1957

Dave Cook and Celeste, marvelous mavens of mobility, hiked more than 100 miles on a pilgrimage to Santiago in September. One of their nine companions was Rob Brown, '38, at age 83 "an inspiration to us all."

Arthur Pierce and Deborah, tireless terra-trekking tourists, walked in Tuscany with the Appalachian Mountain Club last fall. They will be in Lillehammer, Norway, for ski touring with another AMC group in March.

Paul Hagedorn, who lived in Topliff freshman year, has been appointed interim pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Honesdale, Pa. He and his wife, Fern Lee, and sons Christian and Trinh have settled near Beach Lake with "two hounds, three goats, 60 chickens, 15 geese, seven guinea fowl and 20 rabbits (Honesdale WeeklyAlmanac)."

Wes Adams and Mikki, Mike Smith,Jack Hall and Joan and Bill Edgerton and Ann were part of the group that met in Hanover in October. Complete minutes of the class meeting, recorded by superlative surrogate secretary Wendie Howland, are posted on the website: http://www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/57.

One of the decisions at the meeting was to keep dues at their current level. Another was to strive to increase our scholarship support, moving up from two undergraduates to four. A third was to promote our participation as individuals in the Dartmouth Partners in Community Service effort. We would follow up by reporting what we had done, and could then point to the compilation as a class accomplishment.

Yet another decision, after more than a year of desultory discussion, was to stop "buying the book" in the name of deceased classmates.

This led to Adam Block's proposal to begin organizing a cluster of memorial website pages to honor deceased classmates with reminiscences and anecdotes and testimony. This would be a much richer form of remembrance than is possible within the constraints of AlumniMagazine obituaries. To learn how to participate, start at our site (see the URL above).

Erich Kunzel, our consummate concert conductor, is in the news again, this time as subject of the lead editorial in an October issue of The Cincinnati Enquirer. The occasion was the arrival in record stores of Erich's 100th recording; besides calling him the city's "greatest ambassador," the editors noted that "You don't sell 8 million albums by skimming through a copy of Conducting for Dummies."

Joel Samuelson answered my probe for more about his adventures in Thailand with: "Thailand was and will always be the land of smiles. During my last trip there I taught English to Thai students." He went on with testimony about how hard it is to become a published novelist, and about Thai culture's demand that you "never lose face and you never embarrass the person you speak to."

And Bill Muldoon, some time back, chimed in on the subject of soaring. He remembers towing sailplanes in the Virgin Islands in the '6os, and wonders who among our readers might be an Ultralight enthusiast. Reach him at knight@cmn.net.

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