Dartmouth

Class of 1954www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/54/ July 2015

The Fund (DCF) and A Message from 1954’s Head Agents Shelly Woolf and Dick Page

(7/6/15) We should all raise our glasses high and give a rousing toast of cheer for a team that has surpassed our dollar goal of $325,000 and not only attained 80% participation once, but will do it consecutively! WE ARE NOW AT 82.5% and it could go higher! And what about our team of guys and gals that put their shoulders to the wheel and wouldn’t quit until our goals were met? This team of Agents is a dream team and it is their work that made this record effort happen. Thanks to each and every one and to Zoomie in the DCF office who was of enormous help.

Thanks for all you do for Dartmouth.

Shelly Woolf Dick Page Breaking news (7/8) from Shelly: Since I'll be 83 on 7/15 it seems only appropriate that we shot my age!

Class of 1954 Honors Dartmouth Veterans In 1923 the College completed Memorial Field and its stands as a center for its recreational activities. It also serves as a memorial to the 3,407 students and alumni who answered the call of their country and the 112 who gave their lives during World War I. This year, Memorial Field has undergone renovations to transform it into a modern, comfortable stadium, while preserving its most historic elements. A group of alumni veterans proposed that the newly renovated stadium serve as a memorial to all

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 1 Dartmouth students and alumni who have What Next? from Tom Kelsey died in the service of their country as well as a tribute to all College alumni who have Now that the annual push for served our country. This proposal was College Fund (DCF) is over, it’s time to enthusiastically received and approved by think “long term.” And, like it or not, “long the administration. term” goes beyond our lifetimes.

The “new” Memorial Field will feature two Almost everyone reading this newsletter large granite slabs, one of which has long gave to the DCF. Our participation served as the Great War memorial. The percentage is the envy of other classes. second slab, previously blank, will now be This kind of support by the members of this engraved to honor Dartmouth veterans class calls for us to think, and think hard, who have fallen in subsequent wars. Other about what will happen to our individual war memorials on campus will be relocated support when our names become listed in to this site, making it truly Dartmouth’s the Deaths column in the Alumni Magazine. Memorial Field. Actually, maintaining that support is Although the cost of updating the service something that is very easily done: a Bequest plaques was not included in the initial plan, or Charitable Gift Annuity. A bequest is the College is committed to completing and the simplest: Just make a provision in funding the project. It has been suggested your will or trust that bequeaths a sum or that some classes may want to help by percentage of your estate to the Trustees contributing funds from their class treasury of Dartmouth College for its endowment. in honor of their classmates’ service. Once done, you are absolutely assured According to Class President Rick Hartman, that your support, as part of Dartmouth’s the Class of 1954 has stepped forward with endowment, will continue in perpetuity. a contribution of $1,000 for this purpose. What can be better than that? As a result of our contribution, the Class of 1954 will be included on a plaque that A charitable gift annuity is a little more lists the names of the classes that have complicated but it has some current as well contributed to this effort. We will also be as long-term benefits. You take some of included on a recognition roster in the your estate now and use it to purchase an Dartmouth 2015 football program used annuity from Dartmouth that will pay income for all home games. Additionally, Class now to you, your spouse or anyone you leadership will be invited to the Veterans designate, then following your death the Day 2015 activities that involve Memorial annuity amount will pass to Dartmouth for Field. any purpose you designate -- endowment, academic program, Class internships, sports or other interest.

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 2 Liz and I recently set up a charitable gift October 2015 Mini-Reunion annuity which is already paying her interest at better than 7% per annum; and we got Friday October 23: an income tax deduction for a part of the 3:00 PM Class Executive Committee amount of the annuity. Then, upon my or meeting - Rockefeller Center. her death the annuity amount will go to Class business and introduction of this Dartmouth to support two activities that year’s interns. have special meaning to us: swimming All Class members welcome. and the Tucker Foundation. 5:30 - Reception at Zimmerman Lounge with heavy hors d’oeuvres catered by Think about it. Think about your support Maple Street Caterers. of Dartmouth. Think about continuing your Note: As hard liquor is not permitted on campus, a unique selection of wines, craft beers and local support in perpetuity (that’s a long time!). ciders will be served. And....think about doing something about it 7:00 - A spectacular video of Sabra Field’s now! process and works, one of Vermont’s foremost artists. This is colorful, educational, I’m always happy to help, give you ideas, and interesting. answer questions, and put you in touch with the right people in the Gift Planning Office Saturday morning October 24 - college at Dartmouth. My e-mail is: Tvakels@ sponsored lectures (TBA). gmail.com. My telephone (until September Lunch on your own followed by Football: th 15 ) is: 603-253-3162. Dartmouth vs Columbia 5:30 - Reception at the Paganucci Room, Tom Kelsey, Gift Planning Chair 1953 Commons (Thayer Hall). 6:30 - Dinner. Catered affair by Maple Street Caterers (not to be missed!), and Featuring Professor Ron Shaiko, Senior The Football Hall of Fame and Fellow and associate Director of Curricular Ron Dougherty and Research Programs at Rockefeller.

