1960

Our indomitable classmate Bruce Hasenkamp has had a marvelous success this year as head agent, raising $538,539 for the Dartmouth College Fund, 104.9 percent of the class goal, and winning a prize for securing contributions from a remarkable 81.7 percent of our classmates, a new record on several counts. Bruce had lots of help, with 77 classmates joining him to solicit, not to mention all those who made the gifts. But it is primarily the triumph of his diligence and dedication to the class that brought this result.

In a letter to classmates Bruce noted, 'Among the agents a smaller cadre worked overtime with me in the final days of the campaign to get us over every victory line. Please give a special rouse to Jim Adler, Ken Johansen, Gene Kohn, Phil Kron, Marty Lower, Rick Roesch and Dudley Smith."

We should all be glad we're alive and able to give, for in this same Class Note I must sadly report that, with the death of Harvey E. Duchin, M.D., on July 19, we now have recorded 100 deaths in the class (of 813). Also, December 12 of this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the first death in the class, that of William B. Harlow.

Our class president Ken Johansen and his wife, Ruth, are moving at the end of August from Piano, Texas, to Orange Park, Florida, so they can be closer to a daughter.

Many classmates remain active, even in retirement or semi-retirement. Joel Saperstein, an orthopedic surgeon in Med ford, Massachusetts, no longer practices surgery but does keep office hours. It was in the 1970s that Joel took his longest ocean swim, 17 miles to a lighthouse off Boston, and he still does some distance swimming and is proud that his son Michael was also a Dartmouth graduate, class of 1989.

James Progin has been in retirement since 1987, when he sold his share of a real estate development firm. I found him enjoying his summer cabin near Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, planning that day some golf and a little paperwork. He and his wife, Judy, have three homes, the other two near Bar Harbor, Maine, and in Beaver Creek, Colorado, where they spend six months a year.

I'm always interested in those who were our classmates starting out as freshmen but, for various reasons, left us before graduation. I reached Truxtun "Truck" Morrison at his home in Wayzata, Minnesota. Truck left Dartmouth to join the Marines, came back and left again. But, despite never having graduated from college, he served on the board of St. Olaf College, worked 35 years in the grain trading business, traveled very widely (18 trips to Australia alone) and seems content with his life, which includes two children and five grandchildren.

The only federal judge in the class, Nathaniel Gorton, has taken a righteous stand in protecting the firm Boston Duck Tours. Gorton ruled that Super Duck Tours can't use "duck tours" in its name or use a cartoon duck in its logo.

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