October already? Actually, this should be arriving around the time of the planned September class event in New Hampshire over the Sept. 24-25 weekend; it was great fun last year and we hope this one is even better. We'll share a recap in a future column or newsletter.
Excerpts from an e-mail from GregMarshall: "After Dartmouth NoelAugustyn, Tom Okarma, and I lived together for a year while we are at Stanford in a house rented for $300 a month and passed down to us by some Dartmouth '67s. Noel is now in D.C. and plays host to me on too infrequent trips down that way. I thoroughly enjoy visiting Noel and his family and reliving things like our touch football victory over the Stanford-Princeton crowd. Tom Okarma suddenly appeared on my television last year announcing pioneering research in biomedicine which will keep us looking young and grow replacement organs for our deteriorating parts. Hurry up, Tom! I remember our singing days and Glee Club trips to strange and exotic places like Omaha! Music continues to inspire me, and I have had wonderful opportunities to play the roles of Tevye, Fagin, and a host of characters in our local theater. Smith Hall roommate Dan Graves, who sang with us and has a great appreciation for the beauty of choral singing, has directed the Earlham College choir for years now and, if he would send me a tape, I'd tell you how great they really are! Daughter Jill (Colby '98) is living in Washington, D.C., beginning a career in public service with an organization promoting research in women's health issues."
I talked to George Spivey recently. Now happily back in Falmouth, on the Cape, his life has oscillated up and down the coast. After Dartmouth he spent time in New Jersey and Connecticut doing a little law school, pension plan writing, and serving as a dean of housing at a state college. On to high school teaching on the Cape, a Harvard graduate degree in education, school principalships in New Jersey and North Carolina, and back to teaching, briefly in Rhode Island and now in Falmouth. He teaches in an alternative high school program, doing algebra, geometry, and an Afro-American program. He is a leader in a cultural awareness club at the high school, and is part of a program called Concerned Black Men, a mentoring program. During the summers he runs a camp for grades three through eight. Wife Ruth is a special-needs teacher for grades seven and eight in Falmouth. They celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary in June; their anniversary date beats our reunion date by a couple of weeks! He loves his flower garden, time at the nearby beach, and jazz. Daughter Monique, a UPenn and BU Law graduate, works for the Department of Labor in Boston. George shared news that Jimmy Johnson, who had worked for years widi Digital, and lived in Concord, Mass., recently moved to Houston, Texas. Keep the news coming, guys!
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Jack Noon '68 writes for Moose Country Press, p. 30
Chaplain-in-chief Arnold Resnicoff '68, p. 45