Get Your Kicks at the 50th June 2-5, 2016 Echo and Pine 1 Letter from the President Dear Members of the Classes of 1966: On this noteworthy anniversary, it is my great pleasure to welcome you, the trailblazing members of the Classes of 1966, back to campus. From my conversations with many of you and from the memories you share in the following pages, it is apparent that the social and political upheavals of the mid-1960s – and their expressions on campus – substantially shaped your worldviews and your lives. Equally apparent is the collective sense of the Colleges’ impact on the way in which your Classes navigated those turbulent times, from the attentiveness and care of the faculty and administration, to the camaraderie of the student body, to the thought-provoking nature of the coursework. As we join together in celebrating with you this Golden Jubilee, perhaps most apparent is the remarkable success of the Classes of 1966, not only in spite of the changing national landscape 50 years ago, but also because of it. Through the burgeoning Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War, through the Cold War and the advent of the Internet, through the 9/11 attacks and increasing globalization, your classes have thrived in this changing world and helped shape it – as doctors and educators; business and religious leaders; attorneys and musicians; service-members in law enforcement and the military; Fulbright winners and world-travelers; local, national and international volunteers; and parents and grandparents. On behalf of our faculty, staff and students, I thank you for joining us this weekend and for your indelible contributions to your communities, your country and your alma maters. Sincerely, Mark D. Gearan President 1 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Classes of 1966 50th Reunion Top News Stories (1962-1966) 1962 1964 • Pope John XXIII is Time Magazine Person of the Year. • Lyndon Baines Johnson is Time Magazine Person of • Cuban missile crisis: USSR to build missile base in the Year Cuba; President John F. Kennedy orders • Three civil rights workers -Schwerner, Goodman, and • Cuban blockade, but lifts blockade after Russians Cheney - are murdered in Mississippi. Twenty-one back down. arrests result in the trial and conviction of seven by a federal jury. • John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. • President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy issues The Warren Commission • James Meredith, escorted by federal marshals, Report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted registers at The University of Mississippi. alone. • Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which helped spark the • Jack Ruby is convicted of murder in the slaying of environmental movement, is published. Lee Harvey Oswald and is sentenced to death by a Dallas jury; conviction is later reversed, and Ruby 1963 dies before second trial can be held. • Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment in • Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is Time Magazine Person South Africa. of the Year. • The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. • President Kennedy is killed by a sniper in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president. • Congress approves The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President giving President Johnson authorization to use Kennedy, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby, Dallas “conventional” military force in Southeast Asia. nightclub owner. • Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers “I have a dream” 1965 speech during a civil rights rally attended by 200,000 blacks and whites in Washington, D.C. • Gen. William Westmoreland is Time Magazine Person of the Year • Dr. Michael De Bakey implants first artificial heart in a human; device functions and patient lives for four • Six days of rioting in Watts, a predominantly African- days. American section of Los Angeles; 34 dead, over 1,000 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested, fire damage put • Supreme Court rules no locality may require at $175 million. recitation of Lord’s Prayer or Bible verses in public schools. • Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and more than 2,600 others, are arrested in Selma, Alabama during three- • Washington - Moscow “hot line” communications day demonstrations against voter-registration rules. link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war. • Malcolm X, black-nationalist leader, shot to death at • Profumo scandal rocks United Kingdom. Harlem rally in New York City. • Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique is published. • U.S. Marines land in Dominican Republic as fighting • There are 15,000 U.S. military advisers in South persists between rebels and Dominican Army. Vietnam. • Medicare, senior citizens’ government medical assistance program, begins. 