In April, Ron Dougherty was interviewed in Canton, Ohio for his distinguished legal career and, in particular, for his long-time David Levine in an Email to 1954 Head involvement with The Football Hall of Fame. Agents Shelly Woolf and Dick Page Click on this link: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=guzt3e8YLG4#t=15 Dear Shel and Dick,

I remember when I was awarded a full tuition scholarship for my freshman year at Dartmouth and a partial loan for the remaining years. I worked at the Nugget

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 3 seven nights a week (including double although I never stayed for our senior year features) while I studied as a premed. and never received a degree. In my second I sold cokes and hotdogs for DCAC at year, I ran into Neil Citron, also a premed, in football games and made all my dates front of Commons, who told me that he had from Holyoke and Smith who came up for just applied to Syracuse Medical College. the weekend, sell them with me (none of He said it was a short application and only them ever refused). On weekends, I was cost two dollars to apply. So I applied. Both a carpenter and handyman for the wife Neil and I got accepted in our 3rd year at of Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson Dartmouth. Even without a degree, my ties (1879-1962) and also for the wife of a music to Dartmouth have always been number professor. one of all the institutions where I trained. I will always remember when President John During those summers - I waited on Sloan Dickey spoke to our class, he said tables at a summer lodge on Tupper Lake that once you matriculate, you are always (upstate New York). The lodge manager’s a Dartmouth alumnus even if you never wife liked me so much that she requested I receive a degree. In later years, I always serve her breakfast daily in her room. That wanted to come back for my 4th year but meant getting up an extra half hour earlier in those days, you needed Great Issues to (which delighted my four other college get a degree. When we lived in Rye, N.Y., waiter colleagues that they didn’t have that I interviewed senior high school student chore). Of course, I never got any tip at the applicants for Dartmouth for years. I also did end of the summer. some fundraising but never felt comfortable doing it over the phone. For two other summers, I waited on tables for lunch and dinner at the Playgoers’ After serving aboard the USS Forrestal in Restaurant in the Falmouth Playhouse 1959-1961, I started my orthopedic residency on Cape Cod. For the second summer, I at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) / arranged for my Dartmouth roommate Cornell Medical Center in New York. After John Paul (Dabbo) Dabney to work there completion of my training, I became Chief as a bartender/hamburger short cook. As of the Scoliosis Service from 1967 to 1995, an added treat, we both filled in as actors in when I retired from patient care. summer stock at the playhouse, going on stage every night at 8pm after the last meal In 2003, I was asked by the new Surgeon- was served. My first play was “Pygmalion” in-Chief to return to HSS to become the with Carol Channing, who before one first Director of the HSS Alumni Association performance asked Dabbo to zip up her (1,500 strong globally). During the last dress and later in the evening, she asked twelve years, I established a hospital him to unzip her. We collaborated as archives, chaired five hospital committees, “others” in “What Every Woman Knows” published medical history articles, and in with Helen Hayes. I started at the top and 2013 published a 500-page book on the worked down. Summers were fun and history of the hospital. I continue to present productive with many memories. at international major orthopaedic meetings as well as private clubs in New York. Here I am so grateful to be a Dartmouth Alumnus is a link to a talk I gave at the Museum of

