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"Coming Together in 1998" is the theme of our 25th Reunion next June. If you haven't already decided to come to Hanover then, please form the resolution now to make the trip. You'll be glad you did.
For those of you wrestling with reason(s) why you think you might not come, don't let it be that you have a grudge against the College's administration past or present, the admissions office, the Alumni Fund, or some real or perceived Dartmouth policy. Let's come together as classmates to enjoy our company, to share our memories, and to experience Hanover again.
It's not too soon to make a pledge for the 25th Reunion Giving. You can split the donation over two tax years, if that's your fancy, by paying part this year and the balance before June 20, 1998. You can also donate your "paper profits" on appreciated stock if you prefer that method of giving.
The ranks of the 25th Reunion Giving Committee have grown to include Jeff Adam, Donna Bascom, Gregg Brown, Wayne Davis, Jim Fleischer, Mark Harty, Chip Hughes, Mike Keeshan, Thad King, Allen Kraus, Bill Nisen, Terry Newburger, Bob Weil, and Bob Smith. If one of them calls you, be nice. If you can't be nice, at least be generous.
We're starting work in earnest on the class Reunion book. A significant portion of the book will be your "essays" (up to 300 words, roughly half the length of these Class Notes) on whatever you would care to write. It's an opportunity to share with your classmates your thoughts, reflections, College recollections, post-graduate education, personal history since graduation, family stories, accomplishments, disappointments, new beginnings, aspirations, and the like.
You will receive a more formal solicitation for Reunion book input but I welcome early submissions to my new address below. We'll accept almost anything but please send something. Send a photograph or two as well.
Speaking of new beginnings, returning this past summer to my ancestral home near Albany, N.Y., after 20 years at military bases in the South and overseas, would be worth 300 words alone. But I will spare you. Suffice it to say that if combat is the worst thing in the world, moving is a close second.
On the subject of new faces in the neighborhood, The New York Times ran a story a while back about who's who in a particular area of a suburban county near N.Y.C. Among the movie stars, Wall Streeters, and business leaders whose home locations were highlighted was financial mover and shaker Leon Black.
Retired naval officer John Woodhouse has left the R.I. Department of Transportation, where he was communications director, to join Trainor Associates, a Providence, R. I., marketing communications firm, as vice president of account management, and senior public relations staff member.
Jon Wiesner is a member of the N.Y.C.-based International Rescue Committee's board of directors. The IRC is a nonsectarian private voluntary agency that helps refugees worldwide. Last spring Jon, a resident of Armonk, N.Y., visited Bosnia and Croatia on an IRC trip to help Bosnians recover economically and physically from the ravages of protracted civil war. Jon is the owner of Kansas City-based Midwest Apparel Group. On September 8 watch on PBS for UVA School of Architecture Dean Bill McDonough, who will be the concept director and host of a three-part series titled Planet Neighborhood. The show looks at environmental issues in the home, the workplace, and the community.
What's going on in your neck of the planet? Send me 30 or 300 words.
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