1960

When we assemble for our 40th Reunion June 12-15 in Hanover, the panel discussion on "Travel and Adventure" will be led by one of the class's many ardent travelers, Hap Dunning, who has been all over the world, including Afghanistan before it was dangerous and Somalia and North Yemen, which may always be dangerous. Other panels will be "Healthcare and Fitness" led by Gene Kohn and "Community Service" led by Tom McBurney.

Random telephone calls to classmates for the purpose of preparing this column usually find that travel is high on the list of our interests in our early 60s. I found David McEachron on the eve of an exploratory trip to Mexico's Copper Canyon area from his home in Wolfeboro, N.H. He and his wife planned to fly to Phoenix and then rent a car to enter Mexico. Also, he was thinking of taking a ferry to Baja California. The aim of the weeklong jaunt he said, would be to scout out where they might go on longer trips.

The McEachrons are selling their regular home and moving to a retirement home in the tiny fishing village of Frenchboro, Maine, eight miles off the southern tip of Mt. Desert Island. David says though that one of his best recent trips was to Hanover, for the Dartmouth-St. Lawrence hockey game. Dartmouth lost narrowly, but he was glad he ran into Spencer Morgan and Dudley Smith.

Winfield Robinson, who went to France, a favorite destination, over the millennium holiday, is planning a trip to Nepal when his 26-year-old son Ben, an all-American skier while at Dartmouth, reaches there on a year-long solo around-the-world trip to a series of exotic destinations. In his French trip, Win and his 28-year-old son David climbed the three peaks of Mont Blanc.

Charles Holkins, in the lumber business in Howell, Mich., outside Detroit, remarked how much he and his wife enjoy their winter home in Ft. Myers, Fla., from which he had just returned.

John Bundy, a resident of Barrington, R.I., and retired from health insurance underwriting, told of his trip to Portugal last fall. In a week or so, he said, he was going to San Antonio, Texas, for golf.

Of course, not everyone I call emphasizes travel. Pete Hubert, now of Danville, Calif., was emphatic that I should convey to the class that he has long been "extremely upset" at what has become of Dartmouth. "I liked Dartmouth when I was there," he said. "But I've never had anything to do with the school since they made all the changes....They've turned it into a Berkeley of the East. They've radicalized. I wouldn't go there on a bet."

Well, this is a democratic Class Notes. Anyone can express any opinion. But I mildly suggested Pete should visit Hanover and that he might even like the atmosphere generated by coeducation.

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'60/40th June 12-15