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 4 the City of New York in January 2014 on Mastandunos. Civil War Casualties. Besides Mike’s delivery on http://www.c-span.org/video/?317360-1/ each trip of four orthopedic-medicine-civil-war-new-york- excellent beyond lectures/ discussions, The reason I have taken the time to he and Melanie capsulize this portion of my life is to make are delightful Jane and Bob Buchanan you both aware how important a mission travel companions. you are performing, and why I have treasured my ties to Dartmouth. Not only As an aside, based on seven Dartmouth am I appreciative of the excellent education trips abroad and attending numerous I received, but also the long lasting friends faculty lectures in Hanover, I believe the I have made from my time in Hanover. Dartmouth faculty is better than ever, worthy Dartmouth is a great institution. successors to the many fine professors who taught us. Your time and effort in making the Class A rough description of Japan: With a territory of 1954 leaders in alumni support are so of some 146,000 square miles (the United appreciated by all of us. You bring life to Kingdom has 94,000) spread out over four many ‘54 donors on reasons for giving, I am main and some 4000 small islands, Japan sure you will continue to break the bank as is 73% mountainous, with the flats occupied we all travel down the road into our Golden by cities and agriculture. Rice paddies are Years. David Levine squeezed in wherever possible along with occasional orchards. While we all have an image of majestic Mount Fuji, rising to over 12,000 feet less than 200 miles from Oh, the Places They Go! Tokyo, to visualize the rugged mountain country encountered in driving from Tokyo From Bob Buchanan: It would have been across Honshu (the main island, where we presumptuous for me to have volunteered spent all our time) to Japan’s west coast, to write about Japan. Too many in our class think more of New Hampshire’s mountains have military, work, or tourist experience than Vermont’s. there far exceeding mine. But perhaps I can help others who have not been to Japan has over 100 active volcanoes, Japan decide whether to go and provide one of which erupted in the last few days, some updates to those who went long ago. fortunately on a small island without loss of life. You may recall that last September In April Jane and I spent two weeks in Mount Ontake erupted, tragically on a Japan on a Dartmouth trip led by Mike holiday week end that had attracted many Mastanduno, professor of government and hikers, 57 of whom died. We drove within dean of the college of arts and sciences, 15 miles of Ontake, and steam exited from and his wife Melanie. In 2013 we had been the snow-covered ground in the woods on a trip to China also led by the beside the road. Our guide made no

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 5 mention of last fall’s tragedy but confirmed the floors (remove your shoes), futons for it when I spoke to her privately. Have no sleep, and handsome minimalist décor. idea whether that was official tourist bureau But not all was traditional. The Japanese policy or based on her own sensibility love gadgets, and here as in all our hotels the toilets were heated and controlled by an How about the Japanese people? They imposing panel of buttons. But only here in have the longest life expectancy, 84 the ryokan when you opened the bathroom years, of any country. The population of door did the toilet seat back automatically 128 million is aging and declining. Why? rise. How did people of bygone days Reasons offered are hostility to immigrants, survive without that one? late marriages, couples preferring a single child, and an insignificant number of births Other stops heading northwest to the Sea out of wedlock. While the Japanese of Japan ranged from a mountain village reportedly think of themselves as from a of thatched huts with 18” thick straw roofs, single tribe, just looking through my pictures to Takayama, a small city with large areas shows a wide variety of facial types and of ancient wooden buildings, and finally builds. They strike me as highly intelligent, to Kanazawa, a large west-coast city, all educated, hard-working, and attractive, three spared from destruction for lack of generally in good shape. Their economy is worthwhile bombing targets. Everywhere still the world’s third largest, though those we went it was cherry blossom time, greatly who worry about such things point to the enjoyed by Japanese and tourists alike. aging, declining population. The Kenroku-en garden in Kanazawa, really a large park, was particularly inviting. We started in Tokyo, whose metropolitan area with 35 million people is the largest on After a train ride back across Japan, we Earth. A vast collection of neighborhoods spent our final days in Kyoto, the political mostly rebuilt from rubble after World War capital of Japan for 1,000 years and still II. Too big to grasp in a few days. Some its cultural, artistic, and religious capital. highlights in Tokyo were excursions to For me a highlight was a guide-led bike the Meiji Jingu Shinto shrine, the world’s ride through narrow side streets, dipping biggest fish market, and a calligrapher’s down to a river path beside the ubiquitous studio, where she deftly with broad baseball (the national sport) games, to strokes painted a bicyclist, dancer, bird, or various sites. Unlike whatever was requested and then guided here, the Japanese volunteers to try their hands. The amazing bike on sidewalks Tokyo subway, moving millions daily, was where they exist, an attraction. Lighted boards post the don’t use helmets, scheduled times of arrival, the trains arrive except on very on the minute, they unload and reload in young passengers, one minute, and they’re off! and almost all ride what we’d call girl’s After Tokyo we traveled by train and bus style, step-through southwest to Fuji and then on to a traditional bikes. inn or ryokan on Lake Suwa. Yes, the inn In Kyoto, on a bike ride, Bob, had traditional features, tatami mats on I respect the Ted Bracken D’65, and 2 maikos (apprentice geishas)

