1960

This should arrive in time for you to make plans to attend our annual mini-reunion at Homecoming, Oct. 22-24. This year, the class dinner on Saturday night will be at the Quechee Club on the Vermont side of the river, a venue with the capacity to serve all those who may show up.

Also, Friday night, before the parade, there will be the usual cocktail party at the Norwich home of Brooke and Jim Adler, and Saturday, there will be the traditional tailgate party before the game and a postgame party at the new home built by Linda and Rick Roesch in Etna, N.H., close to the Appalachian Trail. Rick will have gotten home from a tour of China just a day or two before.

This has become a tremendous series of events every fall.

Mickey Straus has been named the third member of our class to receive the College's Distinguished Alumni Award. "I'd like to think it was my good looks and success," he said modestly when I contacted him at his firm in New York.

Actually, Mickey served the College as chairman of the Hopkins Center museum for six years and was on the board for another six years. He funded the center's dance studios and funded a professor on a challenge grant.

Earlier 1960 recipients of the award were Gene Kohn in 1995 and Peter Schwartz in 1987. Peter, who served for ten years on the committee that identifies the graduates who receive the award, points out that it is not only service to Dartmouth which qualifies alumni for the award, but their philanthropic endeavors in the outside world.

After 25 years with money management firm of Weiss, Peck, and Greer, Mickey now has his own firm, Straus Asset Management. His son Scott '91 is doing graduate work at Berkeley.

Doug Bryant and Bruce Hulbert joined Jim Sanford '59 on Long Island for a surprise clambake, catered by Jim, in honor of the 60th birthday of John Passeggio, and John's daughter Nicole was kind enough to send me a picture.

"It was a fabulous evening—perfect weather, delicious food, and another good opportunity for old friends to spend time together," Nicole related.

Here in Los Angeles, Tony Roisman, visiting for legal depositions, went with me to dinner in Chinatown, and Superior Court judge Haley Fromholz kindly invited me to attend the annual dinner of the Constitutional Rights Foundation, which he heads. I greatly enjoyed both occasions.

More than a dozen members of tie class gathered in New York last April 7 to hear Dartmouth President James Wright discuss tentatives of social reform at the College.

The President started things off on a light note by saying that the only weaknesses he would acknowledge were the manner in which he and the Trustees had made the announcements, the fashion in which they had made their decision, and the substance of that decision. The ensuing discussion was open and friendly.

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