1963

From Bahrain (PeteStevenson), Latin America (Jorge Dandier), and Europe (Steve Lister), from the Far West, the Heartlands, Dixie, New York, and New England, '63s made the great trek home ... a physical and spiritual journey. It was our 30th Reunion. And we didn't have to worry. As Steve Bank, Middletown, Conn., psychologist and Soaring Pine Award winner put it, "Now there's no more bull." And then, after a breath, "Well, maybe a little bit."

If there was, it was spice for a four-day recipe for good feeling. Picnicking on the river, discussions on "Dartmouth sports" and "the meaning of success," a brisk two-and-ahalf mile run around Occom Pond, mixeddoubles tennis, the class meeting, an evening with President Freedman, and Glee Club concerts punctuated four days of undergraduate reminiscing, schmoozing, and occasional boozing.

Members of the classes of' 62 and '64 joined us for many events, including a stirring memorial service to remember our departed classmates. We grouched about the controversial Hovey Murals being open for viewing by alumni, but not undergraduates, and about lack of direction in the Clinton administration.

But mostly, we were glad to enjoy each other's company, and to analyze the meaning of "success," which we decided is not the money, status, power, and prizes we thought it was 30, even 20, years ago.

No, success, we decided, has to do more with giving and sharing. "Define community and you've defined success," offered MikeRie, newly appointed head of a trauma center in Lexington, Ky. "I succeed when everyone around me succeeds," added John Gessner, educator from St. Paul, Minn. "Success is the process of living in your dreams and of helping others live in their dreams," explained Bill Wellstead, record-breaking field-goal kicker and now vice president at Mass Mutual. Of course, you have to know who you are, or you can't help others, suggested ShermanBendalin, Phoenix lawyer. "That's what Dartmouth did for me. It helped me make myself."

For some of us success was lasting through a rigorous round-robin tennis tournament organized by Sam and Rosa Cabot, Manchester, Mass. It was won by Charlene Mazer (whose blistering serve complements the steady volley of husband Ed, a Longmeadow, Mass., paper distributor) and Steve Lister, a Colgate exec who came from Rome, Italy, to compete with foreign service officer JohnChamberlin and Ash Hartwell, scientist at the Institute for International Research, Arlington, Va.

Earlier Lister rowed in a '63 crew that included cardiologist Bob Henderson, Madison, Wise., Larry Goltz, head of a large Chicago insurance agency, Bruce Baggaley, Darien, Conn., management consultant, SamCabot, Sherman Bendalin, and coxswain Bill Subin, a New Jersey lawyer.

They were paired with a second crew that had Tom Perry, now with the Dartmouth Alumni Office, Peter Stevenson, banker in Bahrain, near Saudi Arabia, and coxswain Dave Dawley, social worker, author, business executive, Bethesda, Md., who also won the 2.6-mile mini-marathon with a time of about 15 minutes. LennyLevitt, a Stamford, Conn., journalist, rose early for the "fun run." So did Tom Chandler, who owns Chandler Business Services, a commercial maintenance company in Long Beach, Calif.

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