2 • Power failure blacks out parts of eight states in Billboard Top 10 northeast U.S. and two provinces in southeast September 1962 Canada. • Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed is published. • Sheila, Tommy Roe • You Don’t Know Me, Ray Charles 1966 • The Locomotion, Little Eva • Ramblin’ Rose, Nat King Cole • The Generation Under 25 is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. • She’s Not You, Elvis Presley • Supreme Court decides Miranda v. Arizona, • Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Neil Sedaka protecting rights of the accused. • Party Lights, Claudine Clark • The U.S. Department of Transportation is created. • Things, Bobby Darin • All cigarette packets in the United States must carry • Teen Age Idol, Rick Nelson the health warning “Caution! Cigarette smoking may • Vacation, Connie Francis be hazardous to your health.” • U.S. has nearly 500,000 troops in Vietnam June 1966 • 1966 Gallup Polls show the American Public Support • Paint It Black, Rolling Stones Changes from over 52% support for war to 37% • Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind, Lovin’ • The Draft Deferment Test is started in the U.S. as a Spoonful way for students to convince the Draft Board that • I Am A Rock, Simon & Garfunkel they would serve the nation better in the quiet of the classrooms than in the Jungles of Vietnam • When A Man Loves A Woman, Percy Sledge • Race riots in Atlanta and Black Power becomes a • A Groovy Kind Of Love, Mindbenders significant factor in American Politics • Strangers In the Night, Frank Sinatra • Monday Monday, Mamas & The Papas • It’s A Man’s Man’s World, James Brown Cost of Various Items in 1966 • Green Grass, Gary Lewis & The Playboys Ground Beef per pound .45 cents • Barefootin, Robert Parker First-class stamp .05 cents Gallon of gas .32 cents Dozen eggs .60 cents Oscar Winners for 1966 Average cost of a new car $2,650 Average cost of a new house $14,200 • Best Picture: The Sound of Music Dow-Jones Industrial Average High: 995 • Best Actor: Lee Marvin (for Cat Ballou) Low: 744 • Best Actress: Julie Christie (For Darling) • Best Supporting Actor: Martin Balsalm (for A Thousand Clowns) • Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters (for A Patch of Blue) 3 HOBART COLLEGE CLASS OF 1966 4 Street Address: Bernard M. Aaron 3 Kittredge Court Freehold, NJ 07728-9259 Nickname: Bernie Home: (732) 780-3856 Cell Phone: (908) 433-3604 Email Address: [email protected] Spouse/Partner: Susan Aaron Children: David H. Aaron, Esq.; Robert S. Aaron, M.D.; Ellin Grenger, Esq.; Cassie Magzamen Grandchildren: Erica Grenger, Justin Grenger, Major: Mathematics Post-HWS Education: M.D. Degree, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. Work/Career History: Private practice of gastroenterology 1977-2013; Acting Chief of Gastroenterology, SUNY Stonybrook Medical Accomplishments of which you’re proudest: School 1976-1977; M.D. degree – 1969; Honorary Bachelor of Arts – Hobart Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterolgoy, College 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 2013 – present. It’s been 50 years. Tell us about the aging Military Service: U.S. Navy 1974-1976 process in your life: Exercise every morning, play golf terribly, but enjoy it. In fairly good health. Volunteer Work: Volunteer teacher of physical diagnosis to second year medical students at the Robert Wood Johnson What event made a big difference in your life? Medical School. Marriage to my wife, Susan in 1974. We enjoy many things Shiva committee, Temple Rodeph Torah, Marlboro, New in common: theatre, classical music, opera, ballet, walking in Jersey parks, swimming, etc. Soup kitchen volunteer, Church in Asbury Park, New Jersey What, in your view, have been the most Interests and Hobbies: Lifelong interest in classical significant events or changes in society since music: played violin and piano for many years; played in a graduation? Use of the Internet. Can look up virtually any semi-professional orchestra in late 1970s, /together with my fact on the Internet. Rely heavily on Internet (e.g. “uptodate. wife Susan, I have attended many classical music concerts in com”, “epocrates”, “Medscape”) to keep current in medicine. New York City (and we both enjoy popular music performers) Lover of ballet and some opera, Lover of theatre and museums Is there one memory that stands out from your (our small apartment in New York City has afforded us the years at HWS? Playing in the marching band during ability to experience much culture in the past 10 fortunate football half-time ceremonies in freezing cold weather. years!) Lover of reading. I love medicine and love reading Most important memory of HWS experience: I had a about it frequently. I love teaching medicine (especially wonderful freshman English writing course with Professor gastroenterology) to young people. Otto E. Schoen-Rene. He taught all of us to express ourselves well with the written word. (continued next page) 5 Extended Thoughts: We are living through frightening times. The senseless Miss Abigail Mosey was a wonderful teacher with an always murder of innocent people by radicalized youth throughout cheery disposition. She made mathematics fun for me. the world (most recently in the United States) scares both of Math has taught me how to reason things out and to solve us.