1960

The leadership of your class is just full of plans to keep us together as we approach our mid-60s. We realize these are uncertain times, in more ways than one. So we're moving our homecoming to warmer days in the fall. We're moving our periodic birthday celebrations for the first time into the middle of the country. And we now have a Web site, where we can exchange messages, views and cheery pictures of such class stalwarts as Gene Kohn, Gordie DeWitt and Dick Foley. They're among those whose pictures are on the site now, at www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/60/.

When we held our last class meeting in Hanover and realized that the College, in its wisdom, had set the next Homecoming for the possibly snowy November 2 weekend this year, we decided, along with the adjoining classes of 1959 and 1961, to switch our mini-reunion to the Columbus Day weekend, October 11-14.

This is the Yale game weekend, it's at the height of the fall color and, besides, its liable to afford some of us with a wider choice of hotel space.

So, as Denny Goodman mentioned in the newsletter, we're working on some joint events with '59 and '61, probably a scintillating seminar, and there's going to be a remarkable exhibition on Orozco at the Hood Museum, and we're contemplating a Sunday brunch at the ski lodge.

In short, we're hopeful, under the chairmanship of newly retired Roger Hanlon, we can more than compensate for the Homecoming Parade and Dartmouth Night, and we hope with early notice we'll get an outstanding turnout. The long-range weather forecast happens to be very good (smile).

Moving on, thanks to the early work of the local (Chicago) committee, including Barry Mac Lean, Walter Freedman and Mike Notaro and their wives, we've been able to set for the weekend of Thursday, June 5, to Sunday, June 8,2003, a 65th birthday party in the Windy City in the great state of Illinois.

Just as in San Francisco, where we had our 60th, there's excellent entertainment, food, golf and scenery in Chicago. We are hoping to get as many or more as San Francisco. Put it down in your datebook. Even the airfares are usually inviting, and, if Amtrak is still with us, there might even be good rail service to get us there. As usual, there will be a choice of hotels.

Rick Ro esch and Walt Daniels asked me to tout the Web site, and it is, indeed, easy to reach. Alan Danson has accounts of two recent trips he's taken; there is limitless space for other accounts of trips and any observations anyone has. I even promise to put on an account of my trip to the (I hope) tourist-friendly Persian Gulf states when I get home later this spring.

The Web site, just as our mini-reunion and our 65 th, will be what we make of it.

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