1965
Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life! Chinese fortune cookie
As I write this, March is turning into April and we are hoping the snow season is over so we can get on with enjoying spring. I'm told by my editor that the frost was out of the ground earlier than usual in the Hanover area this year, so it sounds as though the "schlump" season was shorter than expected isn't Hanover a great place to be?
Spring is the time for maple sap to drip into buckets and ultimately to end up as a 100-per cent pure taste treat. Chris Knight, a photographer, and his wife Kathryn Lasky, a writer, have tried to capture this experience in a book for children (of all ages?) entitled SugaringTime, published by Macmillan. They apparently have produced a fine pictorial and prose description of the sugaring process according to the New York Times reviewer, billed as "an essayist and maple producer in Thetford Center, Vt." one Noel Perrin of the Dartmouth English faculty. The Vermont farm Chris and Kathryn chose as their setting was that of Don (Dartmouth Medical School '73) and Alice Lacey, so this is sugaring time with a decidedly green tint! Professor Perrin considers the book to be worth getting, and after reading his review I'll be looking for a copy.
During my most recent trip to the West, I caught up with several of our classmates who make Oregon their home.
Roger Anderson grew up in Newport on the coast of Oregon and headed back there to live after Dartmouth. He is in the real estate business as an independent fee appraiser for commercial and industrial properties. He has been doing this for about six years and has been on his own since last fall. He noted that while the last couple of years have been slow, the market is beginning to pick up. When Roger is not appraising, he spends time fixing up the older house where he lives with his wife Linda and their son and daughter. As he said, this takes a fair amount of time. He started at the bottom and worked up, but found that when he reached the top it was time to start at the bottom again! Roger wants to challenge Matt Morrison to write. When Roger last heard, about ten years ago, Matt was in San Francisco. Where are you now and what are you up to, Matt?
I caught Tom Barnett in Portland, Ore., during his first weekend off since Thanksgiving, about to take a much-needed vacation to Mexico I guess once he decided to interrupt the work process he was going to make the most of it. Good idea! Tom loves being in Portland, where he migrated in 1973 from Los Angeles. It's a great place to live and is about equidistant (an hour and a half) from the beach and the mountains. If you like the outdoors, which he does, there's plenty to do and it's not crowded. He finds it a good place for tennis, golf, and skiing (mainly cross-country) when he has the time. He enjoyed his time in Los Angeles, but didn't want to stay there. The commuting was a hassle not so in Portland. A drawback to Portland is that he doesn't see as many people (especially Dartmouth) as he used to in L.A., where there always seemed to be someone coming through. Tom obtained a law degree from Northwestern University Law School and currently is a practicing lawyer specializing in labor law with a three-person firm. He likes what he is doing, although it keeps him too busy. He does get out of town a couple of times a year to see his folks in Chicago and relatives in San Francisco. Tom is a past president of the Portland Dartmouth Club and he enjoys maintaining the Dartmouth connection. He is starting to play with the computer at work and may soon get one to have at home. Maybe we should promote an electronic mail network among the '65s!
Tom Bettman is now in Pleasant Hill, Ore., near Eugene. He is maintaining his practice as an anesthesiologist in the local hospital, and he bought a farm several months ago and is looking forward to the life of a gentleman farmer. He's well on his way, with grapes, pastureland, and four chickens! Tom came to this area from Ohio about nine years ago. He still gets back to Hanover about once a year and sees his father, who is retired and living in Etna. Tom has two sons, ages 17 and 14, who, as he does, like to ski although "they go faster and less carefully" than Tom does. The oldest is talking about Stanford, but Tom thinks there's still hope. Tom, I've heard Dartmouth referred to as the Stanford of the East (mostly by Stanford people) maybe that will make his view of the East brighter.
I regret to say that word has been received of the death of Jim Goldsmith on February 10. Jim, a professor of English at Florida Junior College in Jacksonville, Fla., was killed as a result of a freak accident while on board the U.S.S. Antrim as a civilian running an educational program for Navy personnel. I know you join with me in expressing our condolences to his family. A more complete obituary will be in this or the next issue.
When this column appears, the Alumni Fund drive will be in full swing. And, if the past several years are an indication, 1965 will be doing its part in typically fine fashion. To those of you helping as associate class agents, as well as those who are parting with appropriate amounts of dollars, many thanks; both are important, not only to the class, but also to the College! As of March 10, we needed 239 additional donors to reach our goal 0f 450, or 63 per cent of the class base of 719. That doesn't mean that more of you can't or shouldn't give it's a truly satisfying way to return to Dartmouth some of what you took away. For those in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, watch your mailbox for details of telethons to be held during June 20—23. Come on out to meet and call some classmates. It's a fun way to help.
'Nuff for now. Happy spring! Keep the faith!
his photograph is one of many by Christopher Knight '65 in a book he and his wife, KathrynLasky, recently had published on maple sugaring in New England. More on the book, and on itsDartmouth connections, is in the 1965 class notes column.
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