1965

1965

Much doing for ’65s these days. March saw a successful CarniVail, led by Linda and Steve Waterhouse.

The Normandy trip, exploring D-Day and led by Susan and Tom Long, is coming in June and is fully subscribed.

The ’65 mini-reunion at CarniVail has grown from Steve Waterhouse’s “why don’t we have a mini-reunion ski weekend?” in 2000 to a 200to 300-person gala that is a jewel in the Vail, Colorado, winter season. This year the planning committee included Steve, Dick Durrance and Mike Gonnerman, as well as 21 Dartmouth grads from the classes ’60 through ’ll. The class of1965 was well represented by Steve and Linda, Dick Durrance and Sue Drinker, Gretchen and Chuck Lobitz, Jim Little and Mike Gonnerman. There were panel discussions that included many elite members of the U.S. and international skiing programs: “The Future of Ski Racing” had Tiger Shaw ’85, Aldo Radamus (whose program has produced Lindsay Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin) and Jory Macomber ’85, a former Dartmouth ski team captain, threetime All-American and current VP of the U.S. Ski Association. Terry DelliQuadri ’88, a four-time All-American and two-time Dartmouth ski team captain, returned from races in Europe to attend the gathering. Close to 20 former Dartmouth ski team captains attended as well. Dartmouth skiing continues to have substantial influence on the sport and the industry that supports it. There was also discussion of developments at Mount Moosilauke, including the 1965 cabin. Ralph Miller ’55 described how he became the first person to ski 100 mph—quite a feat!

Finally (I am writing in April), we ’65s were preparing for comps when Gordon Moore’s article in Engineering magazine introduced

the observation now known as Moore’s Law (computing power will double every two years). Most of us didn’t know at the time that Dartmouth was about to propel us into the computer age. I could have seen it if I’d been looking in the right places. My roommate Kip Moore returned to Dartmouth after the two of us hiked the Presidentials that early summer. Kip stayed in Hanover to work on BASIC with John Kemeny, Tom Kurtz, John McGeachie and other undergrads. I returned to Illinois, a steel constructionjob (forthe princely wage of 10 bucks an hour), an injury and the resultant purchase of a $25 Stella guitar. The rest is history (Kip’s summer job, not the guitar part). A 2014 article in Time called BASIC “The Programming Language That Made Computers Personal.” The grant that funded the project was committed “in spite of” the fact Kemeny and Kurtz expected to use undergraduates to develop the language and the time-sharing that made it groundbreaking. The GE 225 computer they used had 1/167,000th the memory of my iPhone. Even Gordon Moore is no doubt surprised at the durability of his observation and what people such as Kemeny, Kurtz and those undergrads did with it.

And, like they said in the forum, magis melius— more (words, stories from you) is better. John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; john.b.rogers.65@dartmouth.edu