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 6 the floors (remove your shoes), futons for Japanese and hope they set an example of Cave and had a sleep, and handsome minimalist décor. how to live well with a declining population. lovely campsite But not all was traditional. The Japanese Yes, I’ve read “Unbroken” and know of the next to a little love gadgets, and here as in all our hotels Rape of Nanking and other Japanese creek where we the toilets were heated and controlled by an wartime atrocities. The current Abe had a G & T in our imposing panel of buttons. But only here in administration seems too anxious to shirt sleeves after the ryokan when you opened the bathroom remilitarize Japan, to revise the history door did the toilet seat back automatically taught in the schools, and to stifle critical a 5 mile hike at 7 rise. How did people of bygone days media. thousand feet. survive without that one? There were If you’re interested in Japan, I suggest several hikes in Other stops heading northwest to the Sea reading for insight into Japanese culture the desert to of Japan ranged from a mountain village and character two books: Isabella Bird’s enjoy cacti in of thatched huts with 18” thick straw roofs, “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan” (1880) and bloom. We Linda and Dalt near Sedona, AZ to Takayama, a small city with large areas Haruki Murakami’s “Underground” (1997). visited 3 ancient of ancient wooden buildings, and finally For sheer pleasure, you might try any to Kanazawa, a large west-coast city, all fiction by Murakami, Japan’s leading native sites: Tuzigoot Nat’l Monument three spared from destruction for lack of contemporary novelist, including “Colorless (great name, so couldn’t resist a t shirt); worthwhile bombing targets. Everywhere Tsukuru Tazaki” (2014), “Dance Dance Montezuma’s Castle - cliff dwelling we went it was cherry blossom time, greatly Dance” (1994), and “Norwegian Wood” mistakenly named for Montezuma because enjoyed by Japanese and tourists alike. (1987). Also, novels and mysteries by he was never in that area; and Walnut The Kenroku-en garden in Kanazawa, Keigo Higashino. Canyon - a spectacular area of many cliff really a large park, was particularly inviting. dwellings. We hiked thru 3 slot canyons in After a train ride back across Japan, we Northern AZ: Wire Pass and Buckskin spent our final days in Kyoto, the political Gulch in the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, capital of Japan for 1,000 years and still including camping in our favorite its cultural, artistic, and religious capital. Hiking and Camping thru the campground where we watched the sun For me a highlight was a guide-led bike Southwest set on some beautiful rock formations; and ride through narrow side streets, dipping Zebra near Escalante, AZ. In the slot down to a river path beside the ubiquitous Dalt DuLac said he and Linda would leave canyons we saw amazing rock formations Linda and Dalt near Sedona, AZ baseball (the national sport) games, to WA after the mud season… and had fun squeezing thru some very various sites. Unlike We had a great 5-week trip this spring in narrow spots. From Escalante we were here, the Japanese our pickup camper. We departed Mazama, headed north to Cedar Breaks N.P. After bike on sidewalks th WA on March 24 and made a loop south driving across a very narrow road with deep where they exist, thru the Great Basin of Nevada to Apache don’t use helmets, canyons on both sides, aptly named Devil’s Jct., AZ. From there we slowly worked our except on very Backbone, we arrived at a fabulous young passengers, way north thru Arizona, Utah and Idaho to restaurant in Boulder, AZ and had and almost all ride Montana where we visited our son, Andre breakfast. While there some people came what we’d call girl’s and his family before returning home on in from the north and said it was snowing style, step-through April 28th. hard, so we turned around and drove north bikes. until we ran out of snow at Salt Lake. Our Highlights included camping in Great Basin I respect the next stop was at Craters of The Moon Nat’l N.P. where we had a tour thru Lehman Monument where we explored 4 lava caves

