1960

George Potts sent me some verse he'd written on Homecoming in our senior year. Quite a bit of it is unprintable in a family magazine such as this, but I will quote the beginning.

"Playing Men of Dartmouth, the ragtag band, led a sauntering and sometimes staggering parade of green-bedecked alumni down College Avenue toward Memorial Stadium. It was the 1959 fall Homecoming Weekend and the air was as clear as spring water and as crisp as a ripe apple..."

Hard to believe that was toward the middle of the twentieth century and now, 40 years later, we are at the end of it, and classmates have been making their plans for celebrating the new millennium.

Jim Adler tells me that two of the more adventuresome are Eric Sailer, who will be climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, and DudWeider, who plans to be running a marathon at the nearest landfall of the International Dateline in New Zealand. "Having run first in Antarctica in 1995, this idea appealed to me," said Dud. He is going with a tour of 110.

Jim hopes Walt Freedman and HankGreer will be skiing with him at Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Dave Harrison, for 13 years owner of a canoe and kayak magazine, hasn't settled his choice yet. "I have so many plans that it boggles my mind," he told me. "I've got eight millennium trips, but we're not sure which one to take."

Last August Dave and his wife, Judy, spent three weeks kayaking in northern Ellesmere Island off Greenland, and when I chanced to mention my own desire to raft down the Tatshenshini River in Canada, he brought me up short.

"I would never go down the Tatshenshini," he said. "Everybody does that. Eighty percent of the expeditions we've done, nobody knew where it was." More power to him!

But Jim Pollard is "going nowhere fancy at all. Normally we spend New Year's Eve with our family." And BruceHasenkamp says he "enjoys the game playing with the date," since he doesn't believe the new millennium will actually begin until Jan. 1, 2001.

But, by the way, Bruce observes, the end of this year "will be the end of tuition payments for us" with his son, Peter, finishing up at Thayer, and "for us, that's a bigger cause for celebration than the millennium. We're thinking of going to Egypt and the East African game parks. It will be a big family blowout, and we might even be there in time for New Year's Eve."

Anyone with other exotic plans? You're welcome to let me know for a future class note.

I have to apologize, incidentally, for an omission in a recent class note. GeneReilly writes that, in listing 14 members of our class from Montana, I left unmentioned Jim Harrington, originally from Lewistown. Jim, who has recently built a new house in the mountains near Bozeman, is a regional director of government relations for a lottery systems firm and seemed well when I called him at his home in, Carmichael, Calif., outside Sacramento, to make my excuses.

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Dud Weider isrunning a marathon atthe nearest landfall of theInternational Dateline atNew Zealand. KEN REICH '60