1963

"Your business here is learning," President Dickey's defining message, echoed at fall Convocation. The speaker was Barry Sharpless, who received an honorary degree of doctor of science. Barry took undergraduates back to the early 1960s, when Dartmouth was a smaller, "rather isolated place not plugged into the rest of the world by four-lane highways, commercial air travel, and TVs in the dorms." He traced his development from an academically insecure, "obedient kid" to an intellectually self-sufficient undergraduate, to a chemist specializing in asymmetric catalysis. A professor at the Scripps Research Insttitute, La Jolla, Calif., Barry followed his address with a trip to Stockholm to receive an honorary degree from the Royal Institute of Technology.

Not far from La Jolla, Tom Chandler runs a bustling office cleaning and maintenance service in Palos Verdes. He turned grandpa following the birth of Erik in New Jersey to his daughter Kim, a flight attendant for Continental. Tom Jr. is in his first year of medical residency in Tennessee. Two daughters, Ashley and Alissa, are in high school. Tom and Francie were taken out in Santa Barbara by Randy and LinReetz. That came after a high rollin' Gamma Delt '63 Las Vegas reunion with Bob Kaplan, Jerry Glasgow, KenTorgerson, Jim Page, Bill Manbeck,Tim Kraft, and Jay Stonebanks.

Just arriving in the Golden State is TomHolzel from Concord, Mass., where he was marketing computer components for nearby Raytheon. Tom is starting up U.S. operations of French-based PixTech in Mountain View, Calif. They make innovative flat-panel displays or screens for laptop computers. Tom loves the beaches and forests but for the moment life is guided by 15-hour monthly trips to Aix-en-Provence. Tom and Dianne chose to live in Palo Alto so Maggie can attend high school there. Peter just started Trinity College in Hartford.

Author of several fiction and non-fiction works, Tom Holzel can talk writing with Steve Yafa, who lives with his wife, Bonnie Dahan, in nearby Tiburon. Steve just finished a play, his first work after a busy early literary career. His focus of late has been video and educational media. Son Joshua is a drummer at the Berkeley College of Music. Stepson Omri studies flamenco dancing in Spain; stepdaughter Yael is at University of California at Davis.

To learn the best places to run, Tom Holzel might check in with Bill Bonnell who tunes for races on Mt. Tamaltias, north of San Francisco. An assistant city attorney in Richmond, Calif., Bill just ran the Humboltd Marathon on the redwoodstudded "Avenue of the Giants" in Garberville. This spring it'll be the Boston Marathon, and in '96 Bill will take on New York. His goal? To break four hours before calling it quits. Bill is recently separated and has a high-school-age daughter, Callie. His legal specialty in Richmond is monitoring development of Marina Bay.

I regret to report the death of GeorgeBonstelle on June 29 in Charleston, S.C. Details will follow in the obituary section.

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Barry Sharpless echoed President Dickey's message to students, "Your business is learning," at this year's Convocation. HARRY ZLOKOWFR '63