1960

The next class mini-reunion will be October 3-5, the weekend of the Penn game, and, as last year, we will be joining with the classes of '59 and '61 in an intellectual or artistic symposium on Friday afternoon, and then have our own class meeting and tailgate party Saturday morning before the game, a class dinner Saturday night, a brunch on Sunday and other events. We hope for a nice turnout.

Congratulations to three classmates for significant achievements. Jake Crouthamel, for 25 years Syracuse University's athletic director, is celebrating the school's first NCAA basketball championship, to add to its eight NCAA lacrosse championships, while he has been there.

"I didn't coach a lick and didn't score a point and they won despite me," Jake remarked. Still, basketball coach Jim Boeheim, with 27 years in his job, and Jake are a team with unusual longevity for a big-time college athletic program. Jake, a former Dartmouth football coach, says he will stay on "a few more years as A.D., assuming the university will have me."

Bob Hager, NBC television correspondent, turned in his usual excellent job on the Columbia shuttle disaster. Skiing in Vermont when the tragic explosion occurred, Bob flew immediately to Washington and then spent weeks at NASA headquarters in Houston.

Five of the last six years, surveys show Bob has appeared more often on network nightly newscasts than anyone else in the business, except for the anchors. He covers an eclectic variety of topics, ranging from aviation to hurricanes and regulatory agencies, among them the FDA and EPA. He got his network start in Vietnam in 1969.

Finally, Spencer Morgan, now living in western North Carolina, has grown a beard. "I made a New Years resolution to see how much hair I could grow," he told me. "I had the whole thing. It was ugly, but now I've had it shaped. I look like a mountain man."

Two classmates have moved. Nick Muller, who was sharing time between Wisconsin and a job in Scottsdale, Arizona, as head of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, has retired to the hamlet of Essex, New York, on the west shore of Lake Champlain, where he is living with his wife, Carol, in an 1824 cottage and building a house. They also have a sailboat.

Bill Gundy and his wife, Malora, are selling their home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and moving to New London, New Hampshire. They are keeping their condo in Vero Beach, Florida. Bill is contemplating either knee or double-knee replacement surgery.

Tony Roisman writes that one of our class projects, the SEAD program that brings high school students, with high potential but who have not been on a college track, to Dartmouth in the summers to show them college life, is expanding. Two classmates have given $1,000 each this year to the program and 19 others have contributed as well, for a total exceeding $4,200..

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