to Michigan, Minnesota, another tour to British Columbia, Saskatchewan and northern Alberta. Been teaching residencies throughout the year. Dana and I are now creating our 63rd show (in 32 years) – ‘Clever Cherries’ – as how of Japanese folk tales and poetry that will have its world premiere in Sibenik, Croatia in June 2010. Then on to Rome, Naples, Florence, Ravenna, and Venice.
     Last summer was spent teaching in Croatia. I taught theater skills, mask making and visual arts. Dana taught modern dance and movement from poetry. Then it was off to Rome, then to Athens, and then to Aefina, Epidaurus, and back to Rome. So we’re busy.
     Have a wonderful home in Kananaskis (foothills of the Canadian Rockies). Still doing 150 to 500 events per year and refuse to retire. How does one retire from being an artist??  Not possible for me.
     Just did a series of Board of Governance meetings with our board of directors. Fine tuned our vision and mission statements and are getting on with getting on.
     Haven’t been back to Hanover since 2006.  Spend most of our ‘off time’ doing research for more shows, writing poetry and scripts, thinking about an autobiography or at least a kind of history of our work as Sun.Ergos, a company of theater and dance and the 20 countries we’ve been to with our work.
     Last November we were in Todos Santos in the Baja to give a performance for the La Palapa Society and raised enough money to send 8 students to high school for a year.” 130 Sunset Way, Priddis, Alberta, Canada TOL 1WO
    
’63 AUTHORS: PART TWO
     JIM (A.) BELL (we have two Jim Bells in the Class) started his green card with some kind words:
     “Thank you for all your work – the essential ‘glue’ that keeps our Class in touch. 
     Books: Reconstructing Prehistory: Scientific Method in Archaeology (Temple Univ. Press, 1994). This is focused on how to use scientific (a mathematical) methods in developing archaeological theory, and was written for research archaeologists.

    
     Our next author hails from north of the border – Montreal to be exact. PAUL HOWELL sent me a packet of his works:
     “In response to your call for ‘titles and a short synopsis’ in the March 2010 Class of 1963 newsletter, I’m pleased to be counted among Dartmouth writers. (Note: In addition to writing, as shown below, I worked on some fifty consulting projects where one of my key skills, maybe the most key, has been writing.)

     “I’m currently ‘in editing’ with the novel that follows Eustis Circle.  I hope to get it into print in the next twelve months. About half of it is set in a small college in mid-New Hampshire, called New Laconia, in the early ‘60s. And I’m working on the third novel called People You Can Trust. It’s about Vietnam, 1963-1968.” paulchowell@

     “I once had an English professor at Dartmouth who suggested that if I were an English major I should consider a change,” says The Rev. JOHN MORRISON III on his green card. The good Reverend continues:
      “I’m glad I didn’t take his advice. At any rate, though I’ve been published numerous articles in The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society, I didn’t think I’d ever have a book published – until now.
     The title is To Love Another Person: A Spiritual Journey Through Les Miserables and it traces the theological correspondences between Hugo’s novel and the Broadway musical.  It’s even received one 5-star review on Amazon.

     It’s great to hear about all your accomplishments as writers etc. Keep the emails and USPS mail coming. Here’s an email from classmate PETER BARTON with an update:
    “Since Dartmouth: MFA from Yale Drama as a playwright and director. Went to an NYU workshop where I collaborated on a documentary that won the equivalent of an Academy Award, before there was a category for student films. Then to Chile in the Peace Corps, working in land reform pre-Allende.
     Returned to NYC where I still live with wife Jane Startz, a well-known producer (Charles in Charge, Indian in the Cupboard, Tuck Everlasting, Magic School bus) and 3 kids.
     Oldest, Jesse, 30, now in law school at Fordham, but also rapping under the name ‘eshy’. Google him if you dare.
     #2  Kate studying social work at NYU; #3 Zoe graduated from Oberlin last year in dance and psych, now working with children. Both daughters
accomplished dancers.
Published a book, ‘Staying Power’, (isn't that the hallmark of our class?) about unrich, unfamous performing artists. Also had poetry published in
Saturday Review and NY Times back in the day.
     Went back to NYU to teach from time to time (first with Marty Scorsese - Oliver Stone was a student), and continued to make movies, mostly docs for socially conscious organ-izations.
     Latest project is a fiction screenplay about disabled vets who form a springboard DIVING team. 4-minute demo featuring a vet/amputee/actor at:
http://blip.tv/file/1122861/
Because I met so many great veterans, decided to create a website where vets of all wars and families can archive stories:
http://harvestinghistory.org.  Please refer vets you know there.
     For Groundswell, my not-for-profit ‘dedicated to amplifying the voices of the disadvantaged’; I'm doing a documentary about a dance company of young adults with Down syndrome. See a 15-minute edit at: http://www.blip. tv/file/2498724/” peterbarton

