Plan Your Third Annual 66th Night Gatherings Now
A Message from Roger Brett, Sixty-Sixth Night coordinator:
It is once again time to start planning a gathering with Classmates in your local area for our Third Annual 66th Night event.
Not surprising, the 66th day of this 2011 year again falls on March 7th, only this year it is a Monday.
This is the third year we will celebrate "together" at the same time all around the Googled Earth.
Gatherings over the weekend just before this 66th day are totally acceptable and may be more convenient for some.
Participation has been increasing steadily over the past two years and you are invited to get together with other
Classmates in your vicinity to eat, drink, party, attend a game or play, or whatever. You may be invited by
someone else or you may "show a little gear" and initiate the gathering yourself.
Using the Google Earth Map
"Use the Google Earth map created by your Executive Committee to display where we all have wandered to from Hanover, so many years ago.
We update the data file periodically, but little changes from year to year. Sadly, a few pins have to be pulled from time to time, all the more reason to get together now.
We all have something important in common. We all had matriculation papers signed in front of you by
College president John Sloan Dickey in the Tower Room of Baker Library on September 22, 1962. You became the 'stuff' of an enduring institution.
"Not all living '66 Classmates are represented on the globe; some had PO Box numbers, some were in places that Google could not identify, a few have become lost to us.
Some addresses may be out-of-date. Maybe you will find them. Good luck. Let us know if you need help making contact."
More about the Google Earth Map
The Class of 1966 Google earth map (66NightEarth.kml) is a file that works in conjunction with Google Earth. First,
download the latest version of the Google Earth application.
Once you have installed Google Earth on your computer, you should then download the 66NightEarth.kml file.
(You will be requested to answer a simple login question about the last name of the man who was the College president when you matriculated in 1962.)
When you have completed downloading the file, double-click on the 66NightEarth.kml file icon. It will open the Google Earth application and create
a globe with pushpins into the home of nearly every living '66.
Whether or not they will still be alive after a giant pushpin comes crashing through the roof of their home remains to be determined.
It will take a few minutes for Google Earth to create and populate the globe. When is has finished, zoom into the pin that represents you, then slowly zoom out and
notice which other pushpins come into view. Click on the pins, and you will find the address, phone, and e-mail (if we have them)
for Classmates who are near you. If you live in a metropolitan area, zoom in close to make sure you are seeing all Classmates in your area.
Use this information to contact and renew friendships with your classmates.
To find other Classmates near you, we have updated our map of the earth with red pins for everyone in the Class.
Look at the pin for your home, zoom out and see other pins come into view.
Each identifies a '66 Classmate near you and gives contact information (whatever we have in the Class database).
Give them a call or e-mail, pick a common location and mutual time, and get together on 66th Night or Day.
The more the merrier! Just as on the 66th day of 1850, when Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850,
which was designed to preserve the Union. So let's dedicate our 66th Night in 2011 to preserving the union
of our classmates around the country and the world. Take a few pictures and send them with some
personal news to 66th Night Coordinator Roger Brett. Roger can be reached by email at roger@casabrett.com
or at 510-339-6626 or check out his red pin in Oakland, CA on the Class Google Map.
Having our own Class Google Map is really amazing and it's a lot of fun just to play with the map,
but it's even more fun to connect with someone who you knew at Dartmouth, especially if you haven't
seen them in 45 years, or with classmates you have gotten to know since our time together in Hanover.
This is also a great time to promote our fall Class Reunion, our 45th, scheduled for October 14-17, 2011.
On March 7th in 1966, the 66th day of that year, the US performed a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site,
so let's have a blast on our own 66th Night in 2011. Let's see who can have the largest gathering or
at the most unusual venue, so get planning and send those photos and reports to Roger.
...and here are some reports of previous 66th Night activities:
San Francisco:
Pete Barber, Ken Zuhr, Grace Brown, Bob Page, Connie Anderson, Roger Brett, Dean Anderson, Georgia Hazard, Jim Hazard, Ken Ireland, Harold Stoddard
San Francisco Bay Area classmates got a jump on the 66th Night celebrations by gathering
for a luncheon in San Francisco. They held this event at the perfect place, Perry's Restaurant, owned and
operated by Perry Butler '64 and now also by his daughter, Margie '02. This gathering of 66ers including
Roger Brett, Ken Zuhr, Bob Page and Grace Brown, Dean and Connie Anderson, Jim and Georgia Hazard,
Ken Ireland, Harold Stoddard, and Pete Barber. Good food, good drinks, and plenty of memories made
for a great time. In the true spirit of the new 66th Night celebration, classmates who had not
known each other while at Dartmouth, shared conversation and found that at this point in life
they have a lot in common. It looks like there will be continued contact among members of this
group and hopefully that will expand to more classmates in the Bay Area for future get-togethers.
Dean Anderson, Jim and Georgia Hazard
Ken Ireland and Harold Stoddard (it looks like they are praying for a better economy!)
Ireland, Stoddard behind, and Pete Barber (complete with beard!)
Ken Zuhr, Grace Brown, Bob Page, and Connie Anderson
Another total group shot
Hanover:
We were 10: Sherman/Carpenters, Birnies, Southworths, Thompsons and Malcolms in Zimmerman Lounge in Blunt Alumni Center. Margie made lasagna and salad; Ann Thompson brought a cake frosted with "66". We had a convivial time.
Afterwards, some went to men's hockey playoffs (we lost) and some of us went to women's basketball (we beat Brown).
It was a joy to bring Bill Malcolm back into the fold of Class friendship. He is on the board of overseers of Dartmouth Skiway. Lives in Lyme, NH. He markets business software that runs on Microsoft systems.
Gus Southworth, Bill Malcolm, Ted Thompson, Ann Thompson prepare table in Zimmerman Lounge
Notice Ann's cake is frosted with a green "66"
Welcome banner (and two welcome boxes of fine wine)
Peggy Plunkett (Malcolm's life partner) and Pietie Birnie.
See if you can find Chuck Sherman on the photo behind them.
Bill Malcolm and Gus Southworth
The Dartmouth women beat the Brown women.
Dick Birnie says, "As we know, God made a few perfect heads - for the rest, she gave hair!!!"
Washington Area:
Unable to find classmates in the Washington area who could get together last Saturday night,
Jim Weiskopf and John Rollins had lunch together today (technically 69th afternoon) at his office in Rockville.
While John was there he provided some pro bono consulting advice to Jim and his staff on selecting
new data management software for managing Fisher House's expanding list of donors.