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 7 on our own with flashlights. Interesting but fell in the spooky! From there we went to Sun Valley rain on a to visit a nephew. After skiing there a lot in makeshift the 70”s I was dismayed at how over- gangplank developed it has become. and damaged Needless to say we had a great time and his thumb we are planning a longer trip next spring and ribs a Barb and Bob with the Miyaharas, so we can go farther south in AZ. We bit. Japanese friends from 30+ years ago. found the southwest to be very dry with a Wondered if the young X-Ray technician noticeable lack of snow. Where we camped was thinking about the radiation damage in Great Basin there would normally have caused by the Hiroshima bomb, as he told been 5 feet of snow and there wasn’t any. It Bob to hold still for the X-Ray! looks like Andre will have a busy firefighting Visited the Yokosuka Navy Base where Bob season. was stationed for 2½ years. It is now the largest U.S. Navy Base in the world outside the U.S. (population 17,000). We were lucky to have a series of lectures Nostalgic Trip to Old Haunts by a superb retired Stanford prof, who gave us a picture Japan’s long history of both Bob and Barb Levine celebrated their 60th internal and external aggression starting two months early by heading back to Japan in ancient times. Very troubling to learn for a month-long nostalgia trip, traveling for how many Japanese know almost nothing a week with Japanese friends back to old about WWII. Those who do, blame Pearl haunts, including the beach neighborhood Harbor on U.S. interference with Japan’s where our former traditional Japanese style imports of oil and rubber that were needed house stood across from the wall of the in its attempt to expand the “Greater East Emperor’s Summer Palace (no zoning in Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” (which Japan Japan). It was then a small fishing village intended to lead) “to be free of Western on Sagami Bay looking across at Mt. powers”. Most younger adults, let alone Fuji…now an upscale beach village with a students, know almost nothing about Hayama Boat Club, a surf club, etc. their military’s horrific treatment of POW’s We then joined a small Stanford/MIT and the civilians that they conquered and excursion/ cruise, re-visiting Tokyo and controlled. The phrase “Those who don’t Kyoto, and then several Japan sea ports study history are doomed to repeat it” is that get little tourist traffic, plus a one-day very apropos. It is disconcerting to hear side trip to South Korea, landing at the that the current Premier Abe intends to hugely busy seaport of Ulsan. The next day continue honoring the enshrinement of we checked out the Hiroshima Hospital convicted WWII criminals, and that he is not emergency room because Bob tripped and alone in supporting the re-writing of history

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 8 so that texts mention “the inhumanity of of Tony Kane, Bob Levine, Dan McCarthy the atomic bomb” but don’t refer to Japan’s and Jon Moore have selected following responsibility, let alone its inhumanity. On undergraduates as the Class of ’54 the other hand, Germany continues to sponsored interns for 2015. teach about its WWII behavior – what a contrast! From Peter: Please note that this is a reduction of one internship from 5 in 2014, forced due to lack of funding pledged in support of this, our most valuable Class project. How can you help this project that highlights the Class and etches Athletic Recruiting Support Update into the College to directly assist some of the best current students where we were 61 years ago? Ciro Riccardi ‘18, our Class-sponsored Peter reiterated the need for additional student-athlete for funds to be specified for both Internships last year, has had an and Athletic Sponsorship when sending in outstanding freshman Class Dues. season and was named Rookie of Lily Fagin ‘16, The Masao James Itabashi the Year! He helped ‘54 2015 DPCS Internship, Southwest Center for Law and the men’s tennis team finish with a 14-10 Policy, Tucson, AZ overall record and a 5-2 record in the Ivy League, good for second place. Playing The Southwest Center for Law and Policy is most of the year at the #3 position, Ciro a non-profit organization that provides legal had a decisive victory in the season-ending assistance and technical training to 4-3 upset win over Harvard. tribal communities and organizations Dan McCarthy has announced that the serving Native people. The Center focuses next sponsored student-athlete selected by specifically on assisting U.S. Department of the Athletic Department is Melanie Zaraska, Justice Office on Violence against Women a butterflyer from Etobicoke, Ontario. The grantees working to train victims’ advocates Class of 1954 should take pride in the within Native communities, to develop and continued support and assistance it has implement policy reforms within and on given to the Dartmouth athletic program behalf of tribal courts, and directly provide over the years. legal training and assistance to Native people. Lily will be engaging directly with the Native population by answering the toll-free NICCSA hotline which victims call after they have been assaulted or suffered domestic Class of 1954 Interns for 2015 abuse, and support the SAFESTAR program which responds to assaults and coordinates Class Projects Coordinator Peter Kenyon legal and medical aid for survivors. Lily has announced that he and his committee

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 9 hopes that she will be able to demystify in Washington and abroad – and what widely-held myths about sexual assault challenges the development community which blame victims for the crime and accent faces. I also hope to learn about what violence against women as the norm and to responsibilities public engagement teams clearly outline the options that women have have, both in general and in U.S. agencies. who have suffered domestic violence or I expect to put what I have learned about sexual abuse. Through this internship, Lily public engagement and USAID into is looking forward to better understand the practice by working on projects of my existing global socio-economic inequality own. Finally, I look forward to interacting before serving as a public interest lawyer on with USAID employees and learning women’s rights, international human rights, about their work experiences, which span or immigration reform. from being a Foreign Service Officer to a liaison between the Agency and the Hill.

