1974
Well, all of my past musings about creating a "cybercolumn" have finally come to light. Below are some excellent examples of e-mail:
"Hi Don! My name is Dennis Moyer and I am a member of the Dartmouth class of '74. I have enjoyed reading your columns in the Alumni Magazine. I read in the most recent issue that you were compiling a list of class e-mail addresses. Mine is I would appreciate having access to your list of our classmates' e-mail addresses. I am particularly interested in contacting Jim Morabito and Fred Mauet.I don't have too much news to report about myself. I have spent the last 22 years in banking. My current position is administrative vice president of National Penn Bank in southeastern Pennsylvania. I am responsible for overall loan underwriting and credit quality of the bank's commercial real-estate loan portfolio. In this capacity I also supervise and train the bank's commercial real estate loan officers and support personnel. I have a daughter at Penn State (freshman) and a son in high school (also a freshman). I have high hopes that my son will attend Dartmouth, because he would represent the fourth consecutive generation of Dartmouth men in my family. He has made straight As since the first grade, so I think he has the 'right stuff.' Now I just have to convince him to apply when the time comes! Thank you for taking the time to write our Class Notes. I always look forward to reading about the comings and goings of those who strolled the Hanover Plain in the early seventies. Sincerely, Dennis."
"Don, In the Class Notes in a recent Alumni Mag, John Ward listed a bunch of his friends whom he hoped to see at the reunion. Since most of them are classmates, like me, who never write, it seems we will probably never find out what happened to each other otherwise unless, agenbite of outwit, they're all carrying on swimmingly, clinking their glasses at fetes champetres and the like—no doubt swelling with the 'boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,' now that I think on't—while I, poor Yorick, I took the road less traveled, keeping granitelike the silence of the winter evenings, mindful of the elegist's counsel not to let 'ambition mock their useful toil/Their homely joys, their destiny obscure/Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile/The short and simple annals of the poor.' In short, I'm wondering whether I'm being left in the dark. Of course, I'd have to come incognito. But I've lost all the info that was mailed to me. Do you have anything you could e-mail? Thanks, Dwight Kingsbury."
"Dear Don, This is the first time ever, I think, that I have sent a note to the AlumniMagazine class section. I hope it won't be the last. I checked the class website but couldn't connect. I'll try again. Please add my e-mail address to the class list for 'news flashes.' After two years as a youth pastor in Brantford, Ontario, we have moved about 25 minutes away, where I am pastor of Scotland Baptist Church. We (myself, wife April, Josiah 7, and Hadassah 2.5) have thoroughly enjoyed living in the country. The congregation is small but they are fine, loving people to work with. I look forward to seeing everyone at the Reunion. Also looking forward to hearing from classmates through e-mail, since I have taken this HUGE step into modern technology—I think you called it being 'wired.' Blessings, Paul Dixon. P.S. Don, do you still play any golf?" Ha! Well, admittedly, I did not deliver on my promise to have the class website operational before New Year's Day, but it is working now and visible by clicking through to the class of '74. Here you can see the latest details on the upcoming reunion. As far as classmate information, Ask and Ye Shall Receive. It ain't that far away, so get ready for June...
Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care, 7467 Ridge Road, Suite 130, Hanover, MD 21076-1416;
Lest The Old Traditions Fail CLASS OF 1974 25th Reunion June 17-20
