September 2019 Enewsletter
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In Our Time - Class of 1970 September 2019 eNewsletter Class of 1970 Website: 1970.dartmouth.org 50th Reunion Book Website: dartmouth70.org Class of 1970 Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/Dartmouth1970 Class of 1970 LinkedIn group: Dartmouth College Class of 1970 From Our President We have now officially entered the “Big Push”. That is, the period of final preparation and staging for the great Class of 1970 50th Reunion next June. This will be the biggest and most significant event (other than our commencement, I suppose!) ever held for our Class, Included will be thought- provoking panels on a wide variety of subjects, great music to shake our creaky bones and tailfeathers to, wonderful opportunities to renew acquaintances with old friends as well as to meet new ones, marching in a commencement again this time with the rookie class of 2020 and much, much more to be revealed in the months ahead! We are expecting a great turnout of your fellow classmates and sincerely hope each of you will join us. Our reunion team led by Hicks Morgan are fully mobilized and busy putting together the vast array of celebratory hoopla, festivity and merriment! Our reunion giving committee will also soon be contacting you to ask for donations to the Class 50th Reunion contribution to the Dartmouth College Fund. Please be generous in this campaign to show the College community the measure of our benevolence and to help build on the College’s financial stability for now and into the future. So have a wonderful Fall and Winter before embarking to Hanover for our shindig in June! And speaking of the Fall, you are also invited to the 1970 Mini-Reunion in New York City on the weekend of November 8–10 focusing on the football game between the Dartmouth Big Green and the Princeton tame tabbies in Yankee Stadium! Details are included in this newsletter! Thanks to you all and see you soon. Jeff Demerath, President Class of 1970 50th Reunion Book Website - dartmouth70.org Please visit this website soon to update your profile, complete the survey, and provide a brief essay telling us what has been going on in your life. You may need a couple of trips to the website to complete the update. The Reunion Book will be published prior to the reunion and delivered to each classmate. NOTE: Before visiting this website, ensure that you know your Dartmouth NetID and Password. We recommend contacting the Alumni Help Desk at 603–646–3202 for assistance. The staff has a wonderful reputation for assisting “older” alumni. While we don’t require the use of the NetID on our Class of 1970 website, the Reunion Book website is restricted due to all the personal information contained therein. Mini-Reunion at the Yankee Stadium for the Princeton-Dartmouth Game Star Johnson has provided the basic outline of plans for the weekend: Headquarters: Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel - Class Block of Reserved Rooms Friday night: Cocktails/dinner at Hotel, or, wherever one desires Saturday morning: Converge at Billy’s Sports Bar and Lounge Rooftop, at 856 River Avenue in the Bronx–just off the subway station and across the street from Yankee Stadium—they serve breakfast, so arrival time at one’s preference. Saturday Lunch: Billy’s or Dartmouth planned events Saturday afternoon: Game at 3:30; pre-game—Dartmouth Alumni and Friends of Football planned events, no details as of yet. Will probably include food/lunch option. After game: Spontaneous September-October 2019 Class Notes The unedited version of the latest class notes section of the Alumni Magazine Jeff Hall says he is now retired, but my photography hobby has now turned into an obsession. Joined a couple of camera clubs, built a mini-studio, entered a few competitions, and started a new Facebook group specifically for photography of this area (Southeastern NC). Finally moved out of New England after enjoying 69 consecutive winters, buried in snow and ice. Moved to Wilmington, NC a year ago, just in time to enjoy Hurricane Florence and all its glory. They are still replacing roofs in our neighborhood (about a mile from the eye of the storm), but all is back to normal for most of the residents. Will not be able to get to the 50th reunion, but plan on going to the 75th! Miss the mountains/hills and friends of New Hampshire where we lived for the last two decades but are good with the warmer weather down in NC. Our daughter is moving back to NYC for a new job, and our son stayed in Columbia, SC after graduation where he