1958

Many of us turn 70 next year. The class of 1958 is sponsoring a class birthday bash to celebrate this milestone.

Our class includes members born in 1930, Ernst Zwick and Chick Onodera; 1931, John Cherba; 1933, Ernest Holm; 1934, Mamoru Mitsui, Richard Osgood, David Parsons, Mahdi-EI-Baghdadi, Lawrence Shaw, George Hammel and Jaegwon Kim; and 1935-1938. Dr. David Leibowitz was born in 1938.

But the majority of us were born in 1936, and all members of the class are invited.

The venue for this birthday bonanza is at the beautiful Lake Yellowstone Hotel and Cabins in Yellowstone National Park. Twenty-five rooms have been reserved so please contact Frank Gould (fagould@aol.com) or me, Andy Thomas (dahtmuth58@aol.com) for no-deposit reservations. Numerous activities will include horseback riding, fishing, hiking, photography, white water rafting, a trip to Jackson Hole and just drinking in this beautiful section of our country. It is sure to be fun and don't try to add up how many birthday cake candles we'll need.

A new feature on the '58 Web site has brought some very interesting feedback from Frank Gado and Kent Woodger. The feature is a book corner, where classmates can share their opinions and critiques of recently read books. Woodger's compilation can be seen at www.kentnotes.com/books2005.html.

Frank writes: "I was asked to run for the executive committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association. This election may make a difference to Dartmouth's future, and particularly to relations between the school and its alumni.

"A large slice of the establishment is consternated by what happened in the trustee campaigns, and I have heard the notion of abridging or eliminating the petition route to the election of trustees bruited about.

"For a couple of years there has been a move to unite the Alumni Association with the Alumni Council, in such a manner as to constrict alumni participation still further and to seat additional representatives on the council from groups, recognized by the Dartmouth administration, organized on the basis of race and sexual orientation. We narrowly frustrated this change in the constitution by two votes in December of 2003. But its proponents will

try again this next spring.

"The very same procedures and logic could be invoked by those who wish to choke off the possibility of candidates nominated by petition. Remember that in 1990 the association changed the rules, specifically rejecting a mail vote, so that alumni trustees could be 'reelected' by the charter trustees without a vote by alumni. It could happen again, with more serious consequences.

"Our slate for the executive committee is pledged to enlarge alumni participation, to remove silly impediments such as the requirement that petitions be signed in other than black ink, to run meetings according to Roberts Rules and to allow alumni to vote either by mail or by proxy ballot." Hope you won, Frank, since I'm writing this in August.

Visit our Website at www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/58.

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