Pooja Singhi ‘18, The William G. “Pete” Andrea Price ‘16, the Victor C. Mahler ‘54 Barker ’54 2015 Rockefeller Center Intern, Tucker Foundation 2015 Intern U.S. Agency for International Development Development of National Reference (USAID), Bureau for Legislative and Public Laboratory in Mirebalais, Haiti Build Health Affairs, Washington, DC International and Partners In Health Pooja Singhi ’18 grew up in Farmington Hills, Partners in Health is a nonprofit Michigan and moved committed to bringing the benefits of to São Paulo, Brazil modern healthcare to populations most where she graduated in need in dozens of locations around as valedictorian from the world. In order to achieve its mission Graded: The American to deliver healthcare to disadvantaged School of São Paulo. populations, PIH partners with Build At Dartmouth, Pooja Health International to facilitate the design, intends to pursue a major in Government construction, and furnishing of healthcare with a minor in International Studies. She facilities in impoverished areas. These competes with the Mock Trial team and is facilities make it possible to provide part of the Hill Winds Society, a diverse group improved standards of care to those most of students selected to be ambassadors to in need of modern health technologies. the alumni body. After college, she hopes to attend law school and pursue a career Haiti is one of the world¹s poorest nations, that involves traveling abroad, perhaps in and the persisting lack of healthcare international law or the Foreign Service. infrastructure is exacerbated by the needs of a population continuing to recover from As the result of my internship I hope to better the devastating earthquake in 2010. During understand how international development the summer of 2015, Andrea will work with a programming and policy work – both here team of Haitian and American engineers to

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 10 design and facilitate the construction of a new Having been born and raised in Israel, I medical research laboratory in Mirebalais, have always found issues pertaining to Haiti. This facility will provide training, conflict resolution, politics, and international research, and treatment capabilities to the relations close to my heart. I was exposed to general population to a degree that has many of these important topics in firsthand never been seen in Haiti before. Andrea will experiences, with no filters or mediation, as be training local employees in construction they were constantly encompassing me at and masonry techniques, safety protocols, school, in the news, or in my daily routine. and teaching English. This will provide I became familiar with terms such as members of a disadvantaged population “Armistice” way before memorizing the the opportunity to learn marketable skills multiplication table at school, and heard of that will allow them to better provide for drip-­irrigation long before their families for the rest of their lives. writing my first essay. While these issues always surrounded me, I was drawn to Andrea hails from Redmond, WA, is an them not out of necessity, but out of deep Engineering major and is involved in many interest. This curiosity further expanded campus groups and activities including during my two years at the United World DOC, Dartmouth EMS, club swim, College USA, where I met people from GlobeMed, and teaches PE skiing. cultures completely different to my own, and shared a living space with some whom, at home, might have been considered Asaf Zilberfarb ‘17: The John L.Gillespie enemies”. Through late night political ‘54 Dickey Center 2015 Intern debates, through numerous discussions Middle East Institute, Washington, DC over lunch and dinner, and through casual hallway conversations, I have learned to I am a Dartmouth sophomore from Israel. challenge my preconceived notions and Prior to Dartmouth I served in the Israeli prejudices. These experiences continued military for nearly 4 years-- a path that led upon my return to Israel and my service as me to studies in government and geography. an intelligence analyst. Once again I had I have also been a Dickey Center Great the opportunity to submerge myself in the Issues Scholar and a War & Peace Fellow. often “messy” setting of the Middle East, Thanks to the support of the Class of 1954, and observe the things around me with a I am currently on a Dickey Center internship critical eye. My goal is to take this passion in Washington, DC working for the Middle a step forward, expand my horizons, East Institute (MEI) where I am contributing and further-­delve into my interests. This to research on projects pertaining to the internship position is allowing me to do just American-Israeli alliance and the Israeli- that. Conducting research with Dr. Simon, Palestinian conflict. My research work is learning from his extensive expertise, and supervised by Dr. Steve Simon, a Senior exposing myself to the work environment Fellow at the Institute and former U.S. of a leading Washington think-­tank will help National Security Council senior director. me build a strong hands-­on experience that

