1963

Retirement is good for Rick Dickinson, Hampton, New Hampshire, and Bill Messerly, Atlanta.

Rick retired 10 years ago from GTE Sylvania in Salem, Massachusetts, where he commuted daily from Topsfield, Massachusetts. As financial analyst and internal auditor Rick managed shareholder services, 401(k)s, stock transfers and other benefits for thousands of employees. Now the University of Missouri M.B.A. occupies himself with reading, playing bridge and indulging in pickleball, which is played with paddles and whiffle balls on badminton-type courts. Rick and Margie, whom he met at Smith College, have two daughters, Sarah ’99 married to Patrick Deleon ’99, and Alice Louise, Stanford ’00, wed to a Stanford grad.

Bill retired 15 years ago but still keeps a hand in Courier Express, a multi-million-dollar regional business he launched in 1990 in Atlanta after 15 years as a home builder. Courier Express is now run by sons Jack and Jim, who between them have six children, including one at University of North Carolina and another at Auburn in Alabama. Bill met wife Linda in Philadelphia while attending Wharton School. The couple lives mostly in Atlanta, where Bill sees Jack Huber. The Messerlys winter at Bonita Springs, Florida, north of Naples, and recently bought a summer condo in Highlands, North Carolina. Avid croquet, bocce and pickleball players, Bill and Linda recently returned from a four-day fishing trip in Costa Rica, where their party of 21 caught 180 sailfish. Bill’s fondest memories of Dartmouth include working at the reserve desk with Pam Valentine, wife of Jim Valentine, meeting Robert Frost at a special tea in the librarian’s office and studying architectural history with professor Hugh Morrison.

Actor and ordained chaplain Steve Macht published a monograph, “Aristotle’s Tragic Reversal Illuminates Maimonides’ Concept of Teshuva” in April in The Journal of the Aspen Center for Social Values. Steve will lead a workshop in Aspen, Colorado, this summer on how his thesis applies to 50 years of thinking and working in television, movies and theater and his work as a chaplain. Maimonides was a great Jewish medieval philosopher who adapted Aristotelian thought to Biblical faith. Teshuva is Hebrew meaning “repentance.”

Since winning first prize on Chopped Junior on the Food Network, Dave Schaefer’s grandniece Elizabeth Oakes, 12, appeared on hometown radio in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and was honored by the town board. During a flight to Florida with her parents, Elizabeth was recognized twice by women in the airport. Class athlete-scholar chair Bill Wellstead reports Karen Chaw ’16, our sponsored athlete from California, is a preseason All- Ivy pick, having batted .317 and finished second in homeruns last year. Carol Bieneman, widow of Jim Bieneman, has been named honorary member of the class.

Coming up: Canadian fishing trip in July, Tanglewood in August, baseball games in September and Santa Fe, New Mexico, trip and Homecoming in October. Details on class website or from Tom Perry, thomas.perry@dartmouth.edu.

I am sorry to report the passing of Whit Kimball and Bob Oakes, bringing the number of classmates reported deceased to 160.

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