1960

Retirements, semi-retirements, continue. Hap Dunning's children Thad and Ashley gave a party for him in Davis, California, to mark his retirement from 32 years of teaching, mostly environmental law, at the UC Davis Law School.

But, like many of us, Hap isn't quitting entirely. He's going to keep his office at Davis and write a book on California water policy and law. Eventually, he feels, they may take away his big office space, "but I'm sure they'll let me have at least a cubicle." Bruce Hasenkamp too has cut back. But he made the mistake of having lunch one day with a retired California state senator, Quentin Kopp '49, now a judge, and lo and behold Bruce found himself appointed foreman of the San Mateo County grand jury for the coming year.

By the way, I recently just missed Bruce. We were both in Riga, Latvia, at the same time. Brace's wife, Inta, is of Latvian descent. But by the time I heard he might be there—when I was going to be taking a tour of the Baltic countrieshe had already left on his trip and I couldn't locate him precisely. He was staying in a better hotel than mine, and we never ran into each other in Riga.

Plans are going forward, thanks to the efforts of Walter Freedman, Mike Notaro, Barry Mac Lean and Alan Danson, for our class 65th birthday party in Chicago in May or June of 2 003. This will be a chance for our Midwest classmates to conveniently attend a big class event, and it promises to vie with San Francisco's great celebration of our 60th.

I had a thoughtful letter re my recent Notes on class widows from Jo Piltz, wife of the Rev. Guy Piltz, out in Hawaii. She noticed in the same issue of theAlumni Magazine containing my interviews with several '60 widows, there was also a Class Notes column about some '58 widows.

"I think it speaks well of Dartmouth men that they remember with fondness not only the friends who have died, but the women and children that they left behind," she told me.

But Jo says her husband, our classmate, has been estranged from Dartmouth since one of their daughters was turned down by the College for a place in the class of 1989, only to go on to graduate summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa at Hobart-William Smith.

"Despite our disappointment in (our daughters) behalf, we do remember with great pleasure Guy's four years (and my frequent visits) in Hanover 1956-60! It was a wonderful time, a place of special beauty shared with good friends."

One of those good friends, she mentioned, was Michael Menaker, who died tragically of an embolism when he had a knee operation in 19 67, only the 12 th member of our class to pass away. He lives on, in the Piltzes' memories.

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