1964

Two trips from Pennsylvania to Hanover within three weeks (I have a very tolerant wife) resulted in a number of '64 sightings, not to mention snow on both weekends. Spotted in Hanover over Homecoming Weekend were Bill Curran,Carl Dußai, Ron Schram, Tom Spangenberg, Sandy McGinnis, Bob Bartles,George Gardella, Bob Freeman, ChrisPalmer, Steve Blecher, Jim Hughes, DickCouch, Mike Bloom, Herb McCord, ChipNoecker, George Fesus, Fred Rothenberg, and Dave Hewitt. On Saturday morning before the start of the obligatory tailgate activities and the annual thrashing of Harvard, your class executive committee met to begin mapping out strategy for the greatest 35 th Reunion in Dartmouth history (1999). We are especially interested in getting input from our classmates concerning both the program for this event and a class project, gifts, etc., suitable for the occasion. If you have any ideas, please send them to me at the address at the end of this column, and I will see that they are forwarded to the reunion planners.

Two weeks later Nelson Carmen, AlanGruber, Hal Rabner, Steve Roberts, JohnSchuler, and Don Schwartz, along with Sandy McGinnis, Ron Schram, and myself, took part in the College's annual Club Officer's Weekend and attended the final foot- ball game against Princeton. That evening Donna and I met Carol and Ron Schram, Bonnie and John Christiansen, and Tom Spangenberg for a fantastic dinner prepared by our own gourmet cook, Bob Bartles.

At their November meeting the Board of Trustees elected another member of our class to be Dartmouth's newest Trustee. DaveShipler will be joining classmate Stan Roman on the Board as a Charter Trustee. Following graduation and two years in the navy, Dave spent 22 years with The New York Times, including stints as a correspondent in Saigon and as chief of the Times's Moscow and Jerusalem bureaus before leaving the paper to dedicate his time to writing and academic pursuits. In 1987 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his book Arab and Jew: WoundedSpirits in a Premised Land. As a Trustee, Dave indicated that he would be especially interested in both academic issues and those related to ethnic and racial harmony on the campus. He is a strong supporter of Dartmouth's desire to remain the nation's premier undergraduate college, but supports the idea of having selected graduate programs where such programs support the undergraduate mission of the College. He currendy resides in Chevy Chase, Md., with his wife, Debby, and their three children. Classmates who wish to express their ideas about issues facing the College are encouraged to contact either Stan or Dave.

In other news from the College, Dale Eickelman has just finished editing Russia's Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis, published by the Indiana University Press. Dale is currently Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth and is the author of at least three other books on the Middle East.

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