1961

You are well aware that the Green are Ivy Champions in football. The games themselves were wonderful opportunities for class get-togethers. Here's Pete Bleyler's report on one: "A '61 'micro-reunion' was held in Boston in connection with the Dartmouth-Harvard football game on November 2. More than a dozen '61s and friends gathered under the class banner at the brunch provided by the Hanover Inn preceding the game. The party moved to the Bleylers' Back Bay condo after the game before dispersing for dinner at various venues. In attendance for some or all of these events were Art Johnson and Ellie Ritman Joan and Ron Wybranowski, Charlotte and MikeGazzaniga, Sally and John Schlachtenhaufen, John Damon, George Breed,Robert Kelley, and Rose Anne and RussHolmes."

From California, President OscarArslanian writes, "Duane 'Doberman' and Devona Cox hosted a 'Dartmouth Goes Hollywood—Revisited' party at their home on November 16 replete with an Armenian feast and high Hollywood energy. Attending were Marianne and DaveGordin, Ellie and Steve Elson, Maria and Phil Oehler (along with daughter Juliet and her husband), Macia and Tony Horan (and their six-year-old son), Bill Figilis, Barbara Hadley (who has just opened the College's West Coast regional office), and Nyla and Oscar Arslanian (along with son Aram, who tended bar and previewed his new CD, East of Western)." More on the event next month.

I got a note that Tim Grumbacher had qualified to compete in the Iron Man Triathlon in Hawaii. This is one of those ultimate fitness challenges—for people half our ages. A number of us reacted to turning 50 by doing at least one triathlon, mostly to prove to ourselves that we weren't really over the hill. Most of those triathlons were of the "sprint" length— roughly half-mile swim, 15-mile bike, 5K run, or the "international" length, roughly mile swim, 25-mile bike, 10K run. Both of those are do-able, but the Iron Man is entirely different. The distances are so horrendous that any leg of the Triad is itself a major challenge and even the finest young athletes struggle. Tim swam for four years for the Green. Good luck.

Robert Eaton Kelley gained ink as he went about writing his projected fictional work, "Imagine Golf," including in the Conway, N.H. publication called Mountain Ear. ''Golf builds character and personality; people you play with are more important than the quality of play," Kelley told Joe Rivers of Mountain Ear. "There are as many different characters with different approaches to this baffling sport, as there are similarities."

At any rate, he parlayed his interest in writing "Imagine Golf into an opportunity to play some of the great courses of the British Isles and Ireland, including St. Andrews, and will share his own experiences in the game in a fictional setting. Kelley also gained attention recently with his first novel, The First Book of Timothy, set in the time of the Cuban missile crisis and involving a young man's encounters with ghosts associated with his parents, who have just died in a car crash.

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