1963

As you read this, I may very well be settled in my seat at the New York State Theatre waiting for the curtain to go up on Verdi's Rigoletto. It's the first time I've seen that opera since I wandered into the Paris Opera 38 years ago on an assignment from the Dartmouth French department. The experience was unforgettable. Perhaps you have a cultural experience you'd like to share. Let me know!

Like John Kubacki, who's on the board of the Metropolitan Opera. Since John took over as head agent, class Alumni Fund contributions soared to a record $339,000. Amazing what those C-notes can do. Daryl Smith, a New Jersey business executive, is chairman of The Bachanalia Chamber Orchestra, which performs at St. Peter's Lutheran Church at Citicorp in Manhattan. Michael Moriarty, whose works are performed there along with Bach, Mozart and Brahms, introduced Daryl to the group. Daryl is also on the board of the Theater for New Audience, which produces Shakespeare off-Broadway and does workshops for high school students. Julie Taymore, director of The Lion King, is on the artistic board. Daryl is president of Troy Corp., a specialty chemical company in Florham Park, New Jersey. He and Joy have five children.

Did you catch class president and ex-Glee Clubber Bob Bysshe singing with the Dartmouth Aires at our October mini-reunion in Hanover? Anne Suess, wife of Ted, also made her debut during the Aires annual ode to a special woman. More than 50 showed up for dinner and fun at Sally and Bob Barnum's, including Dan Muchinski, Huntley and Rick Hashagen, Bill Manbeck and friend Cynthia, Ann and Paul Muezner, Susan and Peter Rotch, Susan and Gordy Weir and Lois and Mike Williams.

Writer Wally Roberts, who did civil rights work in Mississippi in 1964 with Tom Wahman '60, has been awarded $10,000 by the Fund for Investigative Journalism for a book on the deregulation of the electric power industry. Formerly with The Providence Journal, Wally was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for exposing tactics used by the privately owned utilities of New England to kill two proposed public power projects that would have lowered rates in the region. Wally has also written for Saturday Review, Barre-Montpeher TimesArgus, Village Voice, New Times, The Nation and The American Prospect. He lives in East Calais, Vermont, with Elizabeth Roman, his wife of 21 years. She's a nationally known potter and a legal advocate for the local Battered Women's Services. Wally's son Tyler teaches religion at Grinnell and Amy is a family therapist and teacher in Portland, Maine.

Congratulations to Don Sherwood on his re-election to Congress from Pennsylvania; to lawyer Morris Kramer on his election to the board of American General; and to Launny Steffens , former brokerage chief of Merrill Lynch, for trumpeting the risks of Internet trading when few others would.

I am sorry to report the deaths of Lyman Larson and Dana Atchley. Full reports will follow in the obituary section.

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