December 2019 Dear Fellow Classmates, Spouses and Widows: Greetings! A lot of information to share since our post-reunion newsletter. OCTOBER MINI REUNION About twenty of our classmates gathered in Hanover for the weekend of October 25-26 to enjoy a post-60th Reunion gathering organized by our mini-reunion co-chairs Dave Marshall and Barry Smith. Our Friday evening dinner was at Three Tomatoes in Lebanon unless one chose, on that rainy evening, to attend the 6 pm kickoff of the football game vs Columbia (the game was televised, which accounted for a change from the usual Saturday afternoon schedule). Our President Bill Boyle led a class meeting Saturday morning that was followed by a number of featured campus opportunities on Saturday afternoon. Saturday evening dinner was enjoyed at Jesse’s. NEWS ABOUT CLASSMATES Our classmate John Ferries co- chaired a summer series at Dartmouth consisting of six Thursday morning sessions at Spaulding Auditorium dealing with issues such as freedom of the press, gun rights, affirmative action, individual privacy and voting rights. The July1 debate-style discussion on freedom of speech (and its limits) as granted and interpreted under the First Amendment to our Constitution featured our classmate Owen Fiss. After Dartmouth, where he graduated summa cum laude and “of valedictory rank”, Oxford and Harvard Law School Owen clerked for Thurgood Marshall as a Judge on the Second Circuit and then Justice William Brennan on the US Supreme Court. He has since spent most of his career as a Professor at Yale Law School where he is considered one of our country’s foremost scholars of constitutional law. Owen is the author of a number of books and among his many other activities has also chaired the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea and helped draft that country’s constitution. At the 219th Alumni Council meeting on October 18 our classmate Jim Wooster was presented with the 2019-2020 Alumni Award in honor of his “longstanding and meritorious service to the College and his community as well as achievements in his career” Over the decades Jim has been an admissions interviewer, alumni fund volunteer, class president (recognized as Class President of the year in 2003), president of the Class Presidents Association, alumni councilor, member of the Alumni Liaison Committee, member of our reunion giving committee and most recently co-chair of our milestone 60th reunion. Jim is also both a Dartmouth son and a Dartmouth parent! Congratulations to Jim for his well-earned recognition and thanks from all of us for all that you have done for Dartmouth and our class. A copy of the Jim’s citation is attached. Take a minute for a message … about yourself and classmates Please provide your email to keep current on all ’59 happenings! Name_____________________________________________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________________________________________ City________________________________________ State___________ Zip_________ Country___________ n New Home Address n New Business Address Home__________________________ Business_______________________ Cell_________________________ e-mail: ____________________________________________________________________________________ The green cards that accompanied our last newsletter resulted in responses from some of our far- flung classmates with news about themselves. While our Secretary, Charlie MacVean, will provide further details in his Alumni Magazine column, here are a few snippets: -Jacques Bry- Plaisance, France “Live in south of Bordeaux. Would welcome ’59 graduates any time” -Ben Drew’s widow (Emily)- New London, NH “Thank you for the interesting and people-filled 1959 newsletter” -Joe Goldberg- Lake Worth, FL “Assume I’m still counted as a ’59. Took a 5th year for pre-med courses” -Rick Luedke- Oconomowoc, WI “Still working on recruitment/admissions with Wisconsin alumni group” -Aron Wolf- Anchorage, AK “Closing face-to-face clinic and doing behavioral health telemedicine” -Bob Worthington-Las Cruces, NM “Latest book ‘Under Fire’. Next one about my second tour in Viet Nam” You can help keep the bucket filled with news that you wish to share with our class by returning the enclosed green card or emailing Charlie MacVean and/or me. ( addresses below) “AS TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MAN” Since our reunion the College has confirmed the deaths of the following of our classmates: Art Duggan Charlie Eytel Greg Kane Ed Labenski Tom LaPolla Jon Mandaville Dick Netland Walt Peterson Vince Slattery Bill White Doug Wise While their obituaries will be posted on our class website, let us take a moment to remember them now, and appreciate that we all came of age together more than sixty years ago. And we also learned of the death of two esteemed faculty members from our era, Fred Berthold, Jr. and Thaddeus Seymour. Professor Berthold graduated from Dartmouth in 