1961

Our class president, Hop Holmberg, will become the executive director of the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

Hop says it's one of the premier hospitals in Kenya, but one that has faced major problems in recent years. Among the challenges: There is a much more competitive atmosphere, brought on at least in part because the number of physicians has tripled in the past 15 years.

But there's another aspect that made the job attractive it offers one last chance for Hop and his family to share a "grand adventure" together.

"It's real nifty for all of us," said Hop. Judy, for instance, has been an avid amateur anthropologist and "this is Richard Lackey land." Daughter Beth likes geology and Kenya is the only place in the world where a rift runs through land and not through sea.

Because the job involves being out of the country, Hop thought it would be best to step down as class president. Dave Prewitt has agreed to serve as president through our big 25th reunion in June of 1986. Hop hopes to attend that reunion on home leave.

Dave says that among the things he hopes to do is to have a mini-reunion this fall. Please set aside Harvard weekend on your calendars (October 19 and 20). We'll provide details later on where we'll stay, since Harvard weekend is also Dartmouth Night, with the big parade, etc. Let's have a big delegation for the parade and march behind our class banner.

Dave says he thinks mini-reunions are important as we "charge toward our 25th."

I started this back in Hanover where I attended a meeting of the editorial board of the Magazine and Class Officers Weekend.

It's spring and it's delightful. The students are back in shorts and T-shirts, despite somewhat coolish temperatures. It's a nice time of the year, as the student year begins to wind down.

The editorial board meeting was the third since we were formally appointed by the Trustees less than a year ago, and I think we are doing well in helping this magazine to continue its independence.

In the news this month:

Noel Kuhrt, who was, as you recall, Club President of the Year for 1983 for his work with the Dartmouth Club of Delaware, has been chosen as a Club Officers Association representative to the Dartmouth Alumni Council, which gives our class yet another representative on the Alumni Council. Congratulations, Noel.

According to a note in the "Washington Outlook" section of the March 12 Business-week magazine: "Stephen W. Bosworth, chairman of the State Department Policy Planning Council, has a good chance of becoming executive director of the International Energy Agency. West Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark are pushing their own candidates, but the lack of consensus among lEA nations may lead to Bosworth's appointment as an alternative to a European. Bosworth has informal British support. They see his selection as reinforcing U.S. pledges to share oil supplies in the event of a Persian Gulf crisis. ' Let us know how it turns out.

We don't yet have a complete list of class children who were admitted this year, but Henry Eberhardt reports that Bill Horton visited with his daughter Laura, who is interested in applying next year. They came all the way from Pacific Palisades, Calif.

And Henry and his two children, Heidi and Rob, traded their Norwich home with BobVale and his wife Kathy and their two children back in February. It gave the Eberhardts a Key Biscayne, Fla., respite from Hanover, while it gave the Vales a ski vacation in Vermont and New Hampshire. It sounds like a nice idea for classmates who can work out a deal to trade locations. Use your new directories to do just that.

Maybe Trade-a-Home '61 can join Crash Pad '61 as an ongoing class project. I've got a house with a pool in Charlotte ...

3300 Windsor Drive Charlotte, NC 28209