is working for the Bud distributor near the University of SC. Wah-Who-Wah to all! Jeff [email protected] Larry DeVan says: It’s good to hear from you. I’ve been highly negligent in the Class Notes department over the years and for that I apologize. I am still working, most recently with a boutique investment advisory firm here in Greenwich. I am also active in our church and serve on the boards of a small museum and a small foundation. Ann and I will celebrate our 42nd anniversary this year. We have a son and a daughter in their thirties and were blessed with two grandchildren (one from each) in 2018. I keep in touch loosely with Mike Thorman, Pete Bradstreet, Paul Gambaccini and Tim Welsh from our class, with Mike Powell ’69 and with Foss Jones and Scott Rosenblum, ‘71s. I look forward to seeing you and other classmates at our 50th next year. I know all of this is TMI - please edit as you see fit and thank you for reaching out. Lawrence S. DeVan [email protected] Bill Wilson reports that Ann and I recently spent eight days back in New England centered around a Memorial Day weekend wedding in Wolfeboro, NH. In the course of our travels we spent a day in Hanover. It was disturbing to see the old Dartmouth Bookstore building boarded up and the neighboring storefront, former home of the Canoe Club restaurant, dark. A stroll around the corner on Allen Street revealed that nothing has yet gone into the space vacated by Everything But Anchovies a couple of years ago. Lots of change in my boyhood hometown, not all of it good! On a more positive note we stopped at the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge on our way from Hanover to Wolfeboro the following morning. Very impressive. I am definitely planning to keep my reunion perfect attendance record intact by being in Hanover next June. Not much else new here in North Carolina. I’m still playing a fair amount of golf and my game has reached a consistent level of mediocrity. I’m just hoping to live long enough to someday shoot my age! Best regards, Bill. [email protected] Paul Gambaccini says: I am hesitant to say this for fear of being struck by lightning the moment I press “Send”, but I find it hilarious that I have my all-time highest listening figures now, in 2019. My Saturday afternoon BBC Radio 2 program PICK OF THE POPS has 2.62 million listeners, which is more listeners than either Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel have viewers. As Bette Davis said, “Stick around long enough in this town and they’ll make you a legend.” What is really odd about this is that PICK OF THE POPS is basically the countdown Monday of SOUNDS FOR THE TRI-TOWN. Each week I present two vintage charts ranging from 1963 to 1995. Sometimes there is a chart with records I actually did play on WDCR. This is, surely, the completion of the career circle. Looking forward to the reunion, Paul [email protected] From Demie Duckworth: On the news front, Jeff Demareth and his wife, Holly, and Meg and I went on a Dartmouth Alumni South American (Argentina and Chile) trip several years ago and were both surprised to find each other in the group. Jeff and I reminisced about the first female professor we had our Senior year in a South American government class. She was a radical Che Guevara, Fidel Castro exponent and spouted their communist/socialistic agenda as the wave of the future. It was a small seminar, 10 or so, and we all did not buy into her beliefs. Benignly we and our classmates espoused a contrary view literally bringing to tears, she abruptly stood up and stomped out of the classroom. We all looked at each other not knowing what we had done to prompt her rush to leave. And that was our introduction to coed Dartmouth, all of which I am for as two of our daughters (1998 and 2000) graduated from Dartmouth. With the upcoming game at Yankee Stadium between Princeton and Dartmouth is there any way we can get a class “pre-reunion” together? Maybe in your class notes you can mention getting together. Star has been a pioneer in doing this in the past and maybe would be willing to do so again. All the best, Demie [email protected] Chris Buschmann: Good morning, guilt is overwhelming, sending trivia from daily life seems unimportant, but— here is what I have. Because our class was asked to communicate with the class of 2020, I saw an opportunity last winter from an article in our alumni magazine to communicate with one such student. As the manager of the 1969 football team, I read the item about next fall’s manager with interest and shared our mutual experiences with her via e-mail.