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 11 can enhance my academic and theoretical Class Newsletter that contained the article understanding of the issues I am so on the death of my husband, Donald C. passionate about. Berwick. I enjoy reading about Don’s classmates… From Ted and Sandi Novascone in San Diego… From ‘round the girdled “When you need a rake to help you get out of earth… a deep trap it’s time to retire the golf clubs!” Moved to Casa de las Campanas, a Kendal- like place, that is closer to the grandchildren From Seaver Peters in April,…the whose parents are deceased… decision to move to Lebanon (a 5-mile From the only D’54 in West Virginia, move!) was, simply thinking, that my 83rd claims that the WVA Chapter of birthday is just over 2 months away and I Tom Scott D’54 alumni association continues to meet ought to take a good look at a senior living. @ regular intervals. I am single and found a perfect place very close to D where I have been since 1959. From Debbie Nolin, widow of Hugh : I cut out the 1954 Aspen photo from The Woodlands is a supported independent Nolin the Alumni Magazine and gave it to my very senior living community with about 70 good friend Nancy Buchanan, widow of Bill residents - a wonderful group. Best to all, who is in the photo. She just loved it and is Seaver sending it to Amy, their daughter. It is a On a Green card from Bill Bullen,…. small world! She also skied out there in the appreciates the news in the Class late fifties and remembered it well. Newsletter and recalls Tom Booth from states that everything freshman year when he was a roommate Harry Robinson is generally positive with him and Carol. with him and Dave Thielscher in North He promises a report on their Rhine River Fayerweather… Trip in June, including Lorelei sightings, In an email from Sue Bastian, widow upon their return. of Bryce Bastian: Delighted that the Class of ‘54 has endowed the Internship as one Meredith Myserian, widow of Chuck , proudly tells of her grandson of its signature programs. My daughter, Myserian who is a general surgeon in Boston and the Maribel ‘96, was a happy and successful progress of her other grandchildren. intern at the Hood Museum in her senior year--an experience that directed her Bill Bonneville and Nancy have career into the world of the arts. Deeply forsaken their 20-year tenure in South grateful… Carolina and returned to the Boston area to Fox Hill Village in Westwood, MA to be From Virginia Berwick W’54 in Florida… closer to their summer retreat in Vermont. Thank you so much for sending me the ’54

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 12 An update from Ingrid Caverly, widow a member of Sigma Kappa of Mike Caverly (recipient of Legion of sorority (now Sigma Delta), Merit 3x and Bronze Star 2x), reports that the Cobra senior society, his interment at Arlington National Cemetery and the first women’s rugby will be on July 16 at 11 a.m. team. She also participated in Outward Bound. After On a Green Card, Ernie Dahl from Dartmouth, her career led Sacramento tells of experiencing the down to the world of magazine publishing, side of the real estate business and giving starting at Children’s Television Workshop. up his license after 8 years ….. She later spent eight years at Time Inc., In an email from Ron Dougherty… where she was a founding editor of “Sorry to hear about Charlie Reed. He and Sports Illustrated for Kids. While raising Ben Gilson were my freshman year her family, she switched to freelance roommates.” writing and editing, and in 2012 received an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from In an email from Naples, FL, Bob Columbia University. She currently runs a Levine reports… We had small alum mtg communications consultancy in Montclair, here (Kenyons and Lewis’s joined about N.J., where she lives with her husband, 25 others) to listen to both Reggie Williams Mitch Heisler. They have three daughters: and Buddy Teevens. Both are impressive Meg ’14; Alex, a junior at Colby College; guys. Reggie is fighting to be able to and Cate, a high-school junior. continue to walk—old football injuries don’t just disappear! Came away with a real “I remember the moment I learned respect for Teevens’ goals and attitude! Dartmouth’s trustees had voted in favor of coeducation: I was on the bus going to Use the enclosed Green Card to report school and the news came over the radio. what’s going on with You and Yours! I was in seventh grade, and I decided right then I would work as hard as I could and apply. It was really fun sharing Dartmouth with my dad [Robert V. Berry ’54]. In a way, And if I had a daughter, sir, I’d dress her I wanted to be like him—I jumped off the up in green,……… Ledyard Bridge one summer because he had always bragged about doing that. But, of course, my college experience was very Patricia Berry ’81 Honored with 2015-16 different from his, and he would brag about Alumni Award that, too. As for my daughter, some of our interests and activities overlap—but she, too, Pat Berry majored in English and began her had a very different Dartmouth experience. I writing career working for The Dartmouth love that we can take very different paths, be and Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. She was part of different generations, and still share a strong common bond.”

