1965
The class of 1965 has long believed it is a unique group in the history of Dartmouth College. One of the many areas where we feel we stand alone is in our proud claim to have been the first class ever to have produced simultaneously a sinologist and a pedodontist as well as a cetologist.
Our sinologist, otherwise known as a person who studies the language, customs, literature, and history of the Chinese, is Vic Mair. Vic, remembered by many of us as the captain of the basketball team our senior year, first developed an interest in the Orient through Peace Corps service in Nepal in 1966 and 1967. He subsequently received a Woodrow Wilson fellowship in Asian studies at the University of Washington and a Marshall fellowship to study Sanskrit at the University of London. After teaching English on Taiwan for two years, he went to Harvard where he received a Ph.D. in Chinese literature in 1976 and stayed on as a member of the faculty. In 1979, he joined the Oriental studies department of the University of Pennsylvania where he is now a tenured associate professor. Vic's wife, Li-Ching, teaches at both Bryn Mawr and Haverford, and Vic reports their 15-year-old son, Thomas, seems wisely to have chosen computers over either Oriental studies or basketball.
Phil Edgerton admits to being the 1965 pedodontist and claims the title is associ- ated with that special branch of dentistry concentrating on the care of children's teeth. Phil is divorced, the father of a nine-year-old son, and makes his home in Santa Fe, N.M. After Dartmouth, he was also in the Peace Corps (Thailand) and, upon completion of his service, enrolled in dental school at the University of Pennsylvania. He now has his own pri- vate practice and does contract referral work for the Indian .Health Service. He explains his role in the referral capacity as that of treating young patients sent to him by reservation clinics throughout a large part of the Southwest. Phil still enjoys skiing, has rediscovered squash, and says he somehow managed to guide a kayak through the Cataract Canyon on the Colorado River last summer. He describes Santa Fe as "a lovely place to live but not an easy place to make a living." There is an indication Phil may be surviving the economic hardships however, since he did mention he was looking forward to an approaching vacation in Hong Kong.
A cetologist, for those of you outside the class of '65, is defined as a person who studies whales and related mammals. Our representative on such a career path is Charles "Stormy" Mayo of Provincetown, Mass. After receiving his biology degree from Dartmouth and completing graduate work in marin sciences at the University of Miami, Stormy became the eighth generation of his family to establish a home on Cape Cod. Unlike many of his whale-hunting ancestors, Stormy's career has concentrated on promoting the survival of these highly endangered giants. He was a founder of the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown and the affiliated Cetacean Research Program which studies behavioral patterns and habitat protection for the humpback, finback, and, Stormy's current focus, the right whale. He and his wife, Barbara, also a marine scientist from Miami, have two young sons, Nathan and Josiah. The intensity the entire family feels for the work being done can be understood through reading the article "Miracle Rescue" in the November 1985 Yankee magazine for the dramatic story of Stormy's involvement in the release of a life-threatening net from a 30-ton whale. Since his Center is a nonprofit organization, I would suggest any of us in a position to support such needed efforts give Stormy a call.
If there are any equally impressive occupations that should be added to our proud list of three, contact me, and I'll spread the word. Many of our children are beginning to take the SATs and would certainly welcome the expanded vocabulary.
"It's a small world after all" zvould have been an appropriate lullaby in the maternity wardof New York Hospital last October. Richard Routhier '72, left, and his wife, Sarah Kahn,a 1977 graduate of Dartmouth Medical School, welcomed their son, Samuel, into the worldthe day after Dave Nichols '69, right, and his wife, Elizabeth (who took the photo), had adaughter, Alexandra. "A somewhat unique form of Dartmouth festivity," wrote Nichols.
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