1961
As of this writing, our Robert Frost statue was almost complete and ready to come east, first to Vermont, where it is to be wedded to its granite base, and eventually to the campus in time for our 35th Reunion, June 13-16. The location still has not firmed.
Class projects chair Mike Murphy was ecstatic at the first wave of contributions from classmates—more than $11,000. Photographs of the clay model produced almost palpable excitement, and now it seems that just about everyone wants to get involved in this class gift.
Of course, the presentation of the statue to the College will be the highlight of our Reunion weekend, along with the Robert Frost seminar on Saturday morning led by William W. Cook, Israel Evans Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and chair of the English department, and Donald E. Pease, Avalon Professor of the Humanities.
Meantime, enthusiasm builds for the Reunion itself. The number of people "definitely" coming was expected to pass the 100-classmate mark soon. Deposits are being paid by people who were not on either the 65 "definite" or 78 "maybe" lists issued in mid-February.
Because this will be read just days before we gather, Reunion chair Roger McArt issued a last-chance call for participation, encouraging day-trippers and those who can spend just part of the weekend to join us for just that piece. For instance, if you can get up just for Saturday, you can hit the class meeting, the Frost seminar, the class picnic, and the dinner featuring songs by the Dartmouth Aires. Got questions? Call Roger at (203) 761-9263 or (203) 341-2204.
Our Friday night banquet speaker is Mike Gazzaniga, and Roger had just learned Mike's new title: David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology. He is returning to Hanover from the Center for Neuroscience at U.C. Davis. Mike also will be assisting the provost in the area of science development.
Henry Eberhardt, while moving from Canada to Woods Hole and his new job as director of development and external affairs at the Sea Education Association, was seeking contributions to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund—his last hurrah.
"I'm determined to make our class 35th Reunion goals of $351,961 and 61-percent participation, but I'll need your help," he says.
After decades of association with the fund, including as its director, and since his departure from that job as our head agent, Henry will be stepping aside and PeteBleyler will become head agent in July. So give, and give 'til it hurts.
News notes: Fred Schwab has joined the growing list of classmates with books published in the 1995-96 academic year. Fred, professor of geology at Washington and Lee University, is a coauthor of Sedimentary Geology, an Introduction toSedimentary Rocks and Stratigraphy, which is intended as a text for undergraduate geology students.
Dick Noel has been elected chairman of the board of the Southern Vermont Health Services Corp, which includes Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and Southern Vermont Home Health Agency. Dick "retired" in 1991 as president and CEO of First Vermont Bank, but since then has become adjunct professor of management at Keene State College, parttime consultant, and freelance writer. And chairing a hospital services corporation in these times is no picnic.
A challenge: Let's see how many of us 56-year-olds can join Andy Urquhart and make it to the top of Mt. Moosilauke. See you at the summit.
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Class of 1961 Hitting StrideDarmouth ReconnectionsJune 13-16,1996 35th Reunion
