1961
We're going to San Francisco for our 60th birthday party. The reunion follows on our successful string of out-of-Hanover reunions in Washington (for our 50th), Dartmouth Goes Hollywood, Dartmouth Meets the Big Easy (New Orleans), and Make No Small Plans (Chicago)
According to President Oscar Arslanian, Bill Hutton has agreed to chair the San Francisco reunion, assisted by Pete McCrea and Bob "Otter" Anderson. Phil Oehler, Bob Fuller, vice presidents Duane Cox and Roger McArt, and Fritz Kern have already agreed to assist as "regional representatives," Oscar said. "Many more will come on board. San Francisco has a strong group of '61s."
Save the dates: May 13-16, 1999.
Thanks to the leadership of Pete Bleyler and 319 of you, the class raised $161,170 for the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, exceeding our 1998 goal of $155,000 and the amount raised last year, $145,741. Our participation was 56 percent of the class, about average in our age range. Though the participation of everybody is vital, the bulk of the funds were raised through 48 leadership gifts totaling $116,894.
John Beckert has received the University of New Haven Distinguished Alumni Award, that school's most prestigious alumni award. He was honored at the 15th Annual Alumni Scholarship Ball. John got his M.B.A. from the university in 1972. The school cited his leadership of the most successful United Way campaign in the history of Middletown; for his work as president and CEO of Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Middletown (from which he retired in January); for teaching marketing, economics, finance, and management at UNH; and for being named 1996 CEO of the Year by Financial World, the nation's oldest business weekly.
Ken DeHaven continues his leadership role in orthopedics, returning to the board of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, where he is past president. Ken also is past president of the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine, founding president of the Herodicus Society, and a board member of the International Society of the Knee. He is professor, associate chairman, and director of athletic medicine at the University of Rochester.
Mike Gazzaniga, who recently published a new book, The Mind's Past, was featured on the National Public Radio Progam Fresh Air, produced by WHYY, where host Terry Gross interviewed him through two segments of the program. Mike directs the program in cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth.
Guys, I know that most of you have e-mail. But as of this writing, only ten e-mail addresses have been posted on our class website . Please send an e-mail to our webmaster, Ron Wybranowski (reach him through our homepage or at ). Also take a moment to activate your permanent e-mail address at Dartmouth, and if you don't want to use that address for all your communications, then link it to the e-mail address that you do look at every day.
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