     An email arrived in early April from another author-classmate. This time it was  ART WILLIAMS, who passed along this info about a book he authored with the title of “Managing Your Investment Manager” published by Dow Jones-Irwin, Third Edition
Synopsis:
     “Managing Your Investment Manager” is for investment fund administrators, trustees, sponsors, and indeed, anyone who must deal with an investment manager.
      The first purpose of the book is to show how to establish a management system for handling the huge sums of investment capital in funds.  It shows how to build a framework for establishing goals, training managers for implementing the goals, and setting up an information system which will provide the necessary feedback so that corrective action can be taken when actual results stray beyond predetermined limits from acceptable results.  The second purpose is to build a communications bridge between fund sponsors and investment managers.

Among the many topics covered are:

     An author whom we’ve heard from in previous newsletters as well as bring a former newsletter editor says this in a note to yours truly. DAVID BOWMAN  pens:
     “A few weeks ago, in my ongoing rambles on architectural topics, I stumbled on the enclosed, published in Architectural Record (Dec. 1910), pp. 425 – 434. The author, Montgomery Schuyler (1834 – 1914), is one of my heroes, discovered not long before I put together the ‘Writing About Architecture’ course (Fall 1999) at the University of Arkansas’s School of Architecture in Fayetteville. Schuyler also helped explain the best work of a handful of architects I talked about in Sewanee in Stone: Architecture & History (Proctor’s Hall Press, 2003).
     One of the main men in Schuyler’s ‘Architecture in American Colleges’, if you judge solely from the photo illustrations, is Charles Alonzo Rich (1854 – 1943), who did about two dozen buildings on the Dartmouth campus.
     Also enclosed is one of my most recent ‘Tennessee Rambling’ commentaries, which I’ve been scribbling for a decade, and which show no grand signs of improvement. Maybe I can blame The Dartmouth editorial staff, nearly a half-century ago, for running my ‘Speakeasy’ commentaries.

      An email arrived just after the publication of the May newsletter from our expert on education, JOHN MERROW. John writes:
     “I read with interest the publications by our classmates and hope it's not too late to add something.  I've published two books: Choosing Excellence (2001) and Declining by Degrees (2005).  The latter, the companion to my PBS documentary of the same title, is a collection of essays about American higher education which I edited with Richard Hersh. Tom Wolfe wrote the foreword.  The former carries the subtitle "'Why 'Good Enough' Schools Are Not Good Enough."  Jonathan Kozol wrote the foreword for that book.
     But I am about to publish the most important book of my career. It's called "Below C Level: How American Education Encourages Mediocrity--and What We Can Do about It."  It will be available on Amazon toward the end of May. I'm publishing on Amazon because the royalty rate is 60%, instead of the paltry 15% that traditional publishers off, and I am donating most of the royalties to my non-profit company, Learning Matters, in an attempt to keep the enterprise above sea level. These are simply horrendous times for small non-profits like mine.
     The book is, in part, a journey over the past 35 years of public education, the span of my career to date.  It's angry, but it's also hopeful.  It's also about 475 pages -- who knew that I knew so many words!
My hope is that I can reach out to anyone who cares about the future of our democracy. I honestly believe the stakes are that high.
     I hope this is not too late to make your publication deadline.
     I will write Ed Mazer about the yearbook. I am very much in favor of one; I treasure the one from my recent 50th HS reunion and am sure I will feel the same about ours.” 

John Merrow
Education Correspondent,
PBS NewsHour, and President,
Learning Matters, Inc.
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Old friend BOB WILSON weighed in with this news:
     “We have three sons- Owen, Luke, and Andrew. They are all actors in the movie business.  My wife is a well-respected photographer. She worked for Richard Avedon. One of her best-known books is the story of Walt Matthews, a legendary Texas rancher.
     I’ve written or edited several books, one is ‘The Epitome of Desire’ about the extraordinary Raymond and Patsy Nasher. I also edited a book, ‘Power and the Presidency’ The writers included David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, Robert Caro, Ben Bradlee, Edmund Morris, David Maraniss.  The presidents covered: FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan and Clinton.” 10621 Strait Lane, Dallas TX 75229 214-750-6043 (Good to hear from you Bob. It’s been too long. Ed.)
Any more authors out there? Send me news of your epistles.

