1973

30th reunion spirit was not diminished by Hanover's overcast skies and scattered showers last June 12-15. Nearly a hundred classmates and another 70 family members and friends returned to the College for a weekend of socializing, special activities, outdoor fun and shared meals. Co-chairs Bob Barr and Bob Haynes and their committee once again produced an enjoyable reunion event.

The newly elected slate of class officers (who will serve until June 2008) include: Bob Barr, president; Thad King, first vice president; Val Armento, secretary; John Neff, treasurer; and Steve Kessner, second vice president. Wayne Davis takes on the duties of head agent. Dave Bracken will serve as alumni councilor (for a three-year term).

Bob Haynes will retain the mini-reunion chair. Bequests and gift planning chair will be Steve Kessner's responsibility. Bill Nisen volunteered to continue as Webmaster, and during the class meeting gave an impressive presentation of the new class Web site that will be on-line soon.

Mark Harty (former vice president), Bob Conway (former secretary) and Bob Smith (former head agent) are retiring to membership on the class executive committee that includes elected and appointed class officers, former officers and volunteers. During the reunion a number of classmates offered to serve on the executive committee. Their names and those of the rest of the executive committee members will be published in the next class newsletter that Bob Barr will continue to edit.

Head agent Bob Smith, reunion gift chair Digger Donahue and their committee moved our classmates to donate $1,800,000, the largest 30th reunion class gift ever. Nearly 50 percent of the class participated in the effort.

Mark Harty ran the Friday morning golf outing and organized an informal "mentors" meeting on Friday afternoon with some classmates and members of the class of 1998 in Flanover for their fifth reunion. A group of'98s had previously approached Mark about creating a career mentoring relationship with our class. We'll hear more about this project in the future.

Lou Kartsonis gave a Saturday afternoon presentation, "The Kennedy Assassination: A Reconstruction." Lou's medical expertise, in-depth research and computer-assisted presentation made the lecture a thought-provoking retrospective on an event forever imprinted in 1963 on our then seventh-grade minds.

Tim Cross, an associate dean at Harvard Divinity School, provided dance music with his band, the Lowest Common Denominators, at the class tent on Saturday night.

On Sunday morning "the quick" participated in the reunion run and "the dead" were remembered at the class memorial service lead by Bob Conway at the gravesite of Eleazar Wheelock in the Old Dartmouth Cemetery behind Massachusetts Row. Our 40 deceased classmates were individually honored and we were all reminded of the precious gift of life by Warren Heim's moving testimony of living day-to-day with a potentially fatal heart condition.

Celebrating on August fourth 30 years of married life are Paul and Ann (Smith '73) Butterworth Feakins. To life!

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