1969

Andover, Mass, (impressed, no doubt, by the talents of resident Norm Jacobs) has hired Jim Sutton as the new library director. Jim earned his master of library science degree from Simmons College and has been the director of the Morse Institute Library in Natick, Mass., for the past 13 years. A quick background check reveals that Jim originally hails from Derry, NH, home of your truly.

Having worked Norm’s name into the above, it is appropriate that I remind you that Norm and his crackerjack staff are putting together our 25th Reunion, which by any standard will be excellent. The only ingredi- ent that we cannot supply is you. Get your act together and make plans to be in Hanover June 16-19, 1994.

The October issue of the Alumni Mag fea- tured an article by Dave Prentice about us, die class of ’69. The “cover-boy” of the issue was Jim Coplan. Jim was standing on a mail- box and appeared to be rabble-rousing out- side of Parkhurst Hall during the takeover. I called Jim and got the exclusive inside story. Jim was outside Parkhurst as a spectator (as many of us were) and was concerned that things would get out of hand. A group of stu- dents seemed ready to go into Parkhurst and throw the protestors out. That’s whenjim got up on the mailbox and started singing the National Anthem. The crowd joined in and diis seemed to divert their energy (hitting the high notes was what did it, I suspect). The picture was in the Manchester Union Leader and was picked up nationally, and so Jim became a symbol of the unrest at Dartmouth. Jim now is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the State University of New York Medical School at Syracuse.

Were any other classmates in that picture? Send me your recollections of what was going on at that moment. Better yet, bring them with you to the reunion. June 16-19, 1994.

Da.M.’s October issue “cover boy” was Jim Coplan. When a group of students seemed ready to throw the protestors out of Parkhurst, Jim got up on the mailbox and sang the National Anthem. W -Rick Willetts ’69

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