ADDRESS CHANGES:
Chris Harvey
301 79th St.,
Avalon, NJ  08202
609-796-5097
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Steve Guthrie
8 Tiger Lily Lane,
Scarborough, Me 04074
gguthrie@yahoo.com
207-883-4835 (H)
207-771-0818 (W)

CQ. 1 HANOVER HOMECOMING MINI:
HARVARD Oct. 29 – 31.
     Final details will be posted in the Sept. newsletter with a sign-up sheet. Sam Cabot and Dan Muchinsky are making the arrangements. We will dine together Fri. night (probably the Canoe Club again) and then take in the parade and bonfire. Sat. 8:30 AM will be our Class meeting (probably the Treasure Room in Baker), game, cocktails and dinner again at Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes’s home in Plainfield, NH.
     12 non-smoking rooms are being reserved for Friday and Saturday nights at the Comfort Inn White River Junct. for $159 per night tax not included. Same as last year.  You do not have to reserve for both nights. Cut off date for the rooms is Oct. 5. Location: the Comfort Inn, 56 Ralph Lehman Drive, White River Junction, VT 05001 (phone: 802-295-3051).   Identify yourself as “Class of 1963”. So reserve now and mark your calendars to be in Hanover for all the fun!

CQ 2. PASSION FOR SKIING IS NOW AVAILABLE.
   The following note is from a TOM WASHING email to Prez. Bailey:
     “As you may have heard, the Passion for Skiing book has been published and is now on sale at the Dartmouth Book Store and other stores and ski museums around the country and can be ordered on-line via www.passionforskiing.com The book has been extremely well received and is very attractive, 340 pages and contains fabulous pictures and historical details about Dartmouth never previously captured in a volume of this type and scope. As previously noted, it features a number of our classmates as authors or heroes of the history.”  (NOTE: The Class underwrote this project. Copies are available for $60.)

CQ 3.  PLEASE UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS.
      To keep down costs and get information to you in a timely manner, we plan to use email as much possible.
    We have a new Email Tool.  The College is providing us with a new mass email tool that will allow us to keep our email list more current. This new tool uses the Dartmouth's alumni database. This way, we can manage email address changes in a timelier manner.  With many folks retiring, this will be happening very frequently
      How to update your email address with the College:
     If you wish to update your database with the College, there are a couple of different convenient ways that you can do this:

1) Log into the Online Alumni Directory using your Vox Online Network (VON) account at www.alumni.dartmouth.edu/ von and update your email or any of your other biographical information there. This is the same account you use to access your alumni email account. You will need your user name and password to access the page to enter your changes. If you have never activated your account, or need to reset your password, go to http://alumni.Dartmouth
.Edu/default.aspx?id=93

CQ 4. A NOTE FROM OUR GIFT PLANNING CHAIR.
     DICK Berkowitz pens:
     “Dartmouth people distinguish themselves – through their work in the world and their commitment to future generations. Approximately 24 of our classmates have invested in faculty and students by including the College in their estate plans. That makes them members of the Bartlett Tower Society (BTS).
     Will you consider becoming a member, too? A few easy ways to join:

     For more information, contact me at 203-226-3683 or the Dartmouth College Gift Planning Office at 800-451-4067. Thanks.”

CQ. 6   70th BIRTHDAY PARTY?
     Yes, in 2011 most of us will turn 70. Yikes! Is there any interest in having a Class 70th birthday party somewhere? And is there someone willing to organize it?
     ’62 had a three-day outing in Charleston in early May.  Thad Seymour joined them for a cruise, sightseeing and dinners.

CQ 7. 50th REUNION
QUESTION.
     50th Reunion Chair Tom Jester wants your input on this very important reunion. Expect one question per newsletter.
     July question: “Send me a note recounting your best memory of a previous reunion and whether you would/could do it/enjoy it again.” Responses to tapjester@yahoo.com.

     CAMPUS CLIPPINGS

CC 1. SEASON OPENER VERSUS BUCKNELL.
    This will be the first time the Big Green and Bucknell have squared off on the football field since the 1993 season when Dartmouth defeated the Bison in Lewisburg, 31-13.
     All told, Dartmouth is 4-1 all-time against Bucknell, winning games in 1963, ’91, ’92 and ’93 with the lone loss coming in 1989.
    Big Green head coach Buddy Teevens was on the sidelines for the games in 1989 and ’91 during his first stint at Dartmouth, making him 1-1 against the Bison in his career.

        2010 Schedule

Sept. 18  At Bucknell
         25  SACRED HEART
Oct.    2   At Penn
          9  YALE
         16  HOLY CROSS
         23  At Columbia
         30  HARVARD  (Hanover ’63 Mini)
Nov.   6   At Cornell
         13  BROWN (TV)
         20  At Princeton  (Bill and Patty Russell host our Princeton Mini)