Class of '64 (March - April 2010 Issue)


Bill Hamm (Ph.D. Michigan) isn't retiring because he feels obligated to pay Social Security for retired classmates. He consults and is "an expert on the economics of banking, mortgage lending, and public finance." His help is clearly needed in Washington, D.C. Maybe he just doesn't want to leave Lafayette, California, where he lives with wife Kathleen. Bill belongs to the Dartmouth Club of San Francisco. They recently visited Carlee and Chip Noecker in Sarasota, Florida.

By contrast Frank Herringer, who lives in Piedmont, California, has officially retired, but continues on enough boards to stay truly busy. Occasionally he attends meetings of the Dartmouth Club of San Francisco at Perry's. Frank gets back east and recently golfed with Tom Rand near Washington, D.C. He and Maryellen have two daughters, Sarah '08 and Julia who will be a '14. He and Julia will be able to walk together at graduation/50th reunion.

Suzanne and Mark Riley (Ph.D. Stanford) live in Sacramento, California. Mark has taken time off from his usual 100 mile/week bicycling to recover from a triple coronary bypass. He's anxious to get back to the trails and will retire in May after 40 years teaching Latin and ancient Greek at Cal State Sacramento. Son Nathaniel '02 has a fresh MBA from the University of Chicago and daughter Rebecca is an aeronautical engineer.

Tom Maddux (Ph.D. Michigan) of Thousand Oaks, California is another committed educator, having taught history at Cal State Northridge for 40 years, almost one-third as chairman. Tom asserts that his training at Phi Gam helped dealing with history professors - any thoughts of a movie, Tom? He and wife Milli have four children, two adopted, all married.

Dana Kelly was a passionate quarterback for Dartmouth. After years in the business world he was jilted by his employer in Los Angeles and ultimately found a new passion as actor and voice actor. He's proven that "Murphy's Law" was wrong and it is never too late to begin something you want to do. He performs regularly at the Pasadena (California) Playhouse, does television, film and commercials. He's having too much fun to think about retiring. He keeps up with classmates, including Pete Luitweiler, also a high school friend, and meets with the Los Angeles Dartmouth Club, especially the arts and entertainment section. He and his dear girlfriend Jeanie visited Hanover in September, 2008. Dana has two daughters Deidre and Shelagh.

In suburban Seattle, Washington lives Tom Bird, who is one of 88 M.D.'s from our class. He still enjoys the neurology/genetics research he pursues at the University of Washington, so doesn't consider retirement often. His focus is Alzheimer's, so we wish him many successes, if only for self-serving reasons. Tom has interviewed for the college and attended a 'state of the College' meeting chaired by trustee Bill Neukom. Tom stays in touch with roommate Chip Noecker, fellow high school classmate Carl DuRei and his roommate Al Ferris. Tom and his wife Rosaline have two children, Jeff '92 and Caroline (Colby '96).

Phil Schaeffer, Class Secretary