1960

60 AIDS has claimed four of our classmates during the past year: Bob Peck on July 27, Sheldon Lippe on July 29, Henry Weiss last November 3, and GeorgeStambolian last December 22. I've been unforgivably delayed in getting obituaries in to the Alumni Magazine, and the magazine has a backlog, so this will serve as a standby tribute to them, and to Stephen Rubin, who died of a heart attack last October 31, until further obits are printed.

several exhibitions at the Met. He is survived by his wife, Polly, his daughter Katherine, and a brother, Richard '54.

Henry, a history major and an editor of The Dartmouth in college, went to Oxford after graduation and on to Harvard Law School. He practiced in New York for 25 years before retiring to Singer Island, Fla., when he knew he had AIDS. Henry revealed in our 25th Reunion book that he was gay and described going through "15 years of confusion" before accepting the fact. He was married, had two daughters, then later got divorced. He was both a community activist and a gay activist, a member of the New York City Youth Board, president of Senior Action in a Gay Environment, and a founder of the Carpenter Foundation for Lesbian and Gay students at Dartmouth. In 1991 he pressured the Dartmouth Alumni Office to officially recognize D-GALA, a group of homosexual alumni.

George Stambolian was an international relations major in college and went on to get advanced degrees in French and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin and also attend the University of Paris. From 1966 on, he was a member of the French department at Wellesley and later became chairman. He was the editor of three anthologies of fiction by gay writers and wrote two books on French literature. As a writer at Wellesley said, George "believed gay fiction to be a genre very much [like] . . . the Southern novel, Afro-American fiction, the urban Jewish novel," or feminist writing.

Bob Peck, my college roommate, also was an English honors major and was treasurer of DU. He joined the army after graduation, learned Russian, and was stationed in Turkey, equipping him for a distinguished career in the Foreign Service. He served embassy tours in Ankara, Moscow, and Cyprus, but his key post was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, managing Afghanistan policy during the Reagan administration.

Bob was responsible for running the negotiating phase of the strategy that got the Soviets to leave Afghanistan. He also had piercing insight into State Department politics, which he shared with me from time to time. "I'm a great bureaucrat," he once told me, meaning that he knew how to get things done.

Shelly Lippe went to Dartmouth Medical School and got his M.D. at McGill. He then moved to Southern California, where he practiced urology, according to Sheldon Gisser, who was his high-school friend and freshman roommate. Shelly became a crystal collector 20 years ago and opened a store to pursue his avocation. He learned he had AIDS three years ago, Shelly Gisser wrote, and "in spite of such severe medical problems, he fought it in almost every conceivable way." He is survived by his former wife and two daughters.

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