1945 and joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1949 where he established the Religion Department and became the first Dean of the Tucker Foundation. He retired from the Dartmouth faculty in 1993 after serving as professor and mentor to generations of Dartmouth students. He was living at Kendal in Hanover at the time of his death, this past September. Thad Seymour joined the Dartmouth faculty as an English instructor in September 1955 and immediately became a “presence” on campus. Over his 13 years in Hanover he assisted the Dartmouth Crew and rose to the position of Dean of the College. He later served for ten years as President of Wabash College in Indiana and for 13 years as President of Rollins College in Florida. He died on October 26, 2019 at the age of 91! His son wrote in his obituary’- “A lot of people don’t know it but he actually flunked out of college himself. I think he learned compassion and that every student has his or her own challenges. It’s about how you overcome them.” FALL FOOTBALL DOINGS I am beginning to write this edition of our newsletter the day after our football team’s win over Brown in the last game of the season to share the Ivy League championship title with Yale. The Brown game was the 105th victory for Coach Buddy Teevens, the most for a Dartmouth Head Coach (Bob Blackman held the previous record at 104). It has been a memorable football season with several highlights, one of which occurred on November 9, when we faced (and beat) Princeton, 34-20. The televised game was played at Yankee Stadium, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Dartmouth’s founding and the 150th anniversary of the first intercollegiate football game (Princeton v. Rutgers). In the subway to Yankee Stadium, which was filled with passengers wearing green apparel of all types, I met Dartmouth grads from younger classes who had flown in from Dallas, Nashville and Chicago. The Harvard game, a week before Princeton, was one for the ages and is worth a recap. The Big Green was behind 6-3 with about a minute to play and Harvard had the ball on Dartmouth’s four yard line. It was 4th down and a yard to go. The Dartmouth defense held and took over possession. Dartmouth moved the ball to Harvard’s 45 yard line with six seconds left. Our quarterback, Derek Kyler, then threw a “Hail Mary” pass to the Harvard end zone that tipped off the hand of a Harvard defender to Masaki Aerts, a Dartmouth sophomore wide receiver, as the clock ran down to zero. And Dartmouth wins 9-6! (PS It was Aerts’s first touchdown for Dartmouth, his only catch that day and, to that moment, his fourth reception of the season!) This year marks Dartmouth’s 19th Ivy football championship, and it brought forth a sweet memory of our senior year when Dartmouth won two league championships. Coach Bob Blackman led the football team to Dartmouth’s (and Blackman’s) first conference title and then we went on to beat Princeton’s basketball team in a memorable playoff game at a neutral court in New Haven as Rudy La Russo shot the winning basket in the last seconds of the game. And there was a football connection to our class. The team’s long snapper, the lineman who delivers the ball to the backfield for punts, field goals and extra point attempts, is senior Grant Jaffe, the grandson of classmate Peter and Joan Jaffe. Peter and Joan moved to Hanover when Grant was a freshman and have been among the team’s most dedicated supporters, rain or shine. A football senior worth watching is Isiah Swann, a cornerback who seems to have a sixth sense as to where the ball is. Coach Buddy Teevens has said “He’s as good as I’ve ever coached at that position.” Word has it that Swann is being looked at by the NFL. A MATCHING GIFT OPPORTUNITY WITH A SHORT DEADLINE Dartmouth Partners in Community Service was created by several of our classmates at the time of our 35th reunion. In its remarkable 25 year history more than 800 Dartmouth students have had valuable intern experience, mentored by 44 of our classmates (and two spouses) at non-profit community service organizations around the country. As was announced in June, a classmate who wishes to remain anonymous has made a $50,000 contribution to the Dartmouth Partners in Community Service endowment with an agreement to match up to $50,000 of gifts from other donors prior to December 31, 2019. Helping to fulfill this gifting opportunity will further enhance the legacy that the Class of 1959 has left to Dartmouth with this signature program. For those of use whose checkbooks are open in December, please consider that each dollar received for the benefit of DPCS will be in fact be a gift of two. Checks can be mailed to Dartmouth Gift Recording Office, 6066 Development Office, Hanover, NH 03755 indicating in the memo field “Dartmouth Partners in Community Service Endowment Fund (#02519)” or you can make an on- line contribution by visiting http://dartgo/dpcsfund.