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 13 New ‘66/’16 Webcam Up and In Memoriam Running! J. WILLIAM BUCKLEY passed away on As a part of the Class Connections March 16, 2015. Bill came to Dartmouth program, the Classes of 1966 and 2016 from Longmeadow, MA where he attended have joined forces to offer a new webcam Technical High School. While at Dartmouth from the roof of the Collis Student Center he was a member of Chi Phi and the porch. Take a look and see what’s going Marching Band. He did not graduate from on on the Green! Dartmouth but received a B.S. in business from Boston University and an MBA from http://www.dartmouth66.org/webcam/ New York University. He was a veteran of connectionscam.html the Korean War serving in Army bands at Fort Devens and in Okinawa. He attended the US Navy School of Music in Washington D.C. He retired as Corporate Treasurer/

th VP of IDS American Express in 1988 and Updates to 60 Reunion Class enjoyed life at Plantation Golf and Country Directory Club in Venice, FL and Braemar Golf Club (page 1) Bill & Nancy Bonneville in Edina, MN. He is survived by his wife, Fox Hill Village Rena and his children, Karen Buckley- 10 Longwood Drive, Apt. 430 Camp and J. Scott Buckley. Westwood, MA 02090 (page 2) Pete Bullis CHARLES MAYNARD REED JR. passed 1 Collegiate Way away on April 19, 2015 in Huntington Beach, Falmouth, ME 04105 California. Charlie came to Dartmouth from 781-710-8409 West Brightwaters, New York. He attended (page 3) Jim Conrad The Peddie School. At Dartmouth he was 667 Washington St., Apt. 211 a Philosophy major. He received his MBA Auburn, MA 01501 from Harvard in 1957. He then worked for (page 11) Seaver Peters Longview Fiber Co. in various positions The Woodlands in Washington and California. In 1966 he 30 Alice Peck Day Drive, 110 purchased Brewer’s Stationers in Whittier, Lebanon, NH 03766 California and became a pioneer in the alternate greeting card industry. Charlie retired in 1995. He was very active in Staying Connected! the Orange County Dartmouth Alumni Please let your Newsletter Editor Club serving in many positions including know of changes to addresses, etc. president and treasurer. Charlie was so Class records are up to date. also active in the Whittier Fair Housing Committee and the Whittier chapter of the

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 14 American Civil Liberties Union serving as CHARLES GRACIE DAVIS JR. passed President of both. He is survived by his away on May 1, 2015 in Grand Junction, widow, Roberta and his daughter, Carolyn. Colorado. Pete came to Dartmouth from Lexington, MA. He attended the Hill School. At Dartmouth he was a chemistry- zoology HAROLD CHARLES HARRIS passed major and was active in the Dartmouth away on April 29, 2015 in Santa Clara, Outing Club and Ski Patrol. After graduation, California. Hap came to Dartmouth from he received a Master’s degree in Hospital Redlands, California, where he attended Administration from the State University of Redlands High School. At Dartmouth he Iowa. He lived in Burlington, VT, worked majored in Economics and was a brother of at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont Pi Lambda Phi. After graduation he served and as a Health Care Consultant. In 1996 18 months in the Army in Germany. After Pete moved to Crested Butte, Colorado. discharge Hap started retail training at the Pete is predeceased by his wife, Irene and Emporium in San Francisco and then joined is survived by his daughters, Karin Powell, his family’s business, Harris Department Deborah Marshall, and Susan Davis and Stores, in San Bernardino, CA. He worked by his long term partner Lucille Beckman. for the Company for 40 years, leading it for many years. When the Company was sold he stayed on as President and General ALMON LEWIS BRACKLEY, JR. passed Manager and in 1994 he left the Company. away on June 4, 2015 in Natick, MA. Lew Hap served in leadership roles including a came to Dartmouth from Kingfield, Maine term as President in the regional Dartmouth where he attended Hatch Preparatory Club. In 1997 he opened Two Angels Inn in School. At Dartmouth he was an economics the La Quinta area. After 6 years Hap left major. After serving in the US Army for two the Inn and moved to Redlands, CA where years he earned his MBA from Columbia he served as Director of Fund Raising at the University. Lew worked for ICON as a Arrowhead United Way in San Bernardino. comptroller. After retiring from ICON he Hap’s wife predeceased him. He is survived pursued a career in real estate. Lew is by daughters Hillary ’91 and Susan, and his survived by his wife, Margaret Sue and his son Steven. children, Dana Huekell, Martha Hogan and David Brackley.

D54 Newsletter July 2015 Page 15 Class of 1954 Officers President Rick Hartman [email protected] Vice President Dan Neiditz [email protected] Secretary Wayne Weil [email protected] Treasurer Jim Tofias [email protected] Newsletter Editor and Webmaster Dick Barker [email protected] Mini-Reunion Chair Herb Hillman [email protected] Betty Heston [email protected] Head Agents Shelly Woolf [email protected] Dick Page [email protected] Gift Planning Chair Tom Kelsey [email protected] Class Projects Peter Kenyon [email protected]

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