1960

Once again Commencement weekend in Hanover was radiant. Bill Moyers gave an inspiring address. And seven sons and daughters of 1960s graduated. This September four '60 kids are joining the class of 1997.

Among the grads were Paul Cantor's daughter Carolyn, who had lead roles in seven plays during her Dartmouth career and won a Robert Frost Award as best actress in last spring's play competition. She stayed in Hanover to do summer stock and plans a career in the theater. She even has an agent. Paul, ever the benefactor of the arts at Dartmouth, is raising $200,000 to match a gift from the Brown Foundation and got RogerZissu and Mickey Straus to help big-time.

Urban Hirschey's son Mark was coxswain and co-captain of the heavyweight crew team which beat Harvard this year in a memorable event. Last year Mark and the crew went to the Henley Regatta in England and also won the Navy Great Eight trophy as the best college team in the nation, even though it lost to Harvard by inches. Mark is back at Thayer this fall. Urban, who's been running his family's paperboard company for 35 years in upstate New York, is president of the National Paper Box Association this year. A daughter, Ann, graduated from Dartmouth in 1985.

John Kersey's wife, Anne, reports that daughter Meg resisted the idea of going to pop's alma mater until our 25th Reunion in 1985, when she got snowed by the place. At Dartmouth she majored in classics and was determined not to be a doctor like her father, a specialist in pediatric bone marrow transplants at the University of Minnesota Hospital. This summer, though, she took science courses at U of M to qualify for med school.

Bob Postel's son Darren was a sociology major and an area coordinator, serving as a liaison between fellow students and the administration. Unlike many of his classmates this year, he's landed a job—with a financial consulting firm in Danvers, Mass. Bob, a lawyer and investor in N.Y.C., is now doing what he always wanted to do: write books. Once a writer for Johnny Carson, he's prepared an anthology of 5,000 classic jokes that is with an agent, and he is at work on a novel.

Shiao-Wei Shen's son Christopher was an English major, a ski patroller, and an editor of the Stonefence Review, a literary magazine. He's off to Harvard Law this fall. Shiao-Wei has been an endocrinologist with the Food and Drug Administration near Washington for the past five years. Before that he was on the faculty at Stanford and the U. of Hawaii. Another son, Robert, is a Dartmouth '87

Next month I'll try to catch up with the others whose children graduated: Tom Brock and Bruce Molinaroli. The incoming '97 frosh are Jim Chubb's daughter Caroline, Paul Goldberg's son Judd, Tom Grow's daughter Sarah, and Win Robinson's son Benjamin.

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