1960

According to College records, the fathers of 104 of the 813 members of our class also attended Dartmouth. Some of the 104 had grandfathers at Dartmouth, and one member of the class is a descendant of a sister of Eleazer Wheelock founder of the College in 1769, and claims to have had 47 relatives at Dartmouth. Now, he is a real legacy. More about him later.

John M. Richardson '32, father of John M. Richardson Jr., is still alive at 97, and is a resident of assisted living quarters near Philadelphia. John says his dad played his last golf game a year ago and still plays an excellent game of bridge. John is a professor international relations at American University in Washington, D.C., director of a teaching center there and remains the faculty representative in the largest dormitory on campus.

The other classmate with a living father who went to Dartmouth is Arthur N. Seessel III of Memphis, Tennessee, whose dad, Arthur N.Seessel Jr., was in the class of 1935. Art says his dad, now 94, remains in his own home, helped by attendants, and also lives in Memphis. Our classmate, meanwhile, sold his grocery business in 1997 and now has a consulting practice in corporate bonds.

the owner of four Kansas City businesses.

Two of our classmates, long prominent in class activities, also have had many relatives at the College. Martin Lower, now in retirement at Naples, Florida, and one of our former class presidents, not only had a father, Martin E. Lower, who went to Dartmouth, but also had two daughters in the classes of 1985 and 1987, and three of his four daughters married Dartmouth men.

The champion legacy though is Robert F. Kenerson, M.D., apsychiatrist and teacher at Harvard who administers our class scholarships. Bob not only had a father, grandfather and great-grandfather attend Dartmouth, but he says his great-grandfather, Austin H. Kenerson of the class of 1876, was married to Marsha Moulton Hibbard, who was the great-granddaughter of the youngest sister of Eleazer Wheelock. Bob says it was his grandfather, Edward H. Kenerson of the class of 1903, who told him he had 47 relatives with Dartmouth connections. Bobs daughter Julia was in the class of 1992.

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